The most important rules text of a TTRPG is often “this is a role playing game”.

hey adira, what have you been up? oh not much, just on the referee team for a super fucking cool live text roleplaying/MUD wargame running on Discord set in an alternate 1940s setting based on the anti-colonial wars of southeast asia what is the team gunna about that whole Discord thing? ...beans

RECRUITMENT FORMS ARE NOW LIVE! SEEKING TRANS WOC, BLACK WOC, INDIGENOUS WOC, AND MORE!!! SIGN UP TO GM OR RUN A PANEL HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is perhaps the most seen I've felt with regard to erotic TTRPGs in a while. It is such a frustrating but understandable sentiment, though it becomes all the more frustrating when it's the -dominant- sentiment. This is also true for Hawkmoth, and has been true for my own work to an extent.

In the latest issue of The Many Sided Newsletter guest contributor @superdillin.bsky.social talks about the challenges of marketing and crowdfunding his 18+ game All's Fair. Plus zine month recommendations and more! manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/the-challe...

Binary is an exciting voice in TTRPGs. All of the things I've seen them helm or work on have been very interesting, playing with unique mechanics and a sharp writing voice. Go check out null space!

LIVE NOW! Blades '68 grabs the setting of Blades in the Dark and catapults it forward into the swinging 60s. Tense spy operations, action-packed heists, and brain-twisting paranormal encounters all mix in this 450-page expansion. Join the electroplasmic revolution: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Yeah, I'm serious about this.

you know what time it is. another valentines day right around the corner, another set of indie tabletop rpg valentines

Hello. It's my final week as a full time game designer, and as if to underline why I can't do this anymore, I currently can't afford to cover my bills at the end of the month. All of my work on itch is on sale. Tell your friends, buy something, thank you very much. itch.io/s/179351/jan...

Every Canadian who follows me please sign and share this

I and trans writers before me have gone repeatedly into tracing the trajectory of the 2010s, where we went from the first bathroom bill in NC resulting mass boycotts to over 1000 anti-trans bills being introduced by 2025. There was a deliberate, targeted shift in discourse!

God bless the United States of Minnesota

Some stories are difficult not just because of the effort it takes to tell them, but because of the subject matter. This story is both. Seven months, six Rascals, five creators, and a dozen drafts, revisions, and versions later... We have a story that is necessary, heartbreaking, and important.

ANOTHER ONE! START YOUR ENGINES! FORMULA INFINITI IS COMING SOON www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

yall im writing some racing for thisssss

"What if she was right? What if I was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful? Buried alive and suffocating to death on the other side of a television screen?" Felt appropriate that I was working on these tonight. There’s still time. There’s always time.

the fucked up lex arcana character creation grid thing is so fucking fun is the thing

One of the main goals for Lex Ecclesiastica's class abilities is to make you feel REAL BAD about using them, but also feel kinda cool saying a grandiose, overwrought ability name. The SIsters are *not* good people, they're not nice at all. They are what I imagine paladins to be in high fantasy.

in a refreshing change of pace, both bandcamp and games workshop announced this week that they've banned AI to varying extents. these stances are crucial during a time when AI is being rammed down our throats at every turn, and some people are starting to accept it

OH WHAT THE FUCK MIKE GO FUCK YOURSELF @quigley.house.gov

The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda. Only 57 Democrats voted NO. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...

this blogpost from @valerialoves.bsky.social is fabulous if you've been wondering what i've recently been diving into in my world. this explosion of what I was calling digital larps (or as i am now going to call them LTRP) post-O/U has been amazingly fun www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...

That’s right, Blades ‘68 is coming very soon. And while we’re here — this is the cover!

Hey, guess what: buriedgiantstudios.com

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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alien family reunion. acrylic, pencil, and stickers on an old "wild west" history book spread. april '25.

I wrote a game in ~8 hours. It's not fun, but it exists. Experience being a young person in the alt-right pipeline, and what it's like getting out of it. Content warnings listed on the page. ambynavy.itch.io/black-ice

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Got a semi-spammy email from Alberto Dianin inquiring about "potential review, feature, or collaboration" of Gates of Krystalia TTJRPG. Just a reminder that Krystalia's art is stolen via generative AI. There should be more "features" on this. Here's his complaint of "hateful" anti-AI responses.

The campaign for Rise, Wizards! and All's Fair launches in less than one month! AND WE HAVE AN EXCITING UPDATE Behold, @seaexcursion.itch.io's cover design for @superdillin.bsky.social's All's Fair - a game about wanting eachother so bad you save the world about it

Screaming Metal: Vector Soul is my solo, juggling-act of a mecha game, where you play either as a pilot, taking missions and getting fucked by your handler, or as the handler, waging political war and sending your pilots on missions that fuck them. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

'americans didnt vote for this!!!' i just. i dont care. can we please fucking center venezuelans. colombians, cubans, mexicans, who are all next on the chopping block. please. im asking.

hi I have a 1300$ bill due in 4 days and I cant afford that rn. please help.

No war in Venezuela.

What's left to say? May everyone involved in dropping bombs on Venezuela be punished swiftly and finally in pursuit of a just society and a lasting architecture of peace.

hush kitten, no more indie ttrpg recommendations from you <3 youll be mommy's little dice slut from now on

Like to charge, reskeet to cast.

Something I've been quite enjoying as I finish up 2025 is developmental editing. So if you're looking for a developmental editor in 2026 for a game... FUCKING PAY ME LET ME BE YOUR SICKO FOR THIS HIRE ME HIRE ME HIRE ME

let the sun die let it burn out flow flow with the darkness of the deep

Repost with Alt Text. ...bc yeah, THIS.

my ranking of the die hard movies, from worst to best 5. a good day to die hard 4. die hard 2 3. live free or die hard 2. die hard 1. die hard with a vengence

I RELEASED A NEW TTRPG!! it's very silly & full of jewish shitposting!! your attributes are "GREAT", "MIRACLE", "HAPPENED", and "THERE!", your progress clock is candles on a menorah, and these are the kind of tables i put in there. if we do $613 in sales before Jan 1 i'll do a trifold print run!

Just in time for Jewish Christmas, we have a new TTRPG 🎲: The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back! TVSTMAWGTSIB is a dreidel-powered heist TTRPG about reclaiming the Temple menorah from the Vatican. Itchfunding a print run till Jan 1! 📆 🔗: jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib

hi, cis folks! this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers. they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both. tap into the 🧵for a quick action.

feel sick but brain can't stop running you know what that means time to work on the game i only write while sick this blows