Everyone at the Christmas Movie Watchparty got really confused and in unrelated news I've just learned that I was very mistaken about the plot of "A Clear and Present Danger"

i still haven't played cyberpunk 2077 because of those workplace abuses. feels like that trigger anime laundered its reputation a lot.

- Radio Free Kaiju, finish the playtest version - Playlist Dungeon, do a few freebie supplements and scenarios here and there as i have free cycles and as a palette cleanser between projects. I have some other random ones I have been chipping at but will say more as they develop (if they do)

Thinking about what I plan to release next year: - Five Fires (80s Hip Hop TTRPG) - What's the frequency, Shoggoth? (Community Radio supplement) - It Wants Souls (horror in the vein of The Conjuring - just got the rights back!) - It Wants Blood (goreless slasher horror)

As a crew of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers, your art helps you heal & deal with the stress of life, but that same art can do more. It can move those around you. It can shake up the system. Grab the Five Fires (Ashcan Edition) #ttrpg and you can change the world! thoughtcrimegames.it...

Thinky Dailies 1-25 Information Has a Price Solved in 1:32 thinkygames.com/dailies/puzz...

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RPGs I played in 2025 Lancer For the Queen Raccoon Sky Pirates Dread 5E D&D Monsterhearts Fabula Ultima Interstitial Bandaids and Bullet Holes Going for Broke Somehow both more and less than it felt like

I learned a technique from @timclare.bsky.social's Writing Bootcamp that basically boils down to "choose a category to write a list of things for, set a timer for 10 minutes, and go". Nobody needs to see the list but you. You are FILLED with ideas, they just need to feel the permission to play!

Folks!!! Remember all that stuff I said about commissioning art cards for use as eidolons in Swords Without Master? bsky.app/profile/epid... Here's a little sneak preview!

To no one’s surprise, the secret history of RPGs has always been women innovating ideas that men “discover” anywhere from 10-400 years later! Fantastic thread from one of the hobby’s coolest academics.

Very funny to me that my coworker has a classic rock station playing on his Internet radio, and every so often I'm mentally going "oh hey it's that song from Rock n' Roll Racing"

A discussion thread the other day gave me the idea of hacking Lancer to do Pokemon and I'm mad at how compelling this is. I don't need this project right now

Rawdogging productivity

Hi if you haven't checked this out, WWWRPG is some of the best rip-roaring entertainment I've had in a long time, and it's a revolutionary blend of pre-planning and improvisation.

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Thinky Dailies 1-24 Testing a New Model Solved in 4:26 thinkygames.com/dailies/puzz...

Note to myself to remember to do this more! (Also, The Wretched is cool!)

Thinking about how there's a strain of thought that feels like it needs to argue for the necessity of particular mechanics in RPGs and I just want to remind people that mechanics in RPGs exist because they are cool and fun and enjoyable! Not because there is No Other Way, but because they engage!

Something I want to play with more in RPGs is the fun of contrasting expectations. How weird can you get? Tell me a genre or type of story, then an "inappropriate" RPG to run it in. (Not 5E, that's way played out here.) I'll start: cyberpunk heists, but in Pasión de las Pasiones.

10. What term for a formal assembly of representatives, derived from Medieval Latin and used for a 1521 gathering in an imperial free city on the Upper Rhine, is (per its literal definition) a meeting lasting only one day? MEETING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A TOWN CRIER MESSAGE #LL107 #bestwronganswers

Stream's live! We're heading back to Spira: it's time for more Final Fantasy X: twitch.tv/intelligame

Dear writer: No, Mary Shelley was not influenced by Charles Darwin while writing Frankenstein. Charles was born in 1809. She started writing it during the House Party From Hell in 1816, and published in 1818, when he was 9. Please ensure your editor fixes this laughable error you all made.

THE SKY BELONGS TO THE MONSTERS. Radio Free Kaiju is a post-apocalyptic hopepunk game of wonder and rebuilding amidst the ruins of post-apocalyptic splendor. Join the playtest below! thoughtcrimegames.it...

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All the emotional payoffs across the whole show are popping off and I'm HERE for it

I try not to share bad takes but this is a striking reminder that dehumanization is present in full force within the RPG hobby. With zero self awareness, the creators of a two MILLION dollar 5E Kickstarter are out here saying "monsters need to seem less human so we don't feel bad about killing them"

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

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Last call. This game has gravity. It has bent the fabric of gaming like a bowling ball dropped on a stretched bedsheet. If you view games with any interest deeper than "Dice are fun!" then this is something you want in your brain space, and book form is the gentlest way to accomplish that.

In the Wildfire Trilogy, you tell the story of what happens when magic gains sentience and becomes free to build a new world. The 3 micro-TTRPGs can be played together in 2-4 hours, or played individually in about 30-60 minutes each. #ttrpg Check it out below! thoughtcrimegames.it...

“Do you not get satire” Satire is only funny when the rest of your output indicates a commitment to actually fighting the outcome of it. We’ve seen yall writing and diversity numbers We can’t hold that to be true

Looking at the upcoming public domain works and if your game releases in 2026 you should be required to include both Nancy Drew and Sam Spade in it

Weird but cool new puzzle type! Thinky Dailies 1-19 A Grumpy Welcome Solved in 4:27 thinkygames.com/dailies/puzz...

Thinking about the whole "watching technology completely transform between your childhood and adult life" and wow it must suck even worse to go through this as an immortal huh

Seen a lot of discourse about TTRPG rankings, possibly because I haven't posted my perfect and unassailable opinions for a few years.

Swords Without Master blew the lid off of the way I think about RPG play. I will never not enjoy running it for people because it brings out magic at the table. I see people pull out storytelling chops they didn't know they had.

Thinky Dailies 1-18: That's Quite a Crowd Solved in 4:54 thinkygames.com/dailies/puzz...

Here's the email I sent to my senators this week, I have been contacting them regularly about this since May. Feel free to tweak it and make it your own:

"I don't care what anyone says, I like* that movie." *ADORE

If PbtA is about the conversation of play, moves are what provide topics for conversation. Which makes sense in hindsight. Going to have to think on that.

One of the things that frustrates me deeply is the way shitheads fixate on The Art of War then the "acktually" correction people say it's useless, and in both cases they're wrong. Because, yes, ancient warring states China has limited tactical/strategic overlap for today, Taoist ideas 100% matter.

Just so folks know we are currently living in the 6th year of our Lord 6 AD "After Dropout" 6 BC "Before known as College humor"

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does