Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!

The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected. (Read more: The Verge)

Community Radio, everyone's favorite improv #ttrpg of a strange, strange place, and the community radio station that supports it is now available on @ipr.bsky.social and @tabletopbookshelf.com! IPR: www.indiepressrevolu... TBS: tabletopbookshelf.co...

Its kinda hard to draw normal Adeptus Mechanicus folks, I feel? Enochia is just starting out as a player-character, so she can't go full metal-tentacle priest just yet. Was pleased at the cogtooth motif cut into the (auto)quill feathers, and how the inkpots are like tank grenade launchers.

Today in Italy there's been massive strikes, protests, blockades of harbours highways train stations The "Blocchiamo tutto" let's block everything movement protests against the genocide in Gaza, demanding that weapons stop passing through IT and EU, and sanctions 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt4h...

Lovely!

Good morning friends from the other side of the ocean. I'm moving out of substack, and self-hosting my blog.

Hey folks, I'm moving out of Substack, and starting a self-hosted blog. Check it out here www.thecodedtype.com

This was an incredible amount of fun yesterday, thank you to everyone who participated! If you have any feedback, let me know - I might make another next year, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.

New post: All Flesh is Surplus convention, open game tables, and game jam. thecodedtype.com/all_flesh_is...

@farhorizonscoop.bsky.social and I are hosting an @itch.io #ttrpg game jam from next week. when you sign up, we'll send you a random prompt from our collection of unused random prompts from the Short Games Digest days. you can respond to that prompt however you like!

Joy of the day: when Côme Martin @comemartin.bsky.social submits a game to the Build a Better World TTRPG jam comemartin.itch.io/only-mountai...

Tall guy for my patreon (they have a nice stamp) www.patreon.com/posts/tall-l...

What about celebrating together something beautiful? Little free collective zine made for the Build a Better World TTRPG jam. Layout by @jimmyshelter.bsky.social editing @chrisair.itch.io the-lost-bay.itch.io/celebration

This sounds fun!

Busy busy busy

Hey podcasters I’m looking for a podcast hosting platform that doesn't fund AI/weapons. What would you recommend? I used Anchor but it‘s been acquired by Spotify.

Today my new adventure Orestruck is officially released! Return to the Tannic Forest to confront monstrosities, both magical and mundane. Itch weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck DrivethruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... @spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

2nd edition of All Flesh is Surplus is upon us During the online conv. you can play lots of TLB modules with GMs of the community - The Hollow Hitchhiker - The Swine - Festival of Fallen Wings - Chemwaste - Will of The Forest Join the TLB server and book a session! discord.com/invite/37XBQ...

Ten hours to go for this project by @laurieoc.bsky.social ! If you follow my bsky I'm sure you're going to like it, just take a sec to read the game premise in Laurie's post. I'm a former mountain climber myself, and this made my heart melt!

Wow this illustration is mind blowing, fantastic, first the face grabbed my attention, then I wandered in all the details

Itch seems back online So you'd better check this upcoming urban dark fantasy jam!

I'm Sam, a TTRPG designer from Virginia! I publish under Blinking Birch Games and make short-form videos about indie TTRPGs. You can check out my games and learn more about what I do here: Itch: blinkingbirchgames.itch.io Carrd: samleigh.carrd.co

Unfortunately, like many other sites on the internet right now, we're the victim of excessive suspicious requests from bots over the past few days. We're working the best we can to mitigate and get services fully restored. Thanks for your patience

Playing is political, right? Even kids building imaginary castles in a sandbox are doing a political act. But I wonder if games can actively be used to trigger political change. I'd love to read about politics and games. If you have books or blogs suggestions, please share them in comments.

In The Lost Bay Server we're holding a few round-tables on designing / running TLB. Here's a recording of the first one where we talk about some key concepts of the game thecodedtype.com/media_reposi... It's an half-improved recording, raw, no intro, the next one should be a bit more structured.

Hey morning folks! Fresh jam for you!

VHS-powered and 199X-infused TTRPG jam to start soon Found Footage of the Bay 🎲 Join itch.io/jam/found-fo... 📼 View videos coda.io/d/_dF3hV4WEq...

I just released my first free art asset pack! Please make a game with these recently extinct animals. That would be so wonderful. Rest in peace little critters. sleepy-badger-games.itch.io/extinct-anim... #animalart #illustration #ink #watercolor #ttrpg #itch.io #artassets #animals #indiettrpg

BTW if you don't feel like getting this zine from itch, you can download it from our self-hosted server thecodedtype.com/accessibilit...

We've updated the "Make Accessible TTRPGs" zine, cleaner PDFs, removed text backgrounds. It's free and a great starting point to think accessible design. the-lost-bay.itch.io/make-accessi...

Hey morning peeps, reposting this in case you missed it

I'm open for editing work starting in 2026! I have 1 slot open per month (except for January, which is already filled) for projects that are about 10k words or shorter. If you're interested in hiring me, please read through the editing page on my website. www.blinkingbirchgames.com/editing

Working on some illustrations of extinct animals for the "Build a better world" jam by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social & @jimmyshelter.bsky.social @thelostbaystudio.com @gatheraroundpjcts.bsky.social & @chrisair.itch.io Maybe somebody can come up with a game to use them in. #illustration #ttrpg #ink

A short video on Full Send, a tarot mountaineering TTRPG by @laurieoc.bsky.social! Very excited to be joining the team as the editor.

New blog soft launch: Plan, Block, Repeat Building game loops inspired by real-life activism. thecodedtype.com/plan_block_r...

Tell everyone!

Back on this little project

Following up the convo about internet, and publishers' revenue models, interestingly The Onion is going back to paper www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Hey folks to you what's the difference between Rules and Procedures in TTRPGs?

Diesel Service, eerie, haunting trip across liminal gas stations and cursed highways, and suburban 199X dark module by @mallenhall.com for The Lost Bay has just been adapted to the Reborn ruleset. Do yourself a favor, give it a read, no play it! m-allen-hall.itch.io/diesel-service

Reposting that, because I'd love to hear your thoughts on that folks.

OK AI search is killing web traffic to publishers’ sites (in addition to all the rest). Nobody seems to know how to stop that. Especially not google. Sounds like the free fall of the web. Solutions? - print only publishing - pull the plugs Anyone got ideas?

It's that time of the month again: The Idle Digest is up! If you don't use RSS to follow Playful Void, the Idle Digest is the best spot to find out what I'm doing, with a few bonus points of interest! open.substack.com/pub/idlecart...

For the night crowd

Preorder the 24 page zine and get a free pamphlet adventure by @worldchamp.bsky.social ! www.worldchamp.io/store/instan...

Ok, let's have a little look at what £25 (or local equiv) gets you in the 4 issue mega bundle we have on sale right now, the perfect way to get up to speed with all things Wyrd Science. shop.wyrd.science/products/iss... First up, look at those covers by the wonderful @matpringle.bsky.social 😍 1/6

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO TTRPG ART COMMISSIONING AND LICENSING It's done! Here is my guide to art commissioning, licensing, and art direction in TTRPGs. It's free to see, has contract and brief templates, and plenty of resources to aid in art literacy in the space. www.patreon.com/posts/compre...

For the first time in nearly a year, I have no more gigs lined up after the one I'm finishing right now. Which means I'm a bit scared about it but also that I'm super available for any kind of work or commission!

In the meantime, while the world goes to shit, and AI ravages brains, I'm working on a new blog. It should be live on a couple of weeks max.