We'd love to hear how someone used Where'd You Get That? or our Blades in the Dark items and rituals in particular!

It's been a while, but we're finally back with some new videos! Hopefully things have calmed down enough I can start to get them out semi-regularly again!

I could not get this out of my head

It's been a while, but we're finally back with some new videos! Hopefully things have calmed down enough I can start to get them out semi-regularly again!

This is honestly brilliant. I'm a little upset I didn't think of it first

Played my first session of Stonetop last night and man, the world building on this is intense! It's like they reinvented the bestiary from first principles, not just a translation of creatures we all know. I'm having a blast with my Would-Be Hero!

With only the mildest of spoilers for Widow's Bay Ep 2, the game design is phenomenal. "RUN" is truly inspired.

With only the mildest of spoilers for Widow's Bay Ep 2, the game design is phenomenal. "RUN" is truly inspired.

Ok, forking response in a different direction for a different, if equally hand-waving point. Subverting the baseline is entirely valid as an approach, but not if you stop with the cool idea and just expect the GM to make it interesting for you. That’s crap.

Dragon Ball Z. No idea how I'd go about it. B would adapt Nutcracker, or maybe Tamara Pierce's Alana the Lioness.

What's the wildest randomizing mechanic you've seen in a game? Dice, cards, Jenga, and pigs I've seen ... Anyone ever use weather or pets?

This is a fantastic find to come back to after a day without cell service!

I’ll also add this: editing a TTRPG is not just a spelling & grammar pass. These are complex technical documents. Running them through a spellchecker isn’t going to cut it because it can’t spot rules or plot inconsistencies. TTRPG editors need to understand the rule system to do their job well.

Stoked to see someone else recall how great this book is! There's a few old 3.5 splats I'll refer back to for various reasons, and Heroes of Horror is a top 5 of the era for me.

Note: We do not use AI. Period. We pay humans to create our games, end-to-end. Adobe recently implemented a feature that quietly injected AI alt text into Umdaar. We've removed it, updated the PDF, and disabled the feature. We apologize for the error, please download the latest PDF. Also: Fuck AI.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

If you've enjoyed our Draw Steel stuff, give us a thumbs up at stawl.app/supplements and show your support!

Ok, venting about a map that annoyed me lead to a fairly involved internal argument about the actual purpose of maps in an RPG. It was an argument because I *thought* I had a pretty good answer, but apparently that answer had some holes in it. So, let's talk maps.

Those who die choking on the toxic miasma and ash of the deathlands sometimes rise again as foul Wretches.

If @magic.wizards.com were this attentive at addressing their worker's actual issues, maybe there wouldn't be such an overwhelming desire for a union in the first place 🤷‍♀️

I can't help but think about how "community" is a vague word. Words have use, not meaning, and people will use the word to mean any number of things, which leads to confusion and conflict. Much of the discourse I'm seeing is as much or more about semantics than ideas.

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

Anyone going to Gamex in Los Angeles this weekend? Might be making an appearance...👀

A great and terrible place to scavenge in the deathlands -- the wreck of a leviathan hunter. (This is the main adventure site in Requiem for the Wretched Dead.)

Trying to do another prototype print of our card game, and Affinity is taking forever to load in the card info from Excel. The first page was done in a minute, the second page (which is smaller!) is on hour 16. It IS moving, but ho boy!

For all the “TTRPG Legends” infuriated by the misuse of their likenesses and elements of their IP on clearly-commercial grifting sites…

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Between that graduation speech and this, it's heartening to see the furious rejection of AI on the feed. Fuck these guys, and their utter lack of respect for the artists they're ripping off.

This is incredible! Now I have to find a copy...

RPGs have an odd mixture of luck and skill which I've seen frustrate players. The most common example of this is player intelligence vs character intelligence, but it can also manifest in some players feeling like they made a bad decision if a roll goes badly.

WotC declined to voluntarily recognize our union by Friday, May 1st. While we're disappointed in this delay, together we remain strong in our convictions. We look forward to sitting down at the bargaining table so we can make Arena better for workers, for Wizards, and for our players. #UWOTC-CWA

What sort of notes do you take as a game master? Are you the type that scribbles down a few key names and loose plans (I am!), or do you have a whole dedicated site like World Anvil or Obsidean for your world?

and we offer more value for dollar!

Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Our process of weaving noncolonial stories and building antiorientalist worlds has always been interwoven with trans diasporic Chineseness. This month and every month, let's support each other across the expansive AAPI umbrella and fight for a better future, together. 🌟

This is absolutely incredible! Powered by the Apocalypse World is a PbtA RPG where you design a PbtA RPG. Will you finish your game, or burn out? There's only one way to know!

How do people feel about more "artistic" character sheets? Something that fits all the information inside little drawings/is more focused on making the sheet pretty as opposed to plain text and boxes. Do you have a harder time finding information during play, or does it not make much difference?

*Pinkerton red phone starts ringing* "Another leaked card retrieval?" "No. They're unionizing." "Time to go back to where we started." Go unions!

Today in our fallout ttrpg game I performed the ultimate management move: trading a pizza party for a super mutant death squad.

This lesson is super important outside of game design too. For an audience who knows the topic, sketches drive conversation. For an adjacent audience, you need it to look nice or they will spend their time correcting your fonts so they feel like they’re contributing.

TTRPG creator simulator

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

Shh, don't tell Austin, but since it's my birthday, I made you a secret sale bundle featuring my two favorite Biscuit Wolf products for 50% off for today ONLY. Think of it as my reverse birthday gift to you ;) - B.

Watching the new @parlorroom.dropout.tv and @vicmmic.bsky.social brought up so many memories of playing Pass the Pig! My grandma had a game from probably the 80s?

Watching the new @parlorroom.dropout.tv and @vicmmic.bsky.social brought up so many memories of playing Pass the Pig! My grandma had a game from probably the 80s?

Pen sketch while I was in a meeting. I had this pun in mind and the idea of the classic samurai hat as a mushroom cap.

On one hand, I totally get keeping self promotion to a minimum, since that can easily become spam and drown out discussion. On the other hand, how is anyone supposed to learn about something new, or support something that looks unique?