I haven't done one of these in a long while: I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 11th 2026 (Easy), in 03:11 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Who would you rather fight - 60 Thousand Year Old Vampires or 60,000 One Year Old Vampires? @timhutchings.bsky.social

The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story. If you didn't read it already, read it. Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.

oh oh oh, one of my favorite game makers ever has a thing you can sign up for!

I think this is gonna be the cover for the “zine” game that accidentally turned into 20+ pages

This explanation of the game's intentions is buried in the Saving Throw section of the AD&D DMG. Check the alt text for easier to read version.

Image from students in a TTRPG class I was teaching. Students made me an NPC in their Wanderhome game.

Extraordinary

This is a good perspective on the orders of magnitude in the TTRPG publishing industry, and by and large positions us correctly at the bottom-most named tier (while acknowledging that there's a broad swath of indie designers further down). cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2026/02/11/f...

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

Yeah, let game designers know when you are using their stuff in your classes.

If you are an academic interested in using our games for teaching and learning, know that we love to see it! Case in point, Willian Amboni Scheffer. a Professor at UNIGUAÇU in São Miguel do Iguaçu, has written a paper on his use of #FiascoRPG as part of the contract law curriculum.

Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Happy Weekend! My tiny Over the Garden Wall adventure game has hit 10k plays on itch.io🎉! It's FREE to play https://juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw -- A nice way to spend a cozy half hour or so indoors. ❄️ There's also a walkthrough, no worries about getting stuck!

the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will

cyclical ttrpg discourse is important not only because it brings new voices and ideas into old conversations but also because it allows everyone who has participated before to feel like a grizzled old veteran of being a ttrpg person on the internet

We have to acknowledge private equity practices as detrimental to the nation and outlaw the way they operate.

As a composer of choral pieces for tardy cats I often sit frustrated, waiting for my muse.

ANNOUNCING MY WINTER ANTI-SALE for the next few weeks, itch.io is doing its winter sale, where devs who cut their game prices get promoted. but my games are all already underpriced, so i'm jacking up the prices by 50% instead. ho ho ho happy holidays

I absolutely love this game format.

Sometimes games exist to break down barriers between rules and play. Apollo 47 by @timhutchings.bsky.social makes rules feel like a tennis net rather than a fence.

These "playable" bookmarks are for sale on thousandyearoldvampire.com and I think my own set is getting delivered today.

Their policy position is "I should be able to take whatever I want, tell whatever story I want about it and be believed, and consign all my critics to silence, prison, and death." That's *what* they believe, as expressed through statements and action. We need them as far from power as possible!

This makes me a lot more interested in using KS next time around.

If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game! DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way! International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK

Some larps to play tonight by @timhutchings.bsky.social and Jay Treat! timhutchings.itch.io/halloween?sy... www.goldencobra.org/pdf/2015/Hal...

Fights in Tight Spaces is one of my favorite computer games. I could not get into Knights in Tight Spaces. It feels wrong in a way that didn't soften with time. The Far Sails sequel was the same. It just never had the same feeling of quality as the first game, controls felt wrong.

I read bad. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in 04:55 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Old Morris Cave is great for letting your mind wander through history #ttrpgs #ttrpg

Fell on my face right out of the gate: I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 13th 2025) in 05:16 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

If you normally receive the TYOV newsletter please let me know if you -don't- receive one today. For the second time the Shopify newsletter system has given me an outrageously atypical undeliverable report and I am curious if the report itself is trustworthy.

Had to ask for a clue and am ashamed. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 9th 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟡🟩 cluesbysam.com

'Noem also claimed federal agents in Portland recently arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa." I don't think I've ever been so certain a statement was satire and been wrong. www.kgw.com/article/news...

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This one was tricky. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 7th 2025) in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Butchered an easy one: I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 6th 2025) in 04:24 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 cluesbysam.com

@timhutchings.bsky.social Really nice write up of Art & System in the newest Wyrd Science!

The Apollo 47 print book is only available at drivethrurpg.com/en/product/246241 I share because the article links to the PDF which ain't the same at all.

In SPINE, I want players to play with the ttrpg's rulebook in innovative ways. I wrote this essay to think through the design. It describes the various ways we play with books in ttrpgs, with examples of how we use books as props, as anchors for fictions, and how we recreate them as art.

Flying along then got hung up at the end. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 1st 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Then Satan rose up from hell and bellowed, “Little bunny Foo Foo! My most dedicated worshipper! Continue your reign of terror against the field mice in my name.”

I took a break for a three minute phone call. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 30th 2025) in less than 12 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

I appreciate the newsletter reminding me about these puzzles. I hadn't done one in awhile. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 29th 2025) in 03:50 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

How much does it cost to put 8+ federal/mystery employees in the field for however many hours they spent waiting for that guy? Did taxpayers pay for that guy to have a "this is my personality" cowboy hat?

look at dat cover

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!

Here's a thread on how to win a Golden Cobra. I've won it twice and judged it once, not that that's any guarantee. (Golden Cobra is a larp competition, which launched today, and you should totally enter). 🧵

I do not especially care about tarot decks but I love the Goblins and Garden deck. I only look at it a few cards at a time because I want to go as long as possible before running out of cards.

I just backed Dungeon Wilds on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...