Go ahead and put that punk in the cyberpunk ttrpg scene and support this fantastic little gem

3) I see a designer as a player who interacts with the table asynchronously and, like, could you at least try and meet them on their own terms before you ignore them? As @bzajdabarbarian.bsky.social puts it: Unless you can explain what you're changing and why you're doing it, you aren't allowed to

My fundamental issue with houseruling is threefold 1) People keep fucking conflating it with play. There are so many people who blithely admit that the game they're playing either sucks or doesn't apply as if it's a good thing. "We played a whole session without touching the mechanics!"

Always Be Reading (Split/Party)

If you think you should always houserule games before you play them.

#iHunt is officially copyrighted and registered with the WGA. What a wild milestone.

Whoopie Pies are a delight.

We're out of Pokémon cards

Theres an older spirts card guy who uses our card grading service regularly who is obsessed with an A.I app that guesses its grade. All the other sports card guys hate him.

I think Aragorn gets changed the least, he's already a Scion of an ancient bloodline raised in the wilds. The wizards become much more dreaded, more known to be forces of beings beyond comprehension that arrive in the lives of little folk to uproot them. Grima Wormtongue is the same in both

Should have just gotten a dog

So, Jules channel rules so hard, but if you haven't experienced her horror channel (Daisy Brown) you are doing yourself a disservice

hey! Buy this, its good

a thousand years from now they will tell stories about what's happening here, and people will say that it must just be folklore and fairy tales, they'll say there's no way that the people of Minnesota could have called down the wrath of winter herself to fight on our side, have that call answered.

To anyone writing a ttrpg rulebook who thinks 'I don't need an editor, I can do that myself', @eerieseymour.bsky.social has written me 474 pdf comments on the 'finished' draft of You Will Die In This Place. PS: Hire Errol if you need an editor.

This fact is part of why I have five different character concepts I will never get to play for Kerberos Club.

Dragon's having a laugh here, but all iterations of Vampire fall on a scale of The Sopranos With Fangs vs The Wire with Superpowers.

In my Post-Episode IV Star Wars campaign a running gag has been people arguing over whether or not a farm boy really blew up the Death Star, or if its all just Rebel propaganda.

YOU WILL FALL, BECAUSE YOU NEVER TRIED TO STAND FOR YOURSELVES.

I dont post to "go viral," i dont network, I barely use social media to talk to others, this is just me wandering into the middle of town, naked, barely sapient, nailing shit to the bulletin board while my sleep meds kick in

IF YOU BUILD OVER A PILE OF CORPSES, SOONER OR LATER, YOU'LL BE GRABBED BY THE ANKLE I feel vindication in a way that is hard to grasp. To FINALLY wake up to this. A few of you reached out to me, and I to a few of you, over the last year. So now it's the best time to talk about this. Buckle up. 🧵

Look. I don’t get involved in discourse. But I lost a lot of good friends in the industry to the treehouse. Countless people I know were chased out of the industry and you can bet your pants they were all queer PoC.

Zephyr is a game that has altered my brain. I find myself in consideration of it and all its wonders and horrors. It is a setting and system that truly will inspire you

new rule: people who work in customer service get to perform one fighting game super on a rude customer once per week

Switching "System Doesn't Matter" to "I Don't Care About Systems" is way more accurate, and a better indicator of a designer's quality output, buy y'all are just too coward to say it.

working on the diplomacy section of Torchship, specifically the part that summarizes all the different places you might go and who you might have to talk to there

So, its time to ask the ultimate question of the art form... are Games Fun? open.substack.com/pub/splitpar...

Have long hard day at the gamestore, angry customers, hope at an all time low. See Torchship news, instantly refilled on hope.

It is really sad this was why S/P became a thing and things remain as dire as they were.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

It took me a bunch of read throughs at different points, because somehow I always missed exactly how threat level worked, I now understand Fantasy Craft.

This is me, whenever you start saying stupid-ass words that you don't really understand and are poorly defined about an artform full of those.

What about the enslaved microwork? Guess that is fine, it is not creative work. Guess if they were meant for creative work they would not be prisoners, refugees, or be born in the right country and class.

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals radmad.substack.com/p/sick-of-th...

I am officially in the Tradestop. Pray for me. I love you.

In a more positive note, here are the reviews of all the different ttrpgs I ran this year, its important to note that I am not including any ones I Critiqued on Split/Party, this is faster moving and just to get some eyes on some games. Flying Circus: Folks. Play it. Its such a blast. 1/???

And another fucking thing, if you go into a hobby/specialty store we don't need to hear a whole preamble about "Well golly gee, I sure don't know nothing about X" just tell us what your snot nosed grandchild wanted. This goes double if all you need is a giftcard

Whenever I mention hating X-Mas, people inevitably leap to it with the same defense. "Oh, well I don't allow the hyper consumerism ruin the spirit of the Holiday." Cool, I do. It could be that I work in Hyper Consumerism factory, it could be that I have for ten years. Either way, Bah and Humbug.

To go forward, we must go back, to get to before, we must explore the rad rules light RPG open.substack.com/pub/splitpar...

Oddworld good.

y'all have to express to @hebanongames.bsky.social that you really do want Red Markets 2e because otherwise I don't get to write on one of my dream games this is serious I mean it

If you are a teenager and reading this post, let me tell you: When I was your age, I was also reading smut and looking at porn and, yes, jerking off a lot thinking about pretty World of Warcraft ladies. This is extremely normal, and even fine. The important thing is that you need to be safe.

You know the real harbinger of the holidays? Your local video game store employee hiding in the console room and eating fried chicken as fast as possible.

now watching - Tombstone for - forgetting how awful everything is, but also Frame Rate "I never saw a rich man who didn't wind up with a guilty conscience."

Cockpit set up

Everytime I read this, its a delight .

I don't want to get TOO ahead of myself here but: #iHunt: The Feature Film is now in development. Officially. And we have a casting director, who was responsible for casting one of my all-time favorite indie movies, Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.

I do wonder if there will be an uptick in megagames on discord due to recent events. It seems like a natural fit, you could have lite roleplay spaces and organized times to submit moves and such.

Six Days, just one more day of being awake remains, I can do it, I can do it... wait? When did I write this? open.substack.com/pub/splitpar...