What can you see at the Future of Games? The 2026 summit will offer amazing seminars and panels for game industry professionals, artists, retailers. Learn all about it here:

There's still time to register as a vendor at the Future of Games Expo Hall! Calling all artists, designers, retailers, authors and others to vend at the Future of Games! Info and registration here: www.tabletopgamealliance.org/product/futu...

Earlier this month, I had a wonderful conversation with the @tga.bsky.social team about the Future of Games Summit we’re putting together! If you’re a WA-based tabletop creator (retailer, artist, publisher, designer, educator, or non-profit), this event is for you. #TTRPG

I think a lot about how relationship maps can drive design and play. Here's a map for a six-character game that includes lines of affinity and also primary motivations proximal to characters. Everyone but the king has at least one one-sided relationship. Everyone knows exactly what to do.

evening crowd - we’re coming into the last couple of days, and have some big goals still to hit!

Its a kickstarter morning, support the latest addition to the fantastic coyote and crow setting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...

@greenroninpub.bsky.social is bringing back a fresh edition of the classic mutants and masterminds www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

This past Tuesday at the washington state capitol the @tga.bsky.social joined the secretary of state with many local game companies to share the benefits of tabletop games with legislators and staffers.

I just backed Swords Without Master on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

The M&M 4E Kickstarter is going great, so thanks to everyone who supported it. If you back the campaign for physical products in first 48 hours, you get a free pin of Freedom City's own Cosmo the Moon Monkey fighting his nemesis Discord the Goon Monkey! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

I came out of my cave and did an interview with the lovely folks on the Read, Play, Game podcast about a month ago. Listen to our delightful conversation about Fedora Noir, gm-less games, and what I'm working on next! <3

Thieves of Time is my gaming company, so if you like my stuff you could follow this account too. If you like. No pressure.

In Tacklebox, a game by J Walton, you start by fishing. Where you end up is anyone’s guess, as this surreal game takes you where you never imagined you’d go. Get a cope through our website, link is in our bio. #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #indiegame #surrealism #cardgame

Today I check in with Elliot Davis, we talk about what matters in making a game like The Time We Have, a tragic role playing game. Watch the full interview on your YouTube channel, get a copy of The Time We Have through our website, link in bio. #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #thetimewehave #zombiegame

Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it

Missed the lecture on games and climate justice? There’s now a recording! Check out my lecture alongside Michael Joseph, @rosscowman.bsky.social, and Andy Gross! I talked about games, altered logic, and how we can understand these as tools for climate justice. #games youtu.be/HfWfhKvEABU?...

Submissions now open! The Tabletop Game Alliance is accepting submissions Feb 1-15th! If you’re a new game designer, writer, or artist living in WA, I highly recommend applying to showcase your work at the March 14th Future of Games industry summit.

For the past few months I’ve been working on a new designer showcase and mentorship program and I’m really excited to see it come into being! If you’re a new designer in WA, don’t forget to submit your work Feb 1-15! www.tabletopgamealliance.org/new-designer... #ttrpg #boardgames #gamedesign #art

We are also putting our money where our mouth is. Today we have taken 10% of all the purchases made on our webstore in the last quarter and donated it to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Stand strong. Stay united. Serve in whatever way you are called to. 💪

You know what actually matters about ttrpgs? The quality of the paper stock

Can you solve the mystery and return what was stolen? Song of the Scryptwyrm by Daniel Bronson Lowe is a solo RPG in the Librarian’s Apprentice World, but is a standalone game. You can get a copy through our website, link is in our bio. #solorpg #ttrpg #indiegame #journalinggame

"We've seen the way other companies treat their communities in order to extract profit from them. I'm just so proud that I can work for an organization that doesn't have to resort to that.” Three members of the nonprofit behind Netrunner talk about balancing growth against an anti-corporate stance.

Oh hey Olympia. Lets play some story games every monday forever!

Podcast filming session

@tga.bsky.social is hosting a Tabletop Games Summit this March in Olympia. Unlike a normal games conference this event is for creatives, publishers, educators, retailers, non profits, and other professionals working in tabletop to come together for seminars, talks, and expert panels etc…

My cat is sick please buy my games moreblueberries.shop

Annual Summit of the Tabletop Game Alliance of Washington State! Future of Games is the 3rd annual summit hosted by the Tabletop Game Alliance of Washington State. Registration and event information can be found here: www.tabletopgamealliance.org/future-of-ga...

Who else publishes games in Washington that I don't know of?

Talk of the Table Designing for GM-less Play w/ @natmesnard.bsky.social Brian & Elliot are joined by Nat Mesnard, a game designer, professor, and co-founder of Scryptid Games. We discuss their latest game Assemblage and their approach to GM-less game design. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

One year ago today, I released the ashcan of REALIS, my first TTRPG. Today, we've got a near-complete draft that's 50,000 words longer than the preview that so many of you checked out, with over 100 new pieces of art. Thanks to everyone who checked it out. And get ready for the KS later this year.

The past several weeks have been dominated by the work of setting up Buried Giant and completing our existing projects (Oath: NF and the WGG reprints). But, we've got an incredible team and I can already feel the schedule relaxing. Heck, I even spent a big portion of this morning working on Arcs!

Check out the full video on the Quinns quest YouTube channel at YouTube.com / at quinns_quest or by searching “Quinns quest”. More gameplay of our beautifully handcrafted game City of Winter. You can pick up a copy for yourself through our website. #ttrpg #indiegame #cityofwinter #roleplayinggame

Wonderful news! More people should be playing Swords Without Master

Starting the first Monday in February, Heart of the Deernicorn will be hosting story game nights at Altitiude 15 in Downtown Olympia! We are so excited to play games with you all. See you soon! #downtownolympia #olympia #olympiawashington #ttrpg

Calling all WA tabletop creators, retailers, and hobbyists! The Tabletop Game Alliance of WA is hosting the Future of Games—a day dedicated to professional growth and collaboration in our local industry. Olympia, WA March 14th Help us shape the future of games in Washington!

A few years ago @brightwhitney.bsky.social shared some wisdom about Narrative Design and the connections between Videogame and Tabletop design.

It's happening! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Olympia folks - come by Bar Francis and see my new show. It’s up through the end of the month 🥰 #olympia #artshow #pnwlife

The Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Kickstarter page has over 800 followers! Can we get it to 900? To 1,000? We've got some exciting playable previews coming before the crowd-funder launches later this month!

New Quinns Quest review is a boxed RPG special! 📦✨ I dunno folks, I think running RPGs out of 400 page hardback books might be dumb and bad

Did you know that I released a new game this year? Going For Broke is a fast-paced, party roleplaying game that tells sitcom stories about a collective house that's scrambling to pay rent. It's cheap, easy to teach, and takes less than an hour to play. Check it out! buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

Life on Mars AP. Story Gaming like it’s 2012

Fall of Magic ap series from 2015 m.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4t...

More nostalgia posts inspired by @aavoigt.bsky.social excellent story game retrospective. This is the trailer for the 2nd Fabricated Realities. A small story game convention we threw in Olympia in 2011 and 2012

Anyone else remember Google+ Era AP series Indie Plus? Here is a lovely Superhero themed play-through of serpent’s tooth with Masks designer Brendan Conway (pre Masks!)

Tacklebox is kinda blowing up at the moment, thanks to Quinn's Quest (~1500 copies & counting). Just in case anyone's interested, I would also be open to co-publishing some of my other games (Geiger Counter, Planarch Codex, Restless, Tomb Priestesses, Lofty Beacons, Metrofinal, Last Kings, etc).

I did some game store retailing last weekend. I really enjoyed selling games to strangers of the street, lots of whom had never played role playing games before (though plenty who had) I found myself going back to Desperation, Ghost Court, Stewpot, and A Land Once Magic. As the solution for most!

look at my green kaiju puppet son

Check out the full video on the Quinns quest YouTube channel at YouTube.com/ at quinns_quest or by searching “Quinns quest” in the search bar. You can get a copy of Desperation for yourself through our website, link in our bio. #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #indiegame #roleplayinggame #cardgame