If you are financially able to do it and fit the definition, do it. We've benefitted so much. You know who you are! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Still dream of lux-eternal? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Ran wolves tonight by for the indigenous futurism class at the evergreen state college.

I love it so much you can see me playing it in this clip from CNBC’s “Make It” where I snarked so hard they recorded b-roll of me playing four indie games (including For the Queen, Slugblaster, & Yazeba’s) instead of the planned fake-D&D session.

Wrapping up the Dice Exploder series on actual play with a game where, to me, actual play functions almost as a game mechanic: @kenlowery.bsky.social talks Void 1680 AM community broadcasts, and how even just the idea of putting your solo gameplay in front of an audience changes how it feels to play

Fall of Magic is back in stock. heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/fall...

Did ether of us say T minus 1? Today was T minus 1. Launch in under 24 hours. Probably under 12. See you there, dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Played a halloween edition of Desperation by @jmstar.bsky.social It was our first voyage on the Isabell. Such a damn good game. The whole table was instantly locked in from the first card.

Had an excellent time running FALL OF MAGIC by @rosscowman.bsky.social in my @nyugamecenter.bsky.social class!

New article on Old Men Running the World, where I drill down into what makes me want to run a game and what makes me run a mile. #ttrpg

Working on the AW3rd kickstarter (T minus 6 btw) and I notice that listed under Meg's and my name it says "11 created • 347 backed." Okay first of all, 347 backed, wowie. But of those 347, probably around 300 have been PbtA. That's a lot to be confronted with on a Tuesday morning.

There was a time we backed every #pbta #ttrpg project. Then folk's creative drive outpaced our capacity, as well as our shelf-space. It was a wicked cool moment. In 6 days, we're hoping you'll back #AW3rd, and keep the momentum rolling!

Critical Roll S4 E1 reminds me of a really long cut scene at the beginning of a Triple-A game. Great writing, great acting, but missing that feral magic of play.

Hear me out. Instead of game expansions, how about we start making game contractions. I would for one, totally buy the new Twilight Imperium contraction.

Explore a town through different perspectives in An Altogether Different River, available on our website #ttrpgs #ttrpg

Hey! Woah! I can't believe I haven't shared this before. From a game of @rosscowman.bsky.social's #CityofWinter: This is Valor, our young prince-in-exile, alongside Constance, the soon-to-be princess (though neither knows it yet!) I love them dearly! 💛

The Tabletop Game Alliance is hosting a summit Saturday, March 14th at the Olympia Center. This day-long event will feature a small expo hall, seminars, workshops, and panel discussions for creatives, designers, publishers, retailers, educators, non-profits, and event organizers working in games.

Hey fam, so are you hype for #PAXUnplugged yet? I finished the preliminary schedule for Games on Demand. We have 266 game sessions currently scheduled, 10 AM to 11:45 PM Friday and Saturday. 10 AM to 5:45 PM Sunday. Last game sits two hours before close each day. Do you want to know which games?

Hey check it out! 11 days to launch. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Hi game publishers large and small Please do this. It is so crucial. Like not just the having folks do an AP of your product though obviously yes please. But also please, collect APs of your games into one place on your site so that people can reference them! This is a teaching aid!

I was on Dice Exploder! We dissect an intense scene from my AP podcast where an NPC leverages a character for sex. We go beat-by-beat on how to handle safety, boundaries, and communication at the TTRPG table. Listen now: bit.ly/dice-explode... Thanks for having me Sam! @diceexploder.com

What hot tips would you impart to folks new to running Apocalypse World & Monsterhearts? I’m going to be filming a session of Monsterhearts 2 on friday with a goal of teaching how to mc.

Here’s how to set up the Tradition Decks for your new copy of City of Winter, available on our website! #ttrpgs #ttrpg

rousing session of Old King’s Crown last night. Lots of lovely implied world building and innovative mechanisms. I’m excited to keep exploring this one!

An Altogether Different River is still a banger game and I'm really proud of it. You can get physical copies from the Heart of the Deernicorn webstore, along with Spectres of Brocken, another game I'm super proud of.

A casual reminder also that you can buy this + three of my other award-winning games for only $40. And if you've already bought or played my games? Thank you. I would love to hear about your experience and stories.

BFF is back and better with age, Follow us on Kickstarter! 💅 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

BFF is coming and I am in love with these characters! Please share and help us reach 1k followers!

Looking to show off preview BFF Golden Years with press folks. If that is you drop me a DM. I'd be happy to set up an interview with any/all of the designers, send a VTT key, or run a game for anyone interested. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

I just backed Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

Grab your handprinted Deernicorn shirt now on our website! #ttrpgs #ttrpg #screenprinting

Fabricated Realities

Role Playing Design is a combo of prompt writing and system design and you don’t need to be good at both. If your talents lean towards prompt writing you can use other designers game systems for bones. And if you are more into systems, you can make designs where players prompt themselves.

Youtube has a new "inspiration" tab for creators. I regrettably clicked it and was transported to an AI hell world of prompts "inspired" by the Deernicorn channel. They cooked up this hot number for Deernicorn... Thanks YouTube. We'll get right on it.

I want this! Look at that art!

A game I made is getting reviewed by Dice Tower next week. I've been a big DT fan for a long time and tt is a bit of a surreal feeling for me!

In BFF: The Golden Years you can choose your granny AND the essentials she keeps in her purse! Which granny will you choose? #cozygames #cozygame #ttrpg

This was a great conversation, as always when talking to Sam about game design. We explore the parallels between sexual consent and GMless game consent, how systems model the former via the latter, and what makes a good RPG romance, fraught romantic storyline, or system for RPG sex.

A Rascal sister site has launched: @roguesite.bsky.social Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help). If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.

sorry to be a downer but coming off of my worst sales summer in years, now would be a great time to pick up something from my catalogue! spooky season's coming up, so I'd recommend: 😈 Imp of the Perverse - monster-hunting American horror! 🥀 Annalise - GMless Vampire horror! www.ndpdesign.com/store

YOU: going to #PAXWest to find the a new consuming game experience like nothing you've played before. ME: giving you the 🔥 tip to go to Summit Building Booth 4070 and check out The Balsam Lake Unmurders and other journaling games and The Ink That Bleeds, a game/zine about how to play them.

@heartofthedeernicorn.com in the wild at PAX West!

PAX West Attendees! Deernicorn Distro will be at the Zulu Games Booth 4070 floor 2 of the Expo hall. #paxwest #ttrpg

@lackingceremony.bsky.social's Monsterhearts is getting its own video game courtesy of Canadian design studio, Ludic Lemur. How are they going to adapt the angsty, social dynamics of the RPG into a digital format? Cards!

I’ll be facilitating a game of Fall of Magic for this month’s GM-less Wednesday (on 27 August at 8 pm) at Here Be Dragons in TTDI. Come check it out if you’re interested in a melancholy journey accompanying the Magus to the heart of magic as it is dying in the world.

Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.

Autumn Tokyo game market is gonna be packed with great games. I wish publishers were over here on bluesky! nearly everyone is still over on Twitter. A lot of folks and designers are posting about their games, we were looking at them this morning on discord. might do a thread later on em over here.

@criticalrole.bsky.social season 4 is going to be run in a West Marches campaign style (according to the recent forbes article.) West Marches was coined by @lamemage.com back in 2007. after his long running D&D campaign. arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78...

I don’t like playing an rpg with a ton of shit on the table.