Dang but this community falls over itself to be helpful! Ask a silly question and get good honest answers! Write all of these down in your notebooks, they seem pretty universal!

The solo-only castle siege game I've been working on feels like it would benefit from some streamlining and reduction of rules overhead. Without knowing any details of the game, what should I cut?

Take control of your mind. Start thinking for free! See and read the full comic on penny-arcade.com ! #AISlop #WriteForFree #ThinkForYourself #AIisAGrift #comedy #foryou

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Just had a nice evening playing @jontexmo.bsky.social's game about renaissance poo, Night Soil. Lots of fun, but I did sooo, sooo badly. I got the hang of things by the end, but it was way too late. Looking forward to another try tough.

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

Come hang with me this afternoon at @gamekastlecp.bsky.social in College Park MD -- they have Sanibel and I'm happy to sign starting at 2. I'll stick around and playtest (other people's games) with Break My Game til probably about 5 pm.

Well, that’s a surprise! I expected “Night Soil” to be a lighthearted funny #boardgame about shovelling poop in Tudor London But, instead, it’s a complex and quite innovative worker placement game with a seemingly good historical insights into… shovelling poop in Tudor London!

Find the full video here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=soif... Grab the full audio podcast here. bit.ly/4b2TfZy

Keep the Faith is a hybrid tabletop/roleplaying game by @gregisonthego.bsky.social that explores a religion in transition. As if there were any other kind! My review: spacebiff.com/2026/01/13/k...

Found the mental space to do some design work last week! Blood & Mead is pretty close, I think, just some balancing mostly around setup I hope

My designer diary for The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Gameis up on the BoardGameGeek homepage! boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

Dawn of the final day! We'll be here until MITS is done!

Folks it’s the last day of #magfest 2026 and I am HERE in the tabletop hall (riverview ballroom, outside the main building through the atrium) and I want to talk to YOU about Tiny Mall Wizards and Hostile Architecture.

#MAGfest2026 If you like retro pixel art and ttrpgs come visit us in the MITS for books (and prints, if you're just into pixel art!) before 2pm! #MAGfest

Aprem à l'asso : Night Soil où l'on joue une compagnie chargée de l'évacuation des déchets dans la ville de Londres sous les Tudor. Passé un temps d'adaptation pour bien voir le plateau, on se retrouve avec un jeu de pose d'ouvriers et de pickup & delivery bien brise neurones. On en redemande! #j2s

I am at MAGFest!! Come say hello and play a shortened demo of The Time We Have using our ACTUAL door!!

come hang out with me at mits we are literally playing and drawing

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Day Two! Heart of Darkness! 6. Night Soil 5. Chicago '68 4. Fate of the Fellowship 3. Corps of Discovery 2. Purple Haze 1. Onoda

Best Week continues! On this our hallowed second day, we're celebrating the best board games of 2025 that stare into the abyss. Read the full list here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/27/b...

Last minute decorations inspired by Terry Pratchet

Continuing the annual tradition of immortalizing the year's reviews. As a bonus, I can use a dry-erase marker to plan out Best Week!

Night Soil! What a wonderful game, @jontexmo.bsky.social! And brilliant artwork by Jesse Gillespie, as well as a fabulous presentation by publisher @grailgames.bsky.social 🙂

We just got a game about poop in London before the sewer and, between this and the Zheng He game, frankly, I am getting paranoid that game developers are tapping into my spinal fluid to make games about my intrusive thoughts. #boardgames

Anybody else sometimes get so frustrated by how a word in English is spelled that they furiously research its origins to find out who is to blame? Just me?

People need to start caring about others & not only those directly related/affected, & not only when it's transactional. We *have* to have empathy beyond ourselves & immediate orbit of family, friends, neighborhood, & community. We have to care about total strangers who are in harm's way & in need

For my final review of the year, I figured, hey, I've never talked about Mindbug. spacebiff.com/2025/12/18/y...

For no reason whatsoever, gonna remind that you can support your local trans girl by buying my games directly from my lovely publishers! High Tide www.underdoggames.com/products/hig... Phantasmic buttonshygames.com/products/pha...

I may print this out and put it on my wall like I'm a local burger joint. Thank you, Dan!

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

In #NightSoil wird's anrüchig... Trotz all der Exkremente ein frisches Thema. Zeitgerechte und gleichzeitig lustige Grafiken. Regeleinstieg doch komplizierter als gedacht. Insgesamt mit gutem Potential - aber nicht mehr mit 5 Spielenden... 3 dürften hier ideal sein.

It’s been a hot minute since I backed this #boardgame (nearly 2 and a half years), but Crumbs has finally delivered and I’m glad it’s here at last! 🙂 boardgamegeek.com/blog/12040/b...

Turns out you can play Star Wars:Legion with just some custom dice/rulers and all your kid's LEGO figures!

Tonight’s family game night is trying out the Kickstarted Night Soil from @grailgames.bsky.social

Woo hoo! So cool to be included!

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

Sabrina Carpenter: Braver and more powerful than Nintendo and Microsoft combined.

woah! New Mill gets some love in the Shut Up & Sit Down gift guide! youtu.be/uDpntcra6VU?...

Welp, the Reviewer In A Hat hates my latest game. This is the second time he's dunked on the exact thing I designed a game to do, so at least I'm consistent?

Reminder that Protospiel MN 2026 is coming up! Early bird pricing ends December 7th! https://protospiel-mn.org/

Wondering what city waste looked like in the 1500s? Join Justin for his review of Night Soil, published by Grail Games and released by Matagot! www.meeplemountain.com/reviews/nigh... #BoardGames #NightSoil 4/5 ★

I made a weird little trick-taking game about leading a bunch of mercenaries called Landsknecht a while back. Did some recent edits on it. Haven't shared a PnP game in a while so figured I'd do that. Let me know what you think! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Another PAX Unplugged is in the books. Here's every board game Keith Law played at this year's show, including his pick for the best. www.avclub.com/pax-unplugge...

Jedi Knight 2

Negative reviews of my games on BGG? I let those go. What really live rent free in my head are the baffling comments that don't seem to refer to my game at all. I have now seen Night Soil described as a bag builder, a hand manager, and a wargame. It has no bag, no hand, and no combat

Night Soil

#Crownfell is an asymmetric, abstract, 2-player strategy card game that is live on @thegamecrafter.bsky.social! No stretch goals, except for this: The more people get it, the lower the price goes *for everyone*. Add-ons include a playmat & solo expansion. www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...

🎙️ "It's reminiscent of being a sicko in a bumper car!" - Staying in Podcast Looking for an excellent podcast to tide you over on an Autumnal dog-walk? Join our friends @StayingInPod! 👇 https://www.stayinginpodcast.com/e/night-soil-strange-pictures-and-joyride-survival-of-the-fastest-ep235/