Starting a challenge, because what's one more? This is the best kind of challenge, of course, because it was one I was planning to do anyways. lairoftheduskwitch.bearblog.dev/campaign-26/

Ask and you shall receive

I hope everyone has a relaxing and cozy holiday. To celebrate, here's a Secret Santa post I made about the Hearthships of the Nomad Fleets, including a usable example for your spacefaring games. lairoftheduskwitch.bearblog.dev/hearthship-k...

Today's solo RPG: Hardcase, about odd jobs and getting in trouble in space. It's rad! Very open-ended; it gives you some PbtA mechanics, a bunch of tables and some processes, and you act as your own GM. It takes effort to make it all into a story, but it's worth it. thursday-garreau.itch.io/hardcase

It's backup day! 📂🎉 Back up your art, your writing... everything! Repost to remind a friend!

Now that the 1.0 version is out and the start date is set, it's finally time to post about VANGUARD, my adaptation of Sam Sorenson's CATAPHRACT. lairoftheduskwitch.bearblog.dev/vanguard/

*vibrates violently holding a degree in interdisciplinary communication and collaboration* You do not need genAI to communicate your ideas as a non-artist to an artist! A generated image doesn't actually share the key info that needs to passed on AND it discourages fruitful discussion

Look, I recognize there are 81 scenarios and I wrote 3 of them. I don't write these to win, I write them to be a little Delta Green freak pervert about cosmic horror and the state. There are several scenarios I'd be happy losing to. HOWEVER, don't vote for AI art or racist foghorns, ok?

I should put together my own 2025 tabletop recap...

Today on Ansible Uplink, I invite @scarius.bsky.social back on for a Binary Stars episode, where we review two Mothership RPG pamphlet adventures: Piece by Piece by @dgchapman.bsky.social and The Ship Who Swallowed a Spider by @molgannardpress.bsky.social

"Voidborne", a neat scifi scene featuring a realistic spoaceship with red-hot radiators by @theprotagonists.bsky.social #space #art www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/...

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

everyone's goal for 2026 should be getting into using RSS feeds & readers for updates on everyone's projects rather than relying on social media alone. I don't think "big, badly moderated forums where everyone hangs out and gets cranky" are working great for that.

A reminder for when you're out in the cold doing your Christmas shopping, Starbucks is an anti-worker union-busting company. Get your coffee or hot chocolate elsewhere.

I wrote 3 of this year's 81. Go have a look!

you should start a blog

Every year, Delta Green handlers write up ops for others to judge. Think of it like an office fantasy football league, but instead of imaginary teams you have piles of dead Agents. The 2025 Shotgun Scenario contest features 81 operations. Read and vote here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Soma is going for an absolutely silly discount right now, 95% off. If you've not played it, it's perhaps Frictional's best. I never finished it, cos I got too scared

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Would make a great gift. Ships pretty fast (I'll usually send it out next day if it's during the week) in the US. Just saying. shop.binarystar.games/products/voi...

pals you gotta quit spotify

In case you missed it, because I'm terrible at posting things at good times!

a whole new world to explore

Ok! The first TIME WARP episode of Ansible Uplink is live, and (finally) on Apple @unenthuser.bsky.social and I talk about Star Wars West End Games history, and review Tatooine Manhunt! The unabridged version filled with Star Wars TTRPG history will go out to patrons next week, too, 😁

The Last Eternal Jam of the year starts December 1st. If you're trying to wrap up your ttrpg projects before the end of the year, join us! #ttrpg #eternalttrpgjam #indiettrpg Come hang out on the server too!

Rascal News! Rascal News! Rascal News!

The question is: have d20 conversions done harm to a game line or publisher. (Thanks @chrishanrahan.bsky.social for the pointer.) Yeah, I think so. I think they've done damage to the original lines, which wasn't repairable when d20 died out. And I think they've done brand damage.

It's Black Friday! Go buy stuff, because I guess that's what we do today! You could, for instance, do it on itch, where everything's 20% off (or everything for $50, which is a bit more off on top of that) and it's creator day so I get all proceeds: itch.io/s/169020/bla...

In case you missed it!

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Want to try it out first? Great news! I added a bunch of community copies to the digital version, which has a fantastic playingcards.io version, if I do say so myself: binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift

VOID_SHIFT PHYSICAL IS OUT and BLACK FRIDAY(ish) SALE IS ON shop.binarystar.games Read on for more detail!

A weird, funny, and thoughtful expansion upon a single entry in a random table. Your science fiction game needs more things like this in it.

I just released SLUG MODE, my first Mothership pamphlet scenario! It expands on Slug, a psychedelic drug whose users all inhabit a shared virtual space while high - my favorite weird little plot hook from A Pound of Flesh. thursday-garreau.itch.io/slug-mode

#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own. www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...

You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️‍⚧️ But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold. So take care of yourself. Your soul is beautiful.

NASA posted a photo of Jupiter under ultraviolet light 🏳️‍⚧️

Put out a little devlog about VOID_SHIFT, my little deckbuilder card game about working crappy jobs in space! binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift/d...

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

Transgender Law Center is a fantastic org, and I highly recommend donating if you have the means 🏳️‍⚧️ transgenderlawcenter.org

I was at Origins in 1997 when the first edition of @biohazardjeff.bsky.social ‘s Blue Planet #ttrpg debuted. I was a marine biology major at the time, and the depth and the scope of the game impressed me. I’ve had every edition of Blue Planet ever published. The latest edition arrived today. (1/ )

SIGN UP SO I CAN LET YOU KNOW binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space-p...

I got a very moving Ask about avoiding defeatism on the forbidden website, and I wanted to share it because it's something I believe very strongly

Working on something #TTRPG #OSR

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

New blogpost: new Malfunction tables for when your cosmonaut's rover or drone breaks down on the Moon in 1991. staggeredamusements.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/o...

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Do you like horny teens and corny trouble? 🌽🌽🌽 Last week I submitted Bury Me at Makeout Station for the Sci-Fi Derelict Jam 2025 hosted by @glitched-tabletop.bsky.social! It's been a while since I wrote a TTRPG but damn it was fun making roll tables again jay-arr-elle.itch.io/bury-me-at-m...

You don't need gen AI, not even if you're not an artist. I'm not an artist, but I wanted to make an illustration of a monster's eye... something like an "eldritch eye." I cannot do by scratch, so I downloaded free images, and mixed them until I got something I was happy with. Here the result:

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥