I wrote a blog about trying to breakdown the genetics of #TTRPGs in terms of the play experience, as a starting point on a road to establishing useful genre categories that actually speak to what it's like to play the game. Please give a read, #ttrpgcommunity www.radiojamesgames.com/post/genetic...

So you're telling me *Starfleet Academy* is just a teen drama and Star Trek has never had teenagers in space doing science projects before?

I find Skeletor so relatable. With the slightest hiccup in his evil plan, he panics, freaks out, curses everyone, and leaves. The guy has no pivot. You just know he's back at Snake Mountain feeling so angry and plotting something else entirely new and overly elaborate that will fail.

Here's a nice little article about BIPOC designers in #ttrpgs and their influence on the indie scene now, brought to you through the @igdn-official.bsky.social blog. Not every article has to be deep-deep-deep. Sometimes it's just lovely to hear from the community. www.igdnonline.com/blog/2026/1/...

Sure, Starfleet Academy has a cadet in a wheelchair, but the Athena is not wheelchair accessible. I thought we solved this back in TNG. #startrek

I wish reviewers would stop saying "what Star Trek fans are accustomed to". If you think there's a throughline anymore, you haven't watched the last several Star Trek series'. More likely you're just remembering the one Star Trek you like.

Starfleet Academy. I immediately relate to the big huge pacifist Klingon who loves birdwatching.

Making a mountain out of a molehill perhaps, I am deeply concerned about how we don't have proper genre categories in #TTRPGs, and wrote an article about why, and what-for, and so on. Go see, #ttrpgcommunity. www.radiojamesgames.com/post/ttrpgs-...

Man this makes me want to go there. www.igdnonline.com/blog/2023/1/...

Ah, Steve Dee, RIP. Steve of @tinstargames.bsky.social contributed tirelessly to the @igdn-official.bsky.social blog where I act as an editor, so I got to really dig in to a lot of juicy #ttrpg articles with him. In memoriam, here's one of my favourites. www.igdnonline.com/blog/2023/1/...

Okay, for real this time, applications for the @igdn-official.bsky.social Indie Groundbreaker Awards are live. If you released an indie #ttrpg in 2025, then this is your link. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers. I don't know about you, but these are the #ttrpgcommunity awards I really care about.

Here's an article on different approaches to #ttrpg designs using sports analogies to try and get people to understand that different wants of having fun in games are fine. Yes, it's 2026 and we still need this. Thank you @joshuakitz.bsky.social composedreamgames.com/forum/discus...

The 2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards are here! Have you published a LARP, table top RPG, card, board, or other analog game in 2025? We want to see it! Submit yours today: forms.gle/Jgnu7Ev5BnkU... Visit www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers for more details. Submissions close on January 31st.

Hey #trrpgcommunity, how many community copies is too many to give away of a #ttrpg on #Itch.io? I'm up past 70 copies over the two years since its release. I don't want to wholly devalue my product but I also like people reading and playing. Thoughts?

I've had a few sales so I put up more community copies for Fight to Survive and Solo Martial Blues up on Itch. Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and so forth. Enjoy #ttrpgs. Just, please give a rating or review. It matters a lot to the algorithm of it. #ttrpgcommunity panjumanju.itch.io

Here's a pretty great article for #ttrpg publishers (no matter how small!) explaining how important some design elements are in simple language. Excellent work, @explorersdesign.bsky.social, a benefit to the #ttrpgcommunity.

Spotted in the wild, a nicely beat up copy of my #ttrpg "Fight to Survive: Role-playing Martial Arts Meets Heart", on the shelf of a FLGS deep in United States territory. I love it when people send me these, thank you @mikelaff.bsky.social. #ttrpgcommunity

This holiday season, give your favorite creators the perfect gift: attention. A 5-star rating, a product review on Exalted, or even a share on Reddit. www.explorersdesign.com/critmas-2025/

Woah watch out there's always new #ttrpgs crowdfunding. Here's December. Thank you @igdn-official.bsky.social www.igdnonline.com/blog/2023/1/...

Yar they just scooped out me eye and replaced it with a robot eye. I shall be a cyborg pirate forever more.

I find 90% of #TTPGS uninteresting, and the remaining 10% are an obsession.

Spotted in the wilds.

Hey #ttrpgcommunity, We're at #PAXUnplugged! Come find us at booth # GH-63C and support our incredible international indie designers! We're over 150 members strong and carry a mix of all things table top, including TTRPGs, LARPs, card and board games!

You fools, don't you realize I will die on almost any hill.

I know statehood and patriotism is manufactured, but on my life I refuse to call a toque a "beanie".

What do you want out of this top edit of your new TTRPG article that you think is so worthwhile to publish? "Tell me if it holds water, if I've lost my way, or if I've just thought myself into a corner of useless energy to no one's benefit."

Star Trek Hot Take: "Relics" is one of the best TNG episodes.

When I'm starting to get stressed out, I enjoy lowering and lowering and lowering my expectations for myself. "I'm sorry, I fully don't expect that report to get done today. I'm doing enough to keep breathing and that is my new baseline. And I will make peace with that."

I just wanted to share this great cause of which I'm very proud to play a part. I love #ttrpgs and I love #community, and the cause couldn't be better. gofund.me/d7c1f0b7d

The IGDN’s Diversity Sponsorship has long supported emerging developers from marginalized backgrounds. After a pause in 2025 to revitalize the program under new leadership, we're excited to be re-launching in 2026! That effort begins right here, with your help! www.gofundme.com/f/support-di...

"Full of beans" as an expression for bursting with energy only really works if the bean is coffee.

One of my favourite books in my 20s was, no joke, a guide to science fiction books and movies. It lead me to so many interesting things. There's a Kickstarter just like that, in its last days, and it could use some help crossing the finish line. Help if you can. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Freshly home from a #ttrpg con, taking home the trophy for best GM at the con (toot, toot—that's the sound of my own horn) and a lot of great little changes to apply to upcoming games that I play-tested there. "Sweetest victory..." #ttrpgcommunity

The 80s are out. The revival of it has died. That's fine. I'll continue putting space grids and lasers on my #ttrpgs from now until I kick the bucket, which could be in the 2080s if I live like Dick Van Dyke.

It never rains, it pours, and all the cool crowdfunding stuff is happening all at once. I encourage everyone to blow their allowance on this stuff. None of these are any of my games, I just love being part of a #ttrpgcommunity of cool weirdoes doing neat stuff in #ttrpgs.

My favourite part of any TV show is when two people who have been wanting to get together but never did, finally kiss. I can't help it, I'm such a sucker for it.

Hurrah my new #ttrpg The Psychic Danger Society was in the @ipr.bsky.social newsletter. That thing has basically become a catalogue of fresh new games.

I wrote a blog about how I struggle with time/energy investment versus "success", in #TTRPGs, and specifically ruminating on if longer or shorter books are better for the indie scene, because they take so much time and effort. #ttrpgcommunity #blog www.radiojamesgames.com/post/ttrpgs-...

I'm firmly in my 40s now and feeling exceptionally culturally irrelevant. I don't know my TikToks from my What-whats. But I have to remind myself that I was never cool, I was never with it, and at no point have I ever known what's going on.

I know I post a lot of #ttrpg #crowdfunding, but I can't help it if there's going to be a vibrant and exciting indie community, like this nifty space opera, here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Do I have any #ttrpg fans from the UK following me? There's a sale this week on my games on the @joshuakitz.bsky.social online marketplace, here. composedreamgames.co.uk/radio-james-...

Most of my #ttrpgs are on a good sale right now at @joshuakitz.bsky.social, which was already the best place to buy them in Canada. If you're in the mood for some gonzo indie weirdness stuff, I got ya. composedreamgames.com/marketplace/...

I was watching an adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau today and when they chanted, "Are we not men?" It took incredible willpower not to respond, "We are Devo!"

It always surprises me when I find out #ttrpg publishers I respect and who do great great things and who I think are really pushing the envelope in the industry and fighting the good fight...don't make a cent. They're brilliant, the work is brilliant, but the money's just not there.

I didn't come here out of hunger. This is my trip out of the house. Please bring me this food and coffee as slowly as you possibly can.

Strange New Worlds has a lot of good sets, but their...martial arts training room, I guess...is the most awkward-looking, non-functional, and obvious redress in Star Trek.

When I wear a blue hospital mask I feel like Sub-Zero.

Where's the gusto and how can I go for it?

There is a point in a #ttrpg where you've hit "over-design".

Periodically I say exactly the wrong thing to exactly the wrong audience in a complete failure to read the room.