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.

Here's an upcoming #ttrpg I'm excited about, and you should be too. It's probably too much fun to say the title. www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

My publishing addiction continues. Look for this not-X-Men #ttrpg in 2026. Why do this, when there's so many other superhero games? I'm glad you asked! Because the (not)X-Men are NOT superheroes, and we need a game to reflect their bizarre side-step of the superhero genre. Fight me on this.

In the spirit of being unable to creatively hold back, here's the so-far cover for Pooka, my upcoming tragic #ttrpg of monster collecting and friendship, solo or with friends.

Help me stick to one #ttrpg project and not constantly add to the publishing queue.

I just want a video game where I can walk around TNG's Enterprise D. You don't even have to give me things to do, I'll occupy myself.

Hey I know you want more indie #ttrpgs so here's the @igdn-official.bsky.social members' September #crowdfunding list. www.igdnonline.com/blog/2025/9/...

The world needs more space pulp #ttrpg so here goes. Not mine, but, in my brain. Thank you @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

As a small #ttrpg publisher it's hard to keep the hype train going. The two main books I'm juggling right now both have a large page count and no real art assets complete. My mailing list hasn't gotten an email in two months because there's nothing to say other than: Under Construction.

Be a princess. Get kidnapped by a strange woman. Fall in love with your Captor. Please Let Me Go, a 2 player GM-Less TTRPG about Stockholm syndrome, is out now! #ttrpg #indiegame #roleplay #princess #gamejam certified-milkboy.itch.io/please-let-m...

Me and Ellie are in need of help getting out of a house owned by a violent and aggressive man. Shares are appreciated. #gofundme #mutualaid #queer #trans gofund.me/24572041

My new #ttrpg "The Psychic Danger Society" is now on the @ipr.bsky.social website front page. You should go check it out. IPR is one of my favourite places on the Internet. www.indiepressrevolution.com

Why am I so soft in the middle now? / Why am I so soft in the middle; / When the rest of my life is so hard.

1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library (And quote this, #ttrpysky. I want to know what's in your TTRPG library too!)

About the itch.io #ttrpg ban on—let's call it what it is, it's a ban on queer content—it's not that "they'll be coming for you next". You don't get it. They're coming for you right now. This is a process, and we all should be afraid, and fighting, not just those of us who are queer. #ttrpgcommunity

Hot take for #ttrpgs. LGBTQ+ designers are responsible for most of the innovation in the hobby I've cared about in the last 20 years. We should encourage LGBTQ+ publishers not just because of social marginalization…but also because the hobby keeps benefiting, tremendously, from queer creativity.

I'm looking forward to elderly #ttrpg designers putting out swan songs, like the artistic equivalent of when Earnest Hemingway wrote Old Man and the Sea. I want to see the games that result from a lifetime of making games. Where does that end up? We're barely getting there, but we are, soon.

Leftover #trrpg warm takes. I don't think ttrpgs ever got pulp right. Yes, I know there's a lot of them, but I've never found any of them satisfying. That's why I make “genre” games, because I'm trying to scratch itches that can't be scratched with what's on the market. I will make a pulp game.

It's too late. I've had too many conversations with this person. I can no longer ask them what their name is.

We have such horrible regard for artists and other creatives in this society that soon as there's a new social forum, like this one, it's littered with pleas to help pay rent. Damn the oblige noblesse for ignoring patronage. It was the only thing you were doing for society!

One like = one hot take #ttrpg opinion, although I'm not sure how many I have that are actually very controversial. I know I have a few doozies, at least.

I just can't stand another #ttrpg essay that starts with some variation of, "Everyone gets ttrpg theory wrong and misunderstands everything but not me."

"Who'll be my role model now that my role model is gone?" (Saxaphone solo)

I mourn not the man—who had questionable business practices, screwy politics, and apparently wasn't very nice to work with—I mourn the icon that adorned my lunchbox. He looked like some hero out of Greek myth but with a handlebar mustache and horseshoe hairline. Oh, the muscles! I'll miss the myth.

For my own #ttrpgs, I don't make NSFW content, but I'm still concerned about what's happening on Itch. Even a cursory glance at recent political history tells you that when they come for what's "inappropriate" it always shifts to coming after marginalized identities.

I'm also in the middle of my own storygame Not-Pokemon #ttrpg, so I'm not *super* surprised to see a friend has been working along similar lines. Nick also did "Home: Mecha x Kaiji", a map-building giant monster game. You can expect the same level of creativity here. deep-dark-games.itch.io/wildkin

Who was more pulp adventure #ttrpgs? Because I can never get enough. This is Cosmic Corsairs from @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...