NEW: City of Blood and Plaster is a system agnostic setting zine with NPCs, factions, and mysteries for your next exploration of Gilded Age Chicago. The scenarios and play materials all take inspiration from Gothic horror and Chicago history. From @storygameschicago.bsky.social

NEW: Vesta Mandate is a sci-fi political thriller roleplaying game for 2-4 players. On Vesta Station, you play the conniving mastermind with a secret agenda that will bring the Station to its knees or uplift it to a new era. from @storygameschicago.bsky.social

if jar jar binks had breasts and was in knights of the old republic it might look a little something like this

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Vesta Mandate has been nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker award for Best Setting! It’s so cool to see an aspect that @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I spent so long agonizing over get highlighted. And it’s amazing to be in the company of such incredible games. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

In the social sciences this is known as the reagan bowtie

From: Citizen Harold (1971), dir. Hugh Foulds, National Film Board of Canada

I LOVE THIS THING

Jesters curse

The Kickstarter campaign for Nostos is live!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

From: Yoshitaka Amano's 1001 Nights (1998), dir. Mike Smith, Hyperion Studio

If anyone with an SDR and antenna wants something to do this weekend: I would really like to compile a database of IQ recordings from the No Kings protests that have a strong police presence. Generally in the 100Mhz - 1Ghz range, and more specifically frequencies used for P25.

I wanted to talk about this moment quickly cause I've been thinking about it a lot. It felt like a climax of the session mechanically and it feels worth exploring why @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I built it like this. Watch like 2 minutes from the point shared here for context.

I made a bunch of custom moves for my Apocalypse World game and they're working really well so I wrote them up to share here. bsky.app/profile/jess... #pbta #gamedesign #ttrpg

Check out a One Shot of Vesta Mandate, run by @ryanzenith.bsky.social and with players @collinjryan.bsky.social, @jessebmiller.bsky.social and Kat Hannigan. If you're looking to run Vesta Mandate at your table, the first half hour has a deep dive on the Session 1 Procedure and character creation!

I have been toying around with this concept for YEARS. Glad someone finally beat me to it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

Anybody less into RPG theory than me is a 5E-only troglodyte and everybody more into RPG theory than me is a fart sniffing navelgazer.

I'm thinking about how every artform that I do - music and writing - has, like, technical terms that mean specific things and are used to describe complex, technical concepts with precision, so that you, as an artist, can communicate with other professionals efficiently and deeply Except for TTPRG

The second season of Gamestorm is starting with a bang! Our first episode is out now with guest @outridercreative.bsky.social. Come checkout the first episode and the game we made! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3atsr... storygameschicago.itch.io/when-we-were...

YEAH come talk about it im a lil exploration gremlin and I need it

Also: I’m convinced whenever you see people come out of nowhere and have massive success in this industry, it’s because they had a trust fund, or they’re parachuting in from some other industry, or their dad is a marketing exec or something. Like, that’s almost *always* the case.

listen man: I have a single guiding principle for being on social media and that is to never vaguepost. Live and die by the sword of your opinions or shut the fuck up. To the extent social media is a community (barely, it sucks), I think this sorta soft indirect IYKYK shit is so insidious.

Bounty Hunter.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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My absurdist queer game about coming out in the workplace is making the rounds before its Q2 release! Keep an eye on the itch page for updates. courtana.itch.io/corporate-sp...

one of my long-running campaigns finally died. as an intermezzo before the next one, we've decided to to play a few sessions of Triangle Agency set in 1974

Sasquatch Diaries Jan 3rd sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org

those COLORS!!!

hellgirl #hellboy #illustration #anime #art

Eddington and Pipe Rock theory are the two most prescient cultural works of 2025 that I think are just like clear Rosetta Stones for understanding this era of internet/social media www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj...

Need a game to play over the holidays? Get our new holiday one-shot adventure The Gingerbread Factory! Flee from the sticky monster, DOUGH. Fend off the Wizard-hating carolers. Unravel the mystery of gingerbread life. Get both The Gingerbread Factory and Diabolic Dialect in a bundle, now on Itch.

Let's fucking go

i thiiiiiink it's Taco Bell Friday. feelin a mighty hankerin to Live Más

it's important you understand this before trying to invite me to your party

why does indianapolis tap water taste SO bad unlivable

A half memory clings like a scrap of flesh on carrion. Once upon a time, in another life, the path you walked was that of a…

Rereading LOTR and the flight to the ford, where the party rushes poisoned-by-an-evil-blade Frodo to Rivendell to heal him of the cursed wound inflicted on him at weathertop, is a little less frantic and harrowing than I remember

We’ve got a Storygames Chicago Giveaway Bundle, just in time for the Holidays! We’ll be drawing winners on the 22nd. Enter for a chance to win by reposting or quote posting this post! You can find other ways to enter in the image in this post!

Gamestorm S1E6 - Roll any Number of Dice is out today! Check it out at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts! gamestorm.podbean.com/e/roll-any-n...

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Celebrate the holidays this year with any (or all) of Storygames Chicago's games for 50% off! Buy all our games we've made to date for just $20! The sale runs all weekend! Hope you'll get a chance to check it out. itch.io/s/170881/bla...

if i posted photos of someone like this my partner would be texting me with a link to the tweet accompanied solely with “?”

New! Threadcutters - elite tarot assassins Vesta Mandate - sci-fi political thriller on a space station www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/

good rpg writing is like a very delicate balance of train guy and theater kid

Does everybody else get absolutely exhausted after running a playtest? GMing is a brain-drain as it is, being in design mode on top of that is rough I crashed at 9pm last night lmao