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I started this up today. I'll try to keep it a fun daily writing ritual, but if I fall behind so be it. I probably won't go a whole year either, as I can't imagine making 52 districts for a city. I'm double dipping and doing this for both Vohesh and Helios.

I just uploaded what is likely the last playtest update for GILA. That means the release is coming. It will have a new name, logo, and cover art. It will also have a suite of starter stuff including an adventure and dungeon. And it will all be PWYW. Get hyped. gilarpgs.itch.io/gila-playtest

Decolonising the Dungeon Crawl--- Like everything else re: decolonisation and TTRPGs discourse, this is a solved problem. There's only metric that matters: How many creators from the colonised world are participating in and able to make a living from their games? That's *it*. 1/

Truly saddening news. When I was starting out trying my hand at game design, Steve was my first mentor (through the Tabletop Mentorship Program). His love for games and play was always vividly evident. Sharing my favorite game of his too: tinstargames.itch.io/station-a-ga...

how i feel writing about debt, hegemony, authority, society, and economy in mangayaw

it may have been a foolish thing to try to assign value to utang na loob so I'm trying to amend that

Amidst the horrors, we still make things

I started reading papers about gahum to fill in the blanks I have in sorcery but reading more just made me realize how much sorcerous power (magic) is connected to social power (debt, dominion) so now I'm thinking about how to do that for Mangayaw

the difficulty in designing mangayaw is find the balance between making a game I would like to play and one that is true to complex systems of society and culture at play in Philippine folklore

We're alive to love things, learn things, and make things. That's it. That's our whole task in our short bright flash of life. Love, learn, and create. The more love, learning, and making stuff you put in the world - the love, harmony, beauty, justice, compassion and mercy of existence - the better.

Last of my Kala Mandala adventurer team illustrations. Welcoming 2026 with the tenacity displayed by this party!

mangayaw is a game about relationship fr fr

i just finished writing a paper for uni a few hours ago and now to relax i opened my WIP mangayaw folder thinking about how sorcery really works

a thought: since I've been addicted to reels on instagram anyway what if I tried making shortform videos on indie ttrpgs if I have the time, at least

Now that I'm free I'm frantically looking for an rpg to run at an in-person game day tomorrow. I'm so rpg deprived... I need my hit....

I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

RINGS OF REMINDER Here's practice I started in 2024, to balance out my severe insecurities: every time I finish a personal project and it is fully out in the world, I get a ring to wear. Here are all the projects I've finished, in the last two years: 1/

Filipino Legend of Zelda for your timeline

A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh) Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good). https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game

preeminent under the heavens

Came across this piece of advice I saved for myself, on world-building. Do you build a world like you build a doll's house? Or do you build a world at a person's size, for people to live in? From Le Guin. "... the pattern is incomplete ... Let the heart complete the pattern."

Family Dinner Hours For small groups. Take your role - Skeevy Uncle, Judgy Aunt, Wine Mom, and so forth. Find the most offensive things to ask each other in the sweetest or most innocuous ways as you pass the salt, or fetch the plates. You win if someone actually wants to actually punch you.

THAT’S JUST HOW A BARN DOOR CLOSES come up with a fake but plausible folksy aphorism. use your phrase once in every conversation you have for a day. if someone asks you what your phrase means, you lose. if someone else uses your phrase, you win.

I take it back bros look at these lil guys I still don't like swimming in the beach

Find a load of cool sticks and give them names. Throw them in a pile just of the path. Come back every day and check on them. The last stick remaining is the best stick. Forget the names of the others.

put a shuffled deck of cards in one pocket, and as many dice as you can fit in your other. when you encounter another duelist, reach in your pockets & 3-2-1 draw a card and roll a die. what you pull from your left pocket is your defense, your right pocket is your attack. winner gets the spoils

MAGICAL GATHERING Step 1: steal your friend's MtG deck

Give me a dollar. Repeat until satisfied. You win.

Hello I have played more TTRPG systems on-mic than any performer in the history of TTRPGs and Actual Play, and more TTRPG systems than most players period, AMA www.partyofonepodcast.com

I might not actually like the beach

As always, Aaron does great, vital, interesting work. I started playing RPGs in 2010, so it’s really nice to chart my own experience and slice of the hobby along with this video, and great to see Session Zero here as it was a really crucial turning point for me. Playtest Zero was born there!

This video better win awards. 😠

If this is your introduction to Aaron's work, do yourself a favor and go back to his early stuff too. All bangers. No skips.

Royalties are powerful things! A frequent discussion ttRPG writer space is how we could make the jump to full time. More royalty-based models like this would make it way easier!

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

Something I have been trying to do recent posts is thematically link them to older blog posts so people can kind of build-a-bear supplements out of them if they want.

i dont wanna write papers anymore i wanna play rpg

This one is very very good

I'm gonna keep saying this with my full chest: I am completely uninterested in genAI "art" of any kind. There's no soul in it, there's no message in it, and it is actively destroying communities in America and beyond. Don't whine to me about how you "did the work" because no you really didn't.

free me from my final reqs

Cover art for the upcoming bestiary for Cuyrass, my guinea pig supplement for Mausritter #cuyrass #mausritter #rpglatam #ttrpg #art #capybara #guineapigs

in order to network in the ttrpg scene, you must: - accept that you are not everyone's cup of tea - reinvent a mechanic from first principles - make games that drive 10-30 other designers mad - speak with the confidence of someone who thinks very long and hard about how to play pretend more good

Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.

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It's time to do my (kinda) holiday thread where I ask you what things BREAK!! things you'd like to see me blog about in the coming year! Monsters, gear, systems, it's all on the table (though I can't guarantee anything) - so please feel free to request below.

MRS. KLAUS: [over coms] You should be coming up on the North American continent in 20 clicks. SANTA: Heh, time to get my coal ready. MRS. KLAUS: Focus, S.

Review revist! Trouble at Santa's Workshop by @farirpgs.com is a quick-to-learn and quick-to-play TTRPG for all-ages that sends you on a quest to help out Santa! Find my review here! https://loom.ly/IT509Ek

An appropriate listen for International Be Nice To Aaron Day!!!