A South-asian/Indian fantasy setting with a wildly beautiful cover. Yes.

Honoured to be in great company at the IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Awards! What Should We Have Tomorrow? Has been nominated for Game of the Year and Graphic Design, and owes a lot to @lostwaysclub.itch.io who was responsible for the graphic design and game consulting. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

I think I have found the conference room with the most threatening aura

Just posted this essay about the OSR, but more so about how TTRPGs have created their own genres and these things we consider cliques or movements are actually greater extensions of what TTRPGs have done unique from other mediums. www.patreon.com/posts/155858133

Watching The Pitt so of course I'm thinking about competency porn onamiss.bearblog.dev/37/

If NOVA 2 makes $1,000,000 I will make a 5e variant.

This change not only makes it easier for members to share our work with friends, internet circles, and play groups, but also reduces the paywall's influence on editorial decisions. It was a simple and no-brainer switch, but it does come with risks.

The art of game design: the spark of creation, to find play between the confines of rules and the expression of agency, to marry the beauty of systems and aesthetic expression, The discipline of game design: fucking finish the thing

Back Breathless on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

This year's Q1 sales is the highest I've ever gotten from IPR! Looks like Ithaca in the Cards: 2E and especially What Should We Have Tomorrow? have been doing pretty well since launch :)

People keep asking me if I use AI to make writing easier. And I keep telling them: I do not want it to be easier. Whenever I have done any good work, it's because I either thought about it a LOT or I have inadvertently spent ten years thinking about it so it comes easy. The thinking is the point.

me working on mangayaw rn

SUPPORT PINE SHALLOWS NOW IT'S SUCH A PRECIOUS GAME

Please support my friend @golden-achiever.bsky.social, they do amazing work!!!

I gotta get back into the groove of working on Mangayaw this Semana Santa

Honestly, creator payout week is my favorite part of the month. We watch the bank balance plummet as send out a lot of money to indie #TTRPG creators. For some folks it's $12.13, for others it's hundreds (or thousands) of dollars. It feels like donating blood. A little drain but a lot of life.

I'm putting my things up on sale, just to earn a little extra. Things are getting more and more expensive here due to... Everything going on and due to my country's dependence on oil exports. itch.io/s/182822/diw...

Organized another Bagong Laro game day last Saturday along with @goobernuts.itch.io ! We had tables for: - One of Us Will Die @oneofuswilldierpg.bsky.social - DIE RPG - Prologue - And a Bad Times hack by @togidemi.bsky.social

Have been working on a new project for blog discovery. It's now live! Check out rootr.ing! A new small hub and webring for ttrpg blogs. Read about here: elmc.at/rootring-is-...

Have you seen this game that heavily inspired by Night in The Woods and The Amazing World of Gumball? where you have to become a detective to find lost belonging? Check out Lost & Found made by Philippine game dev ShaggyBearGames #indiegame #game

Hell yeah to beastfolk over demihumans. I particularly love what @goobernuts.itch.io and @munkao.bsky.social are doing with this right now in Mangayaw and Kala Mandala. #OSR icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/ratl...

If you see this, post a robot

there are unlimited ways to make a game. the more you try the better you get

Board games are a treasure trove of interesting mechanics, but I also would implore RPG designers to do a deep dive into poetry too. Understanding how words evoke emotion will give you the tools to understand how game mechanics do too. After all, it’s all metaphor and symbolism.

A fun reversal. "I learned to play D&D by watching Critical Role and if I do what they do, that's D&D." Is not only a descriptivist approach to the game: It's a folk art one, too. It's art* being subsumed by culture*. *(Both the art and the culture are warped by capitalist concerns in this case)

Fantasy! Dragons! Adventure! Dragon Slayers is a fantasy TTRPG where every class has their own unique rules.

An update on where Rascal stands regarding finances, site redesign, the next zine, and more as the team heads into year three.

Stride into perilous worlds and give 'em hell with lead and grit. We Deal in Lead is a weird west gunslinger #TTRPG, available in hardcover. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Set up for an online RPG session, and hid the NPC images behind a screen while just showing their feet. Feels like important tech to share.

The rules and rulesets you create don't have to answer to people who don't choose to use them. They have to answer to the people who do choose to use them.

Tabletop RPGs would be a healthier space if people looked at it the way boardgamers do; there's a lot of games to choose from, you probably want to try a bunch to find out what kind of games you're into. Instead, it follows a historical pattern at least going back to the 80s which still haunts us..

What Should We Have Tomorrow? now also available at Heart of the Deernicorn heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/what...

Over 1900 downloads of the WYRM core rules! Check out my OSR style fantasy adventure TTRPG. Alien dragons, black glass tombs, and a whole lot more await. Grab the WYRM rules, hexcrawl, and starter adventure, all PWYW. Then get Mire, the first supplement, also PWYW. gilarpgs.itch.io/wyrm

motivation doooown the drain

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

I want to be in bed for like a week

Give my indio money right the FUCK now

PS: help @goobernuts.itch.io pay for college! ko-fi.com/goobernuts/g...

🌺A PERFECT WIFE, IN PLAY🌺 This play-report series continues to be excellent. Of particular deliciousness is seeing how Benj is building on the details in the text, which are pretty terse---suggesting, implying, offering answers that are obviously suspicious or insufficient. Mounting dread.

🚨SICK STRETCHGOAL ALERT🚨

They announced my stretch goal for Blades '68! Let's get to $390,000 so I can write about The Inaugural Crowfoot Wargaming Convention of '68 (which split of from the Charterhall Conference On Historical and Strategic Wargames that started two years before). www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Hey! I'm fundraising for my tuition fees. I would love if you helped out! ko-fi.com/goobernuts/g...

👰A PERFECT WIFE, SESSION 3👰 The investigators gear up and try a more spiritual approach to find clues about Tet, whose disappearance may be more bloody than first realized. www.patreon.com/posts/perfec...

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Hey all, it is the second semester of my 3rd year in college and I need to beg for money again. My mother got a part-time teaching job, but it's still not a lot. Any amount would help me a lot! ko-fi.com/goobernuts/g...

👰A PERFECT WIFE, SESSION 2👰 The investigators get to know more about the people of Desa Damai, their bloody pasts, their fears of the present, and their hopes for the future.

*Reposts appreciated” My webstore heycentaur.com is finally up! This took so many months of labour (mostly my partner’s), but it is all ready and running. Physical copies of Kala Mandala are now available, shipping to most of the world.