💾⬇️ Quick reminder: We have a free, 40-page preview of Blades '68 that features the full playbooks of the Hull and the Swinger, plus the Crew playbook for the Hit Squad, and some further world lore. Get a link to download by following the project here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

JOIN OUR CREW: Help Milwaukee discover the greatest tabletop games and gifts! Tabletop Bookshelf is hiring 2-3 retail specialists to help us launch our new one-of-a-kind shop in Walker's Point. $16-18+/hr, weeknight & weekend shifts. Apply Feb 7-28. Interviews and hiring early-mid March.

JOIN OUR CREW: Help Milwaukee discover the greatest tabletop games and gifts! Tabletop Bookshelf is hiring 2-3 retail specialists to help us launch our new one-of-a-kind shop in Walker's Point. $16-18+/hr, weeknight & weekend shifts. Apply Feb 7-28. Interviews and hiring early-mid March.

NEW: Time Tails from @snowbrightstudio.bsky.social is a D4 cats & chaos roleplaying game. You’re cats from the 1980s, traveling back through time trying to help save the timeline… surely you won’t make history more of a mess than it already is? buff.ly/7xijL8E

I feel that multi-game stories offer SOOOO many opportunities for Solo RPGs to just rock and dance and talk to other games, solo or not.

Book mail today from @tabletopbookshelf.com. Their orders always shift fast, come well packaged and they always have the most interesting games! I can't wait to crack open this one I bought for my husband from @scryptidgames.bsky.social

NEW: Time Tails from @snowbrightstudio.bsky.social is a D4 cats & chaos roleplaying game. You’re cats from the 1980s, traveling back through time trying to help save the timeline… surely you won’t make history more of a mess than it already is? buff.ly/7xijL8E

With the help of @darringtonpress.bsky.social, we are now at 284 backers and 11.5k CA$! Let's go for 12k and let's unlock the soundtrack SG at 300 backers! Hope Springs Eternal is a 126-page supplement for Daggerheart with 5 frame-location pairs... look at that map! Late pledges close in 3 weeks!

We're at the end of week 1 of Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair! We have had an incredible start and already blew through our first stretch goal: more art for these games! If you want to help us reach my favorite stretch goal (raises for all), grab your copies now!

NEW: MIRU III from @mimicpublishing.com @hinokodo.com is a sequel analog defense game where you explore uncharted territory, defend your city from an onslaught of bots, and treasure hunt with companions while an AI god hunts you down. tabletopbookshelf.com/products/mii...

In Zephyr, chargen has you go through six comic-form Windfolk Myths, making choices to shape your character's attitude to Myths and fleshing out their unique relationship to society. Get it w/free shipping in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere at araukana.com/store

BACK IN STOCK: Dead Letter Society and The Almanac of Sanguine Paths from @montfordtales.com are tarot-driven letter-writing games about supernatural secrets. Get both of these beautifully-illustrated softcover books now in our exclusive Dead Letter Society Bundle buff.ly/PKRK3Yq

Moon rings, missing fingers, and teaching game design! Exploring how Moon Rings by @junkfoodgames.bsky.social turns a card-grid into a journaling game about a ring-hunting witch in a labyrinth. And how I might use this in future game design classes: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/moon-rings #ttrpg

"You have one direction with light, one with more blood and death, and you are standing on a pile of corpses." Part 2 of Riffs & Realms, with @nohr.se GM:ing MÖRK BORG for Brady Deeprose of Conjurer, Joseph Ghast of Green Lung and Yannis Papadopoulos of Beast in Black is live: youtu.be/1UENj0x1SNA

We just released our first cast talkback for Perils & Princesses over on our Patreon We're talking about the WILD swings from this first session and we learn why @shenuque.bsky.social named their horse Matt (spoiler: it was spite) www.patreon.com/posts/perils...

Best description of DIE RPG by @kierongillen.bsky.social in this 👌 ""it's Dungeons and Dragons, where the dragons are your distant father and the dungeon is every dark thing inside your soul"

This week we bring Savage Worlds to Tabletop Bookshelf with the updated classic Deadlands: The Weird West Adventure Edition from Pinnacle. The year’s 1884. Folks from all over the world journey to the American frontier in search of opportunity, freedom, and wide-open spaces. But danger awaits.

if you are working on something for Zine Month & need a little spot art for your zine i have SO MUCH available here:https://www.patreon.com/cw/ABestiaryandCompleteWorldAtlas or: comradery.co/amandalee

BACK IN STOCK: Dead Letter Society and The Almanac of Sanguine Paths from @montfordtales.com are tarot-driven letter-writing games about supernatural secrets. Get both of these beautifully-illustrated softcover books now in our exclusive Dead Letter Society Bundle buff.ly/PKRK3Yq

Public Access is coming to Kickstarter soon, and if you have a podcast, stream, blog, etc., I'd love to come talk to you about it! I'm great on the mic, and a really good interview. Get in touch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

Alright, it's official. I'll be working with the amazing team at @mythworks.bsky.social to create a full set of solo rules and procedures of the Eternal Ruins RPG by designed by @felixisaacs.bsky.social Sam Carr and Rob Leigh. It's wild, the game now has over 175K in funds on Kickstarter!

Blades '68 launches Tuesday! This official expansion for Blades in the Dark twists the kaleidoscope of tone and genre. Subversive spy games, daring heists, and paranormal mindbenders await you under the radiating light of an artificial sun. Enter the Bluetime: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

One thing that I think bears repeating is that there's no big funder behind the shop. Its growth was and continues to be powered by the community.

And all of this was made possible by @tabletopbookshelf.com ! You should go right now to grab the game and adventure (Sweet Revenge) right here! tabletopbookshelf.com/products/per...

NULL_SPACE IS ITCHFUNDING NOW! Let me tell you a little more about it, if you don't know about it yet. 🧵 binarystar.games/null-space-i...

This week we bring Savage Worlds to Tabletop Bookshelf with the updated classic Deadlands: The Weird West Adventure Edition from Pinnacle. The year’s 1884. Folks from all over the world journey to the American frontier in search of opportunity, freedom, and wide-open spaces. But danger awaits.

Want to hear @kierongillen.bsky.social run a game of DIE? Want to hear @atnathanyaffe.bsky.social @brianflaherty.bsky.social @bobigail.bsky.social and @moreblueberries.bsky.social PLAY a game of DIE? You're in luck! Tune in tomorrow for Part 1 of DIE: Total Party Kill

The theme song for our season of Perils & Princesses is now available on streaming services everywhere! Or you can go buy the entire album on Bandcamp and support @beholdyourfate.bsky.social and all the excellent music he makes open.spotify.com/track/4eXdX4...

Big week for BE/HOLD lovers and haters alike! The soundtrack I wrote for My First Dungeon: Perils and Princesses is now available on Bandcamp! beholdyourfate.bandcamp.com/album/perils...

Ok gang, it's Tag Yourself - All's Fair edition time www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

In celebration of the imminent Blades ‘68 campaign, I thought I’d talk a bit about its graphic design. BUT FIRST let’s compare and contrast with the graphic design of Blades in the Dark, a landmark in the history of RPG layout. Type nerdery ahoy 🧐

NEW: Cats! The Conspurracy from Black Book Editions is a complete tabletop roleplaying game. You play Awakened cats with great psychic powers, and your mission is to protect The Conspurracy, the veil cast over human reality in order to make them think cats are only pets. buff.ly/YhD809J

NEW ARRIVAL: Cozy Compendium II from @snowbrightstudio.bsky.social brings together another year's worth of cozy games and fiction, taking you from the pontoon boats in Starsong to the peaks of Snowtop Village and back. buff.ly/VS0FQ3g

to those about to crowdfund, we salute you

MOON RINGS! 💍💍💍💍💍 Looking at Moon Rings by @junkfoodgames.bsky.social this week at Skeleton Code Machine. An interesting use of a card grid x solo journaling game! Subscribe to read it Tuesday: www.skeletoncodemachine.com #ttrpg #solorpg #gamedesign

I'd also love a look at @brightbard.bsky.social "Axolotl with a Gun" these Minneapolis/St Paul creators are giving us a 2nd edition of their anti-AI eco-extreme game about little guys who kill robots

ok. i’ll bite. what’s a zine

A close look at the enchanted forest map for the upcoming Perils & Princesses TTRPG adventure “The Princess & The Dragon.” I love taking a simple point crawl and injecting it with atmosphere and style. Dropping an evocative world map on the table really entices players to explore.

this was not on my radar at all, but, wow, it's a top tier TTRPG book highest level of production quality, evidence of lots of playtesting and design thought, and enough adventures to run a mini-campaign with very little prep Worth your time, especially if you are a cat person 😻

NEW: Cats! The Conspurracy from Black Book Editions is a complete tabletop roleplaying game. You play Awakened cats with great psychic powers, and your mission is to protect The Conspurracy, the veil cast over human reality in order to make them think cats are only pets. buff.ly/YhD809J

Zephyr is an anarchist TTRPG in which you journey a sentient. walking landmass, live through myths, and take on epic Obligations to connect far off communities through sentimental bonds! Get it w/free shipping in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere at araukana.com/store

this launches tomorrow I'm not nervous YOU'RE NERVOUS

OUT NOW: Perils & Princesses on the award-winning podcast My First Dungeon by @manysidedmedia.bsky.social sponsored by Tabletop Bookshelf! We're happy to help bring this story to life! Listen now, wherever you listen to podcasts. Just search for My First Dungeon!

We just backed Eternal Ruins: The Roleplaying Game from @mythworks.bsky.social and can't wait to bring to the shop! Back it now www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

NEW ARRIVAL: Most people don’t believe in monsters, but you know the truth. They’re real, and it’s your task to bring them down. This hardcover edition of Monster of the Week from @evilhat.bsky.social brings that adventure to life tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/news/n...

Perils & Princesses - Episode 1 is NOW AVAILABLE Join @danielleradford.bsky.social @symphonyhorror.bsky.social @shenuque.bsky.social @bobigail.bsky.social as their four gritty and pretty princesses try to break an evil witch’s candy curse! Listen to My First Dungeon wherever you get your podcasts

Perils & Princesses by @outridercreative.bsky.social Sweet Revenge by @dhowl37.bsky.social Sponsored by @tabletopbookshelf.com Produced by @moreblueberries.bsky.social

games are good

This was such a nice chat with @tabletopbookshelf.com!

The February Mecha TTRPG Newsletter is out, and it features HOME: Mech x Kaiju by @deepdark.games. It also features some mecha rpgs that will be funding for ZiMo, some free downloads, and a call to action for the injustices happening in Minnesota, where I reside.