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.

Lots of great stuff already out there about networking and socializing at cons, but I will add this one bit: Treat everyone like they matter, because they do. Not just because of what it could mean for you career-wise, but for what environment it creates.

Finding the pickle in the insanely decked out christmas tree of my retired Hallmark Store manager mother-in-law

listen I'm not saying don't nationalize the ivy league either

Eclipse : A Retrospective This will be a Retrospective lookback at the Eclipse LARP as organised by Chaos League. I attended the third international run of this game that took place in Poland between September 5th to the 8th, 2025. All photos are by the author unless otherwise specified. Please…

I have been informed from his family that long-time writer for Vampire: the Masquerade, Jason Andrew has passed. While I am aware of his controversies, I am also aware of his work, and hope both can be held in the heart for what they are at this time.

Half the reason I stopped pursuing stand up was how much the professionalism of it had NOTHING to do with being funny.

Not only are people's smartphones being used to mine their data about what they spend and where and why; people are also joyfully bragging about the money they blow to their feeds, to any and all who happen across them. People see what the divide really is there, at Disney parks and elsewhere.

There, now we can finally get to the real question: Is this table-top role-playing game sanguine (hot and wet), choleric (hot and dry), melancholic (cold and dry) or phlegmatic (cold and wet)?

Congrats to the team at Meta that developed a wearable non-invasive neurotransmitter to allow one to work in an app with just waving a hand or moving fingers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Watched the Minecraft on of streaming and thought it was real dumb with a half nod to camp. The twinned deuteragonists (Steve and 1989 man) pulled focus, the story lacked a compelling antagonist, and the background radiation of "crap down in modern Idaho" setting felt bitter. Sonic could never.

I love this, and have a fun little story to go with my love of this. Ages ago, back in the days of Blockbuster, my dad let my sister and I pick one movie every other Friday. I picked Jaws. Religiously. To the point it was no longer an option. As a self-proclaimed Jaws scholar: I endorse this view.

Imagine a hype video for a "decadent era immersive destination LARP" but its an AirBNB middle-sized 2006 McMansion with Guitar Hero and you get costumed in the hottest Indie Sleaze looks. Pre iPhone, pre RT functionality for Twitter. Rumors via T9 texting.

This is one of the most important pieces of sports and labor journalism of the year, not just because of the quality of the scoop, but also in its presentation and the immediacy of its central question: Who, exactly, benefits from labor knowing less about how the sausage is made?

Emergency Equipment Aren’t Game Mechanics I didn't expect to find myself writing this piece, until I played two different TERPECA winning games from Athens, Greece doing variations of the same terrible idea.

my dystopian space prison is that you get your ego resleeved into a body being cloned for a rich immortal. You need to exercise the body, eat right, and generally make sure once the cloned body hits 18 the immortal will be able to sleeve into it and have a nice, fit teenage body to use. Repeat.

This is alike but not an exact copy of mommy/daddy issues for billionaires: their emotional need to be told "Stay Gold, Ponyboy"

The same cloister requirements for the cardinals but now they have to remove their cyberware, so you have people with half faces and missing arms talking about the future of the church

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social: “beauty isn’t actually what you look like; beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.”

I wrote a thread this morning, and I've been sorta sitting on it, thinking. Decided to post it. I am exhausted. I have been a out trans woman in sports for almost a decade and a half. I have done so openly for all that time, lifting up my sport, promoting it, being an innovator and trainer.

Great post, would add: the inherent ideal of the 1959 Berlin model home was its full atomization: food with no restaurant, laundry with no laundromat, cleaned with no cleaners. A life lived without any relationship beyond purchasing power, consumption without community & service without servants.

The Tiffany Problem: Homophobe Edition

The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

Day in the life of a courtier:

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I've seen so many Where's Wally/Waldo parodies with Wally being the eldritch threat (See This Person Should Not Exist by Speak the Sky, Where's Larry, or Lumpy Touch's Where's Waldo series), Would be fantastic to sort of uno reverse it and make it Wally vs the eldrith abomination, #ttrpg

RPG kids abbreviate things NOT based on grammar and spelling, but vibes; that’s why you bring your PHB to play a TTRPG, and you don’t bring your “PH to play a TRG”.

Polymorph gone wrong.

The craft of making your NPCs and background details acceptably boring and yet independant actors is what gives a player space to make their own narrative- attaching a slophose umbilical to a character is a design towards passivity.

As a fan of sumo since Goeido's Zensho performance, the national pastime has always been to me a machine for making heroes and idols as like Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth. The hair and the stink around it makes you famous and, of course, your size and strength. A rikishi is for the people.

A friend of mine has a kickstarter for a puzzle-RPG game alike games such as Puzzle Quest, supported/voiced by some streamers and looking to help establish an inclusive remote-friendly studio. check this link here if you wre interested: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wic...

we gotta stop doing the Wirecutter, I'm sorry. We gotta stop doing the crosswords and the recipes. You can't pay for the recipes from the measles paper

A friend of mine has a kickstarter for a puzzle-RPG game alike games such as Puzzle Quest, supported/voiced by some streamers and looking to help establish an inclusive remote-friendly studio. check this link here if you wre interested: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wic...

alright bsky, i haven't read a novel in years, which one of you is writing lesbian sci-fi novels, bc i need to read something that isn't theory or poetry for once.

Superman fought the Klan. Have your popular heroes know and express disdain for these bigot-cult signals.

this is indistinguishable from a "social media reaction" press release that a college football SID would put out after their school hired trent dilfer. (i checked and UAB actually did one of these) www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

This is really funny because after congestion pricing launched and the haters were instantly proved wrong — traffic really did go down, transit use really did go up — they clung to "well let's see the business receipts!" as a last resort. And now we know business receipts are through the roof!

Federal and Haida leaders signed a historic agreement Monday recognizing Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii off British Columbia's northern coast.

The passivity that is happening in political leadership currently most misses the moment because of this very thing, this need to create a popular vision and movement towards a future that does not (and cannot!) yet exist, either now or after one election.

Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.

this isn't too much of a crank opinion as much as its interesting that the idea of a tastemaker/influencer at one point was a cartoon doing illicit deeds to get something for free rather than paying for it. Probably ties to the development and spread of credit card purchases.

Decades ago, if you wanted to sell something? You had to pay for a cartoon to heist your product- to say it was worth stealing- with timing, panache. Nowadays you pay some IG-7 with an iphone to flatly tell us the promo code for the junk you can get shipped to your house. No style or effort at all.

"Hamilton" the musical, but it's the story of the Hamburglar's origin, fall and, perhaps, redemption

We have so many awesome photos from the game! Here are a few more favorites.

Last month, we produced a larp set in the Fallen London universe by @failbettergames.bsky.social. Our players knocked it out of the park with their costumes! Photos by oomphotography

The first issue of PRINT IT YOURSELF contains no interviews (dear god, I have done so many interviews) but it does contain resources, design guidelines, tips and tricks for making small, easily-distributable games. And it's free! Hurray. shoutingcrow.itch.io/make-your-ow...

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*wearing a beanie with a helicopter propeller on top* call me McHatin

Someone who wants to shoot a sketch should make one of a reverse Superbad, where young adults buy reverse fake ids so that they can keep using pediatric dentists and kid discounts