Looking for playtesters for an upcoming sci-fi horror game kind of like shadowdark meets ten candles meets mothership. If you want to test it with your group, send me a DM on Bluesky and I’ll send you a free copy.

I like the good Dr. Campbell's modifier: 1. Ancient Near Eastern interactions with the divine 2. Exegetical fallacies, esp. those perpetuated by fundamentalist evangelicalism 3. Replicating Prince Zuko's arc as the benchmark of story mechanics in RPG systems (Avatar Legends of course does not pass)

I'm collecting one-page RPGs for Tiny Tome 3! That's 50 games from 50 different creators - and there's only a couple of spaces left. If you made something great in 2025, let me know about it. I want to put your game into print and on tables around the world. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Entering the home stretch of this sale, we always get messages from people saying they missed it just after it finishes... Well now's your chance 😅

What I love about this is the personal history of gaming which is precisely the kind of thing I always want to do but feels self-indulgent. Maybe the lesson is, "If you reinvigorated OSR and are a genius, you can be self-indulgent."

@gilarpgs.bsky.social LUMEN games. More precisely, the SRD. More precisely, the idea that perception sucks and doesn't need to be rolled. Later discovered Into the Odd-style presenting the players with everything, and that's the space I'm designing in now.

For the next 48hrs for each re-post this gets, I'll add a free community copy of Gentlemages on Itch.

I'm grateful for the Toymakers, because the more pompous among us are stuck doing both at the same time (Eat the Reich, Spire, my own Teeth for Teeth). I'm grateful for Spec Ops but by all that is fun in the world I'm grateful for Titanfall 2.

My silly archaeology tabletop game, my one page RPGs, and all future uses of my civil liberties are predicated on not being in a state of war with my own ostensibly-representational government.

Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

If anyone wants to play the full version and is coming to #gameholecon, I have two Pandas on Commission games on Friday: a more laid back slice of life scenario and a more cutthroat and risky one. Pandas is a hack of #LUMENrpg and I'm so excited to bring it to my first game con.

Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...

If anyone wants to play the full version and is coming to #gameholecon, I have two Pandas on Commission games on Friday: a more laid back slice of life scenario and a more cutthroat and risky one. Pandas is a hack of #LUMENrpg and I'm so excited to bring it to my first game con.

The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection. This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.

My final submission of the year for @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social A single-player roguelike on one page. Take 8 dice, 8 tokens, and escape. #roguelike #ttrpg #onepage

We have entered the minutes to go phase of the campaign! Less than two hours to back Dragon Slayers, a new heroic fantasy TTRPG using unique asymmetric classes! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

This is my passion project. This was the demo I made of a now-3800 word #ttrpg as a submission to get some funding. I did not get funding, but I did keep working on it. Pandas on Commission, an anti-violent game of traders riding pandas. Coming to you no matter how few people seem to want it.

I've never spent game money as good as what I spent on the Switch toward the beginning of grad school.

Created for @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social, a system for creative environmental play with a few cool core powers. Only roll for what you aren't great at. And look into those people running through the clouds; they seem dangerous.

Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications! I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece. Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants

New Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant application launches on Monday. 10 grants at $200 apiece. Even if you applied before: you can apply again. See you then!

One like, one indie TTRPG you should definitely play

Y'all, I need you to make sure this is funded so I know I'm getting my copy.

I'm proud enough of this #onepage #ttrpg to ask for play testing. Give it a few runs and let me know how it feels! Layout is still being worked on. Run, Foren is a single player roguelike game with a combat system inspired by Sorcery! and a light sprinkling of Choices Matter©️ gameplay.

Because being a warlock should cost you something, obviously.

Thought of another one. I got tickets to Undertale Live, with the orchestra and everything. Didn't go, spent time with a girl, it was nice. Undertale is not very important to my life, is what I'm learning.

I got bored in the snow area and never went back. I like @insaneintherainmusic.com's cover album, though.

Are you a ttrpg designer? Have a cool new ttrpg game, setting, expansion, art, and/or something you want to show off? If yes, we’d love to have you on Sword & Tea! Our ttrpg chat show welcomes ttrpgs of all types to discuss what makes them fun & great! DM us or email us through our links!

I'm so excited to share the new official cover for Out of Orbit. Artwork by @gaxix.bsky.social and logo by yours truly. This really speaks to what it feels like to struggle to survive on this wild planet. Pre-order the book out-of-orbit.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... #ttrpgart #art #illustration

I now know that there truly are countless fun and innovative #ttrpg on itch that will never make $10, but I only know that because of the ENnie awards. As someone who at least theoretically would start being eligible next year but never has been: I love this list.

My second @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social submission is a gonzo adventure party game. Gather random items to bypass obstacles on the Hero's quest toward a goal they almost certainly don't deserve.

If you don't know Slayers, you're missing out on a clever game of monster hunting that neatly threads the needle of easy to learn, easy to play rules with rich, cool character options. This reinvention of it as a classic heroic fantasy RPG promises to be *at least* as good.

My #ttrpg submission for @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social #gamejam casts the players as a bridge crew in over their heads, trying to learn the ropes before the crew stops being able to carry their dead weight. Uses a roll-to-learn mechanic that guarantees failures come before successes.

Hey, this is why y'all should try #ttrpg development. Sooo easy to try new stuff. (I'm iffy on the word "important" but not enough to overcome the main point)

Join the jam here: itch.io/jam/one-page...

NEW: THORN from @gilarpgs.bsky.social In THORN you take on the role of Thorns. To be a Thorn is to wear a mask carved from trees fed on the blood of dead gods. Those masks grant you incredible powers. They also change you tabletopbookshelf.com/products/thorn #ttrpg

@onepagerpgjam.bsky.social "Multiple submissions are encouraged!" Oh thanks for that. I didn't need to do anything else - vacation, my day job, eat, sleep - for the next month.

After months of reading, playing, and debating RPGs the 2025 ENNIES nominees are here. ennie-awards.com/2025-nominees/ Congrats to this year’s nominees and the countless others who didn’t get nominated but were just as deserving. As always, there were more winners than seats this year.

Give me Indiana Jones working in developer funded archaeology and having to go down a five metre drop shaft in central London and being berated by construction workers

First paid RPG publushed work. Check it out here sunzenaut.com/products/pre... to support a game dev who paid exactly what he promised, including a lovely copy of The Obscure Files supplement. I join 11 other creators of new horror scenarios. #ttrpg #horror

My next game utilizes a Community Board for players to select missions and get tips. This could populate a party's board.

I'm sure this is widely known in the #ttrpg community by now, but I did not know that D&D's paladins are just the main characters in a book that's basically a light novel called "I Just Woke Up As a Knight of Charlemagne".

Take a deep breath #ttrpg land before responding to Ginny. This is like someone exploring a political landscape completely separate from the one they grew up with. You can shout them back or you can start a conversation.

Ooo I got plans...

made my first ttrpg zine! baktegon.itch.io/khoto-yin Created for submission to @oddsandents.bsky.social Desert Dwellings jam.

For #PaidRPGDay, consider the first game I've published that you have to pay to get. It's available on itch, and drivethru will have the print on demand version available soon. Only way to get a physical copy post-KS unless you're a prof or library, lemme know #archaeology folk, I have some prints.

For today only, as part of Free RPG Day, Slayers is totally free! Grab the PDF off itch and go hunt some monsters. gilarpgs.itch.io/slayers

The Cryptid Creeks #ttrpg will be available for free from June 21st for Free RPG Day. Head to our itch.io account from midnight Saturday to grab a copy of our Carved from Brindlewood game! #FreeRPGDay #FreeRPGDay2025

Illustrators who release stock art packs for TTRPGs are ROYALTY 👑 as far as I'm concerned. Truly improving humanity. Please drop your links here (or the links of any of your favorite artist who release stock art).