Go Play Brisbane is all wrapped up for another year! Thanks @perilplanet.bsky.social @tinstargames.bsky.social for making the trek up north from NSW. We loved having you. We've had a great time with an estimated 200 people playing #ttrpg and board games with us over the course of the weekend.

I'm in Brisbane this weekend for Go Play Brisbane! I'm looking forward to catching up with old friends and making new ones. #goplaybrisbane #brisbane #tabletopRPG

Shout-out to Nathan Russell and Peril Planet games! I recently found a CRIMINALLY underated scifi game of his called Star Scoundrels and then that led me to Neon City Overdrive and then to Tomorrow City. More of his games will be on my channel 100%! Feeling so inspired! @perilplanet.bsky.social

Another early start as I return to Sydney for SuperNova. This time I am chaperoning my daughters and their friends so they can meet their favourite fantasy author. What a bunch of nerds! 😃 #supernova #popculture #ThingsWeDoForOurKids #booknerds

This is a super cool game!

It was a 5.30am start today, heading to Sydney for Free RPG Day. I am excited!

We are doing "Australia's Biggest Morning Tea" fundraiser at work today, and a co-worker made this amazing cupcake topper of my book! #BiggestMorningTea #HardCity #CancerCouncil @ospreygames.bsky.social

This is one of the most beautiful character sheets I have seen in a while. Tomorrow City by @perilplanet.bsky.social I am just sad I won't be able to replicate this piece for online play. Looking forward to digging in.

Proud to be the 623rd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Grimwild: Expanded Hardcover Print Run! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/O...

3rd strike. Now the collection of the "city" games by @perilplanet.bsky.social is complete. Love the system behind those games. And the settings. And the writing. 🤩

I'm gonna test Neon City Overdrive soon. I was itching for some good cyberpunk games. The games in the "city" series by @perilplanet.bsky.social are sooooo good.

Check out this zine #ttrpg by friend and amazing person, Tanya Floaker. It is on Kickstarter now.

For years YEARS, I've been saying that #TRG / #TTRPG publishers need to look into localized printing to help minimize shipping costs. I get why they didn't, I do. But considering recent news I feel like we're all about to pay for the industries lack of foresight.

Found this evidence that we may in fact be living in the future. Now, where did I park my mech?

I don't know what this is, but I love it! 😃 Good old Red Box DnD.

It's time for #tinyworldjam! Join me and @vidityavoleti.bsky.social in making #TTRPG micro settings that can fit within a few pages - worldbuild on a small scale, keep the scope easy, and have fun with it Submissions open from now until January 31st at 11:59 pm ET itch.io/jam/tiny-wor...

I saw Hard City in the "wild" while at CanCon this weekend!

Don't forget, friends, Freeform Universal is also released under CC-BY license!

Indie RPG marketing has stock characters like a Greek play. Enter, the Diogenes the Writer: "I hath written a game as an act of Love! I will not soil my hands with money on this. Wouldst thou like it?" The Chorus: "Do not speak to us of a new game."

I went to a museum exhibition about Pompeii yesterday & saw these very old dice. Got me thinking about what the oldest game in my collection is. The game I've had the longest is probably the remains of my red box DnD set. The oldest game though is a 1st edition copy of Traveller. What about you?

To break the curse of not publishsing, I decided to release my collection of housrules for Freeform Universal by @perilplanet.bsky.social as FU Tools today. Just to get that anxiety off my chest, so I hopefully can get back to work on more substantial stuff. It is free and CC, hope you check it out.

Are you like me? Want to create an RPG with public domain/Creative Commons art but don’t know how to make it all work? Check out Sneak Leaps, where I go into the process of creating an RPG with free art. #ttrpg substack.com/home/post/p-...

🎲 The Gathering Hall presents the community starter pack for the #Osprey #RPG line. 🧵 1/ go.bsky.app/Kn5ykWR

Okay, I've already hit the arbitrary target I set myself so I don't need to keep on about this but: damianoddson.itch.io/boiled-down-... It's a 36-word tiny-rpg In a Buck Rogers comic panel

First and foremost, block everyone acting like a twat. We keep saying it because it's true - block here is super powerful.

I've reached out to everyone that has signed up so far, and this week is PACKED! I'll probably start slotting people into next week going forward. Which means you can still sign up for office hours!

I love this video so much - as form of information, and a piece of art.

Here's a picture of our pretty girl, living her best life. We lost her sister earlier this year and she has been spoiled rotten since. It took me quite a while to realise how that loss affected me, but I am so grateful to still have this cutie in our lives.

Some of my favorite pieces from this year 🖤

About...three years ago? Four? Anyway. Hippocampus press came to me for a few covers for the strange lovely work of Mr Shea. I wish I could redo the earlier ones but I think this holds up. I got his widow's approval on the artwork, which gave me a moment.

In love forever with Hard City by @perilplanet.bsky.social (amazing system) Always love running Candela Obscura and Girl By Moonlight. Currently running Wildsea and Lancer but I'm sooooo hype to be running Werewolf soon!

I love this so much!

It is gorgeous. @ospreygames.bsky.social did such a wonderful thing with the look and art direction of this game. Some more online tools for my games would be good but I don't have the headspace for more projects... Yet....

My Christmas present to you all - 4 cover illustrations for you to do with as you please ✨🎁 Free for personal & commercial use ko-fi.com/s/5f227ae8af #art

Okay, let's give this a try... Furthest North I've been: London Furthest South: Cockle Creek, Tasmania Furthest West: Los Angeles Furthest East: Napier, New Zealand

Hello #ttrpgsky! I continue to do a bit of curation today on my #ttrpg #starterpack, removing a few inactive accounts and adding some new and exciting folk. Does anyone have any recommendations on who to add? go.bsky.app/GYoBnaY

*Holds breath in anticipation of something amazing*

I had a blast playing games at the Chaosium tables last year - get yourself to CanCon, if possible.

I've seen sentiment here already, can't find a post to quote, but just wanted to remind folks, if you really like a game, it NEVER gets old hearing from players or seeing comments or a review on the itch page. Some gifts are free to give! So tell your fav designers you like their games. Means a ton!

Screenshot whatever you are currently listening to and suggest a game to accompany it! This came on my Spotify and I thought "Hmmmm, perhaps World Wife Wrestling"...

Advent Stock-Art #Giveaway Each day a new FREE piece of stock art. Please use the links for the discount. Day 19: Colour filler: www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?d... Black and white filler: www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?d... Please RT, Thanks. patreon.com/deanspencerart #Advent #ttrpg #stockart

Mentions by someone with a big following are awesome, but don't underestimate the impact anyone can have by sharing a thing they love. Whatever modicum of success Ironsworn has had, I can trace back to a very kind Reddit post in 2018. My web visits went from ~10/day to hundreds and thousands.

PSA: If you’re gifting someone a board game… - Open it, punch all the tokens, make sure all the components are there - Sleeve the cards and laminate the player aids - Read through the rules, do a solo play, print out the publisher's FAQ and errata - Give them a Starbucks gift card and keep the game

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

the perfect rating doesn't exi...... 📽️

THIS is why Patreon, Ko-Fi, Kickstarter, Backerkit, and other similar things exist they are not an 'online shop', just a way to support people and their art

I updated the Starter Pack for creators of solo, duet, and GMless TTRPGs. Check out these awesome folks! go.bsky.app/V6gcLEH

Good question? What do you think?

I had to snip out my favourite moment from #TheGameAwards. @laratlarian.bsky.social's words echo the heart of every developer. The industry needs to listen. We just want to make cool stuff for people. #indiedev #gamedev