Today's the day! At 4.30 pm PST, join us at twitch.tv/plaiddog for the start of a full weekend of TTRPGs and charity fundraising for Andrea's Adventurers! feat. @wisdomcheck.ca @rejectedmuse.bsky.social @GMofReven Let's Roll a Nat 20 to Beat Cancer!

At 5pm PT tomorrow (November 7) I’ll be running the first game of this year’s Andrea’s Adventurers charity weekend! Please come make my Business Wizards’ work more challenging with your donations! Or pick up your own copy of the game in the silent auction! All the info at andreasadventurers.ca.

Only just over 24 hours left before Andrea's Adventurers 2025 begins! If you need the skinny, i put together a press release for @rascal.news if you want to help out: - share! - donate! - bid! - watch! (& come watch me run 4 clutches of goblins on saturday morning too, we'll need your hindrance)

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

the other best thing i've listened to this week: vampires being cool and sneaky and powerful and using a game that is incredibly easy to learn and fun to master (and the voices and narration are really really good and evocative)

Gravity Falls meets Community meets a pseudo-cyberpunk aesthetic dipped in tarot best thing i've listened to this week

the fact that turkey has overwhelmed the kojima company to the point that they removed this photo tells you just how fucked up international politics is right now they're scared of a book that shows they've been killing kurds, to the point that they - checks notes - sent death threats to kojima

(i sure do wish we could escape the USification of literally everything at all times forever and always. because, you know, other countries exist, and we all have our own issues to deal with, but it gets DROWNED in whatever the empire is doing that day)

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

Captain Torture

Come watch me on the 8th Where I'll be playing Dr.Eve exploring dino island And also watch everyone else on the 7,8,&9. There are so many fantastic people involved! Join us in chat and donate to Andrea's Adventurers while the popcorn pops.

Mörk Sol is all-systems-go on Kickstarter! The faster-than-light Borg-compatible TTRPG is live now! We’ve got all kinds of great backer rewards including a deluxe cover, character sheet and ship sheet pads, patches, and a space battle mat. Check it out now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/inf...

i am curating the auction (and event) this year, and am still very much open to donations from folks and orgs who would like to contribute!

I’ve been informed people are unaware that the illustrator of the goose card is… Me! I had so much fun drawing this ridiculous little concept @vidityavoleti.bsky.social came up with

important, breaking news: honk. (thank you @moreblueberries.bsky.social and all the contributors!)

Hey Canadian friends! The government put out this survey on AI. It’s extremely long, EXTREMELY biased, it took me 45 minutes to fill out, and uses industry specific vocabulary to increase the difficulty in answering… but if you could, please fill it out. Thanks! ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇🕯️

🩸Blood in the Snow🩸 A gothic horror actual play about Vampire Knights hunting monsters. Coming Oct 31st. System: Hunt by @gilarpgs.bsky.social Game Master: @straynerdboy.bsky.social Cast: @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social @rocketsandpens.bsky.social @scarydogfriend.bsky.social

volunteering also means signing up as a GM for whatever games you want to run with new tables through the weekend! 4 hour slots, bring your favourite TTRPG, make friends and stories! (or 2 hour, sign up on the day games too!)

Volunteer applications are also open! Pitch in for 3 shifts over the 3-day weekend and we'll give you a full weekend pass plus other perks. It's a great way to meet other people and help build Vancouver's board game community! terminalcitycon.ca/volunteer/

🎺 Early bird tckets are live for #TCTC2026! 🎺 Join us March 13-15, 2026 for board games, RPGs, and three days of tabletop community in Vancouver, BC.

RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.

i have plans, i have projects, i have games (i have more work on my desk already) i am excited about Hollows, Royal Blood, Dragon Reactor i have a whole weekend soon that is just games and charity one day i will also just.. not be online for a bit

i have just finished my last convention of the year, which was my 11th convention of 2025 (working at, not attending) i am tired (you should all come to @terminalcitycon.ca in march, so i can actually hang out with folks instead of my interactions being based on trying to sell you stuff!)

Hey everyone! I am so sorry to ask for help but I'm in a very dire situation since my mom is in the hospital and I'm stuck with the bill. I don't expect to hit the $1600 goal but literally ANYTHING helps. Thank you so very much and I'm so sorry. ko-fi.com/ttrpgifs/goa...

I can’t think of any indie TTRPG designers I know who want to be put up on a pedestal, be turned into some sort of icon by the people who read and play their games. They’re just people, with normal human wants and needs. If there’s anything specific they want, it’s for you to buy their games.

i got to page 4, gasped, and put the whole thing to one side to read when i have more time and actually savour the writing and game this is how you set a tone

Andrea's Adventurers has become very dear and important to me since I was brought in as a last minute player to cover for some drop outs a few years ago - and it means a lot if you can watch along and help us out this year! We have a press release and everything!

Do you like lesbians and mechs? Messy power dynamics and half-alive robots you have to swap blood with? I just released GIRL FRAME, a TTRPG inspired by Mechsploitation, Armored Core, and Evangelion. Go check it out! anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io/girl-frame

i can't believe i have a season appropriate recent image

LIVE RIGHT NOW! THE PENTI-CON is running a charity game of Lasers & Feelings, benefitting Andrea's Adventurers, run by @linkstomeec.bsky.social featuring @markmeer.bsky.social and more! Donate here to influence the game: tiltify.com/@thepenticon... Watch along here: www.twitch.tv/thepenticon

Hi everyone, the fundraiser is live here: tilt.fyi/EDYtxn82Gu Kristin passed away on September 15. She was a part of the TTRPG community and a published author. She was an advocate for multiple myeloma awareness. This campaign is a joint effort between multiple communities in her memory.

The Games against Genocide via tiltify charity bundle submission period is now open: bit.ly/gamesagainst... All TTRPGs and TTRPG adjacent supplements are welcome* Submissions are open until November 3 and the charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders will be live November 10 - December 12 🍉

There are 22 games submitted so far and I'd love to hit 50 by the deadline! Any TTRPG / TTRPG supplement that hasn't been included in a previous itchio charity bundle is welcome! 🖤

later staged photo of the game i facilitated for a local queer bookshop, by @pidj.bsky.social a small cadre of vampires rationing UV lights, practicing unethical botany, and trying for one last good party before the sun returns

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme! Escape from Dino Island! Business Wizards! SWADE! Ironsworn! D&D (5e.14)! and Lasers & Feelings! YOU could be a player in any of these RPGs, and help us raise money for Canadian Cancer Research - sign up now: forms.gle/ACGRgitqa9Zf...

If you're passing the above link around to friends, you may find this shortened easier to remember: bit.ly/dieloaded

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

Come play a game with me for a great cause! Business Wizards on November 7 @ 5pm PT

I'll be running Escape From Dino Island on Saturday the 8th of November at 13:00 PT (21:00 GMT) to raise funds for cancer research! If you've ever wanted to play around in Jurassic Park, come join us!

Did you know that you can play games, feel good, and do even good-er? Andrea's Adventurers returns on November 7-8-9 for three days of TTRPGs to fund cancer research! And... there are still plenty of spaces at the table (and the stream) for players - sign up here now: forms.gle/kGL2rqGWSpB3...

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

one of the various things i have my hands in is Andrea's Adventurers, which was set up by @wisdomcheck.ca to support Cancer Research which means we get to play games, people get to donate to make things more exciting, and there are also goodies in a silent auction! including signed Delta Green?!

What’s inside the book is equally peculiar, a collection of excerpts about immortality and several magicians who sought it. These excerpts include texts of diverse genres, all by different authors and sewn together at the spine by a self-important scholar. backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING: SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book. In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…

every time i see news about j peterson i am reminded of well regarded uk poet and translator who keeps batting for him because 'someone has to look after young men'; which in turn reminds of other well regarded uk poet who, while terfing also defended a nazi because 'woman in position of power'

a house game of @lackingceremony.bsky.social's The Quiet Year, with three eyed bears, four eyed mice, a tree religion, spidersilk, and much internal struggle and strife (and illness and religion and family fallouts)

very very early in my career (circa 2015-6), i wrote parts of a book; today, i was contacted by an org who has (fought for and) collected royalties on it and wants to pay me my share, which is... weirdly exciting? i fully expect it to be oh, at least 5 maple burgers

not for the first time, i am very proud of italians shutting their country down, and incredibly disappointed in the government, the cops, and the cronies of both trying to play it off as violence and shouting neener neener