Tiny Library 1: Mismatched Heroes

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

I hope you'll all appreciate the the effort it took to not shout 'DRAINAGE!' throughout our review of Barrage.

Came across one of the first RPG things I wrote, a list of odd happenings for my Monster of the Week campaign.

evening crowd, assemble! six sign-ups already.

An important presidential address

There's an autistic person behind every great thing in the modern world

Explaining 'drafting' to somebody new in the hobby

Tiny Library 1: Lake Town Blues

Even a little is enough. 🌸 #Art #InkSketch #Wip

These are beautiful cards. You can see the (I think) Ace on the far left has a space for the duty stamp. Formerly many countries put heavy taxes on playing cards, where the Ace was proof of payment. Forging a duty stamp was an offence 'without benefit of clergy' - i.e. you could be executed for it.

This is a great piece, shows not only how games are an intrinsic part of our cultures but also how you can use them to tell wider stories. Excellent stuff

Was so locked in on the other parts of the problem that I did not notice that drawing myself doing a sick kickflip is also forbidden under the new policy.

I try to be an AI realist. Despite all the jankiness of LLM, I do think driverless vehicles (particularly trucks) are coming and we aren't ready for the job losses

I got to have a "well if you ignore the general Nazi-ism and anti-trans bigotry, they're also pro-AI 'art' " chat this morning and honestly it's weird to me that folks who think "it's only about the game" don't care at all about things like that. I guess we really do live in different worlds.

It's very important you give your Disney money to me. I will distribute it to 150+ indie RPG creators. For the revolution.

This is how indie publishing feels.

I love demoing games for kids who clearly have no money. It's always fun as hell. Plus they have a lightbulb moment that will hopefully steer them towards the tabletop for years to come :)

Tiny Library 1: Flyers

If you think manufacturing is dead in this country, just check out all the identical 3D printed widgets everyone with a shed is trying to hawk

The people demand 100% carney employment

Here to kick ass and sell tabletop games to people who have never bought one... and I'm all outta ass to kick

Up at 5am to sell tabletop games to the general public

@farhorizonscoop.bsky.social and I are hosting an @itch.io #ttrpg game jam from next week. when you sign up, we'll send you a random prompt from our collection of unused random prompts from the Short Games Digest days. you can respond to that prompt however you like!

Nice @sciam.bsky.social article by @sarahexplains.bsky.social on the NASA Exoplanet Archive reaching 6,000 planets! “You’re no longer just asking “what”; you’re asking “why”—“and that’s, for me, where it gets exciting.”

Some cool zines just arrived in the mail from @travisdhill.bsky.social !

The '90s Addams Family movies are way better than Wednesday (probably)

Everyone say hello to Greenleaf 👋. Greenleaf is part of the new soon to be kickstarter Culture The "Rootbound" for our game Fatefully Tragic Hero! The kickstarter starter starts in March. For now we're beta testing. More updates to come! #indiedev #rpgs #tabletop

Imagine paying $1 million to be the unwelcome and immediately betrayed cash-cow for a government that changes policy by the hour

Slightly ill-advised 6 player game of Dominion at the club

Australia needs to welcome everyone suddenly facing the $100,000USD skilled visa fee. Let 'em in. Migrants are great. Watch the US dollar wilt.

Let him in

I have lost my wife to Stardew Valley

"It's not hard once you figure it out." - Old gamer proverb

Remember the time before cozy games? Every game was like: Welcome to HELL CITY where all you can do is SHOOT YOUR FRIENDS for FOOD. Where it's ALWAYS FUCKING RAINING and you can BUY KNIVES. But we learned. We make nice games now, for nice people (woodland creatures in Victorian clothes).

I strongly believe I'm an oxymoron and so is one of my dogs. We are both smart in stupid ways and vice versa. Never change, Hubble.

For those of us who've been screaming about Gaza for the past 2 years, many pushed back by saying it wasn't relevant to board games because the issue wasn't related to a specific game or its content. But then we could apply that to the recent boycott of CGE because of the Harry Potter author.

Doomspiral Launch Party!!

A second hand edition of Happy Dim Sum at the club

My boardgame club 🤝TransAmerica🤝 My social feeds

incredible find in the free retired library books shelf

bork! bork!

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest

My boardgame club giving away free games for good mental health :)

Coming Soon... You've been warned.

Tiny Library 1: I Am Tilda

I bring up Follow, Sunderwald and Dethroners any chance I get tbh.