It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

I'm tired, boss

I'm subskeeting here but ffs if the main objective when playing a TTRPG is not _having fun with your mates,_ ya fucked up. If your main objective when writing an RPG is not making it a better time when _having fun with your mates,_ ya double fucked up.

Brigand: Oaxaca is one of the coolest, jankiest imsim PC RPGs I've ever played and I never see anyone talking about it. It's been getting regular updates for 8 years, and the dev is loudly pro-trans and anti-ICE. If you like STALKER, Morrowind, Deus Ex, New Vegas, this one's a big rec from me.

Nielsenauts is a storytelling/improv game kind of like Once Upon a Time, where players take the role of futuristic virtual constructs who only exist to make 15 minute TV episodes in real time. If the players fail to hit the company’s arbitrary and pointlessly cumbersome metrics, they’re deleted.

Excellent news. Only another [N+1] trials required before UBI is finally proven viable!

what's up gamers, the teaser page for my new Mothership Month '25 project, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, is up on backerkit now—this one's about space trucking!! check it out: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Smashed out 34 cool weapon names while cleaning. Who needs """adventures""" or """good rules""" when you can have swords with cool names? Hashtag TTRPG wisdom post to main

Just realised that I don't currently have a big list of cool weapons and armour with overly pompous names and ridiculous added effects in Decree. An unforgivable oversight, fixing now.

Evil Tetris

wait yall had Disney+ subscriptions?

64/64 hexes smashed. Fuck me that took far too long.

all fascists are cowards, if you tell them no they run scared, if you try to appease them they sense weakness and attack harder

Hey, don't listen to that dickhead, I just GMed Decree tonight and it was fucking brilliant. No better cure for impostor syndrome than running your damn game.

Yeah I know comparison is the thief of joy, but it is still incomparably soul-crushing when you realise that your 'quick project' that ballooned into a heartbreaker that's taken multiple years of work is still worse by every metric than what most writers can shit out in a fortnight.

New adventure for old roleplaying games, MANDOG. Shoutout to @wilberhforce.bsky.social for the pictures, @samsorensen.bsky.social for the editing, and @evilgoblin.wedding for the layout. They did amazing work on this. gromb54-46.itch.io/mandog

Impostor syndrome hitting like a pallet of bricks today. Would be very neat if I could just, y'know, _do things_ instead of the constant attendant self-doubt.

Given how much Itch has been down recently, maybe now is a good time to think about self-hosting again.

Oh yes, this is extremely My Shit.

Tannic was fantastic, I'm really looking forward to seeing what Amanda has been cooking next!

The perfect confluence of these two interests is Paladin, and that reminds me that I should listen to more Paladin

Just a reminder that I wrote a whole PhD dissertation on the social and economic roots of Gamergate and the alt-right, in case you’re interested in understanding fascism and its connection to the games industry + academia from a materialist POV. spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/98...

[Throws up another skull.]

I am getting reports that Charlie Kirk died in a tragic self suck accident.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Charlie Kirk received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Seeing some exec at Bungie smile vacantly at the camera and advise me that "Destiny was always really a tribute to Star Wars" has imbued me with the type of incoherent fury usually seen on low-quality videos of adolescent boys smashing their computers to bits. Is this how it feels to be a Gamer?

The current round of Discourse has reached the stage of people inventing hypothetical DMs to get mad at.

U.K. residents, could this be your chance to stop paypro censorship in the country? Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

banger thread

Met so many lovely folks at Tabletop Scotland, but now I'm going to go sit in a dark room for 6 weeks. Conventions are INTENSE.

1st day of Tabletop Scotland and my heart is so goddamn full. What a fantastic get-together.

Almost no better feeling than running a game for your friends to enjoy. Life can be good.

the band Front 242 started in 1981 because the main guy with goggles realized there was no cool music in Europe and he wanted to make some. he teamed up with the only other guy he knew who owned goggles and the rest is history

If you see an unkempt-looking ginger guy wandering the show floor looking moderately traumatised as he attempts to rawdog his crippling social anxiety, there's at least a 25% chance it's me, come say hi!

It's genuinely flabbergasting that I called this YEARS ago, and got summarily dogpiled by a bunch of Game Designers who smugly proclaimed that inflation existed, completely ignoring the fact that for maybe 90% of the purchasing public, real-terms income hasn't increased in _decades_.

ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music

Gonna have whitespace the likes of which yall never seen

re Plus One Exp, this is why I'm reticent to venture outside my grubby little corner of the RPG space. I'll continue to trust my gut.

Damn right I'm goth, Delerium - Silence (In Search of Sunrise mix by DJ Tiësto) is my favourite song of all time

Let's fuckin goooooo eat more pierogi

The UK really is still the uncontested master for having the most spineless & sniveling breed of politicians

So Phantom Limbs will officially be at Tabletop Scotland this weekend. Not as a stall or anything, I'll just be hanging around all weekend like an absolute saddo. Come say hi and I'll force a copy of Fengrave on you.

Drop an old person you're going to turn into

I raise you:

Autechre

fuck this shit

It’s time