Can we switch to calling them donjons cause it's more fun to say and write, and means tower more than subterranean torture chamber like dungeon does?

Really enjoyed listening to @chrisair.itch.io 's Ansible Uplink episode with @unenthuser.bsky.social going over Orbital Blues stuff. I haven't played or run it yet but gotta add it to the list. I know this one came out a month ago but had to shout it out after finding the time to get to it!

When the big solar flare fries all the electronics my TTRPG collection will skyrocket in value. What's another book for the shelf? Prepping.

Affinity software crashes instantly if I try and make changes to the iso map I've been drawing for almost a year. It's nearly "done" but I guess it's done-done now lmao. At least I can export it.

the bullet points should go above the prose and we can call it a bullet-first game design

I grocery shop at the restaurant supply place cause it's way more chill than Costco and the produce lasts way longer. If you position barcodes UP and visible so the checker can speedrun them they love you and checkout takes < 1 min.

i hate everything you hold near and dear. your cataphracts games are not safe from me. or... am i not safe from your cataphracts games? yakamo.blot.im/i-hate-play-...

As I learn how to do zine layout I can already tell it's changing how I write. I feel like this is true in any multi step process. Even if never mastering the other steps, learning about them shapes perspective so much. Reminds me of welding/fitting.

✦ URGENT COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN ✦ please please please repost if you can #art #commission #commissionsopen

Day 30 of my #art I’m cheating by reposting, but I added the crucial missing detail #horror #traditionalart #illustration

What rpg systems have interesting movement rules/ systems?

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8 https://theonion.com/pitchfork-gives-music-6-8-1819569318/

if you're not playtesting the BRAND NEW CROSSOVER BETWEEN TRIANGLE AGENCY AND FIST, then you are missing out on one of the greatest marketing ploys of ALL TIME ‼️

Look, I'm tired of "look" being used as a preface filler word. I'm already looking, just cut to the yapping.

Joel Edgerton Going Nuts In Hopes Of Getting On Oscars Jumbotron https://theonion.com/joel-edgerton-going-nuts-in-hopes-of-getting-on-oscars-jumbotron/

Working on layout for ALL ON RED. Struggling to fit all this text and format it. Stealing space any way I can. Failing. Realizing I'm a fucking writer and I can just delete words and sentences and rephrase things to make space hahahaha.

Discourse about rpg formatting is ignoring the next evolution: textured zones on individual words, scratch and sniff, force feedback, razor-sharp paper edges, origami maps, double printing with upside-down. We haven't even begun to reach the limit of page intensity. That sound tech from bday cards.

My day's labor in the editing mines, complete. Beautiful @discodan.bsky.social & @streetsurgery.bsky.social, innit?

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Is there a technical term to describe when the bass in a song sounds sinister AF? Is it just overdrive and distortion?

The current Obsidian Notes visualization of my Mothership RPG home game. The big light blue dot on the left is Prospero's Dream from A Pound of Flesh, and the other big light blue dot is Lord Wesley's Rise from Hull Breach. #mothershiprpg #obsidiannotes

youtu.be/lJsS8lqCpwU some good news out there in a sea of bad.

Things are slowing down with my meatspace responsibilities, so I am looking for ILLUSTRATION GIGS! ALL OSR/NSR like- DCC OSE HMTW DND ADND SHADOWDARK MORK BÖRG MOTHERSHIP TRAVELLER MECHS DON'T SEE IT? JUST ASK! PRICES THAT WILL MAKE YOU SAY "WOW, ARE THESE FROM 10 YEARS AGO?!"

I'm starting to lean more towards that Fermi paradox explanation of intelligent life tending to destroy itself as being the most likely explanation.

Hit me up at Hodagmag at Gmail dot com if you want a copy for just 7 buckaronis! Cheap and Cool!

Looking for a resolution table to roll on for 2026

Thinking about old dice, like way back when they were made of bones and wood they must have all been totally unbalanced and people thought they were just super lucky or unlucky and got killed over it for cheating cause they didn't know the density of the material wasn't uniform.

All this time contemplating orbs, but what else can we do with them?

I think Project Zomboid has the most potential to achieve the vibe of #Over/Under . Now that build 42 has gone multiplayer, in a month or two when this unstable build is less buggy I think that's the move. An RP server where everyone plays as a nomad convoy, scheduled "event" when the camp moves.

ICYMI, I reviewed all twenty options on Mothership's Panic Table to find out what I like, what I don't, and what I'd change for my own projects in the future. I might make this single table review post into an ongoing series (people seem to enjoy it)! meatcastlegameware.com/blog/2025/12...

Trying to figure out where to unleash a Forvalaka

my Thursday one-shot of the psychological horror Mothership module "Gradient Descent" is full up, but: there's still open seats in the Sunday 12/14 one-shot of Gradient Descent! 🎲 if you like androids 🤖, memory weirdness, and evil AIs, this is for you! more @ 🔗: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

Hot take time, lot of chatter about what is the #osr and I'm finally weighing in. nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...

Trying to trim down rpg room description text is like hacking away at some sort of magical blackberry bush that regrows almost instantly. That writing phrase about killing your darlings? I just need them to fuck off for a bit. The text is improving, but the length isn't tonight!

Please give me your recs for no-skip albums, headphones on, volume up, music that's good for doing that flow state time travel shit while working on things you can auto-pilot through. Going to see if I can OD on coffee and skip the work portion of tomorrow to get to the fun part.

Wondering if any rpgs use the UNO deck instead of dice. I've heard of Jenga and regular playing card decks used of course, but UNO is as common as Jenga, maybe more so. Could be an untapped resource. Death save! SKIP!

Playtested a #FISTrpg thing involving sentient vehicles. Quotes: "My reliant robin is trying to go back into its meat form and get back up to the VW bug.. -Jay " and "Biblically accurate 18 wheeler" -Amber and "It's a sentient suicide bomber?" -Triss (about a mini Cooper with a remote detonator).

More Ink for the Ink Gods! And more art for @discodan.bsky.social 's upcoming #mörkborg adventure: The Mantis-Men Breeding Pit Massacre. (Now with more elephants!!) #inkdrawing #ttrpg #art #elephant

Tomorrow is first play test of @discodan.bsky.social's and my take on a sentient vehicle module in #FISTrpg. Trying a funnel mission where regular level 0 FIST recruits try and rescue intelligent vehicles during a high speed chase involving a traitor truck hauling captive vehicles for CYLCOPS.

Some words about Mantis-Men: discodanlives.bearblog.dev/mantis-men/

music.ishkur.com This website rules. It's fully interactive and can play examples on certain timeline points if you click them. The very opinionated reviews are worth looking at too, especially the commentary on specific sub-genres and scenes.

We hit our final #mothershipmonth25 stretch goal for All On Red: donate $1,000 to Doctors Without Borders (MSF)! One of our main NPCs Dr. Lucinda Suzuki belongs to a fictional organization inspired by MSF called Doctors Without Sectors, so we figured this would be a great final goal in the campaign.

#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own. www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...

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In the first of what will likely be a series of blogs, @lincodega.com unpacks how @samsorensen.bsky.social's month-long realtime Mothership larp/megagame #over/under ended for their character, High Gardener Otso, and also, for themselves.

We all lived! We found the treasure (but who knows if we'll escape with it and live long enough to even sell it)! @octopusink.games died and was immediately resurrected in basically the first room. @discodan.bsky.social lost all of his hand skin! @user-nu11.bsky.social made a cool blood snake!

Over/Autopsy for #Over/Under This is about the ingredients in the special sauce, and death. nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/overautopsy/

I wish I could see some sort of visualization for the impact of #over/under post game. I'm seeing a viral spread of ALL kinds of games being spun up and joined just because of O/U's momentum. Tons of people are starting to write their first content for games, with an insane support network to help.