you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

I've been enjoying editing this season's @diceexploder.com and am considering taking on more audio work. Feel free to reach out if you need someone for editing and such 👋

This week on Dice Exploder it's four mini episodes in one! @gigantic-spider.bsky.social and I talk about The Awards, the niche indie rpg awards show they facilitate. We get into why ranking things is dumb but fun, and then some of our favorite mechanics from the last The Awards' winners.

Busposting is no more but Awardsposting is eternal! I continue my trip down memory lane of The Awards 2022 winners with In The Bluelight by @loottheroom.bsky.social If you want to be part of choosing winners for The Awards 2026, self-nominate to be a judge now: forms.gle/A4Sas5PekPf8...

In honor of Traveller's success I've decided to offer a 1 day only special event pricing for INSTANT STARSHIP!

To suit the TTRPG industry’s preferences, we’re rebranding as… 🌟CISPLANAR🌟 — an all-white, all-cishet D&D channel telling stories that are wholesome and universal! Our heroes fight to maintain the status-quo in our imperialist world and never do anything Bad. Happy to receive our ENNIE soon! 😇

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Realis is also about to be a reminder that not every crowdfund project has to have to have an artificially-depressed initial funding goal & dozens of tiers of merch & parasociality to achieve the early necessary metrics.

That long-awaited moment is finally here: judge self-nominations for The Awards 2026 are open! Find more information here: theawards.games?page_id=1143 Self-nominate directly here: forms.gle/JrU37fNREYfG...

What to say about here, there, be monsters! by @wendiyu.bsky.social that I haven't said already? Let's start by saying it makes me want to [redacted] the whiners and losers who say they *need* to use AI because they can't afford an artist for their projects

We're just TWO WEEKS OUT from the launch of #LyricalLudology Season 2 🎉🎉 I'd love to get to 50 signups before we launch, cos that's a satisfying number 🤩 Can't wait to get these convos on lyric games from around the world into your ears! 🗣️🎙️👂🏼 Please follow below! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Faith & Sails by @j-k.games shows that dice mechanics aren't just for resolving actions - they can be an integral part of the tone, fiction, and emotional tenor of a game. Faith & Sails turns a ship's crew into dice that you navigate with, come to love, and eventually lose to the gods of the ocean

Dwelling by @goodluckpress.co is a solo game about exploring a haunted house. But it's not just any house and it's not just any haunting - it's *your* house, left to you by a late uncle, and it's *your* haunting, of and by your memories of your family

National borders kill people on either side at exorbitant rates; they are a cruel luxury of kings and tycoons that the human beings of earth can no longer afford.

can we make this the new #1 most blocked account pls

DUKK BÖRG by @gemroomgames.bsky.social is proof that commitment to your vision will take you far, with a masterful pastiche of black metal fantasy and children's television that creates both a comedic and horrific effect. MORK BÖRG has never been so anthropomorphic!

Bus time bus time! And what better way to get back into it than with The Devil City & its Seventy-Seven Vicious Princes by Alex D. This sadly appears to be an abandoned project, but even in its allegedly unfinished state it is absolutely worth your time to check out

If you're: 1) In the global south 2) Have an upcoming small TTRPG project 3) Would like to access Kickstarter for funding We are doing a test run of the GSIC so if you're interested, DM me. You can see the details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Same case if you are in the imperial core...

Our third exciting offering that we are seeking panelists for is: Stories My Grandmama Told Me: The Lives of Women who Didn't Suffer Fools This is led by Garnet! Date: Saturday April 4th, 4PM Eastern/1PM Pacific - 8PM Eastern/5PM Pacific CW: This panel will include discussions of harming men.

crapland. squared. by sean richer is just so fucking bizarre It's the doldrums of suburbia extruded through the surreal science-fantasy of Troika! It's acid fantasy if said fantasy was monochromatic. It's a grungy zine but it costs $35(!) for a print copy

The Book of Gaub by @lostpages.co.uk (and a number of associated contributors) is a book of spells by way of microfiction. Think about it like you had a bunch of artifacts from the Magnus Archives to use in your games

I'm back on the bus which means I'm back on my bullshit: it's time to talk about ARC: Doom by @momatoes.com It's been over 3 years since I last read through this game and something I'm struck by upon rereading it is how much DNA it shares with OSR games

messy blackletter version:) 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 gonna get some prints of this for Gothcon next weekend<3

Next up: All Options by Jon Cole and Kelley Vanda This is a larp about abortion and an abortion clinic. It's not metaphorically about that, it's not using it as a backdrop for other conflict, it is just. about. abortion. "just"

I'm starting with the original .dungeon by @snow117.bsky.social There is so much to love about both this game and its remastered version, but I'm going to focus on the classes. If you don't know, .dungeon is all about playing people who are themselves playing a dying MMO

ok I'm on several long bus rides now and over the next few days so I'm going to inflict The Awards-posting on all of you (by which I mean I'm going to reread as many of the past winners as I can and just say some shit about why they're cool)

MY GAME #MYGAME

I do think "Avoid giving money to someone who will use that money to harm minorities, whose product is one fiction franchise out of literally thousands" is kind of a reasonable ask. Like it's not even activism, it's "don't actively contribute to harm."

"there must surely be some real consumptive, material way to separate the art from the artist, you know, like spinning the artist in a centrifuge until the art separates from them, or splitting the two down the middle with a large guillotine--"

Don’t make me tap the sign. Its support trans people or Harry Potter can’t have both

my friend maya @cosmic-chill.bsky.social is moving and we are raising funds to help her move via a lovely little itch bundle. with cool games!! itch.io/b/3590/mayas...

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

finally a TTRPG that lets you play as the daughter from Succession

Blogpost: I've often mentioned the local meetup I run in conversations on here and elsewhere. Now, after 3 years, here's an overview of how I did it and what we've been playing. pointlessmonument.blot.im/60-systems-a...

People who want nuance in AI discussions also want you to ignore the many ways AI and its data centers cause harm. They actively make light of IP concerns and mock or ignore folks stances about real life harm, calling those stances reductive while reducing all concerns to “AI bad.”

Gamergate 2.0 was hardly about games as much as it was about putting black and brown developers back in their “places”—out of games entirely, in front of or behind the screen. Any other explanation is window dressing

I’m always a fan of breaking away from the importance that a platform like Kickstarter or Backerkit has for indie artists! Very excited to see how this develops

Have been working on a new project for blog discovery. It's now live! Check out rootr.ing! A new small hub and webring for ttrpg blogs. Read about here: elmc.at/rootring-is-...

Leqaa Kordia, who spent a year in ICE detention because she protested for Palestine, is free today.

One of the many, many things genAI destroys is human collaboration. It actively creates loners, guys spinning off into the deep end with literally no one around them to go "hey what the fuck are you talking about" or "hey this sounds like the thing I've been working on" or "check out this book"

Every time this discourse comes up I point out that it’s only a concern for a) racists and b) people who believe that economic growth must be endlessly exponential in order for society to survive, ie neoliberal capitalism

This bundle is not only a super good bundle, but supporting it will help us help Black indie game devs with marketing support, event support, and ultimately dev funds. But I will suggest you adjust the default amount to better support charity.

The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.

The standard Eurogame is kept under a glass dome in Paris

The February TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective is here! February is always fascinating and a little exhausting due to the sheer volume of projects in the works, and this year was no different ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2026/03/febr...

It is *exceedingly rare* for even campaigns that raise quite a lot of money to exceed a couple thousand backers, let alone 10K. You probably wouldn’t meaningfully increase the number of campaigns if you used 5K backers as the cutoff

I'm opening up ttrpg consultations once again, but I'm going about it a little differently this time. It'll be two hours for 40USD, and you can reply to this post to sign up. I'll get to as many people as I can. You'll want to read this whole thread though. There's a developer-wide bonus.

The “separating the art from the artist” conversation uniquely bothers me. I feel strongly that everybody goes through old discourse, and that’s fine. This though? This one persists because people seem to want to be absolved of whatever little trespass they’ve already resolved to commit.

Thank goodness it's a Good Guy Country doing it & not a Bad Guy Country, otherwise it'd be a massive scandal!