Work notepad doodles.

Used bookstore haul!! :)

I get to play a new TTRPG tomorrow that NONE of you have played >:)) (it’s my friend’s new indie system! First playtest!)

SILKSONG IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2025

Reading list lately! :)

Finally bought Heart: The City Beneath and yeah this is EXACTLY my shit

HOLY SHIT I HAVE GREAT NEWS I just received a call from the clinic, about the blood test results! After eight months of ozempic, training and eating better? My cholesterol and liver enzymes are “back within normal parameters,” and I’m no longer pre-diabetic!

Happy Twitter outage to those who celebrate!

One thing I’ve kinda made my peace with in game design is that it’s perfectly okay for your game to say ‘this is the way the rules are intended to work, and if you loophole them to do other shit you’re using them wrong’

I’ve taken up drawing daily pictures of little woodlanders on my call sheets at work

Inkwarren won’t be complete without the fishing minigame

Started a new pathfinder game and the party vibes are unmatched (art by @chillydoodles.bsky.social)

Realllyyy disappointing playtest tonight. Mechanic I’ve been tinkering with for a while that I was excited about completely fell apart in actual play. Cest la vie! This is why we playtest

Ruin & Rue was my first draft title for Inkwarren! :) it stuck around for a WHILE, so I made it my username everywhere

Hey, @destinythegame.bungie.net, I really think you should consider bringing me on to make an official Destiny TTRPG. I'd do an incredible job with it.

This feels so simple, but so many of those "rpg horror stories" are a result of people not aligning their expectations. I'll add too that if you have a newer player, give them LOTS of check ins and chances to change what they're playing. New people dont always know what theyll like in the long term.

"Hey guys i've been playing D&D for a few months now and I have this theory about TTRPGS:" *something I saw posted six years ago.*

Menus vs parkour.

More fantasy factions should have appalachian accents. Not to mark them as dumb or rowdy. Like I want to see Wood Elves talking about their millennia long history and stewardship of the old forests with distinct Holler drawls. I want to hear a dryad say "reckon so" and "if'n"

Remember gamers, no matter what happens at the The Game Awards this year, your favorite game got robbed and you need to be unreasonably angry about it ❤️

Next week the campaign that I’ve been running weekly on Sundays for 3 years ends and I am So Sad

I really HATE floating target numbers up to the GMs desire. It sucks, even as a gm, because it feels so arbitrary. Compared to haveing the number clearly labeled on a sheet that you have to beat or get within. Like why woukd you not give the players the information the players need? Free the gm!

Art is communication regardless of how involved in the creation someone is, and in art, there's value to listening to others rather than speaking over them. I don't think it's actually a good thing to place house rules on a pedestal like this, especially coming from someone who designed such

bots are becoming a bigger thing on this platform now. not as bad as twitter, but it’s a shame that no matter what, we’re forced into experiencing the internet technological rot that infests online spaces now

We joked that 2020 was an exceptionally shitty year but I legit did not expect every year since to be so much worse

Actually kind of shocked that so many on the so-called "left" on here would celebrate the death of the CEO of the Shorten People's Lives Factory.

Classic blunder! This indie designer forgot to exclude their game’s playlist from their listening metrics and now their Wrapped looks like this.

The three laws of magick in Cairnadal: - The Law of History. Magick can never turn back time or alter the past. - The Law of the Boundary. Magick can never truly bring someone back to life. - The Law of Balance. Magick always takes in equal measure what it gives, and every blessing has a price.

In Inkwarren, the classical elements are in play, but the five types of magick roughly correspond to Blood, Knowledge, Spirit, Nature, and Rune. Blood magick, divination, invocation, sorcery, and thaumaturgy— the lifeblood that all magick flows into.

Inspired by @riseupcomus.bsky.social, what is the wildest set of elements you can imagine, and what fantasy philosophy begat them? I’ll start: The elements are Heat, Lightning, Gravity, Magnetism and Yearning, the elements Artificiers combine to power constructs and mechanisms.

Trying some cool stuff in this month’s playtest! Testing some new and revised Battle rules

5 faves 5 tags! food: sushi & dumplings drink: dr pepper season: autumn color: sage green anime: soul eater @novelsndogs.bsky.social @authorkateduarte.bsky.social @merrihael.bsky.social @spookykathwest.bsky.social @bluespringwrites.bsky.social

Five faves, five tags! Food: Philadelphia rolls Drink: Green apple bubble tea Season: Autumn Colour: Red Anime: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners @giovannidelanoy.bsky.social @ruinandrue.bsky.social @aryxymaraki.itch.io @dicegoblin.blog @darkestadam.bsky.social

Five faves, five tags ^^ Food: Asiago bagel, bacon, egg, and cheese sammy Drink: Strawberry daiquiri Season: Winter Color: Purple Anime: Parasyte The Maxim @riseupcomus.bsky.social @machineheart.bsky.social @hodagrpg.bsky.social @ratbastardgames.bsky.social @sprintingowl.bsky.social

This was supposed to be a quote of @ruinandrue.bsky.social. No idea why it didn’t work lol

5 faves, 5 tags Food: Saag paneer Drink: Hot chocolate Season: Montana winter Color: Emerald Anime: Death Parade @smecksy.bsky.social @kweenmachine.bsky.social @ruinandrue.bsky.social @diyanddragons.bsky.social @iknowadamseats.bsky.social

Five faves, five tags :) Food: Shrimp & Grits Drink: Chai Season: Autumn Color: Slate Anime: Dungeon Meshi @cmbriary.bsky.social @chillydoodles.bsky.social @giovannidelanoy.bsky.social @jellyfishlines.itch.io @machineheart.bsky.social

For no reason at all, felt like sharing an old banger: Apolitical RPGs Do Not Exist #osr #ttrpg

I'm a dullard. I promise that if you think you learn new programs slowly, I'm slower. I just have no patience to sit through YouTube tutorials Affinity Publisher is REALLY good, especially if you're a beginner like me.

For a small fee, I will read your enemy’s bespoke TTRPG system and say, “have you thought about making it a 5e hack instead”

Inkwarren figure painting (repurposed Root figurines)

When you are gift-shopping for a tabletop roleplaying game obsessive, most of the recommendations are for more TTRPG books or more dice, when they probably already have plenty. Here are 20 gift ideas that aren’t just more TTRPG books or dice! #osr #ttrpg

Hey, I need some good TTRPG game design articles to get in the headspace. Any recommendations? :)

Ruin & Rue was the first working title I had for Inkwarren! I still kinda like it, so it’s now my username everywhere

Ten things I’m into so my mutuals can get to know me!: - TTRPGs (duh) - Sociology - Ancient religion and culture - Astronomy - Biology, especially animals of all kinds! I am a friend to all bugs :) - Hollow Knight, Hades, Dishonored - The Magnus Archives - Film, especially horror - Star Wars - X-Men

Everyone go follow my partner :)

Late night cooking and I can feel myself shutting down, but HOPING to have this idea that is very cool in my head done tomorrow

One thing that makes me kinda sad about the indie ttrpg scene is that it is getting harder and harder to find games that are rules heavy/dense. That's what I wanna make, and I keep getting told by people there's no market for it. If I want it, others do #ttrpg #ttrpgdev

blizz should whip out a wow ttrpg system but theyre boring

random #ttrpg reminder: there are plenty of reasons (both ethical & design-wise) that it's good to encourage people to leave dnd however, if you require that "leaving dnd" means leaving the entire fantasy genre, then it was never about dnd's actual problems and you need to fix your heart