tonight's SEASON FINALE of blades: stowed away on a leviathan hunter, blackmailed the navigator, turned to mist, extinguished the boiler, made enemies with a demon, poisoned the captain to shit himself to death, attempted mutiny, stopped a ritual, and possessed a leviathan to destroy our enemies

The list of words from my unfilmed, notional “GM Word of the day” videos: Susurrus Ichor Chthonic Miasma/miasmic Portcullis Shambling/shambolic Luminescent/iridescent Maw Throng(ing) Rivulet Thrum

tonight in my most insane 🔺game session yet: MVP and agent-on-probation clash, staged an intervention for the Agent who doubts Reality, who stole A RELIC OF INCREDIBLE POWER from the employee handbook to kill an imposter and drink its essence, and finally met the thing possessing the GM in the Vault

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

D and it's not even remotely close. India, China, Japan, Mediterranean, ALL OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, and you even get the toe of the boot and Sicily from Italy. Central and South America, you will be missed.

tonight in my elfgame! wizard chooses love over war (shoots ONE parting lightning blast), druid falls valiantly to the Inquisitor after singlehandedly defending the temple, paladin and cleric rescue stolen memories before swooping to save druid, and they all retreat to the Unseen Realm to scheme

People on the left are more likely to advocate for violence, you see, that’s why we need to kill them all,

One of my players pointed out to me, and has been proven correct time and time again, that the secret to speedrunning Blades in the Dark is getting in with Lord Scurlock as fast as possible

tonight in my blades game! these married nobles HATE each other, sadomasochistic pleasures, healing at the eel spa, getting high in the crawlspace, a second goddamn demon crashing a cram sesh with the book of sacred alchemy, and the four most beautiful words in blades: lore dump with Scurlock

if you ever get a chance to scroll through sean's page and look at his recaps from triangle agency games, they are delightful and hilarious impressions of the game. Even better when you know what hidden abilities are being referenced !!

Okay, I wrote a thread about what expressionist games mean to me at this particular point in time! I believe both new and old ideas about what rules are and can do in games can coexist; there’s no one right way to design games. I want to learn from multiple perspectives.

today in my forbidden lands game: routed a demon army, our insectoids dropped buckets of dirt on a demon snake, and the rider rolled more hits than I've ever seen to slay it. Did a triumph at the town we saved, 2 (two) guys flocked to our banner, went marching, shot an old rival, and built a bridge

today in my dragon game: evil frog man escapes, nonchalantly burning a ship, entering the heart of a dead god and unblocking its arteries, getting soaked in dead god blood, provoking raw chaos ten times in one minute, a unicorn, luring the god-eater into a trap only for it to swallow the bait whole

tonight in my 🔺game: resolved internal conflict by summoning infinite helicopters, flew over the lake and jumped to get to Thought Heaven, reunited a girl and her anomaly, found the GM's closet skeletons, a helicopter chase, handed over a decoy to the authorities, and went on four dates (or worked)

tonight in my elf game: the druid solos a literal army while the rest of the team confronts an ooze-imposter high priest, interrupting their ritual with a miracle to expose them. They attempt escape, but get caught. The land rises up to defend the temple, and an old foe appears, prepared for war.

SO EXCITED to have gotten my copy of The Secret of the Night Market from the Kickstarter that @outridercreative.bsky.social ran! What a beautiful set of books, and the stickers are going to look so good on my laptop ✨

I just backed Marsh Hallow on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar... @forwhygames.bsky.social has been working on this for YEARS and it’s looking amazing!

My copy of The Secret of the Night Market, an adventure/location for the Perils and Princesses TTRPG arrived today. It’s a gem in 40 pages. @outridercreative.bsky.social

Had some people play Synthetic Archaeology tonight at @scenefour.bsky.social playtesting group and got this sick ass relic of play from it. #syntheticarchaeology storygameschicago.itch.io/synthetic-ar...

You know what's great? When a Kickstarter arrives! Thanks @outridercreative.bsky.social and @scenefour.bsky.social

Anyone who ever published a PbtA game is legally required to promote this campaign. I don't make the rules, that's just how it is.

I have heard so much about “the player who refuses to play anything but D&D” but I have never met them in real life Are you this person? Do you know this person? Can I talk to them?

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

tonight in my 🔺game: made a skin suit barf out 111 aliens, made it rain Shel Silverstein, broke up a tiny fight, took a dictator to hot pot and turned him into a useless slacker after learning he was 25% of a party member, fed War and Peace to a nuclear reactor, and learned our GM is a murderer!

Read this and at the bottom, you will find a link. Clicking it will get you in for the ride. Wanna come along? #ttrpg #PBTA #AWBurned #ApocalypseWorld www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/09/apoc...

heavens no, surely this cannot be

tonight in DEATHMATCH ISLAND! amateur astro[nom/log]y, advent of the slugs, stealing a van fulla guns, driving it directly to a hole fulla guns, disappointing Production by trying to hide out during Deathmatch Time, amateur bomb defusal/brain surgery/stunt driving, turning the tables on an ambush!

Irrespective of my feelings on the current state of Magic, we did get Yiddish on a Magic card

In tonight’s Perils & Princesses game, the party made a mushroom amuse-bouche for a hungry bridge troll, tussled with animated brambles, and healed a raccoon bite on the frog king’s tongue to avoid the ire of a hedge witch. (Recap in honor of @scenefour.bsky.social who joined our family game night)

Join our small but mighty team as we continue on our journey to celebrate and connect people to the world of indie RPGs and solo games! Tabletop Bookshelf is looking for a hospitality-minded, tech-savvy tabletop RPG enthusiast to help build our audience and community (link in comments)

tonight in blades! bluecoats try to bust us three ways; drug den raid ignores (forged) permits, we spook the busters on our streets scooby-doo style, and pay off the hound's ex-sergeant with blackmail kicker. our Spider's paranoia turns out true, and we call the Church to bring the cops to heel

If you’ve liked any tabletop game in the last fifteen years, Meg and the Bakers are somehow part of that. They’ve done so much for this hobby and community. Apocalypse World flows in the veins of modern gaming. You want to own this game.

The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game is going to get a new edition!

We have played SO MANY ttrpgs and if you've made a ttrpg and you'd like to hear it on a podcast you should email partyofonepodcast @ gmail dot com

tonight in my 🔺game: got sent to the Null Zone, convinced the source of our target's superpowers we weren't cops, radicalized video versions of alien scavengers, deputized alien sasquatches, made the reeducation facility boss wrestle himself, hijacked an office party, and made pure malice feel fear

doing writeups of virtual tabletops for work and this all-in on ai platform is so depressing why would you have a machine do all the play for you

tonight in Deathmatch Island! catty snips, altered memories, and conspiracy theories on the boat, played it cool with the kooky cult, a prerecorded message sowed dissent, even that kooky cult doesn't trust us, and questions: did those kill squads miss us on purpose? Why is it all abandoned?

Online trpg spaces feel like woah you are friends with that guy who was really weird to me once? That's crazy I'm working with a dude who was weird to you that one time 🤝

Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.

Tonight in Blades: stalked the client (artifact-collecting secret society noblewoman), went to the barber-surgeon, two crew members got their asses beat for vice indulgence, told the Spirit Wardens to fuck off (went poorly), reconnected with a cursed disembodied heart, and bustin made us feel bad

Pronouncing Chuchus like it rhymes with tuchus

Wait this squad rules

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

If you wanna jump straight to the game, you can find it here on Itch. It was a blast leaning into trope-y and old school color palettes and just throwing something together that was very different than anything I have worked on before! storygameschicago.itch.io/doomsday

Check out this latest episode of Gamestorm with my guest @scenefour.bsky.social! This episode was a blast and I really loved the game we built out of it! gamestorm.podbean.com/e/pools-of-d...

Check out our newest episode of Gamestorm with @scenefour.bsky.social! We have a great time building a fun, campy game with lots of pools of dice!

I had an amazing time on Gamestorm designing a campy lil supers game based on a random design prompt, all in like an hour! Such a delightful premise, and a cool insight into how design brains work and people collaborate: gamestorm.podbean.com/e/pools-of-d...

tonight in my 🔺game: bought a helicopter, rode an alien escape pod to a secret space station, hot pot with The Proctor, deleted skin suits, sowed dissent in the populace, a father-son slideshow, blew up a torture chamber, ran through a wall, got manipulated by an alien leader and gravity-threw him

Hey folks! @forwhygames.bsky.social is launching a Roll-and-Write about a pyromancer cult that kidnaps your marshmallow family and you have to arm yourself with squirt guns, water balloons, and fight back. Check it out and share if you like! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

tonight in my elfgame: plotting against the ooze lord, abusing the elf queen's treasury to cast expensive spells, drumming up a legion of Daylighters, getting screwed by the impostor high priest, a weirdly prophetic meeting with the sad elf queen, and an instantaneous invasion to change everything