today in my dragon game: overwhelmed a robot army, caught the interest of a roc while climbing a sheer cliff, saved a dwarf with bird calls and hoisting, nailed down our funeral plans, bear-baited a mutant with magical cancer, and found a pool with crystals in it--classic!

We've never played Apocalypse World on @friends-table.bsky.social, and yet I think it's pretty fair to say that the show (and a big part of my career) relies on its existence. Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...

ANNOUNCING: i'm now available for pro-GMing w/ StartPlaying—play with an AP performer & award-winning game designer! 🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET 🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET 🎲 PLANET FIST one-shot Thu 11/20 @ 3pm ET 🔗s ⬇️🧵!

this is the crux of it. it was truest, perhaps, back in 2010, but it is as true now as it ever was that being fluent in Apocalypse World is like seeing the matrix of modern RPG design.

tonight in my 🔺game! made a bowler hat and fantasy map, became the clientele of a Chinatown hot pot place for a meeting with Lady Luck herself, did an MRI on her to find and "surgically" extract a brainworm we then trapped inside the music playing in the restaurant, and forced the GM into therapy

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

In honor of the Apocalypse World 3e Kickstarter: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMsLdpkg/

I repeat, if you have enjoyed (or designed!) a tabletop roleplaying game in the past 15 years, you owe it to yourself (and the Bakers!) to make this the most successful Kickstarter of all time.

tonight in my elfgame: slapped a pig demon into the acid lake (twice), lost a lotta blood, blinded 'em with the sun, cast spells to impress an elemental friend, set up a fort on Slime Mountain, avoided contemplating the end, explored Slime Cavern as gas, and bought a one-way ticket to a lower level

stop, stop, he's already cool!

Frankenstein good, but ending it with a BYRON quote is DIRTY work

today in forbidden lands: made camp in a magic thunderstorm, resurrected a mercy-kill, looted the fuck out of a room, parkoured over a boulder trap, dinner with our demon friend, crammed forty dudes through a dungeon entrance, did the hokey pokey with animating statues, saved youths from dissection

today in dragon game: brokered peace between the relic-keepers and scavengers with the help of a big bag of money, forgot each others' names, and had this exchange: "you think I'm a wizard? you ever meet a wizard who wore armor?" "yeah" "you ever meet a wizard who was this stupid?" "...yeah"

What a horrible night to have a curse

as a guy who never played Magic Online, I was afraid of powered cube at first, but i understand now hullbreacher into timetwister was a feeling heretofore unknown to me but now i will chase it to the end of time

Hey ye mighty! Here are those Works you wanted to look upon. Let me know if you have any feedback! Respectful concrit welcome.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

tonight in my elfgame: fought tidal waves with tidal waves, forgot the last 7 hours, fought tentacles with tentacles, sent 5 undead river spirits packing and one to a new home, landed in slime world, attempted to sneak up on a demon gang and squelched and clanked our way to getting caught

Working on the AW3rd kickstarter (T minus 6 btw) and I notice that listed under Meg's and my name it says "11 created • 347 backed." Okay first of all, 347 backed, wowie. But of those 347, probably around 300 have been PbtA. That's a lot to be confronted with on a Tuesday morning.

holy shit

This is literally just funny at this point

tonight in my 🔺game: pulled rank on the Regional Director, got promoted and seeded our own replacements, outplayed a loan shark, confronted an unmurdered goat, defused an alien kidnapping with a picnic, learned the General Manager's damage, and brought him on a mission to secretly get him therapy

Hey check it out! 11 days to launch. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

T minus 11. An #ApocalypseWorldBurnedOver thread. In case you were wondering what we're cooking up in #AW3rd edition.

tonight in my elfgame: met a sad demonic slime mold princeling, interrogated, interviewed, empathized, strategized, and taught the meaning of fun to the sad demonic slime mold princeling, called in a favor with the fairy king for a big-ass emerald, hired a ferryman to cross the Styx, and got company

got married

On this day, October 15, in 1945, the Soviet "Night Witches" regiment was disbanded. Maybe check out the game? bullypulpitgames.com/products/nig...

tonight in my elf game: set up shop outside the mushroom queen's palace, contacted everyone we knew (and some we didn't), got scolded by an angel and warned by a god, asked a librarian how big a rock we needed to imprison the biggest ooze, flew to the River Styx in fart-form, and met the Mold Prince

Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make. Bat Ska. WolfCore. Panamanian Night Monkey Blues. Just terrific stuff. You should check it out.

I’m gonna quote/repost this periodically cause I’d love to get some traction and hear from some people!

tonight in forbidden lands: got an eye clawed out by a gryphon, released beasts, breached the fortress walls, gutted a wyvern, made a deal with a demon to spray our enemies with Blood That Makes You Sad, shot a tentacle demon kaiju with an Arrow That Makes a Flaming Serpent Eat You, and won a war

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

it's not FOR us

Stone of a peach, it's a 2d20 random table. With an 18 and 12, I rolled "piss-sucker". What did you roll?

tonight in my 🔺game! raced out of a collapsing train, but stopped to beat a scammer, hand out haunted house flyers, perforate thieves, and accuse GM of railroading. Paid off teens with video games, kibitzed with a freaky shopkeep, phoned the absence in a friend's soul, and investigated our origins.

Part 3 is here. The deep dive into the Ennies. If you're someone who doesn't know much about the Ennie Awards, you should read parts 1 and 2. But if you like a bit of inside baseball and are interested in award shows in general—this is the article for you. www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-3/

A given RPG system is “for” whatever makes me feel a huge wave of relief when the players say they’re gonna do it

intentionally taking distance from the way &game players engage with and talk about the game has actually helped me understand and rediscover its appeal--HOWEVER, every time I return to the actual design of the game and its supplements by its official publisher, I am unfailingly disappointed

tonight in my elf game: fallout from the war: the city fallen, the queen slain, a patron god dragged to hell, friends fled or dead. at the same time, reunited lovers separated for 3 years (real time), grew closer as a team, and gained audience with the mushroom queen and agreed to kill her rival

I've distributed over 600 community copies of Perils & Princesses and I just put up a bunch more, in case you've been meaning to check out this game, but haven't had the means: outrider-creative.itch.io/perils-and-p...

The gameplay in Hades II is excellent, a worthy successor. But the narrative is so allergic to friction and character dynamics are so frequently the least interesting choice that the first ending rang hollow to me. I have very low hopes for the “true” ending that must exist—after all, Hades had one.

tonight in forbidden lands: rapid bridge construction, lost horses to demon-wolves, summoned mist for our army to skulk through, used a secret passage to infiltrate the enemy fortress, sent sappers to blow up a wall in the rain, destroyed a catapult and a barracks, and demanded to see the manager

tonight in my 🔺game: multi-track drifted, bounced a lollapalooza flesh-mass, cut through it with a blade-armored sandman then absorbed it, beat a trolley problem, threw the worst party ever for an insecure killer, got scrambled, reversed a flaming benzene river, and obsessed the devil with flowers

pronouncing “bourgeois” like “gorgeous” with a b

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

tonight in my elfgame: almost got bisected, blasted open TWO magical cages, kited our foes in the 5th dimension, telekinetically retrieved the wizard's lover's soul-bond, fled 5th dimensional spiders, watched our OTHER wizard friend get deleted, made a lich VERY mad, and teleported back to home base

At Queerness in Games con. Watching Avery Adler's keynote

This is how we're doing so far! The TL;DR is, a Social Insurance issue prevented me from taking a loan, and tuition + all the books and supplies has been expensive. If you've got a coin to spare for this trying-hard-to-be-a-paralegal witcher, do toss one my way. If not, signal boosting is golden.

New! The Secret of the Night Market (Perils & Princesses) www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/The-Se...

tonight in my 🔺game: took out 2 massive loans, left an alien civilization hanging, took a shortcut to a murder train, vented a train car by deleting the front, puppeteered 2 sugar zombies, terrified civilians with our crawling, many-eyed freak, had dinner with them, and pinned it on Spirit Halloween