Anyone recommend a Substack that’s about surviving and thriving the apocalypse? I’ve got plenty telling me it’s here, but they’re a little thin on what to do.

Hello Wanderer! I've a new #ZineMonth project coming up! 💙📚The Wanderer's Bookshop📚💙 is a cosy solo* bookshop simulator #ttrpg where you collect stories, read books and find your “white whale”. Launching February 2nd on 💥Zinetopia 2026 (Backerkit) tinyurl.com/BookshopRPG 🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧 🧣📚

#CommissionsOpen - In need of some stuff for a project or whatever? Want a crazy person who has too many thoughts to help you out? Want to pay me up front rather than way down the line like some people? Take a good look. $300 bucks get you 1k Words + 3 character spot pieces + 1 map; no AI or shit.

Hello new folks, My Name is Richard I am manifold, like warped stained glass in an abandoned grey stone church Other than being cryptic I am a writer, coordinator, and art director at Adventure Noises I am making my own anti-colonial ttrpg, The Banishing! my-name-is-richard.itch.io/thebanishing

So what is this #Tavernsworn thing I keep talking about? Tavernsworn is an experimental way of using Ironsworn to play the story of a character who founds a tavern in a fantasy world: Legends and Lattes, The Wandering Inn, The Bear, but also Dwarf Fortress and a touch of Blades in the Dark. 🧵1

Solo play…, #tavernsworn

Hey Josh, what's THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC like? It's like this, friend. It's like this.

In my Ironsworn game about a struggling inn on the borderlands, the innkeeper is trying to attract adventurers to make ends meet…

Why is the Home Depot app asking for permission to connect to my daughter‘s iPad? Just send me the effing toilet that I ordered!

I am writing so much this week! I guess I needed a week and a half off just to reactivite my writing muscles.

Idea of the day--a faction game for tracking adventuring parties in the environs of a local adventuring guild; something the vein of the faction game for Stars without Number, a bit of gameplay, some worldbuilding, interesting seeds, all that.

Prediction. Nothing changes; it all happens again.

Forged in the Dark innovators thread! Who's doing cool new stuff with the FitD model? (promote your own or someone else's). I'll start: Slugblaster, by @wilkiescandylab.com is a smart hack of the core systems, tweaked in just the right way to fit the more light-hearted adventure style of the game.

I have been so fortunate to have regular gaming friends. Nevertheless, I see this happening all around me. Loneliness slowly kills you, and escaping it can be a long project. open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

What are the practical steps of getting an RPG book printed? I pull back the curtain on the process and share my current progress in this blog post.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Something I love on the GM-facing map from Guy Pradel (@pradaldi.bsky.social) are the hand icons that show how rooms connect. Secret doors are marked with an S. Trap doors are marked with a T. Learn more about this sprawling dungeon here: www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/his...

I love drawing skeletons #taverncore

DAY 10, GAME 2: I’ve been playing How to Host a Dungeon by @tonydowler.bsky.social for years, and I still love crafting new side views of dungeons and seeing what creatures and stories populate them. A great game of simple scribbling. tonydowler.itch.io/how-to-host-...

OK, let me just conspiracy theory at you for a moment about why I had such a hard time buying Season 38 of the Amazing Race on Amazon last week. 1/

The targetting of innocent civilians from a sinking vessel in 1918 played a key role in Canada joining the call for international prosecution of war crimes. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Enshittification. I want to give Amazon money to buy a season of my favorite reality TV show. They will sell me single episodes only AND I can't buy the finale. I have to purchase a Paramount subscription to get it. Unbelievably shitty way to treat a customer, and the absolute last straw.

An ancient shelter carved in rock with potent wards of protection and hospitality, variously a temple, commune, hideout, and bordello. Now a rather shabby but spacious Inn for travelers and outcasts. #WIP #solo-ttrpg

It's Itch Creator Day. I'm running a sale: itch.io/s/170833/bla... #ttrpg #stockart #bsnm #creatorday #indierpg

6 of Swords Digital (Procreate), 2025 Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...

Rev. Michael Woolf, a faith leader and minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, detained by Illinois State Police while protesting immigration policies outside the Broadview facility in Chicago. Photo by Jim Vondruska/Reuters

I’m a fan of the good work Leo is doing. But also, don’t forget…

I wish Rebecca rapid improvement and freedom from disease. I only wish my wishes could be like magic.

CHARLOTTE “Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot & ran into the yard… The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time…” More 👉 www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

My family didn’t talk about the war, but there was always a picture on the mantelpiece of the family who died there. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Loving where game design is taking me lately. This week, some adventurous visited my inn, prompting me to create the moves and procedures for that eventuality.

I bet OpenAI will seek a government bailout.

Saw Paddington 2, and dang if that isn’t a near-perfect movie.

I don’t think they intend to restart the government. They prefer the shutdown.

For those who don't know:

Dungeon map fragment, hand-drawn title and gross rooms. #ttrpg #b&wart

What Tarot card best represents consent? Consent almost certainly wasn’t on the minds of the creators of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Which means we need to dig a little deeper if we seek a card that stands for that concept. (image: Wikipedia) 1/

Working on a cozy witch village map for Ellen Exacto’s game “Bikes are Magic”.

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. It corrupts our political system every day.

My company is hiring. This is a pretty entry-level tech position, and it's a good place for folks early in their tech career, or trying to break into tech without a strong tech resume: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/3Sharp/74400...

Will reading and writing become lost skills? open.substack.com/pub/daisychr...

It's quite a world when David Brooks wakes up to the realization that we might need a "mass political movement" to save our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...