We had the honor of being judges for this year's Grassroots Game Jam, an amazing project by Brian and Ty that allows new game designers to see their work come to life through Zine Quest. Four winners were selected to be featured in the zine - check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

We're already pretty close to our next stretch goal! Very excited to print some physical copies of Axolotl with a Gun: Armed and Dangerous. A little teaser of my favorite new "class" from the expansion zine, THE EXPERIMENTAL RAILGUN:

And just like that we hit our first stretch goal! We are so excited to be working with @bubblyernie again to get even more incredible art for this game. Check out her work on her Instagram and DeviantArt! 🖌️🫟🎨

We’re a bit past the halfway point in our Kickstarter - and just a few backers away from reaching our stretch goal of additional interior art! Thank you again to all of our backers; if you want another way to support us, share this project with another TV-loving friend!

We’re so excited to be guest writers for our friends’ incredibly clever game Punderworld, now live on Kickstarter! Check them out - it’s sure to be a rewording experience. www.kickstarter.com/projects/twi...

Thanks to Tabletops and Tentacles for making a video highlighting The Bottle Episode! We're glad you're excited about the project! Check out the video at the link below - and check out his channel for more Zinequest highlights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLr...

FRESH IN THE SHOP THIS MONTH: Glatisant from @lucaszellers.bsky.social + @graftbound.bsky.social 🐉 An Arthurian duet for a brave Knight Errant and a chimeric Questing Beast. The Knight undergoes trials, the Beast makes them worthy of their title. Built upon Carta, a playing card point crawl system

Soot and Charms is Graftbound's next project with Veiltorn Studios We're excited to be helping them create a setting guide and tabletop rpg in the flavor of To Charm of Train; expanded, remastered, and revised to empower YOU to join in Follow the campaign page now!

Axolotl with a Gun is T-minus 2 backers from the funny number. Y'all know what you need to do. 🔫 www.kickstarter.com/projects/res...

Thank you so much for having Jon and I on Talk of the Table! It was an absolute delight to chat games with you guys! If you want to know some cool in depth things about Axolotl with a Gun 2E, this will be a great listen

TTRPGs are such beautiful, impossible things. Think of how hard it is to get any group to get on the same page on *anything*, and then marvel at how we play these games that allow you to build worlds together. I think about that a lot.

Axolotl with a Gun isn't a particularly crunchy game, but I do feel like @bridanann.bsky.social was min-maxing the art style for maximum cute aggression. These little dudes are all available as stickers on the campaign!

I got to check out this game from @sccreatives.bsky.social at Metatopia, and I thought it was super neat. One of the players made the most annoying sidekick and several of us independently decided our characters would absolutely die for them. www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...

Did you like Axolotl with a Gun 1E? You'll love the 2E edition! More guns, more shenanigans, more bad guys to fight! Also! All early bird backers get this cute Thanks-a-lotl sticker!

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We're live! Early bird backers get a cute Thanks-a-Lotl sticker :] 🔫 www.kickstarter.com/projects/res...

@sccreatives.bsky.social is funding their "Bottle Episode" which if it's anything like their other game Campanions, will be a very subversive and fun look at genres and media we already love.

Fully funded in under 48 hours! We’re having so much fun working on this game and can’t wait to share it with you 🥂

Computer play Best Day of My Life by KidzBop

We're taking a pause from our kickstarter campaign for The Bottle Episode to celebrate the fact that So Many Horrid Ghosts won 2 NDU Awards for adaptation and mechanics! Thanks again to No Dice Unrolled the nominations! We're delighted others like our wacky d10 iambic system as much as we do 😊

We are live!!!! The Bottle Episode is now live on Kickstarter! Thanks for this awesome review from one of our playtesters of our monster-hunting episode 🗡️🐺🧪 Go check out our game at the link below! buff.ly/fXUnlRp

So Many Horrid Ghosts has been nominated for the NDU Awards! Thanks to No Dice Unrolled for showcasing our game this year 🎲👻🎭 Head to the link below to vote before February 1st!

COVER REVEAL! For the covers of our past four games, we put our own design skills to the test - but NOT TODAY! For The Bottle Episode, we have had an incredible experience working with Cally Leung (aka bubblyernie) on this stunning cover. Follow the Kickstarter page to get notified when we launch!

Zinequest is just over a week away, and we're so excited to be participating again this year! Follow the link below to the prelaunch page and sign up to be notified when The Bottle Episode goes live 📺 www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...

Today's Tuesday Tidbit topic: California Gold Rush miner Marie Pantaloon who was arrested 3 separate times for wearing pants! After the 3rd arrest, she got special city permission to wear her pants in peace. We're off on an event site visit this weekend to see the town where the gold rush began!

MAGFest was a blast, we hope to return next year! Special shoutout to @moreblueberries.bsky.social, @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social, @sccreatives.bsky.social, @junkfoodgames.bsky.social, @muditaheart.bsky.social @dbg-games.bsky.social and @brightbard.bsky.social for making the ttrpg section so fun!

Had a simply kickass weekend at MAGFest, from hanging with @graftbound.bsky.social, @moreblueberries.bsky.social and @sccreatives.bsky.social in MITS, to roaming Indie Arcade, to meeting @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social to grab a copy of Lancer and chat about games, layout, and Itchio boss battles.

For this Tuesday Tidbit we're celebrating an amazing MAGfest! Thanks to everyone who visited our table to hear about our games, demo, playtest, or just chat about what nerdy thing excited them. And thanks to friends old and new for a weekend of adventures :)

Get ready for Tales from the Cryptids! We are crowdfunding our first anthology in February 2026! Edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, this collection of TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and other uncanny ephemera flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore: tinyurl.com/cryptidtales.

The campaign for Rise, Wizards! and All's Fair launches in less than one month! AND WE HAVE AN EXCITING UPDATE Behold, @seaexcursion.itch.io's cover design for @superdillin.bsky.social's All's Fair - a game about wanting eachother so bad you save the world about it

This week’s Tuesday Tidbit celebrates the announcement of the reopening of Doors of Divergence, one of the best immersive experiences we’ve done! They have two interactive escape rooms and the choices you make in the first room affect your storyline in the second. DoD opens in Charlotte in March!

We’re taking this Tuesday Tidbit to reflect on the amazing year we’ve had! It’s been a wild ride and we can’t wait for 2026 :)

We're literally ONE member away from 2500 paid subscribers in 2025!! Will you be the one to help push us over the edge?

Tidbit Tuesday Time! With the winter holidays just around the corner, we're feeling cozy - just like we do at one of our favorite neighborhood coffee shops, Red Kup. We love to stop in to get a couple of lattes and settle in to chat game design or get some writing done.

We are crowdfunding our first anthology! Tales from the Cryptids will launch on Backerkit for Zinetopia in February 2026. Follow the project to be the first to know when it goes live: bit.ly/3XVa94n.

38 HOURS remaining! Thank you and let's go! #pbta #AW3rd #ttrpgs www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Winter sale! ❄️ Scryptid Games products are 30% off this month on itch.io/s/175091/win...!

i bet you've heard me talk a lot about ALOM now but Elliot gets some more fun tidbits and design thoughts out of me! Esp on colonialism in fantasy Also I got to experience a thing so many of peers have gotten to, seeing my game be played as a physical object lol The joy of my BOOK working!!!

'Tis the season for hot chocolate, cozy blankets, and the itch.io Winter Sale! Check out our game discounts and core game bundle going on now until January 5th ☃️🏷 itch.io/s/175924/win...

Tidbit time! If you can't tell from the photo, we’ve been very focused on playing A Message From the Stars. We love that you have to logic out every detail in this game and, while that may not sound relaxing, the level of concentration it requires makes it a great way to clear our heads.

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We now have 2468 paying subscribers! That's just 32 away from our goal of 2500 by the end of 2025. You can get access to almost two years of amazing tabletop games journalism for just $1 right now! Be one of those 32 absolute heroes!

Coming Zine Month 2026 Rise, Wizards! by @captainkrail.bsky.social is a dice-stacking, map-making game of wizard hubris All's Fair by @superdillin.bsky.social is a duet game about wanting each other so bad you save the world about it Thrilled to be running a two game campaign this zine month!

This week’s Tidbit Tuesday started in a used bookstore in Baltimore, where we found a copy of Of Dice and Men for $2. Not only did it lead us to Otherworld (which will likely get its own post someday) but it helped deepen our understanding of the field of gaming!

For this week’s Tuesday Tidbit, we’re talking about Decrypto. This game is all about crafty communication, and it’s fun to stretch those muscles while code cracking. Add the element of trying to confuse the other team and it’s the perfect combination of teamwork and deception that we love :)

November was a whirlwind! From Metatopia to the NYU Game Design Days panel at @twentysided.bsky.social with Lauren and @natmesnard.bsky.social to PAXU it was all games all the time. Thanks to everyone we playtested, boothed, or even just chatted with for making this month so special.

Tuesday Tidbit - PAX UNPLUGGED! Thank you to everyone who chatted with us, played with us, and made the weekend so memorable. Extra thanks to @twicerolledtales.bsky.social for welcoming us into your community corner and @dotsrpg.org for hosting us in the Access Forward Gaming Lounge!

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Our favorite holiday approaches - PAXU! If you want to say hi or pick up a copy of our games this weekend, we’ll be at the @twicerolledtales.bsky.social space from 3-5 pm on Sunday, and running The Harvest Helpers in the Access Forward Gaming Lounge. Our games are also at the IGDN booth (GH-63C).

We’re back with a Tuesday Tidbit, and this week we’re celebrating character playlists! We love compiling songs to define the vibe of characters we’re embodying - it helps to put us in the right mindset, and they’re honestly so fun to make. What song best represents one of your characters?