Started thinking about player improv and what the hell that means! theplayreports.com/posts/player... #ttrpg #blog #improv #play

Only two days left! Also venue change for the sunday show - sunday's show is still in Salem but just a different venue Tickets and full details at www.bostonbitdown.com #Chiptune #VGM #Nerdcore #BostonBitdown #Chiptunes #Boston

Welcome! My name is Ryan Boelter. I wear many hats, but here's the quick breakdown: Podcasts: I'm a co-host on @creationcast.net, editor/sound design on @oneshotnetwork.bsky.social & @pandastalkgames.bsky.social. TTRPG Game Design: Creator/co-designer on @chimera.games and more on my itch profile.

If you were a nautically-inclined nerd with a very limited amount of time Thursday morning on their way up to Boston from VA, would you stop at the New Bedford Whaling Museum or the Mystic Seaport Museum for maximum shenanigans?

Early Chiptune Monthly issue this month! www.patreon.com/posts/chiptu... Featuring: @summonbalefire.bsky.social @voonic2.bsky.social @nu11-chiptune.bsky.social @rei8bit.bsky.social @shemusic.bsky.social @nicolestarlight.bsky.social @megaflare0.bsky.social @dinaari.bsky.social & YMCK!

It's a real good thing I don't live near a Red Ribbon. If I had regular access to ensaymadas I could not be trusted.

Hours left to go! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jus... #ttrpg #shadowdark #osr #dnd #dungeonsanddragons

We just posted the largest update EVER on Models Resource! Not only is it the largest update on the models site, beating last month's record size update, but it is statistically the largest update we have posted on any of our sites to date. models.spriters-resource.com Enjoy 4000+ models!

IT'S ALMOST THE FIRST! Email me to get this AWESOME ISH OR ANY BACK ISSUES!!

So I made some uhhhhh impulse purchases recently, after being reminded they exist and wanting to grab them before they shot up in price (sadly couldn't find the 3rd DBZ book, alas).

More and more wizards

So what I'm saying is I don't really remember why I liked beanie babies. Everybody was collecting them but it was just "the thing to do". We had no internet. Gotta do somethin. They were "neat", but it's not like I really liked them THAT much. Except Claude the Tie-Dye Crab. I would kill for Claude.

A mere 12 hours left on zinetopia, which means 12 hours left to back Lie To Him! I haven't been pushing the crowdfunder too hard in this last week because frankly it has performed better than I ever dared hope, but hey here's one last push: Buy my game. It's good. Honest.

Broke convention idea: stamp rally Woke convention idea: dungeon sticker rally, where each person you visit prints you part of the dungeon Bespoke convention idea: that, but completing it also gets you a trifold pamphlet of rules & randomizer tables.

So I'm heading to to Somerville next week for Boston Bitdown 2. Very excited to see chiptune pals, great time. HOWEVER, this also means I can detour to see the Mystic Seaport Museum, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and/or The Archive in Bridgeport to hit my maritime history & horror movie needs!

A happy 40th anniversary to the time Bulma ran Goku over with her car and then took out a gun and tried to shoot him to death

The real Nuzlocke Challenge is "how long will the transformative parody works definitions hold before pre-orders get closed/Birdman gets sent to the IP-Infringement HyperGulag." Incidentally, "Out of the IP-Infringement HyperGulag" could be a fun remake of "Out of the Abyss."

I forget whose post it was I was reading the other day about not letting a character's stats define that character's reality, but I really felt it last night in Mythic Bastionland. I've known from the start that my character, The Weaver Knight, is woefully weak. I've been able to avoid...

Yo, hire Alex for your game projects

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

People have a right to their own identity, pronouns, gender, and other concepts that only exist to help us express who we are. You don’t get to tell someone what gender or terms they have to use just like you don’t get to tell someone what their name is.

Hey it's my birthday and I've made over 30 free games that you can play. rahrahstorytime.itch.io

I think there should be more mash-ups & cover versions in TTRPGs, creators associated with well known titles doing short 1 shot adventures in their style set in different games, like a Mork Borg’esque scenario written for a “cozy” game like RiverBank or a parallel Mausritter society in Alpha Complex

I've been chewing on a tangent to this post for the better part of 12 hrs. I don't think I'm going to be able to say it better than Clayton/Zedeck, but tl;dr: if you can teach your players to speak Lore Block, they can apply it to their own characters which eases translating system neutral content.

🚨NATURAL LANGUAGE, RIGID SCHEMA🚨 Seeing @explorersdesign.bsky.social (and others) run with the statblock-without-stats thing is so very gratifying. I'm still really proud of this bit of design! 1/

Tunnel Daddy has unfortunately sold at least one copy, thus validating its design.

No one really starts with a blank page. Today, I’ll be giving a crash course on how to start stealing concepts for layout design and making them your own.

Diane, 11:30 am, February 24. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. A tribute piece I did for David Lynch and his boys early this year.

Tbh it sucks that my town has a nominally Twin Peaks themed bar but their menu reflects literally nothing of the show. Like, buddy. You can't just hang a taxidermy owl and paint FIRE WALK WITH ME backwards on a cabinet and call it a day. Small plates, hotdogs & craft cocktails? Fuck outta here.

and if you can believe it... it's twin peaks day once again #art

The Magikarpmonger increased his prices by around 20,000% after discovering the existence of the useless fish’s evolution. paletteswap.site/dif...

sketchbook

more sketchbook

get weirder 🫵

This was an excellent, excellent show. A little known fact* is that most of the folks who worked on SU's music are regular MAGFest performers, so I always wondered if something like this could happen. And lo and behold, it finally came together - and with FUCKING ESTELLE performing as well?!

フロントミッション #ドット絵

I think this might get some converts shakaboyd.bandcamp.com/track/extinc... #Chiptune #Chiptunes #Jakarta

A little preview of things to come! Real fans remember when I was working on this ship over the course of a couple months. #pixelart

What the FLOCK! There's a few dozen gathered outside of Richmond City Hall against FLOCK cameras and Automatic License Plate Readers. (ALPRs)

detroit dance music

A repost for the non-insomniacs.

Finally, a Tumulus made just for meeeee (They're all good though)

This review is weapons-grade. This review will kill you. You still need to read it.