Remember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form! Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie) www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...

Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs. I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me! elmc.at/fullstack-re...

Here's a scan of the Bullwinkle and Rocky Roleplaying Party Game rulebook. Sorry it's not OCR. drive.google.com/file/d/11p2u...

toilet a at 1:30's fundamentals were a mess and it got exposed. not sure why anyone's surprised. you can't have footwork like that and expect to win in this league

The healing power of a 6th gen console beach level

jimi hendrix lowkey always going crazy on the guitar

i know mac OSX isn't everyone's cup of tea but my windows 11 work laptop has started having the problem of explorer crashing or making itself non-responsive multiple times a day and in terms of productivity it's the equivalent of getting punched in the stomach

From Tolkien Letter 153: "I don't think Tom needs philosophizing about, and is not improved by it. But many have found him an odd or indeed discordant ingredient." Haha, yeah. I agree!

Salamander Crossing Guard duty was a success 🫡

It is now present. shop.binarystar.games/products/dea...

i love when i log into something and it tells me some shit like Notification Hub is now Alert Village

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

Quick and breezy post about how to use a Markov chain to make your procedural dungeon stocking results a little more intuitive in #osr games! tbr.bearblog.dev/dungeon-stoc...

Don't miss your chance to read what critics are hailing as "the most recent Swan Boy arc" swanboy.com/comic/philly...

I love combat systems with hit locations. The only thing better than kicking someone off a ledge is taking off their arm. BUT they're always so fiddly! I'd love to use hit locations in an OSR game. So here's a little system with a new combat resolution scheme. #osr #ttrpg

A revised version, more refined and complete with layout, is now available. binary-star-games.itch.io/death-has-co...

Belated catmail is here elmc.at/catmail-3/

what a glorious time capsule of this broken moment we are in

An argument

I loved playtesting this weird OSR/boardgame mashup where you play as bees, and it's been really fun seeing the game take shape over these design journal blogposts. Lots of pollen for thought in here.

taking a much needed break from current events to read Dune, a story about a decaying decadent sociopathic patriarch going to war with desert-dwelling religious zealots, led by the son of a guy he killed, over the resource that underpins civilization-wide trade.

This is it. The perfect sports blooper.

New blog post! In this one, I begin to examine a move away from randomness in TTRPGs by first looking at the categories of uncertainties in @costik.bsky.social's Uncertainty in Games! goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/s...

How does the order of steps in a travel procedure drive player behavior? I explored in another design journal post, then discussed a few more approaches to wring random encounter tables out of playing cards. #osr #ttrpg tbr.bearblog.dev/pollen-exclu...

Great blog post from Noel about implementing the lessons from a different blog! Give your characters something to believe in! viridianvoid.bearblog.dev/worked-examp...

The final version of my "What the Heck is a TTRPG?" trifold is available completely free on my itchio! Perfect for those looking to get a basic understanding of the hobby or branch out into new games ~ (((Thank you to everyone who gave feedback!)) sandroad.itch.io/what-the-hec...

New Blogpost: Play Is Canon What are the sources of "truth" about the world of your tabletop setting? For me, the paramount truth derives from play itself. This is my synthesis of blorb and anti-canon. #osr #ttrpg

Here is a blog post that I wrote with a friend titled "The GM is Dead." It asks: If we can describe some GMless games as "GMful," how might we describe games like Firebrands? The post is super short (4 min read), and I think we hit on something interesting despite the brevity.

The thing about smartphones is that they do legitimately save a bunch of time, eliminate a bunch of chores, and remove a bunch of friction. But we live in a society that is incapable of translating those gains into additional leisure time.

the fourth article about seven part pact's design is now here! in it i talk about seven interlocking board games and the challenges of making them talk to each other in an RPG context. possumcreek.medium.com/asymmetrical...

New blog post that attempts to span all types of challenge-oriented games, rather than just talking RPGs like I normally do. But there's plenty of RPG stuff in here, too. Discussion questions included at the end. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-...

Toucan’t Blog: DURF minus [PART 2] #ToucantBlog #DURF #TTRPG

An extremely self-indulgent design journal based on the last week of playtesting my Honeybee game tbr.bearblog.dev/the-wax-marc...

"Your posts are worse than Bieber" "Shirt look like a shop rite bag" "You have sold out the fans ." Every Accusation is a Confession. —DRIL

knaves, fools, and murderers there may be

Thanks for the writeup Kati!

Got to playtest my good friend @69dinguses.bsky.social game, Honeybees!! theplayreports.com/posts/honeyb... #ttrpg #rpg #blog #playtest

“Hell will reign” is obviously a Freudian slip from the Beast of the Apocalypse

see that all goes well

Toucan’t Blog: DURF minus HP and XP Three modular adjustments to DURF’s wound system #ToucantBlog #DURF #TTRPG

Sometimes I get stuck trying to make a design decision and I start to hear John Harper in the back of my head like the green goblin mask telling me to just use clocks

It's Orbital Blues month over on Backerkit, and I figured that's a good excuse to write up my thoughts on the book in my usual review fashion. Give it a read! personable.blog/qlbb-orbital...

This is the perfect time for Luigi's trademark jump!

they scorn me for an "email job". they mock my RSI injuries from using the keyboard. they dismiss my slide decks as frivolous. but when i finally unveil my triumphant 600 slide powerpoint that operates on the same principles as the euthanasia coaster, we'll see who has the last laugh

This is so, so well-articulated.

Exalted Order of the Mystic Moose! A Maple Syrup Flavored Forestcrawl for Cairn by @jacobmarks.bsky.social is now available on my webstore! www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop/p/exalt...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

introducing 5e 5e, a complete 5e conversion of the worlds greatest roleplaying game

Things will get better under Woke 4