I'm cautiously optimistic about RPG Trader. If you don't know, it's a new platform for buying and selling rpgs just like DriveThruRPG, Itch, and Lulu. What's making me optimistic? It's rpg-focused. It does away with the 5-star rating system. It has coherent product categories. rpg-trader.com

Closing in on 350 products live on RPG Trader in just a few days of going live! Such a great response from the TTRPG community! You can browse and wishlist games as we prepare for launch: rpg-trader.com/products/

I'm honestly pretty excited for this new TTRPG digital marketplace, especially now that they've updated their AI policy to ban its use in any of the products sold on the site. Can't wait to start buying stuff on here!

9 more days Can we hit $10,000 by the end of it? We’re only $1,100 away. #TTRPG

Were nearing $8,000 raised from this bundle, keep it going, spread the word! #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

With games like into the odd, cairn mausritter and mythic bastionland, « attacks always hit » has become a favorite among many OSR gamers Are there still people who still like « roll to see if you touch » first ?

this jam is half over!! a few people have already submitted but if you want to join (and maybe even WIN THE PRIZE...) you've still got two weeks and change!! JOIN US 👇👇👇

This is out now! Some really great old-school and solo stuff in here, in addition to a lot of other stuff too, all for (at least) $10!! Please check it out

My "old-school" style TTRPG has received a minor update, mostly to note my influences (OD&D and @traversefantasy.itch.io's FMC: Basic being two big ones). The system is simple and straightforward, but with a lot of changes to what people may consider a "standard" #OSR game. A quick🧵about that...

I have done the research. I'm ready to draft up my DUSK Breathless hack.

Went to bed with a heart filled with love and support from a community I deeply respect and love after having recorded one of the hardest video I’ve ever done. Still miles away from actually funding. Woke up to this No words are strong enough for what I want to say. Merci mille fois ❤️

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I wrote a blog to condense all the fantastic TTRPG blogosphere GM advice I’ve read into something I could easily consult and use. Maybe it’ll be useful for you too! afcbrodie.mataroa.blog/blog/s...

The #dnd wisdom my teenage self spent too much time searching for. www.valerialoves.com/a-sickos-gui...

having the fascinating experience of preparing the black wyrm of brandonsford as the OSR module of choice for playtesting the Princess of Algens and seeing how thoroughly you can change the output of a "system neutral" adventure by just changing who is engaging with it

Let's go Breathless! Almost 500 Backers and less than 10k left!!

If you haven't already, please please help get this across the finish line! I backed it basically as soon as it launched, and I'm so excited for it.

The problem with blogging is now you have to come up with another blog post.

My GM style? Enthusiastically enabling player shenanigans and then gleefully letting them eat the catastrophic consequences. The challenges write themselves.

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

This recent essay by @snow117.bsky.social is one of the best I've read around the seemingly eternal "is the #OSR dead" conversation. Honestly, it puts into words things I've felt for a long time about how #TTRPG categorization has been (and should be) done.

GREETINGS USER. PRELIMINARY SCANS INDICATE THAT YOU HAVE ARRIVED ON THE SURFACE OF RILL, THE PRIMARY MOON OF LUYTEN-b, VIA LIFEPOD. THIS DATABASE’S FUNCTIONS ARE TO GATHER INFORMATION ON YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND TO KEEP YOU ALIVE. LET’S BEGIN. (a system-neutral campaign setting, coming this summer!)

Not normally the type of thing I repost / talk about on here but I can't pass up on sharing this great article about giving credit (and many other related things)

This section of the Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition is one of the best GM tools for modern gaming on the market (I say this because we created exactly the thing I wanted when starting to run modern horror games) Generic Maps

Are OD&D "classes" supposed to actually represent "social class" -- meaning the character's place in society, along with associated expectations? Probably not, but I think it explains away oddities of the ruleset in a satisfying way. Read more: blueshallowsdarkdepths.blogspot.com/2026/01/ODnD...

Me, some horrible combination of 1 and 2: thank god I'm one of the normal ones

They don't hunger. They suffocate.

PLASMODICS: VERMICULTURE is off to @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online for editing! eight bunker scenarios across nearly 20,000 words in a dense sandboxy mesh. people live underground and they're not normal. cover art by @emo-sludge.com.

I don’t know how to express this more clearly Every time you do a war I’m against it I’m against it in all forms I’m against from All sides I’m against the careless loss of life

Back Breathless on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

I’ve been mulling this thought over but I think there’s sort of a third wave of indie RPGs outside of the established OSR / Story Game divide…games that I would say take design cues from both schools but are firmly developing their own identity and culture distinct from both.

Remember, “ye olde” megadungeons are now contemporary media… start your OD&D dungeon campaign today! Details below 👇

I am so unbelievably excited for Seven-Part Pact, and each of these articles just makes me even more excited. It seems to me that this game is going to be truly innovative, and I just can't wait to see how it all comes together!

Today I ran two sessions of @discodan.bsky.social's Truck scenario for @lukegearing.bsky.social's Violence ruleset. Each was so different, but both times, players immediately got into the scene and made total messes of themselves. For less than an hour each, they really packed a punch!!

What I love about @lukegearing.bsky.social's Violence is how it seems to encourage these cinematic vignettes of intense, realistic yet otherworldly action-horror. This one cooks, can just picture Mike and the boys stuck in this scenario (see "My Friend Mike").

I haven't posted on my #TTRPG blog in about two years, but I want to get back into it, so I've done some remodeling. Might not be so terrible to look at now. There's only two posts, but if you like games with a so-called "old-school" bend, maybe give it a look. blueshallowsdarkdepths.blogspot.com

me blog now mbgowatbmf.bearblog.dev/on-designer-...

Wow... this looks crazy! I've never heard of a TTRPG system crossover before wtf this is so cool

Pay a vial of tears shed from the loss of a dear friend, and she will guide your way through the Violet Way. Her Skull of St. Rathis lantern casting its pale green light across the path.

I can’t stop writing for @lukegearing.bsky.social’s Violence! Check this one out. There’s a big man with an axe. discodanlives.itch.io/bunyan-an-in...

New one on the drawing board today

The zine is called "warmth attracts cold bodies" and its about trying to understand ttrpgs. Find it here: snowttrpg.itch.io/warmth-attra...

Have been working on a new project for blog discovery. It's now live! Check out rootr.ing! A new small hub and webring for ttrpg blogs. Read about here: elmc.at/rootring-is-...

It’s hard to truly understand the immortality of an elf as a human player, but not hard to understand the mortality of animal-folk- therefore: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/ratl...

Nearly everywhere, editorial design is disappearing. Magazines, newspapers, and publishing houses are shrinking. There are fewer and fewer typesetters every year. And yet, over in Elf Games Land, we have a hundred new people learning and fussing over baseline grids every year.

once again struck by the pressing need to have more precise groupings than "role playing games". people are doing things which are diametrically opposed and stupid slapfight bullshit will continue forever until different terms allow them to coexist. also if people stopped being cunts to one another