I really gotta be more active on here, but I don't have anything to report on 😭 Full time job employed with none left over for hobbies or personal writing

I've been playing Crown Gambit all day, and I've been enjoying it a ton. Some really interesting worldbuilding, beautiful visual style, and delightful mechanics. The influenced response mechanic is one of my favorite mechanics I've seen in a minute.

I've been absolutely awful about posting here, but I've once again arrived in the fair city of Philly for PAX U. :3c

If you’re at PAX West, please come to the Relationship Between Game Design and Art Direction tomorrow, Sunday, on the main stage at 11am PT. If you’re not at the show you can tune in, and see me, your host, along with Naoki Yoshida and Hiroshi Minagawa! www.youtube.com/live/aB2WfPs...

Tumulus 04. Return to the sea. Shipping early in September 2025: tumulus.exeunt.press

It's always funny when formal commentary or academic publications try to extrapolate trends and deduce attitudes of a fandom at large off how a Fandom wiki is handled. 95% of the time, less than seven people maintain that wiki and the decision in question was unilaterally made by one despotic admin.

Last week of the month! That means last chance for you to submit community content to the mecha ttrpg newsletter:

I've confirmed, but I will be going to PAX U this year! I've been feeling the imposter syndrome again in the TTRPG space, as I haven't done as much as I hoped to in the past year, but we push through it.

Daggerheart's Environments can help you streamline your game prep while maintaining a balance between flexibility and utility. Here's my advice on doing it for yourself: youtu.be/h-ht-wMbrms?...

Come watch a weird, wonderful, and practically never theatrically screened movie with me!

It's actually been really great to have a stable job, but, man, it hasn't helped with the energy for creative projects.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT.. Sword & Key SUMMER SLAM FIGHT THREE ended this past Saturday with Saskia the Air Genasi Oath of Watchers Paladin/ @genathan.bsky.social moving on to the FINAL FIGHT! The stats show how WILD this fight was! Check out FIGHT FOUR this Saturday August 9th at 10am PT / 1pm ET!

SWORD & KEY SUMMER SLAM FIGHT THREE IS TOMORROW! Join us at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET for our next fight of EPIC PROPORTIONS! Sword & Key Summer Slam is in support of @doctorswithoutborders.org - support your champion or cause chaos tiltify.com/@sword-and-k... Live on twitch.tv/sword_and_key

📺 Vagrant Story // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via component

SWORD & KEY SUMMER SLAM IS NIGH! Sixteen combatants previously featured on Sword & Key 5E streams will fight to the death… but only one can wear the crown! Join us for FIGHT ONE this Saturday July 19 at 10am PT / 1pm ET on twitch.tv/sword_and_key These streams are in support of @msf.ca

The AV Club has a nice article up about Type Help (The game we’re remastering as The Incident at Galley House): www.avclub.com/game-theory-...

This is a beautiful article on Fallen London. The FL team put out some of the best writing in games *every single month*, and it’s wonderful to see that recognised. (Got quite emotional to see shroom-hopping mentioned, too: one of my first pieces of work for games.) www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/iv...

Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez got buzzed by a foul ball in the booth and had no idea it was coming! 😂

I want to explore more TTRPG Adventures (not systems/rulesets/mechanics (i have plenty of those); prewritten adventures/settings/scenarios), but I don't like D&D-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off Fantasy I like superheroes. Are there superhero Adventures that will get me excited to run them?

I think about this post so much

I went to a barcade in London and bought 36 tokens for 20 pounds. These "tokens" turned out to be American quarters and I have never felt so owned. Essentially I gave them $27 and got $9 back

After facing the dangers of destructive constructs and turbulent landscapes, the rangers meet their true foe at last Join us today at 3pm PT for Session 7 of Fragments of Loss: Unearthing Memories Fragments of Loss is a Rangers of a Broken World #ttrpg #actualplay raising money for Trans Lifeline!

the worst part about having a job is having to go to work 😭

Following another Free RPG Day, I'm proud to kick off the second annual #PaidRPGDay! Today, I'm offering my games at a price you can pay to have them! Take a look and consider supporting your favorite indie publisher today, whoever they may be. Shop (with money) now: bannerlessgames.itch.io

Oh hey, are you getting a bit of intimidating FOMO bc you are interested in the Final Fantasy part but scared to death of the Magic The Gathering part? Have I got a blog for you!!!!

Spread the word! ALL of our games are FREE on @itch.io for Free RPG day! From Badger + Coyote to Substratum Protocol and everything in between! Go get them: itch.io/s/155360/pan...

We're celebrating FREE RPG DAY by making everything on blackwellwriter.itch.io free until midnight! itch.io/s/155368/bla...

hello hello! this Saturday, June 21st, at 12:00pm, I'll be running a workshop at Twenty-Sided in Williamsburg about Cataphracts, my real-time play-by-post operations-scale roleplaying wargame, as a part of Free RPG Day! if you're interested, come on by!

VERY soon 👀👀👀

Why Dungeons & Dragons storytelling duo signed with Critical Role

Sports was one of America's most accessible forms of entertainment. Now it's paywalled, splintered and sold to the highest bidder. Fandom isn't being nurtured. It's being mined. For @nytopinion.nytimes.com on on the state of sports, and what it says about America: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

I've talked a good bit over the years about the challenges of being a "successful" game designer & editor. We're doing amazing things at Wildmage Press, but times are hard and your support is what makes it possible! Grab a subscription, tell a friend, repost—every bit helps and is so appreciated. 💚

I couldn't not draw the creepy monarch-eating vine humanoids from Episode 7 of #TalesUnrolled!

I rightfully give him shit because the guy can get weird about women, but there's no denying "Kojima shenanigans" is a compliment.

Announcing: Mandrake! You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so you’re able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! 🌳

Hellwhalers: Book of Leviathan goes live next Tuesday! Can we get to 150 followers this weekend? Kill the demon whale. Eat it's flesh. Drink it's blood. Earn your reward. @mossdaggar.bsky.social & Brewist crew are killing it here @joandark.com been PMing the shit out of it ttrpg.link/bol #TTRPG

Wanna listen to how a Daggerheart Actual Play runs beyond the Critical Role table? Head over to Darrington Press’ YouTube Channel and check out Part 1 of City of the Black Rose: Dice, Danger and Daggerheart, live now! youtu.be/DIci75V5ggQ?... Based on our Kickstarter: rollandplaypress.com/cotbr

song of the summer just dropped all over again

If we get 100 new subscribers to @unwinnable.com we will happily do a deeply political theme issue about Final Fantasy.

literally what is the point of OMNY if they're going to freeze my debit card after every single time I (successfully) tap into the subway

every time I go outside, I put my iced coffee into my bag for a second so I can properly swipe into the subway, then I forget about it until four stops later when it's spilled a bit into my bag you'd think I'd learn, but no, this has only resulted in me carrying around a lot of napkins preemptively

So, you're looking for fonts that'll stand out. There are hundreds of open-source/free ones, but you want something more obscure, something that supports a type designer. Here are 10 type foundries, collectives, and designers perfect for indie rpgs... www.explorersdesign.com/10-budget-fo...

Taking Feature pitches for Nightreign! [email protected]

There were so many great pitchers in the 90s, but only one of them killed a bird mid-flight.

Such a blast to have Ash and Emma on the pod to crack open the Final Fantasy MTG set and dig around in all those juicy details.

Special Podcast: @adashtra.bsky.social and @emmapartlow.com joined us to discuss Final Fantasy - Magic: The Gathering. Blorbos! Sports humor! Commander hate! They do it all.

Here's some fanart for #talesunrolled, a title card for Alma inspired by the stained glass in the set design and monarch butterflies in the story. It's a super cool show, check it out! Imagine with me, as if you were there...

we're making a co-op kaiju horror cooking game it comes out this summer so, ya know that's a thing

Tomorrow at 3pm EDT I'm going to talk in more depth about GMing Daggerheart, based on my experience as one of the game's designers as well as being a pro GM and an actual play producer/GM. twitch.tv/turbotango