Anyone else have to contend with unhelpful prep buddies? This is Malone. She couldn't care less that this is my one unscheduled night. 🙄

I mean obviously. I just backed Apocalypse World: Burned Over on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” —Thomas Carlyle This week, I wrote about the tools that keep my games running and my ideas organized — and the secret to keeping them sharp! Good Monday, Gamer! open.substack.com/pub/playfear...

🚀 One Mo'gin The Apocalypse World 3rd Edition Kickstarter is on the horizon — but before it lands, I’m running one last campaign with Burned Over 2E. This is my farewell tour for AW:Burned Over 2E — a love letter to the game that changed how we gamed. open.substack.com/pub/playfear... #ttrpg

The Great Commission strives to tell the story of early Christian evangelists. I have complicated feelings on it. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/10/29/t...

Facilitation is invisible architecture. What a line! Also lays out, in my mind at least, the fact there are two parallel jobs when you run a game. I've been at a lot of tables where only one of them was getting done. Although I'll take a table with good facilitation and weak creativity every time.

Deciding how much I hate the assumptive sell quality of text like this. This is text from Free League's Coriolis: the Great Dark. And oh yes I do know what I'm getting into when I hitch my wagon to Free League's star! But also I far prefer running with my own material than anything published.

Hey check it out! 11 days to launch. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Big elaborate deep dives are unsustainable so I'm moving to a new review format. First on the chopping block is Free League's Coriolis: The Great Dark.

I have my spookiest games bundled up nice and warm for the season. So warm. So close, so comforting. So... wait, what's in here!? itch.io/s/161982/spo...

@newmadras.bsky.social 's latest newsletter is out. Even if he's wrong about my column he's always worth reading. 😉 ttrpg.in/2025/10/19/b...

🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️ Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.

The big box Kickstarter - The overly produced roleplaying game - The New Novelty - The horror - The history - The Glamour www.failforward.moe/2025/10/the-...

This week I’m thinking about branded games — the ones that carry big licenses and even bigger expectations. Ghost in the Shell and Invincible just dropped, and I’m wondering if they can break the curse of “safe” licensed RPGs. open.substack.com/pub/playfear...

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

Hello friends. Needed to get some ideas down and break this quarter-long dry spell at the Club. Empty whining? A manifesto? Maybe both.

I had started to quote post Paul's review/reflection a few days ago, but then ran out of space to fit all of my thoughts down on what he had said. Lucky I have a blog! Go read both.

Worth reading, don’t agree with everything here, of course, but it’s still an interesting perspective

Hello friends. Needed to get some ideas down and break this quarter-long dry spell at the Club. Empty whining? A manifesto? Maybe both.

This is a gorgeous production and one of my games of the year for 2024. If you haven't played yet or want to know more about how it all works, check out our deep dive: www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...

This was an absurdly fun read. Highest recommendation. Just a romp from start to finish.

If you see this, quote with an image from a game that released the year you were born.

Same, except for me it's RPGs that tap into '80s/'90s nostalgia and describe those eras in completely alien terms.

Subtly downgrade a band Like and Rockets

Today is my birthday! I treated myself to covid & flu vaccines this morning and now I'm doing high level edits on all the writing I've been doing all week. If you want to help me celebrate 46 years around the sun then please share the Ex Tenebris kickstarter!

For legal reasons, this is a joke.

We are live with Trench Crusade Backdrop Books! www.kickstarter.com/projects/han... @trenchcrusade.bsky.social #trenchcrusade

Only 70 hours left www.kickstarter.com/projects/los...

Technologically advance a band: Vantablack Sabbath

Today is the last day of the Tribes in the Dark #TTRPG Kickstarter. It's been quite a ride. As we work on getting the backer preview ready, here are some statistics: * Time spent in development, writing, and playtesting: 5 * 134k words * Different PCs used: 3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dp9...

I backed this straight away. Looks dope as hell.

The Golden Cobra Challenge 2025 is NOW LIVE! Get your gamesss in by October 13th! goldencobra.org

A timely classic when this particular discourse claws its way back out of the grave. Maybe next time we encase the discourse in concrete.

Ssssssseptember 8 SSSOON

Last time for this one. From me this week @flaminghydra.com: on a more nuanced version of nostalgia than the dominant (and tedious and corrosive) discourse which says nostalgia is either all correct or all wrong. flaminghydra.com/issue-394/#t...

Post a meme you made: (An older one but it checks out)

Cold City Hot War sees the return of two brilliant games from the early 2000s that share a system and a real depth of setting. Late pledges are open now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon... #ttrpgs

It's time for another Ex Tenebris writer announcement! I'm delighted to say @scorchadoom.bsky.social is writing for us. Sarah's work on Bluebeard's Bride painted a dark gothic Ex Ten-ish target on her. (I also really love Velvet Glove - under-rated game IMO!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Post a meme you made: (An older one but it checks out)

This One Coffee Hack.... I’m Coffee-Boxing this morning, because time boxing is for chumps. I am working on Lifted: Indomitable RPG. It’s SUPER late. #ttrpgs AMA —before my coffee runs out. (400g) www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...

Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

An easy back for me: I love climbing and I'm always interested in novel systems. Tarot is the X factor, either it'll land or it'll uh...fall. Back things you want to see in the world! Not everything has to be a preorder!

Ooh! First 3 3 #TTRPGbox sets I owned: 1. Traveller Big Black Box 2. Top Secret 3. Skyrealms of Jorune, probably.

Keep running into this "the answer isn't on your character sheet" business and stg the OSR (?) folks are gonna horseshoe theory themselves right into being larpers.

At 330 pages, the core book stretches the limit of PoD, both practically and cost-wise. It contains everything you need to play the Tribes in the Dark #TTRPG. The Companion will let us expand on that.

The Tribes in the Dark #TTRPG KS is funded! Thanks to everyone for helping make this dream come true. That's, of course, the beginning. We want to increase the amount of new art and have some additional plans, so stretch goals are on the way. So stay tuned. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dp9...

Tribe 8 is such a weird, interesting property. This FitD update is going to be really sharp. A nicely streamlined campaign too! Just a book. Is this doesn't get past US$20k I'll be so disappointed.