Off to local con Kapcon tomorrow. Looking forward to some Glorious playtests, trying new games, and catching up with my con friends. #rpg #ttrpg #kapcon #KiwiRPG

So i want to write a worldbuilding game about being an ethnographer in a dungeon full of undead. As a way of fleshing out the history of a place and also maybe an extant culture of undead

LGS finally got these in for me. Let the hunt begin! #ttrpg #ttrpgsky #rpg @evilhat.bsky.social @chrishanrahan.bsky.social @michaelsands.bsky.social @deadlyfredly.bsky.social #MonsteroftheWeek #MotW

This makes me very, very happy. I've spent a happy few days reading it, tweaking it and remembering how good it is. Yes it's been that long.

Generic Games new year update may be read over here: genericgames.co.nz/update/2026/...

It is not a golden age because forge/story games ideas have become more successful. It is a golden age because people around the world are making new games, and to them all that stuff is just one more input among many.

This feels like a good time to reshare my history of indie RPGs from 2003-2010. www.patreon.com/collection/2...

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

And many of those materials are available in Polish for free, too - we have the core rulebook, but not the entire product line. The Polish file, a group effort by four translators and a few helpers, is here: tablefliprpg.itch.io/tumaczenie-r...

The RPG community keeps surprising me in good ways. For example, Jan aka Hal325 keeps expanding the free German translation of all free Monster of the Week stuff, and the file is 399 pages long by now O_O drive.google.com/file/d/1ccZ9...

Monsters are real. You hunt them. 😎 Monster of the Week is an action-horror TTRPG by @evilhat.bsky.social about investigating supernatural threats. Claim the FREE Starter Mystery and get ready-to-play hunters, Mystery pages, tokens, and quickstart rules! Start your hunt 👉 buff.ly/WimPTxq

Roleplaying games I played in 2025. * Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast * Deathmatch Island * Glorious (playtest) * Xenogate Expedition 13 (playtest) * The Zone * The Great Soul Train Robbery * DIE * Mythic Bastionland * Blade Runner * Stewpot * Monster of the Week * Kill Your Grandad (part 1)

Today I received the coolest TTRPG package ever - Physical copies of my very own game, Fight or Fright! Seeing my game in physical copy was an indescribable feeling. Thanks to the team at @plusoneexp.bsky.social for making this kid's dream a reality! Go join the RPG Zine Club!

Monster of the Week Christmas one-shot actual play! 🎄 We're just regular suburban people who do regular Christmas things during regular holidays... Join us for the live stream this Sunday 14th from 5pm EST / 2pm PST (Monday 15th: 11am NZDT) on twitch.tv/seroRPG

2025 marks our 20th year in business! In that time we've made a ton of games -- this isn't all of them by a long shot! We're deeply grateful to all the fans who've supported us. To celebrate, save 20% off every single thing in our webstore, now through December 12th. evilhat.com/roleplaying-...

Last day to pick these up on sale!

After a pause, we are once again accepting pitches for games. If you've designed a TTRPG (especially one built on PbtA, Forged in the Dark, or Fate) that's near-complete, you can find details about how to pitch us (and the services we provide) here: evilhat.com/game-submiss...

More charity streams coming at ya! Tomorrow Memester will be streaming Dredge on Twitch.

Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift. If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below. 🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟

Blades '68! It's all go! Here are some chapter openers I've been working on.

It's the perfect time to get the Monster of the Week books. Don't forget the Codex of Worlds: Apocrypha, it includes a mystery I wrote! The Dreaming Army marches inevitably forward, their ranks swelling each night. Stop them before they engulf the Soaring City of Hermessia!

As the year winds down we want to take a moment. 2025 marks our twentieth year in business. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to our little company with their time, money, or talent. Thank you! To celebrate, we've put our whole catalog on sale. evilhat.com/roleplaying-...

Today kicks off a fundraiser for @feedingamerica.org with #PodcastersFightHunger. 47 million people face hunger and a simple dollar can be turned into ten meals. I’m playing Jackbox Games with some of my friends at 7pm CST on @monstersplaybook.bsky.social’s Twitch channel. #TwitchTogetherforGood

Reposting because it’s fairly rare that I blog these days, so of course when I do it’s late Sunday evening. I’m pretty happy with this as a starting point of something, but there’s a lot more to extract.

If you're at #PAXU this weekend, you'll find all of our latest titles and bestsellers @ipr.bsky.social Booth 3701! Plus: When you buy one of our games from IPR, they'll send you the PDF for free. And they stock a whole selection of up-and-coming indie titles. You won't walk away empty-handed.

The King of Snakes announced earlier today that pledge management surveys begin this week, and that pre-orders are now open for #ZhenyasWonderTalesRPG! #TTRPGs #RPGs bpglink.com/zhenyas-preo...

Come visit Doskvol, the jewel of Akoros, in '68. Home of the original bluetime (first and best). Crime rates are better than before*

Hi friends! I am now booking editing and proofreading projects starting in January 2026 and beyond. You might have seen my name listed on the credits page of over 50 tabletop games, including...

The preorder for my next ONE RING rpg supplement, HANDS OF THE WHITE WIZARD, is up! freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...

And away we go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Most of the games we've published in the last 10 years (ie Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Blades in the Dark) either use the Powered by the Apocalypse engine or are hugely influenced by it. Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers. Strongly recommend you check it out:

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

A silly one-page solo rpg about being a wheelie bin blown away on adventures that spawned out of a #kiwirpg discord thread. Free/PWYW so why not check it out. kellymakesgames.itch.io/bin-voyage #ttrpg #solorpg

We've release Flock to Me! Thank you to our Kickstarter backers who have made this project possible! You can now pick up this MotW/Strange Squad mystery on itch or DTRPG, just in time for Halloween! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... kellymakesgames.itch.io/flock-to-me #ttrpg #kiwirpg #horror

Power up your Monster of the Week game with the one-two punch of The Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit. More Hunter playbooks, Team playbooks, Weird moves and new ways to put your character in the bright spotlight of that crusty, pulsing tome. Available now: evilhat.com/product/slay...

10 years ago 6 foster kids were pulled out of the wreckage of a house in Sayer, MA after surviving countless tragedies. Now Korea waits for them...and the end of their story. Join us at 8PM EST for THE SAYER HOUSE SIX—a haunted miniseries featuring Monster of the Week by @evilhat.bsky.social!

Fight or Fright is out now, and you can read all about the game coming to print with @plusoneexp.bsky.social in the @rascal.news announcement section! 👻🎃 www.rascal.news/fight-or-fri...

My Napoleonic naval adventure game Glorious is now available for playtesting. Drop me a DM with your email if you'd like access to it. #KiwiRPG #TTRPG #RPG #Playtest

My copy of the biggest creative project of my life just arrived and even my dog is impressed!* FiveEvil: Fiendish 5E Horror, designed and written by me, made gorgeous and wonderful by my good friends at Handiwork Games. It’s real!! *not really she just knows it’s time for a walk

My Napoleonic naval adventure game Glorious is now available for playtesting. Drop me a DM with your email if you'd like access to it. #KiwiRPG #TTRPG #RPG #Playtest

Once again, Fred brings you a look at our financials.

Contemplating how the most influential award show for Evil Hat was the Indie RPG Awards held in the early 00s, before Evil Hat existed as a company. @rdonoghue.bsky.social and I won one for an earlier incarnation of Fate, “best free game”. It was a narrower population that knew about it, but enough…

We’ve officially launched! Canadian Creators United is live with our new digital hub: www.ccuttrpg.ca: your window for everything CCU! TTRPG creators and fans can come to connect, share, and celebrate Canadian stories. Come explore and join the adventure!

It's the State of the Hat for September! Our own Sean Nittner updates you with all the latest on Designers & Dragons: Origins, Streets of Jade, Deep Cuts, Blades '68, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P43t...

Today we are proud to announce our next crowdfunding campaign. Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social examines the roots, artwork, and lore behind each and every product released by TSR for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D with his latest effort, Designers & Dragons: Origins. 1/3

Fight or Fright has a new character sheet for the @plusoneexp.bsky.social print edition, so how do you make a character?? Fight or Fright is coming to Zine Club in October, and I can't wait to share more with you very soon! This Halloween One-Shot RPG is all about trick-or-treating 🍬🎃

Off to Convergence RPG con in Hamilton tomorrow. Come say hello if you’re there!
I will be running a couple of games of Glorious if you want a trip back to 1809. convergence.waikatorpg.co.nz