game UIs got bad when they stopped having orbs and gargoyles

The magnetic man welcomes forces that others dread, because he can extract a precious power therefrom” publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-...

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sounds good

I did a TEETH newsletter. We talk about a campaign from last year, run by our own @rotational.co.uk and some other stuff. Read!

FORTUNE DARK is a FREE rules-lite TTRPG system for desperate adventures in service of your covetous god -- freshly updated with tweaked rules and a new layout rotational.co.uk/2026/03/fort...

i don't think i realised how much i was missing this style of writing. something which is both very serious and thoughtful, engaging with the complexities of the subject and the contingent nature of any actual gaming experience... and also absolutely trying to fit a joke into any spare corner.

So happy my friends have gotten back on the old horse* *simultaneously dumb/silly/serious writings about PC games

We're launching a website. Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers. jank.cool If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.

Q: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron? A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.

Went to Deathmatch Island over the holiday. Played to (nearly) win

Went for a walk rotational.co.uk/photos/new-y...

I've been running Night's Black Agents for my regular RPG chums, and — HYPER-NICHE-BULLSHIT TIME! — we're using QuickShock rules because we're PbtA narrative sickos who couldn't take NBA's dose of good old-fashioned combat crunch. Here's how I hastily adapted it! rotational.co.uk/2025/10/conv...

TEN++ is a big thank you to everyone who has played the game and supported us over the years -- you rock! Check out this amazing video community member abho made for us to help celebrate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gs...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk... Boards of Canada's Olson played thru a 1959 DEC PDP-1 via Lightbulb pulses at the Computer History Museum. Mountain View, California. Hosted on Joe Lynch's YT chan <3 603 bytes of music code on punchpaper :) #chiptune

Was before your tenure, right, @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social? But do you know who wrote this delight?

I wrote this over the weekend, and was a lot of fun writing something about reading something that's a lot of fun.

Innocent

Right you lot. Get WYRD SCIENCE Issue 7 ordered: shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr... I am in it talking CAVES OF QUD. I will take it as a personal favour if you pick this up. But don't do it for me, do it for the health of #TTRPG generally, because this is the magazine we all deserve.

I don't make a lot of predictions, but I feel pretty ok saying that this kind of thing will not work. I wrote about something similar three years ago or so: www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i... It also fails the 'comfort' check I mention in the blog - people don't want to do work to watch tv.

I spent the last month driving (sailing?) myself mad drawing these diagrams. But they're finally done! Phew! Thank god I'll never have to draw another ship again. What's that, Jim? We accidentally wrote an entire book about ships? FUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUuuuu

Roddy and Athena

Tactical Breach Wizards is a year old today! To celebrate, we're rewinding the whole last year to see if it can be done better or if it's just a bullshit level. In the meantime, we're 25% off til Monday! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

Incredible quote from Team Cherry. Can't believe they make games like this

shaders were a mistake. let's go back to handpainted textures for everything

From the individual to the national scale, the long term winners will be the ones who avoid all this like the plague and retain the ability to think, question, research, learn and remember

Sunday morning 2 minute video essay about taking a break. Enjoy! youtu.be/GEICXWcnhQk?...

This includes a contribution from one of the gaming world's better-known Jim Rossignols. Worth picking up for that alone.

Deep breath. ✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨ 🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/ 🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/ 🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic. Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on. Big day. More to come... 🔮

Final in-house test of Gold Teeth this evening. Locks were picked with remote controlled crabs, murder-apes boarded a zoo ship by leaping from nearby jungle, and a newly awakened sea-god dragged the British flagship to a watery grave.

I just released a single-page RPG called BOARD OF MAMMON, in which you get to be a demonic exec competing for Mammon's favour in corporate board meetings! It's free, also fun. rotational.co.uk/rpg/2025-08-...

I wrote a TTRPG called BOARD OF MAMMON. - Exercise demonic corporate greed for Mammon's favour! - You don't need a GM! It's for one-shot sessions! - The rules fit on a single sheet of paper! - Someone gets to be CEO and you can vote them out! - It's totally FREE! rotational.co.uk/rpg/2025-08-...

I wrote a TTRPG called BOARD OF MAMMON. - Exercise demonic corporate greed for Mammon's favour! - You don't need a GM! It's for one-shot sessions! - The rules fit on a single sheet of paper! - Someone gets to be CEO and you can vote them out! - It's totally FREE! rotational.co.uk/rpg/2025-08-...

Stealing a cow #ASCIIart #animation

when you ask for feedback and get feedback but what you really wanted was encouragement

Behold, Fortune Dark, my simple TTRPG system in which desperate acolytes of bad gods attempt to deal with their luck running out rotational.itch.io/fortune-dark

I've been waiting three years to post this. Mindset is a new type of puzzle, a mix of observation and logic. Think Sudoku, Picross, Connections and... none of those. It's new. The first videogame version is called Mindset Go!. It's out soon on iOS and Android. I really hope you like it. 🟨🔺🔵

Here’s to @grahamsmith.bsky.social, signing off from RPS after 20 years in game journalism with the wisest thoughts about games media you’ll read www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...

Gorgeous video. Stick around for how it was made www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zBb...

Voting ends on Sunday! Winning would be nice, but mostly I just want more people to play (or at least read) our game. It's free! You can wall up an entire choir in a mad abbot's chapel! Convert wolves to Christianity! Out-smart the troublingly sexy Green Knight!

Triangle Agency is up for four ENnies: Best Game Product of the Year Best Rules Best Writing We'd really appreciate your vote at the link below! It's a super competitive year with tons of great submissions, so at the very least we hope you'll rank us highly. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/

Thy knoweth what thy shalt do

I wrote a light TTRPG system called FORTUNE DARK. Players are cultists for a capricious god which has granted a collective pool of questionable luck. Here's an (overlong, sorry!) thread about its design. But first, grab it here (free!): rotational.co.uk/2025/07/fort...

I wrote a light TTRPG system called FORTUNE DARK. Players are cultists for a capricious god which has granted a collective pool of questionable luck. Here's an (overlong, sorry!) thread about its design. But first, grab it here (free!): rotational.co.uk/2025/07/fort...

I've made a light TTRPG ruleset for running dark and desperate adventures called FORTUNE DARK. You are cultists striving to claim tribute for your god. It granted you a pool of fortune dice which will dwindle and become cursed as you play. Grab it for free here! www.rotational.co.uk/2025/07/fort...

I've made a light TTRPG ruleset for running dark and desperate adventures called FORTUNE DARK. You are cultists striving to claim tribute for your god. It granted you a pool of fortune dice which will dwindle and become cursed as you play. Grab it for free here! www.rotational.co.uk/2025/07/fort...

@shanemarble.bsky.social Hello! I was inspired by your excellent Occultation to make my own hack, and wondered if you'd take a look?

With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

the best kind of full-circle moment

Heinrich Kemmler says asking villagers for corpse permission would ‘kill’ the necromancy industry