Exploit tools of tyranny to support your rebellions and invoke ancient rites to escape this megadungeon with your closest rivals! Chain×Link: A semi-cooperative dungeon-defying RPG Buy it now! glyphtide.games/chainxlink/

After a short hiatus, we’ve got a new newsletter! And new ones coming monthly. This one from @collinjryan.bsky.social storygameschicago.beehiiv.com/p/in-defense...

Head on over to our itch to check out @jessebmiller.bsky.social latest game!

If you missed us at Gamehole Con but wanna check out #VestaMandate our release sale will be running for two more days! Check it out along with all our other games, here on our Itch! storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate

17 - WARDEN #MÖRKTOBER #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG words by @radicaledward.bsky.social

Come say hi at our booth during our second day of Gamehole Con!

I spy, with my little eye, so many excellent games at the Imagining Games / @ipr.bsky.social booth at Gamehole Con! @mallenhall.com @pandiongames.com @exeunt.press @goblinmixtape.bsky.social @deepdark.games @montfordtales.com

If you had told me in 2021 this would have happened, I would have told you that you were out of your mind.

Come find us at Gamehole Con in the Demo Row!! We’re just to the right of Will Call in the main concourse!

Check out the cover spread! Chase did a fantastic job combining these two separate pieces into one slick wrap. #TTRPG #VestaMandate @storygameschicago.bsky.social 🤝

#VestaMandate is out now at the link below! If you backed the project, check your email for links to the PDFs. If you missed out on the Kickstarter, jump in on the sale we have going on for the first week! @tonytranrpg.bsky.social killed it one the art!! storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate

Making nine copies of my small and brutal cyberpunk game Cyphernoided2600 by hand. Hopefully they'll be ready in time for Game Hole Con. Check in with Storygames Chicago (@storygameschicago.bsky.social) at the con to see if I finished in time!

Another fantastic episode with some amazing ideas!

Check out the newest episode of Gamestorm with @clockquark9.bsky.social! This is probably the game that is furthest from a TTRPG so far and it was super fun to work on. Excited to see where it goes. gamestorm.podbean.com/e/repurposin...

Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.

Who is the Princess with the Cursed Sword? Whomever you decide. Back our upcoming crowdfunding campaign to get your copy of the bound edition of Princess with a Cursed Sword for your game library, which includes five solo journaling RPGs by designer Anna Anthropy. https://bit.ly/4mUdds6

Check out our newest episode of Gamestorm with @scenefour.bsky.social! We have a great time building a fun, campy game with lots of pools of dice!

Check out the accompanying game made alongside this newest Episode as well! storygameschicago.itch.io/playing-the-...

Another episode of Gamestorm is coming tomorrow, with @jessebmiller.bsky.social as a guest and lots of talk about Monopoly for some reason. If you haven't caught up check out the first episode here. gamestorm.podbean.com/e/a-game-for...

Generally speaking, let your game cost what it costs. I’ve rarely paid more than a game was worth. I’ve never needed a discount for a game I was excited about. Protect your title from folks who think it needs to cost less. Be generous with free copies for accessibility. Support creative teams

Check out the first season of Gamestorm, with episodes beginning their release today!

Take a look at our newest release if you haven’t had a chance yet!

Papercult, a forum started a few months ago by myself, @diceynova.bsky.social, and @fragrant.garden, is still going strong. Sign up now! Get back in there if you already signed up prior! papercult.club

It's been a long journey to get here but Im so proud. I owe it to all of you and your incredible support 😭❤️

Check out Diabolic Dialect now on Itch! A game about weird, frail wizards and freeform spellcasting! Take a look if you're into playing around with words and getting creative with our shared languages! storygameschicago.itch.io/diabolic-dia...

Occasionally, heists go according to plan. Most times, though, they end up a bit more like this. In Hit!, you play as a bunch of idiot space criminals trying to pull a Job. Shuffle up a deck of cards, think up a heist, and play it from start to finish — all in one hour, no prep required!

Out now on itch: my blackjack-powered space heist TTRPG zine, "Hit!" Become idiot space criminals and carry out the greatest heist this system has ever seen. honeycupgames.itch.io/hit

This has lead to some Spellbooks from playtesting with absolute masterpieces such as “Bones outside” - which was the first spell ever cast in this system. Other great ones - “Transform blood into painkillers”, “Crucify all wizards”, “Transform vomit into coffee” and “Pleasurable burns”.

I LOVE artifacts of play that remain after a TTRPG is done. A big element of my upcoming game Diabolic Dialect is casting Freeform spells. So as part of play I ask players to keep a ‘Spellbook’ of the spells they cast, with some variant rules that use this mechanically.

A sneak peak of the cover for my game Diabolic Dialect, releasing later this week! If you're a fan of indie #ttrpgs, wizards, wacky hijnks and one-shot games then follow along and check it out when it releases!

My newest game Diabolic Dialect - a game of wacky freeform spellcasting - is nearing completion! Here's a sneak peak of an illustration from @badbadtattoos.bsky.social! I'll be posting some more about it as it looks to release soon!

TA-DAAAAAA Say hello to 'Weird, Whimsy & Wonder' A toolkit designed to elevate your mundane encounters, NPCs, locations, creatures and more into unforgettable moments. How so? 2/9

Check out our newest newsletter post about reciprocal creation and creating art! open.substack.com/pub/storygam...

I need a term (new or existing) that means: This character ability/option/feat doesn't enable the character to actually do anything new or do anything better; instead, it just describes an action that the player would have assumed they could do anyway, in the absence of the existence of the ability.

The alpha playtest of Pantheon is now available! With modular scenarios inspired by @jdragsky.bsky.social 's Yazeba's B&B, rich modular character creation inspired by @felixisaacs.bsky.social 's Wildsea, and ofc a whirling @johnharper.bsky.social gameplay loop. tedbushman.itch.io/pantheon-a-g...

The cat is out of the bag!!! I'll be working with @mythworks.bsky.social and @cabinetofcuriosities.games to bring you some more official CBR+PNK content!!

Check out our newest post on our substack from @jessebmiller.bsky.social about how games - at their core - are a conversation!

Getting close to my game Diabolic Dialect - a game about wizards, open ended magic, and words - hitting a release ready state! I’m prioritizing a printer friendly B&W pdf so that people can print everything off at home. Can’t wait to show more soon!

Independent media like Rascal and Board Game Wire are SO important during these stupid, stupid times. I am glad we have dedicated journalists doing the work and spreading the word about how detrimental ANY amount of tariffs are to the industry.

one of my favorite things in the world is that six sided gaming dice have remained in use and almost entirely unchanged for millennia -- right down to the pip placement.

fiiiiinally got on here... Kicking it off with a bang with my writeup for the Storygames Chicago newsletter! open.substack.com/pub/storygam...

We’ve got another brilliant blogpost! This time from @collinjryan.bsky.social about Pasión de las Pasiones and moves with Questions! Check it out here. open.substack.com/pub/storygam...

missing #Andor already? want an incredible piece of media about burdened space rebels in tense factional conflict nevertheless meeting their inevitable & important sacrificial end with conviction? also, do you think the way Star Wars handles droid rights sucks? 2 weeks to THE perfect AP for you!

I just launched three very cool Cloud Empress zines on Backerkit. Learn the etiquette of bodyhopping and confront deadly assassins from the Legion of the Dead in Stories From the Slip. Pledge today! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

We did it! 🥳 I'll start doing some mechanics breakdowns and class overviews tomorrow, to give you a taste of Dragon Slayers. And perhaps that quick start too! You can still join our adventuring party by clicking the button: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

ANNOUNCING: the 2nd annual unofficial 5/5 @itch.io rating day! today on 5/5, take 5 minutes to login & give 5 ⭐ to your fav indie TTRPGs & other games on itch.io! star ratings give a HUGE algorithm boost! you can skip entering text, only creators see it! support your fav creators! #itchioRatingDay

A brand new newsletter article by @jessebmiller.bsky.social out now on our Substack!! Check it out now right here! open.substack.com/pub/storygam...

The QuickStart for Vesta Mandate is live on Itch right now! Download it for free and become the Council on Vesta with all the content you need to sit down and run a one-shot with your friends! storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandat...

SECRET OF THE NIGHT MARKET, my Perils & Princesses adventure zine, is crowdfunding next month! It would mean a ton to me if you saved the project! www.kickstarter.com/projects/out...

From sickness and the silent hill fog has lifted. Returning to the regular schedule. But first, good mate @tremorpings.itch.io is running a KS for BLOC MASS! Give it a little follow, a boost and if it's something you dig - have at it with a few $$. TY for the 👁️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/tre...