It's the Wyrm's turn now, folks.

I got a chance to sit down with one of my favorite writers in the #ttrpg space. Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social and I discuss his writing process and how he writes horror while not being a big fan of the genre. Another great guest! open.spotify.com/show/1VzDWEW...

If you want to share safe paths through your city or neighborhood with your neighbors, Route Scouts is an obfuscated map-making system whose routes can be shared visually, shorthand, and via a coordinate system. As a bonus, it teaches ciphers and code-making. pandiongames.itch.io/route-scouts

A reminder that anyone interested in games theory and practice absolutely owes it to themselves to follow Sidney.

The first governor to find a way to eject ICE from their state is going to be the next president. The congressional candidates who show up on the front lines with the protestors are more likely to win. That shit is scary, (more scary for ordinary folks!) but you'd think ambition would drive action.

It's been a bit! NULL_SPACE is coming out in 🚨 three weeks 🚨 so let's get into how one of the core interesting mechanical ideas, Complex Challenges, works. 🧵

In addition to the info below, a reminder that there's a MIWHT print shop and if there's something you want in there (that isn't based on some other IP) just ask... www.inprnt.com/collections/...

BOUNDLESS SPACE: Passengers, Queen of Spades Next up for the passengers is Tjikko ap Toliman, an elderly doctor who came to Eridani from the spacer clans of Centauri. Now with the Jumpgate destroyed, she wanders the spacelanes, looking for her lost granddaughter.

A first play report of Boundless Space, live and in the wild! I don't have Shawn's gift of gab, but FWIW, my last playtest group got through the same run with a spoofed transponder, fast talk, and hacking the eyes of the 4X inspector. Lot of ways to make a living in the Belt.

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BOUNDLESS SPACE: Now with the playtest out and being refined. It's time to add the 12 passengers. In Boundless Space, you trade goods around the Eridani Belt using a deck of playing cards for the cargo. The 12 face cards are individuals looking to get somewhere. This is Anão, the stowaway.

Good news, the Dungeon Year Journal is back in stock! Grab a copy today to start your #Dungeon26 journey: pandiongames.com/products/dun...

Come on, give this post some likes so that we get Shawn to deliver unto us some authentic Far-Frontier gibberish!

This one is pushing all of the right buttons for me: Attack, Magic, Flee, Item. All of them!

BOUNDLESS SPACE: A big thank you to all of you for downloading the playtest, and the early feedback! We'll expand a bit on the "life in the belt" section of the eventual book. Talking a bit on what the inhabitants of the Reef, eat, sing and play. What does street food look like in low/zero-g?

Woke up this morning to a friend letting me know that my game MERGER was on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social with the incredible @jeffstormer.gobirds.online and fucking @johnrogers.bsky.social who wrote one of my favourite films, THE CORE?!?!?!?! I'M CRYING!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

Monday

More art and RPGs soon, but for today, we're hosting a passenger of little girls on a sleepover, and I'm making crepes with strawberries and "chocolate caviar."

It's 2028 and the Regent Vance (all hail the corpse king Trump) has deployed my unit of conscripts to Greenland to replace those Navy Seals who fell into a crevasse. Maximum Warlord Hegseth just stumbled out of his helicopter demanding penguin meat for dinner and I don't even know where to start.

Reupping this for the weekend crowd, a big thank you to the hundreds of you who have already downloaded this playtest! I hope you like this little taste of our space game, because there's a lot more coming. I'll be adding passengers, printer friendly sheets, and maybe even another location soon!

Folks, the Nightsong universe is growing, tunneling and swarming ever larger.

BOUNDLESS SPACE: Last image for the playtest, a little cover doodle to help set the mood. On that note, this is a TTRPG with guns and fighting, sure, but that's there primarily to add that element of danger. What I hope to draw the players towards is the community building and the sense of wonder.

Some dudes I designed for Aether Nexus.

A piece for "Hope Springs Eternal" of a clank removing their compliance cog. I've always liked the scenes in movies where the character has to remove the bullet from their own chest, and appreciate Eric giving me a chance to draw one of those!

BOUNDLESS SPACE: The playtest is mostly art and text complete, just having a few trusted friends give it a once over before I share with all of you. Then, if you like it, we'll be crowdfunding sometime this year! I was on a big hard sci-fi kick for this, hope you enjoy it when we get there.

NEW Talk of the Table tomorrow! The first of the new year! A lot of great practical takeaways for folks building TTRPG businesses in this one with @pandiongames.com

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Last of my Kala Mandala adventurer team illustrations. Welcoming 2026 with the tenacity displayed by this party!

BOUNDLESS SPACE: Twenty Mules, semi-secret shipyard, home of the Fabernacle, the Crash Bar, and the Ma'Dieu family's exchange. Right in the heart of the Eridani Belt, this is where the game begins.

From Hell (Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, 1989)

SOLARCRAWL: With Boundless Space text-complete, I am back on Solarcrawl, @willjobst.bsky.social, having returned the edits. I feel bad for Will, given my writing tics, that they have to delete the word "will" several dozen times in any of my writings.

The Facility! So happy that that weird fever dream from the pandemic is still out there doing the dark science. Give Craig a gander, if you have the chance!

Home from holiday traveling to a stellar mail call. Merry Christmas to me and my players.

In a few minutes you will be able to watch the premiere of the interview I did with Andy Boyd from @pandiongames.com a few months ago It was a marvelous talk in which we get to learn about his beginnings in the industry and dive deep into #MidnightMuscadines' mechanics youtu.be/GUR4mOoH7nA?...

Silliest commission I ever ran. Love it.

Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?

Not much in the way of posts for you all over the holidays, sorry. My kid is a December birthday, and the whole month is one long smear of presents and family.

I'm getting really excited to work on the DUSK remake over the next week. Art by @nightjargames.bsky.social

A thread on Sword Opera: 1/

Loom is good stuff!

My goodness, I'd forgotten about Zeb and his poor, overworked life support fans. I'm going to have to add colors to this while I'm working the space-seam, hey?

I haven't even got around to making a website! Too busy drawing the game.

For all the fans of Nigthsong, this may be of interest to you as it takes place in the same setting.

30 hours left for Apocalypse World: Burned Over on @kickstarter.com. Would love to see it hit 200k! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

BOUNDLESS SPACE: Linework for the Nereids, or Ice Nomads today. Splitting off early on from the original colonists of Eridani, this tightly knit group of matriarchies has been living on the drift ever since, following the Nereid comet cloud and making a living off of that precious source of water.

A bit of writing on a board game from the Nightsong world! You folks are all, collectively, the best. Ask and you shall receive.

Love Slugblaster? Wanna contribute to the inaugural issue of SCRAM CAT MAGAZINE, a Slugblaster fan zine? You have two weeks to send a pitch! Pitch and info here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Another Santa to help push Hope Springs Eternal over the funding goal... we're at 98%!!!

Making maps. Maps of space.