Game Designers, Games on Demand and groups like us are your friends. We help people play your games, and then they have a great time. They go and buy your game and play it for others. Do you have art in your game? Put one of those pieces on your website. Please. I need it. It helps me.

The next Veiled City playtest has begun. Please come give this browser game a try and let me know what you think! Use your team of assets to lead the Saucer People, Neo Discordians, Invisible Hand, Mothman Saves! or Servitors of the Sleeping Ones to victory and rule the world. veiledcity.com.

The most important rules text of a TTRPG is often “this is a role playing game”.

@megueyb.bsky.social joined us in Auburn last week and she and Rae had yet another splendid design conversation.

Make A Scene is looking for fresh new parlor larps. They will give you $300 and help you tune up your game and then run it multiple times. They premiere first-time designers every year! It's a great festival and the sort of thing I'd love to see more of. makeascenemn.org/en/call-for-...

hear me out: Autumn Olympics (centered on sedate indoor sports: darts, bowling, chess, pool/snooker/billiards) Spring Olympics (centered on children's playground sports: hopscotch, tag, dodgeball, four square, jumprope)

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

If you are an academic interested in using our games for teaching and learning, know that we love to see it! Case in point, Willian Amboni Scheffer. a Professor at UNIGUAÇU in São Miguel do Iguaçu, has written a paper on his use of #FiascoRPG as part of the contract law curriculum.

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

#TTRPG Designers, players, & related nerds: @ttrpgcataloging.bsky.social is a group of Library & Information Science MA students are working on a research project focused on improving cataloging for TTRPGs — unbelievably important work! They’re seeking participants for interviews.

Jim Wampler announced this morning that we lost Tim Kask, who passed in his sleep on the 30th. Tim was the creator of The Dragon, which set the foundation for what an industry-focused magazine should be. He was an icon and one of the few early founders of TSR still with us.

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.

Feeling discontent with civilization? Fear not, it's just about time to celebrate more work ascending into the public domain! We'll see you on the sunny side of the street in January! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

If you are interested in playtesting my browser game, The Veiled City, you can join the Discord here. I plan to launch a week long beta for the current state tomorrow at noon central: discord.gg/CKUZ7KHA

Our December issue is now available! Postcards from the 2025 BIPOC Game Studies Conference Getting in Good Troubles with Mancala — Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Joseph M. Bayeck, and Olu Randle Defining the Miniatures Wargame: Five Pillars — Ian Williams Check it out: analoggamestudies.org

I really enjoyed this blog post, "You're probably using the wrong dictionary" by James Somers. A fascinating perspective on language and how we relate to it, as individuals and as a culture. #writing #language jsomers.net/blog/diction...

I wrote an essay on the basics of platforms and indie TTRPGs for this volume, which will come out in 2026 mcfarlandbooks.com/product/Play...

"Gaming Like It's 1930" is coming this January: itch.io/jam/gaming-l... Come join us for our annual public domain game jam, celebrating new works that are entering the commons

In January, I will be running an event that is going to be a storytelling game that uses an art gallery (and the art therein) to tell a story. Building the game for this right now on the train! If you are locali-ish to me at all, please stay tuned! I will post sign-ups soon.

Shout out to The Warren, great game - and literally just looking at this solved a problem I'm having with the game I'm working on right now

Zork now has an open source license, so someone can finally fix all the cases where the game describes a thing but the parser doesn’t recognize what the player means when you use the same description right back: opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

The "How to run a tabletop game design workshop at your library" webinar recording is now online thanks to the Indiana State Library! Get some specific tips on how to make your next program a success. Link below. ⬇️🎲⬇️ #boardgames #libraries #ttrpg #gamedesign

This fall I took on a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while – I have made a colouring book based on my playmap The Tower of the Forest Wizard! Grab yourself a print-at-home version here: sorcererscatalogue.itch.io/the-tower-of...

Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia: (Thread)

Coverage of a panel I presented on a couple years ago with @alagamert.bsky.social @runtzel.bsky.social @dcostello.bsky.social

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

We’re stoked to bring this project back and cant wait to share it with y’all 🍃 #ttrpg #ttrpgs #thequietyear #CapCut

Ok, @lumpley.bsky.social & I have been very up-front over the years on our sales data & etc, so here's a thing, & thanks Will, for bringing it up. Starting a career in #ttrpgs means making games. it means writing in a goggle doc or notebook, trying mechanics with a friend, finding 3 folks to play.

One week till launch!

For sure some of you freaks wanna join the 1000 person play-by-Discord Mothership megagame

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share! Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available! Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games. #StayAnalog analoggamestudies.org

Here's a thread on how to win a Golden Cobra. I've won it twice and judged it once, not that that's any guarantee. (Golden Cobra is a larp competition, which launched today, and you should totally enter). 🧵

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

Read this and at the bottom, you will find a link. Clicking it will get you in for the ride. Wanna come along? #ttrpg #PBTA #AWBurned #ApocalypseWorld www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/09/apoc...

Ssssssseptember 8 SSSOON

We offer a 25% discount to libraries, schools and universities on 600+ games from 230+ publishers, and free shipping for orders over $200 in the US lower-48 states. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Librar...

Looking for an expert to talk about larp, ttrpgs, roleplaying, bleed and transformation? Are you wondering about bleed and social dynamics? How to use creation and play as a mitigator for trauma? I'm taking Fall bookings now, so let's talk about it. www.jonayakemper.com/contact-me/

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

Indie Games on Demand is alive and well at #GenCon. Want to play an interesting #TTRPG? No need to plan, just show up at Westin Grand Ballroom 3 with a generic ticket and join our boarding process. Also visit our friends: @ipr.bsky.social @pelgranepress.bsky.social @igdn-official.bsky.social

This is a huge deal: With help from the archivists at Dartmouth, Kevin has documented the first ever artillery-style game. So early that the graphics were printed on graph paper instead of a digital display. This is video game prehistory

Earlier this month I did an AMA facilitated by @stickydoodler.bsky.social with indie TTRPG designers who want to learn about how some libraries with TTRPG collections collect and process indie titles. This is a thread with notes and photos of the games in the collection at my academic library. 1/▶️

It's Traveller day! 48 years old today!

Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years! It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship. #GenerationAnalog2025 #StayAnalog www.youtube.com/@analoggames...

is asynchronous text based forum roleplaying still alive and well or is it too cringe for the zillenials?? is this relegated to those of us 25+? are there no youths dedicated to the longevity of the art????

I painted this for Eppy's magazine Worlds Without Master, when the brief was "what sword and sorcery means to you" - to me, I decided the genre meant audacious everyday(ish) people living by their wits in a world of strange power struggles.

The annual one page rpg jam just launched, think I’ll take a stab at something this year because this tends to be a lot of fun and help dislodge some ideas stuck in my head. I hope you consider doing something low pressure and fun! itch.io/jam/one-page... #1pRPGjam

We're at it again! @colewehrle.bsky.social @nbsp1618.bsky.social and I are running the absolutely wild John Company RPG during Gen Con. This time, we'll play The Company Archives as a 25+ player mega game with an 8 ft board and model ships?! It'll be something ➡️ www.gencon.com/events/277585

It would be such a missed opportunity to not talk about the journaling game zines I've published on this platform where you actually see the posts by people you follow. The Ink That Bleeds is about immersion and bleed and self care and...

Four lessons I've learned making #ttrpgs: 1. Never spend more than two years honing/developing a game if the play experience doesn't feel fun in the ways you want it to be in the first two iterations. It's extremely unlikely you'll manage to make it fun how you want to if it's not early on.