Hades II has given me far too many dungeon and monster ideas to throw in the games I run for kids...

PCRF aid Bundle coming soon! itch.io/blog/1060997...

"you gotta honor the freaky little light in your heart" - BLM

This was a lovely read and I'm super grateful I got to narrate!

My audiobook got approved!! Available on Audible, and eventually Apple Books. Thank you Nick Plaisance from @ddungeondiving.bsky.social for putting in all the hard work. It sounds so good, like storytime near a fireplace. #audiobook #cacophonyofcrowns #authorsofbluesky 💙📚🪐

Cars 2 is a bit of a fever dream, but Cars and Cars 3 may tell the best racing story in cinema second only to Rush

Today's Run Song: "Jim's Ride" by Bruce Rowland, The Man from Snowy River The song that ignited my lifelong love of orchestral music and had me ugly crying at the end of a 10k today. Original poem by Banjo Paterson, beautiful, powerful, lasting.

This was an incredibly fun and wild and heavy game to play test. Y'all...it's SO GOOD! GO GET IT!

Your world has ended. You’ll still rule it. Ivory Tower’s a Sparked by the Resistance TTRPG made by me! Play archmages vying for sole control of their flying city as the world ends around them. As of today, all 200 pages of it are available for download on Itch! riftkidgames.itch.io/ivory-tower

I have a toddler, which means I've finally watched Cars. The destruction of the American township by interstate? Check The emptiness and isolation of fame? Check The corruption of hobbyism by capitalist competition? Check The revival of community by mutual aid? Check Cars has it.

Saw Superman. Family in front had a fiveish year old fully decked out in Superman shirt, hat, Justice League blanket, and Superman action figure. When the music swelled, and Superman flew, that kid raised his toy up and flew too. Peak movie going experience.

Sometimes, I waver a bit at my TTRPGS for kids business. But then, I'll realize I've had this one kid for two years, all he ever does is cast fireball and reluctantly expand on ideas, but his mom says dnd with me and his party is one of his favorite things. And, I know there's somethin there.

One of my players (teen) gave us a beautiful moment. I wanted an RP moment to explain how his Echo Knight first manifests his Echo upon lvl up. So, as he's asleep, he's dreaming, and his wife (yep) wakes up and finds this echo of him, sleep/dream walking in the kitchen, cooking food with his dad.

Players: "What was the name of the again?" Me: "Sargeant Kirkland" Players: "Right, and his horse?" Me: "Hotdog" Players: "Haha! Wait...where were we staying?" Me: "...Hole's Ale tavern..." Players: "Name of the town" Me :"...." Players: "Say it" Me: "Ostkompia-" Players: "How dare you"

Starting the day with a healthy, balanced bre- I put a fistful of Cheerios into my coffee, what do you want from me?

Not one of my DND kids flawlessly explaining how a "rug pull" scheme works, while the characters are having it out with a noble who's implicated in a smuggling ring. Zoomers are done with this crap.

Indonesian troops stand accused of widespread killings, mutilations, and kidnappings in #WestPapua’s central highlands. Yet the indigenous population has struggled to draw international attention to the atrocities in the region. Read: jacobin.com/2025/06/west...

Listening to a @yourewrongabout.bsky.social about the fake **tler diaries, and I had the stunning and painfully obvious realization of why Luthen's "antiques" shop is such a brilliant cover and commentary in Andor.

one of the worst people in human history. a Pol Pot level of monster www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

The announcement that as part of the Netflix deal Sesame Street will simultaneously stream on PBS for free elicited and "oh!" and reduced me to tears, in case anyone was wondering

Running ttrpgs for kids has given me so many opportunities to play villains terrified of catharsis. Villains who are stuck in the open-nerve stage, the trauma stage, the guilt stage. Then, to come out the other side. Because without fail, that's what these kids want. The kids want healing.

Me, Teens in Space GM: "Ship is rolling, one pirate diving past you toward pilot's chair with weapon out. As a floating, plasmoidy being, Jellibelle, you are the only gyroscopically stable person. Wdyd?" Jellibelle's player (teen) : "...I pull out a knife" Me: "From where!?" J: "My body. Knife."

hey if you've never played with or in a game run by @thenoirenigma.bsky.social you need to find a way to manipulate the fates cause even just a one-shot was so much fun!

Not me brought to tears by every Planet Earth III episode, Attenborough knowing his time his short and professing, of all people, that he hasn't done enough to bring folks to the wonders of the world.

"Don't kill the part of you that's 'cringe', kill the part of you that cringes" - Eugene Healy on how Zoomers have grown up in a surprisingly (behaviorally) conservative culture because of the Millenial experience of growing up with every facet of our lives up for critique and memeification

Kids ttrpgs Party: Horror-action movie, facing off against the Vampire lords' monster The single roleplay obsessed party member: Screwball comedy as they try to gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss the Vampire lord into a full paranoid meltdown at the prospect of revolutionaries hiding amongst his staff.

Not me only today finding out Ashley Johnson was in freaking Lionheart.

my bedtime humming medley for my toddler: The Lord of the Rings Suite- Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold- The Ludlows- The Letter that Never Came- Jurassic Park- Apollo 13- Down By The River - Band of Brothers Suite- Cast Away- The Decider

AAARGH! (Yes, I'm screaming again) We just hit 100 backers!! Half way through the campaign now... I wonder how many The Cunning Folk will lure in before the end 👀

I think I'm doing a good job because my toddler is running around the house saying, "Have patience!"

Me, the GM- "So, how do yall wanna approach this? You can't just charge straight up the battlements to confront the vampire lord" Player (15y/o), after inadvertently providing therapy and a shoulder to cry on to a stressed out guard- "You CAN charge right into friendship, tho!"

I was incredibly lucky to win a physical copy of this wonderful game, which just arrived in the post! Emily says its wonky, but doesn't that feel even *more* appropriate for the tricksy Cunning Folk? If this what a *misprint* looks like, you'd be a fool not to back it!

Hot take: In GRRM's fight with showrunners over not just GoT, but HotD, there's debate about editing and adapting a dense novel into good visual media. I think they just shouldn't have been adapted. Not because the books are untouchable, but because they're miserable and masochistic.

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We're obviously not perfect, but goodness am I looking forward to the artistic renaissance coming from kids raised by millennials. Millennials, we're going to enjoy an old age filled with the wildest wonders created by a diverse spectrum of folks who were loved and accepted and allowed to flourish

Today's run song: "you must be swift as the coursing river (Be a man) with all the force of a great typhoon (Be a man) with all the strength of a raging fire Mysterious as the dark side of the moon" - Mulan ('98) I could write a thesis on this song.

This is such a fun game and you owe it to yourself to have it in your collection. Just think: A ttrpg where you play magical folks looking for revenge. Elementals tired of deforestation? REVENGE Fairies tired of broken promises? REVENGE Garden gnomes tired of dog poop? REVENGE Get yours.

There are so many pitfalls online to look out for, so would anyone have an idea where I could get a "Protect Trans Kids" t-shirt that benefits a credible org like the Trevor Foundation or similar? I know Human Rights Campaign has some, but was thinking of trying to find a smaller group to promote

I think it is absolutely insane and horrendously backwards that Jake Stringer has a "skin-fold" clause in his professional football contract. Australia needs to listen to Maintenance Phase.

Everytime "Lazarus Drug" by Meg Washington hits in Bluey, with Bandit wrestling with his anxiety and doubts about doing the best for his family... A puddle. I am a puddle.

YAAAAAASSSS

Todays run song: "Headline reads fine, ooh, but at this rate It's sort of looking like clickbait, deepfake These days, trying to win the crowd like a sweepstakes I've been to pre-K, I don't need a replay" - Whatcha Want, Lawrence Fantastic song to get your blood up that nasty part of the run

Today's run song: "You can mark my words, I'll make changes to earth While I'm alive, I'll make tiny changes to earth" -Heads Roll Off, Frightened Rabbit. Please check out this charity made in Scott Hutchinson's legacy: tinychanges.com

Y'all are sleeping on a beautifully effective ttrpg system. You can throw this down for a quick, improvised game, or use it to fuel a deep game with dynamic story pivots

I love Nicholas Eame's The Band's series take on adventuring parties being treated as old school rock bands. I wanna see, or heck maybe I'll just do it, a world where adventuring parties are treated like sports teams. I mean, on the one hand, the Lakers. On the other, the Cleveland Browns...

Doin' some wilderness research for ttrpgs worldbuilding Two barbarians can't agree on a path, need a ranger

Get you a best friend since 3 years old that you can randomly message and be 100% confident in the answer

Sometimes I scramble for something scary enough, terrifying enough, horrifying enough, for my Monster of the Week games. And then I remember I'm a history teacher. And I live in America.

Today's run song: "You've got the music in you Don't let go You've got the music in you One dance left This world is gonna pull through Don't give up You've got a reason to live Can't forget We only get what we give" - You Get What You Give, The New Radicals

A good trail running pup