crashing out in my bestie's DMs about how buns it is that Eorzea has been sanded down from "an interestingly textured land full of deeply flawed city-states" to "the heroic land where everything is fine".

I woke up this morning thinking about a lesbian harem manga about a trans princely girl who goes around rescuing damsels and they keep adding to her party like an RPG game. I tried sketching some ideas really quick (leaning to Rumiko Takahashi style)

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

spent Chinese New Year playing Thirsty Sword Lesbians for the first time! had a lot of fun - game does what it says on the tin - and seeing another GM run a PBTA game offered some insights said GM also used to play Daughters of Khaine in AoS, how about that

Rogue Trader's third chapter does suffer from some weird pacing (due largely, I think, to the lack of a proper hub world and "time passes" events) but it does have some really fun and ~aesthetic moments. (I still believe, as "Lelith Hesperax" tells us, that yuri will save Commoragh)

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

Last week, I ran The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh in Shadowdark, adapting the adventure from its version in D&D 5e's Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Here's how that went, along with my thoughts on getting the adventure to the table. arisia.bearblog.dev/dungeon-stud...

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Looking for tabletop RPG work! Editing: Copyediting, line editing, and proofreading. If you don't have a style guide yet, can help you come up with one. Writing: Adventures, setting, flavor text, or other game elements (characters, monsters, etc.) More about what I do at www.arisia.work

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

Looking for tabletop RPG work! Editing: Copyediting, line editing, and proofreading. If you don't have a style guide yet, can help you come up with one. Writing: Adventures, setting, flavor text, or other game elements (characters, monsters, etc.) More about what I do at www.arisia.work

Five Tiers of RPG Publishing Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…

⚔️24 HOURS UNTIL THE CROWDFUND LAUNCHES at 8am EST, Feb 12th🧙‍♂️ 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈 This is the other side of the double-sided poster every backer will receive! Thanks again to @emmastonephoto.bsky.social, and to @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social for bringing his friend to the party!

new handle (arisia.work) as I work on unifying/streamlining my online presence! rest assured I remain committed to being both eldritch and cute

Wait... What ? 5 months without any update !! A recent illustration, I hope you'll like it !

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The Thassera quest was an absolute delight. Creepy, funny, and just plain *interesting* at every turn. While I agree that thus far, Lex Imperialis hasn't been quite as stellar as Void Shadows, this specific locale and its quest are right there at the top of what Rogue Trader has to offer.

today: Shadowdark game, playing The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh (part 1)!

playing Rogue Trader always leaves me wanting to run Wrath & Glory but then I'd need players willing to accept Space Marines never appearing because I refuse to learn anything about that most boring aspect of the setting

It's my birthday today! If it's not asking too much it'd mean a lot to me if you could share my art so more yuri fans can find my work ☺️

piling my witch aelf in diagonally along my opponent's chaos chosen then lifting it off the board and claiming en passant

👩‍🦰 MOLLY TANZER AND JIREL OF JOIRY ARE BACK!⚔️ Approved by the estate of C.L. Moore, @mollytanzer.bsky.social will have a new double-length story! @azuremeraki.bsky.social also returns with a new Jirel illustration. 👀 See more and sign up for the crowdfund here: 👀 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

my backer copy of Caverns of Thracia has finally reached my corner of the rest-of-world at first glance, it looks and feels great. as with most of my print pre-orders, I didn't dive into the PDF much, so I'm looking forward to delving into this later!

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What four classic video games to you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are?

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

OK, let's not beat around the bush. Cozy, while discussing media, is a dog whistle to me. It means I want something that doesn't challenge me. It means that anyone who criticizes this piece of work is my enemy. Cozy, to me, is marketing speak for fascism.

And to reiterate, this started AGES AGO. 2016, 2017. Jay rolled in with the Treehouse and built a reputation by harassing the creators of games like Bliss Stage, One Child Heart, Hot Guys Making Out. She and her sycophants were at the forefront of weaponisation of queerness

IF YOU BUILD OVER A PILE OF CORPSES, SOONER OR LATER, YOU'LL BE GRABBED BY THE ANKLE I feel vindication in a way that is hard to grasp. To FINALLY wake up to this. A few of you reached out to me, and I to a few of you, over the last year. So now it's the best time to talk about this. Buckle up. 🧵

I do not care about Bluesky’s numbers as a platform. You should not care about that. That is someone else’s job. You should just do good posts and enjoy yourself, and if you don’t you should go somewhere else where you can do that

Sure why not! (Maybe this'll put me more in a mindset to plan for my Fabula Ultima campaign, I tell myself desperately) 1) first Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy Tactics! (not War of the Lions either, but the Playstation version with the wonky translation)

I am having more visions of Dynasty Warriors-scale TTRPGs but this time make it Age of Sigmar with the brand names filed off.

This whole DTRPG Rebel Scum shitshow reminded me of a classification I have when analyzing a #ttrpg ideological approach to its mechanics. This is a digression with nothing to do with the censorship Rebel Scum is suffering, please go support 9th Level Games. Anyhow, #gameDesign thoughts🧵 incoming+

New Exhibit:Play Curation! 🤺 𝟏𝐯𝐬𝟏 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 🤺 Created by @farfama.bsky.social Contains games with a focus on fencing multiplayer battles that can be played with a friend offline on the same couch. Ranges from 2D arcade to realistic 3D simulations, as well as a TTRPG!

Alright I'll bite for a late #portfolioday ~ I'm Sandro! Design sicko, impassioned writer and eternal creator ~ Printer-friendly maximalism is my specialty, as is my love for adapting and dissecting genres! Come check out my stuff at sandroad.moe

Oh hey, it's the cover art for issue 8! Painted by @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social! ✍️ Sign up to be alerted when NESS 2026 launches, 👨‍🏫 Learn about our crowdfund exclusives, and 👁️ See teases, with reveal dates, for all kinds of surprises all at... ⚔️THIS LINK⚔️: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

I don't want my mmo to trivialize travel. I want to walk to the dungeon. I want my mounts terrestrial. I want to wait in line for the bus service

I don’t use it to research. I sure as fuck don’t use it to write, not even the “hard parts”/stuff I “don’t like to do” (writing is a joy???). I don’t use it for therapy. I don’t use it to goof off. I don’t use it. Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding!

Skaven Clan Gnaw engineers

We're kicking off the Playtest Zero 2026 with our annual #ShowcaseZero event for 2025! We’ll have @cutestpatoot.itch.io @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social @alexrineh.art @yanahn.bsky.social & @22to22.bsky.social talking about their games and process, live in 5 minutes at twitch.tv/ehronlime

The @soulmuppet.co.uk store is back from the holiday break which means it is an EXCELLENT TIME for you to buy Cantrip, the DELIGHTFUL, award-considered GMless game of young witches pulling pranks, having feelings and wearing increasingly bigger hats soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/can...

Need a favour: does anybody here speak/read simplified Chinese at a good level? After someone to look at a draft translation for a SoulMuppet game and let me know if they think its a good reflection of the original text!

💖Magic-girl rat!💖

Truly saddening news. When I was starting out trying my hand at game design, Steve was my first mentor (through the Tabletop Mentorship Program). His love for games and play was always vividly evident. Sharing my favorite game of his too: tinstargames.itch.io/station-a-ga...

Last year, I joined a group of other local GMs to start organizing non-5e D&D game days and that went great. This year, I'll be working with some old friends to make RPG stuff. What stuff? We've yet to decide. Working w/ a dedicated group is a New Experience for me though and I look forward to it!

I do some community organising around environmental issues IRL; I write about imperialism and colonial violence. When I play games sometimes its nice to just kill demons, or stake vampires, or manage a colony. If you already do activism I don't think you need to dream about activism, too. 9/

Re: last repost I was having similar thoughts earlier ( since the whole 'colonist dungeon' thing came up again). The dungeon as fantasy is really a kind of (ludo)narrative device present in a lot of games and literature that I think gets wrongly (at times) caught up in colonialist trappings.

Many proposals I've seen for making the dungeon crawl less colonial are really about *humanising* the dungeon: The dungeon as community; monsters as people; etc. Great! You should be doing this already. In pure design terms a humanised landscape yields more complex, more gameable stories. 2/