Very excited to playtest a soccer-based ttrpg by @sociable-turtle.bsky.social ! ⚽🏟️🥅

I am not a fan of Valentine's Day, but if you find yourself without a partner today, and want to spend some silly time alone or with friends creating one, I got you: try "Build Your Own Book Boyfriend!" ... czamboni.itch.io/build-your-o...

Happy to finally see an editorial line dedicated to erotic RPGs - I am very interested in seeing what games will populate Plus One XXXP.

Chess-based and Romeo & Juliet-based? Set at a masquerade ball? Yes, please. Check out "Violent Delights" playtest materials by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social backwards-tabletop.itch.io/violent-deli...

Take a look!

ICE out rally at Wesleyan University, capturing only part of the crowd who showed up. Great to see many students showing up.

For those of you who enjoy the Winter Olympic Games, this is a video from 1956 - when the Winter Olympics also took place in Cortina d'Ampezzo! 70 years ago, same mountains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV78...

More snow adventures - frolicking and sliding on a frozen lake at Miller's Pond with Loki in - 10 C! Now 0 degrees are starting to feel warm. Perhaps I am finally becoming a New Englander? #connecticut #winter

Yuck to all this, but especially (see picture). Thanks to @rugerfred.bsky.social for sharing. www.gamespot.com/articles/eps...

There are a LOT of good games in this bundle, starting at $10. And as always, F**K ICE. Take a look: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

The delightful "Veritable Tales: An illuminated Manuscript Party RPG" by @pidj.bsky.social, has just launched. Having played some of Pidj's games before and seeing the intriguing medieval marginalia theme, I warmly recommend this! Quick, multiplayer. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sun...

My favorite bit from the Bad Bunny performance at the Super Bowl: he said "God Bless America" and listed all the countries in South, Central, and North America. For the rest of the world, America is the continent. The US is just a tiny part of it - one that thinks it can call itself as the whole.

Bad bunny fur increíble. ❤️ #BadBunnyDay

A great afternoon with ex students, now game designers, coming to visit from Boston and some amazing games!! I 100% recommend SkyTeam, The Gang, and Flip 7 - all fantastic choices.

Happy to be inside today in this wintry weather, reading and prepping to playtest @sociable-turtle.bsky.social 's ttrpg "For the Badge" - an interesting take on soccer! ⚽ (Yes, I am also rewatching Ted Lasso...) I want to see more ttrpgs delving into sports and non-fight physical contact...

@sociable-turtle.bsky.social is a wonderful person and game designer who just joined BlueSky - give him a follow! He is working on a TTRPG about... soccer! - currently in playtest. And he brought a cool game idea based on Severance at the latest Metatopia. And he is a lovely human being. :)

A few more #zinemonth projects that need love / that I really like - this is a thread, so check our replies too! "Whispering Willows" by Master Badger, a fantasy role-playing game about small animal folk who protect a living forest. Solo, co-op, or with a DM. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

One more novella from @nghivo.bsky.social - "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain," with more adventures for Chih and Almost Brilliant. Can't wait to dig in. 🐯📚

A very relevant (and very good) game from Six of Hounds @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social - now available! I am going to use this in my class next fall! Grab it here: sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

Friends and colleagues, take note! And always share what games you are using in your classrooms, and tag the authors too - you might make their day! :)

Another cool game for #zinemonth is the Italian project "Barbarian Bay" by Jack Gentile and Nigredo Press. It is a low-prep sword-and-sorcery TTRPG, with some cool inspirations (Elric, Conan) and some great people working on the team. Take a look! www.kickstarter.com/projects/334...

More oddly interesting projects: a Japanese team revamping a traditional Italian card / trick-taking game, "Briscola chiamata"! Ha ha, this is great! :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/adr...

And another interesting projects about community, uprisings, and standing up to power. Well we all need that right now!

Another project to support for #zinemonth! This one comes with 3 ttrpgs inside, all about the end of the world!

Omg yes! Yes to awesome colleagues wanting to discuss HR, and yes to having scholarly conversations about this phenomenon! ❤️🏒 See you on February 11, at 5 pm, in Fisk 201, on Wesleyan University campus!! Worlds colliding!

The wonderful "Play Make Learn" 2026 Conference is back on July 9-11 at the beautiful campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, WI. This year the theme is " Scrappiness" - which ties beautifully with concepts of sustainability, problem-solving, tabletop design, and resistance.

Another interesting project by @thomas-munier.bsky.social and @blackfiskpub.bsky.social: "The Dragonly Motel"- a ttrpg about travelers lost in a surreal trap of dreamlike slices of life. It moves through prompts and free-form conversation. Take a look: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

More #zinequest #zinetopia projects I am following: "Gastronomancer - The Main Course" - a cosy 2-player ttrpg by Sealight Studio about cooking and community, with its own system called RHP (link to the beta below). www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea... Link to system: www.sealightstudios.net/rhp

Another lovely project launch by @sccreatives.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...

Let's all repost zine projects in February!

Very interesting call for articles from Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies (JARPS)! Take a look: jarps.net/index.php/jo...

Chilean Merlot and risotto with butternut squash and sausage. Both excellent! Chilean wines are having a moment in CT liquor stores, and I am here for it! "Carmenere," made from indigenous varietal, is my first rec, but try them all! 🍷❤️

"The Empress of Salt and Fortune" is a delightful novella by @nghivo.bsky.social - the tale of northern empress In-yo as told by her handmaiden Rabbit and collected by Cleric Chi and her neixin Almost Brilliant. It is enchanting in both style and imagery, and I absolutely recommend it.

Vigil for the recent victims of ICE violence and protest against ICE. It was damn cold. But many people showed up. Thank you Hartford! #abolishICE

We recently started a campaign of "Polaris" by P H Lee. I have been wanting to try this TTRPG for so long! "Polaris" (2005) features evocative writing, an intriguing setting in the far North, and elegant Gmless mechanics based on ritual phrases. Find it here: p-h-lee.itch.io/polaris

As of tomorrow, Cairn Press is live! Bring me your modules, your supplements, your hacks - as long as they are Cairn adjacent, I'll take consider it! More soon. cairnpress.ink

On February 24, a new game-related book is coming out by the brilliant @pdmcdonald.bsky.social - whom I had the pleasure to meet this past summer at the Play, Make, Learn conference! "The impossible Reversal" from @uminnpress.bsky.social Link for pre-order: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791622...

A beautiful printed copy of "Against Time and Death" (ATaD) by @ickbat.bsky.social was waiting for me when I returned from Italy - but I just got to flip through the pages today. Read below for some comments! Link: ickbat.itch.io/against-time... #ttrpg #twoplayergame #tabletopgames

In the midst of this authoritarian horror, we found some little time to enjoy the snow, and It felt so good, despite the freezing temperatures. ❄️🐾

Another session of "What Dust Remains" by @momatoes.com - this time online, on Mirò. It was a completely different vibe from my previous experience with this game: we played as Dustin Donovan, a morally gray Pioneer in the XIX century "Far West" frontier. We were lucky with dice rolls ...

Hello. It's my final week as a full time game designer, and as if to underline why I can't do this anymore, I currently can't afford to cover my bills at the end of the month. All of my work on itch is on sale. Tell your friends, buy something, thank you very much. itch.io/s/179351/jan...

Less than a week left to submit your entry to #48WordRPGJam! ⌛ There are already 166 games submitted to the jam, go check them out! ✨ itch.io/jam/48wordrp...

Wonderful 2-player snow game as the snow piles up outside... "Sky Team" by Luc Rémond, published by @scorpionmasque.bsky.social boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37...

Did you bring back anything from Italy? Yeah. A few things. 🔥 #tabletopgames #ttrpg #boardgames #languagegames

Hello Bsky TTRPG community: can you point me to lists of projects coming out for Zinequest / Zinetopia / whatever other initiative? I would be happy to support small projects and share! Thank you ❤️🙏🏻

Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. Call your representatives and ask for that.

Your reminder that entering the country illegally is only a misdemeanor and overstaying your legal status is a civil violation. And people are being killed over it.

Also, this. I am flying back to the US tomorrow and for the first time, I am scared to come home.

We started a new adventure using KotRA (Knights of the Round Academy), a delightful mecha-heavy JRPG inspired by the Arthurian myths - and created by the talented Claudio Serena @oneeye01.bsky.social. Sadly it is only available in Italian, but definitely a delight: fumblegdr.itch.io/knights-of-t...

Exemplary speech for Canadian PM Mark Carney. Listen and think. youtube.com/watch?v=kDMy...