This just arrived! Excited to get into it during my Winter break. 📖 Thank you @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social

This beauty just arrived - "Formaggio"! Italy with rolling hills made of cheese is SO appropriate ha ha! 🧀🧀 Find more here: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43...

gamefound.com/en/projects/... A game about dance, friends! This looks great <3 Thanks @senfoonglim.bsky.social for the recommendation!

Intermission to highlight a great Viognier/Vermentino/Chardonnay White blend from Lebanon (pic. 1), a phenomenal Ripasso red from Valpolicella (pic. 2), and a smoky delightful amaro from Trento (pic. 3). Drinks like these make life so much better. ❤️🍷🥃

Thank you, Metatopia. Superb game Playtest, delightful humans, great chats. I'll post soon about the TTRPGs I tried with some thoughts. But first a big thank you to @avonelle.bsky.social and the Metatopia team for a great event! See you next year! 👏🏻👏🏻

Heading to Metatopia tomorrow. Looking to connect with people who are writing games on oppression and resistance in any form for a new podcast project with @senfoonglim.bsky.social releasing in 2026. Send me a message or find me at the Lobbycon at the hotel on Saturday night! #metatopia2025

I don't even need to tell you. Go take a look! :) Well done @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social

Also proud of Durham, CT, where I actually live and vote - a small and very purple town, which turned pretty blue this fall. Well done to Durham CT Democrats for a truly well-run campaign. 👏🏻

Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n... Is this... Hope? It is. It feels so damn good. Thank you Mamdani for energizing even Gen Z voters. ❤️🗽

This is much nicer than what I would say, but it's a good reminder about Cheney. I hope he can find the afterlife that he deserves. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Metatopia is one of those rare TTRPG-related events where I look at the schedule and there are way too many games I want to try. In my schedule, I had a first, second, and often a third great option for each time slot. And I created a document to write down information about ...

If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game! DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way! International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK

Picking games to Playtest at Metatopia is always really difficult! Congrats to @avonelle.bsky.social and team for putting together a great event year after year. I will try to make a good list before sign ups tomorrow! tabletop.events/conventions/...

This delightful two-player RPG by @ap-cartography.bsky.social is just right for the cozy season! Take a look: ap-cartography.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Incredible autumn foliage this year in central Connecticut. Very thankful for crisp gorgeous days and beautiful fall woods. 🍁🍂🍄🧡

This. TTRPGs are potatoes, friends. With branching root systems and deeply connected with all that came before and what will come after. Thank you for the wisdom @megueyb.bsky.social - and I am so happy that we can feature all this in the podcast-in-progress with @senfoonglim.bsky.social!

The Games against Genocide via tiltify charity bundle submission period is now open: bit.ly/gamesagainst... All TTRPGs and TTRPG adjacent supplements are welcome* Submissions are open until November 3 and the charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders will be live November 10 - December 12 🍉

This is horrible.

This, this, this! Please help us put together the best interview pool for a new podcast about TTRPG culture(s) coming soon!

Early voting is open in CT! Go vote! Local elections are incredibly important! #voting #govote

Hartford, you were so beautiful today. Proud of this state for showing up in every city and town. A rare moment of joy among all this dread. #protest

Yesterday I went to a great concert by the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America, an ensemble of 12 bandura players and 24 male singers who played new and traditional Ukrainian songs on the bandura, a Ukranian folk instrument with an impressive number of strings and an incredible history. 🇺🇦🩵

Some good news.

This is my favorite part of the year, when the backyard truly looks enchanted. 🍁🍂🧡🎃 #fall #Connecticut #newengland #foliage

Excellent resource! Check it out, especially if you plan to protest soon. www.protestgames.org

New favorite October tea from Harney and Son's: Halloween Party. 🍂🍁🎃

Swords without Master, standalone. Finally. 🎲⚔️🖤 One of my favorite TTRPGs. Thanks @epidiah.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Well done MIT! 👏🏻 www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Very excited to share an event happening on November 19, at 4:30 pm in Exley 189 at Wesleyan University to explore a multi-award winning board game, "So You Want to Be an American?", about the US Citizenship process and its woes. If you're in central CT, come by! #educationalgames #edusky

arstechnica.com/culture/2025... This is pretty funny - well done, CAH.

This sounds like a lovely position, and UC Santa Cruz is gorgeous! Happy to see these kinds of positions out there - take a look!

This looks awesome and it's free. I love the concept and I can't wait to try. Thanks @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social Go check it out!

This beauty just arrived - quite an appropriate game for the spooky season! Congrats @mossdaggar.bsky.social @brewisttabletop.bsky.social @plusoneexp.bsky.social @boguscheesecake.bsky.social for this lovely edition of "Hellwhalers" and "Book of Leviathan." brewisttabletop.games/projects/hel...

Thank you Wesleyan latin and ballroom association for hosting a salsa / bachata / merengue social on campus. I really needed that after an insane week of work. ❤️🎶

Very cool to see that the games from Roll for Learning are being presented, discussed, and circulated! 👏🏻👏🏻

Happy to see that my students got an award at Serious Play for a game they created in my Educational Gaming Lab! Find more about Serious Play, a great conference about games and learning organized by @pauldarvasi.bsky.social and other great folks - and their awards: seriousplayconf.com/awards-2025/

This!

Saturday morning with a student in which we played "In This World" by @lamemage.com and discussed a bunch of other RPGs. If only every meeting could be like this. ❤️✍🏻 Link to the game (an excellent choice to play in class - easy to explain and modular/quick to play): www.lamemage.com/inthisworld/

I recently tried "First Contact" by Cosmo Drone Games. It's a fantastic language-based boardgame! It has elements of Codenames and Rosetta, used in a clever and compelling way. Link here, and keep reading below for some thoughts on the game. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25...

A new folk fantasy read and some lovely hikes as September turns into October. Books, games, and nature to preserve some joy and peace in dark times. We started volunteering with some local organizations and boy, it is dark out there. So find your beacons of light. 🍁🍂

Are you looking for a quick and playful activity to start your language-learning lesson in an interactive way, engaging the entire class in the conversation from the very beginning – during question creation? Try "6 questions, 1 die", free to download (EN-IT) here: czamboni.itch.io/six-question...

This looks gorgeous. Take a look! momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...

I restocked some tiny game favorites that I gave to friends, and got a new party game to explore and hack for language learning! Both "Kinoko" by @helvetiq.bsky.social and "Deep Sea Adventure" by @oinkgames.bsky.social are little gems - and I am curious about "Call 911".

This!

A student is running a Student Forum about branching and interactive storytelling in various media (ttrpg, larp, escape games, interactive theater, etc.) and asked if I could provide some ideas for single session tabletop games that focus on shared storytelling and world building...

Extremely thankful for the local speakeasy / cocktail bar Conspiracy bringing joy in the form of Tarot-inspired cocktails (with recipes written in the back of each Major Arcana card). Gorgeous gold foil tarot set, delightful drinks, and excellent chats. Who doesn't need that right now. 🥃🃏

Battle doom scrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Making tea 2. Snuggling with a warm puppy 3. Autumn in New England 4. Crisp cold air on a winter morning 5. The smell of cardamom

We just started a new campaign of this wonderful #ttrpg, "Wise Women" by @ksandrarpg.bsky.social - and I couldn't be happier! What's better than a light PBTA about polish folklore and witchcraft for this autumnal season? 🍁🍂🎃🔥 Find it here! ksandra.itch.io/wise-women

Thankfully, we still have good wine. All these three were great, but the Schioppettino "I Clivi" was something else. Incredible wine. Thanks to the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia for making excellent wines! #wine

This beautiful solo mystery game by @almostbedtime.bsky.social - "Song of the Scryptwyrm" - just arrived! Find it here, and also take a look at "The Librarian's Apprentice": almostbedtimetheater.itch.io/sots