Going live to read through Gallows Corner, the Peasants Revolt RPG by @threesailsstudios.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/rXLzYhG...

Intergalactic Bastionland playtest just got an update including: Sample ship the Infinitis Wake with a crew and (incomplete) deck spreads Added more guidance for each officer’s preferences in the Bearing Council Medical care defined more clearly Note on recruitment in dock bit.ly/ibplaytest

🚨VOTE VOTE VOTE IN THE BLOGGIES🚨 VOTE VOTE VOTE! VOTE VOTE VOTE!

here's my "what is osr?" as a skeet instead of a blog post: osr is a kind of game i can run 6 sessions of a month and never get burned out. my friends don't give a fuck about the principles of play or the design choices—they don't like it as much as some trad or story games, but they still have fun

Ramadan begins tonight, at the opening of the Fire Horse. Dear Muslim friends: tabahkan hati for the fasting ahead. May we have many iftars together, this month! ( @chincarok.bsky.social made this graphic!)

a new adventure for violence is now for sale. all proceeds are being donated to @cosmic-chill.bsky.social to help her relocation efforts. if you already donated, lmk and i'll hit you with the pdf. it's a very horrible adventure. lukegearing.itch.io/glass-men

🚨BLOGGIES 2026 REMINDER🚨 Remember to vote for your favourite TTRPG internet writing of the past year, friends. We are in the semi-finals for the five main categories already! www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-202...

This is your nightly invitation to read through The Bloggies and vote on your favorite rpg blogs from last year. If you haven't participated already, that's okay. You can jump in now and vote on one or more matchups. You might even walk away with new ideas or house rules in the process. 🧙‍♂️🗳️👇

Bloggies voting has begun! This week is the tournament: the Thunderdome of rpg blogs. If you're thinking to yourself, "This is a lot of reading." I've got bad news: you're already running out of time. Here's everything you need to know for this week... 1/4 www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/

Still pretty mindblown by the fact the community came together to record 87 blogposts in just a few days for the Bloggies. My listening sorted for the next few weeks. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl... Thanks to @elmc.at and @bommyknocker.bsky.social for organising!

Bloggies PSA! Round 1 of all 5 initial Categories is open until 7 AM EST. Not just Advice. Advice: forms.gle/LApoXPh7cVhy... Critique: forms.gle/5Qvwxxsvyhq8... Gameable: forms.gle/WjPxMyQunpPZ... Theory: forms.gle/VSa1fwjYLcrk... Meta: forms.gle/R26nY7qm7DaA... Vote for your favorites. PSA over

There have been so many fireworks around town for the last hour---and it's *still* going!---that the air has turned into smog. It is hazy! We are not even near any of the temples or association halls!

Happy Lunar New Year dearest friends! @chincarok.bsky.social made this gif of seahorses in our local aquarium. Hope you dance amid ease in the coming year. Hope we all do.

Feeling lonely?˖°.✧ Why not fill the void with the warmth only consumerism can buy? <3 Wouldn't it look so good on your shelf? ~~ Digital Angel is available IN PRINT on @plusoneexp.bsky.social ~ So go grab it plssss ♡ XOXOXOXXXXX plusoneexp.com/products/dig...

Happy Valentine's, my love @chincarok.bsky.social love, me

Pitch submission deadline has been extended by a week to 22 February 2026, so there’s still time to pitch something if you’re interested.

Guess it's that time of the year to wheel this out... 😏

turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running

As I said before, I would like to see Dark Sun rehabilitated. Fixing it's first edition racism it's incredibly easy, and the setting is extraordinarily relevant: fascist tyrants that have wrecked the environment, enacted uncountable genocides, keep people uncultured and enslaved, etc.

I got my friend to bring back two books from NY for me. The first is one I have wanted for ages, the Mork Borg hex crawl Tephrotic Nightmares. What an interesting object. You can see the sewn binding, and the pages aren’t fully cut yet. Very cool.

The other book I got today is one I’ve also wanted for ages, perhaps most notable for always being sold out: His Majesty the Worm! It’s chonky.

In Port Dickson, the cyclone Senyar damaged a hundred homes. It also collapsed the product jetty (where processed oil gets onto tankers) of the Petron Malaysia refinery. The refinery has been shut, since. A rare case of just desserts. Of disaster *not* sparing the parties ultimately responsible.

"Bring me the heart of the God-Soldier!" +++ This was a romp. So fun to listen to. Thank you @jeffstormer.gobirds.online & @brianflaherty.bsky.social for playing "To Put Away A Sword"; it is such an honour to me!

🚨KEYSTONE IDEA ALERT🚨

First up: INTO THE ODD WITH BRIAN FLAHERTY @brianflaherty.bsky.social Brian and I sit down for a proper OSR adventure in INTO THE ODD, with an adventure inspired by TO PUT AWAY A SWORD by @zedecksiew.bsky.social and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social www.partyofonepodcast.com/2026/02/12/4...

post a mage

🚨TTRPG PUBLISHING BY WEALTH CLASS ALERT🚨

It's cyberpunk time now, only without the rampant cybernetics. So it's punk time. As it has always been.

It's been exciting and terrifying reading all the questions, hopes, and fears about Intergalactic Bastionland. I'll shed some light during tonight's stream, reading through the playtest doc and talking about my goals for the game. Join me in 12 hours at 9pm GMT. www.youtube.com/live/xloSEPJ...

Now watch Ireland thrive and become world leader in the arts. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

It's good that Rascal has issued corrections clarifying no breach of contract & contextualizing how much everyone was paid. But some of their readers continue to believe Jay didn't pay us — and will likely keep harassing her and spreading the original article's disinformation for years to come.

The Bloggies' page has updates! 1. "We Read the Bloggies" A fan-made podcast is live and linked! 2. A new submission has been nominated, "Book [Verb] Play" in Theory. The other post was removed on the author's request. 3. I've redesigned the page to keep things short and sweet. Happy reading!

Blog enthusiasts! It's been a huge community effort. We're proud to present WE READ THE BLOGGIES. The year's best blogging coming to you - in audio form. A show to SAVE YOUR EYES and SOOTHE YOUR EARS. Catch up on all your Bloggies reading before voting commences next week! #ttrpg #podcast #blog

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

This is just wonderful. Hurray for community!

🚨MEDIEVAL MARGINALIA GAME ALERT🚨

🌕NEW BEST FAVOURITE TTRPG ALERT🌕

The existence of giant eraser flags implies the existence of gianteraserflag @ehronlime.bsky.social

🚨BLOGGIES NOMINEES ALERT🚨 There's so much good stuff this year. More diversity in terms of play-culture niches (folks from story games / outside the OSR-sphere) and geography (congrats to the Indonesian delegation)!

Monster Valentines: I have made these into printable card form in case you need a card to put on some flowers or pretty bad candy get them here! www.patreon.com/c/ABestiarya... or: comradery.co/amandalee

Cairn: Barebones Edition is now available as a digital download! Print editions coming soon! yochaigal.itch.io/cairn-barebo...

Oh yay

My month in a nutshell: (Official nominees announcement tomorrow!)

what a shot

As a former journalist, and as someone who has had mixed experiences with Rascal as a developer and artist, this article was absolutely infuriating to read and led to me not renewing my subscription. An unattributed pull quote before a paywall calling someone a fake queer is beyond ethical failure.

I long for the days when a writer could release a book, shout about it, and then retreat into their cave for 5-6 business years to work on the next one, only interacting with their audience through letters delivered from their publisher via a PO Box

🚨VALUABLE CONTEXT ALERT🚨 That this account (by Jay, who has a vested interest in portraying herself well) is still somehow fairer to all parties; less muddled around numbers and chronology; and *less editorialised* than the initial journalistic scoop says a lot about how this story was handled.

This is not to say these people can't possibly have some kind of legitimate beef with Jay. Maybe they do! But these numbers ain't it, and they certainly don't make any other complaint paired with or springboarding off them them look *stronger.*

You can ask for what you think you're worth, and you should, but those numbers are up in the range where they read to me like a *message* that you don't want things to go forward, not a negotiation bid.

Just to hit the numbers, the freelancers here were paid in full (though a payment was delayed), and over $2 per word, and when a buyout was offered as a way to get a 2nd edition going, asked for $20+/word further as their opener, then lowered it to an extra $2.50/word, then back to an added $6/word.