🌺A PERFECT WIFE, ARRIVING IN THE MAIL🌺

@zedecksiew.bsky.social Just got my copy of Perfect Wife, and it is AMAZING. Gorgeous presentation, incredibly evocative writing, and so exciting to think about getting to the table. I can't wait to run this! Thank you!

Fuck, I think I'm done with a first draft of CHAPTER SERF

Happy birthday to my blog knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/11/happ...

🌺A PERFECT WIFE IN ANOTHER'S ARMS🌺 (Excited that my work is now in the hands of people I greatly admire, like @weirdwonder.bsky.social !)

I'm working on some conversion guidelines between games right now and in the first part of it I have to go "So OK, here's the funny thing, games are different, you can't do this with numbers, so here's some ideas on how to kind of jury-rig it." I sure hope these still end up useful 😅

In this week's Gazetteer... @daniellocke.bsky.social & @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social invite us to set sail and find hope in the apocalypse, @mauditvillage.bsky.social takes us on a tour of magical France and we tip a few other good things to do with your screen time this weekend....

A goddess watches the evening alone. #localgods

When people say that "D&D is like a wargame," and they mean because position is very important in its combat system, that's fine. When they say "D&D is like a wargame," and they mean that the combat rules are very detailed, I can tell they don't play wargames.

🚨PEOPLE PLAYING OUR GAME ALERT🚨 Neat character sheets---particularly love the backstory prompts @under-stars.bsky.social ! (Every time I find out folks are playing I thing I made I do a little dance)

OGRE SUPPLEMENT COVER BATTLECRY! TABLETOP WARGAME Coming Soon From Warrior Poet Games 2025

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

"I’m an artist as well as an activist, and how good or bad my politics are is not a stand-in for the formal choices I make in a gallery space. It’s important to remember that the reverse is also true." @chincarok.bsky.social on art & activism & the perils of mistaking one with the other. 1/

P for "Please be patient with me on the road". @chincarok.bsky.social endured my hang-ups and fears of driving for 17 years. "P for 'patient', because you were so patient with me," I said. "P for 'persistent', because you were persistent, and this is your achievement," she replied.

🌊SEACHANGE GAME, NOW CROWDFUNDING🌊 I'm writing an adventure for this! (This is the main image in my moodboard for it. Big undead mecha going down to the beach to lay eggs!)

at some point I developed a belief that putting disasters on the morning coffee mug will protect you from them the rest of the day. Does it work? well here's your chance to find out

Ok, @lumpley.bsky.social & I have been very up-front over the years on our sales data & etc, so here's a thing, & thanks Will, for bringing it up. Starting a career in #ttrpgs means making games. it means writing in a goggle doc or notebook, trying mechanics with a friend, finding 3 folks to play.

I also ought to repost this crowdfunding campaign. It's at 50%! If you have the means, help me pay for my college tuition fees! It would mean the world to me ko-fi.com/goobernuts/g...

PUBLIC PATREON POST ‼️ MORE LIFEPATHS ‼️ I enjoyed writing these. I think my players enjoyed going through them and making their own Folk Heroes. They made some awesome characters! www.patreon.com/posts/more-l...

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

All morning I thought I'd failed, because my engine died at a red light and the examiner gave me a hiding for clumsy gear-shifts and clutch-work. But then I got my test slip. I passed! Omg I passed!

Today I will be taking a driving test. Never learned to drive as a teen---and over the years it just got harder and harder to learn. Driving became one of my biggest mental blocks. Couldn't sleep, last night. I feel like I did in school, developing a tummy ache before an exam. Hope I don't crash.

I've got a couple new releases (Ithaca in the Cards 2E and What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course are now both out on digital), but itch also has a Halloween Sale thing going on, so you can get all my games for 20% off until early next week. itch.io/s/165914/hal...

ANDRONO OF ARISTEIA, SENESCHAL Peek behind his desk. You see he has a third, muscle-bound arm where his penis should be. Androno was an Aspirant. But sometimes there are errors—failings of the flesh. An appropriate word, blasphemous to think, is: “mutant”. (For CHAPTER SERF, my 40k fan TTRPG) 1/

As a game-maker it's a gift to hear of folks playing something you wrote; to see how they react to the situations you designed; to be surprised at the decisions they make. Love this so much. The adaptations @isaacisafraid.bsky.social made to fit Jakarta; the fact that the adventure felt true.

FIGHT THE SUN

ALL PLACES ARE NEIGHBOURHOODS Last night, for @newnaratif.bsky.social , I ran a workshop about what we need to think about, when we tell stories of the environment. Did some conceptual & ideological framing. The point of this slide is simple: there is no such thing as a land without people. 1/

Spine is probably the best TTRPG I've read or played all year, and — unbelievably — it's a solo TTRPG. Find out how this remarkable piece of work changed me, even as I changed it! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/30/i...

On Thursday I'll be running a workshop on how to tell stories about the climate crisis. Am prepping slides right now. Images from our life; our art and environmental journalism; the stories that have inspired us--- And a pangolin, like a miracle, who visited our garden. 1/

🌺NEW REVIEW ALERT🌺 "Speaking of art, that’s what this is. The writing is subtle and considered ... the layout is spare but adds so much to the adventure ... and there is beautiful, idiosyncratic artwork throughout." There's that pull quote! Hope you get to run this, @thedicepool.bsky.social !

A "complete" ttrpg is one you can buy for your 9 year old nephew, who will struggle through that single book and eventually absorb it like an old tree does with a metal fence. And thats all they need.

🚨WORKSHOP ALERT🚨 Next week I'll be leading a workshop on how to tell stories about the climate crisis: newnaratif.com/event/vtp-3 I never wanted to become a writer of environmental stories. But I wanted to write about my home---and all stories about my home are stories about the climate crisis.

Looking through @chincarok.bsky.social 's past environmental-journalism work. This story, using the old wells of a historic mining village as a way to talk about its demolition by property developers, always makes me tear up. The final image is a bucket of sand. medium.com/@thesharonch...

ALREADY CANNOT CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT ABOUT THIS

Can we just appreciate how stunning young Ursula K Le Guin was

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

God I love this. Would love to see more illustrations of locations on the dream come from this.

🚨HELP A TTRPG CREATOR OUT ALERT🚨

All gone---thank you everybody!

🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT🚨 Would you like a copy of CREATURES OF NEAR KINGDOMS, the animal + plants book @chincarok.bsky.social and I made? DM me! I'll send it to you---free! We've got 4 copies, and we'll send them to nearly anywhere in the world! (Except the US, Hong Kong, and ASEAN.) 1/

🚨A NEW (WEIRD)HOPE ALERT🚨 Hello all! I'll be part of this---writing an expansion to "To Put Away A Sword", my dead-giant-mecha adventure. A sleeping godsoldier has reactivated, and is dragging its corpse to the sea! It has a belly full of biomechanical roe ...

🚨MAJOR NEO-ELFGAME ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 @zedecksiew.bsky.social will not only be Editor of Islands of Weirdhope, he’s writing a whole new adventure, expanding on To Put Away A Sword. Yes, Mecha are in the sea, too. We have 3 other contributors, which we’ll announce over the next 3 days. I’m so excited.

We don't have a clear view of the town or any of the big temples, so we only get to enjoy the festival fireworks as flashes of light and thunder. Happy Deepavali, friends! May your lives be illuminated.

Something I'm interested to portray, in CHAPTER SERF, is the extreme cost, in material and civilisational terms, of supplying Space Marines. For example: where do all of these a candles come from?

" CANDLELIGHTER Indifferent to darkness the Astartes prefer the soft light of candles to other forms of illumination. You serve the aesthetic preferences of your lords. _ Hand flamer (d4, blast). _ Snuffer servo-skull. _ Sack of candles. _ Photo-visor. " #sketchpractice #warhammer40k 1/2

For our home studio: the dearest baby-deer incense holders. ( @chincarok.bsky.social has really gotten into incense this past year. Nowadays the house is often perfumed.)

More Perfect Wives out in the wild!

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

A PERFECT WIFE, now in person!