shit woulda gone down real different for me if piccolo had taken me under his wing, back in the day

Organizing an itch.io Bundle I've organized five itch.io bundles. Four of them have already happened, and one of them is still live for a few more hours. Here are links to all of them1:

New Perspectives (rerun)

it's probably not a super good sign of my game design chopped but I do think it's very funny/cool that monster care squad, HELLPIERCERS, and 10MHPP planet all have threads on reddit titled "How are you supposed to actually play [game]???"

also i should have put it in the main post and i didnt but looooook at how gorgeous this cover is. ive been staring at it for like a year and im still in awe

still figuring out if insurance will cover it, but in the meantime it'd mean the world if you'd consider: 1. picking up my latest game "The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal Back": jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib 2. or a 20% bundle of all my other games: itch.io/s/176257/jum...

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

Hey gang, I'm putting together a TTRPG design workshop for people in my local RPG club. What are some free games and SRDs you love and think make for great inspiration for creating someone's first game? Bonus points if they're available in Spanish but no worries if not.

got sticknpoked by a hottie in her fucked up apt

Two soldiers from the Domekan garrison take it upon themselves to harass a local talisman peddler on the streets of Karazad. But more caution is in order- one who walks these haunted streets bare-faced may hold powerful magics of their own…

trying to read augé and de certeau for worldbuilding game design and

a city is an expressionist game

prediction for 2026 is everyone gets into Taxi for no clear reason

I DON'T WANT TO GO TO BED YET. SEND ME ASKS. IDEAS. RATE YOUR FAVOURITE FLOWERS BY HOW SLUTTY YOU FEEL THEY WOULD BE IF THEY WERE HUMANOID. DISCUSS GOBLIN. leaftilde.straw.page

This is such an outstanding impulse that, imo, identifies a unique material concern of our scene. We tackled this in Monster Care Squad with the Ald-Amura grant; we set $3k aside and dolled out grants of up to $300, low questions asked, to incentivize community engagement Might be worth considering!

Okay, so we're working on this with Infinite Citadel - we're doing a couple different things to make sure people get paid. There is a lot I've been thinking about so, let's start this in a thread! 🧵 1/8

Royalties are powerful things! A frequent discussion ttRPG writer space is how we could make the jump to full time. More royalty-based models like this would make it way easier!

this year alone we sent out about $50k in royalties for triangle agency work ✌️if your games aren't making money for the people who made then why sell them at all

Genuinely the royalties that I do receive are what help pay my bills, especially when freelance work is slow! It makes a huge difference

You might consider, in ttrpgs we all earn so little that this kind of thing doesn't matter; you sending a friend $19.17 every 6 months isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but the goal is bigger than that, it's about setting standards. You do this, I do this, in 10 years? Everyone does this.

We're pretty much settled (barring future changes) on how we did this for How To GM Romance and this is what we came up with. The breakdown of artists is by shares based on image size/complexity and everyone else is an even split of each category a person contributed to. I wanna keep doing this.

We're always refining, but the SPG Royalty Process shakes out like this; We ask everyone to keep rough track of how many hours they spend on work, and how that time is spent across pieces of work. If someone struggles with this, we ask them to estimate it at the end of the project.

In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor

they're trying to remake this creature through bulldog breeding

in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

shoutout to the brave ttrpg warriors engineering complex new opinions designed in a lab to render them universally unlikeable

Watched STRANGE DAYS (1995) for the first time, what a goddamn film!!! Angela Bassett!!!!

hyping the fuck out of your friends and being nice is fun and feels good to do. there's sometimes benefits but that's never why i do it i just want to see people i think are cool succeed and i weirdly have a great way to platform them

Also I discovered Nestflix, a site that catalogs fictional movies and TV shows, and it's kinda amazing. nestflix.fun

slapping one more fat dub on the wall before the year's out.

fuck all of y'all i'm going in the portal

Starting tomorrow I am going to be releasing my most ambitious, longest, most earnest shitpost TTRPG yet. Every day in December I will be sharing one prompt from the Wild Magic Advanced 2e table - which will then be available in its entirety for free download on my itchio January 1.

No job is too big for our party - even if that job is as big as helping both a dragon and the village they watch over as they play @sandypuggames.bsky.social's Monster Care Squad for Day 28 of #WildMagicAdvanced2E. Only 3 days left! Thanks so much for joining me for a month of indie #TTRPGS!

I got better

got so het up nearly broke besties elbow with a zwerhau

omg and then there was this guy filming right after the Charlie mirk. brother you are blocking an egress!!!

what were the funniest moments of 2025? I'll start

Hello new follows, I am a transsexual internet dog communist interested in undermining traditional tabletop values, skateboarding, esoteric ritualism, and longswords. Sandy Pug Games is an international art collective that makes incredible shit and tries to help folks do the same.

If I don't get a longsword in my hands in the next few hours I am going to start biting people

insider info: we’re doing our first round of artist submission reviews on jan 11th if you’re the type that needs a deadline docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

*jetstream sam voice* you deny your bussy its purpose

Full disclosure: Ken White, a lawyer I quote in this story, is claiming I took him out of context. The assertion is without merit. You can see the exact email here.

my advice for having a good bluesky experience: - make enemies immediately - start shit in public but act morally superior for it - get mad when you see people acting weird and make it their problem - barge into other people's replies to scold their friends for cussing - post pictures of weapons