Magnificent

it's time to be worse

amen, sister

@seedlinggames.bsky.social heads up that the link to seedlinggames.com/blogging/ove... on your OVER/UNDER index page is borked. (It has a dot in place of the final L in html)

very cool ttrpg / PbtA jam from @aaronmfking.bsky.social and @keganexe.com

Made a game abt young robots training to operate human bodies to use vs. an impending threat. You play as the robots. It's called Meatframes, and it's mostly a hack of @lumpley.bsky.social 's MoF0: Firebrands. A little body horror, anyone? Playtest trashcan edition: markwallace.itch.io/meatframes

d/ae

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

also badass #mothership

extremely badass #over/under #mothership

This looks badass #mothership

This is probably not the most exhaustive roundup of OVER/UNDER AARs, but it's the one Paige Laux @pdeer.bsky.social and I put together. If you're still on the #over/under reading tip, enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

correct opinion detected

I made a list of all the blog posts and other permanent-ish artifacts I could find for #over/under It's largely for my benefit (hence the "to read" section at the bottom) but other people might find it useful too seedlinggames.com/blogging/ove...

OVER/UNDER sounds like one of the most fascinating experiments in roleplaying to date - I'm gutted I missed it! Fab write-up from @markwallace.bsky.social here.

I have now newslettered about this too, incl. my desperate desire to play @samsorensen.bsky.social 's Cataphracts—now being mostly fulfilled by several different games that have since cropped up, actually. But that's a topic for another newletter, another day. inlooking.substack.com/p/inlooking-...

I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.

I wrote a thing about that #over/under thing you've been hearing about. Thesis: unexpected player numbers, with only a few able to interact directly w/ the main game mechanics, turned the wargame into a kind of faction turn working in the background to give Denizens something to react to. Discuss.

get yourself some teeth

The latest TEETH newsletter features a guest essay on OVER/UNDER by prolific journalist and role-player @markwallace.bsky.social It's really good. Have a read!

Best description of an OSR I've read yet.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen. The Band Iggy Pop Circle Jerks Swervedriver Talking Heads (when Tina Weymouth was pregnant)

Today we ask Brenden and Kate of Pony Press an interesting question about their architecture process and how that influences their creative work. Music Credits: Fill My Glass by Kendl Winter #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #zine #indiegame #gamedev

guys, A Rape in Cyberspace is more than 30 years old now? good god. Still worth the read, though, if you're spending any time at all in massively multiplayer online spaces. www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-r...

cowboy cocktails, can confirm 👍🍸

"stand back in case he explodes"

Have written 1,300 words of throat-clearing. Will I ever just get to the point?

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Just spent a week with my aging dad. Had a nice time and was happy to be able to help him out. Fringe benefit: came back with these 15mm Napoleonic figures he's had for 50 years and which we used to wargame with when I was ca. 8yo. Some of these little Prussian guys I painted when I was a kid!

Mausritter people, a question: any good Mausritter campaign settings or even just adventures that are set in a house? Looking for something along the lines of The Borrowers or similar. But for mice, natch ⚔️ 🐭

@amby.navy I never ran into you in O/U, but I was one of the quiet cowboys, if you're looking for people for your starter pack.

Age yourself with gaming

Lucky 1,300th backer for Junk City, that's me www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

This is the kind of book I would love read — if not for the harebrained pricing @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/listening...

This was of course an automatic yes. Love to see it @lumpley.bsky.social Apocalypse World: Burned Over www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

what a brilliant book

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today we celebrate the heritage, beauty, and perseverance of hundreds of cultures and nations across North America that have thrived and endured here for thousands of years, and will be around for thousands more. If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs

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Today's harvest. (About 4x this many went in the compost — too many worms.)

What was your first tabletop wargame?

well played

why do people bother publishing infographics about cities and populations and demographics and such without a date on them? useless.

it's fun when William Gibson reads like the lore in a TTRPG module, especially when he's just talking about the here and now

The Eternal Jam for September kicks off today! Come join us in the jam and make a game about movement, exploration, and physical space! #ttrpg #indiettrpg #eternalttrpgjam

Want to make a game but art and layout are holding you back? This one not only doesn't require those, it forbids them! This might be the jam for you. 🎲✏️📄 #ttrpg #minimalism #gamedesign

Immediate yes

No new pictures, where are you mentally

In the Light of a Setting Sun is a rules-lite game of bigger-than-life cowpokes on an unforgiving frontier. It it, you can play as cowherds on a long cattle drive, gunslingers solving problems in dusty border towns, or no-good outlaws on the run from a bloodthirsty sheriff. (1/?)

This week @markwallace.bsky.social saddles up and takes a gander at Orbital Blues from @soulmuppet.co.uk Find out what it means to play the blues as a sad space cowboy in this space western roleplaying game 👇 tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet... #ttrpg