Can I revise my game about being robots wearing humans like mobile frames in time to bring it to Breakout Con? The world wants to know. Or maybe it's just me.

Hooray!

Book reviewers sell review copies all the time. No one really cares, as long as it's after the release date. Is it the most generous and honorable thing you can do? Maybe not. But very few people see it as a major ethical lapse, ime.

The question is not, Who will be at Breakout Con? The question is, Will I be the only person at Breakout Con with no idea what I'm doing there at all?

Here's a good look at how much the biggest TTRPG publishers are (likely) doing in revenue.

post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/ye1dgqDANWg?...

I've been playing around with creating a poem cycle describing a dungeon, constructed as centos using text from old adventure modules and sourcebooks. Here's one of the poems I'm happiest with so far.

Somewhere in this bundle I have a game. But that's not why you should buy it.

fantastic story

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

Waiting for Amber Glenn to skate before I take a walk because apparently she plays Magic and even though I don't I am just a big dork that way.

looking forward to this one

Super-fun evening intro'ing 3 RPG virgins & 2 RPG veterans to Mausritter. Treasure map lost to squabbling Dedratz, war hero paraded around on vagabond's shoulders, TicTac the cat driven off by a flaming arrow & a tiny beehive stuck in his ear, village guardmouse survived, and everyone got home safe.

OVER/UNDER fanfic. Outstanding.

After all, we have learned through much misery that the supposed guardrails of democracy have been nothing more than a series of polite suggestions written on post-it notes and heartfelt pinkie swears for the last 250 years.

Tanya is awesome, check this out

just updated my Mac to the new OS (Tahoe? tawdry city), and now I want to pluck my fucking eyes out. I mean, come on. It was bad enough on my iPhone, now this? Sorry for having an opinion about this, but I suffer Windows all day long at work. I'm down with suffering for my art — but not this badly.

Stoked to be able to back Twisting Unseen, a build-the-dungeon zine for Mothership RPG from @chrisair.itch.io ! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/5...

East River x Gowanus Canal

Great thread from Tim Denee on the type and graphic design of Blades '68 and Blades in the Dark.

Judi Dench & Bill Nighy in the National Theatre production of Chekhov’s The Seagull 📷 Robbie Jack, 1994

Quote with 5 jobs you've had: 1. Paint deliverer 2. Blogger 3. Computer programmer 4. Book writer 5. CEO

this is what a zine is 👍

I think this sums up what I've been trying to do in all my writing about games over the last 20 years. Games are not just a commodity, they're cultural artifacts with cultural value. They reflect our culture no less than books and film, and in many cases lead our culture.

Slightly diminish a game: Normalfolk ( by @snaxwell.bsky.social )

Killer loot drop at the PO today

busted

RTFM, the (an) RPG book club podcast, is back from hibernation. @snaxwell.bsky.social and I talk about This is Where the Stars Died by Scott Malthouse, "a non-linear narrative wargame." What does that mean? What's a war game? Am I supposed to be painting small men? open.spotify.com/episode/5ow2...

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

I have some #ttrpg money to spend. Which Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, German, English, Dutch, or Finnish creator and/or publisher wants it?

"Setting doesn't matter" is a valid, reasonable, and *critically important* argument which has been rendered ragebait and a punchline by pedantry.

<complaint> gawd, shopping on Instac*rt SUCKS. I would much rather wander around the grocery store bumping carts with people and forgetting the one thing I came for, as long as all that stuff was in front of my face and not on a screen for someone else to pick out wrong </complaint>

The only good thing about all this is that it has brought to my attention that the Greenland flag frickin’ rules. #Erfalasorput

imagine a blog post titled "Setting Doesn't Matter" lol

Great article on devoting a lifetime to making a (video) game. Surprised no mention of Eve Online though. Not the same exactly, but similar lessons, just as WoW has. Anyway, worth a read.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

Thank fuck someone finally said the quiet part out loud

Hey you! Are you a TTRPG writer staring at discourse on bluesky??? Would you rather be writing for a game? I want to pay you (at $0.20/word) to write for a zine month project! I'm seeking folks interested in folk stories and examining power structures in storytelling!

Zines are cut-up newsprint amalgamations made by punk rockers. Fight me.

🛷 can confirm

Had the pleasure of doing some advance reading of the next Tidings zines by @gatheraroundpjcts.bsky.social. Life is wild right now, but I'm glad people are imagining other futures. Check out these beautiful print objects: gatheraround.itch.io/tidings

More RPG posters tbh

CALLING ALL BLACK GMS Hello 2026 I'm back with the GM & Producer sign up sheet for a Valentines event celebrating Black Love in TTRPGs. Showcasing Black characters getting to be In Love, being the Love Interest, doing romantic things. Call closes Saturday January 17th forms.gle/ZBMWEvL6pWa6...

I hope every single one of those protesters gets laid tonight. And I hope at least half of them fall madly in love.

I fucking love Star Trek.

check *this* out

for a work thing, I have occasion to reread Joan Didion's 1967 essay on the Summer of Love, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and I am just very happy about that and you can too www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didi...

New year's resolution I think I can fulfill: Unsubscribe from the newsletters I just never find the time to read.

ruin two bands by combining them: REMinem

@iammilliam.bsky.social Do you know about Croydon Spaceport?? colossive.com/product/ad-a...