New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings. #osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth

Made some Vietnamese-style coffee using some leftover diplomat cream instead of condensed milk, calling it Paris Peace Accords Coffee.

The biggest takeaways from last night's playtest was that the game would be strengthened by dropping two mechanics that I already felt were awkward and wished I didn't have to include. So, big win for game design last night.

Just last night I ran a successful playtest of Protoplastic, my Bionicle-inspired TTRPG, and this particular piece has already had me thinking I might need to commission some work for the final book~

Playtest one-shot for Protoplastic today! So excited to finally get to test all these ideas that have been piling up since last month.

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

I got to participate in a playtest of @magnolienne.bsky.social's new game, Opera Eterna! My mafioso gave a reincarnated saint the kiss of death, then shot them in the head – and that, I must say, is what TTRPGs are all about.

Went to a post-Halloween party with the theme "Haunted Ballroom", so I put together a Rondò Veneziano outfit.

Of the different types of dungeon rooms, "Special" can be one of the hardest to write towards. This list of sub-categories of special rooms has great prompts! In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)

The fever dream of the future's future ~ The boiling pot that humanity let itself cook in ~ An opportunity ~ A sprint ~ A vision ~ A proof of life ~ This is your first look at Inheritors (officially PWYW on Itch~) sandroad.itch.io/proof-of-life

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...

"Dick Cheney" sounds like a name Tomino would give a politician who lobbies to deploy mobile suits against the space colonies.

🚨 Dragon Slayers is here! 🚨 Go on quests. Get magic items. Slay dragons. Dragon Slayers is a fantasy TTRPG where every class plays with their own set of rules. Grab the PDF today, preorder your printed book, and go slay a dragon. gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore! #osr #rpg #hexmas

The secret to success in social situations is to read Wikipedia a lot so you always have a fun fact on hand any time a topic comes up in conversation. The corollary is that if a topic arises and you don't have a fun fact on hand your status in the group will drop, so never stop reading Wikipedia.

im rich in inferiority

🎉 The Explorateur's Anniversary 🎉 My little community side project's still chugging along, and I'm happy to say, this month's issue's one of my favorites. Lots of great links, a new look, updated categories, and stats from last year's performance. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

In Ekman's emotional classification scheme, there's joy in the positive category, then fear, anger, sadness, and disgust in the negative one. Surprise is a special case, sometimes good or bad but always momentary. What a cruelty of evolution to make the majority of emotions unpleasant ones.

mechs are spooky, right that means today is the perfect day to release ALL SYSTEMS GO also it's the day it was completed so here we are, enjoy a solo mecha technobabble RPG, available on itch or DTRPG aryxymaraki.itch.io/all-systems-go www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

I'll admit it's been a rough year, but I do enjoy Halloween. In honor of the most morbid of seasons, all of my games are 50% off, and you can get them together in a bundle!

What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course is now available in PDF! You can get both the English and Japanese language versions now at ehronlime.itch.io/what-should-.... It's a solo journaling game about managing your pantry and cooking a week of meals for your loved ones.

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...

Please buy my shit in the name of not giving me a fucking ulcer. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...

Citizen Sleeper is an excellent game and a huge influence on my own design work, and the sequel improves upon the first in almost every way. Play them if you haven't already!

The exultant feeling of "this game design idea is incredible, I can't believe no one's done it before!" sliding into the nervous feeling of "is there a good reason no one's done this idea before?"

See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.

Alright, it's time... This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes. Light on rules, bound to the dark. 100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available! farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight

I'll admit it's been a rough year, but I do enjoy Halloween. In honor of the most morbid of seasons, all of my games are 50% off, and you can get them together in a bundle!

For this year’s spooky season post, I dig up the background of Skeletons, how they’ve been historically depicted in media (including D&D) and my favorite way to include them in my games #osr #ttrpg

ok here it is NEW BLOG POST! This is the first draft of a template for Sanic Hack prep that should make running the game's vibes easier! Or it won't, I'm not a Doctor. Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/themes... Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/10/them...

T minus 10! We have a lot to do by November 3rd, when we will be launching the 3rd edition of our best-known #ttrpg, the one that started #PBTA. If you know or have heard of #ApocalypseWorld, check out #AW3RD ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

papercult.club If you haven't joined the cult it's a good time to do so (apparently?)

I'm jumping the gun a bit and putting together a Protoplastic SRD for the Minimalist TTRPG Jam. The exercise is actually quite helpful for revealing the bones of the system as I refine it. The adjective for a Protoplastic-derived system is "Built out of Plastic", or "BooP".

Dread Mondays is out now! I'm proud to have a story of mine in this anthology. #booksky #horrorsky @whisperhousepress.bsky.social

I have the opening to Aura Battler Dunbine stuck in my head and now I'm convinced that the reason I'm sad all the time is that I have too much aura and never get to release it. Put me in a giant robot ladybug, I'm ready for it.

One more day to preorder!

Thinking about gender... robot gender.

My six-month His Majesty the Worm campaign just wrapped up: here's what happened, and my thoughts on the system.

HARDCASE: TRUTHSEEKER is the first official expansion for my #SoloRPG about surviving the gig economy in space! Solve 5 chilling Mysteries, lose yourself in a fictional MMORPG, enjoy Doomscrolling and E-Dating, collect *every* single Virtual Pet... and more! thursday-garreau.itch.io/truthseeker

Hey folks, my laptop needs fan replacements, but I am currently having financial struggles. Need my device for some freelance work, so any help to get them repaired is appreciated. itch.io/s/162117/hel...

In Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories, eldritch creatures called "dragons" lurk in hyperspace, waiting to drive humans to insanity and death. In these vulnerable, liminal moments, only cats – who see the invisible monsters as simply rats – can protect us. Much wisdom in this.

This week in the Bathtub, its Emergence! Does this funnel module concentrate all the fun into a tiny container, or does it leave you as lost and confused as a babe? Find out!! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/20/b...

Watched Sorcerer (1977) and this film was robbed of its accolades by its proximity to the release of Star Wars. That bridge scene was scarier than most horror movies I've seen.

In Protoplastic, at the start of character creation you generate your name from a random syllable chart. Later on, you choose your mask, and are then instructed to erase your old name and write in the canonical name of the associated hero. Your true identity is covered up by your expected role.

#OVER/UNDER finally answers the old question: what if EVE Online was Space Station 13?

exploration: 7 rules characters: 12 rules equipment: 2 rules combat: 63 rules magic items: 2 rules someone who is good at game design please help me fix this. my combats take 4 hours

Just migrated to my static site: on the individual variance of experiencing bleed.

Alpha Cipher is the PVP RPG of magical espionage action, and it's out now! Use all your skills of both magecraft and tradecraft to spy, assassinate, and try to avoid falling in love with enemy agents. Itch: vorpalcoil.itch.io/alpha-cipher DTRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...