This too shall pass or whatever

Attention all bloggers: a new blog bandwagon appears! This time the topic is randomness in all its forms. The post includes some random tables to further randomize your ensuing post #osr #ttrpg

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The tyrant has taken everything from you: here's how you take it back.

Last year I wrote a ttrpg manifesto trying to outline a style of play I enjoy. I have since refined those thoughts and arrived at a more clear vision of that philosophy. This is the "lost" seventh culture of play. www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2026/05...

This morning I published the second essay in the design series for Violent Delights: my chess-based RPG about Romeo & Juliet. This one examines boxed rpgs alongside games that adapt board game components for similar ends. I talk about Dread, Fake Chess, The Dance & the Dawn, and Asher's Ridge.

In a truly insane coincidence, I also recently subjected my elders to a #Mothership module! I could think of no better way to review a megadungeon than to let old people wander inside. It went well, because Roach Motel is good. valerialoves.com/my-dads-firs...

"I didn't see you at the club" Well I didn't see you at the

Rewatched Lady In The Water for the first time since it came out and I am vindicated in my belief that it was always a good movie. People were only convinced it was bad by critics who review-bombed it because they felt like it attacked them.

I've started playing Crystal Chronicles with someone who played it as a kid but never had a second person to play it with properly. We had to do a little surgery on a GBA to get everything running on the original hardware, but we are now in business - the myrrh business.

Last night I finished a year-long Delta Green campaign. In the end I was corrupted by the King In Yellow and rewrote the play to contain a nested recursive play within it. One of the other investigators chose to hurl himself out of a window. Good times!

Into the rules of Immanent Domain, a TTRPG of magitech revolutionary uprising. From what high tower does the tyrant oppress your people?

Bluesky's back? Wonderful! Did you all know I released a supplement to NULL_SPACE? What's that, you didn't because I suck at marketing and barely posted about it? Well, NULL_SPACE Supplement #1: Violence is here. I wrote a piece about it: binarystar.games/posts/origin...

The Review Something! TTRPG Bundle is now recruiting. This is going to be a PWYW bundle, all profits split equally between contributors, with the additional sub-theme that in order to buy it you should review a game on itchio. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Having fun writing the list of fictional ores and gems you can dig up in Deep Time - I'm getting to use some notes I took years ago and haven't have a chance to use until now. I'll put up a post with them on my Patreon in a couple days.

I say "Coding Is Hard" as I try to learn it, but all I've been doing thus far is dipping my toes into GDScript, the Python-like native language for Godot. It's effectively baby's first programming language, yet still I struggle. It is to laugh.

I talked about learning to code with a friend and they responded "why aren't you just using AI?". Because I want to develop a skill and understand what I'm making...

Been developing my first real video game the last few days, and I've come to the conclusion that Coding Is Hard. Neat, though. I'm getting a sense of how it all loops together on a conceptual level, but the syntax of how to describe it precisely in the way the machine understands is so fiddly.

Watch/listen/telepathically absorb every episode today!

GET IT NOW #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

With all my work in play-testing Dollhouse I've almost forgotten to keep people updated with the rest of my work! If you've got $5 on hand take a look at the Nostalgic TTRPG Bundle, where you can pick up DAWN along with 10 other games! itch.io/b/3643/nosta...

UPCOMING GAME ANNOUNCEMENT Violent Delights is a chess-based rpg about Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. It depicts the masquerade scene in which our lovers first meet. The chess board represents the Capulet’s great chamber, and the players act as a cast of characters who correspond to chess pieces. 👇

A history of magical Progress and the people that made it a bad thing.

Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is live on Kickstarter! Tell your own bloody, John Wick-inspired revenge story in about as much time as it takes to watch one. It's a deckbuilder RPG named after a Taylor Swift lyric. Check it out now!

The Ashen Empress is a character I've been toying with putting into more than one project for the last decade, she is close to my heart. Something within me just likes a cool, kind of evil immortal queen.

Blogwagon Roundup! 50 blogposts all about maps, including a few adventures that use the same map (from @amandalee.bsky.social) in totally different ways #osr #ttrpg

The Ashen Empress is a character I've been toying with putting into more than one project for the last decade, she is close to my heart. Something within me just likes a cool, kind of evil immortal queen.

THE CORRUPTED Colonialism + Corruption = Eldritch Horror A prequel to Oddipelago, an upcoming original TTRPG setting/adventure inspired by colonial-era Indonesia, where eldritch entities brought by colonizers corrupt both nature and people. Coming July 2026! #ttrpg #osr (1/4)

The #dnd wisdom my teenage self spent too much time searching for. www.valerialoves.com/a-sickos-gui...

Pokémon but the monsters are the scattered organs of a vast, moribund outer god whose metasapient mind is still sufficiently active in the fragments to grant them near-human consciousness, hence their repetitive inhuman utterances.

The purpose of civilization is to advance the tech tree until unlocking "Tea and Scones In The Morning".

AND WE ARE -LIVE- WITH DIG FOR DOG! I'm raising money for my precious furbaby's medical bills by DIGGING A BIG HOLE in Hytale! Come by to see doggie pictures and also me dying repeatedly as I attempt to reach bedrock via 100,000 Blocks! www.twitch.tv/farmergadda

I cut a lot from the final text of 'Til Death to get it down to one double-sided page plus cards, but I saved the fun parts.

The Immortal Who Saw The Death Of The Universe is one of the all-time top manga for me and I'm not even kidding. It's a three-issue Touhou fan comic and yet also one of the most emotionally affecting science fiction short stories I've ever read.

I'm going to make the Death Stranding of Terraria.

We're doing a sneak peek on Inkvein's factions! murkdice.substack.com/p/48-hours-d... #osr Our @morkborg.com megadungeon is in it's last 48 hours: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Come see what it's all about, we've had praise from @nohr.se, @yochaigal.bsky.social, and @bastionland.bsky.social.

Every year, I reread the LotR trilogy. This last year's reread amped me up and I started keying Middle-earth 12 miles at a time Concurrently, without meaning to, I wrote a game to run the hexcrawl I call it Lore - a Lord of the Rings Adventure Game retroclone Here's what I think is fun about it🧵

Bluesky CENSORED me yesterday by just fucking up and not working, but here is a new blog post where I propose a procedural method for generating hexcrawl terrain, inspired by both Mausritter and the original DMG #osr #ttrpg

New episode! Yet with bittersweet tastes upon our tongues we must announce that this will be the final episode of Rose Playing Games: we've had fun making them, but future schedules preclude continuing the series. Thank you all for watching, and watch for the next new project on the way.

New episode! Yet with bittersweet tastes upon our tongues we must announce that this will be the final episode of Rose Playing Games: we've had fun making them, but future schedules preclude continuing the series. Thank you all for watching, and watch for the next new project on the way.

Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs. I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me! elmc.at/fullstack-re...

The ancestral task (skill challenges that aren't boring) is now complete.

NULL_SPACE physicals are here! The basic rules are a square-bound stapled booklet, while GIG_WORK; is a little folio containing four Jobs. (links downthread)

TTRPG with old-school "you can die in character creation" mechanics, except most terminal events are stuff like "reached adulthood with no major traumas" or "found a love of carpentry", so your goal is to make enough bad life choices that your character is a big enough loser to become an adventurer.

The Amazing Digital Circus (2023)

Our page appears frozen but *you can still pledge.* Please, please, please tell everyone you know that the Public Access campaign is still going, despite this catastrophic glitch. Please re-post. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

I'm starting to be concerned that, in addition to the current KS meltdown, our 48 hour warning email also did not go out. If you saved Public Access but did not pledge, please reply here letting me know if you received your 48 hour warning email from KS. PLEASE re-post this message.

Wowwwww Kickstarter is borked right now. Please continue to look at the TTRPG Public Access because it is so seriously an amazing game, and you want it in your collection. Don't miss out!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

The verb "check" (to examine) comes from check (to hinder/stop, in the sense of a mandatory search), which comes from the metaphor of putting into check (from chess), the game itself being named from the Latininized form of the Persian "shah", or king. The king is watching you.