this week in TTRPG design: I started mapping out a mini Draw Steel adventure called Open Source Altar of the Spaghetti Toade inspired by TRON × Xena Warrior Princess Battle maps are to be ASCII graphics Nethack-style too in case it wasn't clear I'm one of the biggest MCDM fans ever.

My indie puzzle fighting board game is coming to Kickstarter on March 3rd 2026! Pick your character and step up to the arcade machine. Input your attack commands by pulling connected matching marbles. More marbles = bigger attack! The twist: only the middle lane is shared~

【7 Days Left】 ✦ backup your discord ✦ talk to your friends/community ✦ don't comply.

I LITERALLY NEED $1000 MORE AND I CAN MAKE MY PAYMENT HOLY SHIT THIS IS WILD $2322/3300

Dream blunt rotation

telling friends to please take this playtest seriously then adding CUM to the themes list

Do you think when Gandalf married into the White family there was some awkward tension at the following Wizard Dinner?

It's funny watching Gladlands, immediately clocking that Brennan accidentally stumbled into the inherently queer core of the genre, and then hearing him admit so while kinda not realizing he's less redefining the genre and more emphasizing what its always been Should do more this, less D&D bullshit

Working on Emerge From Nothing again and I think it is a TTRPG where everyone at the table contributes to the world by creating Aspects that then can alter your otherwise fully blank character via their interaction with said Aspects or it's ilk. Roll 4 Shoes + YASP (see link) using only index cards

Back and at it again!

I'm starting fun TTRPG discourse: Dice? Out. Cards? In. Oh you need click-clacks to be entertained? You mean like a rattle you fucking baby? Grow up. Not only got Tarot and Playing alone, the latter often is easier to find d6s, but also UNO, Mahjong, Pai gow.. Tiles/Dominoes? That's cards baby.

Submissions open til next month + work starts March: forms.gle/78ijB1hraPrS... For reference sheets, send me an email with the details. ⬇ Check out examples and pricing over ⬇ ✨ eliasdrid-comms.weebly.com ✨

I'm not keen on hearing defense or excuses: If Quinns reviewed just one of the TTRPGs I made instead of another game by financially privileged cishet white men, it would literally change my life. He made decisions, he's being criticized for those decisions. That's how life works. Grow up.

BACKUP YOUR DISCORD!! I wrote a guide of how you can use 1 program and 1 browser extension to download all your Discord channels/dms as well as all your images ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share this with your friends/communities There's only【12 Days】until the Discord update ⌛

I don't believe in Awards but you should pretend (kinda like a TTRPG eh?) I was nominated for a Bloggie and go support/read the writing I work so hard on! This one even suggests a new way to approach throwing out the rules to make a custom system as a group!!

Latest release of absurd contemporesque quasi-setting guide is out!! This time around get the transcript of a wide-reaching local radio show inspired by QWERPline, Welcome to Night Vale, and subsequently TTRPGs such as Absurdia & VOID 1680 AM (big shoutouts to Voices in the Wood too)

Grindhouse 2 is back this Friday night with a scenic, sunny road trip to wine country🍷 Pile in, grab your snacks, grab the aux cord, and keep your eyes on the road for a How’s My Driving oneshot (by @dngnclub.itch.io)! Fri, Feb 20 5:30 PT | 8:30 ET Twitch.tv/badhouserpg

I know a lot of fellow indie TTRPG folk, and I say this literally as a huge lyric game fan / designer myself, wanna push back on this premise but I genuinely think it's because you don't know what mechanics are and that's fine but.. You are literally taking away from the artform in your ignorance

I just released a new game! Have you ever wanted to solve mysteries like Harriet the Spy or Nancy Drew? Kid Detectives is about kids solving mysteries in the sleepy town of Ida Falls. Meanwhile, a deeper conspiracy lurks. The adults are up to No Good and it's up to you to uncover their secrets!

I forgot, this valentines day buy my game of whirlwind romances and chance encounters! dare2dreamrpg.itch.io/strangers-to...

I think if I made the GM cum multiple times in the past 24hrs she shouldn't be able to tell me what treasure I do or do not get, actually Somehow this is a hate crime I just know it.

Hey so all my partners are long-distance and/or unavailable for Valentine's Day so let this poor trans dyke get herself something special Buy my TTRPGs: imaginationsimulations.itch.io/junkntrunk Or drop me a gift: www.paypal.com/paypalme/Ner...

Hi hello I am one of those NSFW folks and I agree. Doing that instead of fighting back will almost certainly lead to me being out of your life. So many my DMs are amok with kinkplay, it's a significant way I engage with long-distance partners and express myself as a trans/genderqueer lesbian.

Pitch submission deadline has been extended by a week to 22 February 2026, so there’s still time to pitch something if you’re interested.

I'm not saying everyone who plays with you will think all your ideas are sexy, funny, and cool but I am saying everyone I play TTRPGs with says that about all the ideas I give to the table.

Holy cow!!! I'm live RIGHT NOW on the @twloha.bsky.social Twitch channel as part of their Valentine's Day Doesn't Have To Suck campaign! I'm going to be playing some Monster Prom for the first time!!! www.twitch.tv/twloha

Please, Ms. Ke$ha, the whole gang been here for weeks waiting: Walk in!! Let this function begin!! I miss the family!!

It's already funded so you should hop on this dope-ass TTRPG for playing some Slasher-ass horror!! Full bias: I helped playtest it and gave design advice but that's because I liked it that much! It has such great potential for exciting and interesting sessions. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/i...

You don’t need that other game, Tangled Blessings exists. mothwin.com/collections/...

Ok I don't like beefing with people who aren't in my general sphere in public venues but I'm gonna be real seeing a cis guy channel anger at an Epstein loving bigot into hey if you wanna experience the magic of Harry Potter my brand would be the best way to do it is just gross feeling!

I need TTRPG peeps to play abstract board games and realize how theme, unless well ingrained in the actual game mechanics, often doesn't matter as much as the game's mechanical design. You don't need to remake Brindlewood Bay to be school wizards if the point is still investigating mysteries.

This Kickstarter is killing me. I keep getting scam pledges that go up and then back out, this is so stressful. Back this game and I'll put art in the mail - for you! If it fails I'll CRY

What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

This is the best actual play I’ve ever seen. The sound design and editing are a wildly good.

proud of you, kid

You should still check out our latest adventure A Feast for a Sphinx!! evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-...

My dear friend Leon, made this game with the terrifying cover. Leon makes great games. Explore, find graffiti... what's not to love? [the scary cover man, that's what's not to love] BUT THE GAME IS SO COOL XOXOX.

I think there are enough cishet white boy TTRPGs. We don't need to kickstart more of them. Thank you.

interesting how the same people are pro-life are those who'd rather give a terribly-built, planet-killing machine to a child than simply talk to them. “I'd rather a computer scan this kid's face than teach them to identify/avoid predatory behaviour or teaching responsible sexual practices”

it cannot be stressed enough how utterly gay I am for Utada

Instead of supporting head trauma megaball go support a trans artist and get some sports team names for your TTRPGs!! Be on the look out for more soon regarding Fhuqurs possibly player stats? Perhaps a Blood Bowl type game?

I do think football would be better if we could have professional wrestling style run-ins from rival teams “The Bills are going in for the touchdown winning game!! 30! 20! 10— HOLY SHIT THE BIRDS WITH THE METAL CHAIR!!!! FUMBLE RETRIEVED!! SCORED!!”

it just feels weird in the TTRPG space where I know so many supposed communists not grasping how the problem isn't connecting with other people. You realize how much your life depends on other people?? You didn't make the clothes you wear!! And if you did: who taught you? Who made the materials?

yo this game is fucking DOPE go fund it

nobody made you make a bluesky nobody made you write a blog nobody made you create a myspace you actually CAN just make art and then fuck off but then it's likely nobody might talk about it, which is the price of NOT PARTICIPATING IN SOCIETY Complain about not having UBI and housing you dork.

why is it black people or us from the global south, especially those of us who live of TTRPGs, that need to denounce this shit and put our livelihoods on the line? when the article came up and people were denouncing the history of abuse of Jay Dragon and the Treehouse, what you think we gained?

Before you defend Jay Dragon who, under contractual obligation, paid queer people of colour for SOME of the work they did remember: She also CHOSE to manipulate and abuse marginalized people. She CHOSE to do that. And post about it. She CHOSE to be shitty in public AND private. For attention

your print elitism is killing art

Non-Black folks are far too comfortable taking space and centering themselves in Black spaces. I really need folks to interrogate their feelings of entitlement and refusal to respect and protect Black life, space, and epistemes.