URGENT Hi folks, I tried putting it off to make sure rent was covered but I think I'm starting to hallucinate and because of my med costs I'm now short around 900 for rent. I am positively desperate to survive, please share and help if you can

Fuck peace I want justice.

living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"

I literally screamed in horror

another day another draft spread for the Locked Room Murder Mystery Game's rulebook. if you follow the kickstarter, we might even break 400 followers: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

I think men would do well to stop assuming that women learning how to do something need or want coaching

Ages ago I took a day to read through the Daggerheart quickstart. Here's a transcript of that thread. https://loottheroom.uk/the-long-read-daggerheart-quickstart

90% of all rpg discourse is just this post

I also desperately need to raise money to get a used car because losing mine has severely limited my ability to find a job and get to crucial doctors appointments to keep my spine problems from becoming permanent. Please consider helping if you're able. gofund.me/baab5b660

Hi, I've been without my medication for a while now and also need to gather $1200 for June rent in the next week or I'll be facing eviction. I've been suffering severe back injuries from a car crash and I don't believe I would survive homelessness. I'm exhausted and desperate, please help if you can

to my mind, the core of pbta is not "2d6+stat with mixed successes", it's the system of "when x trigger happens in the fiction, apply y specific mechanic". Codified, genre specific moves are its main innovation. If you think pbta is just 2d6+stat with varied levels of success, you missed the point

LESS THAN THREE ( <3 ) DAYS LEFT TO BACK THIS SEXY TRANS GAME!! We're so blown away by the support IM A TRANS MAN has received, we can't wait to get this game into many, many hands 😎 Back now before it's over! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

Episode 28 France is out now, and it's with sooo much material I had to make 3 parts out of it. Talks with @rolenplay.bsky.social @rolistetv.bsky.social @linoumajorzero.bsky.social and many more: open.spotify.com/show/0z4WwX6...

not that this is saying anything new, but as anyone who is actually creative knows, creativity is about doing the work, not having the ideas. that’s why ”create” and “imagine” are different verbs - one makes something exist, the other one doesn’t.

I'm excited to announce that SPINE was awarded Most Innovative in the 2025 Indie Groundbreakers Awards. Watch my award statement below. Critical to this game's success and innovation are @furtsburrow.bsky.social, @naladraws.com, and Holly Freiberg. Thanks for helping me spread the word!

Uneasy Lies the @adambell.games - uneasy because his game is TOO good

Little Wolves is the 2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards GOTY and proud nominee for three other awards. 🐺💕 Now ya'll better go follow each of these fantastic people who helped us make it possible! @kobanya.bsky.social @possibleworlds.bsky.social @jnb.art @sharpibees.bsky.social @salvaterra.bsky.social

Hi folks, I had to reschedule my spine appointment since I couldn't get there but I still urgently need help with getting my meds and gathering rent. Please share and help if you can, I'm desperate for things to get easier soon

Look! I'm in Rascal! 💚 Quoting myself, "never underestimate the power of a few devoted nerds." www.rascal.news/digital-elbo...

Oh, I know it's not cost. We don't have universal healthcare because there would be no legal way to make it white-only. White Americans used to love social programs for welfare, health, job training. Then, courts told them they had to share. Been paring it back ever since, even when it hurts them.

Extremely good stuff from melos here as always, especially this (which is amplified by 100x in the TTRPG world for reasons I cannot discern but nevertheless see)

As someone who likes some PbtAs and strongly dislikes others, I don't even think it needs defending: the biggest common problem is when people take 2d6+stat, and effectively peel out specificity of outcome or total Move ecosystem, & push it back to Trad design. It's unconsidered design.

The grim part that remains true from when folks were doing the math at the Forge 20 years ago is "RPGs can make you enough money to go to a convention, once a year, maybe" at least in the US. The advice "do not put more money in a project than you can afford to lose completely" also still holds.

I created a subsite for my digital preservation stuff! allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/AParchive/di... It likely still has bugs, but all the stuff about the AP archive project, the SeriesSeeker project, and my general ramblings about digital preservation of AP will live here :)

You've probably seen the word #Landback somewhere and instantly had some feelings. It sounds blunt, which is part of why a lot of people tend to have an instant reaction or jump to some very problematic misconceptions about what it means. So, let's talk Landback, from my POV and work.

We also trust that you can source your own pictures of cat people with big boobs. In game design this is known as the "fruitful void".

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

I feel like people are starting to grok HIS MAJESTY THE WORM even better than I do. Juli just started a blog and has two banger posts about the Meatgrinder--the overloaded random encounter generator for Worm.

OSR is improv that's desperately convinced it's trad

Jelly’s top 5 rpgs that u should play instead of dnd: 1. ARC 2. Delta Green 3. The Between 4. Dragon Reactor 5. The Slow Knife

Hello, I still need a way to get to my PT, blood work, and pain management appointments this week. It's a lot to deal with on top of withdrawal, I'm really desperate. Please share and help if you can

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

More work on the rulebook for The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game. This is the most important thing in the game, so it's going to be the first thing you see when you open the rules.

I'm 15 pages into Dragon Reactor by @dinoberrypress.bsky.social. To call it "beautiful" might seem like hyperbole (or impossible for narrow understandings of ttrpgs), but extrapolating what I anticipate from a gameplay session from this point in the book fills my heart with a weighty sadness.

How to review rpgs: 1. Your way of play is the one true way. 2. Determine if the game in question fits your way of roleplaying. 3. Judge it to be lacking. Note: Some games don't even try to fit your way of roleplaying. This is because their designers are wrong and stupid. Explain how this is so.

In the end, we're all just tauntaun sleeping bags in God's rec room closet

Soliciting a game pitch for @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social (self-promo welcome, adventures or systems welcome, not looking for generic systems or "You could do this in D&D" style suggestions) Medical Horror/Medical Mystery. Not medical *drama,* per se (so, The Ward doesn't quite fit). Any pitches?

proudly hating Spotify as a podcast platform for 11 years now!!!

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

I think that the TTRPG industry has just experienced (and still is experiencing) a fairly strong anti-slop radicalization event.

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

on a related note: i think for sure we hold indie creators to a much higher political standard. sometimes you'll see people criticize queer art for being insufficiently radical, and then immediately go and play the latest pokémon game or whatever

You cannot lose money from people who didn't have it in the first place// I care about people getting to my art above all// Some will download it to see it first and then buy it// All our work would have been impossible without piracy enabling art literacy// Piracy rules 🤍 Support pirates

Hella thread from someone who I think really gets what makes pbta tick!! Check out their game Cleave!!

When people see senseless, awful things happen, they comfort themselves by assessing ‘what the victim did wrong’ and think that they wouldn’t get harassed because they simply wouldn’t say X or Y. But the truth is that harassers can always find something. Can always take something in bad faith.

“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.