ENHANCE!!!

Packing orders! 📦 💀

It's Friday. You should relax and read about a cute little dragon game.

It's like this solo hexcrawl was made for me. Check out Residue: a Solo Survival TTRPG by @weirdplace.bsky.social on KS.

This issue of Senet appears to have @danthurot.bsky.social talking about A Gest of Robin Hood and Robin Hood games in general. I am very interested! 👀

I recorded two Skeleton Code Machine articles for this project.

Fun is not a monolith. You may not know exactly what kind of fun your game wants to be when you come up with it but it’s critical to understand the intended experience before you pitch it.

Glatisant spotted! I recently wrote about how it uses limited communication at Skeleton Code Machine: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/glatisant

ENHANCE!!! 👀

"The player dies if their Health is reduced to 0 or less." The most dangerous RPG! I'll die?!?!

This looks cool.

The accomplishment of "We Read the Bloggies" is incredible. In just a few weeks they produces nearly the same number of episodes as Blogs on Tape has in almost 9 years. Bravo to everyone involved, that's incredible.

What is the dice game inside Before the Bog God? Exploring how Before the Bog God by Infinite Citadel uses a two-player dice game as a framework for telling a story about wishes and old gods: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/bog-god-dice #ttrpg #rpg #gamedesign #dice 🎲✂️

Packing orders! 📦 💀

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Tumulus 06 "Hammer a nail in the coffin." will begin shipping in March! This issue is packed with tabletop game design inspiration involving vampires, ghosts, and the dangerous undead. And a haunted house generator! ⚰️💀 Be sure 06 is one of your selected issues: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/scm-t...

"Is that game fun?" The answer for me always depends on what you mean by "fun" in that case, because it is different for each person. Learning the 8 Kinds of Fun is one way we can develop a better vocabulary that allows for easier communication: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/the-8-kind... 🎲✂️

Make weird (green) games! 🎲 💚

I bounced off this rulebook pretty hard. Will need to try again when I’m well rested.

A reminder that Exeunt Press does wholesale. If you want to sell some games via retail, reach out! omnes.exeunt.press/p/ep-flgs

Tumulus Issue 05 is shipping now through the end of the month. Issue 06 begins in March 2026 with vampires, ghosts, and the dangerous dead!

YO are you making a zine for this? Are you PRINTING that zine, makin it exist IRL? Do you think it'd be cool for that zine to get sold out of a vending machine in a game bar in Portland, Oregon? DM us! (Think: A6-ish or smaller, $25 or less retail)

"Is that game fun?" The answer for me always depends on what you mean by "fun" in that case, because it is different for each person. Learning the 8 Kinds of Fun is one way we can develop a better vocabulary that allows for easier communication: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/the-8-kind... 🎲✂️

Check out this mini interview about the #LeanGreenZineJam I did with Exeunt Press!

In case you missed it!

The Lean Green Zine Jam hosted by @junkfoodgames.bsky.social is live from February 23 to April 20, 2026. It sounds like fun so I did a mini interview with Chris about it! You should join and make weird (green) games: omnes.exeunt.press/p/lean-green #ttrpg #gamejam #leangreenzine #interview #rpg

Best I can do is this: exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech

Action dice in Dark Venture: Battle of the Ancients Exploring the use of action dice in Dark Venture: Battle of the Ancients and how tokens are used to mitigate luck and increase player agency: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/dark-venture #boardgames #gamedesign #dice 🎲✂️

New issue shipping in March!

A little micro-interview with @junkfoodgames.bsky.social about this game jam coming this week? Perhaps! I'll post it at omnes.exeunt.press when it's ready.

Brandon makes great art and this sounds like an easy way to get access to it for your weird little games. Show him some support! 🐸🖌️

Next at Skeleton Code Machine, we explore how Dark Venture: Battle of the Ancients uses action dice and luck mitigation in an interesting way. It's a dark sci-fantasy game with some wild art! 📬 Subscribe to read it Tuesday: www.skeletoncodemachine.com #boardgames #gamedesign #horror #scifi

I have become OK with getting rid of board game box inserts. Remove it, bag everything, and close the box.

Dark Venture: Battle of the Ancients has explicit rules for forfeiting a game. That’s something I talked about at SCM in the garbage time post: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/garbage-time

This week’s Skeleton Code Machine topic…

This is your chance to fulfill your dream of becoming a lean green zine making machine. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

In case you missed this on Friday, here's the latest Epsilon update. Character creation!

Tumulus is a print-only tabletop game design quarterly. Each issue has a different theme packed with creative inspiration. Subscribe: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/scm-tumulus Back issues: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/tumulus-back-issue More info: tumulus.exeunt.press #boardgames #ttrpg #rpg #gamedesign

Tumulus 06 "Hammer a nail in the coffin." is all about vampires and the dangerous dead. Couldn't pass up a chance to explore Blood Borg and do a mini interview (3 questions) with @worldchamp.bsky.social! This issue will begin shipping in March 2026 which is just a few weeks away! #ttrpg #morkborg

Tumulus 06 "Hammer a nail in the coffin." will begin shipping in March! This issue is packed with tabletop game design inspiration involving vampires, ghosts, and the dangerous undead. And a haunted house generator! ⚰️💀 Be sure 06 is one of your selected issues: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/scm-t...

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Love finding product catalogs inside old board games. Here are a few pages from the Chaosium Fall-Winter 1980 catalog. Research for this week’s Skeleton Code Machine (potentially). #boardgames #ttrpg #runequest

Make your own adventure this weekend! "Exeunt's guides are always extremely well researched and this is no exception. What a thorough bit of work. I can't recommend it highly enough." "A beautiful, straight-forward, and inspiring book." PDF: exeuntpress.itch.io/adventure #ttrpg #adventure

I'm doing monthly design updates for Epsilon all the way until it is fulfilled. Follow along on the 3rd Friday of each month. Today's is about character creation, backgrounds, and talents...

Epsilon Update No. 5: Character creation The next monthly update about Epsilon — a solo adventure game about exploring a dark and corrupting forest. Creating characters with different backgrounds. omnes.exeunt.press/p/epsilon-005 #ezb #solorpg #drawing #epsilon #ttrpg

Have you listened to the bloggies yet?

Tomorrow!

We need more playtesting of solo games at Unpub events!

Unpub is less than a month away. I'm running playtests of two games and feeling very unprepared. Time to make some checklists. ✅ #unpub #boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign #playtest

Inching ever closer!