I am just minutes away from going live with Stan! Come join us! youtube.com/live/8MbFZ_R...

The reason the game industry keeps laying people off and canceling games despite consumer appetite is because the game industry doesn’t exist any more. It’s been subsumed into the black hole of venture capital, which deliberately believes there is value in treating every industry the same.

D&D Summer Camp, anyone? I’ll be running 3 hour sessions *most Thursdays* throughout the summer at my FLGS Quest Central in Port Coquitlam, BC. Registration for ages 8-15 here: app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/775...

Running a summoner in today's Crack the Sun playtest.

McDonald’s Worker Suffers Severe Burns After Being Attacked With Hot Oil https://theonion.com/mcdonalds-worker-suffers-severe-burns-after-being-attacked-with-hot-oil/

D&D Encounters Unboxing! What's in the box stores are receiving? Secrets of the Celebration Event and encounter season revealed! Listen or watch: masteringdungeons.podbean.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVcs... #DnD #TTRPG #DnDEncounters @dndbeyond.com

News: WotC Changes Drops Policy, Neon Odyssey Breaks Records, Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 Remakes, Ravenloft Finishes AP, and more! Listen or watch: masteringdungeons.podbean.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsw2... #DnD #TTRPG

Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology is available now! Details: bit.ly/49Dm4u5 Includes 10 new standalone stories blending horror & romance in the style of classic EC Comics anthologies by fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ creators! By @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and many more. With @readtinyonion.bsky.social

FRPG Player Tip: In any preliminary campaign discussion, don’t skirt around the topic of risk and lethality. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a “let the dice fall where they may” game, especially with a ruleset embracing that style. But if that’s not your preferred style, it’s okay to say so.

Andy does really good work. Hire Andy for adventure design!

I wrote one of these!

The Summoner is now in the license! Which means, thanks to Andy Aiken's hard work, means it's now in Forged Steel! forgesteel.net

The Kobold Ancestry is now on RPG Trader! Get it for $8 now through the 15th as part of the site's launch sale. rpg-trader.com/products/385...

Eep!

Lord Loren Soth was as wrathful as he has ever been. The PCs put up a brave fight... youtu.be/pHsHEGCo6WQ

Feminism also liberates men

Years ago I released the Forever GM design and I was happy with it, but lately I've wanted to tinker with the design and move from the 8-bit look to an illustrated piece. So.... I DID. The new and improved Forever GM design is live! #dnd #ttrpg #daggerheart d20monkey.dashery.com/products/374...

Hello, today is my Birthday! ✨And the best gift for an artist is a retweet of their artworks 🍃🌿

Severed sea cucumber bits can survive as independent organisms that are no longer sea cucumbers

MORE LEGENDS OF GREYHAWK ADVENTURES ON D&D BEYOND! The Secrets of the Free City Play Bundle is now available for purchase, including 3 Adventures (Shadows Over the Free City, Sword in the Shadows, and Murder Among Thieves) plus 10 Maps! marketplace.dndbeyond.com/category/N78...

Next DeMonday!

Tabletop Gaymers interviews Chrys Sellers (she/her, @hecticelectron.bsky.social) of Hectic Electron Games about transitioning later in life, creating Defy the Gods, crowdfunding lessons, mentorship, and centering queer experiences in game design. Learn more at hecticelectron.com. 1/2

(And for that matter don't screw over current workers by being that kind of company.)

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Research by vibes might not be the right way to go about finding the sexuality of inanimate objects. But who are we to judge? See and read the full comic on penny-arcade.com ! #halo #bisexuallighting #videogames #comedy #foryou

Alligators in the sewers? In #DrawSteel , it’s slaughter demons in the sewers!

Playtesting #DrawSteel and the heroes have to stop Dalrath from burning! This was super fun! Lots of tough choices for the players.

Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.

The #CORE20RPG is a new approach to d20 fantasy, built on a foundation of freeform characters with no classes and no levels. It turns the aging “pass/fail” core d20 mechanic into fuel for shared storytelling — and you can play for free right now! core20rpg.blogspot.com/p/the-core20... 1/

@deadlyfredly.bsky.social One of the stories covering the Paizo situation mentions $10M in inventory. Does that sound possible to you? I imagine it is bolstered for legal reasons, but can something even in that neighborhood be plausible for Paizo?

Anyone know what the size of Paizo’s staff was before the layoffs?

Mysteries of the Old Gods: Want: Schwalb Entertainment https://schwalbentertainment.com/2026/06/09/mysteries-of-the-old-gods-want/ #dnd #ttrpg

Many publishers have regarded the exclusivity as vital and important with DTRPG. It's not. I am very happy with DTRPG. They're absolutely the Amazon of PDF vendors in terms of scale vs the rest of the market. I still won't go exclusive with them. Exclusivity is more to their benefit than ours.

Gross sales on DTRPG for May 2026: $5565.97 What EHP's Exclusive cut (70%) would be: $3,896.18 What EHP's Non-Exclusive cut (65%) would be: $3,617.88 Exclusivity cost therefore: $278.30 Itch revenue for same month: $392.34 Itch IMO is anemic, but still offsets the 5% ($392 = 7% of gross DTRPG).

Delighted that RPGTrader has launched, delighted it's kicking things off with a sale and you can get The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen for just $7.16 rpg-trader.com/products/240...

...Also had this piece centering around Jim Croce’s poignant “Time In A Bottle”. While much is often said of the emotional depth Dave Goelz could bring to a song, Jim Henson could also bring an affecting aching quality to his vocals that penetrates deeply.

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

A roundup of tabletop games we've played in the past couple months, family & friends. tinyurl.com/5hc99m6z

some gay knights ⚔️

Rob designs a variety of games and plays a variety of games with a variety of people. Here's his report on several that he's played recently, from the casual to the serious. Three are his own designs, one of which is still in secret mode. Get your first tantalizing glimpse here! #boardgame

Finished: Game Wizards, by @increment.bsky.social. I absolutely rattled through this. It's a well-researched history of TSR from the years leading up to the publication of D&D through to the Lorraine Williams takeover in 1985.

Know Direction breaks down how the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy relates to Paizo's recent restructuring announcement. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/06/diam...

What We're Playing: Tabletop H through W: Rob Heinsoo http://robheinsoo.blogspot.com/2026/06/what-were-playing-tabletop-h-through-w.html #dnd #ttrpg

There is a tough needle to thread here, to make a setting interesting and complex enough (and only uses its options) to drive sales higher than your setting would bring if it just allowed all options and therefore feels like all other worlds. Dark Sun rocked this.

Why does Wemby, the tallest player, not simply eat the other athletes

Woke up to my ears burning in a very good way. A review of a #ttrpg adventure I wrote for @koboldpress.com sometime ago. gmtourguide.substack.com/p/the-white-...

Crow Playtest #2. The Crows made it to the Blood Library. Built a raft to get in. Got into the main room before timer went off!!! then a mob of blood creatures skulked up on them! They did get one or two of them by knocking over bookshelves. We ended in the middle of combat. Pick back up next week!

Here's a classic couple from #Planescape. The fox-headed Shemeshka is an inter-planar criminal & Colcook is her trusted servant. These are Ral Partha minis are from 1995, but Shemeshka features prominently in the 5e Planescape boxed set. More minis & games on eBay. 1/2 www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...

Well, the blog has dropped over on Paizo, so I’m opening my mouth. As of July, I will no longer be a Pathfinder Society Developer. I don’t know where I’m going next. I’m currently mourning my future. Paizo was my forever. I saw myself working for Society until I was cobwebs and dust.

If you are a Portland-based game designer or other kind of game nerd with interests in the 18th century, please let me know?