We need a Duel Disk for role playing games

Just finished reading @neonhemlock.bsky.social’s We’re Here Best Speculative Fiction 2020. I loved it! There are so many good stories in here. Special shoutout to @adeniro.bsky.social, @rblemberg.bsky.social, @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app and @charliejane.bsky.social for writing some of my faves.

I have seen a couple posts on trpgs to play that aren't D&D (for obvious reasons) and I'm always hesitant to chime in. There is always the chance something you liked in your favorite game isn't the same in ours, for example. But hey, if you want to give BREAK!! a look I'd be happy for that!

This six-week, 10-student class with @natmesnard.bsky.social of @scryptidgames.bsky.social invites you to explore interactive narrative writing and design in a workshop-style format. For details visit: bit.ly/4fz3N4Z

The thing is once you've done this, where do you go from there? How do you top that? But I think I've found a very elegant solution

"it is possible that WotC could use this software to standardize the personalities of notable NPCs and have them actually interact with players at the table" Jesus fucking Christ. Just play a goddamn videogame already. For fuck's sake. icv2.com/articles/new...

Seeing what fuckery Wotc is doing during this union effort… stop giving them money. Stop buying their games. Stop playing their games. Stop giving their games free promotion on your actual play shows. Cut them off. They’re fucking evil. That company is fucking evil.

Also found @vidityavoleti.bsky.social

sun's out, VNL is back, life is good

Stopped in to @2dollarcreature.bsky.social to help do some worldbuilding for their fourth season, using @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's stellar "A Land Once Magic"! Go check it out:

Join us as we gather to shape the world of Season 4: Wish. We're joined by guest GM @laggardson.bsky.social (Genre Space, Pest Control) to lead us through "A Land Once Magic," a worldbuilding game designed by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social & published by moreblueberries. Episode 1 drops June 16.

This game started huge, and has only gotten bigger, better, and weirder since then. If you haven't already gotten in on the playtest, check it out on our Patreon!

Last day to be Asian before everyone becomes gay

woah, 4k follower milestone! time for a reintroduction: i'm will jobst, a tabletop rpg designer, publisher, and editor, and 1/2 of @goodluckpress.co. i'm stuck inside the computer and the only way i can get out is if the computer gets wet. REALLY wet. you'll know!

Playtest materials for STRIKE/POSE, the model kit skirmish game I'm designing with @gamewithbeef.bsky.social, are now available for free on Itch! We're looking for feedback! danielhkwan.itch.io/strikepose

showing some new friends the wild world of indie rpgs tonight. what’s my pick for the perfect intro? gotta be @seaexcursion.itch.io’s EXQUISITE BIOME (seaexcursion.itch.io/exquisite-bi...)

CHECK IT OUT! a deck-based travelogue ttrpg where you modify your LEGO vehicle depending the changing terrain. i can't believe this hasn't funded! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

are you compelled by the idea of tarot at the gaming table but haven't yet found a deck that speaks to you? Why not give Spindlewheel a try? Archetypal cards with poetic prompts will indulge your bleakest instincts and surprise you with their juxtapositions.

This was so much fun lol I was so excited to be handed whatever Dillin set up and we cooked up something so funky I'm hoping people who listen get inspired to try it out! Also I think this is the debut of the Three Bars theorum in a recorded format lmao

i'm fairly sure at one point in this episode you can hear @superdillin.bsky.social laughing in the background & that felt very cosmically appropriate for the energy that was being carried in the order of events of this series & made me very happy

Summer goal: put a mini fridge in everyone's mind palace

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

CONGRATS @dinoberrypress.bsky.social !!!

Taskmaster themed game jam where we all have to come up with a mini game/task that could be on taskmaster and then we play each others tasks

new title screen :D #gamedev #indiegame

two great games that game great together

THIS is the ideal way to play ALOM !!!!! I've been slowly compiling a list of other games that you can splash in or chain with ALOM and where exactly to do so I'm so happy it's happening naturally!!!

Lilith (@blujayh.itch.io) and I are currently playing A Land Once Magic by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social for the purpose of playing a very weird, freeform spin on Lilith's game Gamma Girlz. When asked to make a creature, she HASTILY opened Exquisite Biome by @seaexcursion.itch.io.

Phonopolis is out NOW on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store 📣 We hope you have fun playing with the cardboard city! All links here 👇 amanita-design.net/games/phonop...

I had so much fun in this conversation I hope you can hear it I love Firebrands so much, it's a framework that I think Just Works and Makes Sense and I gush oops

Here's that Kickstarter link baby www.kickstarter.com/projects/sdu...

This week on Dice Exploder! @vidityavoleti.bsky.social is on the show talking the Firebrands minigame scene structure from @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social. I love Firebrands! I love this structure!

Bludgeon wants you to embrace roleplaying in your own, radical way www.rascal.news/bludgeon-wan...

I'm so famous forever now

We had so much fun playing this. I can't stop thinking about the world we built and how much I'd love to revisit it.

ALOM is so good! I'm sad I haven't managed to play it yet thanks to playtesting commitments for my own game, but a 5 1/2 hr episode of my favourite podcast is definitely helping to tide me over until I can get it to the table!

i was in and out all day while this was happening so I didn't see the full 5.5 HOURS OF ALOM live but everytime I dipped back in they were digging deeper and deeper and more esoteric and weirder it was a BLAST 1.5 hours in I saw they were still on A Legend (the 2nd table) and knew this was a banger

Last month's episode of Live at the Table is now available on Youtube, and is also live in the Patreon feed for $5 backers! In this episode, we play @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's A Land Once Magic, a post-fantasy world building game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkT...

I love my students!!! Everyone say "we're proud of you vid's students!"

The VOD of the first episode of Romance/Fight Me, You Cowards—That Time You Had To Play Duo Games with @classicalglaiza.com with guest: @hey.knilly.me where we played The Time We Have by @moreblueberries.bsky.social is now live! Revisit the sad story all over again or watch it for the first time!

five years ago today i published my senior thesis project That Which Faith Demands, an interactive fiction game about salvaging a fallen mech made from the body of a god jannouna.itch.io/that-which-f...

Interested in funding a donation match to benefit Advocates for Trans Equality during the Moontropolis stream? Send an email to [email protected] with the subject "Donation Match" and we can chat!

Good Morning! Our AP, Fallout: Kings of Mahatt was accepted as an early selection into the New Jersey Web Fest! a huge congrats goes to all involved: Our cast: @thecandacemarie.bsky.social @nickkmeyer.bsky.social @sarahiscoffee.bsky.social @captainkrail.bsky.social @superdillin.bsky.social

After running @vidityavoleti.bsky.social @superdillin.bsky.social @citadelofswords.bsky.social and @aaroncatanosaez.bsky.social through a speedrun of IM SORRY DID YOU SAY STREET MAGIC by @seaexcursion.itch.io all i can think of is how to speedrun other TTRPGs. This idea has awoken something in me.

I'm going to speedrun so many ttrpgs now

We have 2 amazing #TTRPG interviews this week! Tuesday night we have a BONUS ep of Show My Your Moves w/@megueyb.bsky.social & @aaronmfking.bsky.social to talk about Psi*Run 2e! Wednesday night @superdillin.bsky.social joins me to talk about Vilains & all the great things happening in #TTRPGS 1/3

Next Monday, we're going start wrapping up our PEOPLE HAVING PROBLEMS IN SPACE triple feature-- talking through turning Apollo 13 (1995) into a TTRPG with @superdillin.bsky.social and @vidityavoleti.bsky.social 🚀👰

Dang didn't make the LLM bio list smh what have I been doing wrong