One of my favourite reading comprehension failures is when I criticise a game and folks come to me like "well ACTUALLY [thing] is not true because [game] has one sentence in its intro that says [other thing]". Like, y'all are aware a text can make claims about itself which are not true, right?

Artists! QRP with your sketch vs final! (cover for Commonwealth by Michael Hansen: modality.itch.io/commonwealth after the first draft we changed the color scheme and added a big curtain to go behind the title. I usually do sketches digital because it is so fast, and then the final was watercolor)

the referee is afraid to post the classic traveller session report because it would tacitly grant me permission to reveal the nature of my character, krylon yadabian. his swag would devastate the chat

getting roasted in the Traveler character creation for assuming the air force flew planes in space

I hate to admit it, but one good thing about “return to office” (RTO) is getting back to king fu fights with a part where you slam a guy’s head down onto an open photocopier, and run it with his face pressed into the glass, and there’s a quick insert shot of what the resulting photocopy looks like

ruislip ogre administering eucharist would be like: "This is my body! These are my booooooooones!"

Pricemaster tribute for the 25th anniversary yesterday

Look at our game

Shout out to the ice officers in Portland for trying to tear gas my seven year old today. Big brave boys! Warfighters!

Can you hear that? That ghastly wheeze? That wet thump? That can only be the sound of LAST RITES and ICHOR-DROWNED being added to the Rowan Rook & Decard website shop for digital purchase!

Castlevania 64

The full version of COMMONWEALTH is out now! I played through a few seasons using the playtest rules and had a great time, so I highly recommend checking it out if you're even a little bit interested in challenging your friends to duels.

playing COMMONWEALTH via Discord was some of the most fun I had with anything last year, and the way that so many small moments & rolls carry you forward and create the bigger arc of just being a little shit Barry Lyndon-ing your way through Book of the New Sun is something really special

I watched and talked through a playtest of this game and I can tell you: this shit rules.

Commonwealth is one of the finest and most unique games I've played. It is pushing at the boundaries of ttrpg design, it was a treat to work on. Please check it out!

everyone who's ANYONE is playing Commonwealth. make an awful little social-climbing freak in a decadent far future! gamble! court lovers! challenge rivals to monomachy! throw fabulous fetes! march out to battle! and above all, praise the autarch, whose haters wait upon his table of success.

Commonwealth is SO GOOD. You will not regret playing this game. Also I think it's the best play by post game I've ever tried. It works really really well for discord server, with lots of potential for interesting drama while also being easy to run at a pace that doesn't demand too much of players

Commonwealth is my favorite TTRPG of 2025. it’s terrific. Check it out now.

I got a chance to playtest this and had an absolute blast making a freak man who scared everyone. Not someone who really actively engaged with tabletop but it made me want to play more. It’s THAT good

I was lucky enough to get to playtest this and can confirm it is an extremely fun game. It works so well in play by post format in a Discord, and I highly recommend giving it a shot and making your own horrible horrible nobility.

COMMONWEALTH is OUT NOW. It is a "far-future social climbing simulation" inspired by En Garde!, The Book of the New Sun, and Barry Lyndon. @nictringali.bsky.social did the layout and graphic design and the cover and interior art is from @amandalee.bsky.social 👉 modality.itch.io/commonwealth 🍷🌹

It has been an incredible experience working with @meredithgran.com on Perfect Tides: Station to Station. So much thought and care went into the words, story, art, music, and systems (yes, systems), and it is amazing to see it already resonating so much with players who value those things.

quaternion "quato" gimblelock, hobbit

Shelved by Genre and Just King Things helped me read more last year - they covered a third of the books I read in 2025. My quality of life and ability to make sense of the world has been improved by these shows, which are Good. also Blaze is psychic

it's real, and yes, that's me and it's My Rule

I am releasing COMMONWEALTH, my dying earth social-climbing simulation, NEXT WEEK.

Hi #portfolioday I'm Amanda & I do illustrations for #ttrpgs mostly annabelleleefranck.myportfolio.com/work-1

unc won't stop alluding to the absurd adventures of his mysterious journey

I am a simple person who thinks that telling the truth about things is important. I watched the video footage of this shooting, and the killing is casual and unhurried. DHS and aligned political actors are very ready to present a story of rushed, panicked violence, and it just is not true.

YOU (catching me going through your kitchen cabinets): looking for something? ME (startled): oh! No, no, I was just... (shaking head, mumbling under my breath) the Arkenstone.... YOU: whatever (later) (my funeral) PRIEST: he died without the Arkenstone MORAL: Bro was looking for the Arkenstone!!!!!

what the fuck man

In 2026 we're getting the Glengarry leads

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Simply Having A wonderful

local cryptid

If there's one thing I hate to taste, it's my own medicine. Of all the things I want taste, my own medicine ranks dead last. I'd taste any medicine you threw at me unless it's my own. I hate it when my friends are tasting my medicine and they're like "oh this is so good you should try some"—fuck off

fuck yeah, it’s up: the first deep-dive episode of our yearlong All Systems Brough series, on the trippy, seminal, inside-the-mainframe puzzlebox that is 868-HACK. a lively convo featuring @shawndoublea.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social and @drewwehrle.bsky.social secretlives.games/all-systems-...

if I were you I'd keep a very close watch on this upcoming @modality.bsky.social game

Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again

Wow. Democrats just flipped the Whoville Mayor's office, which has been held by republicans since 2003. This is in a Trump plus +30 area too.

was thinking more about Tomie yesterday and came to a startling realization

They should to make a modular knife block, like Eurorack but for your kitchen

Late night cultural prodding: if you heard about OVER/UNDER and thought it was cool or interesting, you will also think this is interesting.

Out now: WHALE ROADS The chronicle of a year-long, 30+ player West Marches campaign of Wolves Upon the Coast by @lukegearing.bsky.social A 250-page "zine" filled with play summaries, original art, and Referee commentary. Available now, and it's 100% completely free. sulcata.itch.io/whale-roads

Coming soon. A chronicle of adventure and glory in a time of monsters.