East Bay Board Gang has been one of the best parts of moving to Berkeley. So happy to find an immediately welcoming and warm group of tabletop gamers. Got immediately pulled in to Call To Adventure tonight, making it a real @brotherwisegames.bsky.social themed week of gaming.

Just opening up the @storyenginedeck.bsky.social’s Lore Master Sampler from Free RPG Day, I’m nerding out about the design. Such a cool way to use the packaging to tell a story - what is this game and how do you play it- and hammer home the importance of intentionality in your craft.

Two amazing adventures from @darringtonpress.bsky.social and @brotherwisegames.bsky.social ready to go for Free RPG Day! Hanging out with Game Kastle Fremont this morning before rolling back to my FLGS @gamesofberkeley.bsky.social this afternoon!

I brought copies of Naptime, Sweet Phone by @stickydoodler.bsky.social to a facilitation this week and was so thrilled by the results: sleepy phones, tucked away in beds and out of folks' hands. It was such a fun way to begin the session and declare "We're focus on humans on the room, not screens."

So excited for this one. I love a GM-less game where you can get into some crazy world-build together! Plus they put pangolins on the front cover!

Saxophone Colossus was my first Jazz CD and what got me into playing saxophone back in middle school. Such an incredible musician who cemented my life long love of Hard Bop.

I’d watch a three hour movie of Grogu and Anzellans just walking around narrating what they see. Those puppets are the dang cutest things.

Had an amazing time at my first East Bay Board Gang meetup! Finally got a chance to play Fire Tower from @runawayparade.bsky.social after having it in the shelf since last GenCon. Can’t wait to pull it out again and add in the expansion.

Don't dull your shine for anybody! ✨ #dimension20

Stoked to be running the special one-shot celebrating the 1st anniversary of #Daggerheart at @gamesofberkeley.bsky.social next Thursday! Seats are available at the link below! Join me for some celebratory hijinks and the first game I’m GMing on the West Coast. gamesofberkeley.com/products/eve...

Went to check out the lizard friends at the East Bay Vivarium and got star struck by this super chill black-crowned night heron

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

Crazy that there’s no shoe-based Pokemon, yet. Seems like a missed opportunity.

I don’t often get shots of me GMing games, and am so grateful for some friends and players sneaking in a few this past weekend! I had a blast running #Daggerheart and even had a few Critical Role fans in full cosplay at the table!

I forgot that the Daggerheart QuickStart only has 5 pre-gens and hastily made Stumpy Deeproot, the wonkiest Clank Bard, as a 6th to fill in the gap at AwesomeCon. It’s so amazing to see people take a novel concept you had and completely bring it to life.

“Give me a hit of that snoot juice!” sounds so much better than “Where’s my bottle of Flonase?”

This is the kind of energy I wanna see at my tables! Go hard, test the limits of your holodeck until you find the walls, then break out of them.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Friendly reminder that just because LinkedIn is an insane cesspool of AI-written posts glorifying AI doesn’t mean the rest of the world wants to follow suit.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Twelve people enter... twelve people leave 😉 #gladlands

A major glitch has emerged in the regime's plan to send Tom Homan to Minneapolis

Still dying from these @dimension20.bsky.social Chili Cook off Contestants Slap mandel Dorothy Suzuki Otto von skid Bean can Palma egress Wandy scrapes Splat the eye kisser Twit ogalvy The Fetted molar Friedrick lube

Rend Repair Purpose is finally up! Drawing from the art forms of Kintsugi and Blastover tattoos, it’s a journaling game about creating space to grieve then reconstructing yourself to face the world with boldness. staubington.itch.io/rend-repair-...

IT’S HERE 😍😍😍 After a superbly fun weekend at @magfest meeting all you lovely, sparkly gamers, OUR STEAM PAGE IS LIVE! Add us to your WISHLIST!! #GloxiniaGame #MAGFest2026 #DanceGame #IndieGame #Coding #GamePlay #RhythmGame #Unity #CSharp #FMV #AfterEffects #Steam #SteamWishlist

Snorlax woke up in a rave! #magfest

For anyone at #magfest make sure to check out my very good friends’ booth in the Indie room! Queer Rhythm Game Fever Dream! Space Channel Five but it’s Town at 3 am Booth 67!

Let me go on Like I blister in the sun Let me go on Big hat, I know you're the one

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

If you’re naming me in the same breath as TTRPG studies then you should be following and listening to and citing Professor Torner who has done more for analog game infrastructure than any one person can comprehend. (Any number of us shine from reflecting Evan’s light)

Imagine someone stole all your shit and then you give them a billion dollars.

✅ Get a write-up in @rascal.news My thought experiment on what a TTRPG expirience based on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would look like got covered! Wasn’t expecting this honor but definitely something to check off from my bucket list. www.rascal.news/the-gales-of...

Super cool that Affinity has stopped allowing you to buy their software around the same time my free trial expired. Was trying to avoid paying a subscription fee for InDesign, much less reformat the projects I was working on, but here we are.

Something that’s amazed me in reading through the Daggerheart Core Rulebook is the dedication to “shared storytelling first”. Shows up in both mechanics and GM guidance. It’s definitely something DnD tried to do in 5e 2024, but seems antithetical to the brand and continued ties to wargaming.

I'm excited to announce that @peoplesbooktakoma.com will again host an Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair! 🗺️📌 Takoma Park MD 📆 Sat, Oct 18 📑 Indie zine booths all afternoon 🎤 Panel discussion with designers at 4pm peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/indie-...

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

2025 means making clickbait memes for a better world!

Todayborday, I'd like to wish alla y'alls a Mario Paint Labor Day!

Just ran #EatTheReich as the first session of my Sunday Scaries TTRPG series and hoo buddy did the players understand the assignment. I think everyone involved needed that cathartic release due to the month DC has had.

Thirty years ago, that dog beat you at basketball. Now it's back to ruin your second wedding. It Didn't Say Anywhere In The Rules That A Dog COULDN'T Play Basketball is this month's comedy horror one-page TTRPG. PDFs, text-only version and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/it-did...

kids should be allowed to have phone in school. not a typo, i think there should be one giant thirty foot tall phone in each school that kids have to share. they will gather around it every day, hooting and hollering like the apes in 2001: a space odyssey

Earlier this year I started a series of blog posts about how board games are amazing tools for improving collaboration, communication, and decision making within organizations. I just published my newest entry, this time focusing on the award winning Sky Team! www.staubercoaching.com/blog/skyteam

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Amazing solo journaling game from a DC local!

I missed the calling of climbing into trees with a chain saw and tactically dropping massive branches. #cranelife

rounding off the (robust) safety tools section in Hollows with a practical coda

And miraculously it all fits