We have ,"He-Man" and "She-Ra", what is the name of the "They-" character

Happy pride

Philly Elmo :)

My June 2026 newsletter is out, containing - notes on Born to the Purple development - a playtest of Before the Season Ends - a report on my visit to UKGE If you find it interesting, you can subscribe and get it by email 😊 plane-sailing-games.beehiiv.com/p/june-2026-...

Jen thoughts are good thoughts; this month's letter has me thinking about how there is absolutely truth to the statement that "true balance in games is both impossible and undesirable" (look at Rock-Paper-Scissors)

yearly pride month drop

So my wife and I got back from our honeymoon in Ireland (+ some time in London) this week, and I keep thinking about these stones. These are Kerb Stones, outlining the massive passage tombs in Bru Na Bionne north of Dublin. 🧵1/4

We’ve crossed $12,000! How high can we get it in the next 36 hours? #TTRPG

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Eternally relevant:

Instead of vaguing or getting into arguments with a guy you made up on socmed everyone needs to have a friend circle where you can say the beloved words of "Can I be a little mean for a sec" and then vent your frustrations before going back to peace and love

Many big budget games that include weapon degredarion feel like a way to make you spend resources; BotW & TotK are proof that when implemented thoughtfully this kind of friction can elevate the experience. I love the weapons breaking in these games, it pushes players to more interesting experiences

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

IT'S HERE! The dollhouse is COMPLETE which means you can get the SUPER ULTRA EVERYTHING BUNDLE for BASICALLY HALF PRICE! It has the CORE RULEBOOK and also TWO SETS OF BONUS FUNTIME RULES and, I kid you not, FORTY FIVE ADVENTURES itch.io/s/186886/dol...

Friends call you out on your shit. With love, but they call you out. AI? It encourages you to double down on your shitheadedness, apparently.

40 interviews later, we are done recording! We'll spend the summer listening, editing, and finding points that resonate among all our great guest speakers. Until then, we'll release, in reverse order of appearance, some info of the game designers and scholars we had the honor of interviewing!

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

CHAMPIONS 😭😭

2025/2026 Premier League Champions!

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I am currently Away™, but I somehow found this in my bag when sitting down at the airport? @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social would you know anything about this?

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch

Are you looking for a podcast that digs deep into the games we play and the people who make them? Well, we are excited to welcome you to RPG Roots! Here's a small intro. #rpg #podcast #rpgroots #roleplayinggames #analoggames

Remember to get your "Alexi Lalas is bad for US Soccer" shirt from Retro Screamers. #WorldCup #USMNT share.google/LRDUESR3R7MK...

Jen with a mountain goats tweet we've done it we've made it everyone [everyone is me]

We hit our $5,000 goal, but that doesn't mean we need to stop yet! You've still got 2ish weeks to add 92 (if you're counting) games and/or adventures to your collection!

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

Find the playtest materials here: jen-adcock15.itch.io/before-the-s...

One of the things I love the most about this game is that it feels wholesome and warm, like a good hug. It is quite hard to design a game that focuses of friendship and feels earnest and not forced or even cringe.

Last Sunday @planesailinggames.com, @sociable-turtle.bsky.social and I played our second session in the campaign playtest of @jenkatwrites.bsky.social's “Before the Season Ends”, a TTRPG set during the Regency period and focusing on friendship among young debutants during the “Season”. 1 / a few

Also @planesailinggames.com "As Soon As Possible Is a Week Away" sounds like a fatalistic time travel game that should exist I think

tonight I taught Greg that the little green diamond indicator in the Sims is called a plumbob

Here is Jason’s essay about being the first active player in one of the four major men’s U.S. sports to come out as gay. What an absolute hero who will never be forgotten: www.si.com/more-sports/...

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Due to the continued issues with Kickstarter & the recent announcements around censorship, we are announcing the move of @navaarsnp.bsky.social's Soothwardens to @backerkit.com This was a unanimous choice by Navaar & entire team. It means starting from 0 and rebuilding. ttrpg.link/soothwardens 1/3

There’s a screen shot going around with an email claiming to be from me. It is not. (a) I don’t write that way. I use coherent grammar. (b) I don’t preach that way (c) To hell with transphobia, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia (d) Check the headers on crazy emails, “From” has been spoofed.

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop) Before the Season Ends Chromatic Conjuration City of Winter For the Badge

Jubensha Con wrapped up last week! Here's how it came about, what I learned organising it, and what we might do different next time. We need more live events, so hopefully this will inspire others!

I'm biased given sociable-turtle-games.itch.io/ring-lations... , but abstracts have so much space for cool stuff; as-is there's no theme, but what can we bring to them? Asa's got great thoughts here, dogging into the spectrum from mancala, to chess, to D&D, & how a roleplay vacuum exists in each

this quality of this bundle is UNREAL it's made up entirely of *must own* titles and it's for a great cause donate and download 👇

Go support a good cause, and get For the Badge, AGON, the Magic of Inventorying, Rosewood Abbey, Perils and Princesses, and so many more while doing so! itch.io/b/3670/typho...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: It turns out the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus was in the database of books we illegally used to train our AI model.

In what other game can your character insult the entire movement of Romanticism, find your mortal nemesis, accidentally outburst at your friend, and then make you nearly cry irl during the final scene resolution? I don't know of any

Apparently Mass Effect is the topic du jour I do want to remind people that because the game(s) had veiled sex scenes and was one of the first big budget games to allow for same-sex relationships Fox News ran a misinformation smear campaign against it.