Last day of GAMA Expo! Defy the Gods is out for sale in May. - Queer sword & sorcery. - Adventure & romance in the Bronze Age - Inspired by Clash of the Titans. - Messy romance & cursed power. Retailers, we’re taking pre-orders today: 5% off 5 copies, 10% off 10. Come see the advance copies!

🔴LIVE IN 120 🔴 Come join us as we take a look at the quickstart for #DefytheGods by Chrys Sellers @hecticelectron.bsky.social ! This "queer sword & sorcery" game caught my eye months ago and I'm thrilled to have a platform to share why I think it may be a BANGER. youtube.com/live/WnvJ4Tv...

Screw it. Let's stream about @hecticelectron.bsky.social 's Defy the Gods tonight, since they're at GAMA. Sometimes the universe gives you your stream topics 🤷‍♂️ Stay tuned for all the broadcast stuff, thumbnail, and a proper announcement. 9PM EST | 6PM PST | 3AM CET youtube.com/@thelondonstation

This game is definitely on my radar going forward. It has Apocalypse Keys-like pbta resolution, "Hearts" a la Strings in games like Monster Hearts / Thirsty Sword Lesbians, is queer coded like Girl by Moonlight, and goes back beyond your typical Greco Roman imagery into Mesopotamian worldbuilding.

Excited to meet so many retailers and other pros at GAMA Expo! We’re at booth 673!

What if fantasy races were actually polities? If you make alliance with the elves, you’re an elf. If you have a home with the dwarves, you’re a dwarf. If you caucus with the goblins, you’re a goblin

I point all my books spines-in on my bookshelf and so long as I don’t read any of them I have Schrödinger’s complete library

Last few hours for All’s Fair and Rise, Wizards! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m... These games look innovative and amazing. I backed this project after a dream where I had to explain to @superdillin.bsky.social why I didn’t. Peak parasociality. Don’t miss out and have Dream Dillin on your case!

Less than $100 to our last stretch goal!!!

The livestream was so much fun! I hope you’ll back New Edge Sword & Sorcery on BackerKit. This magazine is exactly my jam: new voices with new takes on sword & sorcery stories. Check it out!

OMG! I'm sooo proud of this book 🩷 take a look! It is simply GORGEOUS!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA omg it is so beautiful 🥹🥰💖

I got the advance copies of Defy the Gods today! They're beautiful 😍😭❤️‍🔥 Huge shout-out to the graphic designer @crislv.bsky.social & the artists whose work is in these pics: @jjflorentina.bsky.social (cover), @katrindirim.bsky.social, @anonbeadraws.bsky.social & @thalieshelen.bsky.social

Who likes playing Raccoon Sky Pirates and draws architectural plans for a living? I need to create maps of four houses, each with its own character, and the pages need to look like they were stolen from a glossy, large-format real-estate magazine

For some reason, while I'm working, my brain is imagining a Star Wars-Godfather mashup: - 10 thousand?! We could almost buy our own ship for that! - Yeah but who's gonna fly it, kid? You? - You bet I could. I'm not such a bad pilot mysel— Obi-Wan puts his hand up.

Today at @thestfnetwork.bsky.social Con, we played @hecticelectron.bsky.social's Raccoon Sky Pirates. Our intrepid band stole a child's easter candy basket, Joker chemicals, tool chest, drone, dill plant, sewing machine, fridge air compressor and THE MEATS. The Raccoons are COMING!

Had a wonderful private event yesterday running Raccoon Sky Pirates by @hecticelectron.bsky.social for one of our regulars, Alex, and their friends 🦝 🚀

I sent the PDF of Defy the Gods to backers! 📬 If you’re a backer at that level or above, and you haven’t seen the email, let me know! 🛒 If you got the email and can’t add the PDF to your DTRPG cart, let me know! 🏺 If you’ve read it, let me know what you think! ❤️‍🔥⚔️

Me, after electrolysis: I look like I kissed the wrong end of a porcupine! Her: There’s no right end of a porcupine to kiss. Me: Sure there is. You pick em up under their armpits and smooch em on the nose Me: That’s just science

‘Morning! I know it’s still early for a Saturday, but I want to tell you that, in a little over an hour, I’ll be on Part 2 of a 2-part livestream w/ Epidiah Ravichol—playing his gem of a game, Swords Without Master! If you’re not going to a protest against ICE, please tune in! twitch.tv/tonyplusone

Come join us for our first session of Swords Without Master with @epidiah.bsky.social, @hecticelectron.bsky.social, @quinnblackwell.bsky.social, and Tony! twitch.tv/tonyplusone

We're going live right now on Twitch, playing Swords Without Master with the legendary Epidiah Ravichol! www.twitch.tv/tonyplusone

I can't stand for ICE's impunity. They shot Renee Nicole Good, neglected to provide first aid, actively prevented a physician from tending to her, then drove away from a crime scene. Attend a non-violent day of action tomorrow. Get in the streets. Show up. Let's make our voices heard.

I’m so excited for this!

Two commissioned illustrations I had the privilege of making for @hecticelectron.bsky.social and the Defy The Gods TTRPG - including the endpapers! Please consider checking out the book, which comes out in May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...

Something I've been quite enjoying as I finish up 2025 is developmental editing. So if you're looking for a developmental editor in 2026 for a game... FUCKING PAY ME LET ME BE YOUR SICKO FOR THIS HIRE ME HIRE ME HIRE ME

Just in time for Jewish Christmas, we have a new TTRPG 🎲: The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back! TVSTMAWGTSIB is a dreidel-powered heist TTRPG about reclaiming the Temple menorah from the Vatican. Itchfunding a print run till Jan 1! 📆 🔗: jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib

still figuring out if insurance will cover it, but in the meantime it'd mean the world if you'd consider: 1. picking up my latest game "The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal Back": jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib 2. or a 20% bundle of all my other games: itch.io/s/176257/jum...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Our most run systems in 2025, other than D&D 2024, were favs from @darringtonpress.bsky.social, @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social, @hecticelectron.bsky.social, @outridercreative.bsky.social, @9thlevelgames.bsky.social, and @huntersent.bsky.social!

The Between is now available to preorder! If you missed the crowdfunding campaign, now is your chance to grab the books, plus a few delicious add-ons. Please re-post! the-between.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

these bloodsoaked pages were found in the back of antique luggage and have been restored with original linographs for your enjoyment! my favorite game of 2024 once more in PDF

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Defy the Gods by @hecticelectron.bsky.social and Girl Frame by @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social were both fantastic and intriguing reads. I really want to play them in 2026, I just need to find the table and the time. Both seem to have such good flows for their genre (cont)

I attended one of the #RPG Designer Meet & Greet session at #PAXUnplugged this year and saw some interesting games! #CardGame #TTRPG #TabletopGames #PAXU Thank you to @brianliberge.bsky.social for the reminder and glad to meet @bizzy-brie.bsky.social & @kyngvee.bsky.social while I was there! 💖

I had a lovely time at PAX Unplugged! Wonderful to run Defy the Gods for people, meet so many other publishers, and attend panels. Thanks to @plusoneexp.bsky.social for their generous support

I’m at PAX Unplugged! In fact, _right now,_, I’m in room 106-B doing a designer meet-and-greet! If you’re at the con, come on by. I’d love to talk with you ❤️‍🔥⚔️

Defy the Gods - War Galley I had the pleasure of working on this illustration for @hecticelectron.bsky.social - it’s much bigger than a lot of the stuff I’ve drawn, getting to research the different murals and shields and boats in this was a lot of fun!

If you want to know why people are still making new games, and want to encourage them to keep going, visit the RPG Designer Meet and Greet, Saturday Morning at #PAXUnplugged. 10 AM, and 11 AM. All attendees welcome #ttrpg unplugged.paxsite.com/en-us/schedu... unplugged.paxsite.com/en-us/schedu...

Featuring Austin Nachbur of Shield Brothers Games LLC Betty Stanton of Open Book Chrys Sellers of @hecticelectron.bsky.social Jim Crocker of Jim Likes Games @majcher.bsky.social of Majcher Arcana @metalsteve.bsky.social of Band on Tour Mike A Pratt of MAP Boardgames . . .

In Defy the Gods, you can roll too high and get a "burning success"—getting what what you wanted and more besides. One version that came into play tonight was "I Can Be Anybody":

I see we’re talking about mechanics where rolling high isn’t always best. I became enamored with this idea through Defy the Gods by @hecticelectron.bsky.social. In Last Kiss it represents the malevolence of the world working through you. We call it Breaking tge Barrier LastKissGame.com

My favourite example of this is in Defy the Gods by @hecticelectron.bsky.social

You can get the PDFs for _way cheap_ at hecticelectron.itch.io/raccoon-sky-... ... I'll start printing the game again after I've launched Defy the Gods!

Defy the Gods - Lay of the Land I finally get to show off some of the illustrations I made for Defy the Gods, made by @hecticelectron.bsky.social ! #anonbeadraws #digitalart #art #kickstarter #ttrpgart #defythegods #illustration #characterart

I just watched Kpop Demon Hunters and have so many questions about the ethics in this show

4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists. itch.io/b/3062

I can't wait to try Ryan's dish! And for you to try it too. Is there anything better than taking care of your gaming buddies' bodies while immersing them in the setting?

🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985. itch.io/b/3062

America is like a bipolar country that was on its meds long enough that it forgot what life was like before, so it’s gone off them