Getting my Fallout examples going for Hollywood Underhills. Next up, Cash Stress, which will include both "You had to pawn your gun" and "You pawned your gun and someone bought it to use in a crime" as moderate upgrade of that.

Since it's that time of year, if you've ever wanted a light system for being trapped on a space station that's been bought by a legally distinct Spirit Halloween and having to do crimes to get away, well, see the itch link below.

Looking at my copy of Mutants in the Now/Next and realizing that you can work from vampire bats as your base animal -and- be a human born mutant and finally, an RPG where you can begin to Morb. Not sure if this is an endorsement or not actually, come to think about it.

Imagine being dumped into the world you built as a shitty teenage dungeon master. Now imagine it funny. Okay, funnier. Funnier than that. Page-turningly funny. Okay - go back Cringe Wizard.

Andrew Dice of Carpe Fulgur has passed. This is devastating. Not only did Recettear have a big impact on me, so too did their decision to found a company to translate indie games. It was incredible to see them go all in on their dreams like that. Respect to both of them. We’ll miss you Andrew.

If I had a nickel for every time someone accidentally replicated real world racist tropes with D&D style gnomes I'd have like...4-5 nickels now? I dunno man, it just keeps happening. In different ways?

If I had a nickel for every time I started playing a 9 foot tall/3 meter giant melee/close range combat character in a game who somehow ended up the party stealth/intrusions specialist as well I'd have like, 3 nickels, which is starting to form pattern of giants you can't see clearly.

Digging up some old Feng Shui 2e homebrew and considering how to stick this gimmick into other games because look, nineties supernatural procedurals had this shit all over whenever you had a guy who could be shoved into a period outfit and made to reflect on his past.

100 days ago, I clicked Itch's "initiate new payment" button. I still haven't been paid. Inspired by this disappointing turn of events, I am pleased to present this survival microRPG about a fellowship seeking fortune to avert the starvation of their families. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Now pondering how to build a class that supports the Nero Wolfe/Lamont Von Helitz/The Dead Man style of "detective who never leaves their home and relies on information brought back to them by other characters." Probably a later supplement/sourcebook, I don't want to keep adding new classes.

After playing, please consult the chart to determine the quality of your experience. #dnd #ttrpg

Pioneering new levels of dirtbag by putting my middle-aged divorced dad of a WOL in the Moonfire Fair glam. #ffxiv

Not entirely rhetorical or hypothetical question: If someone bases an entire 5E D&D podcast on your game that is not D&D, are you justified in adding a "5E compatible" note to the marketing blurb?

Finally, the Fishblade from noted hypothetical indy RPG, Fishblade.

Slayer's Survival Kit and Hunter's Journal are now available for purchase as hardbound or PDF on drivethru, itch, and Evil Hat's own website! evilhat.com/product/slay... evilhat.itch.io www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher... #MotW #TTRPG #monsteroftheweek

I've been job hunting for a while, and given the state of tech it's not going well. If anyone's got connections that need an experienced Product Manager based out of Ontario, I'm looking. I'm damned good at Continuous Discovery, enjoy building and working with teams, and want to solve problems. RS🆗!

Well, every time I try to upload the photos, I get the upload freezing, so have a Tumblr link: www.tumblr.com/thryth-gamin... The books I co-authored with Marek Golonka and @genericgamesnz.bsky.social with sections from @unseenlibrarian.bsky.social and James Mendez Hodes via @evilhat.bsky.social

It's not a coincidence that Elder Scrolls and Dark Souls were both made by Glorantha nerds, is all I'm saying.

Setting up my Resistance-powered version of Underhills so you can trade tiny pieces of your soul for power, it's fine. Nothing bad can happen from trading consequences now for ongoing worse consequences later.

Aces #ttrpg designers Scratchpad Publishing are inches away from funding another one of their "easy to play/deep design" games, this one in a living cyberpunk city that the players collaboratively build. I both play their games and steal FURIOUSLY from them for my homebrews.

Just had the sudden and horrific realization that a modern day rewrite of the old Shadowbeat sourcebook for Shadowrun would feature vtubers, naturally, but also podcasts who do deep multi-hour deep dives on why some publicly known figure is even worse than you thought. Behind the Bastards: Lofwyr

Gettin' the itch to run Torg Eternity again.

I love dropping off #HauntedWest orders—thank you for supporting a small, Black-owned indie biz! So many books going out lately I may need to double-check my stock (keep 'em coming!). Your support keeps the Darker Hue lights on and history alive. #TTRPG #IndieGames

About 10%/28 backers to go. Is there anyone out there who recently earned a huge inheritance from staying in a haunted house for one night and is also into cyberpunk

New Hunter playbooks, more Team playbooks, Weird moves and new ways to put your character under the bright spotlight. The Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit for Monster of the Week. Preorder now to join the 1st wave shipments: slayers-survival-kit-hunters-journal.backerkit.com/survey_stores

Do you love killing nazis in Kill Him Faster but have a tough time rolling dice for things? I made an app for that - get random Quirks, Round Events, Scenarios, and Zone Modifiers with the click of a button. korvidae.com/khfwebapp/

*AND WE'RE LIVE!* The Kickstarter for Mutants From the Archives is now open for backers and the curious of all types! Over eighty new types of cats and dogs--and a randomizer to roll your own! Fascist foes! It's time to get properly UNLEASHED! #ttrpg #tmnt #furry #scalie #kickstarter

"Elf-Stroke in LA"

I saw #Sinners again and it's still resonating with me—such a powerful blend of #HauntedWest themes that weaves together history, horror, and hard truths. To celebrate this remarkable film (and stand against attempts to silence it), I give you a Sinners Sale! #TTRPG #BlackOwnedBusiness

Sudden realization that I've made so many jokes about cow magic and made the defining war-ending magical working involve a magical version of project X-ray's bat bombers, so I should probably have a class in the corebook that does animal wrangler spells. So that final list of classes, not final yet.

Kill Him Faster is a ttrpg about time-traveling athletes speed-running hitler. Jess Valentine from the Coffin Club called it "Fascinatingly tactical; a remarkable balancing act of black comedy, athletic ego and prime-time violence." #ttrpg #indierpg #speedrun #fps #timetravel #rpg #sports

Almost there folks. We're finally approaching 69% funded: AU$12,420

I've only got 10 followers on Gravity, my coming soon-ish next RPG project, and apparently I need at least 100 in order to be a real human being. Can YOU help? www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...

I've mentioned it before but every so often I see a team of white people advertise their new "JRPG-inspired" TTRPG and think "Why not do the opposite?" and start sketching notes for a fantasy game where all builds eventually converge on Stealth archery. Unfortunately now it has a name: "Open World"

It's time to get unleashed! The pre-launch page for the next Mutants in the Now expansion, Mutants From the Archives: Pet Shop Blues is live "now!" And as with previous campaigns, backers will have the chance to add species or contribute community copies! #ttrpg #kickstarter #tmnt #furry #scalie

It's 2 am and I can't sleep, time to watch the live action shadowrun trailer from the 90s and inflict it on others again for no good reason. youtu.be/8GPGQoR6f6w

I did mention this was happening, so here we go: A new version of my FIST campaign framework, agents of B.O.O. unseenlibrarian.itch.io/agents-of-bo...

Suddenly felt compelled to update my oldest FIST 3rd party book for better compatibility with Ultra, and so itch folks who own Agents of B.O.O. can expect some sort of update notification in a few days, now with more cryptid agents!

@rangedtouch.bsky.social TTRPGs for Trans Rights: Ohio is live on @itch.io! For as low as $5, get over $1700 worth of games, zines, digital accessories, and more! itch.io/b/2946/ttrpg...

Thinking again about how Hasbro/WOTC technically own a -lot- of old RPGs that aren't D&D because they bought out the parent companies for their other products and trashed the rest. A lot of them weren't -good- rpgs, mind you, but they now just exist on old dedicated fan websites if you're lucky.

1: Runequest 2. Also Runequest 3. Having gotten online in the nineties when MUSHes were a big deal, I'm pretty sure this one is, uh: Changeling: the Dreaming. 4. Tossup between Cinematic Unisystem and Mutants and Masterminds. 5. Too hard to choose 6. Pathfinder 2e 7. Nothing -recent- unfortunately.

The semi-annual reminder that as a Saint, Valentine's portfolio included both bees and plague so every smallpox bees x-file episode is also a Valentine's episode. And if you play your cards right, bees and plague day doesn't have be just once a year.

One day I will get around to making the True Steampunk RPG, which is a epistolary game about writing letters to the editor complaining about inappropriate stories in a Cyberpunk anthology magazine in the seventies. "What are we supposed to call this, some sort of "STEAMpunk?"

Considering the number of times we framed people for our crimes/fuckups in the Copperhead County game, Blades '68 has my number.

So a while back I was playing an Inksmith in Spire and decided to a couple mockup magazine covers using the Pulpomizer to represent the kind of trashy magazines my PC worked at, and now I'm porting them over from that other place to share here.

Probably should not be allowed near games where you get to define your own skills because I always get weirdly specific with it. Even when it's just like, 'pick a specialty for your skill' I tend to end up with like Area Lore (The good places to hide out on full moons so you don't eat anyone)

Speaking of very specifically named classes, back to work on my own for the new year.

Tired: the Irish Unification of 2024 Wired: