Write for Adept Icarus. Certain fame and $0.12 - $0.15 per word await you!

It's been a while (nearly 6 years to be exact) since Adept Icarus held an open call for writers. Some of those folks we've worked with multiple times since! It's time to do it again... so if you're interested, here's the details, and feel free to share! adepticarus.com/go/arium-ope...

Y'all. Drew Gerken, Asha Ence, and I finished our full revision pass on Arium Evolve today! We're going to update all the examples, and then this thing will be ready for editing. WHAT A FEELING!

Who’s here for painfully personal posts? No one? Ah.

When you realize you have a new laptop worth of old Lord of the Rings miniatures and have happy/sad thoughts because you really need a laptop.

When the deadline arrives to sign up for events at a con… overdrive. Why am I this way?

Having Saturday virtual and Tuesday in-person Arium playtests running is honestly refreshing. It would probably be cooler to say I’m getting tired of this game (designer’s curse), but I’m actually looped back to it being a ton of fun with all of the new Evolve features. Background vignettes kick ass

I’ve heard “kill your darlings” basically infinity times, but some of my best ideas only happened because of a stubborn refusal to stop raising them from the dead.

Feedback, I love you so muuuuuch. Yay, playtesting!

Adept Icarus ( @adepticarus.com ) has a very cool Kickstarter launching soon and I get to help with a stretch goal! Arium is a system agnostic, worldbuilding RPG. Go check it out now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ade...

Is it wrong that I just want people to magically find and love the stuff I make without me having to talk about it? Well, is it?

If I make a half-dozen free web tools for ttrpgs, but never tell anyone about them, does that mean I'm bad at this?

What if I made a cyanstarlight character and ship generator (procedural of course)?

We saw the Artemis launch from my back yard! Very cool. I want to make a first crewed journey to space game!

Oh hey! I did an interview where I talk about all of the silly mistakes I've made. Well, maybe not all of them. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/taryndoi...

2020. That’s the last time I had an in-person rpg group for more than one-shots. Covid, then I moved states. This week I started gaming with a new playtest group at my house. We made a n Arium called “Sky World: Above the Fog”.

I just backed Precious Things on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/wet...

When to launch a free (CC-BY 4.0) version of the absurdist scifantasy game setting Thesystem (which ironically is system neutral)? This week? Or during sometime when we’re in the middle of the big Arium campaign?

I had a really good time constructing this comic-style collage with Arium: Evolve interior art by Tithi Luadthong and some sneaky use of Fernando Salvaterra's Complete Box Set cover art in the background. Graphic design isn't my TOP skill, but I think it is at least improving.

Hovering at 98 followers and I’m spending a little too much time refreshing to see it get to 100 so I can have the dopamine hit. Anyone want to put me out of my misery?

What is the game with the setting/world you most admire?

Side note/question, should I go back to making some amount of short video content now that I’m no longer completely buried in website redesigns?

All of the websites got a facelift and are finally live. I’ve been working on this since (checks calendar) JANUARY. Anyway, here’s the new hub that links to everything. There’s a blog post on there with some words I’d love for you to read! adepticarus.com

We hit 20 followers on the campaign and Bluesky is really the only place I’ve mentioned it so far. Y’all are great!

This is such a great RPG line. Day 1 back for me, easily.

This company gave me an amazing opportunity on a different game you'll hopefully see soon enough and were a fun client to work for. Check out their stuff and see if it's for you. And if it is... well selfishly that could mean more work for me in the future and I like working with cool people.

I love Arium Create and I use it for everything lol I think is worth checking out what comes next, it looks very interesting too!

We're heading to Kickstarter soon with Arium: Evolve (and our complete box set). So go ahead and follow the pre-launch page to get notified when we launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ade...

@ciryze.bsky.social is a great illustrator and is fantastic to work with!

Ok writers, this is an actual open call to write for Arium: The Worldbuilding RPG. We’d like to add a few folks to our roster of story flash writers, so you know what to do (reply here and tell us you’re interested)! Adept Icarus contracts at $0.15 per word and DOES NOT accept any GenAI writing.

Love seeing Rue in the wild!

We are getting VERY close to a Kickstarter preview page for Arium: Evolve. Whew. So much work!

Opinion alert: Social media success does not equal success. And the reverse. They often don’t coexist.

A delay in Atlanta? Enough time for dinner at One Flew South? Don’t mind if I do!

It will be good to be home tomorrow!

Getting together IN PERSON with 8 friends who live 2000 miles away and playing games for a night is a stellar way to start the weekend.

The world needs more flying pigs rolling dice. This opinion is not up for debate.

Working on a major overhaul of our website, plus a couple of new ones before we launch the big Arium Kickstarter, and it’s A LOT.

Arium: Discover is a standalone roleplaying game streamlined for telling stories in any way you can imagine - fast, fun, and easy to learn, with enough substance to keep your game interesting over time! By @adepticarus.com! www.diceweaver.com/games/arium_...

I had a chance to listen to this finally, and: 1. The episode is super well edited. 2. Joel and Avalon are fantastic hosts. 3. It's probably the best podcast intro to Arium. Ever.

First episode of the spring is here! This time we made a little more than just a cat, @adepticarus.com walked us through making an entire WORLD to put the cat in! Enjoy! badgertrove.com/2026/03/04/9...

For a good while (nearly a year) I released short form videos every single day. Examples: Tips for beginning game designers. Me geeking out about a cool game book, dice, or a tarot deck. Tips on crowdfunding. Short updates on our games. Are any of these things you’d like in text+image format?

When I say worldbuilding, you say play. Worldbuilding!

This was super fun!! Arium (our worldbuilding rpg) is perfect for making a cat character, it turns out 🐈🐈‍⬛😻

On March 4, @adepticarus.com presented us with Arium, taking us through both the game's collaborative worldbuilding AND character creation process, allowing us to make a cat for a tailor-made setting!

Oh hey! Look what's on @diceweaver.com now! diceweaver.com/games/arium_...

What’s the most fun you’ve ever had at a convention event? Something official, not hallwaycon, barcon, or liminalspacecon.

This looks cool. Backed!

it's the final stretch, the end of the Endtimes is nigh www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

It I were to attend a convention in the PNW that had a heavy ttrpg contingent, what and when should I attend? Bonus points for links, dates, and suchlike.