nothing feels better than being struck with inspiration that lasts more than a day

just finished Honeybee by Craig Silvey last night. such a sweet and hopeful ending to an absolute trainwreck of emotions #booksky

I'm reading an absolutely fascinating blog post that collects many different kinds of Initiative in RPGs. It's really eye opening. It shows just how hard it is to find a good answer to "who goes first" when a fight breaks out. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/06/ever...

just backed this! can't wait to bring some of Aotearoa to my games

Hey there, I'm running games at @startplaying.bsky.social! Come join me in a fully improvised campaign with an easy to learn #indiettrpg. Anyone is welcome, and your first session is free! startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

Been working on bringing the most horrible creature in New Zealand into D&D; the namu (sandfly) swarm. If you want to unleash thousands of biting, irritating, bloodthirsty insects on your players... well shame on you frankly, and shame on us for helping you do it. Back LotLWC vol 2 today!

once you embrace being the #ttrpg Forever DM, the problem with being the Forever DM is finding people who actually want to play whatever wildass game you've got stuck in your craw this time

There are few better feelings as a GM than a Player, days after a session, asking for an aside to pose a Lore question and them opening it up with "Have I lost it? Or is this right?" and they proceed to be entirely correct about the theory. I love my Lore Hound Players! #TTRPG #D&D #DnD

Faction Action – Burning the Candle towards both ends goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/f... I quite like the idea that only certain parts of the random encounter table become progressively unlocked after some action has already taken place. #osr #RandomEncounterTables #BurnTables

This game could be whatever you make it: A wholesome quest for community and friendship? A heroic defence against an invading army? Am escape from cryptids through spooky woods? All of the above? Join Beyond the Faer Woods and decide for yourself what kind of world awaits you! #indiettrpg

I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist. Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

Hey there, I'm running games at @startplaying.bsky.social! Come join me in a fully improvised campaign with an easy to learn #indiettrpg. Anyone is welcome, and your first session is free! startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

The Apotheosis; Her Divinity's true form. ✨ #art #oc #ocsky

was prepping for this week’s #dnd session today, and once again everyone’s problems are caused by wizard hubris… :)

hmhm, I think it might be time to make art about conversion therapy and the time child-me killed the lesbian inside me #tittyrpgjam

#tittyrpgjam got me debating if the gm is inherently a dom or sub or if they can switch, and can i mechanise that… (lmk if you have thoughts)

ok fine! i've joined #tittyrpg despite my backlog of projects to finish. but i've had this urge all year that my art needs to be more punk, so i couldn't pass this up

This is fun. The more ways there are to slay dragons, the better. Or befriend/seduce them depending on who you ask. However you choose to hit the dragon, there are options.

Bad games are the best games because they create game designers. If 5e were perfect, there would be only one game. Instead, 5e sucks so there are 10,000 tiny indie games that suck less and that’s beautiful

There should be a game jam for games with rules written in the most diegetic ways possible. I'm talking resolution mechanics as prophecies. Rules for death as in-game cultural traditions. Combat mechanics as snippets of kingdom army training manuals.

This blog is done! Check it out - Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning. I'm very proud of it. www.eclipse.gay/blog/faggot-...

These posts have good takeaways. One thing I think about game design is that we don't talk about design itself, at a core level, often enough; we might talk about specific mechanics or tech, but not about what you actually do. I have some blogs about it. aryxymaraki.blogspot.com/2024/01/this...

hey all, back when a bunch of us migrated to tumblr, I did a short three part series on how I personally learned #ttrpg design, with the aim of helping people unsure of how to increase their design knowledge/skill set. if that sounds like you, check this out! (& share/repost/reskeet/etc!)

My first essay of the year is on @noroadhome.itch.io's "Stewpot!" I think the game is pretty directly in conversation with D&D, and I talk about how it turns the tables on adventuring tropes, inverting the power dynamic between heroes and NPCs.

spent yesterday getting a tour of what’s new in my dad’s Minecraft world. he’s done really cool worldbuilding and doesn’t even know it, so i’m dropping everything and turning it into a campaign setting

Introducing the Designing Dungeons Course: a free, 14 step, hands-on tutorial that walks you through the process of creating a 30-room dungeon from scratch. I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games

Couldn't go to bed until I released my lukewarm take on ranked skill lists. Embrace freeform skill systems...you're already doing it anyway.

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i’m not usually a big holiday person, but something shifted in the air these past few days and everything is just a bit better now??? i spent my christmas scribbling notes for a deck building ttrpg. if this energy carries through the new year, i may share some of my ideas for it here… 👀

One of the best things I ever did for myself was stop comparing my life trajectory to people who have support systems. I won’t say I never had help, but I’m just now truly understanding the difference between “assistance” and “support”.

Let's talk about Daylight Savings Time. Pro: Nearly an extra hour of awake daylight time in summer. Con: Costs from confusion, lost sleep SOLUTION: Eliminate clocks, return to daylight reckoning for timekeeping. Pro: Meetings set at times like "when the oak's shadow touches the Elm." Con: None

Goldy Locs

Adapting Narrative Design Patterns for Tabletop Adventure Writing - AKA The One With The Flowcharts If you're interested in how I structure quests, adventures, decisions, etc. for tabletop design, this blog post is for you! There's even an activity at the end you can do & post in the comments :)

Dutifully making alt text for every picture genuinely made me a better descriptive writer. Not only is it inclusive, I can't recommend it enough for dumbass cartoon people like me who otherwise couldn't be bothered to practice their writing.

A tale as old as time

It's #PortfolioDay ~? I'm a traditional fantasy artist, with a strong love for dragons and unicorns and cake~! <3