Ahhh so happy to see my co-organizer and brilliant designer @magnolienne.bsky.social recognized!

Gestern Abend mal wieder eine phantastische Runde "Für die Königin" gespielt und erneut realisiert, wie verdammt gut und auf den Punkt @helloalexroberts.bsky.social die Fragen für ihr Spiel geschrieben hat. Amazing! #pnpde #rollenspiel sphaerenmeisters-spiele.de/For-the-Queen

This is very exciting to see! Making Star Crossed into a 1-player experience fun, and especially fun to play test. It's the part of the supplement I'm most proud of.

Finally finished the Love, Sex, and Romance miniseries featuring @helloalexroberts.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social on @diceexploder.com. Just a really fun & smart & joyful exploration of those topics in RPGs. Highly recommended. First episode is here: open.spotify.com/episode/2Gt9...

The final episode of @helloalexroberts.bsky.social and my 4-part mini-series with @diceexploder.com about romance & sex in RPGs is out! Take a listen! www.diceexploder.com/blog/2025/8/...

What a fantastic four-parter, @helloalexroberts.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social hit so much here across TTRPG and LARP. Anyone interested in erotic games should give the series a listen. Thanks @diceexploder.com for hosting this. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Holding my Paranoia opinions ransom, amount tbd

I didn't get very far in this because I was so bad at the tennis part but people need to know this. Camelot, who made the Golden Sun series, got away with making a Mario Tennis game that is a JRPG in which the Mario characters are distant celebrities

Loading up my retroid before a long flight - any pals have recommendations for some good, lesser known SNES/Genesis/GBA titles? RPGs especially. Any recent fan translations I might not know about?

This week on Dice Exploder it's @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @helloalexroberts.bsky.social's penultimate love sex and romance episode! This time on phalluses and other physical objects. Come for the family systems therapy and triangulation, stay for the Let These Mermaids Touch Your Dick Maybe.

This is SUCH a great episode. @sharangbiswas.bsky.social & @helloalexroberts.bsky.social are a dynamite pair of hosts! And for four episodes - what a treat. Looking forward to digesting these and churning out some real horny TTRPG writing.

💎JEN'S UNDER-APPRECIATED GEMS: Play in the Setting of Your Choice. Balance framework and freedom. An established theme - a journey with your queen, a sentient city, the end of the world - but players choose the genre. Fantasy, modern, sci-fi - a WILD variety of possibility (and replayability!) 🧵

When my uncle was a kid his second grade teacher put a glass jar on his left hand to "correct" his left handedness. He smashed the jar into a million pieces on the floor and was transferred to a different class. I just like to share this story sometimes.

We didn't reach my stretch goal for Cosmic Dark but @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social is being cool and letting me write an adventure anyway

Saw this because I was tagged and then thoroughly enjoyed the whole thread!

I am finally starting this series and in the 1st 15 minutes Alex & @sharangbiswas.bsky.social have already drawn fascinating distinctions between game academics & game scholars and a key potential distinction between TTRPG & larp that I hadn’t yet heard. And that’s before they even get going.

What does it say about my game design career that I was way more jealous of my acquaintances at TF Nation this weekend than those at GenCon

If we do anything to regulate capitalism or improve conditions for ordinary people the capitalists will simply withdraw, with all their wealth and brilliance, to the floating kingdom of Devil Land

I'm thinning out my collage material stash today and I thought you all might like to see some highlights

it sucks being the one sultan who's got a genuinely stable and healthy relationship with his vizier when you're at the hangout and all your friends wanna talk about are the goddamn schemes

I sincerely hope that our lively discussion about some of the most interesting and influential rpgs ever made inspires you to keep pushing back against the current crackdown on sexy/queer games. yellat.money

I love that Dice Exploder includes transcripts of their episodes but seeing my own speech written out is..........an experience

It's here!!!! Four fun convos between me and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social Shoutout the long history of games and game design re: Thanatos but it's Eros time

me when people ask for advice about becoming a commercially successful game designer instead of about making games

One of the BEST Descended from the Queen games I've played, Brave the Dreamer by @amyhuang.bsky.social is now available! I'm so excited about this! btd.chromegarden.games

IPR is always the coolest booth at the con. And look, they have Star Crossed: Love Letters!

I was so close to mentioning the safety pin mechanic in the podcast with Sharang but genuinely could not remember if it was real or merely a horny urban legend

Sharang and I have been hollering some very cool and important and scholarly perspectives into some microphones; Sam is an angel for editing it and you are gonna have so much fun listening to it

Briefly acknowledging I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor to give you two important updates about the use of "AI" (LLMs) in my field:

Oh hey! It would be really great if you voted in the ENNIEs! For Star Crossed: Love Letters, sure, I mean that's a big talented group of people who made exciting new ways to play the two player game of forbidden love, so yeah. But also please vote for @diceexploder.com 😁

Thanks everyone who came out to this. My favorite part was having a "donate X amount to ask characters a question, X amount to see a flashback scene between two characters" thing going on the whole time. Maybe it's because I've played the game a lot but I loved the questions donors came up with!

get in here

We're starting soon!

Now this is a compelling answer

This was very fun to do and I think you're all going to love it 😁

What's the sexiest ttrpg and why will no one give their real answer in public

Come check this out, we're gonna do weird things with this game

This is the kind of training we need 💪

Yes yes yes, I playtest early so I can save myself writing later 😅

Then like the noble layout artist, you possess a valuable ttrpg skill

Because I so cherish the twin TTRPG virtues of greed and sluttiness, there are rules for three player games in the Ennie-nominated Star Crossed: Love Letters! Bullypulpitgames.com/products/star-crossed-love-letters

I've done this and it yielded some very useful data!

Follow up opinion: once you're past this point, running playtests without you in the room? At that point you are testing the game *text*

This is probably my favorite part of playtesting. Just raw mutable Game not yet imprisoned in an edifice of the written word. What I'm saying is that writing a game text is hard and I don't like doing it

Am I developing some sort of problem

Save the date for Friday, July 18! Join @helloalexroberts.bsky.social @holloworange.bsky.social @ohheyitsgina.bsky.social @byconniechang.bsky.social @jeremycobb1.bsky.social and me as we play For the Queen and raise funds for @dotsrpg.org Friday, July 18 🔴 5 pm PT (cont)

Star Crossed: Love Letters is ENNIE nominated! The website only mentions me and Jason but you know the team who took it to the hoop: @bananachangames.bsky.social @lulavampiro.bsky.social @amalelmohtar.com @ceciliatan.com @kierongillen.bsky.social @maxgladstone.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social

Satah edited the Star Crossed / I Have The High Ground mashup we did on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social so you're gonna want to vote for Satah. thanks in advance

you'll never guess what happened to be at my local game store today

The stupid posts will continue as long as I keep procrastinating going to the pool