Obligatory PaxU haul pic.

Time to read new games and drink lemonade (& espresso)! 🃏 Ritual Deck: A CFB #ttrpg about teen card duelist & amnesiac spirits! 🤖 MAC: @bastionland.bsky.social fast paced mech skirmisher! Both releasing on the store this afternoon and available at #paxu! Either way it’s time to DUEL!!!

Play Hawk's Episode, Nightmare at the Museum!! It's funny AND scary!!!!!

famously a fan of combining party drugs and weird online experiences in TTRPGs, so this was an instant pick up

Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it. store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

Thank you to Wes, and Zine Club overall, for believing in this weird scrappy little game!

Ritual Deck is out now!! In Ritual Deck, play as moody teenage card duelists, possessed by amnesiac spirits, solving mysteries and resolving threats both supernatural and mundane to recover their lost memories and stop the return of an ancient evil. plusoneexp.com/products/rit...

Thank you to Wes, and Zine Club overall, for believing in this weird scrappy little game!

Ritual Deck is out now!! In Ritual Deck, play as moody teenage card duelists, possessed by amnesiac spirits, solving mysteries and resolving threats both supernatural and mundane to recover their lost memories and stop the return of an ancient evil. plusoneexp.com/products/rit...

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

Day 12: Great moment from a session recently. One of my players was The Law, and they were in the middle of a big dramatic scene with a fellow player. The Law used their playbook move to establish a rule that everyone in the scene must follow: "No one may leave" I bookmarked this in my head.

Day 11: I work on my own timelines, dude. Shadow highlight! Hello, it's The Scribe - aka the know-it-all

WELCOME TO WEDNESDAY

Another fake Jennifer Anniston has hit the followers list

DC Studios is working on a new HBO series from the creators of American Vandal titled DC Crime, a fictional "true crime" series where Jimmy Olsen covers The Flash villain Gorilla Grodd.

skipped yesterday intentionally because I was sleepy. Day 10! NPC highlight ~~~ Meet Armina l'Egg.

yooo, fake jennifer aniston followed me

Day 9! It takes a village to launch a game, and I got a couple friends of mine to write Episodes for Ritual Deck. Early in dev, I tapped my friends Hawk Williams and Lore Arnold to fill out some light sketches of episodes for me, and they turned in things that were soooo cool.

Day 7: I love to make soundtracks for my writing projects, and Ritual Deck is no different. In fact, I created four playlists for the different moods/phases of a Ritual Deck session so I can soundtrack out the playing of the game!

Day 6! A story from playtesting: Minerva Meeks, The Law (as played by @henraptor.bsky.social), started our game strong - she's a snivelling hall monitor by day and a near fascist by night.

i am going to make a thread of screenshots from Rent-A-Hero No. 1, for the Sega Dreamcast, just because i took So Damn Many

@thepoduniverse.com have a hilarious guest pitch from Branson Reese and they featured an ad read about Ritual Deck from @drlemons.itch.io headed to Zine Club this month! youtu.be/te6lHxpaAls?...

Day 5! I helped sponsor today's episode of @thepoduniverse.com! "This is a combination that intrigues me.... I'm gonna have to give this one a little look!" - Dylan

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

Dayyyyy 4! I was never suuuper worried about balance in this game. The fun isn't in how well you can strategize to defeat your opponent; it's in the story. As mentioned before, since dueling comes down to a single dice roll, and this game is PbtA, Duelists will tend to win more often than not.

Alan Wake 2

Day 3! I had all these ideas for mechanics, and a broad thought towards the world and story, but the whole tone and atmosphere only began to make sense once I started writing the Episodes -- Here's a little about one of my favorites: Operation C.U.L.T.U.R.E.S.H.O.C.K.

Yay! Ritual Deck had a little ad spot in this show! Check it out!

Day 2! It's time to duel!!! Dueling in Ritual Deck solves a complex problem in a really free flowing creative way - how do you recreate the frenetic, dramatic, and basically incomprehensible rules of the Duel Monsters card game from Yu-Gi-Oh? Here's how I approached it.

Ritual Deck is launching soon, so I'm starting a thread where I'll share a snippet about the game every day. It could be a design aspect I'm excited about, some piece of inspiration, a story from playtesting, art, or more!!

madness draws near… THE TONIGHT IS A FRIGHT SHOW Wed, 10/29 @ 9/8c twitch.tv/deluxevideodrift Musical performance by @laryssaokada.bsky.social and guest @b0tster.yeag.gay

🩸 Laissez Couler le Bon Sang 🩸 #COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social. Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover. #trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood

Once more! Ritual Deck is launching next month through RPG Zine Club as November's story game. Consider joining up!

My friend Retro has released his rules to his Chicago World's Fair inspired game rules for free! It has the basic rules, core moves, AND a link to City of Blood and Plaster (five free adventures!) retrofit-games-company.itch.io/spooky-auror...

It's very impressive that the rules are explained within 7 pages, the font seems to be a good size for printing, and it actually solves a few pain points of teaching CfB to Keepers of when does an opportunity get resolved by making use of already established terminology that's within CfB.

People don't realize their impact but since you all have shared and donated funds to our move, I've been able to put my earnings from contract work towards putting dents into Student Loans & other debt. I haven't had to worry about us paying utilities and getting pet food. Thank you for 40% 🫀

I'm just saying what we're all thinking: it is time studios recognised the fans and re-released Tron Ares

It’s the game that changed everything for me in a lot of ways—the first time a publisher liked something I wrote enough to buy it from me—but beyond that it’s just a really great game that deserves more attention.

Ritual Deck is basically done! Holy shit

WE ARE LIVE!!! The Cryptid Show by @atticus.haus at ttrpg.link/CryptidShow Black Flies by @goosepoopgames.com at ttrpg.link/BlackFlies THE BLACK CRYPTID COLLAB LIVES! Support these spooky season #TTRPGs now!

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach. If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

Getting ready to lead some panel discussions at LibraryCon in Pflugerville! I got a little closet Alan Wake cosplay to rep my fictional writers

Friend of mine without social media just dropped his first game! Go check it out if you like story games, MOTW, you live in and love Chicago, or games that can be played in one session with friends!! retrofit-games-company.itch.io/spooky-auror...

Just got my copy of Hellarkey from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social! Excited to read One Night in Cedar Hill by @henraptor.bsky.social!!!!

anytime I have someone ask me about what genre their project is

This seems like a BONKERS deal for the indie TTRPG crowd. 20 bucks to advertise to an audience that is already bent towards the love of collaborative storytelling? Holy shit.

Wes and Bran are such generous stewards of the indie TTRPG community, uplifting small creators every day. Let's show them some love back.