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it's finally FINALLY time: INFINITE REVOLUTION, my star-powered, zodiac-inspired exosuit dogfighter RPG, is finished, crowdfunded, and publicly released!! Spin up your Revolver Drive, defend the stars, fall in love, burn up, and remember—THE ONLY THING BRIGHTER THAN YOU IS MORE OF YOU🌠 Link ⬇️

Oh, right. New arrivals: Around the parts of Bluesky I frequent, it's mostly settled that we're not doing generative AI as it now exists in TTRPGs, and if you want to argue with that, you'll mostly get yelled at, made fun of, and blocked, by various people. So, pick that battle at your own risk.

Time bending and warping Mothership trifold! On sale now! Buy it before I curse you in my bog with voice uehehe urania-games.itch.io/turn-back-th...

Join us at 3pm ET on the 1st of January for a New Year's LIVE AT THE TABLE - @notquitereal.bsky.social, @carberry.deals, and @sylvibullet.bsky.social will be playing the ashcan edition of @adambell.games's Locked Room Murder Mystery lockedroomgame.com twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

Do we need to track ammo in TTRPGs? Exploring the different ways tabletop games can track ammo spent during combat whether it's an arrow or a bullet, using CY_BORG's ammo check roll as an example: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/cyborg-ammo #ttrpg #ammo #morkborg #cyborg #cy_borg

A year in review: I wrote a blog post once a week and published three games. Looking forward to even more in 2026! www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/12...

Hey new folks! If you're just tuning in, here's what I'm all about.

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

Hello Stranger, Re-introduction time! I'm Epidiah Ravachol. Perhaps you've heard of my #ttrpg work, like Dread, the horror game that uses Jenga; or Swords Without Master, the one with the tones.† I've been at this indie truly-true role-playing game publishing gig for roughly a quarter century.

Hey new folks! If you're just tuning in, here's what I'm all about.

I had missed this!! A pretty positive little review for HARDCASE - glad to get a passing grade, it's a nice little push to keep working on #HC2e 💛

I sense an influx of people who might be interested in TTRPGs! Check out our starter pack go.bsky.app/HGiNepJ

in order to network in the ttrpg scene, you must: - accept that you are not everyone's cup of tea - reinvent a mechanic from first principles - make games that drive 10-30 other designers mad - speak with the confidence of someone who thinks very long and hard about how to play pretend more good

Did you get cash for Christmas? Is it burning a hole in your wallet? Why not spend some, or perhaps all, of it on the Boxing Day sale I have other on Itch? 20% off everything from Swamp Creature to Caught in the Remix! Sale ends the same time the year does.

In the penultimate blog post of the year, I reflect on my roleplaying beginnings and how those experiences inform my game design. www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/12...

From the publisher that brings you Sprigs & Kindling (that's me!), in collaboration with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social comes a new anthology of one shot incursions for Trophy! Sign up to be notified of launch 😄 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

This is still going on! Meanwhile, I've taken a short Christmas break to recharge but work on Battles & Bechamel, my Dungeon Meshi-vibes hex crawler, is still advancing and I'll have a playable alpha version for you SOON

Today for Critique Navidad, it’s Hardcase! Are you prepared for solo play in working class cyberpunk space station? It’s Hardcase! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/26/c...

anyone wanna add me to their cool rpg starter packs im up to neat shit here i promise

Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.

We don't talk about the secret second project. Yet.

i just need to finish what i’ve already started. plus the secret second project with @binarystar.games

If you've not heard of Five Minutes, Not 5e ( #5mn5e) before, and/or you want to find out about some interesting games, straight from the designers, check out the episodes so far! www.youtube.com/@FiveMinutes...

The TERMINUS hardbacks have arrived and the fancy UV spot gloss has come out exactly as hoped – glossy tiles and matte grout! 🥳 It almost feels like it's embossed. I'll be posting these out as soon as I can manage it. 📦🔜

Just in time for Jewish Christmas, we have a new TTRPG 🎲: The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back! TVSTMAWGTSIB is a dreidel-powered heist TTRPG about reclaiming the Temple menorah from the Vatican. Itchfunding a print run till Jan 1! 📆 🔗: jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib

Looking for a last-minute gift for the gamer in your life? Check out the locally-designed games at your neighborhood book, comic, or game shop! Here in the DMV, @peoplesbooktakoma.com *just* restocked with indie zines after selling out earlier in the season -- come and get them!

Sure, you know about Vancian Magic, but what about Jackian Magic? (Someone please finish this design.) www.explorersdesign.com/jackian-magic/

Restocked! Necromancer Heretic is a solo journaling game about a void sorcerer trying to bring their lover back from the dead. Content Warning: violence, death, and blood. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Necrom...

Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions. Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍

As we head into the holiday season and close in on the New Year, if you’re looking for a campaign for Apocalypse Keys from @temporalhiccup.bsky.social and @evilhat.bsky.social may I ask you to Party Like The World Is Ending? urania-games.itch.io/party-like-t...

I struggled for a really long time to decide what the first Solar Cataphracts game blog post was gonna be. I needed something in depth enough that it couldn't just be a discord message. How about a four thousand word breakdown of #Over/Under 's economics? open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...

Fractal Romance is a ttrpg I don't talk nearly enough about tbh. It's a weird, abstract, chill, hangout kind of game. You use a deck of cards to both generate the spaces you explore and denizens you encounter, as well as "tokens" to spend on moves. It's also been compared to Paradise Killer!

You can dislike something. You can know its not for you. You can critique it. You can even shrug and say "I dont get this." You -cannot- be incurious and disparaging and still demand to be taken seriously.

Winter Sale is up, I have games bundled up and on sale now including the shiny happy new coat of paint version of We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights! With cover art by Jaen Nighly Butler and layout by Neonrot!! urania-games.itch.io/we-wander-be...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the first annual Lizzies! The best and brightest of the blogosphere comes forward, as decided by your second-favorite blogger with a furry pfp! magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Hitting some financial difficulties lately, so an open call to donate to me if you've used my CCLA library! Obviously still not required, but I'd really appreciate it: (donate link is at the top) www.stregawolf.art/ccla-library

Throwing one more post on the pile before the end of the year. Enjoy binarystar.games/posts/origin...

It's almost Christmas, buy my fucking games or unfollow me I'm not doing this shit with y'all keganexe.itch.io/blister-city

DAY 11, GAME 9: Apocalypse Frame from @binarystar.games is a cool, combat-focused mech RPG, with a great selection of hardware for players to pilot and some good tactical battlefield combat, with stories focused on mech-missions. binary-star-games.itch.io/apocalypse-f...

This weekends the last chance before I finalize the script and record! Remember you don't have to be a dev to throw up a game, you can just show off one you're excited about!

I honestly apply this advice to literally everything. Randomizer? Choose what the fuck ever, just do it on purpose. Players' relationships to the idea of violence and targets of violence? Make the choice on purpose. Stat line? You guessed it, choose one on purpose.

My absolute TTRPG design advice is this: Do it on purpose. Think about your choices and make them deliberately for your project instead of doing something just because some other game (usually D&D) does or doesn't do it.

Throwing one more post on the pile before the end of the year. Enjoy binarystar.games/posts/origin...

MECHS AND MUSHROOMS!

Post is up! You can read it here: omnes.exeunt.press/p/epsilon-003

The last ttrpg review of the year is Breathtaking Comics, a superhero game created by @astralfrontier.org. It was a little out of my comfort zone but I had a great time! www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/12...

Here it is. The final 24 hours. You've helped coax banked embers into a steady flame. Tell me, what is one thing you'll bring with you into What-Comes-Next? Seeds? Thread? A good kitchen knife? What will you make of what's left? Together, let's light up the world. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Reminder that pitches are still open for the slugblaster fanzine! No need to have anything done yet, just send through a pitch on what you want to submit!!!

I had a delightful conversation with Matt Orr of Wet Ink Games for Other Ink Thursday. A big theme thaf emerged was how relationships and community have grown my confidence and skill as a tabletop designer (more after the jump) 1/▶️ youtu.be/ihjRBgpjR4s?...