ENTROPY is our child of love, and it's getting so much of our passion and ideas poured into it that I REALLY hope you will give our demo a chance, so it could possibly speak to you and your tastes -- both in gameplay and storytelling! steamcommunity.com/app/3940340/...

I am quite fond to have discovered Periles and Princess thanks to @loopquantumwyrm.bsky.social It draws me toward fairy tales, before they were sanded into bland gritty violence. Tales by women like Laura Gonzenbach that teach us not to mistake fragility for weakness, for a fragile crystal will cut

Last Friday, a friend told me ‘We know what we do to images, but it’s important to think about what images do to us. Images help define the horizon of the imagination.’ She knows that made me think, as it’s been a while since I’ve felt that way whilst playing. What does playing get you to imagine?

Beyond the pre-purchase hype, what factors make you consider keep playing a game? It’s not about why you’d play it once, but why you’d keep playing it after.

When creators ask for feedback, actually give it. Not just "looks good!" but real thoughts: "This mechanic is clever" or "My players would love this NPC." Your experience as a user is valuable intel.

Part of the same series that included the classic 'We See Farther' designer-first showcase, this 1984 ad for EA's One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird plays up the basketball players as software creators...

RIP my obsidian login pfp from 12 years ago

UK backers are getting their copies in the post!!!

Mabe this is—for sure it is—somehow out-of-the-blue question. His Holiness Leo XIV has recently published Encyclical Letter "Magnifica Humanitas" with a clear text. Thus, my question is; Can I cite my baptismal certificate as a reason to refuse to use large language models (LLMs) at work? 1/4

#GM (and game designer) tip of the day [Hat tip to @awizardincalafia.eurosky.social for giving me this thought; wanted to post it immediately :-) ] Pacing is an important part of any roleplaying game - possibly including solo games. Most groups have a natural pace they #ttrpg 1/5

One tag I often see in TTRPGs is “Rules-Light, Story-Focused,” and I’ve been wondering why simpler mechanics are often said to help the story and mood take center stage. What about narrative immersion created by rules-heavy systems, or by rules-light yet highly abstract ones? I love those games.

Excited to read this! I’ve run several adventures from this collection using @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social’s brilliant Cthulhu Dark ruleset and they’ve universally been brilliant spooky fun.

It feels good to have found time to create some personal art over the last month!

Last year I wrote a ttrpg manifesto trying to outline a style of play I enjoy. I have since refined those thoughts and arrived at a more clear vision of that philosophy. This is the "lost" seventh culture of play. www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2026/05...

10,000 swords against heaven // 1.8 —pugilist praxis occult xianxia ttrpg. kungfu communists, diamat wizards vs heavenly bourgeoisie > settlement, dungeon, etc. generator > new damage system, survival cosmic horror @ L0 > MICROCOSMIC ORBIT progression > 6 slot FASHION system

Even when it is stuff that's not particularly wacky, I remember the impact of the Critical Hit tables from Warhammer 1st (the first TTRPG I played) and there was clearly a lot more effort put on the descriptions, but also, the game communicated heaps about its tone via these:

Run, don’t walk— Astroprisma, the sci-fi solo TTRPG of your dreams, is finally for sale for people who didn’t back the KS! astroprismastore.com

I am not smart enough to give advice to @chanda.blacksky.app and I can't wait to read this book. But I would argue that there's an even greater possibility here: we need humanistic perspectives incorporated into techno-scientific practice to improve their outcomes so everyone benefits.

I think this is valuable! It is also an argument that is very commonly made, so I would not be contributing anything unique by highlighting it. The point I am making is one that is rarely made: the pressure to be practical at all times is dangerous to our humanity.

This is the core of the work I’m doing institutionally, or trying to. Not gamification (which in its most monstrous version is just grading by another name) but trying to uncork the liberatory power of play, of games as works of ART worthy of study, because that’s what the humanities does.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Soledad is over halfway funded. Twelve hours. I don't even know what to say. Thank you to everyone who backed and shared. This means the world. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/nessundove/the-roots-of-soledad?ref=mh-bluesky

Hey friends, the stream is now live! Get on in the chat, get cozy, and check out this interview I did with @dorianblackwood.bsky.social for their new game! www.twitch.tv/lalionnecosp...

Happy 100th #DavidAtttenborough! 'As Sir David Attenborough turns 100, revisit unforgettable moments from some of his most iconic landmark titles on BBC iPlayer.' Head to bbc.co.uk/attenborough100 for the full collection.

Happy to be the 10th backer 🦜 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Roots of Soledad - A Magical Realism RPG! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

I’m absolutely itching to play Caves of Qud, but I’m completely knackered. Do you know any films that deal with similar themes? I have already seen Wizards (1977).

Here's another post from my series about How To Design TTRPGs, which is about structure. www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

Zurth, my personal slice of the Antarctic hexcrawl jam, has been updated with 100 new points of interest, LOTS of corrections, an improved layout, and 15 mildly crude limericks. Download it here: idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-land-of-...

Strict Time Records, etc. etc. When I was running Dolmenwood, tracking the calendar day by day was great. The different phases of the moon had different effects, different weather patterns, character birthdays. This little Dolmenwood calendar widget is neat centaurion.itch.io/dolmenwood-c...

in 1997, "x.com" belonged to two guys named Dave and Rob and its slogan was "not nearly the worst place on the web!!!" web.archive.org/web/19970411...

Yesterday, while chatting with some friends, we discussed how certain games are better suited to a hypothetical newcomer to ttrpgs. We felt it important that such a game assumes no prior knowledge. From my perspective, some recent solo RPGs offer a better entry for these reasons: ⬇️

✦ 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN ✦ — pugilist praxis · occult xianxia — a brutal martial arts ttrpg where you play as wanderers traversing the dangerous Underworld. play as tecghnostic occultists and commie martial artists in a dead post-cold war tropical gothic world for free below!

New #ttrpg review! A look at A Perfect Rock by @deepdark.games A beautiful, lonely planet-crafting game about appreciating what you have. And an absolute masterclass of user-friendly design. Oh and it uses actual rocks. Vid: youtu.be/r_QtL_Aafl0

In particular, I'd love to send folks to @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social's NOSTOS, now also in it's final 24 hours! They're <$1250 away from their goal, and everything about the game is gorgeous. As we open doors for new games, let's keep supporting new voices too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

NOSTOS is remarkably cool and could use your support! It's so close to it's goal, but needs a little extra push!

more people need to buy and read Diaspora by Evil Hat Productions, specifically, the social mechanics chapter, and realize you can put social maneuvering on a map

I would really really really like this game to fund, so please check it out if you haven't!

As the Nostos kickstarter enters its final day of pledges, I'd like to share one last piece of art with you, depicting an Island likely to show up towards the end of a campaign of Nostos: Tropaia Station, the Crossroads — a quiet place in the countryside, a perfect setting for a final goodbye.

I just backed Nostos by @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social in @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

Happy International Workers' Day!

It's the #mayday 50% sale for you to get these 3rd eye openers www.plutobooks.com?s=shapiro&po... #marx #foucault

*Reposts appreciated” My webstore heycentaur.com is finally up! This took so many months of labour (mostly my partner’s), but it is all ready and running. Physical copies of Kala Mandala are now available, shipping to most of the world.

Did you know there is a free Marmateer's Mapbook for exploring Midnight Muscadines?? With this print and play PDF you can zoom in and add detail, sketches and notes of all the strange and wonderful things you discover. Find it and many more free resources here: midnightmuscadines.com/resources

#AviationDay On a 12th April, the son of a carpenter risked his life for us and ascended to the heavens. In memoriam of Yuri Gagarin, who up there said: "Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" (1/3)

Zephyr is an anarchist fantasy #ttrpg, where Windfolk traverse the back of a sentient continent to find the source of their convictions, and to to fulfill sacred communal obligations. Get it in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere at araukana.com/store #rpglatam

You see the family resemblance, right?

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

#TTRPG — I have lately come across Stonetop and Doomsong. I know they appeal to different aesthetics and design intentions, and I tend to enjoy both reading game manuals and solo-playing—especially since I rarely have time to organise group sessions. May you share your thoughts on them? Thank you.

ultraviolent tropical gothic horror dialectical mysticomaterialist xianxia buddhocommunism ttrpg 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN play as wandering assholes who must survive together in a dead world slain by the forces of Peace, reanimated by neoliberalism and Capital. free below