my problem is how am i supposed to write something funnier than this

I've been thinking lately, although I know many people have thought about this before; how do we know what *is* fun? Some people claim that *fun* is subjective, but I'd like to think that what we experience as *fun* is grounded, even monopolised, by objective material conditions. (1/3)

Do you know any "slowburn" ttrpg? A game where you can enjoy the intentionally slow pace of the gameplay.

I'm not participating in this year's Appx. N Jam, but if you're bored and want to look at some old pulp/pulp-adjacent covers, I have a Cosmos board with 300+ images. www.cosmos.so/explorersdes... Be prepared for some premium schlock, shock, and yeesh.

Hi #portfolioday! I'm Rori, an artist who designs and illustrates tabletop roleplaying games. I work in a wide range of traditional media and hugely enjoy every second of it. Here's a sample of work I've yet to update my portfolio with, and a link to see more :) www.montfordtales.com/portfolio/

Hi #portfolioday I do maps, apparently. #ttrpg #cartography

FSCSAW is one of my favourite RPGs, and I wish I play it more often. It's a bit of a double-edged sword though. I love how deep all its subsystems are, but at the same time I feel overwhelmed due to its vast potential. Mind you, I realise that's a failing on my part, not a flaw in its design.

Honest and genuine question. How do you read ttrpgs books? What aspects do you find the most nurturing in the act of read game manuals? I'm intrigued. ☺️

SPINE playthrough is live! youtu.be/b_ddIDjIPCA @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social

I still haven't had a chance to look at the new edition of 13th Age, but a while ago I live tweeted my way through the original edition. You can read those posts in handy-dandy blog format here: https://loottheroom.uk/the-long-read-13th-age

Rewrote the "Theme Development Cycle" to make is a showcase for various different themes (though they're all explicit):

Perhaps distancing from certain fan circles in my country was a right call. For ~10 years, I've seen the same topics in the same vague terms, with little progress. I find the international scene more nurturing. I can't say the same of my country's scene, with exceptions. Otherwise, I'd be lying.

a big thank you to @bentobitt.bsky.social for doing this amazing art for the FIST GOTY BOX SET, which includes a poster and a hardcover rulebook, both with this design‼️💥 it's LIMITED EDITION and preorders close 8/31/26 so if you want one, hop on it now: fist-rpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Jun Suemi Wizardry illustrations. archive.org/details/wiza...

Giving the solo ttrpg Pirouette a look. The idea is you're a ballerina dancing for an eldritch horror and have to give a perfect performance or die. Having known dance majors in college, I'm pretty sure this is actually just how dance works.

For the weekend crowd. I'd be grateful if you helped spread the word and considered giving SPINE your vote for this year's ENNIEs.

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Running the Lord Have Mercy Upon Us ttrpg campaign? You might enjoy this 🚨free🚨 post over on Patreon D66 Random Guildhall Events patreon.com/Caesarink/posts/d66-guildhall-149405338 #Doomsong #Horror&Heresy #D66 #tabletop

Count Binface, diplomat, dealmaker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbar...

!! BLOG POST TIME !! Combat can be a central part of a lot of games! Some people prefer the precise and balanced "Combat as Sport" where others yearn for the tactical infinity of "Combat as War." For me though? I seek out "Combat as Art"... www.failforward.moe/2026/06/comb...

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We are WILDLY excited to announce several community members have built and released a custom Obsidian vault for Midnight Muscadines: 🍇 The Jam Vault! 🍇 Interactive character sheets, cards, rolling tables, lore, templates, and more are now available in Obsidian! noodlespoon.itch.io/jam-vault

Three new @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #AnalogGameStudies collected essays are here! (We're working back in time till we have the whole set!) Thanks, #PlayStoryPress! Vol. 10 (2023): tinyurl.com/agsvol10 | Vol. 11 (2024): tinyurl.com/agsvol11 | Vol. 12 (2025): tinyurl.com/agsvol12

Just launched an update to Seedship that should make the game deal with phone screens with inset cameras, and also fix an interface bug that was happening on iOS. write.as/johnayliff/s...

Happy to be the 799th 🤖@backerkit.com for ION Heart Multiplayer - A Lo-Fi Mech TTRPG.

No matter what you try and teach a Hollywood executive, it will always come away with the most facile and least useful interpretation mortally possible. It’s embarrassing. There are literal children who could have a more nuanced take than “film give money when Internet give spooky.”

Some things beginning with Sea…( though actually they were about 1km inland). It was lovely to see the Harbour Seal pups, but sobering to remember that not one pup born on Teesmouth last year survived - the prospect isn’t much better for these, unless something changes. #wildlife #wildflowers 🐡

Starting at 10:30 AM EST today, July 2nd, I'll be running Psi*Run: The Pursuit, my on-line version of the game, in this thread, #PsiRunPursuitJuly2 There will be a companion Q&A thread as well, #PsiRunPursuitQ&A Are you ready to run? #PsiRun2e #ttrpg #pbta

10,000 swords against heaven is like if D&D was good* *was southeast asian and marxist-leninist and kung fu cultivation and cosmic capitalist horror but also set during the heat of death of the universe after innumerable past celestial communist societies invented what is essentially Qi

Absolutely cosigned, project ecco is one of my favorite all-time solo RPGs and I play a lot of solo RPGs. It's so weird and so inventive and rip to my last agent he was useless. Also if you haven't yet, you should check out the project ECCO podcast asap open.spotify.com/show/5yqpiaP...

The most powerful lore explanation you can ever produce is "don't worry about it"

My exact feelings attending DH conferences lately

I urge you to follow @makapatag.bsky.social. Reading 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN has been a real eye-opener. I love how it blends class struggle, xianxia, and tropical Gothic horror into a Manifesto-RPG; something rare in a scene so often filled with spineless political stances on game design.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

I urge you to follow @makapatag.bsky.social. Reading 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN has been a real eye-opener. I love how it blends class struggle, xianxia, and tropical Gothic horror into a Manifesto-RPG; something rare in a scene so often filled with spineless political stances on game design.

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a science fantasy spirit cultivation RPG about Cultivators struggling against unfair heavens seized by the Bourgeoisie. The setting is a technogothic weird realism xianxia nightmare at the Heat Death of the Universe, where life force is hoarded.

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #HigherEd · “Across continents, universities are witnessing the emergence of a new academic precariat.”

I’m reading 10,000 Swords Against The Heavens, and what annoys me most isn’t the game—which I’m absolutely loving, point by point—but the constant memory that comes to mind of people I know who would criticise its modes of presentation as being the antithesis of what a manual ‘must’ be like.(1/3)

Hi! I’d like to print a free game from Itchio. As such, I don’t have the InDesign file, but rather the final PDF, which I can import into InDesign in my case. The printers have told me: “You must leave a minimum of 12 mm free space on the inside margins.” How would you fix that? Thank you!

Recently I've been playing ION Heart in a play-by-post solo TTRPG format on discord. I've cleaned up what I've done so far and put it up on my blog: daydreamingmoose.bearblog.dev/ion-heart-so...

OK, this debate is worth some actual data. If I’ve got this right, to figure out how many TTRPG creators are full time vs. “have a day job” we need to define a few things, starting with: - the scope of what we count as “working in TTRPGs” - when a freelancer counts as “full time” in TTRPG

T -1. It's tomorrow. Get ready.

My PhD thesis "The Tale We've Fallen Into: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Post-Christian Quest for Meaning" is now available to download from the University of Glasgow! As JRRT said of publishing LotR, "I have exposed my heart to be shot at." Please read it! theses.gla.ac.uk/86043/

Do you know of any games about dungeons and dragons? I am really interested in Torchbearer 2nd Edition, but I would like to explore more alternatives.

Don't worry bro, I gotchu. Honestly, I think about this post every now and then... 🙃

it isn't just individual literacy failure, tho oligarchs push cognitive surrender hard for a reason. it's the whole macroeconomy of anti-process, instant gratification, on-demand access that begets the cultural style of literalism and intolerance for ambiguity www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Lately, I’ve found more OSR principles in games that don’t claim the label than in many OSR or OSR-adjacent games. It makes me wonder whether generic fantasy aesthetics and retrocompatibility have co-opted the label more than adherence to ad-hoc principles of a non-monolitic old-school game culture.