So this little stage show they're doing rules and it's wildly surreal to witness in a mall.

Hello folks. My indie RPG column is expanding. I will now be writing about forthcoming games. First issue this will happen in goes out 26th December. If you have an RPG project coming out, Kickstarter launching, or ending, within a month or so after that date, get in touch.

Self pity backer spike! Wooooo?

Unironically how I play Forza.

I've already fallen off the self-promotion train! I'd just sort of assumed that £2k was a low enough goal that I could just coast over the line without much effort, and... no. 😓

i spoke to the folks behind the project to bring concord back to life about why they're doing it

ok! hello! i'm reasonably confident this is mostly functional now. it works like sites like fxtwitter and so on for making nicer, more useful embed cards for social media and chat programs... but for your fanfiction recs ;) tell your friends!

There is something wrong with my car stereo where it starts skipping and gets worse the further west I go.

Hey, POC TTRPG writers, designers, professionals who are based in CONTINENTAL EUROPE, (sorry, but specifically NOT the UK this time) Please holler so I can be your friend 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 #juegosderol #lodelrol #pnpde #jdr #giocodiruolo #dutchdnd #dndnl #rpgdemesa #jogos #rpgpolska #ttrpg

We're funded! If you wanted a physical copy of the Beacon Core rulebook or Prismaxia supplement, this is your chance!

Alrighty, time to run Beacon and finish up the casual bar brawl with some skeleton sky pirates.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Just saying, taking ownership of your win conditions is one of the things accommodated by my currently crowdfunding game GRAVITY. (Sorry Rob, I'm jumping off your very interesting thread to market my wares.)

This is promising for writers and the publishing industry but devastating news for Readers who, it turns out, are actually the book equivalent of Gamers.

Playing Earthborne Rangers again. I need to get to various locations to help with flood recovery but I'm currently stuck in the woods with Bigfoot because there is a bush in the way.

Just finished reading THE INCANDESCENT by @emilytesh.net and I can strongly recommend it. It was recommended to me as 'Pigsmoke: The Novel' and while it isn't really that, they overlap in exactly the right way so that if you like Pigsmoke you'll like this, even though they're completely different.

Looks like Gravity's hit 25% in 24 hours which, not going to lie, isn't as good as I was hoping for. I guess this means I'm going to have to KEEP TALKING ABOUT MY GAME until it funds!

I'm working on a special gift for some special kids, and I'd love some input! Does anyone know any good freeware "baby's-first" programs? These are kids with broad interests so the sky's the limit! Art, design, media, development tools, anything you can think of!

Looks like Gravity's hit 25% in 24 hours which, not going to lie, isn't as good as I was hoping for. I guess this means I'm going to have to KEEP TALKING ABOUT MY GAME until it funds!

fish market

Buy my game please~ It's by me so you know it's good.

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

"I'll just slip into something more comfortable," I say, and quietly leave the building through a back entrance.

Buy my game please~ It's by me so you know it's good.

Launch! GRAVITY is a one-shot-focused RPG about powerful people stuck in an increasingly bad situation. To maintain suspense, the game uses a rotating-GM system (stolen from Lovecraftesque and my previous game, Bleak Spirit) to ensure that nobody knows what the Threat is until the climax.

Launch! GRAVITY is a one-shot-focused RPG about powerful people stuck in an increasingly bad situation. To maintain suspense, the game uses a rotating-GM system (stolen from Lovecraftesque and my previous game, Bleak Spirit) to ensure that nobody knows what the Threat is until the climax.

One of these days I will remember to think about gathering testimonials more than four hours before I launch a crowdfunder.

A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):

Thieves was *really good*, so this is probably also excellent. Alas, my wallet contains little but moths right now so I'll need someone to remind me this comic exists in a couple of weeks.

Making this edit, I am reminded a) that Pacific Rim is a fantastic good time and b) the line "Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of God!" delivered like that by Burn Gorman is just exceptional.

So, a couple of days ago I wrote this spiel about Gravity, which I'm planning on launching tomorrow, and as I got to the end I realised I should have explained how moves work in Gravity *first* because it's key to how I built around instrumental play. So, today I'm going to warble about that.

Social justice. 16-year-old me had some spectacularly bad opinions.

Also, it really needs to be said: "your game design choices mean something" doesn't mean "your game needs to be perfect or you failed," it just means if someone asks "hey why did you pick this mechanic" that you should probably have a better answer for it than "I dunno"

Also, about 10 of these Dog solutions folders are available! You can put your important tax documents in here.

In lieu of marketing today I have made a mockup of Gravity using the cover drawn by @sarahmason.art and a Photoshop template from Cover Vault, I believe. Don't you want to know what excellent words are hidden within the pink void? www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...

WORD OF THE DAY. Excellent. To give up spreadsheets for forty days.

I can't remember what I'd planned to talk about re: Gravity today, but I know 'instrumental play' was on the list so that's where we'll start. Well, it's where *I'll* start. *You* should start with this essay (not least because it'll buy me some time to come up with a thesis):

This is focused on video game design as far as I can tell, but there's loads of good wisdom in there for us RPG designers too. (Most notably, on like line two, "some things we play are *better* than others".)

I can't remember what I'd planned to talk about re: Gravity today, but I know 'instrumental play' was on the list so that's where we'll start. Well, it's where *I'll* start. *You* should start with this essay (not least because it'll buy me some time to come up with a thesis):

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Alright, think I'm going to launch the Kickstarter for Gravity on... Tuesday. I'm bored of waiting. Will I remember to hype it up on social media, multiple times a day, every day, to build interest and maximise income? Probably not! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...

Brainstorming new names for the game formerly known as Won With Blood. It's a solo game about fantasy court politics where the fancy new tech is being able to change out the main storyline with each playthrough. (I'm thinking The Empty Chamber is probably the winner.)

Got the same ad on @wharthur.bsky.social 's Mud Ghost Estate page. Apparently people who like indie RPGs also like the lifetime right to own a cable?