"Who the law binds, but does not protect."

It's warmin' up!

When was the last time you played a new-to-you Tabletop RPG, and which one was it? #TTRPGCommunity

It is at once tragic and sublime that there is essentially a transmasc rite of passage called "scoping the gym for juicers" in the USA (due to dumb laws and bad healthcare).

This really makes a world of difference for us!

I do consider the crabs a bonus of living in Maryland. Don't eat them (I find their meat nasty) I just find it cute when they scuttle across the beach <^_^>

It should seem...

"But I want to sound some alarm bells about the influence that these platforms are having on the TTRPG space, and the push toward professionalization that could crowd out smaller artists."

My latest #TTRPG is Overzealous! It's a solo game where you're a (nice, sensible) elder god who has to rely on a bunch of (distractable, bloodthirsty) zealots to get summoned into reality. Cartoon mayhem ensues! People can follow along on the preview page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...

We're deep in the desert, the party has a plan, and we're about to see how it all shakes out—join us on DieselShot for Actual Play fun times! www.twitch.tv/dieselshot #ActualPlay #ttrpg

Looking for sci-fi TTRPG adventures? ChangedStars has 3 modules + the back of the book adventure for you to dive into.

I love drawing little robot spider guys. I really do. 😤

Ran in an in-person game of ChangedStars today, then drove home and did an online unstreamed game of Fabula Ultima.

Wherever you are right now, whatever you're trying to do - you're doing it. And I appreciate you.

Very interesting 👀 TTRPG creators in the #TTRPGCommunity should definitely considering taking a look.

Heads up - blatant phishing attempt going around #bluesky #infosec

Hacking! For games where digital systems are a serious consideration, rules for hacking almost always emerge as a natural consequence of the desire to subvert them. While these rules vary from a handwave to a game in-and-of themselves, in ChangedStars we give them just enough to "stand alone."

It's #SelfPromoSaturday again, #TTRPGCommunity! Let's see what you've been working on! Show me your wares! Anything from modules, to podcasts, to dice! Remember to engage with this post & your peers!

Watching the Sword and the Sorcerer with @spiderqueenlong.bsky.social and I had seen about half of it before, someone posted it on here, and I just assumed it was like... a latter-day parody. But no, this dropped in 1982 and appears to have been entirely played straight? Honestly, respect.

40 minutes til our return session for a LANCER campaign that's been on an unplanned hiatus, I've got GIMP up making the hex map and wordL up /honing my mind/ for the encounter I've yet to write to come.

Aah well good news and bad news Shadowdark enjoyers. The East Kyrlizia print proof is here, and...! ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️

0w0 What's this? (notices your VoidSafe Hull Crawler)

How many tables is too many tables to be able to play a tabletop roleplaying game? I have seen many answers to this. A common one is 0, and that any number higher is a relic of the 90s. I have seen suggestions that it is actually a fault of the player/GM if they lack eidetic memory.

Shout out to Rune Quest: Slayers. They used a d6 die pool-with-modifiers roll for success system for combat. All 1s meant a fumble, and the number of 6s that hit scaled up into the crit. Late night TTRPG History, iSuppose? Game design a bit similar to ChangedStars re:Twists\Success.

Attention, #ttrpg creators! Did you know that I have tiers that allow commercial access to my maps? Check out the details and start using maps like the ones below in your titles! www.patreon.com/c/dw...

I am the lonely guy at the edge of the party every time Megadungeons come up because besides a few very specific exceptions the thiught of there being ONE dungeon for a campaign/game makes me instantly lose interest in reading/playing that game. And you can extra forget about running it.

Most of the way thru one of these and it's good fuckin' listenin'

Wwyd if you hit the corner store and they had a package labelled "THE DEADLY DATURA SEEDS" next to the candy bars below the counter?¿

Terrible vikings, dueling dragons, raided lands, cursed treasure... what will you find in East Kyrlizia? Check out DieselShot's premier Shadowdark module, East Kyrlizia, for a region of adventure as or against the menace or viking raids in a darkly fantastic campaign region!

As someone who has done actual plays for about half a decade now, I have a question for people who express sentiments along the lines of "I want to see real play / actually playing the game not a production": I'm here running the game on-stream almost exactly as I do off-stream, minus dress-up...

If you think about it being a tabletop RPG designer making mysteries is like writing a Columbo episode and getting to be in the audience at the same time, because the mystery to you really is "howsolvedit?" either way.

The Burden of Others' Whims is frequently a weight a designer must choose not to carry if they are to make something good. (yes I am up regretting an incredibly niche character sheet decision from years ago lmao)

I can't believe I slept past the release announcement lmao Hey so I am a huge proponent of "use adventures and one-shots to show what your game can do and how you'd support that (and also they're good and fun to play through") and DieselShot keeps delivering with Changed Stars. Check it out!

I think my biggest weakness as a "creator" is that iCannot be fake; if I think something is bad I say that, if I don't think it's really that bad/in that way I usually say that too. And I try to be nice to all designers in a way I think people might see as insincere but my love for them is v/real.

What I take more from this post than anything is do your discourse posting when the Thoughts[tm] of the night strike cos I posted this at like 11:30pmEST

The wait is finally over! Marooned is out on #Dieselshot's stores! Survive a harsh alien world in this exciting new module w/ art, descriptions, pregens, & everything u need to crash land into the 'verse of #ChangedStars! dieselshot.itch.io/marooned-a-c... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

The latest ChangedStars drop is here! Marooned is a survival adventure scenario, and I figured I'd share my favourite spoiler-free part of the module with everyone in the #TTRPGCommunity to celebrate: the character sheets! Odd I know, but I've thought a lot about how to present pre-gen characters.

Throwback to that time I designed a tiny TTRPG on one page, "Grenadiers." This is the 1.1 version of the rules because I had change something about, walls? I think.

How big is too big for a TTRPG? When do you want the book to split? When it's rules + adventure? Rules + huge bestiary? Rules + entire campaign? I'm into Capsule Games but I'm weighing a lot of aspects of presentation.

We are LIVE! with High Road: join our friends for a desert adventure as they visit a monetary, contemplate a ritual, purify a mine, and hopefully solve everyone's problems? www.twitch.tv/dieselshot

65 hours to go on this lovely Kickstarter I do the writing for; join us on an aquatic adventure for Calypso's Catch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/126...

Soon and very soon you, too, can crash-land on Nahui Ihuan-2! ChangedStars: Marooned drops to-morrow. #ttrpg #adventuremodule

The Great War never ended. The Grey Plague devoured the world, and on February 15th the dead rose against the living. Necro-Cossacks, dieselpunk, an alternate 1921 — with cadavers and communards included! #ttrpg #FollowFriday #ttrpgcommunity

I’m looking for someone who knows their way around InDesign, has a passion for the hobby, and would be up for taking some layouts off me for Secret Passages issue 3 and – if we both have a lovely time – beyond. If that sounds like you, DM me! #ttrpg #zine #design #indesign #graphicdesign

I feel like "oversexed" is paradoxically usually used to describe the oeuvre of those most charitably termed the "undersexed," but I'm not sure there's really grounds for correction there either.

This was such a good fucking movie.

Up late thinking about this quote tonight.

There is a certain kind of RPG where instead of pricing things they propose you just fucking wing it and while it asks a lot it has a certain appeal; it kind of makes you feel like the Pricemaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9GB...

Hello dreamers! Did you know that @spiderqueenlong.bsky.social and I, of @dieselshot.bsky.social fame, have a fully playable 304-page Hard Sci-Fi Tabletop RPG set in a more hopeful future? And that you can download and play it RIGHT NOW? It's true! <^_^> #ttrpg dieselshot.itch.io/changedstars

A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!