Somehow, I keep needing reminders that my body no longer supports replacing lunch with 2-3 coffees.

From podcast to convention: the team behind Between Two Cons talks challenges and success after inaugural event www.rascal.news/from-podcast...

For @mothership.blog, I talked to over a dozen caretakers about the reality of being a caretaker while working in games. The short of it? It's *very* difficult. Here's a glimpse of the current experience, its consequences, and coveted standardized practices: www.mothership.blog/the-games-in...

This is devastatingly correct for where I grew up. People left behind by every stratum of politics (but especially town and county/parish) pushing all their energy into surviving a broken, immiserated existence. Politics is a luxury for politicized bodies.

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Cannot stress enough that corporate media is hostile to you and your way of life. It must be left behind. All of it.

So happy to see our first collection up on Heart of the Deernicorn! We're working on the second anthology and soooo close to announcing it properly.

Dang, that's a sick lookin' book.

This is live and happening now!

Remembering Twitter has haunted the back half of my life sure explains a lot.

Haha this sucks!

I feel like I've read dozens of this blog... but I'm looking for blogs or articles that boil down to "yeah, going to cons can suck, but as a game designer, it's invaluable to be at conventions, and to have your game at conventions -- even if it's at a third-party vendor." Can anyone help me out?

If there ain't 99 other players running through a physical room to find the KAR98K and Level 3 helmet cards, and then one of them domes me from behind and calls me a slur... Well, then it ain't my PUBG.

Two cool things about this story: 1. Allowed us to learn about other sick Finnish traditions, including transplanted immigrant culture; 2. Divorcing RPG and roleplay from their commerical defintions blows wide open the possibility space for all these other forms they can take.

for 404 media, i wrote about video game clones—who makes them, how they make them, and where the line gets drawn between inspiration and cloning

If I grew out my beard and hair, his employers wouldn't even realize it until it came time for me to explain Hill Country flora and fauna to state park visitors.

Since @explorersdesign.bsky.social has experienced both sides of the ENNIEs process, I invited him onto the podcast to discuss the weird phenomenon of awards and their equally weird effects. Also, generative AI bullshit, playing genre straight, and why game piece mouthfeel is a valid metric.

I have a book coming out later this year! Roll on charts, do jobs, live life, write stories, and do all that other interesting stuff that happens before the first day of your fantasy adventure (and if it sells enough we'll do a sci fi one). Preorder now!

Possible Worlds Games is proud to announce Path Apparatus by @ckunzelman.bsky.social & @mmcwh.bsky.social—a study of & system for lifepaths in TTRPGs! Find it alongside our fall pre-orders, available on its own or with combined shipping for November delivery: realis.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

If you're not tempted to eat your board game's pieces, they're only half as good as they should be.

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Looks like I was onto something www.weareravenous.com/restaurants-...

Since @explorersdesign.bsky.social has experienced both sides of the ENNIEs process, I invited him onto the podcast to discuss the weird phenomenon of awards and their equally weird effects. Also, generative AI bullshit, playing genre straight, and why game piece mouthfeel is a valid metric.

this keys into something I've been turning over in my head amid all this (aside from the sublimated attraction certain uneasily progressive straight guys have for men like Platner): much of this stuff comes downstream of a desire to repeat a certain Narrative as if that were the lever of change

My brother and I received a dedicated second landline in the house as a Christmas gift.

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it’s a bummer to see folks work so hard and the reaction to so often be “nobody is doing the work” a lot of folks tell on themselves for not actually reading, watching, or listening to the media they criticize

Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Super swell that this is up! For Design Room I delved into Inscryption's spooky music with Daniel Mullins and his frequent collaborator, Jonah Senzel

No Pun Included needs a reset youtu.be/lpy0_h01hU0

Myself and @vongnome.bsky.social are working on a project and we're looking for zines that were made around 2014 (or the mid 2010s) that were in response to or reference gamergate, or mention the concept of "the gamer" in some way. Let me know if you have any leads on this!

Intergalactic Bastionland will be funnier and weirder than you expect www.rascal.news/intergalacti...

This was a really great interview and I am now very very excited for this game. And everyone else should get excited too.

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Big news! @apzonerunner.com and I have launched a new video games website. @respec.net is our attempt to create a highly curated multi-format site that has that club feel you used to get from the best magazines (and frankly, my beloved VideoGamer back in the day) www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

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Hey there! If you're a TTRPG designer who found that their work has been messed up by Adobe's AI alt-text (or any other weird AI features they injected to their software that nobody wants), hit me up please! kheehoon (at) rascal.news

In its sophomore year, Good Day to Dice is leveraging social media and LA production value to bring people to its erotically charged actual play where campy drag kings flirt, fuck, and bargain their way through a ghostly murder mystery.

While they're not my taste, this is a good decision! Credit where it's due for choosing a more ecological option for collectibles.

Nearly every restaurant, cafe, bar, and restaurant in the Spanish town I visited on holiday had posters just like these in their windows. Flame graphics, screeching fonts, piss filters, crowded infographs, and lists. Really jarring agaisnt the old apartment blocks and sun-bleached clay tile roofs.

Got so riled up I blogged it, shoutouts to data viz aftermath.site/ai-education...

Indie publisher Eurydice Games hits almost £400,000 in revenue while hand-making every copy of its game FlickFleet in a garage: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

These are NOT small-box distillations of popular board games (like Gloomhaven's excellent Buttons & Bugs). They're collectible bits of plastic with rarities, blind box packaging and (sigh) "alt art chase foils."

Thanks to #PlayStoryPress our prior, archival work is getting a massive boost into posterity. It's satisfying to know that people will be able to find and get copies of this work for decades to come. Those POD books are so inexpensive btw that your local library *could* get the set.

There's a few people I'm going to email directly, but I'm just putting it out there that I'm looking for video game review/preview work at the moment, so editors, please get in touch. I'm good at turning them around last minute!

We have extended the Games and Archaeological Play call for zines until July 17th! Anyone can submit a zine: you do not need to attend or register for the conference to submit. gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

Evil Hat organizes RPG charity bundle in support of Rae Nedjadi www.rascal.news/evil-hat-org...

Expansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...

A pair of tabletop game designers have launched an open-source colour identification system called ColorSym, giving publishers a free tool for colourblind-friendly board game creation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...