worldbuilding: it's easy and fun

Got age-verified on my work Discord this morning because I wanted to display a preview image of an open giant squid beak and the surrounding buccal mass Thanks for keeping me pure and safe from the squssy Keir

If you've enjoyed some of my games and are interested in trying it yourself, why not join the ONE HUNDRED ONE PAGE GAME JAM next month? There's PRIZES. itch.io/jam/one-hund...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL is my one hundredth one page game. YOU ARE A GOAT GIRL. It is always your birthday and God Himself could not stop you from doing exactly what you want. PDFs (including text-only) and design commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

Tremendous bargains in the Hillsborough branch of Mind

The Cook

Zuck is such a huge loser he made SUNGLASSES UNCOOL

Nearly harvest time. Orchard has gone all out this year as you can see

My hundredth one-page roleplaying game is HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL. You are a goat girl, most beautiful and dangerous creature, and it is always your birthday. Patrons get it a week early here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

My hundredth one-page roleplaying game is HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL. You are a goat girl, most beautiful and dangerous creature, and it is always your birthday. Patrons get it a week early here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

this is the sort of stuff I get in my Discover tab. And like: I want to select the "Show me less like this" option, not because I disagree with the sentiment at all, but because the patter is so fuckin dry. I feel like I'm two steps off a left-wing Minion gif at this point

coming October 1st: itch.io/jam/one-hund...

I don’t really ever have useful creative advice. It’s always gonna be like, “Make stuff up, see what happens, pick the parts you like, then put them next to each other in different configurations until they make your brain tingly.”

Big day. DOCTOR MAGNETHANDS, a stupid drunk game for stupid drunk people that I wrote fifteen years ago, and one of the few TTRPGs that actively tries to bum a drink off the reader as part of the core text, has been translated into Portuguese.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

You can just make character sheets for games that don’t exist. It’s free and no-one stops you

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

I don’t even play games that I wrote myself earlier that week rules as written

Feel like my parents are equally photogenic

It's worth signing up to our monthly promotional emails. You won't regret it. In this one for example, unable to sustain even a paper-thin impersonation of commerce, I come unpinned mid sales-pitch mailchi.mp/c34af2950200...

Revised D&D magic system where every spell is about five times more powerful and you only refresh spell slots when you gain a level

Rummage around in heaven’s back room for long enough and you develop some interesting appetites. Bootleg Ambrosia is just one of the inadvisable narcotics available to you in Ways & Means, now live on Backerkit. buff.ly/QjjJ4cs

Art is crucial in the City Beneath; in a world where reason failed them, the inhabitants turned to something more interpretive. Craft your masterpiece in Ways & Means. buff.ly/Zzh1HYs

Thirty years ago, that dog beat you at basketball. Now it's back to ruin your second wedding. It Didn't Say Anywhere In The Rules That A Dog COULDN'T Play Basketball is this month's comedy horror one-page TTRPG. PDFs, text-only version and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/it-did...

I've struggled with 3d-printed stuff because I like kitbashing and it resists the clippers, but I've enjoyed Greytide Studios' upgrade kits that consist of extra bits you can stick on yer lads (pictured). Anyone know any other outfits that do this sort of thing? (Bonus points if they do physicals)

Thirty years ago, that dog beat you at basketball. Now it's back to ruin your second wedding. It Didn't Say Anywhere In The Rules That A Dog COULDN'T Play Basketball is this month's comedy horror one-page TTRPG. PDFs, text-only version and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/it-did...

I wrote about God and Cracker Barrel johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/christ-in-...

Writing a GM section is hard. So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go

So, on 29th August, the US is ending de minimis treatment for parcels under $800 value globally. It's already done this for China; now it's going to come in for everyone. If you post parcels to America, this is going to affect you, in one of several ways.

Excellent day at Norwich Games Con. Still just enough time to get @gshowitt.bsky.social to sign something if you haven’t yet. Maybe even something he wrote.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

this came to me in a dream

DAILY AFFIRMATIONS: - I do not need to wash my bath mat - Bath mats are self-cleaning - My feet are clean when I come out of the shower - Hair buildup is a natural part of a bath mat’s lifecycle

Now, were I writing this, the stats would be HUMAN and GHOST. But I do enjoy the bonus dice for interacting with your means of (near) death

rounding off the (robust) safety tools section in Hollows with a practical coda

We've all read sourcebooks with twenty different kinds of sword: get ready for WAYS & MEANS, which has several different kinds of paintbrush, pigment made from unfathomably large beetles, and something called "Sculptor's Dynamite." buff.ly/vTRs60Y

WAYS & MEANS includes rules for genuine holy relics, storied ephemera of dubious provenance, and this pair of boots which are both. buff.ly/vTRs60Y

Having successfully run @gshowitt.bsky.social's awesome #TTRPG THE BEAST in a Wild West setting under the name THE BEAST OF AMERICA, I’m going to run it this evening as THE BEAST: 2500 for a friend who’s only ever played D&D and wants to play a sci-fi game set in space.

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

August's free 1-page RPG is It Didn't Say Anywhere In The Rules That A Dog COULDN'T Play Basketball, a harrowing experience of being beaten at sports by a golden retriever that shows up 30 years later to ruin your second wedding. Patrons get it a week early here: www.patreon.com/posts/136764...

A new delver descends into the Heart. Sketches by @felixmiall.bsky.social for @mytholder.bsky.social's brand new class, coming soon to Ways & Means

This game was a total delight. Strongly recommended.

Is it socially acceptable to smoke a cigarette during a work video call? And if not, why not? It feels rude in a way I can’t pin down. Not that it’s stopped me from smoking during meetings though

Family outing to the beach. Challenge was: do charades but out of sand. We attempted the Lion King but it did, unfortunately, end up looking quite a bit like Rick James

Is the crab defending itself or hastening its own demise