>visit a blog >oh sweet new post about a topic i like, let's read it >open post >"Listen to this podcast where I talk about the topic!" >nothing else is written in the post man wtf i opened your blog to read, not to listen

In Surabaya to attend the art exhibition, showcasing various artists from Indonesia's Ilustrasee community, including my spouse. Her art piece is a fan-made poster for Noroi: The Curse. Her favorite horror film.

dnd history lesson!

SEE FOR YOURSELF incaseofgrace.itch.io/gutgun

*watching a review of Draw Steel* >the best thing about this game is that your character gets stronger as you adventure! ?????????? you just described every combat-oriented RPG ever

See how far we’ve been cooking! Pabia Island’s Blockout vs Populate, by @spiralhalo.net & @masgag.bsky.social BGM by @clealeshlick.bsky.social #MENTARIgame #stellarNull #gamedevID #indiegame #unity3d

Last night, in a Mythic Bastionland oneshot that @isaacisafraid.bsky.social ran, I fought a giant spider---Spinjack, Lord of Hunters!---in single combat, and I won by peeing my pants. 1/

Ran a Mythic Bastionland @bastionland.bsky.social one-shot for @zedecksiew.bsky.social, @harbowoputra.bsky.social, and friends! They managed to resolve The Spider Myth without any combat! I've run four one-shots, and this one didn't have any combat! 10 out of 10 will run again. Hopefully a campaign!

Chainsaw Man is crazy good this week

I forgot how good Kuuga’s 1st episode is (am marathoning Kuuga-Agito rn)

summary of my entire life

Thank you @catshavenolord.itch.io for making Renata proud with your review of Varanus Lair. The person behind that pen name, my wife @reneekeefe.bsky.social brought that pride to her grave. Unfortunately there’ll be no more new releases for Agarwood. My better half is gone.

Life is a torture without her. If she could never live again with me then i should stop living my life. Stop working stop creating stop reading playing watching stop unless she lives again.

The last time we were happy together as a perfect family. Now the only perfection in this world is gone. No more happiness. Rest in love, Sugar & @reneekeefe.bsky.social

A thread of my love journey with my late wife @reneekeefe.bsky.social

My wife just died. She was my best friend, my harshest editor, my reason to be. See you on the rainbow bridge @reneekeefe.bsky.social

chart drafted by a friend about the difference between indie and AA, and AAA game developers

i'd say i've immortalized this via blog but not really traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/05/bite...

A review for me & Renata's pamphlet dungeon, 🦎Varanus Lair!🦎

"Rules-lite, shoes-lite, flavour-heavy TTRPG. Southeast Asian fantasy. Flavours include cloves, gingers, and pepper." I've just released Kala Mandala Playbook! Pay-What-You-Want on Itch. I hope you like it! heycentaur.itch.io/kala-mandala...

Printed out a copy of Varanus Lair, a tight little pamphlet cave dungeon from @harbowoputra.bsky.social with monitor lizards, giant centipedes, and lots of dead bodies and treasure. Gonna run this for our first Mangayaw session to start small and close to home before they branch out. #OSR

The Danish version of Cairn comes in a dvd case with a disc you spin to get a random number from the standard dice. The disc also has the pdf on it.

paging @necromoss.bsky.social to look at that miniature Garrus

Can confirm @harbowoputra.bsky.social 's adventures are bangers! (And @diwatamnl.bsky.social @chaoclypse.bsky.social 's, too!)

@harbowoputra.bsky.social made two pamphlet dungeons Varanus Lair and Paleskin Princess What's left are stuff I haven't bought/take a look at yet @zedecksiew.bsky.social's Spy in the House of Eth @diwatamnl.bsky.social's In The Sea Woods @chaoclypse.bsky.social's Doom Shroom

you know you're playing a GREAT game when the protag starts in this position

the game project that @courtneylapin.bsky.social and I started 3 and a half ish years ago finally has a name!! ⏩⏩welcome, #GRAVITHEOREM ⏩⏩

Appreciate that the South of Midnight credits feature an Alumni section, instead of not crediting (or "downgrading") people who depart before the project ships. It's a respectful way of handling an inevitability on years-long productions and should be the norm. Congratulations to the team 🙏

Pinterest alternative that lets you filter out AI content 👀 www.cosmos.so/home

relatedly:

It occurs to me that this blogpost is me telling roleplaying game folks: "Hey, you know all the stuff that Jack Chick / the Satanic Panic thought folks who were into D&D were doing? Do all that *for real*."

you know, my obsession with creating a fantasy setting without monsters, magic, or fantastic inhabitants can be traced to a day in 2010 where i first discovered and read China Miéville’s The City & The City to say that the book shaped my entire career is an understatement

to understand the Pale from Disco Elysium you must first understand U-DO from Xenosaga trilogy, cause they're literally the same thing

Hi, Bluesky. Meet our game! 👊🔥

like 90% of mechposting could be done with fighters instead and that would be much cooler (imo)

Most game designers are outsider artists because we didn’t learn game design at school. There’s no one path to becoming a game designer

for international moots in case you missed it: Indonesia has officially reverted into a military dictatorship, undoing our 1998 reform

concept: a trick-taking RPG

Effectively weaving between melee combat, parries, Discharge Cancels, and shooting is key to surviving in the Toyko Ruins. 東京遺跡で生き続けるため、近接戦闘、パリー、ディスチャージキャンセル、射撃を全部上手く使う必要があります #screenshotsaturday #nightmareoperator #gamedev #ps1 #psx #indiegame

i'm putting together a team hell yeah there's so many of them now

I find hexes a bit too "inorganic" for most City Crawls, so usually I'll start with a map and then overlay Voronoi Tessellations to handle "regions/neighborhoods" and Travel Time. I talk about it a bit in this post here: blog.d4caltrops.com/2020/11/voro...

interesting: deckbuilding in tabletop games happens during play, while in video games it happens between plays the latter is called deck construction in tabletop games

Severance is crazy good last week

The first time you attack in a combat, you gain a Heat Die (1d6) that starts at 1. Every time you attack, increase Heat by 1. You may spend Heat to activate your powers. When you are hit by an attack, roll your Heat Die. The result is your new Heat. Thus, winding up for a big power is risky.

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It turns out having fewer days in a month does not deter the tabletop rpg writers. The Explorateur #5 is out with some really cool links to long rabbit hole-like articles, some podcasts you might not be subscribed to yet, and—as always—articles on design. www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

Mouthwashing is an adult horror game in the sense that its theme will go over your heads unless you're an adult who ever worked in a (small team under a financially-troubled) company yeah it's goddamn relatable to me

no kidding, MOUTHWASHING changed me

Just saw @pcgamer.com article talking about desktop pets. Speaking of Desktop pets, here are desktop pets made by SEA devs: 🇹🇭Not Monday Cafe - @sunnysyrupstudio.bsky.social 🇲🇾Weyrdlets : Idle Desktop Pets - @weyrdlets.bsky.social 🇮🇩Deskquarium! - Gimdeka 🇮🇩 Metro Munchies - @ekasetyanugraha.com

anytime someone says "Dark Souls is western rpg made in japan" ask them which western rpg did soulslike gameplay before Demon's Souls and watch them squirm >inb4 Severance: Blade of Darkness plays nothing like Demon's Souls and even if it does, there is no direct lineage between SBoD and DeS