Asher's Ridge: Ponderosa (my companion album to @montfordtales.com's new RPG Asher's Ridge) releases next Friday, June 26th. Pre-orders are open nowww Sound up to hear a preview! 🎶🎵 Inspired by Twin Peaks, Knives Out, coming of age stories, the supernatural, and smoky noir investigation

This was the actual-play that made me wanna get into D&D, I LOVE the world of this story and the players do such a wonderful job bringing their characters to life and really making it easy to love them and get invested! 1000% have been recommending it to anyone that will listen lol

Planet Arcana, GMed by @bmars.bsky.social and @yesnogoodbye.ca. A queer story of humans, androids, and tarot, where three fools find a key and open a box. Come for the wonderful story, music and sound design, stay for the best character names in Actual Play www.planetarcana.com

Yes No Goodbye is the home now for all my art: Zines! Books! A card game?? (not yet but ....... maybe soon ????) Scores! Soundtracks! Sound design! I'm everywhere now as either "yesnogoodbye" (.ca) or "yngb" ! yesnogoodbye.ca

I'm J Strautman, I'm a tabletop game designer, composer, and podcast producer based in Toronto, ON. I've been full time with my art for a few years now, and after putting out a bunch of different kinds of stuff I wanted to have one home for it all! It's rebrand time, baby ✨

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got me feeling FOOLSOME BONNY & GAY 😭

two awards!!!!!!

Deeply honoured to pick up GOLD in Visual Design and SILVER for Rules Design!!

Winners of Canada Roles Awards have been announced! Head to the site for details.

Congrats to all the winners, but also the nominees! Some excellent work on display here, including @planetarcanapod.bsky.social @hitpointpress.bsky.social @kurtrefling.bsky.social !

It's A Gamble, from @planetarcanapod.bsky.social

Definitely A Fool's Errand by @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social and @bmars.bsky.social (you're a group of humans and androids in the wake of a world changing Big Oops, having to negotiate with the gods as represented by the major arcana) strautmaskreplica.itch.io/a-fools-errand

did you know that we have 3 episodes out of GM Commentary? did you know we're doing a holistic look-back on the entire campaign with 100 episodes of insight? did you know it's a really great time??? pls listen!! shows.acast.com/planet-arcana

3 Fools and a goose walk into a casino may sound like the set up for a joke but it is the actually the heart of It’s a Gamble by @planetarcanapod.bsky.social with @saltandketchup.bsky.social @blackgirlmage.bsky.social and @shenuque.bsky.social. The most unhinged,heartfelt AP podcasts I’ve listed to

Finished It's A Gamble, which also means I've finished @planetarcanapod.bsky.social again. Good God these people are good. This and Taz Balance will definitely be on my relisten list every few years.

Truly the end of an era. If you’ve never listened to Planet Arcana, now is a good time to start. If you’ve listened to every episode of Planet Arcana, now is a good time to run in back :)

planet arcana is: 🤖 100 episodes of a massive science fantasy tale 🃏 4 years of morphing that tale into a standalone RPG system 🎨 dozens of postcards, songs, poems ❤️ a beautiful collection of engaged, theory-crafting fans and sooo much more!! but for now, planet arcana is: complete.

There exists an almost imperceptible zone on the podcast scale where a pod has a perfect amount of jokes (which are actually funny) and a heaping helping of plot/gameplay/heartfelt moments. Planet Arcana lives with so few others within that zone.

Bittersweet, happy, devastating day One of the best and one of our oldest friends and inspirations Caesar you later 🤖✨

The end of an era! Congrats J, B, and cast on creating a beautiful thing.

All it takes is 100 episodes, a bunch of very good friends, a box, and a key 💖

can't be overstated how much this project means to me, it changed my life so completely and drastically, all for the better so grateful for everyone who listened, and endlessly grateful to my creative partner in this endeavour, @bmars.bsky.social. we made something truly exceptional thank you ❤️❤️

planet arcana is: 🤖 100 episodes of a massive science fantasy tale 🃏 4 years of morphing that tale into a standalone RPG system 🎨 dozens of postcards, songs, poems ❤️ a beautiful collection of engaged, theory-crafting fans and sooo much more!! but for now, planet arcana is: complete.

finale is out 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

jonesy remains MVP (masterfully voiced probabilitator)

🎰🃏 IT'S A GAMBLE 🃏🎰 🌶️♦️ E8 - JEOPARDY ♦️🌶️ OUT TODAY! We made it to the finale, friends. Only a Fool bets the fate of the world on the flip of a card… LISTEN NOW!

It's here, it's the finale, it's a gamble 🫨♠️♥️♣️♦️

🎰🃏 IT'S A GAMBLE 🃏🎰 🌶️♦️ E8 - JEOPARDY ♦️🌶️ OUT TODAY! We made it to the finale, friends. Only a Fool bets the fate of the world on the flip of a card… LISTEN NOW!

Genius! This show started about as off the wall, madcap as you can get and ended with such emotional debt and feeling. I laughed and cried. I will miss these Fools.

How many people get to make a show based on a game you made with a friend, based on the show you made with a friend, based on a lifelong friendship with said friend? And to have the greatest cast imaginable on it??? It's A Gamble has a special place in my heart

probably some of the hardest I've laughed listening to a podcast, do yourself a favor and check out this miniseries

It's a Gamble wraps this week! 8 episodes. 3 new Fools. A world where consequence is dead, heists always have a hitch, and the Lovers are in trouble. Also there's a very important goose named Duck Duck. youtu.be/h2V0CdVy-3g

"oh it's a transformer!" (redacted speaks) "...oh it's an *insecure* transformer" keeps delivering joy right into my ear tubes

There is nothing like the feeling of an amazing TTRPG session. I just played a 4 hour game of A Fool’s Errand and it was the best experience I have had around a table. The GMs, the players and the cards came together to tell a story of lost family, academic rivalry, mycelium and reinvention.

🎰🃏 IT'S A GAMBLE 🃏🎰 🌶️♦️ E7 - UH OH, SPICY! ♦️🌶️ OUT TODAY! Pull up a seat, throw your money on the table, cut the deck, and get ready to go all in. Things are about to get SPICY. LISTEN NOW!

UH OH It's the penultimate episode (🥺🥹)

🎰🃏 IT'S A GAMBLE 🃏🎰 🌶️♦️ E7 - UH OH, SPICY! ♦️🌶️ OUT TODAY! Pull up a seat, throw your money on the table, cut the deck, and get ready to go all in. Things are about to get SPICY. LISTEN NOW!

god Lulu made it look SO GOOD!!

I can not wait to play A Fool’s Errand again. Our band of fools have their work cut out trying to stop the constellations vanishing as the stars wink out! I highly recommend trying this game for yourself! @planetarcanapod.bsky.social

Great day for Fools

NEW ARRIVAL: A Fool’s Errand by @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social is a storytelling roleplaying game about grappling with godhood and keeping the gods in check. Use tarot cards to add complications and resolve obstacles as you explore the 5th Collide and the Dream & Digital Networks. buff.ly/fMA5E24

who is ready for a good (underwater) time?

HELLO FRIENDS!!! this week i'm going to be streaming and raising funds to alleviate the financial stress of my current living situation! THURSDAY we're going to be playing THE QUIET YEAR LIVE with an actual artist (@naladraws.com!!!) and some friends @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social and more!!

Honestly been loving every episode of the new season, and I'm very happy to see where it continues going. Listened to this one on the way to work and it was a *fucking ride* the entire time.

new episode today and i mean this in the most endearing way, this is one of the greatest shitshows i've ever had the privilege of participating in please tune in and hear everything go absolutely haywire with these characters! only two episodes after this 😭

🎰🃏 IT'S A GAMBLE 🃏🎰 🧜‍♀️🍸 E6 - LINE & SINKER 🍸🧜‍♀️ OUT TODAY! The truth surfaces in an underwater casino. Motives are made clear, pasts are dug up, and grudges are laid bare as apparently everyone is in the mood to put their cards on the table. Maybe it’s something in the Bubblite…? LISTEN NOW!

👀 If any brands/companies want to hop on the ground floor of an awesome project, I am working on an Atlantis-themed campaign and am looking to secure funding for all the awesome collaborators on this project! if you have a favorite TTRPG brand that sponsors creators, feel free to tag them below!

🎰🃏 IT'S A GAMBLE 🃏🎰 🎣🌊 E5 - THE FLOOD 🌊🎣 OUT TODAY! Put on your slickers and galoshes, folks, it’s gonna be a damp one in Denseburg! We’re predicting wind speeds up to 60km/h, a 65% chance of precipitation, and a 100% chance of catastrophic flooding caused by an angry Arcana. LISTEN NOW!

Tonight I watched "Gold Rush" on YouTube, the documentary following the 2002 Canadian Olympic hockey team. Such a formative time for myself as a yonge hockey fan and has got me so excited for Milan next month.