Hello, New Jersey. Thank you for letting me inside you.

I’m not going to lie, RENT hits differently now. Like, Benny is a dick, but he came into some money and wants to build lots of housing to fund usable artist spaces at street level? Why is he the villain? I get gentrification is bad, but isn’t someone from the neighborhood revitalizing it good?

As I reflect on TANS ending, I’m proud it does, actually end. Each season stands alone and leads to its own conclusion. The story could have gone on, but late-coming listeners can still experience a full narrative. Not the full story, but not a disappointment. And I'm glad I gave them that.

My least favorite part of shuttering an AP company is the huge pile of quietly humiliating emails you have to write. "I know I promised you this project/offered you this role/pitched you this sponsorship, but it turns out I won't be able to deliver." Ugh.

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Related joke.

If you missed this, then consider this our first big announcement! Games like the Isles trilogy do so much excellent work for accessibility in the TTRPG space and we will be working on making a series that reflects this - we cannot wait to show these games off! 🩵💜

When you graduate from Critias' academy but there's more Camarilla stuff to learn.

The number of people who have arrived in my Discord DMs over this point leads to me believe I've only interacted with people who were very bad at improv school and did not learn the correct lessons.

Okay fine. I will bare my (may or may not be) controversial (but it still sincerely held) TTRPG ethos to y'all.

It is not understood thoroughly enough or widely enough that "be the absolute best person in the world at your job" is a less reliable and slower way to make money than "have some money already" is.

I've taken some time as QCG winds down to think hard about the places we struggled, and what other aspirational indie studios might learn from it. So here's a short thread: advice on running an actual play company from the Managing Director of Queen's Court Games. 🧠📃⬇️

The end of The All Night Society has been hard, but the outpouring of support from y'all has made it so much easier to bear. It's a bright reminder of why I made this show in the first place, and I'm both humbled and forever grateful.

It is my sad duty to report the end of The All Night Society. We’re deeply proud of the stories we told, the world we built, and the community that found a home in the dark with us. To everyone who listened, supported us, and carried these characters in your hearts: thank you. Truly.

Drop your 10/10 game, no context needed

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A huge trove of assets to bring European police agencies to your players' doors. Their Agents' doors, that is. In the game. This is a work of fiction.

While you're discussing the wizard card game, maybe also remember that Indiana has enacted one of the nation's most aggressive anti-trans legislative regimes in the United States. But hey, have fun at GenCon!

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000 It supposedly took 1000 calls for the conservative group to get the credit companies to give in. We can do better.

Do not do this. The Fair Access to Banking act is modeled on anti-ESG/anti-BDS laws enacted in Texas and Florida, and backed by fossil fuel, firearms, and crypto interests. No Democrat supports this bill, and its GOP sponsors consider it part of their "anti-woke, anti-cancel-culture" crusade.

ICYMI, this week's video with my personal thoughts about Spending Fear Outside of Combat in Daggerheart is now up on YouTube: youtu.be/IB5q35J0g3Q

Four years of festival games and four years of @njwebfest.bsky.social. See y'all at Jakes!

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You're listening to The All Night Society, an actual play podcast brought to you by Queen's Court Games.

PSA to anyone attending PAX Unplugged: The Philly Marathon is that weekend. Also SEPTA budget cuts (thanks for making my life worse, PA!) will make getting in on regional rail and getting around the city via public transit more difficult. Plan for hotel shortages, blocked roads & cost increases.

Is it just me, or are hotels *way* more expensive for PAX this year? All is booked, but that was a punch in the wallet.

The answers to all of your questions can be found in my newest YouTube video 🦇 (well maybe not all of them, but a lot!) Would really appreciate some support ❤️ ➡️ youtube.com/@syriinx #vtm

You're listening to The All Night Society, an actual play podcast brought to you by Queen's Court Games.

Some important news about the future of Queen’s Court Games. We’re scaling down operations as we adjust to changing personal circumstances and real-world obligations. The All Night Society and Road to Hell will continue, but we will no longer develop new projects under the QCG banner.

Greetings, Kultists! Hope all is well on your side of the veil. The pre-order store is now open—so if you missed the Kickstarter campaign, now’s your chance to jump in. We’ve got 9 new books with the option to bundle in past releases too. ‎ BackerKit: bit.ly/kult2025late...

ICYMI, I posted a big (3500+ words) essay on Developing Your Table's Shared Storytelling Skills. Including ways to share narrative authority, developing your improv chops, and more, with plenty of specific tools and ideas. For all paid members of my Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/develo...

Reuppjng for daytime crowd — a look at the history of the “Online Content” and “Streaming” categories at the ENNIES, the weird position it has always put Actual Play in, & a Modest Proposal that has nothing to do with eating babies.

July 4th is almost here and it's the perfect time for Haunted West & golden elixir. Pour 2 oz and dive into the messy history they don't teach in school. If we're gonna celebrate this beautiful disaster, might as well do it with gaming, good whiskey and unvarnished truth. #HistoryBelongsToAllOfUs

Okay, but what if someone who already runs a successful AP grant program and a successful TTRPG grant program did something better?

The CRIT Awards want to be the AP Oscars -- they've succeeded. Like the Oscars, finalists are selected in an opaque process vulnerable to favoritism, money and marketing are seen as key to winning, and voters don't watch the entries in a category before voting. There's room for something better.

If you haven't already been, get connected with your local mutual aid groups, local political organizing groups like WFP or PSL or DSA, talk to your neighbors. We're going to need to protect each other, it's only going to keep getting worse.

Imminent!

Books that cause men to kneel, or fight. Written warmth from a friend scrawled on a receipt. Pressed pages, hopes and fears. These Things We Keep imagines a world where we must choose sparingly, painstakingly, what we bring forward with us. This was my favorite One Shot I've ever played, bar none.

I just had the good fortune of playtesting this and I am SO excited about it. I had big thoughts about choice, and duty, and sacrifice, and remembrance, and grief, and pragmatism, and censorship. Looking back on what we kept makes me nostalgic for all the books I've had to leave behind. Just a gem.

Well, as folks 'round here know I've been trying to think about where to put stuff in an easy-to-find, easy-to-manage, not $$$ (for me or readers) place, while keeping a small wall that lets me take some risks. I thought I could punt this to Future Em, but it was a Big Week last week, so.

Wanted to cast a self-deprecating joke; it is also an AoE spell. All creatives, save vs. impostor syndrome (DC 17). On failure, become incapacitated by the creeping suspicion you don't actually know what you're doing. Effect lasts 1d4 business days, or until positive feedback is received.

Everyone in Chicago and Los Angeles right now.

I live in an R+11 district in an R+10 state, so I only get to experience joy like this vicariously through other people. That said, fuck yes New York. Thanks for the proof good things are still possible in this timeline. apnews.com/article/andr...

Question for all you #gamedev people: does Unity come with a "Slowly Walk Through Dreamscape Representing Trauma" asset pack preinstalled? Or do y'all have to supply your own fog, floating children's toys, and emotionally profound whispers every time?

The guy really sat down with a reporter and said, "If we allow games where you fight fictional space fascists, we also have to allow games where you terrorize a small town through ethnic cleaning" out loud. Utterly wild.

Finally got around to actually reading the "AI Makes You Stupid" study and *yikes* do we need to have a talk about methodology. Not an AI stan, but there are some real big claims being made on the back of some real bad science. Experiment design nerd yapping continues below. ⬇️(1/6)

The archive is finite. Its shelves have limits. Every record demands preservation—but These Things We Keep demands sacrifice. Scarcity forces your values to the surface. Not everything can be saved. When the shelves are full, the archive will remember what you chose to leave behind.

Our mission to uplift the voices of #BIPoC in the #ttrpg AP space continues! We're so proud to proud to expand the #expanse universe with this thoughtful story and doing it with an BIPoC cast?