Everything DIE for $15! That's: - The massive corebook - A map-based scenario about previous lovers (the "Ex-Crawl") - Couple's therapy as an explicit wargame - Ersatz Yu-Gi-Oh - 6 other scenarios ranging from upsetting to innovative to upsettingly innovative

And now for the 2025 round up! This year I have: Discovered 15 new Actual Plays Discovered 15 new TTRPGs Created 1 new TTRPG and done a buttload of work on my most ambitious TTRPG project yet, Everworld, the Outdoor Adventure RPG

Alright, one last time with feeling! In 2025, I set out to discover new Actual Plays and TTRPGs and create something each month. Here's how I got on in December:

It has been such an honour being a part of this in 2025. More in 2026 please!

I love this weird little thread of weird little resolutions. One that chimed with me was complementing someone when you feel the impulse to complement someone. With that in mind; @naomithinksit.bsky.social you're a wonderful presence who always brightens up any game/gathering!

Keep your Ennies and CRIT awards; this one is far and away better. 🏆 (Thank you, my friend. 🫶🏻🙏🏻)

It is strange, after thirty odd years, to finally find oneself. 2025 was transformative, personally and professionally. And there are so many to thank. For your art, your inspiration, and your friendship. There is not nearly enough space to put my gratitude into words. But I will certainly try.

Ooooh a Christmas sale? Go on then. badsquiddogames.com/shop#!/XMAS-...

We all get busy and forget to look after our own needs. I've just revisited a short blog I wrote in 2020 about treating yourself like a video game character who has 'cores' to maintain. Here's how I've used it to repriotitise What's important to me. tallhobbitadventures.home.blog/2020/07/26/t...

Help some lovely people and grab a boardgame while you're at it!

Hire Sam! Sam is amazing!

I've absolutely loved unleashing the creativity beast this past year, but The Creature is hungry for even more! In 2026, I hope to contribute even more in the TTRPG space. Please keep me in mind if you're on the lookout for a contributing writer or are in need of a proofreader for your projects.

Thank you Eventbrite for using AI to try and create an event for me. Now let me simply change absolutely everything you've done 😮‍💨

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

It's been such a joy seeing @mumblemegs.bsky.social absolutely blossoming in the AP scene this past year. I'm such a big fan of hers and I'm so glad to see her get the recognition she so rightly deserves! ❤️

That last sentence has to be my favourite way anyone has ever described me... 🤣 Beyond honoured by these kind words and to somehow be included in this list of incredible, talented people. ♥️

If you’re currently playing or streaming #Daggerheart, you should follow our 2026 #Kickstarter for the Dragon Dowsers TTRPG. It’s an epic solarpunk campaign with a host of new resources, including ancestries, classes, environments, NPCs, adversaries, and even some unique mechanics! 🐉🐉🐉 Link below ⬇️

Five Parsecs from Home: PLANETFALL is available for pre-order! 🛰️ 14 Mission types 🔬 13 Scientific theories 👾 Evolving alien lifeforms ⚔️ Standalone AND fully compatible with the Five Parsecs From Home 🔗 Pre-order Now! UK: buff.ly/sUzbhSo US: buff.ly/bVsoJVJ #FiveX #MiniatureWargaming #SoloGaming

"The game mixes the absurdity of the premise and the terrifying horror of environmental destruction with humour and a degree of subtlety. Even when we get to the prompts, the writing is just lovely..." So appreciate @idlecartulary.itch.io taking the time to review my debut game from ye olde 2024!

Happy Jeeksday dog-lovers! (And fans of 80s action movies and Christmas cheer!) 🎅 @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social 🐩 @emzywb.bsky.social 🐕 @fkth.bsky.social 🐶 @shamini.bsky.social

Cluster Truck, a complete campaign for Traveller, is out now! www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/clu... Your Travellers will take on the role of space truckers, hauling goods across backwater systems while avoiding over-eager law enforcement! #ttrpg #TravellerRPG #SpaceTruckers

The day job was really getting to me this afternoon, so I decided to write a look back on 2025 and how it has been as Three Sails Studios. It ran longer than I expected, but maybe you'll find it helpful/interesting/distracting. Lend me your eyes, friends. www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/2025-a-...

🥰 Sam is always a dream to work & perform with, one of my fave people full stop!

Any Playstation Access fans here? Their Christmas Maze Stream is starting 12pm GMT: www.youtube.com/live/A5UHFhL...

So happy to have gotten my copy of @ickbat.bsky.social's Against Time and Death! I had the honour of getting a review copy this year and I'm excited to try out the real thing? Anyone wanna be time-hopping pen pal frienemies in the new year?

ANNOUNCEMENT: The RPGeeks Christmas One-Shot airs Tuesday with GM @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social! In the futuristic year 2000 dogs compete on a TV gameshow to get on Father Christmas' Nice List. But why did these Good Dogs get put on the Naughty List? And what's really happened to Father Christmas?

Cool archeology news! 🔥 It's fascinating how hard it is to figure out what ancient humans were actually doing with fire.

I'm absolutely loving playing Dispatch so far! I do find it interesting that despite having bad experiences with being bullied at school, I'm having a great time getting razzed and sassed by this team of recovering villains. Aren't games wild for letting us turn the tables on things like this?

Sigh... Guess which of these bikes were designed for girls and which were designed for boys...

I'm doing this! You can follow along on my website and sign up or subscribe here: blog.jacoblefton.com/wip-wednesda... or Patreon if that's your platform of choice! www.patreon.com/posts/145429...

What a pleasure to pop up in Sam's advent calendar of some of the best in AP! WHY knows how to cast and how to hype friends, and we love to see it.

📢 NION Women Statement on trans women and girls being excluded from Girlguiding and the Women's Institute. We are deeply saddened that both Girlguiding and @womensinstitute.bsky.social have been placed under pressure that has resulted in trans women and girls being excluded from their organisations

Day 3 is @ayfa.me Ayfa an Irish writer, TTRPG-performer, and voice actor based in Switzerland who is one of the most enthusiastic-about-other-characters sort of players we've ever come across An extremely talented storyteller, a lover of tragedy & someone whom more people should cast immediately

Just playing catch up with Advent of Adventure! In this solo journaling advent calendar adventure, you play one of Santa's Elves foiling a North Pole takeover by an evil Dragon. I've chosen to play Old Man Waffles, a hard boiled worker who now mentors the new recruits.

Psst! You know that little game you loved by that small creator? Go leave it a review 💖🙏

Day 2 is @watermosaic.bsky.social Jacob is an actor, improv performer & podcaster who constantly thinks about how his characters interconnect with the others at the table. He also brings a physicality to his performance that elevates entire stories. The perfect scene partner.

Just finished reading @aptshadow.bsky.social's Children of Time and it's been the most incredible read in recent memory! Sci-fi is at its best when it turns a mirror on humanity and this book does that so well, presenting humanity at a crisis point whilst exploring alternative intelligences...

Lots of folks playing Advent of Adventure at the moment! Plus at least one playing our previous Advent game, Advent of Abomination. If you want to grab it you're only slightly late - it's up on our Patreon, patreon.com/blackarmada

Having recently picked up a few new games at TBubs and DM, I'm currently happily reading through them. While they're all awesome, I've also noticed a few missing words, wrong page numbers, and typos. 😅 Seems an excellent time for me to remind all that my weird brain is available for proofreading! 😂

I love my Blades in the Dark group; Voice from the Skies @jcdarcy.bsky.social, Talks Down to Men (Yours truly), Leaves through a Window @samsighs.bsky.social, Wife Guy @drtalksalot.bsky.social , Husband Girl with a gun @taylorannnx.bsky.social and George's Dad @nickmunroturner.bsky.social

Every day I wake up deliriously happy that I am one day closer to having this book in my hands. I was lucky enough to be part of a playtest game this year and the House we built, the characters we played with, the possibilities of the world and the system live in my head. There's also BIG WOMEN.

Oh Dragonmeet you were so lovely. An absolute pleasure to see my friends. Of course I took no photos as I was too excited all the time, & I missed some people that I wanted to see, but otherwise it was a true joy of a weekend. 💚 If anyone needs me I'll be in a blanket experiencing severe con drop.

Please join Emma and me this month as we go on an advent trek (nudge nudge) through our TV favourites, starting today with a certain Next Generation.

Wow! So that was November huh? I suppose it's time to see how I've gotten on with my 2025 challenge of discovering and creating TTRPGs each month. Here's what I did in November:

What an incredible Dragonmeet. It's always such a joy to be among such excellent nerds! I wasn't great at taking photos this year, but I was very pleased to run into my lovely Blades in the Dark family, @montfordtales.com, @damselsdnd.bsky.social and @tabletoptinkering.bsky.social

Dragonmeet 2025 was a blast! Getting so many of my favourite creative nerds in one place is a unique joy 🥰 Lots of exciting collaborations on the horizon for @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social! I was too busy yapping to take pictures, but big love to everyone who made the day so special! ❤️

There are definitely a few solo and duet games in my Dragonmeet haul, which will be added to my ever expanding to-play list...

A massive thank you to everyone who turned out for this year’s #PodcastZone at Dragonmeet! It was lovely to see everyone, old and new faces! This year was a challenging one given the new venue and being unsure what to expect but looking forward to coming back next year with live shows!

Some of my favourite people, finally all in the same room together. I have found the perfect little gaming group, and I adore each and every one of them. But let's find out why, going from left to right.

It’s over! 😭 Was truly wonderful having the full cast of Twilight’s Edge all together in one place for the first time at #Dragonmeet 2025! Big shout out to the @podcastzoneuk.bsky.social for hosting us and giving us a space to share our wonderful podcast with folks. Looking forward to next year!