This week's podcast features an interview with two of the awesome people responsible for teen programming in Ramsey County, where I am a regular! @jdragsky.bsky.social, you might enjoy this one--they are running a weekly session of Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast. youtu.be/nH6V3USBd3k

i played the tomboy class, who was designed as the classic “woman disguised as a boy” and i chose to play her as a trans woman boymoding for a wizards apprenticeship and it added a rly interesting dynamic of Men Engaging W Who They See As A Man in a game very much abt womanhood

we played session two of this and it ended with the scullery maid marrying the goblin king and helping him capture the dragon and conquer brandonsford and the princess drowned herself in the stream

I genuinely need people to be prepared to Divest from Magic and possibly DnD if WotC doesn't play ball here. Make noise, get loud, boycott. Do whatever it takes to help the workers.

i think that there's no such thing as a controversial star wars take. it's been talked in every direction possible. it will be forever. that's completely fine. i kinda like it & also it's not good but sometimes it's good except when it's not

A thing that I am always "meh" about is trans girls characters who get a supernatural "perfect" transition. IRL transition is messy, imperfect, flawed and frustrating and too often unfair. So many of us got those unfair transitions because of how shitty life is.

WotC declined to voluntarily recognize our union by Friday, May 1st. While we're disappointed in this delay, together we remain strong in our convictions. We look forward to sitting down at the bargaining table so we can make Arena better for workers, for Wizards, and for our players. #UWOTC-CWA

This is not the end of our Union, just the beginning. We still are going forth to an election with the NLRB, unless WOTC recognizes our union before that date. We are reading each and every quote and comment from y’all, it means so so much to know the community has our backs. 🖤

Wizards of the Coast declines to voluntarily recognize Magic Arena union by May 1st deadline #ttrpg #dnd

we're in the final stretch of implementing playtest feedback for seven part pact before i have to send the manuscripts off to the editors. deep breath!

Really good article even if you're not interested in TTRPG design specifically. I even learned a bit about myself, which is something I think is so cool when it happens from any art/text 💖

This whole thing on On Ramping into TTRPGs is really good, but I think about this bit often, and for comics as well. They literally teach how to read prose at school. Of course it's harder to learn something from scratch.

I've taken to reading D&D reddit, and the best comparison I have to my feelings is when queer folks just blink in confusion at the vagaries and weirdness of hetreo culture. You guys are doing WHAT!? Really? Why?

New hair for spring. 🌷✨ It's been a really rough year so far, but today is sunny and warm and gently breezy.

there's a cat tree in my house (1/6)

tranny homegoods has merch that says: she heard she hurt she/her

are my clavicles clocky?

also just reiterating that this is a conclusion i came to when researching for Team Butterfly Forever and kind of realizing all the ways in which the characters in 2014 were sort of... at the start of a lot of social cycles we are now in exhaustive terminal repetition of

🩸MONSTERHEARTS Kickstarter🩸 #Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake is a #horror narrative deckbuilding #VideoGame spin-off of the critically acclaimed TTRPG! Campaign launches mid-May. Support an #IndieDev now by clicking Notify me on launch! #IndieGame #MHWTDL Follow: ludiclemur.short.gy/gcqhQ4

it fucks with me that i won't get to live a life in every city. there's so fucking much life to live and i will only ever scratch the surface of the city i'm in and it drives me crazy sometimes. I want to have seen all of it and I won't and I don't always know how to reconcile that

HEAR YE, HEAR YE: God Herself(!!) has come down and given us a decree: YOU MUST THINK OF A BIGGER NUMBER. big fucking number (April 2026, digital collage) is a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER WHATEVERTOP ROLE PLAYING GAME in which you must think of a bigger number. Think big and maybe something will happen.

NOSTOS is remarkably cool and could use your support! It's so close to it's goal, but needs a little extra push!

As the Nostos kickstarter enters its final day of pledges, I'd like to share one last piece of art with you, depicting an Island likely to show up towards the end of a campaign of Nostos: Tropaia Station, the Crossroads — a quiet place in the countryside, a perfect setting for a final goodbye.

please back this game! i think erica is working on a fascinating and beautiful project and i'd love to see it cross the finish line.

Comrades, it's Bandcamp Friday, which means when you buy music on bandcamp today, they do NOT take a platform cut, they pay 100% to the artist. Incredible. Which Means: Today is the SINGLE BEST DAY to buy the Worlds Beyond Number original soundtrack. DO NOT let this magic hour pass.

why didnt hasbro just let mark release mood swings like a normal card game

Hey, my canary just keeled over. Anybody know what this might mean for my coal mine?

Rae is a brilliant game designer. He gave me kind, wise, indispensable advice on Defy the Gods, & I borrowed so many mechanics from his beautiful game Apocalypse Keys. Please buy Rae’s games, join his Patreon, &, if you can, send donations to his partner Matthew. We need Rae in this art form!

Rae is an incredibly kind and special person who has been going through some unimaginably difficult times, please send him some support if you can

rae is my best friend and is one of the most compassionate, imaginative, and brilliant people in rpgs. his designs untangle normal concepts of what games are and what they're supposed to be. please, please, please, support him and his work

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

i've had this type of sentiment directed at me a number of times over the years bc my partner is a cis man and i'm a trans man who isn't cis-passing. i actually don't like being spoken to or about like i'm an idiot dupe. i think most people don't.

yeah i’m addicted to porn. porn myself an ice cold refreshing ginger ale

do you really think the Trans Woman Defense Contractor is also a nonbinary history phd who lives in London and is a holocaust denier and she just happened to be at two different shows on two different continents and he just happened to call her both times?

the indoor smoking bans of the 90's and 00's were the last genuinely great win for organized labor in this country and absolutely could not happen today, trying to reopen this door actively sets us back as a civilization, don't give them an inch

PAID TTRPG editor work. Looking for a copy editor who is familiar with the 5e style guide. Looking to hire someone from the global south, if possible. 60,000 words total. Share and tag editor friends.

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

Recently realised just how much I think about this page from Wanderhome by @jdragsky.bsky.social It’s basically every day, and I just love it so much. I want nothing more than to be making spaces where people can show up and feel connection, even if talking is too much. That’s the goal.

I understand how indie TTRPGs arrived at the idea character death needs to be permanent to have real narrative stakes and reversible death is for stinky wargamers, but I think we need to recognise the OUTCOME of this attitude is to position D&D as the only reliable option for thanatophile perverts.

finally played S/lay w/ me by ron edwards and it was fucking phenomenal

Wizards with unfathomable power come together to decide the fate of the world in Seven-Part Pact, a fantastical TTRPG experience that is truly unparalleled. bit.ly/sevenpartpactks #possumcreek #sevenpartpact #playsjgames

Incredibly helpful read for people who wanna make games IMO~ (This is also why I start with the character sheet/player facing handouts and let the rest live in my notes app until I've played the shit out of it)

i wrote an article about playtesting, game design, and three pieces of advice: www.patreon.com/posts/three-...

working on an article abt my playtesting process. what would be helpful?

"Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic." what a fucking banger

cool hotel dog base photo by @ totaldoofus on instagram thank u

This is, I should note, also one of the great paradoxes of designing games. Translating interpretation to fiction is one of the most powerful techniques to *do*, but one of the hardest to explain because those interpretations are so very much a matter of CONTEXT.

Is the New York Times more biased than other major US news organizations that cover the trans community? Early data from our 2026 news tracker suggests they are. Of the 10 outlets we've been tracking, NYT had the fewest stories that quoted a trans person of them all. More here:

Saw a bit of booksky discourse of authors saying "if you pirate my books, you are stealing from me." So I'll just say: "if you're pirating my books, I don't really care that much." I came up writing zines and the whole point was copying and it was cool and good and punk rock.

I was in this playtest and Jay is cooking with gas here. It was still definitely recognizably OSR, but it was SO much different in very interesting ways than any other OSR system I've played, simply because of the different focus/context on centring women