It looks like my texture packs of tea stained paper and whatnot on itch.io outsell *all* my games for some reason. The leads me to two courses of action: 1) Promote my games a hell of a lot more, and 2) Put all the old tea and crappy paper I've been saving up to good use and make more of those!

This week, just a bit of work on projects, and a quick trip out into the Zone for some food scavenging, doggie boops, and tracking a band of Zone Ghouls back to their camp. youtu.be/qZiWufcgxns

In celebration of my continued unemployment, I've put the remaining stock of my print books and zines up on gumroad! I might do some reprints if there's interest, but right now I just need to turn these books in my closet into dollars for my landlord. majcher.gumroad.com

"Why has nobody looked at/played/talked about/praised me for this thing... *checks notes* that I have not published yet?" is definitely a thought that happens.

This week in Mutant Year Zero, we navigate the fallout of Johammed's downfall, build improvements to the Ark (watchtower, cropland, defenses), Tavri becomes a Boss, the Diary is stolen from the Dawn Vault, and consider what to do about Eriel's unusual pregnancy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=spVy...

Once in a while this comes across my feed again, and the comments defending this busted-ass behavior completely melts my brain every time. www.tiktok.com/@scene_four/...

This is the ad that was rejected for being religiously offensive, too. Completely deranged. BGG fired the dude almost immediately, well done, but daaaaang that guy has some stuff going on.

This week in Mutant Year Zero, Rasper, Zippo, Wilo, and Tavri return to the Ark with fresh water, distributing it to undermine Boss Johammed's power play. Tensions rise, culminating with a raid, counter-raid, and a psychic blast that permanently shifts the Ark's power dynamic. youtu.be/6Q0w0LKFD-8

Detroit update: It is 87 degrees today and somehow houses here don't have air conditioning and I am dead.

I love a lot of things about Detroit, but the dog-ass internet that we get in our neighborhood is not one of them.

Tonight join Tony @devindecibel.bsky.social @majcher.bsky.social & game creator @diceexploder.com as we play Band-Aids & Bullet Holes! A deckbuilding #TTRPG of Kill Bill & John Wick style narratives! Join us live at twitch.tv/tonyplusone or youtube.com/plusoneexp Find the game live on Kickstarter

This week in Mutant Year Zero, we finalize negotiations with the plant's Zone Ghouls, er, "Pure Ones" to remedy our water supply issue, dispose of one stubborn Arkie while inviting the others to join our group, and get ready for a whole mess of trouble on the homefront... youtu.be/9YuLNSUz5SM

This week in Mutant Year Zero, we meet new mutants and learn the existence of another Ark, diffuse tensions between them and the water plant's Zone Ghouls, and search the mess (ie bodies) in the giant trash hawk's nest atop a smokestack, finding a clue towards "Eden" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6T...

Hm, maybe I should pay attention to how overwhelmed I am by everything online/everywhere when I fall out of my routine of trying to keep up with everything for a week or so. Maybe I *don't* need to completely burn out my psyche attempting to stay current with the firehose of (good!) stuff every day?

Holy shit we just randomly drove by this about half a mile from our new house and how dare they sell out without notifying me first. The line is around the block and WILD spacedive313.com

Almost forgot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvaC...

Evidence that I have terminal TTRPG brain, exhibit 1000: Roll under your SERENITY score when you attempt to accept the things they cannot change Roll under your COURAGE score when you attempt to change the things they can Roll under your WISDOM score when you attempt to know the difference

Moving suuuuuuuuucks

What this elucidates for me is that AI hits the same dopamine trigger as starting a new hobby. The promise is you get all the joy of crafting something with your hands but it actually won't suck this time. Not only is it a lie but you didn't even build the basic skills to start not sucking.

Please god let this case go to a jury. I need to see “HANDBOOK SECTION: NO DOES NOT MEAN NO” blown up on a piece of posterboard.

make bad art

It is totally okay to be morally correct *and* bad at math.

This week in Mutant Year Zero, the zone expedition works through acidic air jellies, a riverbed minefield, and unstable hill country before messily thwarting an ambush by the Zone Ghouls at the pure water plant. Time to go in... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx1F...

In other other news, we're signing a lease on a new place in Detroit, so we're going to be housed next month! (For a year at least, after that, who knows?) Very excited to move to a city with so much badass stuff going on, and getting back involved with local things. Lansing is relaxing, but jeez.

In other news, we decided to check out the Lansing Zine Fest this afternoon, met a ton of cool folks, and I got a huge stash of sweet zines—some of which are awesome little rpgs—that I mostly traded Big Penny RPG for, so that rocks all around.

I don't know why I expect adults in this year of our lord 2026 to not do the the highschool-ass "I'm friends with your* ex so I'm going to pretend you don't exist" bullshit, but here we are, lol. (*not even my ex, I don't know why I'm involved in this, man, but go off.)

This week in Mutant Year Zero, we take care of some business at the mall before heading out into the Zone in search of water. Instead, we find an abandoned police station full of Spider. youtu.be/hqm3yWhHy8Q

What's it like living in Michigan?

In our first session of Mutant Year Zero, we built the Ark in the ruins of Highland Mall, the water supply got hosed, Boss Johammed made a power play, a Tiger Beat magazine entered the Dawn Vault, and our mutants organized some hunting parties to bump the Ark's food supply. youtu.be/qxSGnHzgf1Y

Coincidentally, starting a new campaign of Mutant Year Zero today...

Every day feels like this

I hope this can also be my epitaph

Spent the day driving all the fuck over Detroit to check out the neighborhoods we might want to live in (and many that we absolutely do not), and whoo that's a lot of driving, but dang, there are some *really* cool places there. Here's hoping we can find somewhere in the next three weeks! 🤞

In our final session of Cloud Empress, it's a free-for-all chase through the Sleeping Giant when Oola!Horns tries some more bodyhopping plans, and everything goes dark. We wrap up with everyone living happily ever after at Tooth the Clown's farm. *Everyone*. youtu.be/8j_sV-AiY3A

Now that our Cloud Empress quarterly campaign is done, I can finally post the Keeper tool that I put together for myself, with a combined Land of Cicadas/Living/Dead interactive map, and some generators to make all the rolling for daily weather and encounters easier: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

My (ir)responsible PAX TTRPG Purchases: - Beards & Beyond; @plusoneexp.bsky.social - Fight or Fright; @mixuppixels.bsky.social - Chain×Link; @glyphtide.games - The Pact; @majcher.bsky.social Very excited to sink my teeth into all of these!

This year's maple run was pretty light for us, but I still managed to get about half a cup of delicious syrup from a couple gallons of sap. And bonus, now the house smells amazing.

Me: Hey, aren't you already actively working on, like, five games? Also me: SHUT UP

This week in Cloud Empress, we almost stopped a bodyhopper from jumping into an ancient war machine. Almost. Sacrifices were made, and I think our final episode is going to be a doozy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kF...

If I didn't give you a bookmark game in person at Breakout this weekend, it's now up on itch—feel free to grab a cyber bunny hole! majcher.itch.io/rabbit-hole

You know, I think I'm starting to come around on this whole "whales are fish" thing.

You’d never know from reading the @nytimes.com that a blockade is an act of war. That this is a war of aggression. That suddenly depriving millions of people of safe drinking water is a war crime. That this unprecedented humanitarian disaster was deliberately engineered by Donald Trump for leverage.

Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History Ep. 5 Tank Girl & Wizards We look at two licensed 1990s TTRPGs: World of Tank Girl, part of West End Games Masterbook series which launched before the film hit theaters & Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, based on the eponymous wild 1970s film. #ttrpg

I just backed Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

Decided this morning that I couldn't go to Breakout without something to give people, so I wrote a bookmark game and printed it out so now there's a cyberpunk game about bunnies.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?