You see the family resemblance, right?

No poll functionality on Bluesky. I wonder if you all would have agreed. #JournalGaming

As the new Co-Chair of the Colorado Working Families Party, I'm excited for our progressive endorsements! These powerhouse candidates made it through our competitive process & represent our values of advancing racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing & electoral action.

Be With Me is the first journaling game I published as a zine. It's about your time on a reality dating show like The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. The thing those shows are selling though is hot people hooking up, and Be With Me is actually about human connection and hoping to find love. Well...

as someone who stopped posting for days to see if my friends notice and miss me: trust me, "blackouts" are the worst type of protest, the internet has no object permanence, the second you disappear it's like you never existed in the first place the only people who will miss you have zero power

If the guy who owns the platform can make it so that even people who don't follow him see his crackpot bullshit but when you post a link to the newspaper you get paid to write for it gets sent to the shadow realm, you are not actually influencing anyone.

Kinda excited to see two of my games in print. You can get copies in person next week on 28 Sept from 3-7 at Pure Panic or 18 October at People's Book. And if you're not local to the DC area, I can mail them to you with a real stamp! #ttrpg #DitDMV

The wealthy don't really feel the relentless gouging the rest of us are experiencing. I bought decongestant pills yesterday for the sinus congestion and sore throat I'm fighting off. They're the store brand from the same drugstore chain I bought my previous package from a couple of years...

Are you a TikTok user? @heartofthedeernicorn.com has been posting snippets of my interview with them about The Ink That Bleeds. Here's one: www.tiktok.com/@deernicorn/... What do you think? 🖋📓 #journalgaming

The Terra Volatile is making me like cards I don't usually like. The Queen of Swords is likeable as someone who's still about and who gets her power in the world from narratives, consciousness, and the war of ideas, but who has purged herself of... #tarot #tarotSky

Still trying to puzzle out this spread. So many severed heads, and the absence of one from Pamela's Seven of Cups that the Terra Volatile has replaced with a woman's upper torso. #tarot #tarotsky

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Still trying to puzzle out this spread. So many severed heads, and the absence of one from Pamela's Seven of Cups that the Terra Volatile has replaced with a woman's upper torso. #tarot #tarotsky

For a journaling game to be immersive you want the player to be able to tell the game who they are with their actions and choices. Some kinds of prompts enable this, and others work against it. "You spend time helping a blood-relation with their needs" is a universal part of the...

"I'll be ready quick. I just took a shower." #bloomscrolling #bloomsky

One of the things I wrote about in Inscapes is what it feels like to encounter the real when you're playing a journaling game.

Here's what happens in The Balsam Lake Unmurders when you turn a joker onto a suspect.

Can someone explain us all being scammed by the bay leaves? It's in while your stew cooks and then taken out and the stew doesn't taste different than if you didn't do it? How did we get tricked by these leaves? Would Chef Ramsay taste a difference? Was Julia Child getting payola from the leaves?

I don’t expect anyone to recognize my face on sight, especially when masked, so I came up with a different solution for identifying me at PAX Unplugged this year…

Everything might be terrible but sometimes the sky looks like this

My son is in 8th grade. I think we've bought the school photos just one year. They always look terrible. We did retake day a couple of years and still didn't buy the photos. This year the angle is so bad. He's practically peering over the top of his eyeglasses. Why would they take it at that angle?

I've been planning a little "group project" for the @chimerahearts.com server, and I hope you'll join us! October 1 through November 15, we'll be making "tools" to help some of our favorite indie games find a wider audience. Sign up today!

Just got Covid and flu shots. It's just the second day of walk-ins for Covid shots at KP. I'll be flush with antibodies for Pike's Peak Zine Fest next month. I'm ready to be done with Gov. Polis for many reasons, but very glad for him making vaccinations possible despite RFK Jr's harmful idiocy.

Bondi says she's going to prosecute speech. This is a DOJ that couldn't get an indictment with a VIDEO of a sandwich being thrown at officers. They are counting on people being afraid. Our laws haven't changed. We still have rights. The courts are holding, the DOJ has been gutted and is losing.

Just 90 minutes left. You know Asher's Ridge and Balsam Lake are in the same cinematic universe?

... the child looks back and sees what enlivened it and gave of itself with no quid-pro-quo for the child's being and potential and the child becomes a rare adult then from that awareness.

This is not solarpunk. The joy and advent of a child with all its potential just beginning to coalesce into something is not solarpunk. Solarpunk is when...

You know the FBI is going to send you to Balsam Lake too. The game just doesn't run out of necromancers. sites.google.com/view/the-bal... #ttrpg #JournalGaming

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

“I was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions [...] What happened to me is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media — a historical pattern as dangerous as it is shameful — and tragic”

This is a great story. We can almost never know when we have a life altering effect on someone. When we do hear about one, like the two examples in this thread, it documents real connection. A community being constructed.

My favorite customer yesterday at Denver Zine Fest was a young woman who'd bought The Ink That Bleeds from me last year who told me she'd waited a couple of months before reading it and then when she did it was her favorite thing she'd bought. She said it... #JournalGaming #ttrpg #DenverZineFest

The Random House advertisement for Ulysses in 1934 had a summary! hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

I forgot to give you this "game." midnitelibrary.itch.io/you-are-revi...

I loved seeing other cool #ttrpg stuff at #DenverZineFest today. Fortune Favors the Roll came with a super pretty hand made d10 that is now the first and only hand made dice I own. Any time anyone came by with one of these in their hand I felt less tongue-tied talking about my solo/journaling...

#SoloSept Day 14: A game where you control two characters. In The Balsam Lake Unmurders by @paulczege.bsky.social, you control everyone - yourself as the detective, the victim, the suspect, and the townspeople that you are investigating.

inking some maps for subscribers! coming later this month to www.patreon.com/ABestiaryand... and comradery.co/amandalee

They're so excited about Denver Zine Fest on the 14th! Who else is going to be there? #DenverZineFest #zines #journalGaming

The first clue to the 2025 Blinking Birch Puzzle Hunt will be posted on Saturday, September 20th at 9am ET, along with the link to the Discord server. Solving these 8 puzzles will require your brain, your indie TTRPG collection, and your friends. Best of luck to you all.

I think it’s called Revisions (I will have to look it up) - but you write a phrase about yourself, then erase it and write it kinder, erase it and write it gentler, etc It becomes this amazing mindfulness meditation that can really change your brain when you need it

In my convo with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social & @gelliottmorris.com, I laid out a new axis to consider in the internal Democratic Party divide: It’s both “fight vs fold” and “transform vs return.” newrepublic.com/article/2002...

Ugh, behind again on #SoloSept: 11: Fav designers - I have loads of them. In no particular order: - @paulczege.bsky.social - @exeunt.press - @catlinggun.bsky.social - @cyborgurl.bsky.social 12: 3rd Fav solo - Again, I don't rank but I do like: colourfulname.itch.io/notorious-st...

I truly love this game with all my heart. I am fixing some of the text and rules and hope to release a definitive version this week.

Who's waiting for The Balsam Lake Unmurders 🌱 to drop at Knave of Cups tomorrow?

Given the source, there's a good chance it's a lie. If it's true, it's a frame up, like writing "blacks rule" on your driveway. No one puts "I am gay/trans/leftist, bring down your wrath on people like me who I love" on a bullet when they commit a murder. But whatever, lie or frame up, it's so...

Three ways to design a #ttrpg: • analytically • derivatively • intuitively An inspired one could have been made any of the ways. Monsterhearts is inspired+derivative. But inspired+intuitive are the ones I hunger for.

King Soopers is brilliant at coming up with new ways to treat their customers worse. Two day sale for some items only on the weekend if you want the best price. Gotta buy five of the exact same item or you pay 240% more.

Happy Solo September, TTRPG nerds! You can get every single one of my paid games for 75% off, OR $10 for the entire bundle: itch.io/s/160050/sol...

No poll functionality on Bluesky. I wonder if you all would have agreed. #JournalGaming

Does anyone have a favourite cyberpunk adventure module? For any system.