you, too, can introduce your friends to the wild world of indie rpgs by making up a fictitious nature documentary about some little animal freaks

What is the Powered By The Apocalypse TTRPG System?

This cool looking, free RPG just released on Steam. 10+ hours of gameplay for free, wow.

Now that the discourse has died down, and my birding has lessened, I want to talk about lists in rpgs. I like what both sides of the debate make. So, like everything else, "good" isn't about which side you choose but how you execute the idea. If you choose to use lists, use them well.

It’s really frightening.

Commission work for @susanoo-t.bsky.social Thank you once again for this opportunity :) #digimon

Yeah, people don’t get that “bread and circuses” in the modern age is retail therapy and entertainment products and both of those things are about to get fucking eviscerated.

your late 20s are genuinely hilarious because you start them feeling the dread of your "20s reaching an end" and then you end up realizing the whole concept of the 20s/30s distinction is meaningless and your 30s are a kind of freedom

Oh, I know it's not cost. We don't have universal healthcare because there would be no legal way to make it white-only. White Americans used to love social programs for welfare, health, job training. Then, courts told them they had to share. Been paring it back ever since, even when it hurts them.

Creatives don't owe you shit. They fundamentally do not owe you shit. They made something. You saw it. There was never any responsibility involved. They don't owe you a "better version" of the work. They don't owe you "less problematic writing". They don't owe you more episodes. You deserve nothing.

My hot take of the day is that storygames and OSR are two of the closest play cultures because they're both about emergent storytelling Storygames and OSRs differences (expectations of prep, role of mechanics in play, etc) do not make them as different as emergent storytelling makes them similar

a lot of my favorite horror is cautionary, where (like in broodhollow) the protagonist is given all the info they need to solve the problem, but due to their own biases they assemble it incorrectly and draw the absolute wrong conclusion

DEVIL MAY CRY!

This shit makes me so angry and sad.

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Risks. Being. Seen. As.

I took a little break, but we're back to your scheduled programming this week! Tonight going live with Unbeatable at 7:30pm EST - hope I see you there! twitch.tv/plural_j

1. California has reinstituted its anti-trans athlete policy. In track and Field, the California Interscholastic Foundation will force trans athletes to share the medal and podium with the next highest cisgender athlete. We talk to A.B. Hernandez in our latest piece.

Impossible to take birth rate doomerism seriously because the simple solution would be open borders. If you mention this though you realize the problem is actually *white* birth rates.

Oh hey steam's very selectively enforced prudishness is very predictably being used as a cudgel towards a queer VN. Who could have seen this coming?/s

trans women are the only ppl who are expected to accept that being in the closet is a privilege

I’ve been tuning competitive games for 15 years, and I’ve come to one inevitable conclusion. Want to know why people loved our patches on Killer Instinct and Rumbleverse so much? My hour long deep dive premieres tonight at 10pm EST on Game Design Direct! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPQ...

I think there is a fundamental disconnect between people who are on socials to Hustle vs people who are on socials to Socialize and it's that with the former you often get a lot of handwringing about which platform is "relevant" but I promise you: the average social user doesn't care about relevancy

The Ghost in the Shell - The Characters

fuck internal validation, all my homies hate internal validation, it is EXTERNAL VALIDATION TIME whenever I'M in the fuckin house

Ending A #fearandhungertermina

I was invited to have a cool chat about The Mist and Community a little while ago! youtu.be/ldiQGOEUlVs?...

I've been very intwined in metafiction (the game and the concept) as of late

Quick someone help me figure out how to get paid to run tabletop games (not the big ones)

y’all are really out here saying “if you refuse conscription you go to jail for three years!” Uh, yeah. jail is the correct choice here

#Yakgk A Roll that's not Roll? Meet Rho! An Excitable navigator!

listening to Friends at the Table while doing dishes is so dangerous because they'll say shit like "what if Danny DeVito knew all the names of God" while you're washing a big knife

The typical outcome for losing a fight in D&D is "everyone dies and has to start over, interrupting whatever narrative we've been playing through until now and forcing the GM to scramble a response" so I'd say a large amount of D&D ever since people started caring about characters is about winning

It's Bandcamp Friday! Today I'm finally picking up a physical copy of "when i paint my masterpiece" by Ada Lea, an album that has very quietly become one of my recent favourites adaleamusic.bandcamp.com/album/when-i...

Wargamers always roleplayed. There isn't a rigid line whereby you magically start roleplaying the moment you remove a win condition. Wargaming was always an imaginative, dialogic exercise, in the same way *every* game is. Simultaneously, a game not having an encoded win condition doesn't mean you...

plasmodics update day! tldr: @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online rules, onto revisions in layout, projected release date is in july/august! www.kickstarter.com/projects/goo...

THIS IS IT! You have until midnight (12am ET) to back Realis—the debut science-fantasy TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social. Every bit of support helps us get this game into more people's hands! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... Freemoons Assembly: @freemechanism.bsky.social Dovecote: @aurahack.ca

This is what I made on stream today!

Forgot how angry your brain gets when you're tired lmao Been fighting my blood sugar like I'm trying to tame a snake recently. It takes it out of you

Gonna do a creative stream tonight as my last one before a break for a couple weeks. Making art (and maybe making cards) On twitch.tv/plural_j At 7:30pm EST

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

There's 2 days left to back Realis. If you haven't, please check it out. It's one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to work on. (www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...) Here is a thread of all my art posts for the game. bsky.app/profile/sifs...

Going on a 2 week hiatus soon, so this week is gonna be all for me! Streaming today and tomorrow at 7:30pm EST - tonight with Slay the Spire II! twitch.tv/plural_j

woah, look at this! having a lil sale on my ttrpgs on itch to celebrate another year around the sun itch.io/s/185143/hap...

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.

Anthology of the Killer is OUT NOW ON SWITCH AND PLAYSTATION Here's the in game poster I did for "DROOL of the Killer"

The Gender-Conservative movement managed to push policy proposals worldwide based on the pretense that youth transition is common and easy to access, obscuring the extant reality of obstruction and hostility towards trans patients. They're doing it again because they got away with it.

Hasbro is forcing folks who have *NEVER* worked in Seattle to upend their lives and find a place to live in Seattle in short order this is also known as "trying to lay people off from their most profitable division without getting called out" sign to show your support for the union!

Addicted to Binary Break, my friend @clairemakes.art 's actual play RPG podcast set in the world of Digimon. Have I ever watched a single episode of Digimon? Nope. And it does not matter! You should give it a listen if you like APs!