Creator Jessica Creane's personal tale becomes a communal experience in this one of a kind immersive theatre piece. @writewhite.bsky.social has our review. www.noproscenium.com/tea-and-symp...

My maternal grandfather's occupation on the 1950 census is listed as EDITING PARTS SPOCK and I guess I'm OK with that.

My second interview in the Violent Delights design series is with @jmstar.bsky.social, co-owner and creative director at Bully Pulpit Games. I ask Jason, designer and publisher of various boxed RPGs, what should other designers know about the opportunities and challenges for boxed RPGs?

This episode is art in and of itself Highly recommend a listen if you want to get straight to the heart of the emotional experience City of Winter can have Sam, this is phenomenal stuff!!

For ten years after world war one, surplus US explosives were reprocessed into pyrotol and given away to farmers, who only paid shipping and handling. It was slightly more potent than dynamite and came in 23kg boxes.

There's no puzzle to solve in The Hotel Room. No mystery to be revealed. Just a steady drip of clues that may or may not be truthful, and a room full of nasty, paranoid people who may not be what they seem. Check out our latest Patreon update! #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming www.patreon.com/posts/159392...

One resource almost universally available at a convention is a grotty hotel room, so I made a claustrophobic, murderous larp confined to a hotel room.

Sam Araya's art is so perfect for this project. Surreal and horrifying.

For Desperation: Big Dead Alien Spaceship, I represent the big dead alien spaceship's eight locations with a mosaic image on the back of the cards, that carries over when you flip them to reveal a new part of the ship, which is predictably big, dead (mostly), and alien.

The launch of The Blue Way is just one month away. Follow the prelaunch page at the link in our bio or go to www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c.... #TheBlueWayGame #jasonmorningstar #samaraya #backerkitcrowdfunding

Say it louder

It's a three-player larp set in Italy, and you play over a meal. There are some playing cards scattered around face up and the characters are prompted to make decisions and hand the cards to other players to read and interpret.

We were relaxed, listening, all up and down the line, eyes on the road. A leaf spiraled down and landed perfectly on Marwan's helmet.

I just learned about the Red Rose Girls, three successful illustrators and artists (Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Elizabeth Shippen Green) who lived together for a decade and shared a wife (Henrietta Cozins). Broke up in 1911 when Green got married.

I laid my hands on a copy of Zhenya's Wonder Tales by the amazing @jmstar.bsky.social . Drop by indierummet at LinCon 16:30 today to join a game. Four players, one hour. Slavic dark tales. #lincon

I am excited about this! I will appear on a near future episode and it was such a good conversation.

Getting ready for more playtesting - it's spooky desperation set in 1907 Boston and it is choked with ghosts.

In this episode I reviewed Zhenya's Wonder Tales by @jmstar.bsky.social @bullypulpithq.bsky.social ! A TTRPG about dark fairy tales told by a scary lady. That's really fun!

I love how quite often a playtester will pour a lot of love and creativity into the process in unexpected ways like DeReel does here.

Another ongoing project - I've designed ten one-hour fantasy larps that will see the light of day if the sci-fi ones do well. These are designed across a diegetic timeline, so if you play them in order stuff happens the games react to. Tighter set of recurring characters.

If you're curious about typography, Butterick's Practical Typography is online, free, and user-friendly. I like how he explains things in plain, conversational language. practicaltypography.com

Prepare for the arrival of The Blue Way. Follow the prelaunch page at the link in our bio or go to www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c.... #TheBlueWayGame #jasonmorningstar #samaraya #backerkitcrowdfunding

My new game, the Roots of Soledad, launched two days ago and is almost fully funded! So I'm super excited 😄 Soledad is a magical realism RPG, with lots of drama, supernatural weird things, and deeply human relationships. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

Meet some of the characters you’ll play in Zhenya’s Wonder Tales, a collaborative story game all about dark Slavic inspired fairy tales. Available now on our website! #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #roleplayinggame #darkfantasy #indiegame

My game was inspired by the seriously great Fastaval scenario Old Friends by @jmstar.bsky.social and @olepeder.bsky.social. It was nominated for an Otto in 3 categories at Fastaval 2016 and playtesting it was my start into game design. Find the script here: alexandria.dk/en/data?scen...

This is so disgusting and alarming

Underserved larp parameters? Like player count, run time, environment, theme, that you wish there was more of in the world. Me: I want to see more aggressively short games. I'm making really fun one hour games but I want to see more 15 minute larps. How about you?

If your vibe is dark fairy tales, misty woods, and falling in love with the wrong person, then you should play Zhenya’s Wonder Tales a collaborative storytelling game inspired by dark Slavic fairy stories. Available now on our website link in bio! #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #darkfantasy #storygame #indiegame

I just turned in Werewolf Health Van, a game that has been seriously delayed by (waves arms around). I wanted a deluxe printed version but that isn't really practical, so instead of beating my head against production obstacles indefinitely I made a PNP version.

Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is live on Kickstarter! Tell your own bloody, John Wick-inspired revenge story in about as much time as it takes to watch one. It's a deckbuilder RPG named after a Taylor Swift lyric. Check it out now!

Sam Dunnewold and Sidney Icarus have a nice discussion about character non-monogamy, using Sam's upcoming game Bandaids & Bullet Holes (Which is really great) and my game Space Post. diceexploder.com/posts/transc...

Soledad by @matthijs1000.bsky.social cracks the code for GM-less gaming by making your Goals and Relations come back to haunt you. It’s given me pain, laughs, and new friends. Follow on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... Launches Thursday.

The Roots of Soledad is @matthijs1000.bsky.social 's card-based gmless game and homage to South American magical realism. It's coming to @backerkit.com on May 7, in time for #pocketopia2026. Want to learn more? Sign up to the campaign and preview the rulebook for free.

I’m also thinking about how my most recent run of Jenn Martin’s Austen Desperation hack had me doubled over in pain from laughing — not something I’d experienced before in the multiple times I’ve facilitated playtesting for that specific game.

I figured out my John Singer Sargent ghost game. It's a Desperation playset about a séance in 1907. Each character also has a ghost version. A character:

Obsessed with an Italian film adaptation of Measure For Measure, produced in 1943. Dente per Dente was made in Turin, a Stella Rossa resistance hot spot far away from the Italian studio system. A weird film about a play about justice and corruption, in wartime fascist Italy? There's a larp there.

Here are three of my favorite comedy games to play with my friends! Wether you’re taking your friends to Ghost Court, trying to make rent in Going for Broke, or making bad decisions in Fiasco, you’re gonna have a good time with these games. #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #partygames #indiegame #storygame

Poring over crumbling ancient Spanish shadow puppet archives as one does, sometimes inspiration strikes. Spacing needs work. Card backs.

Follow the prelaunch page at the link in our bio to learn more. #TheBlueWayGame #jasonmorningstar #samaraya #backerkitcrowdfunding

Looks like @jmstar.bsky.social wrote a new playset for Desperation! You can find it over on our Patreon! #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming www.patreon.com/posts/tiny-1...

CMU's update of my game The Blue Way will begin crowdfunding on June 16, on Backerkit. It's going to be so good - now peer reviewed, with a curriculum guide, new art by Sam Araya, new cards that extend the game beyond one-way assimilation, and a lot more. I'm stoked!

Titles that go hard

Zhenya's Wonder Tales is the real deal, by the way. We played through two fairy stories in a little over three hours by setting scenes, picking up cards, and reading @jmstar.bsky.social delightful writing, imagining our tales from the opening stakes to their melancholic conclusions. Just exquisite.

The Ukrainian RPG industry is hosting a three-day online convention at the start of May, ROLEPLAY UKRAINE 2026, and you are invited to come and play with them, and help to fund a relief caravan of medical supplies for those suffering in the ongoing war. Check it out. warhorn.net/events/rolep...

I don't know what this is yet but John Singer Sargent made some ghostly-ass Edwardian portraits and I am going to take full advantage.

Experimenting with the Desperation format, wondering what the minimum viable card count is, and I think the answer is 16. I'm eager to try this very short version out. Replayability suffers and it will play fast, but I'm not sure these are huge problems at this scale.

19 experimental games I wrote between 2005 and 2010. Mostly GM-less, mostly short, most written in an evening to test one specific idea. The b-sides, finally in one book. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/564042/-BSides-Experimental-Games-20052010?affiliate_id=2525274

kirigami dominatrix display simulator: a solo paper mutilation game. out now, for free! aurabellemakesthings.com send me your business card and I'll domme it

Check out the games at the Immersion festival, what a tasty collection of larps! www.nordicrpg.fi/immersion/pr...