It's a larp built around desperately trying to avoid being the most innocent person in the room when the clock strikes midnight. Because it's going to go Real Bad for the most innocent person. @lizziestark.bsky.social and I making a game for a friend. Also: Mars, Venus, Saturn, just imagine.

My mom's cat Greyson, veteran of 1000 cat wars, adopted from a Panera dumpster, absolute unit, I love him, he loves no one

We playtested my Desperation set called Big Dead Alien Spaceship last night and it was so good. Only one survivor, the pilot Silva, begging the rescue ship to turn back. "Don't come here" she said, hands on her pregnant belly, "Don't do it." They came anyway.

There are two hours left to support The Blue Way by @jmstar.bsky.social! Let's get The Blue Way to an even $20k! #TTRPGs #RPGs #larp #gaming www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

The Creswell sisters will ruin you

I just had a lovely conversation about game design for teaching and learning with Prof. Marcos Vital for the RoleSimpósio conference in Brazil.

A little easter egg for my North Carolina friends in one of the things I'm working on

Apparently, based on what I observed this evening, sometimes it's a hot summer night and you feel the youthful urge to just drive around with your windows down, full-volume blasting your John Grisham audiobook.

Last two days to back this beautiful and important game by @jmstar.bsky.social and @cmichpress.bsky.social - "The Blue Way" They have an excellent educator's bundle, and it is a game you (and your students, and everyone) should play at least once. Take a look: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

Read more about Zhenya's Wonder Tales on our blog! The link is in our bio. #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #storygame #indiegame #tabletopgames

I really like this larp, and it played well at Dreamation earlier this year.

I just discovered John SIngleton Copley and now I want to make a game about the first shipment of Marsala wine to England in 1773

"The gerbil's *on a chain*, it's perfectly safe."

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko! There are 309 reasons to love her.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Reviewing Nine Space Games (Being printed now!) to answer a question from a player in Poland and this popped out at me, from the "How to make your own one hour game" section:

We took The Blue Way, the star of our current crowdfunding campaign, out for a spin at Break Our Games night yesterday at Modern Explorers Guild. Thanks to everyone who joined us! To get your own copy of The Blue Way, pledge on BackerKit at www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

RPG folks: Sera is a voracious player and reader of games, with strong, smart opinions and a heroically open mind. I can’t imagine a better Ennies judge

Reload muskets. Rally the troops. Fight to unify Japan. Thousand Arrows is back in print with @evilhat.bsky.social! The TTRPG of samurai warfare and drama, powered by the Apocalypse, returns with revised text and layout. Get Thousand Arrows in PoD and PDF on 21 July! evilhat.com/thousand-arr...

I had a lovely time getting to meet Jon at CMU and the rest of the Reacting to the Past crew tonight! I got to test The Blue Way and loved it as I imagined I would! You should check it out!

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I have a weekly co-design session and sometimes I get way out ahead of my skis before we meet

In 2019, a capsule containing tardigrades in a cryptobiotic state was on board the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet which crashed on the Moon. Any of them that might have survived are just biding their time, waiting for conditions to improve.

Do you enjoy TTRPGs where you cover your mouth and mutter "Oh, no..." a lot?

In 1770 a comet passed only 0.015 AU from Earth, Lexall's comet, and it hasn't been seen since. There has never been a closer comet. Astronomers know where Lexall's comet sort of should be, but it isn't there. It's work is done.

Gaming in the great outdoors can be fun. @plakruslar.bsky.social took a trio of excellent games to the river for some playtime with friends. Do you enjoy gaming outside or do prefer staying indoors? #TTRPGs #RPGs #larp #gaming

Our awardsss criteria change, like the shedding of snakessssskin. We ssserve the community, as well as our own dark tastesss. Play a Golden Cobra sssubmission this July. Plenty to choossse from!

Silverhands just wants love

NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

One week left! If you're thinking about backing, do it before Friday!

IKEA in Charlotte, NC took the wreaths off the midsommarstång because Jesus I guess

Pretty excited about this file cabinet from a 1944 FBI Bulletin.

Rusałka is one of my favorite games and invariably a horrible good time.

Behold the characters of The Blue Way, courtesy of @jmstar.bsky.social's brain and @arayaart.bsky.social's artistry! The Castaway character is currently only available as a download with The Blue Way Curriculum Guide...at least until we hit our first stretch goal! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

A little over two weeks are left to support The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories from @jmstar.bsky.social and Central Michigan University Press. Pick up your own copy of this enhanced edition with new art and a companion cirriculum guide that includes new decks for game play! #TTRPGs #RPGs #games

This is a really clever project tying the lore of my game, The Blue Way, to how museums approach colonization and decolonization. Simple and effective! cmichpress.com/2026/06/13/t...

Looking for a deeper dive into The Blue Way? Recent Museum Studies minor graduate Samantha Krayniak designed a companion digital exhibit for The Blue Way, perfect for educators or anyone wanting more immersion in the themes and world of the game. *edited from earlier!* cmichpress.com/2026/06/13/t...

It's research request time! Do any kind RPG enthusiasts out there have a copy of GDW's Challenge Magazine, Issue 32? And if you do, would you be willing to photograph the Twilight 2000 article on the effects of the nuclear strikes on the USSR? TIA!

Tired: Games about witch trials Wired: Games about Widow Demdike and Old Chattox carrying on their supernatural war while on trial and doomed, both their families being burned to the ground amid demonic mutually-assured destruction

#FiascoRPG made this top ten list from Board Game Quest! Did any of your other favorites make their list? #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming www.boardgamequest.com/top-10-story...

"After hours at the museum" from the Soviet satire magazine Krokodil, 1971. I see the cast of Repin's Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who else is tuning in?

Honey badgers top out at 16kg, but there is an extinct, closely related mustelid called Eomellivora that averaged 50 kg, which is very large indeed. Leopard-sized, and evolved to chase. Our earliest ancestors had to deal with these murderous shitheads in the Miocene. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eomelli...

(Love your sketch! Did you do all four characters?) Posts like this warm the hearts of game-makers; please copy them in. It will never be unwelcome. Right, @bullypulpithq.bsky.social?

My nephew said something profound yesterday - "Line cooks eat macaroni". Meaning, people who work hard to do a thing, often don't get to enjoy the thing. My corollary is "If you've ever hung lights, you'll never see a well-lit play again".

The first stretch goal is delicious. If you've played the game, imagine what playing a Dusian among Sathani means.

Deeper In The Grave Triumph's At Randy's Battle of the Bands seannittner.com/deeper-in-th... (Thanks @seannittner.bsky.social and @ktwelves.bsky.social )

I just finished a playtest version of Red Ash, a Desperation playset about the 1905 Red Ash mine disaster. Here's a card that invites you to pick someone to linger for a while, crushed in a rock chimney.

METAL SHOWCASE 11PM is one of my favorite games that I have designed