"The Sickle Hour is a short tabletop game that returns to a theme I've explored before - the interesting stuff that occurs when fairyland brushes with the mundane world in mundane ways." - @jmstar.bsky.social, inspired by reading about twins. #TheSickleHour now available on our Patreon!

Got a good view of Fiasco by @jmstar.bsky.social from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social Student certainly sold the class on this game, in terms of interest, with several coming to my office hours to check it out.

한국어 버전도 이용 가능합니다. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Pretty happy with this list of skills you can pick up in my game set during the Hundred Years' War.

I had a year-long interruption and now, going back through my design files, I'm uncovering gems I don't recall at all. Here's a game titled "Metropolitan" and this is it, this is all you get. Of course it was going to be card based.

I just released a new game! Have you ever wanted to solve mysteries like Harriet the Spy or Nancy Drew? Kid Detectives is about kids solving mysteries in the sleepy town of Ida Falls. Meanwhile, a deeper conspiracy lurks. The adults are up to No Good and it's up to you to uncover their secrets!

Space Station Fobolex on this Valentines Day! (Read about the game lover on the page at bullypulpitgames.com/products/sta...)

I think a lot about how relationship maps can drive design and play. Here's a map for a six-character game that includes lines of affinity and also primary motivations proximal to characters. Everyone but the king has at least one one-sided relationship. Everyone knows exactly what to do.

The Audition is a short larp designed for remote play about an actor and their doppelganger competing for a part in a shitty sci-fi TV reboot. bullypulpitgames.itch.io/the-audition

Make A Scene is looking for fresh new parlor larps. They will give you $300 and help you tune up your game and then run it multiple times. They premiere first-time designers every year! It's a great festival and the sort of thing I'd love to see more of. makeascenemn.org/en/call-for-...

This happens TONIGHT! If you are at #Capricon46, don't miss disasters and joy done #FiascoRPG style with hilarity and improvisation! 8:30PM with @lasertheboy.bsky.social and friends! #TTRPGs #conventions #improv #gaming #live

A very relevant (and very good) game from Six of Hounds @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social - now available! I am going to use this in my class next fall! Grab it here: sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

@jmstar.bsky.social and I have a new game out, about cute animals committing SABOTAGE in a way that maintains plausible deniability. Check it out!

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk

Just got to play my first game of Durance from @jmstar.bsky.social and @bullypulpithq.bsky.social . It's a great GMless game, a bit more complex than something like For the Queen, but simple enough to teach and play in a few hours. Great interactive world- and character building. Recommended!

NOT SALLY

Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it

Ancient folks were so scared of bears they wouldn't even say the name of the animal, which is now lost in proto-Indo-European, replaced with bʰerH- (The brown one), an apotropaic avoidance term that became bear, bruin, bjorn, etc. Every time you say "bear" you are casting a spell of protection.

Updated and improved! Essential.

Information Ethics Trans-Misissippi West, 1700-1900 The Lessac Method Anthropology of Alaska Non-Numeric Programming

He wrote "The Dramaturgy Of Conflict: The Fiasco RPG As A Device For Collaborative Learning And Complex Thinking In Civil Law" and it is linked it here if you'd like to read it: bpglink.com/fiasco-brazil/ #FiascoRPG

Few things make me happier than seeing my work used in classrooms. I just love it.

We are proud to join @evilhat.bsky.social and their efforts to support Minnesota by donating 10% of our average quarterly sales made on our webstore to support the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr...

A little something-something I’ve been working on with the most awesome @scorchadoom.bsky.social Creativity in the TTRPG space. Should be going live today, it’s been a while since I did any podcast work, a brotha’s a bit rusty!

📝 The Skeletons, de @jmstar.bsky.social y @bullypulpithq.bsky.social, reseñado en la @revistaturno.bsky.social ⤵️

My new freeform scenario Sticky White started as a creative exercise where I tried to do something in the OSR style. Those roots can still be seen in the scenario's fantasy milieu and open-ended sandbox format, but I ditched the old school mechanics after playtesting.

Repulsive and probably welcomed by our current HHS

Now pay-what-you-want! Including nothing, if that's where you're at, although all profits are donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. @randylubin.com and I really want you to gather some friends and play it.

1. Answering machine refurbisher 2. Theatrical lighting designer 3. Bottling plant scut 4. University accessibility coordinator 5. Hiking boot salesperson

Played this very recently for the first time, still decompressing/coalescing thoughts on it but can definitely recommend playing it

Bully Pulpit Games has 28 larps and larp-like games published - for free, pay what you want, and for sale; some by me and some with friends. We have lots more available to our patrons but never published for various reasons. Some of my personal faves in a thread... www.patreon.com/posts/bully-...

Really happy with the way Nine Space Games is shaping up. @julienlegault.bsky.social is doing a great job capturing a somewhat shopworn, retro-futuristic aesthetic. Currently 183 pages of one-hour games and advice for playing and making them! The spaceships remain sad.

I like Salt & Glass a lot! it is truly, apologetically horrible.

The Daily Tarheel 🔥 www.dailytarheel.com/article/5671...

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Come join us! It's a Hittite-flavored mashup of Archipelago III and Dogs in the Vineyard with some Desperation mixed in as a treat. Your dad might be a giant boulder and also a god. Maybe you'll fight an eagle-headed giant. Somebody will probably complain about property lines and water rights.

Dropping an updated version of The Sentient Severed Arm just in time for the Indiecade Awards. You can still play the b&w prototype for free, but now you can also pay a little more to get the beautiful new updated version in full color. nullandvoidgames.itch.io/the-sentient...

Indeed! What a life! Gift version, here: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

I'm working on a fantasy game called 'Parceler, Crusher, and Scut" that atomizes authority into three bite-sized roles that can get shared around in various ways. There are always three protagonists, but how you share responsibility is highly variable based on player count and preference.

On a little D&D break so we played @jmstar.bsky.social’s Desperation: Dead House. Whooooof it was good. Can’t wait to play it again on a weekend when we can really savour the setting and get into the teeth of dialogue. Velma, our favourite, survived, moved to the East Coast, and never looked back.

Thinking about the future of American education in 1973. From a paper called "Simulating Alternative Futures For American Education" by Jerry Debenham. Thanks to @jeeyon.bsky.social for turning me on to the positively wild Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium of the National Gaming Council.

GOOD DAY January is the month you should gather in small groups and PLAY GOLDEN COBRA GAMESSS Peruse the many entriess here: www.goldencobra.org

Do not discuss your organizing here.

If you’re in the market for a low effort New Year’s resolution, can I suggest “removing ‘content’ and ‘content creator’ from your vocabulary”? The artists and entertainers you’re referring to deserve better, even and especially if you’re using it to refer to yourself and your work

Thanks for including my games on this fantastic list! I appreciate you playing and supporting them so much.

You can download and play The Sentient Severed Arm for free! All you need is at least one friend and an arm. nullandvoidgames.itch.io/the-sentient...

Congratulations to @harperferry.bsky.social for their IndieCade nomination for "The Sentient Severed Arm"! www.indiecade.com/festival-202...

I absolutely love this game format.

Neola was wholly unprepared for the blizzard about to unleash its frozen hell. There never was much life around here. And soon there will be even less. Check out the AP of #DesperationRPG from @hopelessgames.bsky.social. #TTRPGs #RPGs youtu.be/wLIlngDkJCw

As of today, 90% of backers completed the #ZhenyaWonderTalesRPG survey! If you supported this project and have not yet completed the survey, please do so as soon as you can. 2026 will be here before you know it and you don't want to miss your copy! #TTRPGs bullypulpitgames.com/blogs/news/z...