Once again, Best Online Content award is absolutely stacked!

If there was one thing I learned from UKGE this year, it was to stop thinking "I'll double back and pick that up later" and to just get it then and there instead.

listen HP fans: they are trying to keep the real hogwarts away from you. go on the bridge, jump towards the train, a world of magic awaits

My 5 TTRPGs to get to know me: Blades in the Dark Troika! Mothership Mausritter 24XX Want to play: Libreté Our Golden Age Slugblaster Brindlewood Bay CBR+PNK

Trap design in D&D 5e. Based on a genuine conversation about a trap in a friend's game of Curse of Strahd.

I've temporarily* made space by finally starting to read Playing at the World Volume 2. *It's ~700 pages, so it might be off the shelf for a whiiiiiiile...

Hot take - this is terrible GM advice. Splitting the party lets you build tension, spread the spotlight around, and keep the energy up.

New shelfie to celebrate filling three shelves on my TTRPG and gamebook shelves. Just don't ask me how many I've actually played...

I started looking at 70s/80s sci-fi novel covers for the vibes, but now I want to read every last one of them.

I once said to my old MD "it's editing, not life and death stuff like a doctor or something." Turned out that was the wrong thing to say.

As part of my look at Deep Cuts in this video, I discussed the influence of @megueyb.bsky.social's Psi*Run and it's risk sheet. If that sounded interesting, there is a new edition of Psi*Run on Kickstarter right now!

Last night's D&D session ended with a reveal over 6 years in the making. It's been a long road of clues and teases but it seems to have paid off!

For any sickos out there, here is the over-engineered timeline of the final cut of this video. All 16 tracks of it.

This video from a brand new channel is very well researched and produced! I'll definitely be following along for their future work.

Earlier today I finally launched my new channel with a project I've been working on for a while now. So happy to finally hit that 'publish' button! 🥳

I've finally launched my new YouTube channel, with a video exploring my favourite TTRPG mechanic, the Devil's Baragin from @johnharper.bsky.social's Blades in the Dark! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuQs...

What are the best books *about* TTRPGS? Not games themselves, but books about them, about their design, about the industry.

I feel better knowing it wasn't just me. My workshop sat in limbo then just disappeared from the website without a word. I was really looking forward to seeing what other seminar/panels/etc. there would be, but it was slim pickings and by several accounts pretty sub par. Such a missed opportunity.

My haul from UKGE. Big thanks to @loottheroom.bsky.social for signing Down in Yongardy - do I put with my Troika! stuff or my gamebooks? Also excited to see more Laboratory of Death - an English language jubensha.

We need some kind of TTRPG mixer at UKGE this year.

Pretty sure I'm not launching this YouTube channel before UKGE after all. I think the self-imposed deadline just melted from the heat tbh.

Slightly diminish a book The Gatsby

Made this handy map for the players in my depth crawl.

Depluralize a movie Liar

Do other TTRPG scenes have blogs to the same degree as the OSR? If so, which non-OSR blogs should I be following?

Geekify need Goodman Games to step in and complete their Kickstarter.

@itsquinns.bsky.social Enjoyed the Public Access review. I'm still a little unclear on how your misreading of the "what are you afraid of" question, from the disclaimer, impacted play. I can't see a difference by adding the 'if they fail or lose their nerve' line, but what am I missing? Cheers

Another thing to do with cards is linked cards, for example something that shrinks or gets used up.

Mocking up some ways the inventory system might work. The card-based version works a lot better, allows for actual rules info, and makes moving gear and rearranging your backpack a bit quicker. However having the image on the tetrominoes feels more tactile, like putting stuff in your bag.

Trying a new art style for this new project - Dungeons etc. - an inventory-first NSR game about exploring fantastical locations.

Great, now I need to buy a 3rd copy of Grok?!

Describe your Game Mastering style in one saved image. (www.samandfuzzy.com)

Discussing with some friends that there should be an Ancient Greek-inspired Mörk Borg game, so decided to put together a proof of concept - HADESBORG

These books are great and you should get in on this Kickstarter!

When I die, I want my ashes scattered here.

So I guess @itch.io's response to all this payment processor fiasco is to just not give people the money they're owed.

What are some of the best TTRPG solo rules? I've played a few solo/journaling games, but nothings really stuck for me.

I feel like when L died.

Restarted Hollow Knight to get some reps in before Silksong and accidentally did the partial False Knight skip. Clean knocked myself out of the fight.

Everyone who has a decent amount of TTRPG zines: how to you store/display them? Mine have just spilled into a third magazine file, but that feels unsatisfying.

That's a wrap for another amazing year! Once again another year of record-breaking submissions! @itch.io went down for a bit at the end of the jam, so if you have an entry but missed out on submitting it, head over to the community forums where you can submit the URL of your entry (link in reply).

the one page rpg jam is ending this weekend #1pRPGjam so today I'm going to go through some random entries in this thread and share them with you! itch.io/jam/one-page...

What an amazing honour! Thanks to everyone who voted!

This year's optional theme has been announced - Growth! Are you going to use the theme in your game(s) this year?

Please consider giving me and the jam I host your vote in this year's ENNIE awards!

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It's such an honour to have the jam nominated for an ENNIE award this year! It's a category with a great pedigree, and there's some serious competition for it! Congrats to all the nominees, and to everyone who has taken part in the jam and made it such a success over the past six years!

EP knows a thing or two about one-page rpgs. If they're recommending it you know it's worth your time.

Only 2 weeks until this year's jam starts!