“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone." ~~THE HIGH KING Lloyd Alexander

These are indeed the vibes I often crave! 👀 Give this one a squiz, gang!!

Hard to believe its been nearly a month! If you love messy dramatic relationships, lush shows of historical horror like Penny Dreadful and Interview with the Vampire, queer British history, gothic romance, or stories of fraught intimacy & fragile community, grab a copy today!

Hard to believe its been nearly a month! If you love messy dramatic relationships, lush shows of historical horror like Penny Dreadful and Interview with the Vampire, queer British history, gothic romance, or stories of fraught intimacy & fragile community, grab a copy today!

Go say something nice to some of your favorite indie designers. If you wanna be a super nice, go leave a 5 star review for something of theirs. You may not realize how day making it can really be.

As the Stonetop #TTRPG team are not on social media... The final proof has arrived and met satisfaction. It has been placed on the edge of the woods as an offering to tempt the Forest Folk back. Let us be good neighbors. Preorder your copy at ttrpg.link/stonetop

finally back to work on Tales from the Low Cantref (with gratitude to my coworking partner), fleshing out the setting into a set of inviting, delightful, highly-gameable jigsaw pieces that tables can interpret and make their own, including lots of example troubles for MCs. this week's job: religion

finally back to work on Tales from the Low Cantref (with gratitude to my coworking partner), fleshing out the setting into a set of inviting, delightful, highly-gameable jigsaw pieces that tables can interpret and make their own, including lots of example troubles for MCs. this week's job: religion

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

went on dice exploder & sung @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social’s praises as i am wont to do

If I wanted to make up a thing to make fun of how Monte Cook designs his games, I couldn't actually come up with anything meaner than "in the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG, you can spend 5+ Speed Points to make a Spin Attack"

folk horror fans: instead of this game, please go buy a copy of Harvest... gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

The Green Grandmother of Hookland. Blessed equinox to you.

Victorian London is a labyrinth of twisting alleys, stifling expectations, & cruel institutions. The poor starve in the gutters; the powerful sneer from on high. And on the margins, queer monsters whose lives & loves defy society & the law share fraught intimacy & build community as best they can.

A bunch of people have grabbed We Contain Solitudes over the past couple days (no doubt due to it getting brief mention in a podcast about something entirely unrelated). If you liked the game, give it a review, and maybe write a little message on the itch page sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

I just got my physical copy of this game yesterday and it's gorgeous!

Victorian London is a labyrinth of twisting alleys, stifling expectations, & cruel institutions. The poor starve in the gutters; the powerful sneer from on high. And on the margins, queer monsters whose lives & loves defy society & the law share fraught intimacy & build community as best they can.

Grand Guignol gives us crooked alleys & foggy squares, charged touches & words left unsaid, lavish parties & faceless crowds, bloody hands & dangerous smiles, and always the darkness without & within asking ‘What lurks in the secret corners of your heart?’.

repost for the US morning crowd

repost for the US morning crowd

Grand Guignol was already a great game, but this new edition has some really clever new features and it looks beautiful!

Grand Guignol gives us crooked alleys & foggy squares, charged touches & words left unsaid, lavish parties & faceless crowds, bloody hands & dangerous smiles, and always the darkness without & within asking ‘What lurks in the secret corners of your heart?’.

Two roleplaying games from Possum Creek are now in softcover! Face the prices you pay for paradise in the 3-act RPG Harvest or explore the dark labyrinths of late-Victorian London life in Grand Guignol – both available on Warehouse 23. bit.ly/possumcreekw23 #ttrpg #possumcreek #playsjgames

After Barbabianca, we're gearing up for another project: The Roots of Soledad, a magical realism #ttrpg by Matthijs Holter. As fans of Archipelago and Society of Dreamers as much as A Hundred Years of Solitude, it's a privilege for us to do our part in developing this game.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state" CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏 (Same goes for sport btw) #Speirgorm

YESTERDAY in my Harvest game: washed up on the island, coughed up dirt, met the elder's failson, dove for ruin stones to build a false house, poked the donkey, wound up the meeting maypole, resolved to kill the gods, dredged up the fisher king, and got chosen by sirens to do human sacrifice

Another Dark Ages playtest update, special battle edition! We did a little mock battle to try out the battle moves tonight. We've made some efforts to make the battle a tactical, but also smooth and fast playing, subsystem

Finally, a new post on Patreon, featuring an update for Free Company and a look at a new sci-fi game design called Cosmoport! www.patreon.com/posts/151654...

hervest is icumen in!! there's days left until the heat breaks and australian autumn arrives, and i can't wait. to celebrate and prepare, i'm running a 35% off sale! just $13 for a copy of harvest—my beloved, bloody, folk gothic RPG of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice—only until March 1.

Folk horror, folk gothic, and beautiful art to compliment a dark and twisted tale? Aw yiss.

this game is SO awesome, go get yourself some disounted folky drama right now it slaps

Play Harvest, and then play Heaven in the Dust, then play Grand Guignol

I am rarely prepared for how amazing each game we release is, but Heaven in the Dust repeatedly crashed through my expectations. The text, the visuals, the play. @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social made something amazing. Thanks @crapstacular.bsky.social for taking the time to share.

In the latest Rascal 7 series, Luke Jordan talks about their new game — a Hadestown-inspired mythohistorical drama. www.rascal.news/heaven-in-the-dust-sees-greek-gods-suffer-very-human-tragedies/

hervest is icumen in!! there's days left until the heat breaks and australian autumn arrives, and i can't wait. to celebrate and prepare, i'm running a 35% off sale! just $13 for a copy of harvest—my beloved, bloody, folk gothic RPG of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice—only until March 1.

hi can I interest you in a blessed paradise whose hunger only sacrifice can appease? a desperate community insisting on ancient tradition & terrible necessity? a game played without dice or a GM, driven by a bloody oracle deck & a biting token economy? anyway if you like the wicker man play HARVEST

Good time to scoop up Girl by Moonlight and various extra bits at a discount. I'm sure we have community copies available as well (or at least we did last I checked).

hi can I interest you in a blessed paradise whose hunger only sacrifice can appease? a desperate community insisting on ancient tradition & terrible necessity? a game played without dice or a GM, driven by a bloody oracle deck & a biting token economy? anyway if you like the wicker man play HARVEST

New games from @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social . Luke's games are among my favourites, with lush, deeply evocative writing and resonant themes.

with sweat, tears, & fonts from @rubylavin.bsky.social, I've created a printable playkit for playing harvest in person. in both A4 *and* letter sizes to boot! if you've not yet heard about my "beautiful cursed woodblock" of a historic folk Gothic game, I've a sacrifice-starved Island to show you!

👀 Friends, I do believe my “this is my shit” senses are tingling.

No more excuses!

with sweat, tears, & fonts from @rubylavin.bsky.social, I've created a printable playkit for playing harvest in person. in both A4 *and* letter sizes to boot! if you've not yet heard about my "beautiful cursed woodblock" of a historic folk Gothic game, I've a sacrifice-starved Island to show you!

"Players seeking to have fun is bad for many games" is the opening statement of my latest post, where I argue that players should stop playing games trying to have fun, and instead let the game systems take them where they will, and trust that the fun will come. tangentjoy.blot.im/against-intent

compiled every #friendsatthetable fangame into one big list, for a total of 35 games! Many of them created for #secretsamol! thank you @follypersist.bsky.social and @shipyrds.bsky.social for helpful sources <3

If you weren’t able to watch it live on Twitch, you can watch the Let’s Play on @plusoneexp.bsky.social ‘s YouTube channel: Heaven in the Dust, from @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social about messy mythic archetypes’ fall from grace. www.youtube.com/live/4i3kh5_...

Just wrapped up our first village in @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social The Low Cantrefs One of the kids was a sorceror, and he made the nearby mountain explode. The ghost of a dead brother took over the corpse of a winter traveler and tried to re-integrate with his family...