I finished an editing project last night, and today I finally finished Promptober, only 2 months late. Go me! What if Hallowe'en thinned the veils to every other plane of existence, not just the land of the dead? Who would you invite to share a cup of tea? #TTRPG #TTRPGPromptober

Had to pull out the big guns tonight. I think the Battle for LA album works better for me coding rather than editing, but it got the job done. Still sadly and painfully relevant 25+ years later. #AmEditing #RATM youtu.be/Rm1nCYOZB-s

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

The Last Caravan.

Trees, trees, and more trees! Been obsessed with stippling for many decades, and altho this one is digital, I must admit I prefer ink and paper for this particularly therapeutic process. The Tree digital ink 2022 #ArtAdventCalendar

Important PSA: I hope you never see other artists as competition. Please take their success as proof that you can also succeed here.

Breakfast hits different when it's 6 hours early.

Just saying, I'll do a book cover illustration for $200. www.shaenon.com

Since Fellport is so urban, why does it celebrate an annual Harvest Festival? Merchants love money. And now one post left for Proptober. Woo! #TTRPGPromptober

I like to roll this out now and again to give folks perspective; not to guilt trip, or even advertise for my own work. But lately, it seems even more important, so here it is: $5 a month to most people seems like nothing. Here's what it means to me and my work. 🧵

3) The effort is the juice! The effort is the high! Mastery of a skill is an unparalleled buzz. "Having written" is nice yes, we all joke about that, but *the making is the pleasure*. Men who've never experienced that, trying to steal it because ironically *they do not know its value*, is a sin.

I would play the everliving fuck out of this. Fun fact: I'm fulfilling this oath right now and delaying making dinner!

So I'm officially 8 months jobless as of today. Looking for a database design/developer/engineer/architect role with data pipeline or interface experience, if anyone has leads. Alternately, I can edit your TTRPG manuscript for a nominal fee to help keep the lights on. Thanks in advance! #JobSky

Wizards enchant foxglove flowers into single-use misty step items, magically giving folklore life. They call these items Fey Flowers. Now Fey Lords have muscled in on the act, cursing some to strand people in the Fey realm and extract a service from them. Turnabout is fair play. #ttrpgpromptober

Fellport has one huge worship building, shared by hundreds of gods. It's madness, but it seems to work. With this, I'm down to 3 posts to go on Promptober. Whee! #TTRPGPromptober

Daily journaling, except with dungeon rooms. A remnant of #Dungeon23, but useful in so many other ways.

Backed, and I'm looking forward to reading it.

Last Kiss is now passed its 3rd stretch goal! @anagogue.bsky.social will be adding a new town to the game! With 31 hours left it's time to back it or be overwhelmed with dread Monday night that you made the wrong decision! Is Pedro Pascal judging you even now? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

Yep, I'm hacking together a Settlement System for my next issue of Bolthaven Folios. Here's an overview and some design blather about it, with more to some at some point soon. Stay tuned. gamerblog.twwombat.com/2025/11/desi... #TTRPG

We've got 10 days to go, and about $2500 left to fund! Not a giant amount of money in the grand TTRPG crowdfunding scheme, so I think we can do it! Help us out! If fellow creators are looking for some cross-promotion or something let me know, I'm finding the limits of my own reach here.

This means that like what should be the same scene of LARPS, Forum Roleplaying, Parlor Games, Murder Mysteries, Escape Rooms, Board Games, etc all don't really have the crossover they realistically should

I went to bed an hour early last night and got an hour less sleep. Apparently math has abandoned logic.

If you're heading to #PAXU and haven't done Games On Demand, do yourself a favor and go play something cool.

We take a journey into an unemployment nightmare in this snippet of cyberpunk fiction where waking up is worse. Not entirely autobiographical, but still therapeutic. #TTRPGPromptober

@benriggs.bsky.social brings together @johnharper.bsky.social, @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social to talk gaming while we wait for Apocalypse World Burned Over to go live... youtu.be/Aoa7ehvou9U?...

It is still, in fact, on sale.

Finally getting back to Promptober. Today, a little fictional transcript of a video showing 1.5 seconds of a stowaway in the Espresso Addiction's cargo hold. 5 to go after this! #TTRPGPromptober

Final 9 hours. Twilight Sun is almost at the threshold. A strange, tragic RPG about what we carry and what we believe. If it speaks to you, now’s the time. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

The northern lights are out tonight here in Central MA.

I needed this today. Keep making. Keep posting. Keep inspiring people you may never meet. youtube.com/shorts/vg1yY...

I've set up the pre-launch page for the Bree-YARC core rules. It's not launching until spring 2026, but I wanted to get an early jump on promotion. I'm commissioning a number of short adventures that will create a starter pack to go with it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #osr #ttrpg #dnd

Alright, it's time... This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes. Light on rules, bound to the dark. 100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available! farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight

Good morning #ttrpg folks! Thank you for the amazing launch for #AW3rd! Y’all have pushed us so far over the stretch goal for the digital e-zine of additional materials we’re going to have to think about what might come next. It’s a lovely day! Let’s see where this thing can go!

I had a thought about adding skills to the base Daggerheart system in the shower this morning. I thought I'd jot the idea down before it left my head. I think that's one hurdle overcome for Daggerstar system development. #TTRPG

CW: American Politics Just because Americans believe it can't possibly happen here doesn't mean that it's not happening right here right now, in real time. youtube.com/shorts/IpA3l...

I finished reading this last week, but this quote sticks in my brain. "The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess." - Timothy Snyder On Tyranny, page 121.

In a cooperative hobby like ours, let us raise each other up, pierce Obscurity's sorcerous mists, and push back the Juggernaut of Indifference. We talk. We share. We play. We take breaks, but we never stop creating. #TTRPGs

On some level, every RPG design is an argument for how things could be better. Few things motivate design like seeing another game and being inspired by what it could be, but is not. So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D

It was a perfect fall day on campus too, which made the experience even better.

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore! #osr #rpg #hexmas

Well. There goes my plans for the rest of the year, probably. Major surgery in the next few days. Months to recover. This has not been a great time. #mutualaid #ttrpg ko-fi.com/ofgodsandgam...

Platform Decay, the eighth entry in the Murderbot Diaries series by @marthawells.com , will arrive on May 5, 2026. 🔥 And if you haven't seen it, the first season of the TV adaptation, available since this summer on AppleTV, is very fresh.

Hey folks, my wife was laid off unexpectedly. We depend on her income with my own. We are crunching numbers, but it's grim. Not sure how we'll make it through November, let alone think about December. You can help here, but we understand everyone is struggling too. <3 ko-fi.com/gnomedic/goa...

It's 11PM, so time for an 11th hour mea culpa that I'm not going to finish #TTRPGPromptober by Friday. The post turned into a State of the Wombat post, so give it a read if that interests you.

The Cog That Remains is at 85% of its itchfunding goal! Get a solo Wretched & Alone #ttrpg about a mecha mechanic trying to keep their giant robot in the war for 65% off, help me put some money in an artist's pocket to make it prettier! itch.io/s/160017/the...

Happy Hallo-Week! I've joined @itch.io's Halloween Sale and marked all products in my shop down by 31% through November 4th! Buy any of them individually or as a bundle for $8.97. (and seriously help me out through the horrors of unemployment 😅) itch.io/s/165541/hal...

New art asset pack for October! A set of stained glass illustrations available in both raster and vector. oddsandents.itch.io/stained-glas... Timecode: 10:17 pm EDT

Just landed an editing gig. The rest of the week looks busy between that and driving my mother to surgery on Thursday. And Halloween on Friday. And a game day on Saturday. And looking for a day job. And getting PayPal to stop holding the editing gig's deposit money for 21 days. Don't wait up.

Every time you like an artist’s artwork, an angel grows their wings. Every time you repost an artist’s post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.

The Not-Deer walks calmly from the lore of Appalachia, providing a mystery for your band of modern-day investigators to uncover. Why did a human transform into the Not-Deer? #TTRPG #TTRPGPromptober