Heaps of home grown Aussie #ttrpg goodness live now on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/arcanacon #rpgaus #migw

Folklore Jam 2025 has started! ✨

Bad TTRPG Tip; If your character dies and you don't want that to happen, slide your GM a crisp 100 dollar bill and hope for the best.

(I still need backers for my light novel about a guy surviving a badly-run RPG campaign, so if you like my work (or posts) I'd appreciate it if you spread the word! Tell your friends, your parents, your Discords, your subreddits, buy a haunted pizza joint and then tell the ghosts about it)

I'll be at PAX Aus in two weeks time running #GrimoirePunk in the tabletop hall. Sign up for sessions at the RPG HQ and join me to make your own magic grimoire and use it to steal magic from powerful wizards. What to expect 👉🏻 mqsalmon.itch.io/grimoirepunk #TTRPG #PaxAus #PaxAtTheTable #PaxAus2025

I gotta say, I'm pretty proud of this table for helping players in Against Time and Death decide when to set their scenes. It was fun figuring out what sorts of things define each of the six eras I chose. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ick...

I think I've finally settled on a structure for playbooks and moves that I like for #ShootnLoot2e. Having a structure is not the same as having a playable game, but it's a step... 😅 #ttrpg #ShootnLoot

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL is my one hundredth one page game. YOU ARE A GOAT GIRL. It is always your birthday and God Himself could not stop you from doing exactly what you want. PDFs (including text-only) and design commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

I've just finished reading The Power Fantasy volume 2, and now I'm furious that I don't have volume 3 sitting on my shelf waiting (on account of it does not exist yet) #books #comics #ThePowerFantasy

A clever marketer would have got an alpha play test of the second edition of his Borderlands-inspired TTRPG ready for the release of the new Borderlands...

The 'Ghosts Australia' trailers are giving 'Genie From Down Under'

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

Black Skies For Babylon, my pamphlet sized squad command, combat tragedy TTRPG. Each player controls their own fireteam of high tech spec ops soldiers. Your mission? Go on one last mission behind enemy lines to destroy a prototype mecha factory. Get it now, only on itch. itch.io/s/69856/bsfb...

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

My younger siblings both made me navigate around any ReDead in Ocarina of Time for them because of the jump scare

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

Look all I’m saying is if you start moving churches in just 28 thousand years you end up with Imperator titans. Is that what you want?

"Sailor Moon overthrows the God-Emperor of Mankind and takes his throne" is exactly the shot in the arm 40k needs.

Now that I have my beautiful sketchbook, I'm going to try and draw more often. So I found a photo of the dog to reference. In quite pleased, considering I haven't drawn a thing in years, and was never very good.

My recent adventure in #bookbinding has been finding this gorgeous leather slip case at an op shop. I took a pad of Kmart sketching paper, cut it to size and bound it, and made a replenishable sketchbook!

Game jam when, @weirdblueyonder.bsky.social?

I just submitted a game to this bundle; I encourage you to do the same!

The @ametsoc.org State of the Climate Report for 2024 is now published: doi.org/10.1175/2025... I am happy to have contributed again to this year's issue - see our section in 'The Arctic' chapter: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS... Another historic year for Earth's climate... 🚨

RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...

My free tip for streaming platforms: add a Frinkiac style meme/gif generator. Chuck your logo on everything it generates. Limit it to content more than a year old or whatever if you want. It'll print publicity, and I'll be able to get my random gifs from old movies.

Played a little of the Endless Legend 2 demo today. I have such a great appreciation for Amplitude's Endless games, and their approach to story and world building in 4X games, but I haven't ever clicked with the mechanics. This one is feeling good, though! It might be the one!

My wife and I have a deal that when I make a Simpsons reference she doesn't get, we have to watch the episode it's from. Well tonight's episode of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel had the characters go to a lesbian bar, so...

Okay, and who is going to guarantee the security of this new Palestinian state if it isn't allowed a military? Will Australia be part of a UN peacekeeping force in the West Bank? Is the IDF keen for it? What happens when Netanyahu decides to "mow the lawn" again, Operation Cast Lead II?

The dog destroyed the baby's favourite toy...

Treat yourself, read this thread

These kinds of casual heresies are only going to become more frequent. Christianity for Christian nationalists isn’t about theology, orthodoxy, or relationship to the divine. It’s strictly a demarcation line for in- vs out-group, and — like whiteness — is malleable to suit the preservation of power

This actual play is so good, y'all! Check it out! #AModernPrometheus🫀

Finally had the guts to start listening to this, and it's fantastic. Cory and Koda are great storytellers. "Victor, you didn't finish medical school" was a big-laugh-in-the-shopping-centre moment, so thanks for that. #AModernPrometheus🫀 #ttrpg #ActualPlay

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

Join Cory and Koda/Jade as we conclude A Modern Prometheus by @mqsalmon.bsky.social A scientist and his creation weave a delicate dance as they balance hate and fear, humanity and monstrosity. Will they choose to live, or will they destroy each other? ftlcast.podbean.com/e/episode-10...

Have you taken a look at Assault Fleet Centauri yet? It combines modern tactical rpg mechanics with the narrativist school of rpg design to make some I think is pretty unique! It's also a bit of a love letter BSG, The Expanse, and Star Trek. If you're looking for a new hard sci fi rpg, this be it!

Shakespeare's Coriolanus but it's Buster and Lucille Bluth

Had a lot of fun playing a game of Berserkers Inc with the kids at youth group tonight. A routine delivery turned into a frenetic chase of a unicorn through the streets pursued by the king's dragon riders. Rope was eaten. Unicorns were turned evil. Fun was had. #ttrpg mqsalmon.itch.io/berserkersinc

Assault Fleet Centauri is a fleet command TTRPG set in an anarchist future. The game puts each player in command of their own space warship, on a joint mission to destroy capitalism! The quickstart is out today, and marks the debut of the new beta version rules. raycox.itch.io/assault-flee...

RSS is the *real internet* It's what really enables podcasts to exist, not Spotify.

#pixelart #artpost

This was a really lovely playthrough by two excellent RPers! Makes me want to watch their other content now 👀

Years ago when I was playing a lot of Mobile Frame Zero (a really great tabletop skirmish game that uses Lego for units and scenery), I designed a bunch of mecha for it. Put the instructions all in one folder for anyone who wanted to build them too: photos.app.goo.gl/udWQvaWVBMwv...

In case you missed it, I have been micro journalling my progress these last 113 days, as I try to get the QuickStart version of Assault Fleet Centauri ready for release. AFC came out in Alpha back in 2023, and this new beta version is essentially a complete mechanical rework. It drops Friday.

You can't hurt me, I'm a Saints supporter who was at the game on Sunday and left at three quarter time. #AFL

Looking for some physical games to help you take a break from digital life? Here's a neat pay-what-you-want bundle of 41 games from 20 different creators to do exactly that: itch.io/b/3178/pay-w... #TTRPG

Leaf mentioned in the official itch discord server that the open case they have with Stripe right now is probably the most critical right now. Submit a complaint to Stripe here: stripe.com/legal/compla... Need to know what to say? Use this: bsky.app/profile/void... #itch #censorship