Co-signed, basically 100%. I'm not moving existing projects over, but starting new ones in Affinity Studio has let me mess around with a lot of the tools and: Chant like. I'm by no means a professional graphic designer, but Studio (so far) has made my RPG layout workflow smoother and less annoying.

Asdrubael Vect should be hot.

Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution. Behold, the Stepladder Table!

@critlore.bsky.social has pointed out I accidentally made "folk horror versions of Cuno and Cunoesse from Disco Elysium" as Meatbags NPCs, and... they're right, and this might be my proudest creation.

weathers changing. more time for gaming

One of the things I really like about zombie horror is the maths of it. Nobody ever talks about the simple, beautiful, *maths* of it.

MegaCorps and Vampire Gangs are bad, but a poor internet connection can be worse. This urban fantasy game uses real data to find your ideal safehouse.

Good luck, New York.

Affinity 3 is nice, folks. Vector manipulation is MUCH more beginner friendly, there are lots of nice QOL upgrades (typography persona! copy flattened/merged!), and in playing with it now, I've discovered workflows that would have saved me about an hour earlier today.

I wasn't going to say anything about the biggest TTRPG convention in the UK promoting AI slop, but then the slop makers said "everyone uses gen AI, we're just honest about it", and I fucking saw red. Make your own art. Even if it's rancid garbage, it's still better than a machine's hallucination.

Look at that, a recommendation! You should, at the very least, go and get the Meatbags quickstart: exstasisgames.itch.io/disposable-b... It's free!

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Four books to get to know me. I am composed of way more than four books. But these are the books and authors I, and @critlore.bsky.social, most often see the impact of in my writing.

Proud to announce that next month I'll be releasing Pistolheart (Vol.1), a supplement for Western themed #Daggerheart campaigns (and my first solo release)! But for now, wet your whistle on the incredible cover art by @coveofmadness.bsky.social, who I am so pleased to work with again.

Going to a small, local comic and nerd con tomorrow. It's not that I don't enjoy explaining what a TTRPG is to new people, but it is an 8 hour day, and not everyone wants to talk to vendors anyway... so I have made an introvert-friendly sign.

Watching Crit Role and not having a long term campaign going is killing me. (I have a monthly Cthulhu game. It's tremendous. It's not enough.)

Hey! Spooky kids, adults, and ageless beings! There is a SINGLE COPY of Apparition, my low prep ghost hunting RPG zine, on @ipr.bsky.social. When this is gone there will be NO MORE. It will not be restocked. You know what to do. I hope. (Buy it.) www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Appari...

Crowdfunding is supposed to derisk the expensive process of making new things. If it can't do that it's just a marketing channel. Crowdfunders should break even when they fund and it sucks that companies feel that's not viable. (Not criticising any creators, just the crowdfunding hustle)

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

Brother Herbert's Big Onion

This parallels some thoughts I was having about TTRPG production last night. You have to leave space for the "hey, what if we..." stuff that emerges in the design process, that you can only uncover as it comes together. That's how you go from good to great. Yes, layout artists hate me.

To anyone and everyone out there for No Kings: Fuck yeah, and thank you.

Today's conceptual earworm: When 'ordinary schoolboy' Eric ate a banana, he turned into Bananaman, an adult. This was in the early-to-mid 80s. I'd estimate him to have been around 10. He would now be in his 50s. If he eats a banana, he will turn into a geriatric banana person.

Embarrassingly, the sale did not in fact go live. Everything is 0% off until Sunday but since some of it's free and some of it's $1, I think there are still bargains to be had, honestly.

Still spooky season! Still 50% off everything til Sunday!

Will you find your absolution, Woodsman? Or will you lose yourself to the temptations of The Hunt? Grab No Mercy For Monsters, a solo #ttrpg of dark obsession & the bond between mortal rivals. Site: undergroundoracle.co... Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com...

TheGrouchCouch did an actual play of Rue From Ruin, and they're giving away a free copy of the game to a lucky winner 🐺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1m...

Putting this on the cover of the book.

IT'S SPOOKY SEASON, BUCKOS. Who's got spooky stuff? WE'VE got spooky stuff! - Free survival horror quickstart - Animal Crossing x Wicker Man adventure - Trophy adventures - Zombie horror RPG - Solo horror RPGs - System-neutral anthologies "SCARILY GOOD DEALS" - me exstasisgames.itch.io

OooOOoOOo you wanna back Absurdia so bad oooOOoOoOoo! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/q...

THIS IS YOUR HOLE

We had our chance and we wasted it

Painterly character cards like this, $40 all week, DM me 🔥

Step 1: read the primer Step 2: pre-order DIE: LOADED Step 3: grab the RPG Quickstart at the same time Step 4: ...Take your friends on an intense but cathartic emotional journey in your own personal fantasy world?

The interview's great, and you should join the game jam, but here on MY feed, we celebrate Rascal news using MY desperate, Friday-before-holiday graphics in their article 😅. Seriously though, read the interview. 's good.

HEY. LOOK. QUICKSTART (with new cover. Same quickstart you can already get. But this one's comic book-sized. You know, like the comics.).

Every time I want to open Bluesky in my browser I type "bs" and hit enter, and I think that keeps me honest.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Do you also remember Sagas of Sundry with something between fondness and hollow, aching need? Ivan and Becca are offering us another hit, and buy-in is remarkably cheap. www.kickstarter.com/projects/goo...

I think I just realised my ideal heist is researching, planning preparing... and then not really playing the heist - I'd be happy with dice rolls heavily stacked in the players' favour (good prep), only playing scenes where there's a problem to solve. (1/2)

The thing I WANT to make for this game jam involves a Disco Elysium parody and one of the unpublished back pages. Fuck it, staff aren't allowed to win anyway. (I assume.)

Hey, bc I haven't mentioned this in a while, I am (I've been told) a damn good podcast guest, enjoy doing 'em, & can talk about a wide range of stuff. I enjoy most talking about stuff from an artistic, trans/queer, &/or Jewish lens. DM me/email me at spider at NerdyKeppie.com :] Pet/art tax:

Good RPG Tiktok accts? I'm on the tiktok for work reasons and now I need not shite RPG folk to follow

I sort of want to watch the new Critical Role but I do not think I want to watch 4 hours of character intros. Has someone done a highlights reel yet?

This is where my afternoon has descended to. I blame it on @sugarpigblog.bsky.social. Introducing the IMPOSTROPHE, a punctuation mark for all the writers out there who need a way of representing their impostor syndrome on the page...

Ah, autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. And ambient anxiety, heavy and redolent of petrichor. Fucking brains, man.

Reposting at a time when people in Europe are awake. What an idea.

Ahem. *taps mic* WE'RE NOW AVAILABLE IN FRENCH! The brilliant minds at Neoludis have translated These Wretched Tales - our three solo horror RPGs - into French as La Trilogie Horreur. The release is at OctoGônes in Lyon, 10-12 October. Get 'em fast, folks. subverti.com/en/maps/fest...

I died because a scarecrow thought I was a sexmenace.