you know who you are

you know who you are

one of my long-running campaigns finally died. as an intermezzo before the next one, we've decided to to play a few sessions of Triangle Agency set in 1974

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

Today is the final day you can grab two months of a Rascal subscription at $1/month! Strap in for another year of tabletop journalism once the team returns tomorrow. Help us continue growing and biting even more ankles in 2026! www.rascal.news/yippee-ki-ya...

Incredibly shocked and saddened to learn of Steve Dee’s passing. His passion for making games and sharing the craft of gamemaking was unmatched. He made a whole bunch of great games (It Is Forbidden is stellar), and in his memory I want to share my favourite:

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

Saw an interesting post freaking out about the upcoming Royal Mail changes. They’re an inconvenience, and imho not worth getting super upset about. Save your energy. But! It made me think and uh oh here’s a thread 🧵

love a movie

busyness, not to be confused with business, not to be confused with bussyness

Yes, we ARE aware that a time portal has opened on Gladys Road. Several cats have already entered the portal and travelled 5 seconds into the future. This has resulted in two of the same cat occupying the same temporal space... a 'Time Puradox' if you will....

A slight preview of the full 2025 recap: projects are up and money is down! Both Backerkit and Kickstarter hosted more successful projects in 2025 than 2024 (Backerkit by a lot, Kickstarter by a little), and both saw less money raised (Backerkit by a little, Kickstarter by a lot)

do it.

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8/ If you want the concept of "Stonetop" in a nutshell, this is it. I love how concisely this captures the feel of the game, a so-called "hearth fantasy," with details that suggest deeper lore without bogging down:

you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.

The implications..

Looking back, it was a fine year of blogging, and I'm glad we get to celebrate the form again! Blogging is an important and beautiful part of our art form. It's personal, it can be whatever we want it to be, and it makes discussion of our subjective experiences possible. I love blogs, don't you?

Alright, now that the year is over, here are the TTRPG's I played in 2025. #Endies All told, I'm surprised I didn't play more games! Let's see the numbers.

Here's some fun data on The Bloggies' after 24 hrs: Best Series: 33 entries Best Debut Blog: 61 Best Blog Post: 372 - Theory: 132 - Advice: 117 - Gameable: 70 - Critique: 53 The nominations process is going to be tough. That said, I would like to see some more critique and series.

But that's my word for every year

Nine Delights 2026

The piece of critique I'm most proud of from 2025 is my analysis of The Last Caravan. Playing through a campaign, my table felt both restricted and lost at the same time. I trace that experience back to a disconnect within the game: it doesn't quite choose between the sandbox and the rollercoaster.

AN ORDINARY DAY FOR DRACULA - Dress up as Count Dracula for your day off - Fry an egg, read a novel, play a videogame—do whatever you want to do, but dressed up - If you have to speak, be it at the store or because (for some reason) you're having friends over, you have to do the accent, sorry

I'm definitely submitting the Expressionist Manifesto (possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...) and the OSR Onion (dododecahedron.blog/2025/11/22/t...) two of the articles that blew my mind last year. Would you like to submit something I wrote last year?

Submit your best rpg blog posts to the bloggies! Especially if they weren't dungeon-game related, I'd love to see more cross-pollination between scenes this round.

YOU CANNOT KILL ME IN ANY WAY THAT MATTERS

Would you take a nice warm shot of your favorite gravy, just on its own?

Time for my Endies Post! #endies #ttrpg. I love spreadsheets.

tinker tailor shepherd's pie

An art for a local art secret santa

Vive le zonjon!

Frontier Scum doesn't get enough love IMO. 1 like = 1 neat thing from Frontier Scum

Still on time for #TheEndies, here are mini reviews for all twenty-nine games I played in 2025:

ah to be a little chime floating carelessly on the wind #pokemon

Paterson was released 9 years ago today 🩵

Linocut by William H Hayes ‘Dawn’ Size 23.5 x 31 cm.

Time for the 2025 Endies! Big blog with breakdowns and statistics scheduled to go out Monday Dec 30. Do you want to do your own Endies? Grab the Canva template below! ladytabletop.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/t... #endies #ttrpg

Still on time for #TheEndies, here are mini reviews for all twenty-nine games I played in 2025:

Red Knight: Winter Season

Hello new followers! Better introduce myself. I’m the sole proprietor of Not Writing Games. I make solo games, narrative TTRPG’s, and anti-capitalist stories. Find my games here: notwriting.itch.io Support my work here: Patreon.com/notwriting

Roger Hebbelinck after Valerius de Saedleer. ‘Small Village in the Snow’ [smaller version] Etching and aquatint, 1930s. Dimensions 49.53 cm x 55.25 cm. robertmeyrick.co.uk/2018/05/29/v...

Okay, but hear me out ... What about hobblings? This is obviously the best (worst) of all possible worlds

We get it. It has been one long year so consider this one last gentle nudge for 2025 to backers who forgot to complete the #ZhenyasWonderTalesRPG surveys. About 40 of y'all haven't so make @segedy.bsky.social's life easier going into 2026 and send them in! #TTRPGs #games bpglink.com/zhenyas-preo...

Embrace Boxing Day by rocking and socking an assortment of giant robots. Collect 35 tabletop rpgs carefully welded together by a whole earth federation of indie developers, then clash beams, blades, and minds with your friends. itch.io/b/3426/sprin...

@seraphimseraphina.bsky.social started blogging on itch and the first one is a doozy, y'all. What if we stopped asking if a game supports this or that fiction or experience, and started figuring out what roles games can play within the way we play in the first place?

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

@seraphimseraphina.bsky.social started blogging on itch and the first one is a doozy, y'all. What if we stopped asking if a game supports this or that fiction or experience, and started figuring out what roles games can play within the way we play in the first place?

my new ereader came in so I need recs!! I'm using libby and want books of all kinds to put on hold and test out! I usually like sci-fi and fantasy but I want to take advantage of Library Downloading to branch out