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BREAK!! is an award-winning fantasy tabletop RPG about exploration & teamwork. Join designer @naldodrinan.bsky.social to experience his ode to JRPGs, anime, and isekai stories: 📖 Pure Panic Comics & Games 🗓️ September 28, 10am-8pm 📍 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD

One week away!

Great pic from a friend that shows off the deck being used for a playthrough of Moon Rings!

Kinda excited to see two of my games in print. You can get copies in person next week on 28 Sept from 3-7 at Pure Panic or 18 October at People's Book. And if you're not local to the DC area, I can mail them to you with a real stamp! #ttrpg #DitDMV

People should come play the game with me!

#SoloSept 19: Crunchy games - I don't really do crunchy games. My Welcome to Dinoland is kinda crunchy but not in a stats heavy, lots o' dice sort of way. What Lies Beneath is probably as crunchy as I get. Fun little dungeon crawl solo game. www.pnparcade.com/products/wha...

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more! thoughtpunks.com/ope...#TTRPG #OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

#SoloSept 18 - A piece of art: TYOV by @timhutchings.bsky.social is one big, masterful collage. The cobbled together photos, newspaper snippets, and line drawings really act like the fragmented pieces of memory from an ancient being.

itch.io, you're killin' me today. Soooooo sloooooooow...

#SoloSept 17: 2nd fav game - again, in no particular order a game that I like, Alone Among the Stars by Takuma Okada. This is such an elegant game that can be played in infinite ways. It's also a great game to hack and place in different settings. noroadhome.itch.io/alone-among-...

#SoloSept - catching up again. 15: Place - Forests of Hyhill in #Brambletrek from @crossedpaths.co.uk 16: Features - GOOD RULES. I've played too many games with confusing or poorly designed rules. My job is literally "instructional designer". If you need help with instructions, ping me.

Mark your calendars! I'll be there!

#SoloSept Day 14: A game where you control two characters. In The Balsam Lake Unmurders by @paulczege.bsky.social, you control everyone - yourself as the detective, the victim, the suspect, and the townspeople that you are investigating.

We've updated the "Make Accessible TTRPGs" zine, cleaner PDFs, removed text backgrounds. It's free and a great starting point to think accessible design. the-lost-bay.itch.io/make-accessi...

Ugh, behind again on #SoloSept: 11: Fav designers - I have loads of them. In no particular order: - @paulczege.bsky.social - @exeunt.press - @catlinggun.bsky.social - @cyborgurl.bsky.social 12: 3rd Fav solo - Again, I don't rank but I do like: colourfulname.itch.io/notorious-st...

Locals to the DC area, come see me and loads of other indies from Designed in the DMV at Pure Panic on 28 September from 10-8. www.designedinthedmv.org/indie-tablet...

New #Tumulus just dropped. Bets on if I get a skull or muffin. Place them now.

There are ways to tell who doesn’t listen to Wu Tang… youtu.be/R0IUR4gkPIE?...

Not necessarily for #SoloSept but I've finally completed 2 more solo journaling postcard games. Get all 3 in my Disappearing Worlds bundle for 5 bucks! stori-lundi.itch.io/disappearing...

#SoloSept 10: Dungeon or Lair - Shameless plug for my Charcuterie Crawl - stori-lundi.itch.io/charcuterie-...

#SoloSept catch-up post #3 8: Pre-made NPC: The games I play tend not to have them. 9: Sci-Fi solo - Ghost Beacon by @exeunt.press

#SoloSept catch-up post 2: 5: Monster desc.: Bugopod - Looks kind of like a trilobite but has a lot of sweet meat inside (from my own stori-lundi.itch.io/charcuterie-...) 6: Beg game: You Are a Muffin or Last Tea Shop 7: 4th fav - again, I don't rank but I like #Tollund by @exeunt.press

#SoloSept catch-up post 1: 1: First solo game: The Last Tea Shop by Spring Villager 2: 5th fav game: Uh, no clue. I don't really rank games like that. 3. Game setting: I like all of them as long as they are interesting. 4: A new solo: Brambletrek by @crossedpaths.co.uk

Oh dear me, how did I miss #soloSept? I need to catch up!!

UK Gamescenes Symposium will take place in Tampere/Hybrid on 16th September. Program and details for joining are attached. 1/2 Features work from skypeeps @digdems.bsky.social @nitessine.bsky.social @merilainen.bsky.social @rosgakori.bsky.social @vkankainen.bsky.social

The Golden Cobra Challenge 2025 is NOW LIVE! Get your gamesss in by October 13th! goldencobra.org

Looking forward to judging this year! Ssssend ussss ssssstuff!

James last night in DC. Great concert.

Solo journaling games can be challenging, so we sat down with Paul Czege to talk about his unique approach to these games. You can find more in his zine The Ink That Bleeds (available on our website) or on our blog. #journalinggame #journaling #roleplayinggames #ttrpg

check the Anthropic list if you're a published author! get them sweet investor bucks!

*doing the voice* Many unhappy returns to Werner Herzog. May his eighty-second birthday herald yet one more step closer to the gaping abyss which gives us all the solace of an escape from the unending horror of this world.

Awesome interview. Knowing that there is a subset of queer analog studies just makes me happy.

@drkowert.bsky.social - great quote for your upcoming Warhammer book.

Oooh, free zines!

I want to like Fake Crime but the instructions need work. First, when I was playing the cards, I kept getting the page and king confused. Now seeing them together, it's obvious. 2nd, the solo game rules need some examples and clarifications. You collect suspects but then "clear" names in 3s. 1/

Didn't get a pic while I was playing but my partner and I liked #Insectarium. It's essentially a set collection game. The picures are pretty, gameplay is easy yet interesting, and best of all NO SPIDERS!

The offer ends soon! Forty one TTRPGs, pay whatever you want, enjoy a pretty wild range of titles. itch.io/b/3178/pay-w...

There is a packed fall schedule for the DMV! Loads of events such as TWO Indie Game fairs, playtesting with Break My Game, and #LARP! Check us out.

@stickydoodler.bsky.social - what types of brush pens do you recommend for #BonsaiDiary? I am artistically challenged.

Mark your calendars!

Starting Bonsai Diary by @stickydoodler.bsky.social #SoloJournaling

This looks like a lot of fun! I’m sad I’m not in NYC.

Finally won a game. #SoloGame #CardGame @buttonshy.bsky.social

Playing Anamnesis. A really well done journaling game about recovering from memory loss. #SoloJournaling #Tarot

I finally submitted my silly little fraction game, Babka's Bakery to the TTRPGs TEACH Jam. Go me! If you're a 4th grade teacher looking for an extension activity for 4.NF.A.2, I got u. #EduSky #GameBasedLearning #GameJam stori-lundi.itch.io/babkas-bakery

@exeunt.press wrote a great blog about design lessons for his latest game, Ghost Beacon. I followed a similar path writing my game “The Most Dangerous Johnathan Frakes” where I started with notes from a year ago. #TTRPG #GameDesign www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/ghost-beac...

Last week I was at a conference in Rochester and went to Millennium Games. I’m not allowed in there unsupervised.

One week until the Serious Play conference in Rochester!!

It's after 11pm and I’m writing notes for a game I started a year ago. I had loads of ideas but couldn't figure out a system to use until I realized today that I can hack Honey Heist and it would work perfectly.