Porchfest was a blast even with the rain. Loved seeing a bunch of people with little umbrella hats on. 😆

Somerville Open Studios is this weekend! www.somervilleopenstudios.org Artist studios all over the city are open to the public; great opportunity to walk around and not only see a big variety of art, but a bunch of the artists' very cool creative workspaces.

Indie bookstores have a day

IndieFest (5/21) at Upstairs at Bow Music, comedy, community. A launch party and fundraiser for the CS Independent. Ticket link in bio or 👇 www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... #cambridge #somerville

The hair dresser wants to know all about your life. The dental hygienist wants you to know all about theirs.

The Alexandria RPG Library was a highlight of PAX for me. Hundreds of ttrpgs free to browse (and borrow for a play session). Premium sourcebooks, mainstream systems, RPGs from your favorite franchises, and lots of cool indies. Really worth checking out if you're a pen & paper RPG fan. #PAXEast

In my homebrew #ttrpg system I've veered away from character creation rules providing many specifically-defined abilities in favor of broader stats that can combine and cover an even larger number of creative, player-brainstormed abilities and uses. It's great for experienced players, BUT… (🧵1/3)

I'm heading to PAX East on Thursday! Hoping for cool new ttrpg finds, maybe some good chats about fantasy novels (I read The Bright Sword recently; 👍👍👍). Happy to meet new people, so say hello if you're similarly interested, especially if you're also from Cambridge / Somerville. #PAXEast

I've been re-reading @NealStephenson.bsky.social's novel Reamde, and I'd love to see another sequel focused on Csongor and Marlon. Great buddy dynamic just beginning, fun fish-out-of-water characters both figuring out a fresh start (and maybe some redemption). #Books #NealStephenson #Booksky

Two days until #TurnBasedThursdayFest features more than 450 hand-picked games in a massive 7-day online festival and Steam sale! 🎉 The festival will begin with a 25 game trailer showcase -- first-time game reveals, brand new launches, release date announcements, and more. Watch it on Youtube:

Is anyone running against @massgovernor.bsky.social in November?

There's a brand new site covering Cambridge & Somerville, MA local news, started by the same journalist, @mhlevy.bsky.social, that founded & grew Cambridge Day into a successful local newspaper: csindie.com Cambridge Day cut most Somerville coverage in December; I'm glad this is starting up!

Somerville cultural center the Armory is looking for new tenants! www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/145... #SomervilleMA They have a call for proposals open until March 11th for artists, arts-oriented businesses, and arts-focused non-profit organizations that want space via a 3-5 year lease.

I read 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' today, and it's a really charming, short humanity-focused sci-fi book. Optimistic world-building, delightful characters, touching moments of friendship, and encouraging thoughts on our pursuit of purpose. #Books #SciFi #Humanity

📣 DEMO OUT NOW 🎮 FOLK EMERGING is a 🔥 stone Age 🦣 nomadic ⏳ turn-based ⬢ 4X strategy Play the demo here 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/4352180?...

QuestionableContent.net has been a daily webcomic read for me for like 10 years now, and this (commentary from today's random-throwback-comic-while-the-creator-is-on-holiday-break) is probably a big reason why. #Webcomic #FoundFamily

⚔️🐉 COME SOMERCON WITH US! 🐉⚔️ SomerCon is happening 1/25 at the Armory in Somerville, and we need YOU to make it the smashing success we know it can be! GMs, panelists, vendors and workshop hosts: apply here by Dec 10 🥳 bit.ly/3V1MSMf #ttrpg #indiegames #nerdsky

Always fun to run into a familiar face around town, and twice now recently I've gotten to bump into @ilikebugs.bsky.social, a former Diesel Cafe laptopping buddy turned talented illustrator (check out KEstropShop.com). #SomervilleMA has so many talented and creative people in it! 😄

Put my paid ttrpgs at 50% off for Itch Creator Day! 🫖 Just Passing Through, cozy fantasy duet 💤 Allucinalia, solo dreamscapes 💫 By Way Of Starlight, solo wishing 🐇 How Toys Become Real, based on The Velveteen Rabbit 🍃 Together & Ever, a community storytelling game itch.io/s/171019/bla...

Just launched a major update for Allucinalia, a solo dream journaling game that I wrote last year! Streamlined prompts, new end-game mechanics, extended gameplay ideas, new layout, new art (shout-out to the Public Domain Image Archive)... same price it was before! maggiefrench.itch.io/allucinalia

Considering buying tickets to PAX East primarily to check out #ttrpg stuff with @magathachristie.bsky.social this time. Anyone have an early line on this year's ttrpg-related panels? Or any after-hours events, or meetups happening outside of individual table play sessions? #PAXEast #TTRPGcommunity

Watching Next Gen Chef and one of the contestants, Sidney Rubenstein, is really funny. Says his parents were both in the military, which made it easy for him to start working as a chef because no one yelled louder than his parents already had, lol. #NextGenChef #Netflix

Any other #ttrpg train fans out there? 🚂 🚅 🚋 This 👇 a game jam for you! Brainstorming for my entry now. #ttrpgdesign #trains #railroads

I'm still soliciting stories about long running TTRPG groups and what makes them last (I have more than 100 great stories and answers so far!!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #D&D #TTRPG #games #gamegroups #community #clubs #hobbies

"There are no kind solutions to cruel situations." 😮 Hell of a line @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social! #BookSky

🚨TONIGHT!🚨 👉A new episode of Crowd Control launches on @dropout.tv at 7pm ET / 4pm PT Starring host Jacquis Neal, and contestants: 🗣️ Paul F. Tompkins 🗣️ Jamie Loftus 🗣️ Gianmarco Soresi

Packed theatre (and laughing so much it was hard to hear all the lines) for D(e)AD today! Great work @izball.bsky.social! Hope this gets on a streaming platform lots of people can see it on. youtu.be/SKmkHP9IUcs #Dropout #Comedy

I'm heading to the PowerPoint Party at @sidequestbooks.bsky.social tonight, a neighborhood block party and Cambridge Open Studios 👇 tomorrow, then going to see D(e)ad at @somervilletheatre.bsky.social on Sunday. Great weekend ahead!

Today, September 16, is Primary Election Day. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Vote-by-mail ballots must be placed in a dropbox before 6 p.m. or hand-delivered to Elections at City Hall (93 Highland Ave.) before 8 p.m. Learn more and check your polling location at somervillema.gov/elections.

Our squad-based strategy RPG's 25%-off for the first time since release! store.steampowered.com/app/1021210/... Celebrating 3 months of free post-launch content: new maps, mission types, cybernetics, weapons, & now 50+ possible multiclass combos! 🔁 Repost to spread the word? #TurnBasedThursday

Damn it. I watched *one* Star Trek Voyager retrospective and now I have to do a full cleanse of my YouTube reccs. Sharing some misc fan art by @anavoltzart.bsky.social as tax for this complaint.

If you're in Cambridge/Somerville and you're recording the news in some capacity, let me know.

If you're an artist who is purely digital I really recommend selling your shit in person. It is so grounding. I feel like part of the tapestry, slinging stickers out in my local neighborhood market. At this point, I want to start carrying a local newspaper or zine or something.

Was chatting with a friend about sci-fi shows. It doesn't feel like anything's scratched the same itch Battlestar Galactica did in a while. Need more grounded scifi with good political allegory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZ5...

The Somerville Theatre (@somervilletheatre.bsky.social) is hosting a showing of Izzy Roland's movie, D(e)ad! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKmk... Dark comedy full-length film featuring several Dropout cast members. Just bought tickets; this looks great! #SomervilleMA #BostonMA #Dropout

If you would like to help get the word out about Indie rpgs, one of the best things you can do is run them for people you do not know. I run games for underserved populations in libraries, bookstores, youth centers, wherever anyone will have me. Volunteer to run games in your communities.

CHOO-CHOO! Now boarding for this year's Tabletop Train Jam! We'll be designing train games in October, and I can't wait to see what everyone makes. (Yes, you can start early if you, like me, are too excited about an idea to wait.) itch.io/jam/tabletop... #ttrpg #gamejam #tabletoptrainjam @itch.io

Excited for this!

Intense cyberpunk heists, in-depth squad tactics, TONS of character build and customization options, and more: store.steampowered.com/app/1021210/... 🚨 Final 24 hours of our sale! 🚨 If you're a fan of tactical RPGs please repost 🔁 and help us let folks know a great new one is here! #Gaming #Steam

If you wanted to do something awesome for my birthday, you could check out Playlist Dungeon, a free one page RPG where you use music to create characters and dungeons (thoughtcrimegames.itch.io/playlist-dun... ), and/or leave a rating or spread the word.

Sorry everyone who gave title feedback... I went back to the original name b/c I was just too emotionally attached! My one-page solo game for #1pRPGjam and the Build A Better World TTRPG Jam is finally ready! You are a star who can hear (and grant) wishes. maggiemahoney.itch.io/by-way-of-st...

Working on a solo game for #1pRPGjam where you play a star fielding wishes from people... and it's finally cooking to the point where it'll be done soon but I'm struggling with a name. So while I sit here wishing (lol) for bsky to add a solid poll feature, I'd love to know your pick of these titles.

PREPARE FOR LIFTOFF GASTRONAUTS!!!!!!

Extremely well-written; worth reading even if you don't care about superheroes.

Incredibly fucking disappointing behavior from @roll20.net and @drivethrurpg.com

Had the honor of creating a custom Little Quests for a friend’s wedding, and it was so much fun! Would love to do another - if you’re getting married and want me to customize a lil zine game for you to print and fold, hit me up I guess? maggiemahoney.itch.io/little-quest...

@itch.io Hey team, please add an easy way to filter game jams by whether they're for physical games or video games. #ttrpgs are so popular on your site, it's crazy that it's so hard to find game jams for them on there.

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

In honor of #freerpgday and #selfpromosaturday I added new Community Copies of my #duetrpg Just Passing Through, about two old friends catching up. ☕️ cozy fantasy inspired 📝 low prep to get started ♣️ playing card conversation prompts 🫂 celebrate friendship maggiemahoney.itch.io/just-passing...