having to figure out layout for your 48 word rpg vs writing your 48 word rpg

The Wiggle Game 1. Wiggle a part of your body 2. Wiggle something that is not part of your body 3. Commit the smallest wiggle 4. Conduct the largest wiggle 5. Find a wiggle in a place a wiggle should not be. 6. Win condition: your heart wiggles in joys

Lie To Him is a solo roleplaying game about deception. A tarot deck and a wooden block tower will guide you in creating a unique narrative. When we reach 50 pre-saves I will unlock a 10% early bird discount on pledges! Please share with anyone you think might be interested. bit.ly/4jsFYLY

Hello Wanderer! I've a new #ZineMonth project coming up! 💙📚The Wanderer's Bookshop📚💙 is a cosy solo* bookshop simulator #ttrpg where you collect stories, read books and find your “white whale”. Launching February 2nd on 💥Zinetopia 2026 (Backerkit) tinyurl.com/BookshopRPG 🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧 🧣📚

happy new year! lets fuck around, find out & always be kind !!!!!

YOU ARE HUNGRY (and also a vampire?) *Game must be played just before you make dinner - Grab a vessel and your nearest bag of rice (other small grains can be used ig) - close your eyes and pour out an amount of rice your soul wants for approx 3 seconds. more if you want

Not to get too sappy about it, but I’m really glad people are responding by making shitpost games and really clever little post-sized games. It’s a form that I love, because I love how it highlights games as language and gamemaking as communication and jokes as a wonderful form of play.

I missed the networking discourse, did anyone talk about the fact that during BLM Black creators and academics were reached out to in record numbers and then when we thought we had solidarity it vanished? Which led to many folks suffering representational burn out and distrust for ttrpgs as a whole?

It's the end of the year and with the end comes some reflection. So what not a better way then to celebrate some of my favorite TTRPGs, Artists, blog posts, and podcast in this TTRPG Wrap Up post for 2025 youtu.be/0vPmrfIkAds

An absolute dream to host such wonderful players for this incredible game. Huge thanks must go to George for trusting me with his next game!

Space whales + grief = WHALESONG, a duet game about loss and cosmic cetaceans. https://loottheroom.itch.io/whalesong

Scarlet Hollow was on my to play list since I finished Slay the Princess and it really snuck in there literally this month for games that have impacted my year,,, the way I have been THINKING about it and how it elevates visual novels and character writing,,, ohhh my god. brain rot.

Four games that defined my 2025

It is not a golden age because forge/story games ideas have become more successful. It is a golden age because people around the world are making new games, and to them all that stuff is just one more input among many.

Yeah this video fucks tremendously, everyone should watch this ‼️

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

We're about an hour and a half out from the End of Year Video dropping and I did want to share some stuff that got cut from interviews. For instance, I didn't end up using a lot of my first interview with Jay Dragon, on account of how I didn't know what the essay was yet, but here are some outtakes:

I've got some top notch ideas for stock art I can draw for you all in 2026😌✨

Ok, this is @friede.bsky.social's fault. She raised the question of *how* people analyze RPG texts, and that is a BIG, HAIRY QUESTION, and it got me thinking. I'm not ready to take a tilt at it yet, but that's because it turns out there are a lot of things I do *before* I read an RPG. A lot.

i spoke too soon, my dinner is quesadillas foraged from the rejects of the cheese board my family have been picking at today

anyway with post cheesecake clarity I want to say i have loved interacting with more people this year, I've felt the overwhelming kindness of the ttrpg community (and i hope to pass it forwards), and I want to see more your cool as fuck projects going into 2026 🫵

Today marks Lucky Leaf Teas' two year anniversary! 💚 As I did last year, I'm sharing some stats about what we got up to, our most popular blends, and a little look at how we've grown in just a single year compared to 2024! 😁

ok so i think i missed something about networking on here ??? sorry if i ever tried to network at you in the past, i was taught that at uni alongside other linkedin-ass behaviours but it's a good thing I was never very good at it. Because of the curse.

Today, on the last day of The December Sludge Zone i can tolerate, I will have my final day eating cheesecake for breakfast before I try and return to being like a normal guy again

This TTJRPG which uses AI in its artwork, and were incredibly rude and shitty to a whole bunch of creators over on Instagram have a kickstarter coming up. They don't mention AI once on this page, which I believe goes again Kickstarters rules. Not sharing the link, but i think its worth reporting.

Merry Christmas Thursday!!!!

An absolutely cracking bundle of Aus made indie TTRPGs from 2025! (Also, my game Fates Less Known is in it!) itch.io/b/3462/ausrp... #ttrpg #ausrpg #ttrpgsky

Gamers. It’s time

i cannot actually believe I have to use a vpn to look at dentistry advice in the uk because I dont own a credit card - this is actually a clown country

Check out the announcement for 48-word RPG Jam on @rascal.news in which I highlighted some notable entries to 2025's 36-word RPG jam. ✨ www.rascal.news/48-word-rpg-...

Citation is easy. It's a couple of lines on your credits page. Citation is encouragement. Every time somebody else acknowledges me this way, I feel like the work is worthwhile. Citation is introspection. You are marking your trajectory, the ports you have called at, as a maker. 1/

Thank you everyone who has listened to our pod and supported our show! Y'all are the best 🥹

Hi everyone! Our lovely boy Geo was hit by a car the other day and while he's fortunately got out of it with only a broken hip, giving him the care he needs is a significant and sudden cost. So we have a crowdfund now, anything you can give or sharing this is amazing thank you gofund.me/3a3befd4d

omg happy one year anniversary to my random knee injury that put me out of work 🥳 no one knows what happened and no one seems at all interested in managing it 🎉🫶 i really wish the nhs was more taken care of man.

if i am not raving about The Wretched, assume I've perished!!!! If you haven't given the game a go, I cannot recommend it enough - It's an airtight experience, so many games use the framework AND Chris has a banger soundtrack that goes PERFECTLY with the game ‼️‼️‼️

Spend £2 on this unique zine made by me and then raid your yarn stash and end up with a unique scarf made by you. AI couldn't take the photos I took or write the text I wrote for me and it can't crochet for you either 🧶

What people call "making games" is actually twenty jobs stacked on top of a burned-out creative arts graduate who just wanted to avoid the grind.

I love my particular brand of sopping wet anxiety - I spent the last week driving myself into a spiral because I couldn't find my switch and I've been doing room rearranging so I had CONVINCED myself i threw my switch in the bin by mistake. I have found my switch today. with my Nintendo games 👍

Pick and Mix... 26! 🎉🎂 Today has been possibly the most chill birthday I could ask for -A lovely lay in, trains running smoothly and now it's time for a gin, some party food and sticking my head into some lego B)

I hope his peace is contagious

Mud Ghost Estate Redux is a spooky Hong Kong folklore TTRPG from the creator of May You Fish in Interesting Times. 👻 A tumbling block tower represents the haunted estate, which traps the explorers when it collapses. 💀 The Kickstarter ends in less than 70 hours! ⌛ www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

Our statement on the recent layoffs affecting workers at Coatsink, Splash Damage, Glowmade & Square Enix, putting over 300 workers at risk of redundancy in the run up to Christmas. If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

YESS YESS YESSSS

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Hey I'm Emily, a graphic layout designer for TTRPGs. I've worked with MCDM, Hatchlings Games, Bright Bard Games, and am the Creative Director at @graftbound.bsky.social 💼: emilyentner.com ✉️: [email protected] #PortfolioDay

30% THERE!! Thankyou so so much to everyone who's donated to help us! 😭💖 If we can get 50% my the 18th I can secure his place with deposit while we raise the rest 🙏 ko-fi.com/glitzydemon/...

The actual play scene outside of North America is so damn exciting, and I need to see more people talking about them. So let's talk about some of the AP's in 2025 that my US followers need to pick up immediately.

Less than a week left to back Mud Ghost Estate Redux on Kickstarter! ✨ MGER is a TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore and urban legends with a tumbling tower mechanic, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted housing estate built in the 60s. 👻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

Taylor's a fantastic person who has done SO much to uplift creatives of colour! I'm excited to do what I can in order to support our community - Taylor's laid an amazing foundation, now we continue to build! I look forward to working with others to keep these growing spaces available 🎉🫶

not my younger brother bringing home some sorta stomach bug after i had thankfully avoided any sort of con crud post dragonmeet 😭