6 DAY MIGRAINE STREAK, FUCK MY STUPID BAKA LIFE MAN (i want to do cool shit but my brain is genuinely getting nuked by the concept of a light)

And we are LIVE! The solo gaming event of the year, Solo But Not Alone 6! Buy 90 items for only $10, all-new singleplayer TTRPGS! We have horny ones, we have scary ones, we have therapeutic ones and kid-friendly ones and more! itch.io/b/3481/solo-...

Are you a fan of: 🔍Solving Mysteries 🌳 Plants with roots that connect to other places 📚 Magical shops that can help you find what you need 📖Books waiting to be read The Wanderer's Bookshop TTRPG has all that and more! Crowdfunding on Backerkit for #ZineMonth tinyurl.com/ABookFan 📚💙 #booksky

went off the deep end again www.ign.com/articles/del...

We’re about 3 weeks from #ZineMonth, so this is the final reminder that I’m offering FREE crowdfunding campaign reviews throughout January. I’m prioritising #ZiMo and #Zinetopia ttrpg designers, so if that’s you, don’t pass this up! #Kickstarter #BackerKit #indie #zine #ttrpg

In SOULWROUGHT one of you plays a soul bound to a sword and the other plays the one who wields it. Track down the Soulsmith together and try (or do, who am I to judge you) not to fall in love. Coming soon!

We're looking for women and femmes to pitch their dream projects! This March, EUphoria will be hosting TTRPGirls, a celebration of the intersections of womanhood in gaming and we want YOU! Find out more and drop your application here - tally.so/r/ODQxG7

Have you folks picked this bundle up yet? If not, it's a great opportunity to help the lovely @pennyblake.bsky.social so go ahead and toss your coins to them! 💚

It's been a rough week already, but on Tuesday before class I recorded a brief introduction to my Intro to Literary Studies course, giving some local context and intellectual framing for why I think the serious study of games, game-writing, game criticism, & more is worth trying.

Blood In The Margins is dark academia, Wretched & Alone style. You and your friends killed someone on campus. Now you're journaling about who they were, why they had to die, and how you're covering it up while investigators close in. https://loottheroom.itch.io/blood-in-the-margins

Are you a new designer wanting to create a solo ttrpg? My DMs are open for you if you need direction or help. Marginalised folk will be prioritised.

TOWNIE(S), a solo journaling game about the Rust Belt, is coming to Kickstarter in February. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jel...

We are an MLIS capstone team working with the GAMER Group at the University of Washington seeking input on how TTRPG players find games, or want to find games. If you are a TTRPG player, designer, or both, please consider taking our research survey: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#TTRPG Designers, players, & related nerds: @ttrpgcataloging.bsky.social is a group of Library & Information Science MA students are working on a research project focused on improving cataloging for TTRPGs — unbelievably important work! They’re seeking participants for interviews.

Introducing THE HAWTHORNE EFFECT! A solo or duet letter writing TTRPG about surveillance, uncovering conspiracies, and how we act once we know we're being observed. The amazing @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social will be the layout designer! Coming to Kickstarter 01/02/2026!

SoulWrought is the spiritual sequel to our romantasy 2 player TTRPG, SwornHeart - one of you plays The Bound, a person whose soul has been put into a blade and the other plays the Wielder. Work towards your freedom and try not to fall in love 😏 Coming soon 💕

good to see everyone identifies the vibes presented here, on all levels this is an accurate representation of who i am going into 2026 🙂‍↕️

Pompompurin reads The King In Yellow

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 🥹