Havoc Engine, you say? Queer, you say? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Post con writeups seem like fun and useful things, so we did one. secrets.rowanrookanddecard.com/ukge-2026-po...

In our house we have long used Google home for controlling our lights, checking our calendar and the weather. Nothing fancy. Recently it switched over to using Gemini, and my feelings about this are complex. We'll probably move to something more open source long-term. But also it's utter shit.

Here's what we've been playing at RRD 🧵 (punishments if staff don't have one of our own fuckin games on the list)

The other day someone posted in an FLGS Discord I am in asking for assistance making Transformers characters in 5e. I asked if they had tried the Transformers RPG. They hadn't heard of it and immediately asked the FLGS to order them a copy. Sometimes it is that easy.

Either this a strange name for a clothing store, or siege appropriate clothing is about to get much more accessible where I live. I do live in a 2000 year old fortress town, so there is some hope.

Get Elaine a cookie, it's the right thing to do.

D100 Quantum Ogres

Sometimes RPG books get in the way of good RPG texts so much I want to hit someone with the book. There's a growing amount of stuff I like the idea of but wouldn't run (or maybe run again) because the book is just a hot nightmare.

More films need fluidly diegetic/non-diegetic spooky organ music justified by the main character being a total babe who plays the organ. It's an underused trope.

I'm at the asmodee booth. I'm at the combination asmodee booth & asmodee booth. I don't see you here dog.

I'm looking for some extra work and would be very interested in any part-time or contract gigs that could make use of my writing, editing, and project management experience. Creative work, research and reporting, consulting; I am happy to do it all. Email: chasewritesthing [at] gmail DMs open here!

I’m curious if any other TTRPGs have been published tête-bêche…

This is the funniest thing I have seen in some time.

The thing is, once Cthulhu has a statblock you can kill it with a dagger, or a shotgun, or by pushing it down enough stairs. Stop it.

Dungeon Crawler Cash

Decided to go check in Traveller 5e now it's in stretch goal territory. Glad to see we have unlocked erm, character sheets. Those are really going to enhance the experience of playing versus not having them.

The response to all of this is interest because a lot of people are talking about this campaign as if it is wildly successful, but actually it is yet to reach 800 people. That isn't a huge number. This is successfully extracting a lot of cash from a relatively small number of people.

There is a lot to unpack with Traveller 5e, and lots of people are doing that. I'm just going to talk about a little bit of that's a little slice of me browsing the page went. Our story starts here, with some cool tokens. I am actually a sucker for stuff like this.

I think today of all days we should just let the trans people have their KitKats.

I dunno about you, but I think something is up with the language settings on this ad.

RPG night is cancelled because of accursed children (not mine) and their needs. This is good, because it means I can read the adventure I was going to run.

🚨 IN THE LIBRARY WITH THE WRENCH IS NOW LIVE!🚨 My new GMless, diceless game of stormy night murder mystery is currently funding on Backerkit and I'd love your support! Back it here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

I own something like 30 feet of RPG books and I've only properly read a fraction of them and only used a fraction of the read ones at the table. I am at least as concerned with the experience of browsing them for ideas and reading them for enjoyment as I am using them at the table.

TORG in a morgue

GURPS in a turnip field.

D&D in a greasy spoon on an industrial estate

Personally, I would love to retire and be replaced by a badger, or an otter, or whatever.

Tchaikovsky would be hard pressed to find a better-fitted crew for this mission than the RRD folks. Solid choice, and an amazing series of books if you haven't gotten into reading them yet.

Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).

Children of Time: The Roleplaying game, from @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social, adapts @aptshadow.bsky.social's book series into a tabletop RPG spanning both tense moments and yawning eons. You won't have to include the uplifted spiders.

🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!🚀 We're absolutely over the bloody moon to be making the Children of Time RPG! Mina, Grant and Elaine have been sequestered away with author Adrian Tchaikovsky, building a new Ark to take you to the far reaches of space. But what (or who) is waiting for you out there?

updating my rolodex, who are my setting/narrative-focused TTRPG writers who are open for freelance work? (don't have specific opportunities, but it's good to have folks to point towards when stuff gets sent to me that I have to pass on)

It's worth remembering that with how Kickstarter works, when you raise a hypothetical amount like say 427k USD, you receive more like 385k because of KS fees and payment processing. So if you were then, hypothetically of course, to be in a position where everyone wants refunds it'd cost you 42k.

This is incredible.

Recently I've seen a few 'successful' TTRPG folks framed as if their success means they are now drenched in cash / running big businesses. On any kind of scale except comparing to the DIY and hobbyist folks, this just isn't true. RPGs are a tiny field in terms of headcount and money.

The ultimate RPG accessory.

Just in case it needs saying, we are against fascism in general, and this bullshit specifically. standwithminnesota.com

Made loads of my games PWYW today. I've kept a couple of titles as paid and set them to 10 bucks. Will be funding finishing a long overdue crowdfunder and some reprints from my sales in the next month or two. There's some cool stuff here I've not looked at in forever. sealedlibrary.itch.io

So I know about ARKYVR. What other RPGs are there where recording/media creation are explicitly part of the game? Like, I get you can play a journalist in Call of Cthulhu and make up that part of your job, but it isn't part of the game. It doesn't have its own mechanics and it isn't centred.

Lots of new followers today. Is something happening?

@alfredvalley.bsky.social I wanna get another Dark Arts coffee game box off you. I can't see it on your website. How do give money?

I want this.

I am playing Call of Cthulhu again, how did that happen? I think my DragonMeet purchases may well be focused on overcoming ever needing it.

Am I seeing any of you at ThoughtBubble? I got a whole of Christmas shopping to do and that's a threat.

Real suggestions from Real RRD employees

So many people have entirely false perceptions of the breadth of what RPGs are. Whether that is an inaccurate idea of DnD, an *accurate* idea of DnD, an understanding Pathfinder exists too, or also that GURPS exists. Most people I have introduced to RPGs are surprised by them.

Starting to really look forward to DragonMeet this year. A lot of you UK folks it feels like I've not seen in age. Please say hello to me, it's my 98th con and I'm extremely confident meeting new people. Con tip: bring a spork. Excellent for food eating and better than a banana for self defence.

UKGE official socials deleting/hiding comments calling out their support for games that use AI is not a good look… yikes

Today I had an email from a book printer with some images of the types of books they make. AI images. A company that makes real books that chooses not to use real books to show what it can do. Ugh. UGH.