"It's not a tomb. It's a town. And it will always be." Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Was there a Greg Stolze adventure for Unknown Armies where you played one group of people and then switched to playing the other side? Or something like that? Am I just imagining this?

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

if you don't need a commision, and instead would like to keep me alive for absolutely no reason, my ko-fi is here o/

I love how No Pun Included go about their work of reviewing and criticism. It's opinionated but informed, sharp but open-minded. If you like board games, give the channel a follow.

New Smiling Fox 🦊 from @gthynk.bsky.social, Horst, and me. Here's a section I like, where @newmadras.bsky.social says that not all myths are spills in the supermarket. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wReO... Shout out to @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social and @madjay.bsky.social for their epic AP with Thomas! 🙌

i confessed to my partner that I'm a podcaster and she forgave me

Between 2024 and 2025, gamers spent $1.4 billion on remakes and remasters. Remakes generated higher revenue and engagement. These are the findings of new research by Ampere Analysis. @ampereanalysis.bsky.social www.gamesmarket.global/ampere-analy...

Karl Marx's On Noobs (1878)

This isn’t surprising, but still sad. May better days come for us all.

I had a great time talking about Mythic Bastionland on the Smiling Fox podcast, which is a whole podcast just about that one game! I talked a lot about @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social's wonderful approach to running the game in a way that facilitated lots of great character drama.

I've been glad to hear that folks have enjoyed this interview. My favorite parts, personally, were Thomas's questions about the differences between solo RPGs and puzzles. And I have been thinking about these questions nonstop since the interview.

@plusoneexp.bsky.social is hosting Just Play! @ PAX Unplugged (Room 106 & 107) where you can meet creators! Playtest upcoming games and old favorites! All on Friday Night starting at 7 pm Eastern! I'll be running a special playtest of #COMEONIN with limited availability! Come check it out!

So my advice, to those who would ask, is not "the only way to make money as a game designer is to start with money," but "the only way to be a creative person / game designer is to figure out what tiny scraps of time you can put towards practicing your craft to produce your art, and do that."

Psychodungeons are created from breakdowns, full of monsters reflecting a mind's issues. Psychoplumbers are called in to get to the bottom of the dungeon and close it off. Pull someone back from the brink, just for a little bit. ratwavegamehouse.itch.io/psychodungeon The only way out is down

Got together one more time with @newmadras.bsky.social and @madjay.bsky.social to talk about our two runs of Mythic Bastionland. tl;dr - Playing in a Mythic Bastionland realm with friends was a lovely way to spend Sunday mornings youtu.be/pU-2GsVq_dc

I am visiting Lucca Comics and Games this weekend. It is a huge convention, and I finally got round to the games area. So many RPGs are translated into Italian. It was quite astonishing, particularly as a Dane where we at best get a translation of a year.

I've got a couple new releases (Ithaca in the Cards 2E and What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course are now both out on digital), but itch also has a Halloween Sale thing going on, so you can get all my games for 20% off until early next week. itch.io/s/165914/hal...

Perfection.

If you're a bookseller or tabletop designer with thoughts about DriveThruRPG's Partner Shipping Program -- specifically its cut from sales -- I want to hear from you for a followup article! Email: [email protected] Signal: ChaseTC.24 Or DM me here.

Sex level two. (www.scribblehub.com/read/869982-...)

A week from now I'm going to be at Metatopia. It'll be my 25th Double Exposure con, and my 8th or 9th Metatopia (I lose count). Here's some tips:

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

YouTube thumbnail arrows are their own art form.

Digital version is out now at ehronlime.itch.io/what-should-..., and you can pre-order both What Should We Have Tomorrow? and Ithaca in the Cards 2E physical copies at ithaca-2e-wswht.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

DriveThruRPG has launched a new program to sell publishers' offset books and other physical products. It's a boon to smaller creators, but also further consolidation for the one of the hobby's largest digital platforms.

You can get it here: badbucket.itch.io/the-beasts-a... A truly lovely thing.

See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

So as is a common Evil Hat practice, Fred has been posting number for our crowdfunding budgets, and one item that has merited some discussion is that we crunch out all of the numbers, but then set a goal for the crowdfunding where we loose money. Key post here: bsky.app/profile/dead...

Social media is a machine built to make you think somebody who doesn't know you exist is actually posting about you

If there's one way to get fucking excited about a new edition of Apocalypse World, it's this article. It dispels any assumptions about Burned Over just being a more accessible translation of the 2016 edition. It's definitely its own game.

T minus 11. An #ApocalypseWorldBurnedOver thread. In case you were wondering what we're cooking up in #AW3rd edition.

I am so grateful to Jason for handling the Herculean task or getting this game printed, and we could use your help to keep physical copies available!

Talking to @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social is always a delight. Their work is inspirational and also so much damn fun. Burned Over is worth getting excited about.

This is one of the best games I've ever played. I don't know anything about Mass Effect and had a fantastic time with it. If you haven't checked it out, you should!

I'm always pitching ideas in the Rascal work discord and my colleagues keep liking them and now I have to actually do them.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Hello UK #TTRPG folks! I need your knowledge! What TTRPG stores do you know in the UK? I decided to create (the start of) a compilation of stores that stock TTRPGs. Have a look, and if you know one I've not found yet, please submit it through the form linked on the doc!

I'm not sure it's common knowledge but there are literally thousands and thousands of people employed in India working 9-5 to train LLMs to be "smart" and "safe". Tech bros laud it as a technological achievement but it's the same old story - just another way of hiding the real labor of people.

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Sometimes even the land deserves a little treat... OF BLOOD! Been meaning to write about this game for ages and finally did. Games are very good sometimes! Here's one!