🌈 #SelfPromoSaturday 🌈 Hi I'm Frankie, a smol gremlin who makes and sells tabletop themed trinkets and treasures at tabletoptinkering.com, like this handmade mimic! Post your promos and remember that uplifting others is the best way to build your community 💜 No AI thanks #smallbusiness #ttrpg

Applications are open for our Mentoring Programme. If you're aged 16-18, live in London, Greater Manchester or Merseyside & have creative ambitions but don't know how to achieve them, this could be just the opportunity you need! Apply 👉 www.arts-emergency.o... Apps close on Mon 29 Sep so be quick!

Spear Maidens* Unite! Have just over a month to bring in $3575. Want to see this go fast? - Rally, Visibility - Big $ donations - Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators We can! @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Hi #TTRPG #OSR #DnD friends - I am looking for cartography/illustration work in September/October! If you're looking for maps for your adventure module, or for your home game, send me an email at [email protected]! My rates are available on my website which can be found in my bio!

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!

If you haven't played Promise Mascot Agency yet, what are you waiting for? It's a business sim/collectathon/fever dream about an ex-Yakuza trying to find redemption by revitalizing a forgotten community. Heartwarming stuff. If you HAVE played it, ignore the fact that I have 0 jobs in progress.

I've written about the absolutely brilliant The Trolley Solution by @bydandans.bsky.social. It's so funny, and packed with incredible genre spoofs. A real find. kotaku.com/the-trolley-...

Disillusioned with major crowdfunding platforms, @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io joins a small but growing bloc of tabletop creators trying literally anything else. “Everyone on crowdfunding, on both sides, are agreeing to maintain a weird kayfabe of cute creatives and benevolent patrons."

Thanks to Grace Sanders for interviewing me for Nottingham's legendary culture mag, @leftlion.bsky.social. Had great fun discussing #THIRST, Japanese spider-ladies, British river hags, writing for teens, and much more. leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

One of my favorite things to consider is that the pigeons we see in cities are abandoned information infrastructure

My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

Blogpost on "Why Melsonia Is Too Good for Crowdfunding Platforms Any More" www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/d...

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Inspired by someone on reddit, this is what I'm calling the "#daggerheart Moh Scale of GM Moves". Note that spotlighting an adversary (the Daggerheart equivalent of taking an NPC action) is only the fourth hardest move you can make.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I can finally share this cover I painted for @timmehjimmeh.bsky.social for the second volume of his webcomic, "Revenants"! Go find him in the dealers den at #SAFC2025 #SouthAfriFur! Watercolour, ink and salt. Glass cracks enhanced digitally by @thebeardlyben.art ✨

Mutual aid project in Gaza: Food, Water, and Cash Aid.

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Here's something a bit different. We've been reporting from Edinburgh to try to get to the bottom of a mystery in London. Princes Street is the Scottish capital's most famous shopping street — and it's gaining the *exact same* tatty gift shops as London. www.londoncentric.media/p/edinburgh-...

U.K. residents, could this be your chance to stop paypro censorship in the country? Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This campaign frame is a meta, digital, love letter to old mmos and made me weirdly nostalgic for the years that I used to play WoW. I love the idea of taking the digital isekai and exploring it in ttrpg format. More of this, please! #daggerheart #ttrpg

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

You are conducting a performance review of Gregg Pendleton, your direct report. The other party is the GenAI-powered software trying to replace you. Also, Gregg died last week. If you got 5 minutes, I'd love for you to play my free twine game about grief: For Gregg. barilleon.itch.io/for-gregg

Now LIVE on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon... Asher's Ridge is a GM-less, zero-prep #TTRPG for one to four players, inspired by Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Stranger Things. Connect threads of letter tiles and experience the unexplainable in the (dark?) heart of the Lake District.

UK readers! THE OBSIDIAN TOWER Kindle edition is on sale this month for 99p! It's about a Warden with broken magic, her spooky castle, the awful night that changes her life, and the dashing international magic troubleshooting squad that saves it... www.amazon.co.uk/Obsidian-Tow...

I'm going to be taking a step back from the editorial side of Rascal. With everything going on in the US right now, I found that I simply couldn't write about games any more. And that breaks my heart. I love this hobby, but I need to shift my energy towards helping my local community.

A match made in the waiting room 🏥 #twopointhospital #indiegames #managementgames #cozygames

Hi I spoke to @oneofmoo.bsky.social about Mythmatch, an intriguing puzzle game combining RPG and match-three elements with a slyly anti-techbro narrative www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

#RPGaDAY2025 was great fun! Thanks to everyone who joined in, I've enjoyed browsing the tag for inspiration. Here's my thread of all of my responses in August.

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Even by Rascal's high standards, this was a great article

I am delighted to announce that the Queer Nottingham Book launch will happen at Central Library on Sep 18th Therer will be author Q&A, slideshows, quiz, displays, stalls from Sparrows Nest and Notts Queer History Project, DJ and a bookshop! Ticket- fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/queer...

A while back, I was in a LP oneshot, and the organizer made a PC for me who was using the combat wheelchair. I am not a wheelchair user, and while I wasn't able to articulate it at the time, it bothered me a bit because I didn't feel like I could accurately or correctly portray that disability.

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It finally happened. My second ever 10 out of 10. The best Zelda game Nintendo never made. Here is my review of The Knightling:

Teach your friends how to punch NYAMちゃんに腰の入ったパンチを教えてあげましたっ☆

Now Live! 🏔 A tarot powered mountaineering RPG 🚠 Set on some of the world's deadliest peaks ⛰️ Inspired by your favourite outdoors documentaries 🐐These emojis feel a little pointless but I feel the need to inform everyone there ARE early bird discounts. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

We have standard acrylic dice available on our site but also some gorgeous premium dice! Metal rainbow dragon dice, bronze leaf motif dice, resin sets with encapsulated rainbows and even a set with a replica of the One Ring in. Have a look at www.tabletoptinkering.com #smallbusiness #ttrpg #dice

It absolutely sucks but I do understand why everyone is using ChatGPT now when this is the standard page viewing experience on the internet

I'm really digging these tutorial-style guides to the Sablewood Messengers by Rob Jon's Lair. Ideal for learning the mechanics of the #Daggerheart quickstart. Acts 1 and 2 are out and so good! youtu.be/7JV0QEon9Ok?...

One more week until launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon... Asher's Ridge is a GM-less TTRPG for 1-4 players. Make and play through a spooky TV show, with all the twists, turns, and red herrings you care for 🛸👻🧛‍♀️

World Central Kitchen got fired on in Gaza by Israel, had members killed, and went back anyway because people shouldn't have to starve to death. This is an amazing humble bundle.

What was the first video game that scared you? It doesn't have to be a horror game. Maybe you didn't even play it -- plenty of ads freaked me out as a kid.

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Wholesome granny witch D&D character commission for @melonwyvern.bsky.social ! #fantasyart #digitalart #illustration

Bluesky it has come to my attention that you like becoming horrifying to men and also rethinking classical stories about feminine monstrosity (harpies, sirens, gorgons, etc.) and wow GREAT news

#RPGaDay2025 Day 22: Ally - The Words We Left Behind is a duet time travel RPG about the butterfly effect and the impact of small changes. Traverse the time stream and rewrite history for your Faction, while your opposite attempts to counteract your Incursions across time and space.

Oh and BTW if you want to cover more TTRPGs and write about them, I am always open to to new writers wanting to be mentored as critics and journalists. @jellyfishlines.itch.io has been doing some great work for us covering indie titles