As social media sights tend to do this one is making me a bit unhappy. I'm gonna disappear for a week to focus on my art n such. Catch me on discord 👋

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

While writing CASTLE AUTOMATIC for WORM, I've put my approach to dungeon keying to the test. NPCs are described last in the room's description but first in the details. This is because players *jump* at NPCs and tune out other descriptions. First, set the scene, then say who's in it.

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability. Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't. You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius. Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill. 1/2

@evlynmoreau.bsky.social I love everything about this. Excellent in concept and execution with a lot of character

I just had a great meeting with Tony from @plusoneexp.bsky.social about my upcoming project, Creature Capture Cards! Enjoy a cozy GM-less Monster Taming Tarot RPG either solo or with up to 4 players.

Hey, #ttrpg folks! I’ve now published 16 games to choose from! I’ve got a lot of solo games, but there’s also a few multiplayer games. I’ve got a variety of genres from cozy to horror, from strategy to vibes. If you like what I’ve written, consider leaving a rating/review! monroeroe.itch.io

i definitely picked this up from friends whose knowledge and bitterness both run deeper than my own, but i think "incurious" is probably the worst thing you can be right now. don't let exhaustion tick you over into entitlement or apathy; stay interested in other people and the world around you.

the harlam shake is not worth going mad over

its so interesting how vaccuous this nostalgia is. like they dont even know what to be nostalgic *for* — yolo hats? monster energy? walmart? teen wolf? just endless products that exist as symbols of consumption

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way) azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️ As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

The realization that if Floral Shoppe came out today, we'd be waxing nostalgic about Windows 7

The history of RPG design has a familiar right-hand path — what-if wargaming — and a more obscure left-hand path. Improv theater games, Surrealist and Situationist games, New Games, parlor games, storytelling games... back into the Renaissance and presumably further.

im gonna be drawing yuri every day in October or until i get comfortable drawing in this style

A bit of bleak hope for your dash: While the unreality and spectacle seems worse than even, in a very real sense we are seeing it fail. The rights project to warp reality around their disinformation of the past 10 years is crashing hard into economic and material reality

Not A Disease To Be Cured Taken at Exeter Pride 2025

Age 5: Hi! Wanna be friends? :D Age 14: Hi! Wanna be friends? :D Age 23: People will always leave. And as an adult, you have no place in others' lives. You need to steel your heart to survive the bleak reality of human condition: we're born alone, and die alone. Age 36: Hi! Wanna be friends? :D

Moooooooom! It's not bedrotting, it's bedMAXING! How do you even not know that

Today's mental health status: listening to highlife by daftpunk on repeat for 6 hours now

jesus fuck thank you all! if you were goimg to give money and didnt get the chance to please comsider instead supporting dahnoun mutual aid, a palestinian mutual aid organization led by gawazis providing on the ground support chuffed.org/project/1152...

We tpk'ed in my 5 year long 4e campaign I'm a part of. Paragon tier is a bitch. We're all rolling up new characters next week and getting ready to get our revenge on this dungeon.

hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ? i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme! gofund.me/394dc2e93

I need this to blow up now

Holy shit

What if in October we all intentionally try to slack off more instead

I've sat in my editing cave too long now. The time for playtesting approaches

THE MEME IS REAL

My fiance is singing lullabies to our cat in the other room; they think I'm already asleep. I love them so deeply

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘥.

Collected stretch goals for the forthcoming KS for "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...), for those who wanted to see it in once place. Remember to hit "notify me" – having more pre-launch followers does Algorithm stuff when a project goes live. (Graphics by @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social)

So anyway the favorite game I've written this year is out! jellyfishlines.itch.io/townies

(tucked into bed, perusing Ao3 on my phone) let's see, which fantasy do I wish to indulge tonight; soul mate au where the universe guarantees im loveable or Cinderella au where someone sees my value and rises me above my station? (I blow the tip of my old timey sleeping cap out of my face)

imagine if flipping a coin also had a batshit zachtronics-like system for building elaborate chain reactions around the result. now, imagine that same game had the jokes and thematic chutzpah of universal paperclips, bc it was written by the same person. now imagine there was a demo. well guess what

this is brilliant!!!

Oh hey! Straight Arrows looks really fucking good! Get it when it's available in stores! Also, check out my next thing with @ghosttropic.org: Sunlit Path www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Guy who thinks implication means turning into an imp

If you enjoyed a game on Itch, leave a comment! Honestly, it really brightens a creator's day. And it's a big encouragement for others who may be interested in getting that game. Itch hides reviews from the game page, so I find comments more useful in the long run. Like a game? Comment away!

Every time I see a transfem post a transition timeline on here it’s always this meme

Ready to sell some game's >:3

Mud Ghost Estate, a spooky tumbling tower TTRPG I made for #FolkloreJam 2024, is getting an updated version! Please give it a follow on Kickstarter! 👻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

Being able to stick a lossy compressed copy of the internet into my pocket is pretty cool. But the only possible use case for it would be when I didn't have Internet access, and possibly getting an incorrect answer is fine... Which is basically never