Bruno Faidutti’s ruthless role-selection mini-masterpiece spent a lot of time on our table during our heavy Fantasy Flight Games era. It is hard to pull a building permit for your city when you got a shiv in your ribs. #fantasyflightgames #citadels

Check it out, my Cartographer's name is Stafford Airbiscuit and his coat of arms is a butt that is farting. This and other accomplishments (Citadels in retrospective, Thunderbolt Apache Leader session) recorded in Episode 116. 👇 #soloboardgame #flipandwrite #podcast

One of the reasons I just broadcast here is because I need as much of the rest of my life as possible to coax memory in my own universe of books and games because I'm a freak and I'm tired and crossing the line into this century still feels like a colossal misstep #soloboardgame #books

Comancheria First Look + Chaos in the Old World Retrospective + I Try to Put Motion Man on Your Indie Throwback Playlist Breakup Gaming Society Episode 115 is here 👇 #boardgames #hiphop #fantasyflightgames

Get a load of @partymeeple.bsky.social's collection of Fantasy Flight Silver Series boxes. He's played 'em all. He can rank 'em. Keep an eye out on Breakup Gaming Society's growing Fantasy Flight Games retrospective in the future. Link to that is down there 👇

Chatted up one of the co-designers of Mix Up Fairy Tales with @liberludorum.com and learned how the concept for this family card game formed when the designer's two daughters got their hands on the prototype artwork from The British Library. Interview's down there 👇

Chaos in the Old World joins Arkham Horror, Tannhauser and Space Hulk: Death Angel in my growing Fantasy Flight golden age retrospective, including supplemental interviews with @mattthr.bsky.social and @shelfstablecast.bsky.social's Kenny Katayama Nothing sang like the brawl in that box 👇

"One cuppable butt in the night would be the rondure of one perfect word in the manifold unasked questions of the savior’s tongue." Work continues in the basement of @goodluckpress.co's Dwelling solo journaling RPG. Latest session (audio and written, whatever's your flavor) down there 👇

Metal Queens ov Skull Mountain RPG (@liberludorum.com) + My Magician Friend Mods Tarot (@phelyx.bsky.social) + Dwelling Solo RPG Session (@goodluckpress.co) + Keith Murray's Here to Make a Dollar Out of 15 Cents #rpg #tarot #hiphop #ttrpg Episode's down there 👇

If your Thrash stats feel neglected these days, join @liberludorum.com and I for a chat about Metal Queens ov Skull Mountain, a throwback with a straight-ahead d20 system designed to help you tell legendary stories at chugging tempo.

I wanted to know why Phelyx Hopkins was already ~500 hours in to the making of his own tarot deck. He talked to me about why he felt the need to hand-make a woodblock-style tarot mod — a deep-dive into tarot’s historical importance as a storytelling game for everyday folk. 👇 #tarot

Congrats to @phelyx.bsky.social, winner of Breakup Gaming Society's indie game bundle, including the fine work of @grumpyspidergames.bsky.social, @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social, @long-tail-games.bsky.social and @cjeggett.co.uk (who, along with Mary McGroary, comprises Ada Press).

Get rekt, Trish, Zeke, and Baghead. Ava triumphs in Final Girl: A Knock at the Door. Also: Scrabble with The Moms, Fantasy Flight retrospective with @shelfstablecast.bsky.social's Kenny Katayama, and a can't miss Latifah remix I want you to hear. 👇

After The Moms packed the set back into the drawstring bag, her imploring post-game question IDed the real opponent at the table: the doldrums of forgetting. “I need to ask you a question,” she said. I braced for unwanted family revelation. “Did you let me win?” Rest of the story's down there 👇

I picture a party banner loosening at one end in a room full of the slain. You can just make out the text before it folds over on itself: WELCOME BACK FUCKER. Ava just earned her stripes in Final Girl: A Knock at the Door.

The way the three killers at the bottom run through that house like a six-legged threshing machine is quite impressive. Final Girl: A Knock at the Door is underway. More on this in Episode 113, dropping at end of March. #finalgirl #soloboardgame #boardgamepodcast

Track of the Week guest @tismey.bsky.social came armed with more cuts than we could fit in the segment, so here they all are and you're welcome. www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/hip-hop...

I use four monikers on the mic and can't pick one today. Want to help? Indicate your preference in the replies. I will use it in Episode 112, which is dropping tonight before bed. • Colonel Hector Bravado • The Lord Chief Rocka #1 • The Great Unclean One • Inquisitor Cinnamon Apple Cheesedick

Got together with Human Intelligence co-founder Kira Cleveland and Kenny of Shelf Stable. Talked AI, curation, and trusting your human senses, memory, and objects of fascination on the tabletop.

For my Chicago people who love supporting indie game designers: The Indie Boardgame Showcase is stopping at Big Star in Wrigleyville on Sunday, March 8. 15 designers will be demoing their work! Use my code (BREAKUP) and get 50% off your ticket at the Quirk Events website. 👇 #chicago #boardgames

Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen can frolic in my pickle water. The world they’re imagining sucks. Instead come with me to Budokan in 1978, where two ninjas have to hop out of a time machine and slaughter Cheap Trick. I played @ninjaborg.com with the creators and recorded it. Link's down there 👇

Can campy, violent ninjas from an indie RPG help protect small creator rights against AI? It's certainly worth a roll of the d12. Salute to @rugosekohn.com and @liberludorum.com, makers of @ninjaborg.com and the first tabletop creators to certify their work as Human Intelligence®. More info 👇

The little thrills: Caroming through early '90s hip hop stuff on YouTube Music and stumbling across the origin of that mean, punchy vocal sample from Death in Vegas' "Dirt" It's Shanté.

Giving away some cool indie tabletop stuff I acquired from @grumpyspidergames.bsky.social, @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social, @long-tail-games.bsky.social and Ada Press. Ep. 110 has game descriptions and how to enter. 👇

I'm listening to "Heatwave (JiggyJoe Remix)" by Skeewiff & Pedigree Cuts. This beat is like medicine to me. What do you have on tonight?

Talked to @liberludorum.com and @rugosekohn.com about their freewheelin' NINJA BORG #ttrpg and then to @mattthr.bsky.social about the Golden Age of Fantasy Flight Games — and how his path into that Ameritrash paradise differed from mine. Link to the audio's down there 👇

Step 1: The box lands in the driveway. Feel the heft of that box. Holy moly, it’s a two-hander! Curl it every morning, for three to four days. Three sets of 10. I finally got in my first solo play of SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. #boardgames #seti #soloboardgames Episode link 👇

Found a two-page letter from 1967. A destroyer commander deemed my Dad a complete fuckup. Audio's below 👇

I held on for the whole ride, wondering if God took Kirk's vision away at age two so he could show you what sunlight on the trees looks like in a valley where a clamorous parade of the dispossessed honks and wails its suffering and joy like the culminating scene in some magical realist folk opera.

Ep. 107 includes the Ryuutama and Dwelling RPGs — and the first of my Fantasy Flight retrospective, starting with Space Hulk: Death Angel, which I still break out multiple times a year. The FF catalog set the rhythm of our Saturday nights for years. Episode link below 👇

RIP Guru

"I was her boyfriend, so it was my job to keep those copper eyes flashing with the right fuel mix. The deal was I kept her high so I could show her off. I kept me high so I wouldn’t think too much about the deal." My Dwelling solo RPG Session 6 is in the bag. Link below. Has sex and drug content.

Learning about Ryuutama with @liberludorum.com turned out to be the pastoral intermission I needed from the world. For 19 minutes, we talked about the rascally adventures bards can have in the Japanese countryside. Link to interview's down there 👇 #ryuutamarpg #indiettrpg #podcast

Had the pleasure of talking trick-taking with the brilliant and generous Josh Buergel about The Fox in the Forest and the candlelit game of Knockout Whist with his kids that got him thinking about his next design. Also, he holds forth on DJ Q-Bert to great effect. 👇Hear our talk with link below

All three of these stacks went into my neighbor JoJo's car last night. I'm putting my house on the market and these can't come along. Do you have memories or stories of any of these titles? Put them in the comments, I'd love to hear yours. (Complete list with link below) 👇

In Wyoming, my man Fritz played his first-ever game of Final Girl (Killer from Tomorrow). The same weekend, I got my Madness in the Dark movie back out. I interviewed him before and after our games. Hear our talk with link in comments 👇 #FinalGirl #Podcast #SoloBoardGame

Let's say you've got a Thanksgiving-week email campaign going out for a pretty good-size CPG. Here's how you message and segment that: SUBJECT LINE: hows it goin BODY: im drunk as hell LISTS: All

Congrats to @notinventedhere.bsky.social for generating the winning name — The Icebox — for @skrrtvonnegut.bsky.social's cocktail. You're getting some neat stuff in the mail. Recipe and official announcement — including a few clever runners-up who made it a tough call — with link in comments 👇

I interviewed @liberludorum.com about the grisly near future of Lichoma, the visual triumph of the artifact itself, and what you can expect as a resident of The Wen. #ttrpg #dystopia #interview #tabletop Listen to Walt talk this thing with me👇

When somebody supports the show, sometimes a gem will pop up outta that '80s comics box. Bet you can guess which one this donor picked. #comicbooks #giveaway #podcast #boardgames

Excited to once again be working with @printinkling.bsky.social on developing a boffo new wearable for Breakup Gaming Society. It won't be for sale, but it will be part of the — if I may say so — inspired small gift package I send to people who follow through on the Donate page. Stay tuned.

Your stocking stuffer and problem is solved. Give Midnight Market a look and shop some small game makers.

Started a living post at Breakup Gaming Society where capsules and links for all my #indie #ttrpg interviews with @liberludorum.com will live. Episode 104, dropping in six days, will feature a chat about the soul-flensing and stunning Lichoma.

I'd never seen anything like Cave Evil when it hit my radar in 2011. An utter commitment by three friends who simply had to design the dungeon wargame they wanted to play. I interviewed co-designer and fellow Coloradan Nate Hayden about the decision to reprint it in 2024. Interview's down there 👇

"Once your eyes map a face in the night boughs, you’ll start searching it out whether you want to see it or not; mine is a giant or golem with a steam shovel jaw." - From Session 5 of my ongoing work with Dwelling, a solo RPG for ghosts from @goodluckpress.co Listen or read: link in comments 👇

Alula, a hidden land that reveals itself to travelers in the Faraway card game, is coming to grips with an influx of wiry fintech people in Mercedes-Benz sprinter vans, bringing with them what might be the modern analog to blankets infected with smallpox: podcasts. I reviewed 8 of them 👇

My man @skrrtvonnegut.bsky.social puts his homemade plum liqueur over an ice cube 1:1 with rye or blended whiskey and a preserved cherry garnish. Help name this cocktail. Submit your name ideas in the comments. At end of Nov. Skrrt and I pick a winner, who gets some Breakup Gaming Society swag.

I wrote down some of my favorite sentences from J.G. Ballard's debut novel, The Drowned World (1962). Hit the link below if you want to hear me read my Drowned World simile collection (and hear plot spoilers) 👇 #sciencefiction #jgballard

Use a maqui's most powerful action and they may end up tied to a chair somewhere, coughing up teeth and secrets. I contend with the evocative mechanical dilemma at the heart of Resist! from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social in Episode 101 of Breakup Gaming Society. 👇Listen with link in comments

Well... this is what I get for devoting my energy to a dying industry. My department has been made redundant and I'm out of a job. If you know anybody who's looking for an emotionally dysfunctional super-genius, tell 'em you know a guy.