As Pratchett said:

Morning

Funny moment last night at kids D&D: They raided a tomb in a graveyard, and several skeletons popped out. The party immediately set to work on them with axes and swords. After a little bit one of our youngest members asked "did these skeletons attack us first?" Me: "No" Kid: "....are we being evil?"

slightly diminish a game. Hugo's House of Discomfort

There is a really interesting discussion happening on bsky about GM burden. I wasn't sure I was understanding it until I read a clarification about "what happens when your group can't play bc the GM is stressed." I realized this isn't a problem I care about at all haha. It doesn't apply to me anyway

As a fun exercise I've turned some Helldivers 2 enemies into All-Out Apocalypse enemies. nickdrawthing.bearblog.dev/design-exerc...

He’s asking you, do you want sugar or milk? ☕️ #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #spooky #cozy

Meet Candi! 🍬🍭🍡 #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #spooky #cozy

Another pumpkin girl 🎃 🍁🍂🧡 #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #spooky #cozy

She has for cutest eyes 🥹🧡 #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #spooky #cozy

I know I'm super late, but I really wanted to start the year with a drawing of a horse

As a fun exercise I've turned some Helldivers 2 enemies into All-Out Apocalypse enemies. nickdrawthing.bearblog.dev/design-exerc...

hmmmm?

I have an idea for my kid's birthday, and a month to prepare it. I want to buy some sonotube, extension cords, a smoke machine, and a battery bank. I want to build a crashed space ship the kids need to repair to escape the planet.

My largely unexamined hot take for 2026: point crawl while you're on the road, hexcrawl when you stray off the path.

Happy New Year, everyone. I just published the round-up for the December 2025 RPG Blog Carnival, with the theme "The End Times And After." Thanks to everyone for participating, and let me know if I missed yours. advantageonarcana.bearblog.dev/december-202...

One day I'll buy the notebook that fixes me and then you'll see. You'll all see.

Oh my god, I just learned that @tinstargames.bsky.social has died. Many of us knew Steve: his drive to create TTRPGs like Relics, his activism and scathing criticism of bad actors, his many game reviews. The Aussie gaming community and the hobby at large has lost another prolific talent. 💔

Every once in a while I make the mistake of thinking "why don't I draw on the subway more?" Then I get on the subway and it's winter and everything is wet, I'm overburdened with backpack and coat, and there's only one available seat and it has Mystery Liquid on it, and EVERY seat smells like asses.

"Better a pig than a fascist"

I've decided that this year I would like to run a minimum of two games a month. I want to end 2026 with at least 25 sessions under my belt. I'm slowly adding more people to my west marches game, and would like to run other stuff, too.

Being on our best behavior is the biggest problem we fucking have, actually

Played some ttrpgs last night and I discovered that there are some downsides to simultaneous initiative when there are like 12 NPCs in a scene. Remembering what they're all doing and resolving them all in a timely fashion is... A LOT haha

Guess what? knight shetchess 🗡

Ah, my favourite Sword & Sorcery hero: Godzilla.

I'm late to the party I'm sure, but I've just discovered these exist and I want to put them on literally everything. My god they're delicious.

The vehicle stats! I like drawing crusty cars.

End the year with a free game! Thank you for an amazing year, Excited for the next! Let's keep on truck'n!

Happy new year, friends! Unhappy new year, foes!

also a tiny mech:) 🖤🖤🖤

I wrote a simple adventure outline for testing my vehicle combat rules for All Out Apocalypse and spent some time condensing them onto one page just for fun. I need to write all the vehicle stats still. (If you are a person with plans to test these rules with me soon, maybe don't read all the text)

Reading an article from my hometown newspaper and found this quote. Totoro WOULD say that!

Over the holidays @nickdrawthing.bsky.social and I were talking about finding public domain or Creative Commons-licensed images for #ttrpg blog posts, so I wrote about it: advantageonarcana.bearblog.dev/how-i-find-p...

Merry Christmas! Let’s go kill Skeletrex

My wife knows me well

I like #TTRPGs with simple systems and a lot of tables and lists of stuff. I like stuff lists. Idea generators. That's why I do games like #GOZR. Sci-fantasy. Robots, wizards, and ruins. I had a hell of a lot of fun making this stupid game. I really hope I can return to it some day and do another.

there used to be beauty in the world

Having finished the Hobbit, we've moved onto LoTR as a bedtime story. We've reached Rivendell, and this time I gave Gloin a rolling Scottish accent (inconsistent from my treatment in the Hobbit). After a few pages of this my 8yr old says "I wonder why he sounds so different in this one."

Mystery always works

Perchta humors a Straggele with a waltz ❄️✨

A solo test session of my All-Out Apocalypse vehicular combat rules: nickdrawthing.bearblog.dev/solo-all-out...

My brother @nickdrawthing.bsky.social and I were talking about factions in ttrpgs the other day (though this surely goes for any worldbuilding project) and something came up that I suppose might not be widely understood: One way of characterizing a faction is by deciding on a controversy within it.

definitely worth a reskeet not least because it was later edited to better match the plots of the Jackson film versions

Wrote some vehicular combat rules for my AllOut Apocalypse game. If any mutuals want to playtest these with me sometime, lemme know! https://nickdrawthing.bearblog.dev/allout-apocalypse-vehicles/

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev