My message to the ttrpg world tonight is use .tif files. Please stop sending me .png files that are in RGB.

Last two days to back this beautiful and important game by @jmstar.bsky.social and @cmichpress.bsky.social - "The Blue Way" They have an excellent educator's bundle, and it is a game you (and your students, and everyone) should play at least once. Take a look: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

This is cool news! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Oven-finished ribeye, smoked Gouda mashed potatoes, roasted balsamic tomatoes, and Asian pineapple cole slaw for July 4. Turned out pretty good.

26Q2 sales reports sent to 249 member-publishers. Many thanks to our customers, publishers, and staff!

Proof copies of the zines came in, and while there are a few tweaks to make, I’m super thrilled with them. A dear friend of mine, with fun handwriting, came over to demo a couple of entries.

Do you have any Quiet Year maps that you've either recorded or clung onto? Would you be willing to potentially have your map be included as part of a book called Speculative Game Design by Mary Flanigan and Laurel Carney, to be released by MIT Press? If yes, reply with a picture of that map!

So, uh, just to be clear: birthright citizenship is for everyone, not just immigrants. It's just that most of us in the US haven't ever had to think about it in our own lives. Take it away, and what replaces it?

I co-sign everything @lordhuffnpuff.allfatherproductions.com says here about the difficulty—and necessity—of teaching game studies in an era without physical media.

Proud to be the 44th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Chancers! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Proud to be the 293rd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

Appx. N Jam 2026 by @dankdungeons.bsky.social and @jorphdan.bsky.social is starting next week! So I wrote something about the Appendix N and why TTRPG can be weirder. I wasn't expecting it to be a manifesto, but here we are 😂 afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/appendix-n-m...

Share your megadungeon maps people. Show how it all works with pictures!

The historian Gordon Wood, who died yesterday after being run over by a motorist in East Providence, was my dissertation advisor. He was 92. Here are some memories of him. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gordo...

We've heard for a while how much Diamond Comics' theft of consigned products, combined with exclusivity deals, was impacting @greenroninpub.bsky.social . This it the first report I'm aware of on @paizo.com impacts. TL;DR. Millions of dollars of loss & now layoffs.

Pathfinder publisher Paizo announced it has to lay off 12 employees and limit its organized play endeavors due to costs incurred by the money it lost after Diamond Comics, which helped distribute books to retail stores, went bankrupt. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

Today’s return to office after the UK Game Expo fun: 270+ emails to go through. Sheesh people, I was only gone a little over a week. 😂😭🫠

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

Academic research means reading 1 article, which leads you to a book and 6 other articles, which lead you to 17 articles and 4 book chapters, and oops now you’re an expert in the 1990s feminist criticism of Taylorist management philosophy, a thing you didn’t know existed until 3 days ago.

Sitting in Schiphol airport in Amsterdam trying to stay awake for my connection to Birmingham, England. Heading to the UK Game Expo for the first time. #cantsleeponplanes

It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

If universities are being gutted by federal authorities and are undertaking cuts and austerity to sustain their existence, maybe instead they should spend every remaining dollar on workers and the communities they’ve claimed to serve until there’s nothing left

Truly some of my most-worn items of nerd clothing, y’all. voidmerch.threadless.com

Sam Araya's art is so perfect for this project. Surreal and horrifying.

Back on it as I tackle the Rainy City ( @superheronecro.bsky.social ) / @morkborg.com zine adventure mashup I’ve been working on for 4 years off and on. Say hello to the draft spread for the shroom Cellar. Mostly mucking about with color while I key the map all analog.

Back on it as I tackle the Rainy City ( @superheronecro.bsky.social ) / @morkborg.com zine adventure mashup I’ve been working on for 4 years off and on. Say hello to the draft spread for the shroom Cellar. Mostly mucking about with color while I key the map all analog.

What is The Blue Way? Learn more at the prelaunch page link in our bio or go to www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... #TheBlueWayGame #jasonmorningstar #samaraya #backerkitcrowdfunding

In Amberspire, you'll build a city on top of an enormous, abandoned mausoleum. So, naturally, we needed a historian's eye for the game's writing and worldbuilding. Here's how Holly used micro- and macro-history in Amberspire's narrative design: https://lunardivision.net/micro-and-macro-history/

As a follow-up to last week's post about writing modules, I wrote another post on writing adventures for Cairn, and how that might be different than other OSR systems. newschoolrevolution.com/writing-modu...

I would like to hear from folk, either here or via DM, who have launched TTRPG zine projects on ZineQuest as well as outside of ZQ on comparisons between how those projects went, largely to assess if the benefits of partaking in ZQ outweighed the platform economy "crabs in a bucket" effect it'd have

This has been a long time in the making, but over the moon to finally share this fan-art for the incredible @dicecompany.bsky.social. ~ The Stearling ~ #myart | #Dicecompany | #Dungeonsanddragons I #D&D I #TTRPG I #Art | #Podcast

For all new followers; Hi! My name is Chris. I’m the guy behind TTRPG Insider, a newsletter all about games like D&D, Call of Cthulhu, and all the indie TTRPG projects inbetween. I post news about that here alongside occasional personal commentary. Newsletter is at ttrpginsider.news

a|state is the acclaimed 2nd edition of this classic British dystopian scifi RPG. Using the Forged in the Dark rules & presenting innovations used in the recent Blades '68, a|state casts your characters as Troublemakers trying to improve life in your corner of The City. handiwork.games/games/astate

My game got canceled tonight which is always unfortunate, HOWEVER, silver linings, it freed up some time to look over some new games that came to my house in recent weeks! When I can, I like to read new games over and make notes on mechanics I think are cool (ie, see what I can STEAL SHAMELESSLY)

I'm looking for folks to staff my booth at cons throughout the year. They'd need to be familiar with Cairn, obviously. DM me or email [email protected] if you're interested and I'll send you a form to fill out.

Happy Friday! I'm lucky to be working on a lot of exciting projects right now, but the coolest one has to be Plotweaver. The system powering the Cosmere RPG, Plotweaver is an awesome, flexible ruleset for a range of heroic roleplaying. We want this to be the best system ever for OGL creators. 1/🧵

The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely! www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...

RPGs I’ve run since Jan 2025: Traveller (2022 edition), Night’s Black Agents, Skeleton System (homebrew for the Rainy City), Delta Green, and Call of Cthulhu 7E. RPGs I hope to run at some point in the rest of 2026: Coriolis The Great Dark, Twilight 2000 4E, Mythic Bastionland, and Shadowdark.

It's 1400. You've got a cartload of eels to sell in London. Time to get rich! Hold up there, hoss! London charges import taxes on your eels. You've got to pay The Man: Murage fees: 10 d./1000 eels Customs: 2 d./cart THEN you can start raking in those sweet eel profits! 🗃️🧪

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

First world problems: after having worked out this evening for almost an hour thirty, I now need to get some food in me. But, I’m on a new diabetes drug so I have no appetite whatsoever (three guesses on what it is), so nothing sounds good. Oh poor me, right?!? 😢🙄

We've partnered with five our fellow tabletop roleplaying game publishers to bring an amazing deal on @humblebundle.com. SpringFling 2026 is a library of six physical #TTRPG core rulebooks, including the award-winning Age of Vikings.

As of tomorrow, Cairn Press is live! Bring me your modules, your supplements, your hacks - as long as they are Cairn adjacent, I'll take consider it! More soon. cairnpress.ink

As Keep the Faith nears our warehouses, we are excited to share some recent images from the Theology of Play Convention (TOPCON) hosted by Stony Point Center where participants played the game! (Thanks to @gregisonthego.bsky.social for the pictures!)

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

I try not to say "this is required reading" because that gets old really quick, but I genuinely think this is great advice that will help make you an absolute gem to work with. You'll get better layout, timelines, and collaboration by following this advice. Give it a read if you can.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

#TTRPG Designers, players, & related nerds: @ttrpgcataloging.bsky.social is a group of Library & Information Science MA students are working on a research project focused on improving cataloging for TTRPGs — unbelievably important work! They’re seeking participants for interviews.

For more than a hundred centuries, the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne. The master of mankind by the will of the gods. A rotting carcass writhing with power, the Carrion Lord for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day. "The Immortal King" Digital Greyscale