Gorgeous day for a hike! 🌵

Me...😶

Quick Announcement: PENITENT will be available for preorder on FEBRUARY 20. We will notify our mailing list of the exact time. This print run will be limited to 200 copies (signed & numbered). Learn more about Penitent and upcoming releases by signing up for our mailing list on lockhornsgames.com

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you like my fancy shirt? It's a tap costume for this weekend's show. 🎩

In case you missed it yesterday, two new games are up for preorder!

We have eleven badges left for Circle DC, April 10-12, 2026. We would love to see YOU there but you will need to grab a badge ASAP! tabletop.events/conventions/...

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Thanks so much to everyone who came out to our @sdhistcon.bsky.social Winter Quarters event yesterday! Incredible presentations. FYI, many of the demos and panels are available on our YouTube channel, including my interviews with @volko.bsky.social and Brian Train: www.youtube.com/@SDHistVideo...

Veteran Dice Tower reviewer Sam Healey resigns in wake of saying Alex Pretti, Renee Good were to blame for ICE killing them, after comments began impacting review giant’s annual pledge drive: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

I shared my thoughts about "Keep (your) politics out of (my) boardgames" with @danthurot.bsky.social for @wyrdscience.bsky.social

LIVE NOW: It's my birthday live stream! Let's hang out and play games! #boardgames Watch on YouTube and Twitch! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ruelgaviola Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ruelgaviola

I see we're at the 'arresting opposition journalists' phase of I Can't Believe It's Not Fascism!

Board Game Beat is officially launched & loaded with content...with more to come as I report on Spielwarenmesse! If you're into independent board game journalism—articles, videos, interviews, news, reviews & more—please check it out and share. www.wericmartin.com #boardgame #spielwarenmesse

It's just two days until our next online con, SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2026! You can buy badges here: tabletop.events/conventions/.... Check out some of our amazing events, including Brian Train talking with @andrewbucholtz.bsky.social about China's War and more: sdhist.com/incredible-e...

“How’s that boot taste?” “It tastes like freedom” is an incredible joke and I’m so MAD this dumdum said it 100% seriously. What a waste. I could have gotten triple digits with a shitpost like that.

The Dice Tower's silence on Sam Healy's fascist apologia is bad — hot take, I know — but it's also in line with this hobby's paradoxical insistence that games are simultaneously art and apolitical.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

While I struggle with my very conflicted feelings about industry folks who are "just about the games" speaking up right now while they've been "politics free" through so many harmful moments... I'll choose to amplify someone who has consistently supported marginalized people.

I don't like being this vulnerable in public but I also felt like I had to say something. youtu.be/1qlEn8ob2ns

TD/DR I am matching your donations to MN response or immigrant rights groups in your area. I've got 352.08 left from what might be my last royalty payment for my game Votes for Women. Send me a screenshot of your donation and a link and I'll match it. Let's do something good together.

There’s almost exactly ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your unpublished board game design to this year’s Cardboard Edison Award! cardboardedison.com/award

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

“Videos contradict the federal government’s description of the shooting.” Every goddamn time.

The plans for the future of @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social have me so excited. Arcs expansionS? Plural? Magic school murder mystery? Grand geopolitics with @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social art? Not to mention more resources for @wehrlegig.games ! www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

IT’S HERE. Going Analog’s Games of the Year episode (it’s still 2025, right?), and we were joined by @candidrum.bsky.social 🎉 Are we SO RIGHT? What did we miss? www.goinganalogshow.com/article/317/...

Finished my daily calls (voice mails this morning) begging my reps to not fund the group that could haul me off the street with impunity for "looking Asian". Now to my regular begging people on social media to please make the calls too. It takes 5 mins. Get over your anxiety - people are dying.

This was so fun! 💖🐎

SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2026 is in 16 days! Here are some of the amazing events to expect at this online convention, featuring @markherman54.bsky.social, @volko.bsky.social, @djackthompson.bsky.social, @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social, @danbullock.bsky.social, and many more! sdhist.com/exciting-eve...

this is a verbatim conversation I had with my husband last night

I love it when there's Tagalog in an episode of The Pitt

In this episode I review the board game version of Slay the Spire. Which I’m playing right now on my lunch break!

YIKES. Upper Deck (Marvel Legendary) just announced a CCG using the Harry Potter license. Fans of UD are rallying against this decision. Like the CGE situation last year, I’m asking for your help. Join us. Share your disgust and frustration, and help us push UD to retract their awful decision. 🎲✂️

Happy birthday to me - here is my party/storytelling game Bad Medicine, available to purchase once more! www.thegamecrafter.com/games/bad-me...

Our first episode of 2026! 🎉

Hey, guess what: buriedgiantstudios.com

HI WORLD! Buried Giant Studios is a new company formed by Cole Wehrle and Kyle Ferrin 🏠 Learn more here: buriedgiant.com

I have an important announcement. Kyle and I are going to be leaving Leder Games to start a new venture. It has been an honor to spend the past eight years working with them. We wish them all the best of luck, and cannot wait to show you what we are working on next. ledergames.com/blogs/news/a...

From the same designer & publisher who did that Māori game a couple years back, never talked to any Māori, and disregarded any complaints about representation & appropriation on Kickstarter while other white dudes leapt to his defense, all while deflecting with dubious claims of historical accuracy

While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?) www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Awesome! Looking forward to heading to the Twin Cities and San Diego, of course!

The joys of teaching the hashtag #ccmf to someone not in the board game world 😂🚂

Today's fun Reddit post. BSG forever! www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

NEW POST: 2025 was the best of times, sometimes the worst of times, but there definitely was a lot of board gaming. Here are the 10 games I played for the first time in 2025. www.boardgamemeeplelady.com/2025/12/29/t...

Rooftop brunching in DTLA at Cara Cara. Of course I ordered an ube rum drink. 💜

Visiting the USS Iowa!

Happy holidays, everyone!