I’ve been nominated for a Bloggie!! But more importantly, so have a huge amount of other cool writers. Do yourself a service and read the incredible pieces that have been collected here, and get ready to vote for your favorites when voting starts in 1 week!

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itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... The NO ICE IN MINNESOTA bundle is up. There's a lifetime's worth of good games in this! If you submitted something or just want to shout something out, reply here and let's reshare it and spread the word on this thing.

Just wrapped up our first village in @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social The Low Cantrefs One of the kids was a sorceror, and he made the nearby mountain explode. The ghost of a dead brother took over the corpse of a winter traveler and tried to re-integrate with his family...

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Wrote this as part of a game design consultation follow-up report, and I'm feeling really happy with how these words fit together.

#TTRPGCastingCall! I might have an opening for a Black player for my session this Saturday at 1P EST 👀 pls hmu if you have time and interest!

The store is closed, but there are games to be played with good people! Tonight @madelancholy.bsky.social @joandark.com & Jacob from @smilingmythos.bsky.social join @wildwoodgames.bsky.social to play Heaven In The Dust! The perfect game for a day exploring how things fall apart. 1/2

A broad collection of ttrpgs! Surprising and wonderful things!

Just one more day to get this showcase bundle of 8 very cool games from the Playtest Zero community at 50% - includes work from me, @andrewgillis.bsky.social, @cutestpatoot.itch.io, @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social, @kobanya.bsky.social, and @yanahn.bsky.social. itch.io/b/3476/showc...

I haven't mentioned it in a while, so... You can play my latest game We Contain Solitudes! It's a 2 player rpg about troubled souls trapped in a time loop. I'm really proud of it, and I think it does some very novel and compelling things. sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...

Goblin Week 2026 0 — The Fool - For this year's Goblin Week I'm starting a Goblin Tarot deck — I'll post the first seven this week, and the rest as I make them on Patreon. patreon.com/helveticablanc - #goblinweek #goblinweek2026

It's really exciting to see the design minds of Andrew Gillis and Luke Jordan working on Apocalypse World: Dark Ages with the Bakers' blessings. Can't wait to see the game.

I was a player in this game- it was a blast. Dark Ages* is such a fun twist on AW, and Andrew and Luke are doing really exciting stuff building on the foundations they’ve established. Some of the most fun I’ve had with magic, and one of the most tragic characters I’ve been honored to play

I meant to do this last week but time sure is slippery at the moment. Here's my playtest report for AW-Dark Ages. We've been playing, adapting, and re-writing this game for a few months at this point, and we just wrapped a 6ish session playtest with some new folks

I've been playing through this and it rips

If you missed out on the Showcase Zero 2025 stream this past weekend, the video archive is now up on YouTube: youtu.be/AYEMtWOthM8?.... Check out some cool presentations by @cutestpatoot.itch.io @alexrineh.art @yanahn.bsky.social @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social @22to22.bsky.social!

If you haven't checked it out yet, there's a bundle going on until the end of the month for games made by Playtest Zero community members, including two of mine!

Meanwhile, on a personal note, most nights this past week I have dreamed of riding bicycles, and even playing bike polo. I wish my sleeping mind would stop tormenting me with this shit.

The brewery is a workers co-op, and the zoo has weird magically docile animals. The brewers union routinely inspects pubs and clubs to make sure they sell only approved union-made alcohol.

I have one district in my fantasy city that I don't know what to do with...

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

This game is so cool I’m so excited to see more of it

More playtest reports! On Thursday I brought a new implementation of character creation for Eutopea's Wake to Playtest Zero. This new model leads with a set of questions for the player to answer: How did you come to be in Eutopea? How do you earn your living? Did you fight in World War I?

Today I ran the first session of @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social low fantasy coming of age pbta game, and had a wonderful time with it. The kids made friends with a strange half-starved man and went up a cursed mountain with him and they all came back wrong.

when you're playing OSR you're doing everything you can to pretend there's no system because the system is the thing that kills your character

I got to playtest this game, and it was great!

This event while on Valentines day is also meant to showcase Black characters getting to experience all the facets of love be it platonic, familial, or romantic. Don’t think you have to run just a romantic related love story. It’s just gotta be Blackity Black Black Black ✊🏿

Look, @ckunzelman.bsky.social it's one thing for you to psychically get me while I'm listening to your podcast and folding my laundry, but you don't have to gloat about it when you do it.

My Game We Contain Solitudes is part of the Showcase Zero bundle. So many cool games come through Playtest Zero, it's a space worth watching if you are interested in ttrpgs as a medium, and want to see new and innovative games!

I have finally finished the cover art the book I'm working on! I'm really satisfied with it~ Inspired by the Girl By Moonlight TTRPG by @andrewgillis.bsky.social, with thanks to them for allowing me to use the subtitle and inspiring me so~ The magical girls are looking ✨FIERCE! ✨ #oc #art #booksky

We're kicking off the Playtest Zero 2026 with our annual #ShowcaseZero event for 2025! We’ll have @cutestpatoot.itch.io @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social @alexrineh.art @yanahn.bsky.social & @22to22.bsky.social talking about their games and process, live in 5 minutes at twitch.tv/ehronlime

We also have a Showcase Zero 2025 bundle live now on itch.io/b/3476/showc.... Get 8 incredible games from @kobanya.bsky.social @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social @andrewgillis.bsky.social @cutestpatoot.itch.io @yanahn.bsky.social and me at over 50% off!

We are kicking off the 2026 Playtest Zero season with our annual #ShowcaseZero event for 2025. We’ll have several gamemakers showcase works from last year and talk about their process. Watch it live this weekend at twitch.tv/ehronlime on 9 Jan 2026 6 pm PST/9 pm EST, 10 Jan 2026 10 am (GMT+8)!

It's pay what you want, so really there's nothing stopping you from playing this with a friend.

This year I put out We Contain Solitudes, a duet rpg that I am very proud of. sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s... Next year I am aiming to finish, if not publish, Eutopea's Wake, a new project. A sort of alternate history 1930s morality/ideology game.

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There are so many industry friends I just won't get to meet in the next few years despite them living in our neighbouring country It has me heartbroken some days. It's genuinely too unsafe. Please bear that in mind as you plan events in the USA. So many more of us legitimately can't go now

Today we had our Girl by Moonlight final episode! It was such a great experience 🩷 thanks @andrewgillis.bsky.social and @evilhat.bsky.social I made the magical keys for my magical Girls 💫 it was such a special ending for our campaign, Love locks the Abyss!

Forged in the Dark innovators thread! Who's doing cool new stuff with the FitD model? (promote your own or someone else's). I'll start: Slugblaster, by @wilkiescandylab.com is a smart hack of the core systems, tweaked in just the right way to fit the more light-hearted adventure style of the game.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

A Timeless Gift is many things. It's the bridge between season 2 and season 3, a deeper look into the cost and responsibilities of power, a chance for me to be weird, and it's my GMing debut for Bloom and Blight! Please listen and enjoy as a cast of new characters faces their final test.

The BDS movement is partnering with @nogamesforgenocide.com. Together we can help end Microsoft’s technological support of Israel illegal apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza. Sign the pledge to boycott Microsoft’s Xbox. Read more: loom.ly/1FQEDiA

Palestinians call on everyone to sign the Boycott Xbox pledge today. Viable gaming alternatives exist. Genocide is not a game. Go to nogamesforgenocide.com to sign the pledge and for more details on how to take action.

I made GBM so that people could do mecha racing magical girl stories. (I never would have come up with this concept and it rules, check out Bloom & Blight!)

One week left in our Anniversary Sale! To celebrate 20 years in the business we're giving you 20% off everything in our webstore. All our games, dice, board games and more - even some overstock of limited crowdfunding rewards. Get a great game (or a holiday gift) today: evilhat.com/roleplaying-...

Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift. If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below. 🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟

Harvest is a "beautiful cursed woodcut of a game" and Rascal writer Thomas Manuel's game of the year. GMless diceless period folk horror, it revolves around a golden paradise off Britain's coast preserved by generational ritual sacrifice, and which you'll choose: die for the island, or kill for it.

My latest is We Contain Solitudes. It's a duet game about troubled souls stuck in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquy. sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...