I would love to be playing a game where you find out like 2/3rds of the way through that the standardized money you've been using is actually just how your good-at-money ally has been explaining it to you as they manage dozens of currencies.

#ExEssSTG Project Update: Ventures! #EX3Essence #Exalted3

#ExEssSTG Project Update: Exalted Excellence! Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide is Funded! #EX3Essence #Exalted3

dang i wonder who they got to write on this book i bet they're all smart and attractive and stuff

The crowdfunding campaign for the Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide is NOW LIVE! #EX3Essence #Exalted

armour astir reached the funny weed number in ratings so to celebrate it's half-off until uhhhhhhhh my birthday

Me, an intelligent working professional: "I have had no caffeine intake for several weeks, effecting a reset of my body's tolerance for the chemical. I will now enjoy the pleasant indulgence of one latte." My body:

Play Break!!, it's a really solid lightweight d20 game with a hell of a lot of heart.

In case you missed it, we're getting ready to launch our Backerkit campaign for the Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide! Please sign up at the following link to get notified when the project launches: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... So excited, and we'll see you there! #Exalted #EsEss #Essence

Slightly increase a band There's a Pretty Good Chance They're Giants

Slightly diminish a book Nice Place Lost

10 years ago today we released Exalted Third Edition! Available in POD and PDF via @drivethrurpg.com, this game allows you to play the Solar Exalted, some of the most powerful beings in Creation! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...!

The art of game design: the spark of creation, to find play between the confines of rules and the expression of agency, to marry the beauty of systems and aesthetic expression, The discipline of game design: fucking finish the thing

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra’s first blog is up. Heaven help us, I hope this wasn’t a mistake… Now up on my Ko-fi page but available for all to read. ko-fi.com/larryblamire

Tomorrow afternoon we begin our character creation sessions for #Datafall - an Exalted 3rd edition Sidereal campaign set in a cyberpunk shard of Creation. At 2:00pm EDT on YouTube.com/@RPGClinic come meet Scott's character! (Alas, #ExalTwitch makes less sense now that we're on YT)

TTRPG data perverts might be interested in this, Groupfinder just published the top ten games people are actively looking to play on their platform, no surprise at just how crushing DnDs dominance is but the make up of the top ten is kind of interesting (if generally still not too surprising)

Current status.

I made a giant list of non-AI resources to use for your TTRPGs and other creative pursuits with massive amounts of art that's either in the Public Domain or Creative Commons! Comment your suggestions! #TTRPG #TTRPGcommunity #dnd #pathfinder #daggerheart docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's done. 10k words covering everything I know about how to make RPGs, from your first idea to getting the book on the shelf. It's not perfect but I hope it helps someone. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/everything-i...

“In those days, the only way I had to work out the disagreement was to make a game where we could disagree." Emily Zhu (朱保敬) tells us about the cyberpunk wuxia of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword, and why genre alone fails to capture the RPG's belief that violence can be beautiful and liberatory.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy." Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

And if you haven't read the article that we published about the tabletop scene in Iran, please do. These stories are important.

20 years ago today Exalted 2nd Edition was released. You can now get Exalted 3rd Edition in POD and PDF via our partners at DriveThruRPG.com! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1... If you want a rules-lite Exalted experience, Exalted Essence is also available! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Not enough character bios inform me whether or not the character can see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It doesn't need to say it directly but I should at least be able to infer from the information provided.

Now Available in PDF and print: The Storypath Ultra Core Manual! theonyxpath.com/now-availabl...

I know there's already plenty of "video game NPCs as fully-realized people" fiction but has anyone done it with Toy Story rules? I would like to see it.

Dana Terrace’s 'Knights of Guinevere' has been greenlit for a full season, and a new trailer just dropped. We spoke with Terrace about building the series, a bespoke 2D pipeline at Glitch, and what the season order means. www.cartoonbrew.com/series/dana-...

This bundle is the official launch of Ten Thousand Days For the Sword! - fight for the wuxia cyberpunk future - eight martial arts style, a mix of traditional and new - a uquiz to see whether you fit Yin, Yang, or one of the Five Paths uquiz.com/quiz/B1vYuX/ - 5 recipes, 3 narrators, and 1 horse

This coming Sunday and Monday, come help us raise money for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund! follow twitch.tv/friendsatthetable now to be notified! Read here for more info: www.patreon.com/posts/fundra... (Art by @badbucket.bsky.social!)

Renting a small auditorium is honestly nowhere near as expensive as I thought it would be. Certainly not a notional expense for an individual but affordable enough that I'm trying to figure out excuses to do some nonsense.

i accidentally wrote the perfect eight words in an outline

Look, Dungeons and Dragons is a mainstream game that needs no promoting. And look, the Vicious Mockery spell was never meant to be a thing that turned normal insults into physical damage. But I can't hear the phrase "weaponized therapy language" and not consider the implications and applications.

Saw a video complaining about too many men with painted nails these days and I just think of the steak too juicy lobster too buttery line. I say don't stop until we're all out here in full graphic makeup looks. We faltered at 'guyliner' and we must rally.

maybe instead of writing thoughtful blog posts and theory and manifestos that spur consideration and action you should threaten to blow up the sun so that people make the forms of games you enjoy

SHITPOST GAME: scroll bluesky until you get mad. instead of responding, roll a d6 and do the corresponding action: 1-2: X # of pushups 3-4: 5X # of squats 5-6: 2X # of mountain climbers X is the number of times you have gotten mad repeat until you are sick of bluesky

A game called Declutter (or Marie Kondo Battles Satan) Gather any number of players into a room that is cluttered. Use your favorite method of determining turn order. On each player's turn, they pick up one item (a coherent collection counts as one). If all players agree it is trash, throw it out.

I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again

People are making pioneering passion projects, polished professional products, personal playable poems, NO!! fuck!! Make shitpost games!!!! Do bits and poke fun and fuck around!

Introducing Comix Cleric, a web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators and jam packed with features, you can learn more by checking out the Kickstarter NOW! #comic #webcomic #webcomics #kickstarter

I'm not going to make a show of self-pity in the notifications of Aaron Voigt's exhaustively-compiled celebration of indie RPGs, but I will say here in my own space that it's rather bittersweet to think "I could easily have been there for all that, but for luck and poor choices, I was not."

...And the transcript! bsky.app/profile/aavo...

And I could have spent a hundred hours talking to the Bakers and they would have kept hitting me with nuggets of wisdom:

We're about an hour and a half out from the End of Year Video dropping and I did want to share some stuff that got cut from interviews. For instance, I didn't end up using a lot of my first interview with Jay Dragon, on account of how I didn't know what the essay was yet, but here are some outtakes:

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

My thoughts precisely on the recent news about Larian and Sandfall's AI usage. Research is difficult, but creating art based on the secondhand phantasmagoria of an algorithm will inject flaws into the very foundations of your work, unhealthy not only for each project but each one that follows.

I feel like anti-intellectualism and poor science communication are united by the problem that we don't like when two contradictory things are true. When a person has both irreplacable expertise and human foibles, we are tempted think of them either as an unassailable voice or a dismissable fool.

Bandcamp Friday may be over, but here's your friendly reminder that if you streamed your favorite artist's songs on loop for an entire year without breaks on a popular streaming service, that artist would make up to ✨ $7 USD ✨ So, maybe buy an album! Any day of the year is fine!

Want to catch up on 11 issues of sword-and-sorcery goodness (including games by @lumpley.bsky.social, @epidiah.bsky.social and @ndpdesign.com)? We now have the full run of Worlds Without Master up on itch, as well as the Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025, and more! unwrittenearths.itch.io

it's Itch Creator Day!! the site is waiving their portion of every purchase today - so 100% of the cash goes to indies like me! if you haven't yet picked up my new Mothership pamphlet, my solo game HARDCASE, my Beam Saber playbook, or my cyberpunk microgames, the time is now: