If you are at all interested in game design, these are worth a read. Clearly from an earlier stage in jay’s development as a designer, but they’re still useful insights into the kind of things that can be made, the way that the medium can be pushed and pulled

i've re-released my Games For The Missing & The Found series, a set of zines i made in 2019-2020, alongside a set of new unpublished lyric games from that same time period. these are very near and dear to my heart and i hope you enjoy! jaydragonwrites.itch.io/g4tmaf

Getting nuked by imposter syndrome today. Feeling like my TTRPG work isn't good enough, like there is a significant scene going on that I am too naive to understand and contribute to.

go check out Eclispse''s stuff and say nice things NOW 🔫

ok who is the Sailor Moon funny person nerd that brought Artemis to Artemis II

This week's Unbundled is When You Meet Your Doppelganger on the Road, You Must Make Out With Them by @meinberg.bsky.social in the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas bundle.

48 hours into FFIX I adore these three a lot!! #sketch

So I lost my job, and so thus I'm cutting prices- all my non PWYW products are up for a bundle. itch.io/s/183622/low...

That long-awaited moment is finally here: judge self-nominations for The Awards 2026 are open! Find more information here: theawards.games?page_id=1143 Self-nominate directly here: forms.gle/JrU37fNREYfG...

Oh so seeing as it's #tdov and circumstances have recently gone in a Downwards Direction... Hi! I'm Alyssa, half of indie TTRPG studio Biscuit Fund Games and freelance proofreader and copyeditor for YOUR project. Here's some stuff I've worked on! I have an ABUNDANCE of free time and no money!

Cul-de-Sac was the best strip in the papers. Here's my favorite

TTRPGs for Trans Rights Idaho is live! Get over 500 games for as little as $5 (or more, if you're able)! All proceeds benefit @tccidaho.bsky.social & @transaffirminc.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ itch.io/b/3525/ttrpg...

its tdov again, consider looking at my various arts and free works

I think it is good and healthy for culture to allow franchises to die

Started a blog post about randomness, but got lost in the sauce of analyzing the kinds of uncertainty that Costikyan discusses and well now it’s going to be a two-parter

alinahdee.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/p... Anyways i wrote this

Trying to explain to anyone outside of the psychology field that -Freud is highly discredited -Limerence, Ennegram, Meyers Briggs, love languages, 25 age of brain development, the colloquial ideas of trauma/gaslighting/etc are pop psychology Is fucking impossible. Y'all love your unscientific BS.

Seeking suggestions for panelists!🎙️✨ May's #TTRPG panel will be on 🏠 long-term home games 🎲: how to start, keep it fresh, & keep it from fizzling out. I want to talk to ttrpg creators who have experience both succeeding & failing keeping an unbroadcasted game rolling for the long haul. (cont-)

still fuckin around with this Real Housewives roguelike and torn between "you control one Wive and micromanage her to stay on TV as long as possible" versus "you control the entire cast of Wives on a macro level and fight to make it interesting enough to get as many seasons as possible"

I havent played her games but she's cool

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

If I wanted to make up a thing to make fun of how Monte Cook designs his games, I couldn't actually come up with anything meaner than "in the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG, you can spend 5+ Speed Points to make a Spin Attack"

I wrote up my macro design goals for Soul System, the TTRPG engine powering my game Small Souls. Both are being actively developed. More on the mechanics vry soon! errantthinking.com/soul-system-...

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

🪰 OPEN CALL — Hatching Season A charity horror anthology about INFESTATION. Parasites. Swarms. Creatures breeding where they shouldn’t. 📝 2k–5k words 📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026 All profits donated to www.mind.org.uk/ Full details: devilsrockbooks.com/submissions

For the record, I will do your book cover illo for $200. I love drawing book covers.

About twenty years ago, I was living with my family in Germany (my father was a contractor with the Air Force [no I’m not going to get into that]). I was too old to be considered a dependent for the sake of having my own id, so I was there on a visa. Except I had no idea that I was on visa

A trans teen in north Carolina was denied a breast reduction a treatment for macromastia simply because they're transgender. This is explicit discrimination. www.wcnc.com/article/news...

'but harry potter was such a huge part of my childhood' reminder: the only reason jk rowling is doing a harry potter tv remake is bcos she wants a version she can flog that doesn't involve the original cast.

“Separate the art from the artist” is a nuanced concept that should be reserved for dead creators only, whose legacies we have to grapple with in the context of history. It should NOT be used for living creators actively doing harm. That’s my two cents.

We hope to offer more next year. These three shows are looking for our WOC historians, Trans WOC, and Indigenous WOC and we hope you will apply or spread the word <3 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Has this one been done yet?

I aspire to the level of Suburban Brain Excellence required to start a physical fight with Jack Reacher because you perceive him to be in violation of HOA bylaws. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

the second article in my series on Seven Part Pact is now available, chronicling the seven wizards and giving an in-depth look into how character creation occurs possumcreek.medium.com/seven-part-p...

emet selch: the ancient world was perfect. i had a beautiful husband and also a situationship with my unmedicated ADHD government office coworker athena: Sometimes I Like To Dip My Son In Hot Tar And He Scream Loud As Fuck Lol emet: i have never met this woman in my life.

Been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, so it feels like a good time to share my painting "Steady".

Oof

Tomorrow March 21th 2:30pm Central Weight of WInter GM: @aliengenic.bsky.social Cast: @birdicinspiration.bsky.social @madelancholy.bsky.social @meinberg.bsky.social @zoupmachine.bsky.social

Great posts. I think there should be more mechanical cross pollination between these two design spaces.

Today, I'm starting a new blog post series, on how to use board game mechanics in TTRPGs. If you're interested in thinking about design and what new ideas board games can give for TTRPGs, give it a look! goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/b... goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/b...

Strahd is the ultimate quantum ogre. This week, I write about the problem of the Quantum Horror and how I solve it for adventure games. dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/03/fear...

fucking hell, iconic behaviour

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Seven-Part Pact, my fantastical and ornate TTRPG about the seven most powerful wizards in a fantasy world, is coming this summer to kickstarter!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

Adam Baldwin was literally *the* guy who named GamerGate and made it go viral. It was just some loser 4chan/incel YouTuber shit before then. They spammed him to get his attention because they knew he’s also a psycho loser and they wanted to make it go viral, and he did it. And it worked.

not trying to be mean or pick a fight but humanoid robots are 100% a manifestation of a deep-seated desire to have slaves

Disco!