Mids Meinberg
@meinberg.bsky.social
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https://goat-song-publishing.itch.io/
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New article out! Lots of thoughts here from my reading of The Rule Book by Stenros and Montola. Highly recommend people give both that book and this article a read! Got some interesting thoughts here, derived from my reading and discussions thereof.
goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/a...
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A Formalist Approach to The Rule Book
The Rule Book by Jaako Strenros and Markus Montola is a key text in understanding the relationship between games and rules. After reading an intriguing article from Jay Dragon that heavily referencā¦
https://goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/a-formalist-approach-to-the-rule-book/
about 1 month ago
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cait (and adonis)
5 days ago
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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Rascal News
15 days ago
"Thereās a lot of me in this project. Even if Iām often hiding behind the voices of Charlotte and Samantha."
@liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social
tells Rascal about the process of creating her pseudo-autobiographical horror RPG about finding meaning before death, but also accepting the unknowable.
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You Will Die In This Place is an autobiographical RPG told through multiple, fictional perspectives
You will be drawn to this game.
https://www.rascal.news/you-will-die-in-this-place-is-an-autobiographical-rpg-told-through-multiple-fictional-perspectives/
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Whatcha Doing? podcast!
24 days ago
Does this sound interesting?? Listen to me talk to Graham about running SCIRE at Gen Con this year!!!
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š Holidays Pink Cat š
5 days ago
Can someone stop giving Ryan Murphy, that tired old queen, contracts to make TV shows? Please?
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Indie Game Developers Network (IGDN)
5 days ago
The IGDNās Diversity Sponsorship has long supported emerging developers from marginalized backgrounds. After a pause in 2025 to revitalize the program under new leadership, we're excited to be re-launching in 2026! That effort begins right here, with your help!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-di...
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Donate to iTDF Diversity Scholarship, organized by Allison Cole
For over a decade, the IGDNās Diversity Sponsorship program has provided support and resources⦠Allison Cole needs your support for iTDF Diversity Scholarship
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-diverse-creators-in-the-tabletop-game-industry
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lumpley
5 days ago
In this game, a character is... ...A person with needs and desires that'll inevitably bring them into conflict with others, because there ultimately isn't enough to go around, who's capable and prepared to fight for what they need.
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My first post-Metatopia newsletter is live. I still have a lot more to parse from the experience, but all grand journeys begin with a first step.
goatsongworkshop.beehiiv.com/p/goat-song-...
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Goat Song Workshop 6
Iāve just returned home from Metatopia. By and large, I had a very good experience, and a lot of the ideas that were sparked in my time there will take time for me to fully decompress. Still, itās gre...
https://goatsongworkshop.beehiiv.com/p/goat-song-workshop-6
5 days ago
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The Stillfleet Studio š PAXU ā more than play šµšø
6 days ago
#Metatopia
2025 report: I ran 3 sessions of our very new, drafty but playable and fun dream rules for the Grit System with
@oddgobgrasso.bsky.social
We had a ton of fun and learned a lot. Focusing on character creation as part of gameplay, which really seems to matter for modern-setting games.
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Mark Joseph Stern
5 days ago
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents.
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Foucault's Pudendum
6 days ago
I've noted it a lot, I will doubtlessly note it again, how weird it is that the TRPG hobby specifically devotes so much discourse to trying to distance itself from the actual "game" part of the acronym
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Andy;--
6 days ago
Someone at METATOPIA this weekend mentioned Break My Game, which seems possibly like what you're looking for.
www.breakmygame.com
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Community | Break My Game
Break My Game provides a variety of playtesting opportunities in person and virtually on a monthly basis ranging in games in the early prototype phase all the way to games ready-for-market. Our large ...
https://www.breakmygame.com/
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Sarah Kurchak
6 days ago
Moments in autistic bravery: my tea mug, *the* mug I drink my tea out of every single day, broke in a tragic accident yesterday and I haven't died yet.
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che!
6 days ago
metatopia accomplished. increasingly convinced i have not written a game so much as produced a cognitohazard.
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alyssum 11/26 š #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink
6 days ago
help ChƩ have a good birthday!!
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CanRay
7 days ago
I hate to be "that guy", but... Over a million people have no one else to talk to about suicide than a machine that won't instantly lock them up. Or will assuredly judge or make fun of them. Or...
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7 days ago
Are you telling me these are two Hounds who are bonding over the fact their Handler died.
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Gareth Watkins
8 days ago
T'au polyamory CONFIRMED - Warhammer continues to be full gay and pronouns!
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Remko
8 days ago
Today the
@goldencobra.bsky.social
awards(ssss) are announced! While I cannot make it, you can find my entry along with all those other cool games at
www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
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Golden Cobra Challenge
https://www.goldencobra.org/submissions2025.html
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Ify Nwadiwe
9 days ago
When you grow up in a city without a transit system, itās robust car culture becomes the norm. Also, not get drop kicked on a subway by a performer on my way to work is nice too.
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The Golden Cobra Challenge
8 days ago
There are live physsical people at Metatopia presenting the awardsss thiss year.
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Sridhar Ramesh
10 days ago
The last time New York had a decent mayor was Giuliani, over two decades ago. Say what you will about him (you younger people only know what's become of him after leaving office), but he really did clean up the city. He oversaw the removal of its two biggest eyesores.
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Murph
8 days ago
Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this. To ICE: "You can repent"
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Basil Wright
8 days ago
ICYMI: Pelogos is out on itch!
kobanya.itch.io/pelogos
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Pelogos by Basil Wright
Dive into the Sea of Dreams to help the living cope with their loss. But remember: there's no mercy in The Mercī.
https://kobanya.itch.io/pelogos
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Sam šš
8 days ago
This is the article in case anyone wants to read it!
gaymingmag.com/2023/12/sama...
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at Metatopia, but my imposter syndrome has me sitting in a corner working on a new game idea lol
9 days ago
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Bo Bolander
9 days ago
you'll definitely wanna go and make sure because turns out they had engaged the nanny locks for everything on mine
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tom bloom (scrungled)
9 days ago
it's fucking criminal to me how underappreciated apocalypse world is
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nathaniel
9 days ago
this is one of those jokes where if you are a game developer I think you had to laugh like 50% harder
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matte jones
9 days ago
[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives
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Bayleaf š
9 days ago
The fact that ārudeā is a moderation category is fucking embarrassing and such a blatant excuse to hide any post that they dont like even if it doesnt violate any of their rules.
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mcc
10 days ago
A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
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sandwich guy
9 days ago
Canāt believe how much Iāve already libbed out this week. First I was excited about Mamdani winning his election & then I cried when a federal judge read Sandburg into the record as she told ICE / CBP theyāre violent liars who donāt know, donāt understand, & donāt respect Chicago. [with alt txt]
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it
9 days ago
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because
@jay.bsky.team
and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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max tani
9 days ago
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon AppƩtit.
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On my way to Metatopia!
9 days ago
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Today, I'm going to my first convention since COVID. Definitely feeling a bit nervous, wondering how much my in-person social skills have atrophied also I'm going to be playtesting something that might just completely implode upon first contact with the players
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Rowan Zeoli
9 days ago
Last year I did this interview with the intention of it being part of a longer reported piece in LARP and politics, but that fell through as things got...really intense after November. Thanks still a fascinating exploration into what games can explore against a backdrop of history
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utopia deferred
10 days ago
Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.
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lumpley
9 days ago
And away we go.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lumpleygames/apocalypse-world-burned-over
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Alex Bertram-Powell
3 months ago
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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(One) Ankit Ojha (After Another)
2 months ago
This guy Gets It.
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Very few game mechanics are truly novel, which I think most TTRPGs designers would agree with (so long as theyāre being honest about it). However, taking old things and putting them into new configurations is still a way of pursuing novelty, as is translating ideas from other media
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(One) Ankit Ojha (After Another)
5 months ago
ICYMI: Iām looking for gigs as a writer; the following is a thread of the select work Iāve done so far, and if youāre looking to hire a writer/film critic for Bollywood and Indian cinema, I could be your guy.
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Keith Muise
10 days ago
When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said.. āIāve had Covid enough in my life I donāt need to do that again. Iām wearing this for health reasonsā More celebrities need to speak out like this.
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Vel Mini
11 days ago
Fellowship is a pretty cool tabletop game that I think everyone would like more than d&d
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šŖ¼Jellyfishlines is Haunting YoušŖ¼
10 days ago
teaming up with my friend
@ladylike.itch.io
on itch to make the
#BarelyATTRPG
Jam. TTRPG designers that make more experimental, experiential, one page, lyric, or micro-style games, this is for you!
itch.io/jam/barely-a...
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"Barely a TTRPG" Jam - itch.io
A game jam from 2025-12-01 to 2026-01-01 hosted by Jellyfishlines. THIS JAM IS FOR TTRPGS (PHYSICAL GAMES) ONLY. Anyone who is a TTRPG designer that makes more experimental, experiential, one page, ly...
https://itch.io/jam/barely-a-ttrpg-jam
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Izzy IS CRIT AWARD NOMINATED
10 days ago
How little can a TTRPG include while still being technically a game? An incredible thought experiment and challenge for all TTRPG designers out there! Join the jam at the link below!
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Joel
11 days ago
VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends
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N. K. Jemisin
12 days ago
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
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Izzy IS CRIT AWARD NOMINATED
about 1 year ago
Hi, my name is Izzy! I am a queer, Jewish transwoman who enjoys playing and making TTRPGs. I would love to appear on any shows and if you want to buy my games, here is my itch page!
ladylike.itch.io
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Ladylike [she/her]
https://ladylike.itch.io/
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