Mids Meinberg
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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 referenc…
https://goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/a-formalist-approach-to-the-rule-book/
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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
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jay Dragon is on some wizard shit
about 6 hours ago
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re-released my Games For The Missing & The Found series, a set of zines i made in 2019-2020, alongside a set of new unpublished lyric games from that same time period.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
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Games For The Missing & The Found by Jay Dragon
A series of lyric game zines about alienation, identity, and the inarticulate. 2019-2021
https://jaydragonwrites.itch.io/g4tmaf
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Eclipse (Sleaze Era)
about 10 hours ago
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.
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Nerdy | Righteous Traitor Midnight
about 8 hours ago
go check out Eclispse''s stuff and say nice things NOW 🔫
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Aryn 💖🐇 - FWA 2026!!
about 11 hours ago
ok who is the Sailor Moon funny person nerd that brought Artemis to Artemis II
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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games
about 12 hours ago
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.
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Krump0🔥
1 day ago
48 hours into FFIX I adore these three a lot!!
#sketch
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unseenlibrarian
1 day ago
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...
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Low Down No Job Blues Sale by unseenlibrarian
A bundle by unseenlibrarian, $3.00 for Underhills, When We All Lived in the Forest, Scarytown
https://itch.io/s/183622/low-down-no-job-blues-sale
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its time for The Awards 2026
1 day ago
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...
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Submissions - The Awards
Becoming a Judge Self-nominations to become a judge are open until April 30, 2026. The Awards 2026 is looking for 12 judges, at least 50% of which will be POC and 50% of which will be of marginalized ...
https://theawards.games/?page_id=1143
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Lyssa Biscuits, A The Award Winning Designer
2 days ago
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!
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rich
7 months ago
Cul-de-Sac was the best strip in the papers. Here's my favorite
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💀 Rue Morgue 💀🗡️❤️🔥🔜 PAXU 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
4 days ago
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...
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/\ \/ /\ (Commissions Open!)
3 days ago
its tdov again, consider looking at my various arts and free works
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Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe
3 days ago
I think it is good and healthy for culture to allow franchises to die
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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
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Ali Nahdee
4 days ago
alinahdee.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/p...
Anyways i wrote this
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Painting Oppression in White Face: How The Handmaid’s Tale Appropriates Racism Against Black, Indigenous, Women of Color
How The Handmaid’s Tale takes historical and current atrocities faced by black, indigenous, women of color and paints it in whiteface.
https://alinahdee.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/painting-oppression-in-white-face-how-the-handmaids-tale-appropriates-racism-against-black-indigenous-women-of-color/
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⛓ X-Wing @ Alicianess ⛓
4 days ago
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.
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Gnome Anne writes threads
4 days ago
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-)
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn
4 days ago
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"
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Nield | PDB
4 days ago
I havent played her games but she's cool
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Michael DeForge
5 days ago
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
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Foucault's Pudendum
4 days ago
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"
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Errant Thinking
5 days ago
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-...
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Soul System Design Goals
The design goals for my generic TTRPG system, Soul System, that powers Small Souls.
https://errantthinking.com/soul-system-design-goals/
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Frosted Poptart
6 days ago
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.
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Owls in Towels
about 2 months ago
A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via
fb.com/816647270688...
#owlsintowels
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Daniel Willcocks
6 days ago
🪰 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
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Shaenon K. Garrity
7 days ago
For the record, I will do your book cover illo for $200. I love drawing book covers.
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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
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Alejandra Caraballo
8 days ago
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...
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Transgender teen's sudden surgery cancellation prompts discrimination concerns
Novant Health canceled a teen's breast reduction hours before surgery, citing transgender intentions. The child's family and an attorney call it discrimination.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/transgender-teen-surgery-cancellation-prompts-discrimination-concern/275-89b7722c-71f4-42ed-b747-168f8a7120cc
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈
9 days ago
'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.
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Bree Lundberg
9 days ago
“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.
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Apochromatic Unlimited
9 days ago
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...
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Player and Panelist Signup Form - Apochromatic Unlimited Women's History Month 2026
Hello and welcome to the casting call for Kickin’ Down the Door, Apochromatic Unlimited’s Women’s History Month event. We are hosting a weekend of games and an informative panel to celebrate and uplif...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ1Zene6xKJOS5jdglMgFOvvSilso0YodAra0mgU7_zZB6Xw/viewform?usp=header
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Ardyn’s Rotten Meow Meow @ Working on Comms
10 days ago
Has this one been done yet?
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David_j_roth
10 days ago
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.
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Reacher star Alan Ritchson filmed allegedly assaulting neighbor
Video allegedly shows actor striking a man in front of actor’s kids in what looks like a suburban Tennessee neighborhood
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/23/actor-alan-ritchson-alleged-neighbor-assault-video
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Mike Hixenbaugh
11 days ago
“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.”
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jay Dragon is on some wizard shit
11 days ago
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...
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Seven-Part Pact — The Wizards (Chapter 2)
This is Part 2 in an ongoing series of articles.
https://possumcreek.medium.com/seven-part-pact-the-wizards-chapter-2-01a2a3fa8d8f
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yambo no.5
11 days ago
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.
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Casey Explosion
12 days ago
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛
16 days ago
Been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, so it feels like a good time to share my painting "Steady".
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Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast
13 days ago
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Nicholas Brendon, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Star, Dies at 54
Best known for playing the lovable sidekick on the groundbreaking drama, he also had a recurring role in 'Criminal Minds' and starred in the film adaptation of Charles Busch's 'Psycho Beach Party.'
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nicholas-brendon-dead-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-1236543090/
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Nerds With Dice | Creator App Open
13 days ago
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
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Alchemist
14 days ago
Great posts. I think there should be more mechanical cross pollination between these two design spaces.
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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...
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Board to Table: Introduction
Index Board games have a bad reputation in the TTRPG community. Whenever a game with formal rules that are considered too binding comes out, the common complaint is that the game is actually a boar…
https://goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/board-to-table-introduction/
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Velocitree2
15 days ago
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...
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Fear hooks and the Quantum Horror (LoF, part 5)
Tempting, dangerous choices, clear rewards with unpleasant surprises–that is the key to helping PCs to simultaneously feel fear and agency, ...
https://dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/03/fear-hooks-and-quantum-horror-lof-part-5.html
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Martin Luthen Rael
16 days ago
fucking hell, iconic behaviour
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
17 days ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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jay Dragon is on some wizard shit
18 days ago
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...
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Coming soon: Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Jay Dragon about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/seven-part-pact
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn
18 days ago
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.
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Ayo
18 days ago
not trying to be mean or pick a fight but humanoid robots are 100% a manifestation of a deep-seated desire to have slaves
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Marie Enger
21 days ago
Disco!
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