Mids Meinberg
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https://goat-song-publishing.itch.io/
nonbinary, white, disabled
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New blog post! In this one, I begin to examine a move away from randomness in TTRPGs by first looking at the categories of uncertainties in
@costik.bsky.social
's Uncertainty in Games!
goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/s...
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Stacking the Deck: Uncertainties
Randomness has long been considered part and parcel of the TTRPG experience. Polyhedral dice and the d20 in particular are used frequently as emblems of TTRPGs (though typically D&D more specif…
https://goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/stacking-the-deck-uncertainties/
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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez
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I've written a new essay about my experience opening my copy of City of Six Moons, designed by
@amabel.bsky.social
, and the emotions it inspired in me. It's a strange and beautiful game, which more than earned the reaction it provoked from me. Enjoy!
seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...
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Striving for Understanding or: A Review of Unboxing City of Six Moons and Reading its Rules
I come home from work to see a package on my porch. In theory, I know the game that is inside. I sit down, open the package, look inside. Three large symbols that tower over every other element look u...
https://seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devlog/1550121/striving-for-understanding-or-a-review-of-unboxing-city-of-six-moons-and-reading-its-rules
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Better Things Are Possible
1 day ago
Conservative Supergirl movie where she's trad and her cape is an apron. Also instead of some woke actress she's portrayed by courageous truth teller Kevin Sorbo
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David Roberts
3 days ago
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via
@billmckibben.bsky.social
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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
https://proelectrica.substack.com/p/elite-cognitive-dissonance-and-the
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kerry ✨
3 days ago
Ms Rachel went to Delaney Hall
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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire
3 days ago
I guess I can say it now: I'm one of the folks hit by the Paizo layoffs. My last day will be in early July. I'm devastated. I love the folks I've worked with the past three years. I love the fans. I love the games we made. If you have an opening for a remote editor, I'd love to hear from you.
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RPG Trader
3 days ago
RPG TRADER IS NOW LIVE. FOR REAL. 🔥 Tell your friends, fellow creatives, imaginary dragons and your followers! We’ve already got: ⚔️ 250+ creators 📚 1,500+ RPG products live (and more on the way) 🌍 A marketplace built for indie RPG chaos in the best way 👉 RPG Trader is officially open.
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Mx. Moz
3 days ago
muscle mommy Lion says you should follow my Misfits of Oz Kickstarter
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cari
6 days ago
Not the point but "Dem HR lady" is just plainly preferable to Blackwater Nazi domestic abuser
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Avi Henriques 🩸
3 days ago
Hey folks. As some of you might have seen on the blog, Paizo was hit by layoffs today. I am safe but I don't feel particularly good about it due to many of my dearest friends finding out they are losing their livelihoods. As these fine folks are looking for jobs and mutual aid, please boost them.
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Haus of Decline
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RPG Trader
3 days ago
⏳ 13 HOURS LEFT IN BETA! ⏳ If you’re a creator & want your work live for launch day, now’s the time to upload. In 13 hours, we open checkout and go fully live 🚀 Don’t miss your chance to be part of the very first wave on RPG Trader. 👉 Upload now if you want in for launch!
rpg-trader.com/sell
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Sell on RPG Trader
Turn your ideas into products, reach new players, and grow your catalogue. Publish, manage, and sell your TTRPG work with RPG Trader.
https://rpg-trader.com/sell
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Sylvan Lawrence Is Debeasted
3 days ago
clawhammergames.itch.io/fame-ashcan
The ashcan of Fame, my upcoming game, is now available on
itch.io
(and soon to be available for free on my website as well)!
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FAME: Ashcan Edition by Clawhammer Games
a TTRPG of all-consuming celebrity
https://clawhammergames.itch.io/fame-ashcan
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩🎤
3 days ago
Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!
thoughtpunks.com/ope...
#TTRPG
#OpenSource
#TabletopGames
#IndieGames
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Open Source TTRPG Resources
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com
https://thoughtpunks.com/open-source-ttrpg-resources/
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Jess Hardie
3 days ago
Saw Shakespeare in the Park last night and while I appreciate an attempt to draw contemporary parallels, treating conflict between ICE/DHS and protesters/Mexicans as a grudge between families is not it. Possibly worse—
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Adam Weinstein
3 days ago
A long New Yorker story about the sex-trafficking network of Andrew Tate, friend to the Trump family
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen
3 days ago
Rules: "The GM describes the environment and the players describe character actions" is a rule; I don't think that's really debatable. "Your character can't ride a horse, because this setting has chocobos instead" has debatable rules-nature. I call dice + numbers rules "mechanics", but that's me.
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Amaranth M
3 days ago
Vaguely: if there are valued parts of play in every RPG session which “don't touch on rules” and you are suggesting that writers “design towards them as well” That’s rules It doesn’t stop being rules because it’s not +1 to Smork checks against Fuzzies when flanking It’s still rules
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age
4 days ago
Welcome to SIGNET CITY... 👁️A first person fungalpunk RPG from (me) the creator of Citizen Sleeper ◼️YOU ARE A PARASITE ◼️Manipulate your hosts, feed on their emotions ◼️Discover a strange city of biotech and brutalist architecture Support the game and WISHLIST now on Steam 🙏
bit.ly/SC-Steam
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Jennifer Adcock
4 days ago
if you look at a recent printing of a paperback novel (past 3 years let's say), digest size, 250-300 pages, no art besides the cover, uncoated paper stock, EVEN THAT will have like MSRP $18 USD these days. I think most customers just legitimately don't know what printing costs lmao
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Memetic parody of gex
4 days ago
Warframe is a cozy/wholesome game. Its primary loop is about basically having infinite power and never feeling at threat and the narrative especially in 1999 involves hanging out with your chill buds and dealing with the bad stuff then flirting. You even have a pet that dosn't get lost in the alps
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unseenlibrarian
5 days ago
So on other platforms, I've written a lot of short fiction about a very haunted town called Martin's Passage. Some of that has been now turned into what is hopefully the first short novel in the setting, about a family with a curse and a problem with lake cultists.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2SQYCQ
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Family Business: A Martin's Passage Mystery
Amazon.com: Family Business: A Martin's Passage Mystery eBook : Ames, Phillip: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2SQYCQ
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Failure To Launch Podcast
6 days ago
The Space Race was Soviet IPS-Northstar vs American Harrison Armory Now we're in the private spacecraft, corporatized, sleek-but-vaguely-sinister Smith Shimano period And I fear what will bring about the HORUS times
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Trans General Grievous
6 days ago
I think people don't realize that the 'give a trans person 50$' meme isn't a joke. You can save a trans persons life by giving them 50$.
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discWorld order
7 days ago
Transworld donated 10,000 copies of Unseen Academicals. Which feels like a very deliberate choice as the book, at its heart, is about characters growing and becoming more successful by embracing new things or by reading.
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TTRPG players expect too much production value for too little money. They want coffee table books for the cost of novels. Too many people out there care more for the pretty pictures than for the words.
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Jes the human
8 days ago
What’s a TTRPG One Tree Hill you’re willing to die on?
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Nerdy | Bitch Goddess | Righteous Traitor Midnight
6 days ago
"story" is overemphasized in TTRPGs so much it is harming game design and I don't JUST mean Forge fanatics game mechanics aren't friction, they're fiction. You just suck at playing/designing games.
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Kat the Lore Mistress 🔜 UKGE
6 days ago
TTRPG creators assemble, I need your suggestions for tabletop games that tackle themes of resistance, rebellion, fighting for what's right, etc. No AI involved in their creation please, and I'm especially eager for games made by minority creators!
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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL
6 days ago
Memory is the key anxiety of our world. All our information technology has given us unprecedented ability to not let go. VHS recordings of learning to ride a bike for the first time which would not have existed even a century ago. Audio of times lost. LLM Puppeteer mimicry of our loved ones.
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eric stirpe
8 days ago
4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.
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Corthulhu
7 days ago
When I recorded this line I was still in the closet. Recording this line actually helped me realize I should come out. So thanks Ushikoshi and
@spikechunsoftinc.bsky.social
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Tuxedo Catfish
7 days ago
honestly you should read the book cover to cover unless there's some reason you physically can't, and even then that just shifts the conversation to "well there should be video tutorials (or whatever) and you should watch them" without changing the underlying point
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Siobhan Thompson
8 days ago
hey you don’t have to post show theories that are in the explicit text of the show. You can just notice them. It’s called watching the show
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Foucault's Pudendum
9 days ago
Going to think about this every time people try and act like WotC is somehow a "progressive" company or that D&D has become a great "queer game" somehow
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Zoe Tunnell
8 days ago
This is one of the saddest things I have ever seen They LICENSED a song that costs at LEAST 15 grand to do so for the CEO of their publisher presumably in an attempt to gain points with the asshole through some executive's demand
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🐢 bob 📼
8 days ago
the reckless ben v american fork police department case just got way more interesting because AFPD accidentally posted all unredacted footage to their public dropbox. when people pointed it out and started downloading it the link was disabled. currently downloading a copy
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tranna karenina
8 days ago
wait till these motherfuckers hear about food
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blaine
9 days ago
"your body will require regular maintenance" okay??? everyone's body requires regular maintenance it came free with your fucking mortality
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ICYMI: I completed this duology of posts talking about how to remove randomness from TTRPG design!
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SmallBu Animation
10 days ago
A powerful Pride month to you all. Stay strong and hilarious 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤎🖤
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sephirAmy
10 days ago
taking a deep breath in order to say people have Absolutely Got To Learn that Not Everything Is For You, and that doesn't make the thing bad, nor does it need to be changed. you can just say "it's not for me". and move on. we need MORE niche, not more appealing-to-the-broadest-swath-possible
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Tanya Floaker
10 days ago
My friend, one half of local ttrpg powerhouse
@dogpetrol.bsky.social
, needs help. If you donate at least £10 and repost the fundraiser link, I will send both physical and digital copies of one of my games for the cost of P&P (while stocks last). Comment below to claim.
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Donate to Help me get my face fixed, organized by Elenor Holme
Hi I’m Elenor (some of you might know me by my middle name Jess) I’m raising money fo… Elenor Holme needs your support for Help me get my face fixed
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-get-my-face-fixed-5hyxn
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Peanut Butter Demon Time
10 days ago
This is a pretty good post. More than a decade ago I fund raised my way through cancer. My general advice is: - Ask before you need it; people need time to get money - Ask more than you think you'll need bc extra costs will appear - People can often donate more mid month than near the end
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Dr. Emily Friedman
11 days ago
Someone at UKGE said to me “it seems like you’ve been here forever” and that is a kind compliment but I suspect also says a lot about time dilation & (lack of) institutional memory in TTRPG circles.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
11 days ago
So im watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit if you cant tell by my last post. But because you know me by now....I gotta take it there lol. Remember the scene where the judge was looking for Roger in the bar and used the "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" riff to lure him out? 🧵
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Peter/Roll for Kindness (Autism advocacy TTRPG GM, M.Ed.)
13 days ago
I attended a disability resource fair that I had hoped to table at, but they were waitlisted on spots. I get there, and the ridiculous AI therapy org with the gaudy AI art characters had literally *multiple* tables. And my org, that does peer advocacy skill building groups, didn't get a spot. Ugh.
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briar, duke of dykes
11 days ago
an added wrinkle to the shit about account labelling is that for people in the UK etc mature content is still locked into completely hidden unless you hand over ID or use a vpn. so 'mature' accounts are... just going to disappear for them
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