Sunday was a bit quiet on this - posting again in case it gets more answers!

Discovered a while after it was published - a review of Lovecraftesque 2e by @pookie-uk.bsky.social! rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/cthu...

It hasn't got above 0 degree C here all day... not the day for some emergency car maintenance but oil and screenwash wait for no man.

Just finished reading Her Majesty's Royal Coven by @junodawson.bsky.social (great fun, loved it!) but over the moon to see Helen Gould namechecked in the back as a sensitivity consultant. Helen is awesome!

Oh my god, I just learned that @tinstargames.bsky.social has died. Many of us knew Steve: his drive to create TTRPGs like Relics, his activism and scathing criticism of bad actors, his many game reviews. The Aussie gaming community and the hobby at large has lost another prolific talent. 💔

Start the new year as you mean to go on, by buying RPG PDFs. Hurrah! There's some beta rules for the game in DIE: LOADED that's coming out at the mo too.

Ex Tenebris is nominated as one of the most anticipated games of 2026! Voting is open until January 8th and we sort of missed it in all the wild holiday energy. If you'd like to give us a vote we would LOVE IT!! @armadajosh.bsky.social #ttrpg #rpg #spacegothic

Actual Play discoveries: 1) @vikingverse.bsky.social 2) Black Armada Tales 3) @wederrakeep.bsky.social 4) @damselsdnd.bsky.social 5) @whohurtyouap.bsky.social 6) @rollbymyself.bsky.social 7) Danger Club 8) @d20futureshow.bsky.social 9) @pantslesstables.bsky.social

Happy New Year from the UK!

NEW FROM TTRPG INSIDER: Happy New Year? We asked TTRPG industry folks to offer their two cents on 2025. www.ttrpginsider.news/p/looking-ba... This issue features @robindlaws.bsky.social, @rpgbot.bsky.social @hagiologist.bsky.social @ipr.bsky.social and @beckyannison.bsky.social

This is a super-huge issue in news writing, which almost always gets flagged as AI. News stories are formulaic by design and often have the same cadence and language.

Ninefox Gambit Gideon the Ninth The Chronicles of Prydain The City We Became Something from the Nightside

Unless it is from a trusted source, I've stopped reading blog posts and articles dated 2023 onwards.

I mean almost everyone in this tv show was playing at the top.of the game...

Just put up a designer diary post up on the Patreon about the nascent Circus Playbill bit of the system. I'm really excited to develop this further for the game. #ttrpg #rpg #darkcarnival #indierpg #indiegamedesign

Day 15 Advent of Adventure They finally escape the Dragon by the skin of their teeth, only to walk straight into another mystery. For the full entry, see alt text. #ttrpg #rpg #advent #adventgame #solojournaling

Day 14 Advent of Adventure Before they can escape with Mr Treacle, the Dragon shows up! Oh no! For the full entry see the alt text. #advent #adventgame #ttrpg #rpg #solojournaling

Day 13 Advent of Adventure Holly makes it to the recycling facility where Mr Treacle's crack team have not be idle! For full entry see alt text #advent #adventgame #ttrpg #rpg #solojournaling

"We’re toy executives, Pam. Just toy executives." 😂

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Happy Benoit Blanc day for those who celebrate!

Advent of Adventure Day 12 Holly makes it out of the tunnels and meets up with some friends. #advent #adventgame #ttrpg #rpg #solojournaling

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis Discuss the appropriate amount of women for a fantasy book youtube.com/shorts/KuLc6...

I completely forgot to post about this this morning, but today's chapter of The Mouth Of Winter has been live for a few hours! We're into dungeon crawl territory now. You should read it. loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025

Christmas has come early!

If the last 5 years of your social media history doesn't get ban you from Trump's USA, then we can't be friends 🙅‍♀️💁‍♀️

All the less reputable papers are obsessed with the idea that a Triple Snow Bomb Blizzard will strike the UK on the 20th and we will be under meters of the white stuff. None of the more reliable outlets (including the met office agree). But I so badly want the stuck clock to be right this time!

Advent of Adventure Day 11 Holly suddenly realises she knows where to go to start taking back control of North Pole HQ! See alt text for the full diary entry #Advent #Adventgame #ttrpg #rpg #solojournaling

A game? For me? I should wait to consume it later but I'm sooo hungry. (It's our new copy of Against Time And Death!)

A treat for myself and hopefully some other players. Lovecraftesque by Black Armada Games (@armadajosh.bsky.social and @beckyannison.bsky.social)

This week's video is a solo play through of The Dead Letter Society! @montfordtales.com

Typical RPG session in literally any game.

The company behind the mcdonalds ad: Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.

New episode of Black Armada Tales is out! Beyond the dark emptiness of space, beyond dreaming, lies the Tenebrium. Only you can unearth its mysteries, defeat the twisted horrors that lurk there, and keep humanity from becoming prey. #actualplaypodcast #realplay #ttrpg #rpg

Day 10 of Advent of Adventure! Someone from the past with a big grudge has turned up with the Dragon's invading forces. Full entry in the alt text. #advent #adventgame #ttrpg #rpg #solojournaling

Hi all! I'm casting my paid mockumentary about YouTube drama culture ($500 CAD, about 3-4 minutes of dialogue, self-tape from home). Looking for a trans woman to play JENNA, an indie TTRPG creator whose Kickstarter blows up and then falls apart. Details + sides: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Woohoo! Thanks @ickbat.bsky.social Looks marvellous! 🙂

Day 9 of Advent of Adventure and Santa is locked up with the rest of the elves and reindeer in the stables! For the full entry - read the alt text #advent #adventgame #rpg #ttrpg #solojournaling

Only four days to go and it's still not funded. Check out the play report on this update to see if you might want to support this project.

I would do very badly at The Traitors. Mostly because I'm falling asleep so early in the evening, I wouldn't manage to stay awake through the round table.

Taxes are done and filed! Now I can sit back and enjoy the festive season. Merry Taxmas!

these kinds of videos always prompt a certain Pratchett quote in my brain, from Thief of Time

Day 8 of Advent of Adventure Holly has escaped the arrival of the Dragon and it's minions at North Pole HQ. But who are these minions and why do they look so familiar? Full entry in the alt text. #solojournaling #advent #adventgame #ttrpg #rpg

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Day 7 of Advent of Adventure Full entry is in the alt text. #solojournaling #ttrpg #rpg #adventgame #advent2025

Less than a week left to back Mud Ghost Estate Redux on Kickstarter! ✨ MGER is a TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore and urban legends with a tumbling tower mechanic, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted housing estate built in the 60s. 👻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.

Just having a little read of the D&D starter set rules. It's funny the hoops we jump through to try and make a high number be good. You've got stats from 3-18, you've got a d20, the mechanic should be obvious. But no - you have stat modifiers, because a high roll needs to be good.

Attack of Opportunity is the nerd version of the Offside Rule. #ttrpg