Yog-sothoth.com is closing. Already locked except the farewell thread. Those forums got me into RPGs in the first place and were an incredible resource - the internet as it should have been, filled with courtesy and education.

Wait, one more thing this year. Check out this game, Before the Worms by Intrepid Gremlin: intrepid-gremlin.itch.io/before-the-w... It cuts straight to raw, real core of conspiracy horror. It's as apt a description of reality as it is a game. Worth a read for anyone interested in horror RPGs.

Yeah I don't have a roundup this year. I just have a list of games I want to play next year. Maybe I'll write some. We'll see.

I don't even block people and I'm still happy with the discourse I see on here. Y'all are cool. Keep at it.

Here, have a blog post where I give surprisingly serious answers to the eternally unanswerable questions of RPGs, like "What's the OSR?" and "how do I get my group to meet on time?"

"You there, boy! What day is it?"

Looking for a last-minute gift for the gamer in your life? Check out the locally-designed games at your neighborhood book, comic, or game shop! Here in the DMV, @peoplesbooktakoma.com *just* restocked with indie zines after selling out earlier in the season -- come and get them!

Truly a fine and exquisite award!

I just wrote a short horror adventure. It's free. You play the aristocrats who try to murder Rasputin. It's a nice low-prep adventure, because the GM's job is mostly listening to the players come up with a plan and then showing them how it goes terribly wrong: lymetime.itch.io/no-easy-man-...

Me running a horror game for my friends

I need some help putting together a list of annoyingly frequent RPG questions. Anyone have suggestions? Here's my list so far: -"What's the OSR?" -"Does system matter?" -"How do I get my group to try something other than D&D?"

I feel like 99% of the time if a game is named after one of its mechanics, it's going to be a good game.

Sure, sorcerer wasn't a playable D&D class in 1987, but they were a playable class in Chaosium's World of Wonder, published 5 years earlier.

Now this is a neat idea: cowfrog.bearblog.dev/a-mental-inv...

Holy cow, Turn It Off is an incredible example of publishing a breathtakingly beautiful RPG adventure with a $0 art budget (and ofc without AI art): cloud-press-publishing.itch.io/turn-it-off

Cool d100 cyberpunk game going into its final stretch on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

For anyone going to #dragonmeet, swing by booth E15 for some excellent horror games by the wonderful @irny.bsky.social social and the renowned @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social! Sarah miiiight also have a super limited run UK 3-color printing of my game Fear and Panic if you ask somberly enough.

I'm calling the next big trend in RPGs as mobile bases that you design together. Already saw it in Salvage Union, Prince of Hounds, and Endless Green!

I won't be at PAX U, but the good folks at Pandemonium will have my games there via the magic of IPR. Look for player-friendly horror engine Fear & Panic and weird worldbuilding game Dawn of the Orcs at booth 3701! Other RPG friends will have their games at the Sidequest Games booth! #PaxU #PAX

My experience of running a FLGS that gets mostly locals wandering in suggests that the received wisdom of RPGs being a hard sell as a hobby is not accurate. If you'll run it, they'll play it. Ask Games Workshop how this kinda thing works

I just listened to @itsquinns.bsky.social on Dice Exploder get very excited about the possibilities of Tetris-style inventory in RPGs and really hope he finds out about Celestial Bodies, which does all those things with Tetris inventory! selkie.itch.io/celestial-bo...

It was worth reading after the "but..."

OSR guys really be like "Games are at their best when they confront the human condition, when they explore the depth of human emotions and pit the rules against the players' desires. Anyway, here's another defense of rolling d6 for initiative."

If you're going to #PAXU, check out @sidequestbooks.bsky.social's booth! They'll be selling a whole mess of great independent RPGs, including my own! I'm terribly grateful to them for the opportunity to get my stuff out there!

If anyone wants to try pushing the boundaries of the horror rpg genre a little, the non-investigative horror jam is still going through mid-December! itch.io/jam/non-inve...

Hi Everyone ^__^ The Jamaica Disaster Relief Bundle Jam is still running for 4 more days until the 16th ^__^ itch.io/jam/disaster... All Games and Ttrpgs are welcome ^_^ The bundle will be supporting Jamaica's Disaster Relief after hurricane Melissa. #JamReliefBundle #charity #gamejam #ttrpg

Some days it's hard to tell if I'm being derivative or channeling the zeitgeist.

"But I want to sound some alarm bells about the influence that these platforms are having on the TTRPG space, and the push toward professionalization that could crowd out smaller artists."

NULL_SPACE IS COMING ZINE MONTH 2026 MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON

trench comic

A very hot take: fantasy heartbreakers are actually fine. Any time a human being sets out to make a game they learn something more about games and about themselves. Drawing badly, singing off-key, dancing like a fool - these are still some of the human experiences that make life richer.

Metatopia begins tonight! Best four days of the year.

hey check this out lymetime.itch.io/we-have-that...

Spellbook are wonderful folks and this game is worth a look. We've needed a solid d100 cyberpunk game for a while!

i'm sure it's fine 🐻👻

CALLING NEW/SMALL TTRPG DESIGNERS: send us your games so we can sell them for you at PAX Unplugged! #ttrpg

#UnderTheAutumnStrangely things

Clearly I need to put out an alternate cover for Dawn of the Orcs.

1/ Since @erika.chappel has released something really neat about Space Marines (not the general concept, specifically the Adeptus Astartes copyrighted by our good friends at Games Workshop) I’ll take the moment to throw out my own thoughts on the Beaky Boys.

Hey so if you just followed me from the Over/Under pack and you like Mothership, check out this game I wrote. It's basically a lot of stuff you can steal as alternate rules for Mothership (or CoC, or DG, or any other d100 horror game): lymetime.itch.io/fear-and-panic

50% of the time I want to quit my day job to start an RPG publishing house, the other 50% I just want to throw an unformatted text at someone else and say, "you get this on a shelf somewhere".

The perfect game doesn't exi... Haven't finished reading it, but I'm very pleasantly impressed by what I've read to date!

The Mothership Cataphracts game on Prospero's Dream is pretty fun so far.

Contemplating how the most influential award show for Evil Hat was the Indie RPG Awards held in the early 00s, before Evil Hat existed as a company. @rdonoghue.bsky.social and I won one for an earlier incarnation of Fate, “best free game”. It was a narrower population that knew about it, but enough…

Help! Someone in one of my 100 discord servers suggested a game jam making wildly discordant game hacks, and I have a great idea, but I can't find which server it was.

New Developer Showcase #actualplay episode! Today we are joined by @lymerpg.bsky.social to play his game "Dawn of the Orcs", a fantasy worldbuilding TTRPG! Join our council of weird sages as we construct perfect tools of war... www.youtube.com/watch?v=elOu...

Time to build a local RPG design scene again!

A couple times, I've been asked by people at public events if you need to know any particular math to design an RPG. Here's a blog post I hope will be helpful: brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/basic-math-f...

There's a certain narrative that shows up repeatedly in genre movies and the YA fiction I remember. It's not the (thoroughly debunked) Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey. I'm wondering if anyone here can help me find a name. There are basically four parts: (1/3)

Belatedly, the September update for TERMINUS! We apologise for the delay caused to this service. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...