And if you like @oneshotrpg.bsky.social's COOL SHIRT and EVEN COOLER GAMES, you can pre-order both Cosmic Century Knights and our next limited edition tee at realis.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...!

Cameron's been giving me and Michael updates on Path Apparatus before our SBG recordings for the last year or so, and it's extremely cool. So hyped to be label mates with so many cool folks.

Yoooooooo I got to play this at PAX Unplugged with @mmcwh.bsky.social and it was a blast.

in celebration of Marielda Day, here's "Steal Your Names", a previously unreleased Marielda track i wrote for our 2022 NNAF fundraiser when we played Scene Thieves notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/steal-...

Two cool things about this story: 1. Allowed us to learn about other sick Finnish traditions, including transplanted immigrant culture; 2. Divorcing RPG and roleplay from their commerical defintions blows wide open the possibility space for all these other forms they can take.

I have a book coming out later this year! Roll on charts, do jobs, live life, write stories, and do all that other interesting stuff that happens before the first day of your fantasy adventure (and if it sells enough we'll do a sci fi one). Preorder now!

Our life path generator is out for preorder! Roll on tables and create the fantasy TTRPG character you’ve either always dreamed of and (more likely) never imagined. Special thank you to @possibleworlds.bsky.social and @ckunzelman.bsky.social for making this project happen!

Did you miss out on @austinwalker.bsky.social's Realis, @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social's Homecoming, or @oneshotrpg.bsky.social & @worldstoforge.bsky.social's Cosmic Century Knights campaigns? You can pre-order all three & more at realis.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... for combined November 2026 delivery!

Possible Worlds Games is proud to announce Path Apparatus by @ckunzelman.bsky.social & @mmcwh.bsky.social—a study of & system for lifepaths in TTRPGs! Find it alongside our fall pre-orders, available on its own or with combined shipping for November delivery: realis.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

The trick to making good art is working with good artists. The trick to working with artists is treating them like human beings.

Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Oh hey, it's @crabmoney.bsky.social on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social playing Tacklebox, the surrealist fishing game from @possibleworlds.bsky.social designed by @ludopolitics.bsky.social and co-written by me:

The simple fun of making your own Realis stuff was basically the first thing that I was really confident about with the game, and was in a real way why "Realization" became the core progression mechanic, so that even if you weren't homebrewing, you got a taste of writing your own Sentences.

BACK IN THE SHOP! Better Strangers by @possibleworlds.bsky.social A solo+ worldbuilding card game you play using the folks around you as inspiration. Riding the bus? Waiting at the airport? Stuck in line? If you can see people – even just in billboards, photos, or art – you can play!

A few days late but (hopefully!) worth the wait! #MeghansBirthdaySalebration is back again for the month of July! Every day this month, a different one of my #TTRPGs will be available for free on Itchio to celebrate my birthday month! Follow along all month long to snag some free games!

Thank you @decassette.bsky.social !!! and Congrats!! We're very surprised today but AGOS has been nominated for BOOK OF THE YEAR. It's the first time one of our books has been nominated for one of these awards so we will celebrate a little bit

A Tuesday reminder about my Jacksonian Gothic horror game Imp of the Perverse. Follow your imp-afflicted protagonists as they deal with the real monsters in their world. If you give in? You GM the next game as your comrades now hunt your former protagonist! www.ndpdesign.com/imp

This is a piece I had been wanting to write for literal years. So glad I finally got the chance to!

Starting to trickle out these posts about my Realis class art, on my Patreon ($1+ tier). You can see my sketches and decisions, and how I incorporated some stuff from my own Realis campaign into the book's art. First up the Juggernaut. www.patreon.com/sifsweetman/...

Huge thank yous to @ludopolitics.bsky.social and @possibleworlds.bsky.social for trusting me to write some things for this (beautiful) game store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tack...

Surreal news to wake up to! BIG THANKS to my Tacklebox collaborators & to @fkth.bsky.social for seeing something in our weird little game! Shoutout to @possibleworlds.bsky.social @inauthenticity.bsky.social @patrickedell.bsky.social, plus @ipr.bsky.social @heartofthedeernicorn.com on distro help.

hey pittsburgh and those in the greater pittsburgh rhizome: tomorrow morning is the indie game designer brunch at mimic's market!

Tacklebox won an ENNIE! Huge congrats to designer @ludopolitics.bsky.social, co-writer @inauthenticity.bsky.social, illustrator @patrickedell.bsky.social, & all other nominees, and a massive thank you to @fkth.bsky.social for the Judges’ Spotlight selection too! Don't stop making weird games, y'all!

nobi nobi cube

the actual reason I logged on here. to post a horrible comic

my man @logandean.games is the best in the biz

Look who is coming back to NYC in November!!!!!!!!!

Do you have any Quiet Year maps that you've either recorded or clung onto? Would you be willing to potentially have your map be included as part of a book called Speculative Game Design by Mary Flanigan and Laurel Carney, to be released by MIT Press? If yes, reply with a picture of that map!

accepting help is good, actually

Uline is absolutely evil and you need to not be using them for anything no excuse refuseuline.com

yub nub delilah what's it like in ewok city

I really think everyone in the scene should participate in one page game jam. Get an idea out that you’d never otherwise make, don’t get consumed by scope creep, riff on some untested theory shit, and let your guard down for a minute.

Because it came up a bit over the weekend, I'm going to reiterate something here for all my #ttrpg designing pals, new & old. Using AI can only shrink your audience. No one is excited to see AI, and plenty of folks abhor it. When you use AI, you attract no one new & repulse more than you know. …

Why do you get angry if you have to look up a word while reading. Does it also piss you off to meet cool new people at a party

tonight!

The Religion & Occultism Faction! My last piece #Realis from @possibleworlds.bsky.social

i released three new games yesterday. if you like weird roleplaying games, you'll like at least one of these. i've been working on polishing them all year and am really happy with how each one turned out (even if Into A Warm Sun might be too intense for me to ever play again)

Get bloody this weekend, Blood Borg is free (along with adventure compilation Blood Borg Sucks and dftq standalone standoff game Blood Lock) itch.io/s/191590/blo... All these games are in beautiful print editions available at Worldchamp.io/store

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Give me the Magi-Nation Duel TTRPG rights.

I think ideally it’s fun and refreshing to talk about your craft with others and it’s a shame people in the games space dread it so much. I like to talk about the things I care about and how I care about em!

new Linnea alert!!

OK, there it is. The Prisoners on Dozmary Craig, full edited .pdf, 191 p

Could not be more excited for this. Jack, Elemei, and the whole team at LIC have worked so hard on this, and it's SO exciting

i truly cannot tell you how proud and excited i am to say that the marielda soundtrack, in a really extraordinary form, will be coming to vinyl in collaboration with @lostincult.co.uk

I'll be walking around Origins this Sunday! Let me know if you'd like to say hello or if there's a booth/release that ought to be on my radar. Making the day trip from PGH to catch up with colleagues and demo other people's games for a change.

For two decades I've been too lazy to code and deploy this tool, but here: this takes a sequential pdf and returns an imposed zine version: humaniterations.net/imposedonline/

uno’s still got it

WAIT I FORGOT WE CAN DO CAROUSELS NOW Here's all my Realis art in BW

Sorry that’s my bad I produced 2.1 million words about my oc Elias Thorne the lighthouse clockmaker and put it on a plaintext website in 1998. Whoops!

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT! Here's @gryme.bsky.social's Blackguard illustration from Realis for reference. @theuglymachine.bsky.social absolutely NAILED it.