The Long Read: D&D Adventurer Issue 1 This is a transcript of a Twitter long read thread. It was made available to Patrons a week before being posted publicly here. Supporting me on Patreon starts at as little as £2 a month and gets yo…

I took some time to look through the first issue of Hachette's D&D Adventurer magazine to take a look at how it introduces new players to the game.

You can read that thread here: loottheroom.uk/the-long-read-dd-adventu...

Blood In The Margins by Chris Bissette Dark academia, wretched & alone

My new Wretched & Alone game Blood In The Margins is out now! You killed someone on campus with your friends. Journal about the victim, the justifications, the investigation closing in.

https://loottheroom.itch.io/blood-in-the-margins

CANDLE by Chris Bissette A reverse dungeon crawl

I wrote a reverse dungeon crawl called CANDLE. You go up instead of down. Things are still trying to kill you.

https://loottheroom.itch.io/candle

I feel bad every time I see an international customer has had to pay nearly double the cost of the item sold for shipping, but there is literally nothing I can do to lower the shipping cost.

This sounds like a Dance Gavin Dance song title

Moses said, "this tour is coming to countries with socialised healthcare ONLY"

"Representations of motherhood in fairy tales and their retellings"

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And the Lord said, if someone falls down, pick them the fuck back up.

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord said "open this shit up." 22 So the children went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 And Moses said, "When this shit kicks in, you know what to do!"

I genuinely CACKLED just now

you, I'll allow

Before you respond to an email you should first read the email

Cypher System This is a mirror of this Twitter thread, which was written in real time as I read Cypher System. It hasn’t been edited in any way. You can pick up Cypher System from DriveThruRPG. You can also leav…

A long time ago I live tweeted my way through Cypher Sytem. If you're interested in seeing those posts, they now exist in blog form over on Loot The Room.

https://loottheroom.uk/cypher-system

Outsourcing their most basic thoughts to the guessing machine and thinking that's cool for some reason

If you're feeling the siren song of free short fiction, check out "Sharks Are an Important Part of the Ocean’s Ecosystem" by Vivi Estaris here: https://bit.ly/3Qma2hM

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Oh damn I had no idea, thank you

I still miss Black Static and Interzone every single day and I'm very happy that Remains exists

It's sunny so it's Frankie Knuckles weather

a dungeon game is grimdark dungeon crawling focused on body horror and the consequences of violence. It's a super fast system with loads of free tools online, and it's pay what you want. More here:

https://dungeon.loottheroom.uk

The Long Read: Daggerheart Quickstart The Long Read is a series of posts that began life as Twitter threads, in which I read through an RPG text for the first time and write about my thoughts and reactions to it in real time. You can r…

Ages ago I took a day to read through the Daggerheart quickstart. Here's a transcript of that thread.

loottheroom.uk/the-long-read-daggerhear...

Blood In The Margins by Chris Bissette Dark academia, wretched & alone

My new Wretched & Alone game Blood In The Margins is out now! You killed someone on campus with your friends. Journal about the victim, the justifications, the investigation closing in.

https://loottheroom.itch.io/blood-in-the-margins

CANDLE by Chris Bissette A reverse dungeon crawl

CANDLE flips the dungeon crawl - you start deep and claw your way to the surface.

34% off right now.

https://loottheroom.itch.io/candle

The CWA Dagger longlists are out and I'm very excited. Hopefully this will get me out of my reading slump

a dungeon game is grimdark dungeon crawling focused on body horror and the consequences of violence. It's a super fast system with loads of free tools online, and it's pay what you want. More here:

https://dungeon.loottheroom.uk

I'm desperate for a weird noiry reboot of it

* Potsworth And Co
* Sharkey And George

Oh my god Alex Mack

This coincided perfectly with my new special interest in ambient house