kirigami dominatrix display simulator: a solo paper mutilation game. out now, for free! aurabellemakesthings.com

send me your business card and I'll domme it

Handbaskets/ In a Mirror Brightly are two games that were published tête-bêche as one book back in 2024, by @snaxwell.bsky.social and @aaronmfking.bsky.social - just picked a copy up from them at Breakout!

Lyrical Ludology Season 2! Lyrical Ludology is a shortform interview podcast in which your host Logan interviews folks from all over the indie TTRPG scene to try and answer the question, "What is a lyric game?" Tune in for insi...

Good morning Bluesky! ☀️

The #LyricalLudology Season 2 crowdfund is sitting at $1,002/$1,200 - that's 80% funded! 🎉🎉

We're looking at less than 10 banners to kick us over the line. Will you be the one to get us there? 👀

Deepest thanks to all supporters so far 💚🐦

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Playing pretend, with some rules to keep everyone on the same page. Alternatively, daydreaming but there’s a book that helps you out.

biting and chewing, gnawing on the outside to get to the juicy game in the middle

Death to “realistic” lighting! More light sources that exist for thematic reasons!

this is how damage works in Derelict Delvers IIRC!

There is a new episode of RTFM, the RPG book club podcast. @snaxwell.bsky.social and I are joined by @breathingstories.bsky.social to discuss "Almost" by Jay Dragon. Lyric games, kissing, and a sly judo throw into close reading. open.spotify.com/episode/73wl...

Excited to play this game online a few times in the next few weeks to get it in front of people, and especially excited to play with Craig!

Did someone say, "Craig, how many deckbuilder RPGs have you played on the channel?"
Thank you for asking! As of May 5th, the answer is ONE. We will play this new game from @diceexploder.com. While you wait, get notified at launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sdu...

Lyrical Ludology Season 2! Lyrical Ludology is a shortform interview podcast in which your host Logan interviews folks from all over the indie TTRPG scene to try and answer the question, "What is a lyric game?" Tune in for insi...

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Learn more about #LyricalLudology, check out the pledge levels, and let's get Season 2 in the road!

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Playing Alone Together My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.

Last week, @the-soloist.itch.io published my essay "Playing Alone Together" about my experience running solo rpgs for groups at Breakout Con. With permission, I'm reposting it in my own newsletter plus a little nugget of my own, where I give my "nutshell" take on how solo RPGs are never truly solo.

Public service!! You’re a folk hero, Aaron

Here's a scan of the Bullwinkle and Rocky Roleplaying Party Game rulebook. Sorry it's not OCR. drive.google.com/file/d/11p2u...

reminiscing the next day

Me - "that guy was hungry! honestly it was rude to not let him have just a bite of y'all. not even a nibble"
Player - "I gave him meat. It took his bones away."
Me - "oh yeahh, that did happen. i forgot because he was killed by the bees for being too loud"

game really good

i haven't been able to stop thinking about "they put a slapstick bracelet on a broccoli blotch baby"

Here we go!

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This is a great opportunity to read one of my favorite comics- it's full of heart and care and depth, and it really understands what I love so much about the character. Superman is an immigrant story, and Superman Smashes the Klan says that's a story for me. Extremely thoughtful work! Read it!

I've been enjoying editing this season's @diceexploder.com and am considering taking on more audio work. Feel free to reach out if you need someone for editing and such 👋

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PSA: SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN, one of the best superhero comics ever made, is FREE TO READ all this month on DC Universe Infinite.

Band-Aids & Bullet Holes Design Diary: Be Vulnerable With Someone - Dice Exploder Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is my upcoming deckbuilder tabletop roleplaying game built for bloody revenge operas inside a tight-knit clique of professional assassins. Here’s a post where I take one...

This week in my Band-Aids & Bullet Holes design diary I'm talking about my favorite move in the game, "catch someone with their heart exposed," and how being vulnerable with someone in this game can literally kill you. God I love this move.

Asymmetrical Board Games (Seven-Part Pact) This is Part 4 in an ongoing series of articles about Seven-Part Pact.

the fourth article about seven part pact's design is now here! in it i talk about seven interlocking board games and the challenges of making them talk to each other in an RPG context.
possumcreek.medium.com/asymmetrical...

Essay: The GM Is Dead In Firebrands, The GM Is Dead.

Here is a blog post that I wrote with a friend titled "The GM is Dead."

It asks: If we can describe some GMless games as "GMful," how might we describe games like Firebrands?

The post is super short (4 min read), and I think we hit on something interesting despite the brevity.

Exalted Order of the Mystic Moose — Prismatic Wasteland Explore a mauve-tined forest full of lumberjacks, maple syrup, sinking mansions and strange ghosts. A Cairn Forestcrawl Adventure.

Exalted Order of the Mystic Moose! A Maple Syrup Flavored Forestcrawl for Cairn by @jacobmarks.bsky.social is now available on my webstore!
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You Will Die In This Place by Liz A nihilistic dungeon crawler about death, art and identity.

So, apparently I missed Transgender Visibility Day by a few hours, but the full PDF version of You Will Die In This Place is now avaliable. You should be able to access it for free if you previously got the development preview.

liz-shrikestudio.itch.io/you-will-die...

this is a one page rpg entitled regime change super soldiers. You are state-engineered super-soldiers from a morally impeccable foreign power. You have been deployed to the world’s largest rogue state, the United States of America, to perform a humanitarian extraction of the President, who must be taken alive to face criminal charges back home. Players: Create a Character. They should have a bombastic name, an absurdly strong power and an ideological justification. Example Names: The Human Shield, Johnny Nukes, Project Necessary Evil, Marshal Democracy Example Powers: Can punch holes into the future, can fire precision strikes that hit everything within three miles, can instantly declare anything a “military-aged male”, can reroute international supply chains instantly. You also have three STATS: POWER: raw force, explosions. AUTHORITY: legality, consensus. IMAGE: optics, media, vibes. Assign 3,2,1 to these stats. GM: Create the President. They are: extremely protected, constantly moving, definitely not resigning. Beyond that you can choose which real US President from the last two decades you pick. Change vibes/era of game to match. Pick which American city they start in. Performing Actions: Every action has two features: it is cool and media-worthy and it causes untold destruction. To carry out an action: 1.Stand up (optional). 2. Announce the cool and media-worthy part of your action, for example: “I surgically neutralise hostile forces with my precision strikes” 3. Secretly write down the untold destruction caused by your action and hand it to the GM. Be specific and cruel. For example: “I level a whole district of LA including six schools and a hospital.” 4. Remove one point from the relevant stat. GM: Write down the names of locations which must be destroyed before the President can actually be captured. Keep adding decoys, obstacles and opportunities for destruction until you are satisfied that the conditions for regime change have been achieved.

new one page rpg dropped

a tumblr post with a user named bvckbiter writing "is this character good or bad" "is this shop unproblematic or not" "is this arc deserving of redemption or not" girl... underneath it is a screenshot from the show shōgun of a character saying "i don't have time for this christian nonsense"

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

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Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author
Poe: what do you think, mary
Shelley: death of the author eh?
Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea
Rowling: i
Rowling: i have to go

The product testing room was also the first room they flipped (after poor Mason Parker)- it was eerie! cards are haunted, probably