My copy of Last Train to Bremen, by @seaexcursion.itch.io and published by @possumcreekgames.com has arrived!

It's been amazing watching this game progress from playtest to boxed set!

Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!

55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

A beautifully ornate schematic structure of Realis as a system of astronomical objects.

COVER REVEAL: With the campaign one day away, @austinwalker.bsky.social & I are THRILLED to finally share @badbucket.bsky.social's amazing cover for Realis. Get excited for plenty more of Conner's work in the interior as well, and sign up to be notified at launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Paper Pushers Print Shop - Open Call. We want your zines! Paper Pushers Print Shop is looking for zines, art books, and all other book-like objects for consignment in our shop. Coming soon to downtown Seattle!

exciting news! some pals and i are opening a little zine bookstore in downtown Seattle, and we'd love to stock YOUR work!!! we are doing an 80/20 consignment split, and you can submit works here: forms.gle/Kt9VrGZWT7Qh...

Belltower House Artist Residency Belltower House Artist Residency is a gift of creative sanctuary in southern New Mexico.

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time -

Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026.

belltowerhouse.org

who knows maybe this lineup will finally be enough to convince @vidityavoleti.bsky.social to guest on an episode

if you aren't paying attention to party of one, you really ought to be — jeff has been setting up an absolutely stacked lineup of guests this season and this announcement is only scratching the surface

JANUARY A postcard writing game for two people, set in a kaiju-filled alternate history, about distant but persistent friendships.

JANUARY is a postcard-writing game about two artists living ordinary lives over five decades, in a world besieged by giant kaiju.

By Indiecade-winning, Ennie-nommed game designer and artist Shing Yin Khor, in collaboration w/ illustrator Jared Andrew Schorr.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

a pink valentines day style card graphic with a faded blue heart in the center. bubble lettering says I'm still good meat. I'm perfectly good meat. I taste fine. across the bottom there are illustrations of blue and red bodies in various sex poses and fight poses.

a red valentines day card with tiny hearts splattered across the background. In the center is a pale pink heart with an illustration of a blue figure getting oral on either side by two red figures. blue text says Save the World About it.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Back All's Fair to play with someone hot enough to save the world

hornywizards.com

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game BETTER STRANGERS by Tyler Crumrine (illustrations by Ellie White): a stack of playing cards peppered with expressive cartoon figures. Text on the card reads, “Don’t be a stranger, valentine!”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game A LAND ONCE MAGIC by Viditya Voleti (illustration by John Gagne): a vivid, technicolor castles cape with a heroic-looking figure standing in the foreground. Text on the card reads, “Your magic never fades”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game FIGHT TRUCK: 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by Crows Danger (illustration by Samwise Lastname): a technicolor U-Haul truck, surrounded by white flowers on a black background. Text on the card reads, “Valentine, nothing worth doing is safe”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game GIRL FRAME by Isabelle Ruebsaat (illustration by MossAndTwigs): a girl in a mechanical flightsuit with a neural jack, standing in front of a massive mech hangar. Text on the card reads, “hey girl / i mean frame”

you know what time it is. another valentines day right around the corner, another set of indie tabletop rpg valentines

Veritable Tales: An Illuminated Manuscript Party RPG Create your own illuminated manuscript and play role-playing minigames set in an interconnected medieval period.

Veritable Tales of Folly in the Realm is crowdfunding now! You play various roleplaying medieval minigames & write about them in the annals. The minigames & manuscript allow for players to vary or irregular play. The game is illustrated (with marginalia!) by @yesthattallulah.bsky.social

you and the the ALOM team knocked the visual design out of the park! the homage was an immediate fit

im going to keep making these until they stop being fun to make. but it hasnt happened yet

last year's entries:
bsky.app/profile/seae...

this year’s cards (ft. art credits):
— BETTER STRANGERS, @possibleworlds.bsky.social (Ellie White)
— A LAND ONCE MAGIC, @vidityavoleti.bsky.social (John Gagne)
— FIGHT TRUCK: 10TH ANNIVERSARY ED, @monsterpotion.bsky.social (Samwise Lastname)
— GIRL FRAME, @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social (MossAndTwigs)

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game BETTER STRANGERS by Tyler Crumrine (illustrations by Ellie White): a stack of playing cards peppered with expressive cartoon figures. Text on the card reads, “Don’t be a stranger, valentine!”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game A LAND ONCE MAGIC by Viditya Voleti (illustration by John Gagne): a vivid, technicolor castles cape with a heroic-looking figure standing in the foreground. Text on the card reads, “Your magic never fades”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game FIGHT TRUCK: 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by Crows Danger (illustration by Samwise Lastname): a technicolor U-Haul truck, surrounded by white flowers on a black background. Text on the card reads, “Valentine, nothing worth doing is safe”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game GIRL FRAME by Isabelle Ruebsaat (illustration by MossAndTwigs): a girl in a mechanical flightsuit with a neural jack, standing in front of a massive mech hangar. Text on the card reads, “hey girl / i mean frame”

you know what time it is. another valentines day right around the corner, another set of indie tabletop rpg valentines

While I vibrate off the walls about this campaign going live I wanna talk about the art @seaexcursion.itch.io has done for All's Fair

Caro is THE perfect artist for this game, read it and put so much thoughtfulness into how to visually represent it, and they blew my expectations away

Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair From moreblueberries - Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair

Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair are now LIVE on BackerKit for Zinetopia!

Get in right away to take advantage of special early bird bundle deals

I am so proud of @captainkrail.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social and cannot wait to help bring their games to life!

Get Ready to Bring Down the Stars From AleshaKills - Get Ready to Bring Down the Stars

The Stars are shining bright tonight. And they're getting hungry. If you want to survive their game, then you need to be ready to fight.

Crowdfunding begins February 10th

Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair From moreblueberries - Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair

ALL'S FAIR is a sharp, funny, sexy exploration of desire under censorship. dillin is doing some great work with this piece —
definitely one to check out this zinetopia season www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

shoutouts to dillin and elliot for letting me give them the hard sell on a cover design that i can only describe as Sex Tetris

Y'all I'm FREAKING OUT.

I wrote a game for two players about wanting to fuck each other so bad you save the world from fascism about it.

Caro's art perfectly encapsulates the game and I have been itching so bad to be able to share it

Please go pre save the campaign for this one PLEASE

A camo pattern made up of bodies in various sex postions, in the center the negative space between them is the outline of a sci-fi gun. Text over the center reads: "Dillin Apelyan All's Fair"

The campaign for Rise, Wizards! and All's Fair launches in less than one month!

AND WE HAVE AN EXCITING UPDATE

Behold, @seaexcursion.itch.io's cover design for @superdillin.bsky.social's All's Fair - a game about wanting eachother so bad you save the world about it

The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025 YouTube video by A.A. Voigt

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

👹illustrations from ‘Last Train to Bremen’ are now for sale in my print shop 👹

inprnt.com/gallery/badbucket/

NEW EPISODE!
The first-ever One Shot musical! Years ago, the band Broadside made a deal with the devil for their success. Now he’s coming to collect. Before we find out what happens, we have to create the band and explore their past.

@rpgmajor.bsky.social

Links below ⬇️

i have known this project was in the works for the past five months and it has taken an astonishing amount of self-restraint not to shout it from the heavens

Rules of Law Is Ready to Play Our justice says who we are as a people. What do we punish? Do we enforce our laws fairly for everyone? Do we think our system is just? These are big questions about the foundations of society, so of...

You know what tells you a lot about a society? Our LAWS.

What do we punish? Do we enforce them fairly? Do we think our laws are just?

So of course I made world-building game about that…

arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/48...

Last Train to Bremen A storytelling game of four doomed musicians and their poor decisions.

if you missed the crowdfund but want to pick up a physical edition of the game, there’s still time to late pledge on the backerkit campaign before fulfillment happens early next year www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

it has been a pleasure working with the team at @possumcreekgames.com to make sure that this edition of bremen is the sharpest its ever been. i cannot wait for folks to get physical copies of this in their hands