OVER/UNDER felt like this for me a lot of the time

Better Treasure The Italian painter Raphael might have stood at his easel in a candlelit Roman workshop in the early 16th century, carefully layering paint onto the

A little over a year ago, I wrote about treasure over on my Substack. I've updated that post and added a *lot* more detail, pretty much doubling the length of the original.

Read it.

Or don't, I'm not your dad.

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we make the last fantasy adventure game

a sort of "final fantasy" if you will

Art is not better if it is easier to understand. Art is not more virtuous if it is more difficult to understand.

Legibility is one of the ways art can be artful. Being obtuse or straightforward is an artistic choice; playing with understanding in this way is an essential part of the toolset.

2/

Finally someone is saying it

Just found out about IGPX, and I'm shocked that an anime with such a cool concept managed to slip under my radar for so long. It apparently had a few runs on American Toonami (AND a PS2 game), but it was never aired here in Brazil. The mech races are SO fun!

brat with marathon text

Huge update! The basic rules are live and you can play the game with updatable playsheets!

Check it out now~

We Read The Bloggies (@WeReadTheBloggies) • Activity We’re volunteers turning Bloggies-nominated blog posts into audio. So you can enjoy them anywhere, in a more accessible format.

A group of volunteers is recording as many of the nominees for the Bloggies as possible, and uploading them as a podcast! I’m helping out a bit with this, and I’ve recorded a few already! Come listen at the link below, Spotify, and several other podcast platforms!

podcast.bloggies.org

We Read The Bloggies Games Podcast · We’re volunteers turning Bloggies-nominated blog posts into audio. So you can enjoy them anywhere, in a more accessible format.

Blog enthusiasts!

It's been a huge community effort. We're proud to present WE READ THE BLOGGIES.

The year's best blogging coming to you - in audio form.

A show to SAVE YOUR EYES and SOOTHE YOUR EARS.

Catch up on all your Bloggies reading before voting commences next week!

#ttrpg #podcast #blog

The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

The Bloggies' page has updates!

1. "We Read the Bloggies" A fan-made podcast is live and linked!

2. A new submission has been nominated, "Book [Verb] Play" in Theory. The other post was removed on the author's request.

3. I've redesigned the page to keep things short and sweet.

Happy reading!

We Read The Bloggies (@WeReadTheBloggies) • Activity We’re volunteers turning Bloggies-nominated blog posts into audio. So you can enjoy them anywhere, in a more accessible format.

The awesome @bommyknocker.bsky.social, @elmc.at, Grace of Choir of Fire @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social and many community members have organized a group recording effort of every Bloggies post as podcast episodes inspired by Blogs on Tape!https://podcast.bloggies.org/

Moving On From Substack That's right - I'm outta here.

It's time.

FINALLY

Skip the Gold; Give Better Treasure Gold is simple, ubiquitous, mundane. Let's create treasure that is anything but.

@grinningrat.bsky.social argues that treasure isn't just currency, it's change. let it carry status, influence, and power. make it precious

grinningrat.substack.com/p/skip-the-g...

Visual banner of Iron & Blood, the January Playtest packet for Inheritor RPG.

Next week I’m releasing IRON & BLOOD, the inaugural January playtest packet for INHERITOR, my dark fantasy RPG.

Core rules, lifepath character gen, a demo region, treasures, and spells - all in the first of monthly playtests as we build toward release.

Excited for folks to tear it apart. 🗡️

these druids ain't nothin to me man

You are Luke's father, put your foot down and force the issue!

Black Ice by Amber Macfarlane An exercise in becoming and unbecoming.

I wrote a game in ~8 hours. It's not fun, but it exists.
Experience being a young person in the alt-right pipeline, and what it's like getting out of it.
Content warnings listed on the page.
ambynavy.itch.io/black-ice

a man with a beard and elf ears has a red light behind him ALT: a man with a beard and elf ears has a red light behind him

when ya drink a little too much caffeine and feel a little bit like you're gonna die

hope ya like DISCOURSE

Looking Forward at 2026 The Biggest Year Yet for Grinning Rat

Stuff then, stuff now, stuff coming soon.

BN-2 The Keep on the Borderlands by Juniper-C A Lyrical OSR Dungeon

A gift, for the festive season, my first ever an OSR. You can tell its an OSR because its made entirely out of offcuts from B2 The Keep on the Borderlands. Its compatible with many games and also incompatible with at least 3, probably.

juniperc.itch.io/bn-2-the-kee...

How to Run a Crowdfunding Campaign As the year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the past months and on this first truly real year of Golem Productions and OSR Rocks!. Above all, I feel grateful for the support we’ve receiv...

This year I ran my first TTRPG crowdfunding campaign. I wrote a post collecting the tools, resources, and essays that genuinely helped us run Ravaged by Storms for Pirate Borg, followed by an interview with @grinningrat.bsky.social on building momentum and community during a campaign. #OSR #NSR

Just Tell Them What They Need! Better Interactive Text in RPGs

This week, we’re talking about… getting to the point 📝!

So, so many RPGs go on and on as if they’re being paid by the word. Which, fair, you might think. Except, isn’t there someone you’re forgetting to ask?

THE READER. AND THE POOR PEOPLE THEY HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO.

Let’s try to fix this.

Interview: Alexander Jatscha-Zelt of Golem Productions From a successful game jam entry to a standout OSR sandbox in Ravaged by Storms, I interview Alexander to get the backstory on Golem Productions.

Thank you @grinningrat.bsky.social for having us on your channel! Nate asked me to talk about the (brief) history of Golem Productions, crowdfunding RPGs, our Pirate Borg adventure, and where we’re heading. Enjoy! #OSR #NSR #TTRPG
grinningrat.substack.com/p/interview-...

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics on the original Playstation. Delita, here identified only as Knight says, "Tough...Don't blame us. Blame yourself or God."

Your cards when you keep a two-land hand, then proceed to not draw lands:

Should you Gamify Role-Play Decision Making? YouTube video by The Tomb of Lime Gaming

Tomb of Lime, as always, re-wiring my brain on RPGs

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You already know this is gonna be a banger.

black and white portrait of triangular robotic head

black and white portrait of a man with a heavily damage left side of his head.

black and white portrait of robotic eye hanging from wires and tubes.

black and white portrait of woman with big eyes and swooping hair

Over the course of the month I drew a portrait or 2(hundred) in #over/under and called them 🩸HEADSHOTS🩸

And @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com said he might put them in the Mothership app so now you can all apply gentle pressure to that situation too! lol

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