You do as long as you are doing one of the following activities directed at some object of desire:

1.) Forlorn Pining
2.) Heartbroken Yearning
3.) Wistful Sighing
4.) Maladaptive Daydreaming
5.) General Uselessness

A scratchy, sketchy image of a person hunched over a huge book. Another flies overhead. A stack of books, their spines covered in strange scribbles, rises to the right.

The Library is far older than the Librarians. Perhaps in the past it was open to all, but these days its secrets are jealously guarded. Knowledge is power, after all. But the Far Stacks Exploratory Team has barely begun to index the inner reaches. What was the name of the forbidden book you found?

If you need a brief reapite from the madness of the world, if you need to breathe and slow everything down for a little bit, and if going outside and being among the trees is not accessible to you right now, try making a cup of tea and watching an episode or two of Mushishi.

Encouraging and good to know! Thanks :)

Or perhaps something else entirely? What new forms of goblinoid social organization may yet be unexplored?

• The Seventh Sprocket Collective

• The People’s Commonwealth of Shiny Gubbins

• The Autonomous Republic of Gob (ARG)

• Teapot Wensleydale Yogurt Cup

• The Reformed Church of the Tattered Saint

• The Queendom of Gribblygrue (Long May She Reign)

An indeterminate number of goblins in a trenchcoat. Well, some sort of long coat anyway. There is a tail probably coming out the back. It has a funny hat with two pointy bits an bells on. The drawing is very scratchy. There are some reeds and smudges also.

ou are an Indeterminate Number of Goblins in a Trenchcoat. Your name is the collective title for the goblinoid polity that fills your Coat. Is it...

Woo! I'm actually currently in the midst of (ostensibly) doing a PhD about roleplaying games, but have not yet managed to convince the faculty to let me teach a course where I play games with my students. Soon, I hope...

Been wanting to play "Red Carnations" for a long while, and just ordered a copy last night to play with my girlfriend. Thanks for this!

Light your pipe. While it burns, tell a tale of the briny deep. Speak of the Leviathan that eludes you. Pass the pipe. The next may add to the tale, begin their own, or try to weave existing threads together.

SALT STORIES

This game is played with a pipe. You are, collectively, a washed up sea captain telling half-coherent tales to a seaside bar.

Haha thanks! Hypothetically, how would one actually print something like this on a matchbook? Where is this screenshot from?

You are lost in the darkness beneath the earth. Soon, it will swallow you.

Play in the dark. Light a match. As it burns, recall a memory of light. When it dies, speak your fear. What waits in the dark? Pass the book widdershins. When the last match dies, each speaks a final memory. Then, silence.

Yay! Will do. Thanks so much!

Exciting! I’ll definitely be pitching. Will the selections be made before Origins?

A print format in want of a game.

Maybe I should revisit "to burn a flag"

What do you think makes RPGs a distinctive art form? What makes them different from other forms of creative expression? What is uniquely theirs?

The way I feel about “you cannot kill me in a way that matters” is similar to how I feel about my favorite verses of the Bible.

How about the Earthsea series, by Ursula K. LeGuin?

I don’t mean to diminish the brutal realities of capitalism’s blood soaked, flesh-caked, soul-crushing machinery. Only that the existence of that reality doesn’t invalidate the inherent worth of creative practice beyond its suffocating system of value.

Your friendly reminder that the earth is very small and you’re just a weird little skrongler, skronglin along.

Just keep skronglin.

Weird guy weird guy weird guy you have brought joy into my life this day 😄

This is so fucking cool. The absolute best part of 40k is its Weird Little Fucked Up Guys, and you have brought that forth in stellar fashion.

Hey. I don’t know you, I’ve never met you, but just wanted to say that I struggle with this too. And I’m saying this because I also need to hear it: your worth is not a function of how useful or productive you are. It is good that you exist. And the creative act is meaningful in and of itself. *hug*

🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏

I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.

PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...

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Before the Worms

Just arrived at the store, can't wait to dig into it.

@goblindoor.bsky.social

Hey I made this game! Thank you so much for sharing it! If anyone gets a chance to read or play it, I’d genuinely love nothing more than to hear your thoughts.

I am that thing! Can’t guarantee I’ll actually have time and capacity to say yes to a contract but doesn’t hurt to put my name in the hat.

Your friendly reminder that if it’s raining, go outside and just let the rain fall on your face for a little bit. Or at least reach out and touch a raindrop.

Hey thanks! Looks like you're a retailer? It's not up on IPR yet, but feel free to send me an email (goblin @ goblindoor dot com) and I'd be happy to talk about sending you some copies at a 50% retailer discount.