Honoured to be in great company at the IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Awards! What Should We Have Tomorrow? Has been nominated for Game of the Year and Graphic Design, and owes a lot to @lostwaysclub.itch.io who was responsible for the graphic design and game consulting. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers
Played Old Morris Cave by @timhutchings.bsky.social. It's a solo archaeology game where you excavate a cave that's been used continuously for 1000 years. You build a strata map from the bedrock up, drawing layers every d6 inches and past events (campfires, bones). Here's my map:
#soloRPG
A screencap of a forum post. It reads: This is my fourth run with Ironsworn since discovering the system in 2021. One game solo. One GM-led game with me as GM + 4 players playing bog-standard Ironsworn classic. One co-op game with me + 1 playing Ironsworn: Starforged. Just started co-op game with me + 1, with another + 1 friend to be joining, playing Ironsworn classic with a setting shift to ancient Greece. Every single time I have turned to this system to run a game, as long as I follow its core premises, procedures, and ethos, it has delivered beyond my expectations each time. It's fun, it's engaging, it produces compelling gameplay and narratives. It's almost . . . eerie, in a sense. Like, there's a secretly a part of me that keeps thinking, "Surely this game can't be this good. Surely it's going to be a let down at some point, or not deliver the goods." But that secret fear continues to be smashed every time I use Ironsworn in play. It's a wholly unique experience of its own that is unlike anything else I have played. It delivers a level of energy and engagement that is unique, and frankly rare relative to other roleplaying experiences I've had. Maybe 1-in-3 or 1-in-4 sessions of other games I've played consistently reach that same level of engagement I've seen in nearly every session of Ironsworn I've ever held.
Everything is awful, but this very kind Ironsworn comment over at EN World sure did put some wind in my sails.
i like my little sister but i dont know if shes the castle or the cats living in it
Another few for the #BlueSkyArtShow and today's theme of #Horizontal
Thanks for looking; I do very much appreciate you✨️
a weird guy
Posted a weird guy on my patreon, support me so that I can be less discouraged by my art career or something.
A green fish with red fins and a big like mouth holds a broad sword – it has almost frog like legs. Facing it is a hedgehog with a rapier and a blue buckler. Caught in the quills on its back are a seven rosy red apples
The jewel you didn't know that you wanted to see – An abides brandishing a broad sword facing off with a hedgehog with a rapier and buckler. Another patron reward for. @pidj.bsky.social 's recent rpg kickstarter.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
grey currawong
king parrot munching on a leaf
brown thornbill
superb fairywren but male this time
i take: more bird pics
you receive: more bird pics
A bunny on the deck of a flying, wooden ship waves to another bunny on a similar flying boat, as both sail through a quiet, starry sky
Daily bunny no.3232 is passing in the night
A picture I took in Iran. I think this was in Kashan, in a bazaar. It's from inside looking up into a dome. The light centers on the apex, where air flows into the bazaar and down across a fountain, cooling over the water and making an ancient air conditioner. I fucking miss Iran. I miss my family there. I miss the feeling of NOT being judged because in the US I've always been "othered" for my heritage and there I'm one of them. Even though they all know I'm from the US, I'm one of them. I hope enough of it's still standing in the wake of American fascism for me to visit again.
Call for submissions. A Spoonful of Malaysian Magic 2: Modern Folklore Retellings. We’ve seen enough retellings of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast in recent years. What were your favourite Malaysian magical tales growing up? Send us your modern-day retellings! Wordcount: 2,000 to 8,000 words Deadline: 30 June 2026 More info: https://teaspoonpublishing.com.my/traditional-publishing/
CALL FOR SUBS!
A SPOONFUL OF MALAYSIAN MAGIC 2: MODERN FOLKLORE RETELLINGS
Edited by: Anna Tan & Hamizah Adzmi
We’ve seen enough retellings of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast in recent years. What were your favourite Malaysian magical tales growing up? Send us your modern-day retellings!
My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain
Colorblind caveman when the tribe tells him about nature:
*Reposts appreciated”
My webstore heycentaur.com is finally up!
This took so many months of labour (mostly my partner’s), but it is all ready and running.
Physical copies of Kala Mandala are now available, shipping to most of the world.
Guardian 🌿
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
Announcing Atlas Imprecatis, a horror TTRPG about ritualistic urban legends, and the people who are drawn to them for 3-6 players!
Teach Concentrically: When you teach a game, you want to introduce the core tenets of the play experience, and then build upon that knowledge concentrically, so that every new piece of information feels easy to integrate but continues to expand upon a sense of complex interdependence that cannot be “collapsed” or “resolved” except perhaps through play.
Wrote this as part of a game design consultation follow-up report, and I'm feeling really happy with how these words fit together.
Three panel comic. Panel 1: gym setting. One guy sees another guy across the gym with huge muscles. He remarks, “whoa! That dude is yolked!” Panel 2: a girl working out next to him says, “ugh, why do guys even want to get that big?” Panel 3: the extremely jacked guy is walking away with a slight smile. He is imagining himself dapping up a group of huge gorillas who are all happy and smiling, accepting him as one of their own.
i am both wound and blade, the torturer and the flayed
#berserk
Made some touch ups to my free game, Marine Squad, a smol rpg about being scifi soldiers with your friends
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Worst Dungeon Crawl Game Ever, slide from presentation
Worst Dungeon Crawl Game Ever, slide from presentation
Worst Dungeon Crawl Game Ever, slide from presentation
Teaching a 2-hour intro to tabletop game design class at Gettysburg Library tonight. It will, of course, include the Worst Dungeon Crawl Game Ever exercise that's gone over quite well in the past. But this time we are making our own cards.
Demonstrates player agency and iterative design.
The Normandy crew got Shepard a birthday cake but nobody was sure what their first name was and were too embarrassed to ask so they just wrote ”commander” on it.
I hope there's room for one more in this whimsical forest gathering! Who wouldn't want to be part of this soulful group?
La merienda by Nuria Figueiredo
35x16x21 cm
#beautifulbizarre #friends #ceramicsculpture #contemporaryceramics #whimsicalart
When asked "Why play solo RPGs?", I try to hit:
- Flexibility: play anytime
- Creativity: build your own worlds, characters, stories
- Skills: learn systems, practice GMing
- Focus: center on one character
- Immersion: explore personal experiences and emotions
- Community: share your stories
The Deluxe Edition of What Dust Remains is now out!
52 haunting pages for a game of legacy and sacrifice. In this sweeping narrative game, build the life of a Pioneer struggling to achieve meaning in their life.
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
Please enjoy my top 10 free browser games of 2025:
1. Type Help william-rous.itch.io/type-help
2. Dragonsweeper danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper/
3. Clues by Sam cluesbysam.com
4. Stimulation Clicker neal.fun/stimulation-...
5. The Collector split82.itch.io/the-collector
You should play We Contain Solitudes this weekend.
While it isn't like, romantic or anything, it's certainly intimate, in the way that a focused two person conversation is. More so given how the game works, but I'll leave that for you to discover in play.
sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
