“anthology of the killer” is one of the only video games i would lay down my life for. you play it and find yourself thinking “we could’ve been doing stuff like this the entire time?”

Null space booklet

Null space gig work packet

NULL_SPACE physicals are here! The basic rules are a square-bound stapled booklet, while GIG_WORK; is a little folio containing four Jobs.

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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.

Quick Stakes For Tense Situations Quickly create and adjudicate tense situations.

Remember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form!

Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie)

www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...

It is now present.

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Death Has Come to This Town by Binary Star Games

A revised version, more refined and complete with layout, is now available.

binary-star-games.itch.io/death-has-co...

The Play Reports Fleurons, Mother of all Bullets

I'm not here to tell you whether to use bullet points or not, but I will tell you the history of them!

#blog #ttrpg #rpg #typography

theplayreports.com/posts/fleuro...

the cover was done by an artist whose work i love love love!

www.instagram.com/poliaths/

the interior art is all collages of edited public domain work by me 🙂 all the pieces i pulled from (plus others i used for inspo) are collected on artvee here!

artvee.com/s_collection...

a rocky spire covered in vines reflected across a sea of white water lilies. text: "in a petal unlimited"

a 12-room dungeon map for OSR-styled TTRPG Wyrm. title: "descent". text: "Up here, the wind pushes at your chest like held breath. What little grass finds purchase this high will be gone by night anyway. Below, everywhere: lilies."

four praying knights with hands pressed together in prayer. the knights are copies of each other, each copy is a different color (pinkish, purplish, mintish, goldish). their heads meet in the center, but are covered by a large top-down illustration of a water lily. the background is noisy geometric lines against a black backdrop.

just released my submission for @gilarpgs.bsky.social's WYRM jam!

it's a dungeon set inside a spire on a tranquil sea. each sunset every flower on the sea withers and dies. except for the lilies.

there's plenty of community copies available. enjoy! 🪷

giantrobottackler.itch.io/in-a-petal-u...

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.

Play Is Canon — Prismatic Wasteland What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in play, rather than what is m...

New Blogpost: Play Is Canon
What are the sources of "truth" about the world of your tabletop setting? For me, the paramount truth derives from play itself. This is my synthesis of blorb and anti-canon.
#osr #ttrpg

get them good poems right here, ladies:
violentmedia.itch.io/they-dont-te...

Rose Playing Games Episode 6 – Experience - This Vorpal Coil There are quite a few puns I could make to introduce this topic, so I'll save us both some time and let you imagine your favorite one. There, feeling better? Now you're ready to watch the sixth instal...

This week I put on my witch hat to take advantage of geometric mage progression. Episode 6 of Rose Playing Games is out!

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!
www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop/p/exalt...

The Explorateur: Issue #18 Monthly design jams, critique, theory, and inspiration for tabletop rpg designers by rpg designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

A decidedly unfunny, non-jokey newsletter for April 1st, it's The Explorateur! This month's issue has a landslide of design links including a call for volunteer judges for The Awards.

Oh! And there's a non-rpg link all about book cover art rates 👀

www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

I made a blogpost about this. Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene and The Quest for Generic "Authentic" Slop.

The Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene has a Gen AI problem!

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Energy Coin Adventure Design A mental model to frame up adventures.

⚡ NEW BLOG POST! I'm back talking about adventure design, this time laying out a mental model for 'energy' inside of an adventure. It's a simple and effective way to categorize elements inside of the scenario and look for stagnation and chaos. Check it out! ⚡

www.mindstormpress.com/energy-coin-...

Relative Resolution in Small Souls The resolution mechanics and character specification of Small Souls and a wee bit more.

Honey, wake up. A new resolution mechanic just dropped!
errantthinking.com/relative-res...

The Play Reports Designing Location Blocks

Taking inspiration from the idea of Lore Blocks by @explorersdesign.bsky.social and talking deeply about Location Blocks in the Blogosphere!!

theplayreports.com/posts/locati...

#ttrpg #rpg #blog #design #layout

Circuit Crawls WF over at Prismatic Wasteland called for a blog bandwagon back in February to discuss the topic of maps. I perseverated for a while about whether I had anyt...

Been a little while! Put together an essay about how to use circuit design principles to think about pointcrawls in #osr and adventure games.

tbr.bearblog.dev/circuit-craw...

THE KNIGHT ERRANT: EXPANDED EDITION'S PHYSICAL EDITION IS OUT NOW! The first Indonesian Tabletop RPG product published internationally!

www.copypastecoop.com/shop/p/the-k...

Thank you @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social, @daniellocke.bsky.social, Copy/Paste Co-op as our publisher!

#osr #tabletoprpg

Extra Ordinary by Kodi Gonzaga A TTRPG about kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world!

so uh. Extra Ordinary 2e is out now on itch. jaztice.itch.io/extra-ordinary

#ttrpg #indiettrpg #ttrpgcommunity

physical softcover files have been sent to the printer too

i'm still in shock??? yeah

Half off to help a gal out! by Evey Lockhart A bundle by Evey Lockhart, $49.69 for 64 games

save me, gays in my phone
itch.io/s/182574/hal...

Like Flowers, We Wither & Die by viendhita A system-agnostic horror TTRPG one-shot.

A friend of @harbowoputra.bsky.social and mine, Pandu, has just released from his first Tabletop RPG adventure! It's a system agnostic Horror pamphlet adventure involving a creepy motel and a forest entity. Do check out this new Indonesian creator's work!

viendhita.itch.io/like-flowers...

i wrote one of the guys of all time for this bad boy

one thing about me: if you release a cool game and make a jam to support it, i will use it as an excuse to cook up a dungeon for sickos. here's some teaser art 🕯️

Cover of The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition. The Knight Errant is holding a sword, frozen in place. Behind him are two astronauts, a ghoul, and a shoggoth. Written by IsaacIsaAfraid Art by Citaaticat Published by Copy/Paste Co-op Made for Mark of the Odd

A spread showing Table of Contents, Credits, and premise for The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition.

Isometric map of the locations in The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition.

A spread. The left side shows the Travel, Portents, and Random Encounters explanation. The right side shows Area A. Crashed Saucer, with the flying saucer illustration and Portents table.

A DEAD PLANET, A FORSAKEN KNIGHT AND A GROUP OF STRANDED SPACEFARERS

The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition is now available on itch! A science fantasy old school Tabletop RPG adventure, designed for any Mark of the Odd games.

Published by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op.

Link below!

Elephantasy: Flipside on Steam Use and upgrade magic items, collect hidden treasures, and uncover the secrets between two worlds in this cute isometric puzzler! When a certain vacationing Elephant stumbles upon a way into the land ...

elephantasy flipside!!! isometric zelda-like where you have access to every item at the start, but you can only hold two, so you just pick some and start exploring. it's a blast and feels like it's more secrets than pixels by volume

store.steampowered.com/app/2284310/...

Myth Attunement 12 new items and new houserules to draw your knights deeper into myth

New blogpost, daydreaming of Mythic Bastionland:

A knight can interact with the themes of a myth to draw closer to it.

PLUS 12 myth-specific relics.

#osr #ttrpg #blog