A figure, armed with sword and shield, confronts a suspiciously well-lit crystal set in ruins, deep in a forest.

no good will come of this

#digitalart #rpg #D&D

Dead Belt - Solo, Co-Op, or Rivalry by A Couple of Drakes Scavenge, struggle, and get paid on the gasping frontier, Belter.

(My other favourite solo game is DEAD BELT from @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social which gives a different experience - a meditative loney game of scavenging drifting space hulks and trying not to run out of oxygen while listening to bluegrass)

acoupleofdrakes.itch.io/deadbelt

Rune is one of my two favourite solo games, and appeals to my "moving little people on grids" and "make choices" tendencies. It's well worth a look, and there's a sequel called REAP for those of you who prefer to be a powerful necromancer turning foolish bandits into bloody zombie shells.

There is no accounting for the random wheel of whether things get renewed.

Also you've reminded me of "my hero" and now I need to go and be sad that it got 8 bloody series.

Elements of Procedure by Cave of Monsters Games Interdimensional Detectives fighting Time Crimes!

Incidentally cave-of-monsters-games.itch.io/elements-of-... does a reasonable job of riffing on Sapphire and Steel I think.

Goddammit my brain is shut down but there's an excellent PBTA game that has you playing servants who all despise each other and work for a family who are all a bit fucked up. Combine that with FitD easily and you potentially get a fun Hi-de-Hi setup.

Six episodes I think. Very British.

Great underrated series. I used Advanced Marvel Superheroes to run a one-shot of it back in ancient days.

Ah man, Bad Company was so good. You've cheered me up by reminding me of it :)

Index of Poems I Shall Never Write (Don’t Tell Me About) Your Brand New Podcast p. 42 At the Alphabetti Spaghetti World Championship Final p. 32 Bad Hare Day p. 40 Easy Peelers are Not the Only Fruit p. 52 I’m in Love with the Woman in the Green Cardigan in the BBC Question Time Audience p. 58 Kim Kardiganashian p. 45 Life Hacked p. 60 Linked In, Dropped Out p. 27 Mister Krankie Meets the Clambake King p. 14 Nocturnal Blossoms: Petals of the Moon p. 18 On Sleeping in a Dudley Travelodge p. 68 On Waking in a Dudley Travelodge p. 3 Poem for Silt Awareness Day p. 6 She Never Did Care for Hollyhocks p. 23 Shit! It’s Jeremy Clarkson! p. 1 Sixty-Four Failed Attempts to Guess a Wi-Fi Password p. 64 Taking Cocaine with Wendy Cope p. 9 Ten Unexpected Items to Find in a Bagging Area p. 50 The Last But One Will and Testament of Brian Horatio Bilston p. 55 Third Wordle War p. 47 Untitled p. 21 What We Currently Know and Don’t Know about Gnomes p. 31 Whither the linnet? p. 10 Yes, I Know It’s Called ‘Petrichor’ p. 34 Your Spatula p. 37 Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Index of Poems I Shall Never Write’.

What niche IP would you make a game of?

* Brush Strokes
* K9 and Company
* No Heroics

Two travellers (one humanoid, the other a long-legged creature) consider the path ahead

across strange worlds

#digitalart #rpg #D&D

DreamLands Larp The website for the DreamLands Larp

Pssst hey uk #ttrpg folks!

You should vome try Larp! I promise it's awesome!

Ours is a pretty good starting point too~

Pwomise!

Dreamlandslarp.co.uk

Ways and Means - the recent sourcebook for HEART from @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social - is split into player and GM halves printed in this manner.

An island chain with Very French Names.

Six of Marsh's fabulously and sinister character illustrations for GOLD TEETH. Eighteenth century hats and wigs abound.

Six non-player characters designed by Marsh Davies, each set within a picture frame reflecting their demeanour. Meet them on the high seas, and in low places in GOLD TEETH.

A port on an island where things are not going smoothly for the powers that be.

Hey, so we recently posted these extremely fine maps and character designs by @marshdavies.bsky.social in an update for our GOLD TEETH backers.

Might as well do the same here, because you can still pre-order: www.kickstarter.com/projects/149... Our pirate RPG book should absolutely not be missed!

A solitary figure bearing a green glowing lantern finds a weirdly carved stone in the roots of a twisted tree

the hidden grave

#digitalart #rpg #D&D

... are you *sure* that means I can't be a meanie to you?

Watching @johnnyohnny.bsky.social. Reminded that when you give a player a weapon, some feel powerful while others immediately worry about what it is they are going to have to fight. Someone should do a study.

(There's also a third type who complain they wanted a shotgun, but fuck those people).

Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!

Guardian headline: Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon. There's a picture of a gawky headless robot having a little run.

Thank God! No one has to run marathons any more - we're free!

The Long Read: Mausritter A long first look at Mausritter

What's better than a small game about being mice? A long thread about a small game about being mice, transposed onto a blog.*

*It's not actally better but you should read my long read of Mausritter anyway: https://loottheroom.uk/the-long-read-mausritter

Dr. Casper Darling - Dynamite (High Quality) YouTube video by Димитър Буков

Damn I cannot work GIFs. Here's the whole thing instead.

This is a dance off. If you see this repost a dance, or you are eliminated and can go back to the sofa and relax and maybe have a drink.

Oh 4th edition #DnD? Is that a #ttrpg? I enjoyed reading this thing about a game I have *never heard of or obsessively defended* before. You might too.

Gonna do a little "testify" here. And ponder how much damage AD&D/D&D did to #ttrpg with that innocuous looking table of weapons that suggests spears are somehow not as good as swords.

*Shrug* that's life. I guess?

#DnD needs to get back to its #ttrpg roots by creating content aimed at a fanbase it has just ignored for too long. Kids. It's a lot easier to add edgelord bollocks to a game than remove it. So more brightly coloured goblin stabbing, action figures, and TikTok dances is clearly the way forward.

Had a good laugh, then reposted to tag @flintlock.bsky.social

It would actually be insane of AI companies to not try and capture the surplus value the means of production they are supplying is helping you generate. After all they own that means of production. Idk if anyone has ever written about this kinda thing before, looking into this.

Wholesome thread.