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ICYMI... Muses of Play: Powered by the Bakers, Part one on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/muses-... #ttrpg

When Do You Know A Game Is Done? The Bakers Flip The Question: publishing can be the beginning, not the end. Listen to Muses Of Play Part Two.
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Hot Answer🔥: Yes. Normalize Session Zeros.
We're already having informal conversations about the game, logistics, and who's playing what, setting choices... Just normalize it, make it formal...even for "simple systems", we're still informally having the conversation.

Monday Musings #147 🤬 40 Minutes without an Earth

Jack’s Back!
Artemis II as an occult mission.

Good Monday, Gamers!! 🤬
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HA! YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS IT? NO! It's #TurnBasedThursday again!

Devs! Share your turn-based games in the replies! Gifs, videos, screenshots ahoy!

Turn-based fans! Support your favorite turn-based games and SHARE THE LOVE!

GO! GO! GO!
#gamedev #indiedev

And this is how the Mighty Wizard Apprentice, Kormel, saved everyone from a fire pit by walking on air!
[cue: 'Walking on Sunshine' by Katrina and the Waves] #MondayNightsInIskanard #ttrpg

Mine too!

Monday Musings #146 Musings on WIP and Civilians.

Welcome to the Q2!

“I am everyday people, yeah, yeah” -Sly and the Family Stone

Good Monday, Gamers 🤬
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Monday Musings #145 Musings on PBTA Alchemy

Good Mon---Ahh, Tuesday Gamers!!

A day late, but musings on Session zero, PBTA Alchemy and an Occulted KC update.
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Sexing up my placeholder graphics w/Canva while waiting on my double cappuccino! ☕️ WFCS > WFH #indiegamedev

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In the new Muses of Play @scorchadoom.bsky.social and I talk with the Bakers about how creativity works inside a household where everyone makes things.

Game design, collaboration, unfinished drafts, and why creative communities matter.

Like Share and Create!

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Monday Musings #142 Musings on the joy of a regular table

That table…where everybody knows your name!

Good Monday Gamers! open.substack.com/pub/playfear... #ttrpg

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I know it's been a minute, my podcast editing chops have been out of shape... I just completed the FIRST hour of a TWO hour conversation with the Amazing Baker family @megueyb.bsky.social @lumpley.bsky.social That'll go live soon. Until then catch our first episode!

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Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Tabletop RPG A new edition of our classic superhero TTRPG with updated and streamlined game systems, more options, and a new look!

I just backed Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Tabletop RPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

Because @openhearthrpg.bsky.social got to me!! Check us out on Roll For Origin Ep7 geeking out about M&M: aroundthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/episodes/rol...

A Zero Day Bandits (prototype) update. Mad love to Brian Cronin: Black Box Sim for Roguelikes youtu.be/jhcHlg7YhPg?... helped me organize my shit. Anyways, took a break to update my graphics a little and added a preview screen. #indiegamedev

Monday Musings #141 Musings on Haunts, High Tables, and second attempts.

Musing on Curiosity, friction, and iteration.

Good Monday, Gamers! 🤬
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Field Notes: Occulted Kansas City, pt 2 Running a Weekly Monster of the Week Campaign

We’ve added a Curse-eater mentor, an exorcist consultant, and an occultist librarian to the roster.

The Disciples are squabbling, and they have a pet frog monster.

And no one has seen Bennie in a minute.

Welcome to the Occulted KC
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Inside you’ll find things like:
- building fantastic one-shots that rock!
- running online games like a demon!
- planning and trusting emergent play.

I’m also running a few limited online game sessions as reward tiers — a fast CBR+PNK heist setup and a short The One Ring: Moria. #ttrpg

The Play Fearless Greatest Crits Zine A Zine of Essays, Tools, and Table Truths from the Play Fearless Newsletter.

37 Hours and @$600 to go, my gaming friends.
A curated zine collection of essays and practical tools pulled from a few years of writing Play Fearless on Substack, focused on running better sessions and building stronger table culture.

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a|state second edition is on sale at our webstore for a limited time. Check out the source of The Trouble Engine, and the faction rules used in Blades '68. handiwork.games/product/asta... #astaterpg

Super Nerd out with Lowell and I on Mutants & Masterminds!!

Monday Musings #140 🤬 Prepping on a Half Shell

Another nostalgia game is building.
TMNT & Other Strangeness is back on my desk. Prepping Wild Talents for Lifted and new tech at the IRL table.
50% funded and 5 days to go, Help me pull off an upset!

Good Monday, Gamers!
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Monday Musings #139 🤬 Musing about John Wick...the Baba Yaga.

“You're not having a good night, are you, John?” -Cassian

I’ve been watching John Wick and musing about RPGs. So I wrote up a piece on running The Continental at your table. Focus on the institution — not the muzzle flash.

Good Monday, Gamers.
#ttrpg

"you not having a good night are you John?" --Cassian.

Thanks @bowtiediene.bsky.social ❤️ I also second @3d6downtheline.com 🤘🏾

The Play Fearless Greatest Crits Zine A Zine of Essays, Tools, and Table Truths from the Play Fearless Newsletter.

Week one in the books. A new update is live.

Every piece in Play Fearless: Greatest Crits earned its place through play experience.

Small run. PDF + print. If you believe good GMing is learned in motion, not in theory — I’m your huckleberry.

Get in where you fit.

Play Fearless.

#TurnBasedThursday
Seeing everyone’s art/ui work today inspiring❤️ The diverse graphic details help me think about my WIP art direction.

Zero Day Bandits (my Netrunner-inspired deckbuilder RPG) is still deep in prototype mode — placeholders everywhere. Thanks for hosting @runelightowl.bsky.social

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Thanks!!

all the boring, non-sexy stuff for prototyping card play of my deckbuilder: Zero Day Bandits.
'cause nobody's working on a Netrunner Deckbuilder game for me to play. 🤷🏾‍♂️ #indiegamedev

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"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Magic and frog monster shenanigans in Occulted KC (our Monster of the Week campaign), a Zine update and a Zero Day Bandits update.
Good Monday Gamers!!

#TTRPG #Gamedev