For NYC folks, this class is happening TODAY at 1-3PM ET. A few spaces are still open! Come make a #ttrpg with us and explore innovative story game design.

Workshop | Make Weird Games w/ Nat MesnardSUN 4/17/2026 @ 12:45p-3p Workshop | MAKE WEIRD GAMES w/ Nat Mesnard (3 Sessions) In this three-session workshop, we'll take inspiration from "weird" story games and other innovative indie titles to playstorm new game concepts...

The next MAKE WEIRD GAMES class is coming up on 4/19 at @twentysided.bsky.social! Workshops are standalone so you don't need to have attended the first one. We'll be exploring THE DETAILS OF OUR ESCAPE from @possibleworlds.bsky.social! Space limited:

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New Publisher Listing: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity

New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity

What a lovely review of Why We Fight by @sdrgames.bsky.social! 🎉

Never not going hard. 💪 It's been so fun to read submissions for this project.

This is happening today. Lots of registrations already, but a few spaces are still open if you want to spend your Sunday doing experimental #ttrpg design! Class starts at 3PM ET.

Oh man I wanna play Slugblaster!

This is tomorrow! Space is still open. If you're in NYC and want to design something new, come join us. We'll playstorm #ttrpg concepts using Legos and you'll leave with new game ideas + maybe the beginnings of a first draft.

You 👏🏻 love 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 see 👏🏻 it!

Hey, NYC cryptids, come out! This is going to be a great class, and Session 1 will be exploring @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Lego-based #ttrpg Space Goblins! 🎉

Workshop | Make Weird Games w/ Nat Mesnard Workshop | MAKE WEIRD GAMES w/ Nat Mesnard (3 Sessions) In this three-session workshop, we'll take inspiration from "weird" story games and other innovative indie titles to playstorm new game concepts...

If you're based in NYC and want to study #ttrpg design w/ me, come out on Sunday 3/22 at 1-3 PM for Session 1 of MAKE WEIRD GAMES, my workshop on "weird" story game design where we explore brilliant indie zines & playstorm new game concepts! All levels welcome:

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Clown, Conferences, and Complicité Would you study tabletop game design with a nascent drag clown?

New Substack post live today, and it's about being a drag clown, attending #AWP26 and the #ttrpg design classes I'm teaching this month ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/natmesna...

Can't wait to find out how the Beta version of this cool game I've been making w/ @laurieblake.bsky.social plays! ✨ For my Metatopia pals, this ran as "Solarpunk Naturalists" at the con last year. The title is now officially "Natural Selection." 🍄

The cover of Starlee Davidson: Motorcycles, Heartbreak, & Tarot Cards. The logo on the bottom says Powered by Polymorph. The image is a single woman standing with her motorcycle under a dark, starry sky. Her helmet is under her arm. She gazes off into the distance at a surreal, pink-toned, winding road. Above her, a heart hovers in the sky. It is pierced by three swords. The mile marker shows the infinity sign instead of a number

An interior example from Starlee Davidson. The lefthand page shows an illustration of a robot character in a three-piece suit. It is accompanied by a blurb about them (their name is Secret Danger). The righthand page is a character sheet that shows their name, pronouns, which die to use, their secret tarot card, and their stats

Rather get metaphysical? For a TTRPG try...

🏍️ Starlee Davidson, created by @natmesnard.bsky.social + @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social and brought to us by @9thlevelgames.bsky.social (grab your tarot deck and play the motorcycle-riding spirits of Starlee's inner self, guiding her after a bad breakup)

Stoked to see this recap of my #AWP26 panel from @amandatien.bsky.social. The vibes were SO brilliant and having them recapped in this delightful piece is a gift.

Heyyy that's my game STARLEE DAVIDSON designed w/ @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social about a woman's inner motorcycle gang & their breakup-transcending trip through the woo-niverse! ✨🏍️

For a limited time, MAKE SHORT GAMES is $10 off when you register through the pre-order page for the forthcoming @scryptidgames.bsky.social anthology Tales from the Cryptids. Spots limited! Sign up now! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Make Short Games with Nat Mesnard A Zoom workshop taking inspiration from short TTRPGs to playstorm new games.

I'm teaching a 2.5 hour Zoom workshop on March 29 called MAKE SHORT GAMES. We'll discuss tiny #ttrpgs and one-pagers, and playstorm games of our own. A great opportunity to design your first game, or (for experienced folks) make something new: www.eventbrite.com/e/make-short...

A total delight to play bass in this band of game-writing rock stars. 🎸

Looking forward to @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Story Game Presses: Pitching, Submissions & Publishing" with some incredible publishers: @domsdickey.bsky.social @nearfutures.bsky.social @justinsirois.bsky.social @natmesnard.bsky.social

We're bound for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 in Baltimore, MD this week! If you'll be around, come by the panels @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social are running on games/writing, and visit us at Booth #T425 on the showroom floor.

So excited for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Prose, Poetry, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice" with some incredible designers/writers: @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @davering.bsky.social, @nirele.bsky.social, and
@brigittewinter.bsky.social! Join us 🎲

This is going to be delightful. My two spookiest friends, Will and @brigittewinter.bsky.social, in one livestream! Come watch us ~~~scare~~~ each other w/ how much we all love to read and write creepy queer fiction 💕

Stayed up way past our bedtime for this earlier in the week, 10/10 would stay up late again! Very interesting conversations as a whole

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...

Of potential interest to fans of 2025's "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology from Middle West Press: Baltimore-based @scryptidgames.bsky.social is crowd-funding an anthology comprising story-telling TTRPG, fiction, and poetry! Campaign ends Feb. 27, 2026!

Info:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Fully on board with getting reading lists from Sharang! Thank you so much for joining. 💕

I had an excellent time chatting with @natmesnard.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social about games, the playful erotic, the rise of fan-games (the next step to fan fiction?) and more!

They are cool people, if you didn’t know. Just saying.

Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

This was suuuuuch a dynamic conversation with @superdillin.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social last night! People in the chat were...taking notes?! Tons of good stuff on subversive game design, erotic TTRPGs, and "emancipatory bleed."

www.youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

New livestream! Join Scryptid Games Co-Founder @natmesnard.bsky.social tonight, 2/17, at 7pm ET for a chat with @backerkit.com #ZineTopia designers @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social on their new games & the thriving New York City tabletop scene!

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clown is cryptid; the wind chill in NYC today is NOT cryptid