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10 years ago today we released Exalted Third Edition! Available in POD and PDF via @drivethrurpg.com, this game allows you to play the Solar Exalted, some of the most powerful beings in Creation! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...!

The art of game design: the spark of creation, to find play between the confines of rules and the expression of agency, to marry the beauty of systems and aesthetic expression,

The discipline of game design: fucking finish the thing

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra’s first blog is up.

Heaven help us, I hope this wasn’t a mistake…

Now up on my Ko-fi page but available for all to read.

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RPGClinic Streaming TTRPGs since 2016, we are always working to level up our games - and yours. The team behind ExalTwitch: Nexus, Changeling: The Streaming, Full Party, Star Wars: Reach, ExalTwitch: Academy, ...

Tomorrow afternoon we begin our character creation sessions for #Datafall - an Exalted 3rd edition Sidereal campaign set in a cyberpunk shard of Creation.

At 2:00pm EDT on YouTube.com/@RPGClinic come meet Scott's character!

(Alas, #ExalTwitch makes less sense now that we're on YT)

Is DnD still king? A deep dive into Groupfinder’s 2026 matchmaking data Is DnD still king? A deep dive into Groupfinder’s 2026 matchmaking data - Groupfinder library page

TTRPG data perverts might be interested in this, Groupfinder just published the top ten games people are actively looking to play on their platform, no surprise at just how crushing DnDs dominance is but the make up of the top ten is kind of interesting (if generally still not too surprising)

Current status.

Nico de Gallo's TTRPG AI Alternatives You Don’t Need Gen AI for Your Games. –Nico de Gallo Many people who use generative AI don't know the negative ethical and moral implications of its use from how it's trained by stealing creative cont...

I made a giant list of non-AI resources to use for your TTRPGs and other creative pursuits with massive amounts of art that's either in the Public Domain or Creative Commons!

Comment your suggestions!

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It's done. 10k words covering everything I know about how to make RPGs, from your first idea to getting the book on the shelf. It's not perfect but I hope it helps someone. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/everything-i...

Fighting for justice in the cyberpunk city of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword Where cyberpunk and wuxia collide.

“In those days, the only way I had to work out the disagreement was to make a game where we could disagree."

Emily Zhu (朱保敬) tells us about the cyberpunk wuxia of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword, and why genre alone fails to capture the RPG's belief that violence can be beautiful and liberatory.

An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D Rascal talks to 3 Iraqi players about the good stuff.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy."

Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

Scrying on Iran's Tabletop Scene Despite limitations, Dungeons & Dragons is growing in popularity among Iranians

And if you haven't read the article that we published about the tabletop scene in Iran, please do. These stories are important.

A person in a red and gold ornate garment, stands holding a sword in their right hand. Their brown hair is up in a bun and they have a yellow circle with a corona around it glowing in front of their forehead. Title reads "EX3"

20 years ago today Exalted 2nd Edition was released. You can now get Exalted 3rd Edition in POD and PDF via our partners at DriveThruRPG.com! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1... If you want a rules-lite Exalted experience, Exalted Essence is also available! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Not enough character bios inform me whether or not the character can see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It doesn't need to say it directly but I should at least be able to infer from the information provided.

Available now in PDF and print from DriveThruRPG: The Storypath Ultra Core Manual

Now Available in PDF and print: The Storypath Ultra Core Manual!
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It's a good one, but Crunchyroll has been rolling out noticeably sloppy AI translations of everything for a while now.

I think I've seen stuff like that before, with little "building" animations, but the idea of them trying and failing not to be caught breaking kayfabe would be a lovely flavor.

As a corollary to all of this I would be so delighted to see a loading screen in a game where all the NPCs are running back to their assigned spots and fixing random damage. Obviously in some kind of simplified and scripted representation so it doesn't need its own loading screen.

-More than anything, they must never, EVER, allow humans to discover any of this.
-How and why any of this is true can never be even slightly addressed. It is a fundamental of the world, and to even question it is incomprehensible, socially unacceptable, and perhaps even genuinely immoral.

"What are Toy Story rules?" I'm so very glad you asked
-Their capabilities are suggested by their form, but always allow them basic mobility and communication.
-Their personality is informed by their presentation, but also by how they are treated by Humans
-They desperately crave human attention.

I know there's already plenty of "video game NPCs as fully-realized people" fiction but has anyone done it with Toy Story rules? I would like to see it.

Dana Terrace's 'Knights of Guinevere' Gets Full Season, Trailer Terrace discusses Glitch’s full-season order, her ambition to build a 2D indie pipeline, and what’s ahead for her sci-fi epic.

Dana Terrace’s 'Knights of Guinevere' has been greenlit for a full season, and a new trailer just dropped. We spoke with Terrace about building the series, a bespoke 2D pipeline at Glitch, and what the season order means.
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This bundle is the official launch of Ten Thousand Days For the Sword!
- fight for the wuxia cyberpunk future
- eight martial arts style, a mix of traditional and new
- a uquiz to see whether you fit Yin, Yang, or one of the Five Paths uquiz.com/quiz/B1vYuX/
- 5 recipes, 3 narrators, and 1 horse

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Renting a small auditorium is honestly nowhere near as expensive as I thought it would be. Certainly not a notional expense for an individual but affordable enough that I'm trying to figure out excuses to do some nonsense.

TTRPGs are just manuals for having fun. Relax.

i accidentally wrote the perfect eight words in an outline

I think I'd have a 50/50 shot at killing an untrained person outright by looking them dead in the eye and saying that I'm a dark empath and they're only fighting me because of untreated narcissism they inherited from generational trauma. People with psychology education get disadvantage to save.

Look, Dungeons and Dragons is a mainstream game that needs no promoting.

And look, the Vicious Mockery spell was never meant to be a thing that turned normal insults into physical damage.

But I can't hear the phrase "weaponized therapy language" and not consider the implications and applications.

Saw a video complaining about too many men with painted nails these days and I just think of the steak too juicy lobster too buttery line. I say don't stop until we're all out here in full graphic makeup looks. We faltered at 'guyliner' and we must rally.

maybe instead of writing thoughtful blog posts and theory and manifestos that spur consideration and action you should threaten to blow up the sun so that people make the forms of games you enjoy