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Regular reminder that if you want to talk about RPGs on Youtube, I’m running an indie RPG Youtuber mentorship over on the @chimerahearts.com’s Discord!

Donate to Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery, organized by Jay Dragon Hi I'm Jay Dragon, a queer disabled game designer best known for her work on … Jay Dragon needs your support for Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery

hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ?

i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
gofund.me/394dc2e93

This Week on Party of One FOR THE QUEEN Feat. Anjali Bhimani (Borderlands 4, The Twenty Sided Tavern) The Queen has a difficult journey ahead. She has chosen her most loyal subjects. But can they be trusted? And at the end of the day... can the Queen? Now available PartyOfOnePodcast.com

NEW EPISODE - FOR THE QUEEN WITH ANJALI BHIMANI
@sweeetanj.bsky.social @helloalexroberts.bsky.social

You'll dig this episode if you like: Dark fantasy, court intrigue, finding storytelling magic in the heart of the cards

www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/29/4...

The Rage from the Mendiola Protests, According to Photojournalists On September 21, two Filipino photojournalists, Raffy Lerma and Ezra Acayan, captured the violent clashes in Mendiola as anti-corruption protests took place

At the Luneta Park, Mendiola, the EDSA Shrine, and the People Power Monument, photojournos Raffy Lerma and Ezra Acayan capture several rallies of protest, where rage poured out against a multibillion peso public works scandal.

Adler makes a point: Any game excludes people. Every decision excludes people. The impulse is "exclude no one" but this is wrong, impossible. The question you *should* ask is: Is this game excluding *the same people who every game tends to exclude*? *That* would be wrong.

This point generalizes

Best son 😤😤😤

Launching Soon - Designers & Dragons: Origins From Evil Hat - Launching Soon - Designers & Dragons: Origins

Today we are proud to announce our next crowdfunding campaign. Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social examines the roots, artwork, and lore behind each and every product released by TSR for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D with his latest effort, Designers & Dragons: Origins.
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Screenshot of text that reads, "SPECIAL: Whenever engaged in psionic battle with another PSYCHER, roll + PSY. On a miss, both combatants are catastrophically overwhelmed with a deluge of psionic overload, cascading in directly from the psychonet itself. You both explode."

Also don't worry, I kept the "you might explode" special rules.

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i reference Dream Askew / Dream Apart SO frequently when editing, giving design feedback, etc. & it's such a shame how few have played it relative to other indie games. it's such a groundbreaking set of systems & is upstream of basically every narrative TTRPG since it released. you GOTTA know it.

Sooooooo excited for this!!!

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore”

that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you

these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

i think a lot of conversations about whether or not a game "is safe" would be more productively shaped by:

- how risky is this game
- are players aware of and consenting to this risk
- what are tools players can use to mitigate risk

fundamentally, i come from the assumption that any game can be played safely, that any kind of bleed can be managed at the right table, and that we shouldn't be making games for the least safe, least discursive tables.

Aaaaaaa I can't wait to listen to this episode!!!!!!

This hex as a cool dungeon in some caves, a god-tree sapling, strange dreams, and a bunch of new NPCs even. Check it out!

OMG WHAT

And with that, WE'RE ON VACATION for a few weeks!

We'll be back SUNDAY, 9/14, with our season premiere, APOCALYPSE KEYS (@temporalhiccup.bsky.social @evilhat.bsky.social) with special guest @kierongillen.bsky.social!

Thank you!!! I hope you have a fun time!!

Earnestly I think that body diversity is something that doesn't even come to mind for many artists. It's literally so fucking important to give your setting any sort of cohesion

Polymath by Hedgemaze Press Polyhedral dice font

Before you make your next #TTRPG, check out my free font Polymath, which lets you create a bunch of different dice types in an accessible way:
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5 Lessons from 5 Years I. Dear Reader Thank you to Logan Timmins for making this and sending it to me! It’s officially been 5 years of writing the Indie RPG Newsletter. I started in August 2020 (which maybe makes t…

✨ The Indie RPG Newsletter celebrates 5 years this month. I started in August 2020 trying to build a habit of regularly writing every week. And now we're here: 250 issues, 7000 subscribers, thousands of games and articles shared.

I want all of you dunking on this to imagine living somewhere where a USD2.99 itch game is more expensive than your lunch.

“There’s no barrier to entry except pen and paper”.

You forgot the requirement of being fluent in English, which is often a class and income marker.

Fight With Spirit Quick Deal Champion! This Fight With Spirit Quick Deal presents the digital edition of Fight With Spirit, the sports drama tabletop roleplaying game from Storybrewers Roleplaying (Good Society). Your high school...

Fight with Spirit is on bundle of holding for the next 7 days! You can get this SXSW Sydney award-winning game in digital form for 60% off aw yeh 😁

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Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Josh makes very very VERY cool stuff!!!

If you're familiar with @temporalhiccup.bsky.social's work, you're probably also a fan of Balikbayan, a magic-cyberpunk hybrid that includes recently-freed elementals who have a chance of returning magic to the earth, if they can outrun the corpos long enough.

#mintrecommends: Cyberpunk!

You've probably head of CBR+PNK and CY_Borg, but there's a lot more out there when it comes to Cyberpunk, and that's what I'm jazzed about today! Let's take a look at some of my lesser-known loves. #ttrpg

Apocalypse Keys (2023) by @temporalhiccup.bsky.social

I still think about this art all the time!!!!!!

Jaen is available for work!!!