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Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition is a storygame about doomed travelers on a perilous journey home.

What Should We Have Tomorrow? is a solo journaling game about managing your pantry and cooking a week of meals for your loved ones.

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jess will make anything she touches turn into interactive gold. don't miss this chance to work with her!

Save vs. Total Party Kill - Swords Without Masters After my Apocalypse World game I went to a panel discussion about GMing advice with Robin Laws, Matt McFarland, Anna Kreider, and a dude who wasn’t Emily Care Boss (who was sick). I enjoyed the talk, ...

My review of Swords Without Masters! (In case you wanted the thoughts of someone who normally doesn't play games where you don't have hit points.)

Restocked!

Meanwhile in the Subway

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New!

13th Age Gamemaster's Guide
13th Age Heroes' Handbook
13th Age Second Edition Slipcase Set
Art of 13th Age

13th Age 2nd edition is fully compatible with earlier 13th Age adventures, sourcebooks, and bestiaries.

Very excited for y'all to see a Five Fires AP coming out in a little over a month! It's gonna be awesome.

Graphic with a pink background, the rrd logo and the following text. Just in case it needs saying, we are against fascism in general, and this bullshit specifically We stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota against the ongoing state violence there. Here’s a way to support mutual aid efforts: standwithminnesota.com We are a British TTRPG company, and we have colleagues, customers, contemporaries, staff and friends in the USA. We stand with them, against summary executions and against the growing authoritarianism from ICE and the US administration. We would really like this to be a one-off post.

Just in case it needs saying, we are against fascism in general, and this bullshit specifically.

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Are you ready for Perils & Princesses?!

Episode 1 drops THIS THURSDAY!

YouTube video by Evil Hat Productions State of the Hat - January 2026

Time once again for The State of the Hat! With the latest updates on:
Designers & Dragons: Origins
Streets of Jade
Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts
Blades '68
Dagger Isles
Monster of the Week: Mystic Marginalia
Umdaar
Abyssal
Rangers of a Broken World
Godkiller
Tian Deng
Project Perseus
and more!

The Quiet Year (box set) The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!

The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!

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Hey you from another time zone interested in an open source CSS. layout design for your zines and books and printed matter?

Book Notes: The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction I've been reading The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction . It's a collection of mythological, spiritual,...

Jinns, magic, shipwrecks, thrills, adventure, and 1000 elephants!
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A linocut style illustration composed of black, blue, and orange. A night sky hangs over pine trees and people gather around a campfire. The people are animatedly telling a story. One of them speaks the title of the game: How I Heard It.

@naladraws.com has done a fantastic job creating the cover for How I Heard It. They captured the folky campfire vibes so well!

Follow the project on backerkit to get this cover in your hands physically, and to play a game of gmless campfire storytelling.

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more engaging, better marketing, intuitive rules

Reading Sarah Shipp's "Thematic Integration in Board Game Design" has had a profound impact on how I think about games. In particular, her three layers of theme model has really stuck with me.

I wrote about it at Skeleton Code Machine in May 2024: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/layers-of-...

Tips for filming ICE

Poster says “Fuck ICE Fundraiser for LUCE & the Massachusetts Bail Fund. 10% of all shop sales and 100% of used book and game sales, 1/28-2/1 @ SQBG”

Come by Wed-Sun. We’re also matching up to $150.

Update 3: New Folio Announcement: The Glorious Dreams of Eight Cursed Swords · Swords Without Master Hello Rogues,Thanks again to your incredible support right at the start of the campaign, we are happy to finally announce the details for our fifth Eidolon Folio: The Glorious Dreams of Eight Cursed S...

Here's the full update announcement for our fifth Folio!

The Glorious Dreams of Eight Cursed Swords adds 8 more Eidolons to inspire your games, and perhaps find out whether they are truly Swords Without Master.

Featuring @jnb.art and @pamwishbow.bsky.social!

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the new poster for screaming Metal, a toxic lesbian mecha ttrpg.

Screaming Metal: Vector Soul is a mecha ttrpg about toxic lesbians piloting living machines for exorbitant amounts of money so they can live lavish lifestyles before being torn to shreds by the poisonous arms of hyperspace. Solo or competitive~

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Coming soon: Pilot Episode - Rebooted A musical gmless ttrpg about being trapped in a 1950s sitcom.

As a reminder, next week Pilot Episode is launching! Follow the campaign page to know as soon as this gmless musical ttrpg is live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...

Answering & Not Answering I. Spotlight Apologies for spotlighting myself but: over at Rascal News, I’ve launched a new podcast called the Rascal Reading Club. It’s a book club podcast in two parts. The first sec…

I'd imagine that if you are following me here, you know about the Indie RPG Newsletter but who knows...

New podcast by @newmadras.bsky.social highlighted in this one, felt like a good idea to share just in case.

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I also got it, 100% scam

Has anyone had any dodgy looking Kickstarter “notification bot” messages asking for bank details?

I’ve had one that looks really suspicious

Troy McClure, from The Simpsons, with the caption "Hello, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from films such as ______ and ______."

Hello, I'm Paul Czege. You may remember me from game texts such as "the one about minotaurs" and "this feels like a writing assignment".

January A bundle by Chris Bissette, £150.00 for 60 games

Hello. It's my final week as a full time game designer, and as if to underline why I can't do this anymore, I currently can't afford to cover my bills at the end of the month.

All of my work on itch is on sale. Tell your friends, buy something, thank you very much.

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Home Indie TTPRGs and Art!

My cat is sick please buy my games

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ICE Out for Good On January 23, people across the country are taking action in solidarity with Minnesota to demand ICE out of our communities. Join the day of action.

Our warehousing & fulfillment is based in Minnesota. The company is closed today (their employees are getting paid). We fully support them in their struggle against federal occupation of the state.
If you are not in MN, here's a link to some ways you can stand up and take action.
iceoutforgood.org

A promotional image for Orbital Blues Month with the orbital blues logo on an orange background with the orbital blues spaceman logo.

Attention Spacers! It has come to the attention of SoulMuppet Incorporated that a crew of the galaxy's most wanted Outlaws are planning to launch something BIG in April: ORBITAL BLUES MONTH.

#GalaxysMostWanted #TTRPG
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New!

Monster Truckers: Long Haul Into The Worstlands

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Restocked!

A Land Once Magic
Mythomorphosis: 2nd Edition
Two-Hand Path
Crucible
Murders & Monarchs

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We've recently crossed over 500 backers for Swords Without Master - incredible! Thanks everyone! Thanks to your support we've pushed all Eidolon Folios to 8 cards and added a fifth Folio (announcement coming so soon I swear).

If you're interested in seeing it in action, check out this Let's Play!