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I Turned Into the Odd into a Story Game Everyone’s adding levels and feats and slot-based inventory to Into the Odd. It's 10 years old. I think it’s time we start getting rid of a few things.

Reading through Intergalactic Basionland just now, I was reminded of this blog by Dungeon Mecha.

It outlines an approach to encounters that revolves around one question: what will it cost to succeed? The procedure does away with complex series of rolls, replacing it with conversation.🧵

จำได้ว่าเคยมีคนฟีดแบคโพสของ iLAW ว่าควรเขียนให้สั้นลงหน่อย สารจะได้ไปถึงคนอ่านง่ายขึ้น เป๋ามาตอบประมาณว่า ทำให้หน่อย ผมทำไม่เป็น เขียนเป็นแต่ยาวๆ

ถ้าคนอื่นพูดนี่คงเฉยๆ แต่พอมันมาจากคนตัวเล็กที่กำลังสู้กับความวิปริตที่ไม่เห็นทางชนะอยู่ นี่ว่าคำตอบนี้ inspire มาก

Intergalactic Bastionland Public Playtest Intergalactic Bastionland is now ready for public playtesting.  Go here to find everything you need . We're a way off the Kickstarter yet, ...

That's right, you can now try Intergalactic Bastionland in a very early, messy state.

www.bastionland.com/2026/02/inte...

This year's Bloggies Nominees Over 90+ blog posts. And a surprise category for 2026.

The Bloggies Nominees are here!

We are 1 week away from voting, so I need everyone's help spreading the word. Congrats to all the nominees and blogs submitted—this last year was incredible. Forming the lists was equal parts rewarding and painful.

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Damage Tokens - This Vorpal Coil Mausritter is a fantastic game – very few get as close as it does to the Platonic ideal of a post-OSR ruleset, covering so much ground yet remaining so brief. While most of it essentially reimplements...

Attack every part of the character sheet, even your name and character portrait.

Meme with Pooh on the top frowning in his red shirt and on the bottom smiling in a tuxedo. Top text says “watching the superbowl.” Bottom text says “pondering thy blogs.”

Just saying there’s other ways to spend your time.

A lot of good posts coming out for the Blog Bandwagon already.

See a few below.

#TTRPG
#OSR

your thai oomfs are having collective breakdown and yall are welcomed to join

I desperately need people to understand that when it comes to video games and TTRPGs, the per unit production costs of a physical product are effectively negligible when compared to the cost needed to produce the digital product. PDFs and digital games are disproportionately under valued.

Screenshot of itch.io physical games list showing JUNJI ITO PINBALL in the top spot

This is hilarious to me #junjiitopinball

เราว่าคนมองเรื่องงานพื้นที่ด้วยสายตากทม.เยอะไป มันไม่ได้แปลว่าต้องเอาเงินไปแจก ไปเป็นบ้านใหญ่ แค่ไปอยู่ให้เขาเห็นหน้าก่อน ไปเข้าใจวิถีชีวิตว่าชาวบ้านเขาพบปะสังสรรค์กันที่ไหน งานบุญงานบวชคุณแค่ไปช่วยเขายกน้ำยกท่ามันไม่ต้องใช้เงินเลย ไม่ใช่นูกูเซโยโผล่มาแค่ตอนก่อนเลือกตั้งแล้วบอกผมจะเปลี่ยนนู่นเปลี่ยนนี่ ส้มที่ได้แบ่งเขตนอกปริมณฑลส่วนใหญ่ก็คือคนที่ทำงานพื้นที่ทั้งนั้น

Thais on Bluessky are outrageously screaming over the now counting results of the 2026 National Election today.

Please bear with us.

ไม่ว่าผล #เลือกตั้ง69 จะจบลงอย่างไร ขอคารวะแด่ iLaw และอาสารณรงค์ #8กุมภากาเห็นชอบ ทุกท่านไว้ ณ ที่นี้ด้วยหัวใจ พวกคุณสุดยอดมาก การเมืองไทยยังมีความหวังได้เพราะทุกๆ คนจริงๆ ถ้าพวกคุณยังไม่ยอมแพ้ เราก็จะไม่ยอมแพ้เหมือนกัน

Navigation Games Dungeons & Dragons  began as a game about exploring mazes, trying not to get lost as you navigate spaces with complicated layouts. At some p...

I probably need to make my own post in response, but I really appreciated this post from @knightattheopera.bsky.social about mapping.

I appreciated a taste of the more traditional mapping game recently playing through XS2 and navigating that dungeon 🧵

knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/02/navi...

Ask, Don't Tell I am a sucker for the Show, don't tell technique in descriptive scenes. Instead of players that "The worker is terrified of paranormal activities in the hau...

Show don't tell is great, but we can do better by ASKING.

pimming.bearblog.dev/ask-dont-tell/

Bandwagon: The Map is Not the Territory But It is the Topic — Prismatic Wasteland Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed Amanda Lee Franck!

All bloggers are hereby cordially invited to participate in a new blog bandwagon on the topic of MAPS, featuring art (which you can use, remix, distort as you see fit) from @amandalee.bsky.social (Garbage Barge, Vampire Cruise, et al)
You have 80 days starting now!
#osr #tttpg #blog

วันอาทิตย์ที่ 8 กุมภานี้

💚กาคนที่รัก
💖กาพรรคที่ชอบ
💛กาเห็นชอบลงประชามติร่างรัฐธรรมนูญใหม่

⭐อย่าลืมตรวจสอบสิทธิ์ก่อนไปกานะ!⭐

ตรวจสอบรายละเอียดผู้มีสิทธิเลือกตั้งสมาชิกสภาผู้แทนราษฎร (สส.)
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ตรวจสอบรายละเอียดผู้มีสิทธิออกเสียงประชามติ
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#8กุมภากาเห็นชอบ

A bunny sits in their room late at night, watching a livestream of a video game of some kind. The only light is from the laptop, and the bunny is watching intently.

Daily bunny no.3221 is a night owl

Universal Formulary (Art Assets) by Exeunt Press Drawings of medical equipment art for use in your games

Need some free, weird, medical/lab equipment art?

I cleaned up these public domain diagrams so you don't have to!

🔬🧪 Grab the Universal Formulary asset pack for free: exeuntpress.itch.io/universal-fo...

#publicdomain #lab #art #freeart #zinequest #ttrpg

A list of touchstones for Blades '68 divided into Spy Fiction, Crime Capers, and Weird & Sci-Fi. The lists are: James Bond (various) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) The Operative: No One Lives Forever (2000) The Prisoner (1967-68) The Italian Job (1969) Get Carter (1971) Ocean’s Eleven (1960 and 2001) Le Samouraï (1967) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Soylent Green (1973) Logan’s Run (1976) THX 1138 (1971) Jason King (1971-72) The Avengers (1961-69) The Sandbaggers (1978-80) The Ipcress File (1965) GTA: London 1969 (1999) Bullitt (1968) Ronin (1998) Lupin III (various) Alphaville (1965) Thunderbirds (1965-66) A Clockwork Orange (1971) The 10th Victim (1965) The Conversation (1974) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Funeral in Berlin (1966) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) The Gentlemen (2024) Danger: Diabolik (1968) The Getaway (1972) The Long Goodbye (1973) Discovering Scarfolk (2014) Disco Elysium (2019) Deathloop (2021) and We Happy Few (2016).

Blades '68 launches Tuesday! This official expansion for Blades in the Dark twists the kaleidoscope of tone and genre.
Subversive spy games, daring heists, and paranormal mindbenders await you under the radiating light of an artificial sun.
Enter the Bluetime:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

A group of witch hunters descends on a mountain during a lightning strike

Witchfinders
Bastardized Classics
For @sivads-sanctum.bsky.social
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The cover of Blades in the Dark next to the cover of Blades '68

In celebration of the imminent Blades ‘68 campaign, I thought I’d talk a bit about its graphic design.

BUT FIRST let’s compare and contrast with the graphic design of Blades in the Dark, a landmark in the history of RPG layout.

Type nerdery ahoy 🧐

Bottom-up organization for RPG notes Everyone who says how they know your RPG notes should be organized is wrong. Except for me. In this post, I am going to outline a theory of organization ...

Noel writes about how to organize your RPG notes. I keep meaning to try Obsidian, which he recommends. My typical approach is long text files (or Google Docs). Making baby wikis seems neat.

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Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

A mental inventory for occult horror campaigns: an HPless system A character’s psyche is composed of slots into which thoughts of various sizes can be inserted. Interactability stems from your limited ability to move and rotate them.

The cowfrog blog has an absolute fascinating proof of concept. a "mental inventory" where you track your character's positive and negative thoughts, and it doubles as a wellbeing system for horror games

cowfrog.bearblog.dev/a-mental-inv...

THE 1E MANIFESTO Game Design, Distilled

@200proofgames.bsky.social wrote the 1E Manifesto on publishing games as an iterative process. stop worrying about being done, complete, or perfect

“Once you put FIRST EDITION on something, it implies a SECOND EDITION will someday arrive.”

200proof.games/manifesto/

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Next level: why China’s game makers are quietly bankrolling generative AI From scripts and storylines to customer service and user-generated worlds, developers are deploying LLM tools across the gaming pipeline.

I spoke to the South China Morning Post about how Chinese video game companies are using generative AI across game development, operations, publishing to marketing and player engagement.

A look at what Tencent, NetEase, MiHoYo (HoYoverse) and others are doing.

www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...

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