Isabelle (Thistle), Anxiousmimicrpgs

Even from the most selfish perspective, people who like your friend's games might also like your games, and your friend being successful makes them more likely to be able to amplify *your* game successfully (also having friends to talk about game design with is awesome)

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

I had a chance to playtest this and it was an extremely fascinating experience. Suzi has a lot to say about bodies, highly recommend checking it out

A Mirror Reflecting Nothing by Goat Song Publishing

My latest game is live!
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We Eat Roses To Grow Thorns by anxiousmimicrpgs An autobiographical and cruel game

Just read through @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social’s We Eat Roses to Grow Thorns and it’s a deeply impactful work, weaving metaphor and mechanic to create a very compelling game that I would only want to play with a specific group.

anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io/we-eat-roses

The Literary TTRPG Tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) are an transitional medium. They stand between a large number of other media, which they borrow from and interact with in varying ways depending on the specific…

My latest blog is out!

It's mostly about TTRPGs as a transitional medium, but also there is focus on the way that literature has inspired TTRPGs and will continue to do so.

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We Eat Roses To Grow Thorns by anxiousmimicrpgs An autobiographical and cruel game

anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io/we-eat-roses
I wrote a Belonging Outside Belonging autobiography. It's weird and fairly hostile

This is what I would call "Micro Belonging Outside-Belonging," aka not much more than 5 character playbooks and 5 setting playbooks

The text "We Eat Roses to Grow Thorns. An autobiographical game for 2-5 players. By Thistle.M.Ruebsaat" on a white background, framed on both sides by black thorny vines with roses growing on them

Been working on an autobiographical game recently, probably gonna release later this week.

Excited to check it out! Glad you enjoyed

Hey @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social ! The YouTube VOD of my Haven one-shot set in the Star Wars Universe about Forces Witches has dropped. This was a love letter to The Acolyte and the Night Witches of Dathomir. Thank you for writing such an amazing game.

TALETELL HEARTS HAVEN STAR WARS EVENT STAR WARS THE POWER OF MANY MAY THE 2ND, 2025 10:30A EST TWITCH.TV/ TALETELLHEARTS @BENDYMITCHELL BENDY @SALVADORALIEN DIEGO @KEICHIOKAMI GAME MASTER OKAMI @ASHTYNBRIANNE GARNET @SHRUBOFMANYHUES HEATHER

Tomorrow morning join me on the Outer Rim forest planet of Cyrus, where a Coven of witches have taken refuge for centuries. Only for their peace to be threatened by The First Order… The Power of Many.

Featuring Haven by @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social

#StarWars #bipoc #ttrpg #charity #Maythe4th

Was talking a while ago in the PCG discord about "Growing Into" as a third scale - filling out a playbook or replacing moves and abilities with more restrictive (but perhaps more powerful) ones. Reducing choices as characters advance rather than increasing them

40% or $40 by gamesfromthewildwood A bundle by gamesfromthewildwood, $40.00 for 12 games

hey folks. I know money is tight all over, but it has been a time of great health costs for me lately (plus taxes, minus some delayed income).

so if you’re interested in my games they’re currently 40% off (or you can grab everything I’ve ever published for just $40). cheers!
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Move for Harpies (corrupted girls)

One important part of Girl Frame is that the Handler, the GM role, also is a dedicated character with their own rules #ttrpg

Buried Without Ceremony

I've set up an itch page for Buried Without Ceremony (including some community copies of each title)! If you're part of the itch community and love anything I've made, I'd love it if you left a comment or review. buriedwithoutceremony.itch.io

Restocked!

Necromancer Heretic
The Skeletons
The World We Left Behind

www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/

8/8 basic moves written for Girl Frame #ttrpg #indierpg #mecha

One of the 8 basic moves for Girl Frame

PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING by Sage The Anagogue A dark erotic PBTA game about undead teenagers with no hope in sight.

PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING, CHAPTER ZERO: ALLOSTATIC HYPERVIOLENCE is now available on itchio! are you unhappy with a culture of sex negativity and repression? do you crave games that lean harsher, grosser, weirder? do u ever wonder "what if slugblaster was a porno?"
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SpireStream For Trans Rights YouTube video by Sarah Z

i'm with @sarahz.bsky.social , @ladyemily.nebula.tv , and @austinwalker.bsky.social right now as sarah plays SLAY THE SPIRE and we raise money for trans rights! www.youtube.com/live/iQ1FbkI...

BAD GIRL A public favourite - either as a sexy dark celebrity or a ‘love to hate her’ personality, BAD GIRL is a lithe all-black frame with a focus on elegance and overwhelming combat power. She’s fragile, and has been reported to have deleterious effects on her pilot’s psyche through the neurolink. +1 Wired, +1 Light Selfish You can always choose to not exhaust your Bond Dice by giving the Girl helping you a consequence. Assets Darkmatter Pistol (Primary Weapon). A long-barreled pistol that fires explosive rounds, good for giving them a show. Dark Knight (Aesthetic). Wide, sweeping moves and dark coloration makes the frame hard to see in the dark of voidspace, making it work better solo. Talents (+1D) Brush them off. Cause collateral damage. Throw yourself into an unwinnable fight.

A frame for Girl Frame: BAD GIRL #ttrpg #indie

This frame is an Autocrat-Type, meaning its pilots are celebrities or propaganda pieces

Ogopogo?

Me too! I also just learned about Hawkmoth King and I'm super excited for that 👀

PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING. The Cement Factory Fire claimed the lives of eleven young adults, teenagers tragically lost to the flames of their betrayal, as a twelfth scattered cigarette ashes which lit the fumes and burned the old building down. Yet the next day, all eleven were asleep in their beds and returned to their lives on Monday. How could this be? PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING. For in their moment of death, He offered His children a second chance, transforming them into His deathless souls in a dying land, His lanterns in a starless sea, His blade against the unyielding flesh of a carrion-world. PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING. But oh my dear children, we must praise the Hawkmoth King with knives between our hands, for once He has given you the burden of life-anew, you can never again see the world as it was before. There is a devil crawling behind the walls of reality, and he wants to fucking kill you. PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING: CHAPTER ZERO is a dark erotic TTRPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse (PBTA) Engine to tell the story of a group of teenagers, transformed into monstrous undead, tasked with an impossible mission requiring them to seduce and manipulate devils to uncover their true forms, and then kill them by any methods necessary. PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING: CHAPTER ZERO contains the following materials built into its rules: Nonconsexual sex, sexual violence, teenagers having sex, age-gap relationships, bugs, voyeurism, oviposition, BDSM, master/slave dynamics, petplay, stalking, musk, nausea/vomiting, intoxication, tentacle rape, vore, hypnosis, and mindbreak. This is both a list of content warnings and tantalizing promises.

Every time you offer yourself to someone, describe how you are vulnerable before them, and roll +THING. On a 6-, you reveal your secret hunger to them, and choose 1 from below to express. They may let you use them, or they may spurn you. On a 7-9, they see you as the vulnerable thing you are. They must choose 1 from below to express and act upon, and you take a Token. On a 10+, you offer yourself fully and completely. Choose 1 from below which they feel compelled to act upon. It would take every ounce of self-control to keep themself from acting that way, and even then, they are still vulnerable. I want to fuck you, forcefully and powerfully, until I have filled you completely. You will have Sway over me, in turn. I want to hurt you, cruelly and monstrously, until I have revealed my innermost self. Insult me, in turn. I want you to fuck me like I'm your god, to fill my with your prayers and your body. I will be at your Mercy, in turn.

PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING is a dark erotic pbta ttrpg i've been writing. it's like if blades in the dark and monsterhearts made a noncon snuff film together. i'll be releasing it on my itchio (anagogue.itch.io) in february

Text that says: BAD GIRL A public favourite - either as a sexy dark celebrity or a ‘love to hate her’ personality, BAD GIRL is a lithe all-black frame with a focus on elegance and overwhelming combat power. She’s fragile, and has been reported to have deleterious effects on her pilot’s psyche through the neurolink. +1 Wired, +1 Light Selfish You can always choose to not exhaust your Bond Dice by giving the Girl helping you a consequence. Assets Darkmatter Pistol (Primary Weapon). A long-barreled pistol that fires explosive rounds, good for giving them a show. Dark Knight (Aesthetic). Wide, sweeping moves and dark coloration makes the frame hard to see in the dark of voidspace, making it work best separate from other frames. Talents (+1D) Brush them off. Cause collateral damage. Throw yourself into an unwinnable fight.

Text that says: L.U.P. - Let Us Partake A Priestess largely unchanged from her original form, as she autocannibalizes anything installed into her. She eats restraints, her own injured limbs, and eventually often her own pilots. Despite the high turnover rate of her pilots, she continues to see use due to her ability to adapt and grow as she eats herself. +1 Wired, +1 Shield I AM REMADE When you use Tactical Repositioning, you can damage one of your existing Assets to excrete an additional Asset. If you damage a Girl Asset, say what part of you the L.U.P. eats. Assets Biological Keratin-Spikes (Secondary Weapon). Kept well-hidden until they are ready to be released. Autotomy (Form). The Frame can easily detach its own body parts with minimal overall structural damage, and regrow them later. Talents (+1D) Lose a piece of yourself. Wriggle. Consume biomass.

Something I really like about working on GIRL FRAME is how each category of Frame is horrible in some new and fun ways.

Here is an Autocrat frame, which tends to have themes around its public relations and girlhood and perception

And a Priestess frame, which wants to eat you #ttrpg

As if I needed more reasons to hate funko pops lmao

Always thinking about mechs, and girls (girls in mechs/girls that are mechs)

Screenshot of a ttrpg that says: “Remade You nearly die, Foundation medical care the only thing keeping you alive. Do at least 1 of the following: - Change your Girl Playbook to reflect how you’re different now. - Get amnesia, erasing all your bonds.”

Thinking about mechs today