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this is what really killed the place even before the nazis fully took over

the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side

A screenshot of a new episode of Never Post that came out 3 hours ago

One of the lucky few. Thank you pocket cast deity for good fortune 🙏

Nobody does it like Patrick Stuart. This has convinced me we need 20 more Avatar movies.

Great post. I've had some good laughs getting ready for the game to come out and this post wraps it up nicely for me. Esp enjoyed the take that he game is trying to emulate the end of a BR (a genre I'm not that into).

I also would be more interested if this were a 10v10 game.

He has terrible vibes in act 2! Get that guy away from Maelle.

Against Dominant Mechanics Some rules guide play. And some rules monopolize it. Designing by omission.

In tabletop rpg design, sometimes gameplay doesn't come from the mechanics we add, but the ones we omit.

www.explorersdesign.com/dominant-mec...

OMG!!! I saw this movie years and years ago, forgot what it was and for some reason thought it was Insidious. Imagine when I finally watch Insidious and keep waiting for the weird dog to appear.

Cataphracts Design Diary #1 - Sam Sorensen Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military

I'm co-running a modified Cataphract game which starts in one week. It's a 'play-on-Discord' wargame set across two fantasy medieval continents and will run for 1 year realtime. We have 55 players(!!!) signed up but will need more, if you're interested let me know samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-...

Every episode of TOS was about racial discrimination, every ep of next gen was about Riker encouraging bisexual orgies, every episode of DS9 was about revolutionary politics, and every episode of Voyager was about an adult catman hosting a morning cooking show, so, alright, not all of them but most

I'm very interested yeah!

That so cool!! I haven't had the chance to do much larp stuff but I'm going to Lost Settlers in the winter that I'm very keen for.

But when I was writing my mega-game card based economy was something that I was very interested in, esp the tension of the same cards being needed in different spheres

What agme is this?

Looooove this one

My friends had some thoughts after I streamed some Tactical Nexus after reading about it from your posts

Dumb shooters are one of my favorite genres. I have a real soft spot for Medal of Honor (2010).

What to randomise when you’re randomising You may have noticed that a common theme in my reviews is that I criticise people’s random tables: Their wilderness generators, their wandering monsters, their weather tables, their treasure …

Surprise post! Randomisation errors and how to avoid sabotaging your model with bad use of randomisation! idlecartulary.com/2026/01/06/w... #osr

Relics — Tin Star Games Abandoned by God. Surrounded by Enemies. Desperate for Answers. RELICS: A GAME OF ANGELS is a unique storytelling experience in a world inspired by The Prophecy, Dogma, and Wings of Desire. It comes i...

I'm sad reading that Steve Dee passed.

Please check everyone's posts about his cool games.

Steve was a fellow fan of Nephilim, which was one of the inspirations for his Relics.

I recommend checking it for its triggered memory-based system.
www.tinstargames.com/relics/

This does mean you can be play-acting colonialism even in very aesthetically "benign" games / stories.

Eg: a zero-combat, cozycore, hopepunk, radical-utopian-anarchist-etc settlement building game.

Somehow the land is empty? Who emptied it?

6/

It's that time of year again when I've got to figure out what game I'm going to be running at Conquest this year. Really leaning towards Cloud Empress since I just stared a PBP game of it and it seems to have a really strong starting adventure.

Has anyone played this? It seems like such a strong premise I'm tempted to pick it up just to see what it's doing in the space.

I tried via credit card verification since I really don't wanna do the others and it's rejecting my card so I guess I'm just outta luck.

Lol mine is also broken. DMs and tits are literally illegal.

A bit of an odd one but Defense Grid Awakening. People thought that game was really cool! Most people have forgotten it's even in their steam library.

Also people loooved Trine at one point but I was always a bit of a hater on that one.

I picked up a thermal printer camera from Kmart and Im a huge fan.

LRT - this particular bit was explored really well in the DIE comic (as is most things).

These are the same people that claim their game is about exploration but their creatures are just a big 5e combat stat block and nothing you could actually use in a non-combat encounter. Bad goals, bad execution!

Damn these guys suck. I really hate their whole project.

If you're wondering why creating faceless monsters you can kill without remorse because you feel you *have* to kill something is bad, please read this article I wrote ⬇️ & do read the *whole* article, not just what's available for free.

www.rascal.news/ttrpgs-and-t...

Was the result... positive for your character?

This one truly is worth a good cry