Jason Morningstar

Thanks to everybody who said don't do this

A blue strip with black text on top of it runs across the graphic. The text reads Follow now on BackerKit. Below it is a grid of portraits done in light tan and brown shades, with three portrait squares on top and three on the bottom. In front of this image is black and blue text which reads The Blue Way, a game of lost stories.

We are excited to announce that we will be rolling out a BackerKit crowdfunding campaign this spring featuring @jmstar.bsky.social's game The Blue Way, with art by
@arayaart.bsky.social! Stay tuned for more updates and follow the prelaunch page on BackerKit at the link in our bio! #TheBlueWayGame

Zhenya's Wonder Tales Project Update: Zhenya's Has Landed! All Shipments Start Tomorrow! This update has been a long time coming. For whatever reason, our pallets of Zhenya's Wonder Tales took a very long time to move from the New York port to our warehouse in ...

We are dead chuffed to share this news! At long last, #ZhenyasWonderTales has arrived! Share your thoughts! Share your unboxing! #TTRPGs #RPGs #games

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The overall relationship map will definitely appear somewhere and maybe that's enough.

Thumbnails of nine iterations of a big relationship chart, with the roles existing in each of nine games highlighted.

Working on Nine Fantasy Games, each a one-hour freeform existing in a constrained matrix of relationships. I mapped it out and wonder if this is a good way to show which roles appear in a game (one page with each game), and also their connections and externalities. Or maybe it is just chartjunk.

"Star Crossed" by Alex Roberts

This month, we read “Star Crossed, a two-player game of forbidden love by @helloalexroberts.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here:

I surely am!

They absolutely do, in a direct sense (Bunnies & Burrows; The Warren) and in an indirect sense (Any game that uses lyrical abstraction or tells animal tales)

Atomic Empire is my FLGS

The demonym for a person from Xalapa in Mexico's state of Veracruz is "Xalapeño" which I like a lot

Get Ready for The Blue Way From Central Michigan University Press - Get Ready for The Blue Way

Prepare yourself for #TheBlueWay - a game of lost stories designed by @jmstar.bsky.social with art by Samuel Araya. #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming

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Power move

I had such a lovely time last year, and they treated me so well. You will have a great time!

Yes, those are the best

If you liked The Blue Way, this revised version includes new edits based on review by academics, a teaching guide, and a whole add-on that expands it beyond brute force assimilation into a blending of cultures.

Yeah this model presents three asymmetrical factions, each with a three-player subgroup. Everyone has four meaningful connections. There's a six-player "ring" that forms its own subgroup and connects all the factions (In this case, members of the Petrograd set). Lots of thought in this design.

So a famous "was it a suicide, really?" party, I'm here for it

In this case "run it" means do all the non-fun labor like finding a venue and dealing with actual people, but if you are up for that we can definitely talk about it.

This is one of those things where ideas are cheap and I need someone else to do all the work to make it happen.

Group Portrait (Tamiji Najito, Boris Pasternak, Sergei Eisenstein, Olga Trejakova, Lili Brik, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the Soviet Diplomat Voznesensky)

This entire thing was inspired by this photo

You aren't wrong

It's fine! I think the folks who would have told me were at GTS all week. Thank you for sharing the good news.

Dibs on Mayakovsky

Love ya Jenn, it's me and you and perhaps no one else on Earth

@czamboni.bsky.social beat me to the punch! This was under wraps until, I guess, today. Anyway CMU Press is publishing an updated and Very Deluxe version of my game and I could not be happier. Art by Sam Araya!

A close up photograph of a bubblegum machine shows multicolored capsules with folded papers. There is a blue circle with an orange outline that says The Bully Pulpit Games $1 Bubble Gum Games Machine Bite Sized Games to Chew On!

If you DO swing by our booth, we have plenty of #TTRPGs and #games left for your collection.

AND for a single clam, you can get a bite-sized game that won't take up any tangible space in your bags home. #GAMAExpo2026

It's a complex relationship map for a dinner party in Moscow in May, 1924, with the various leading lights of that time and place, like Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Eisenstein.

A 15-player full costume weekend larp I'd love to play some time. I'd even build it if someone else were to run it. It'd be A Lot.

I feel like White Plume Mountain improves when you view it as a tournament dungeon, which is how I encountered it back in the day. If you're shoveling people through and trying to weed out parties, the capricious insanity makes much more sense.

Maternal grandpa went to aerial gunnery school in 43; the rule was best in class stayed behind to teach the next cohort. He was best in class and as a result here I am-many of his classmates died. Went into advertising after. Paternal grandpa was a liberty ship sailor, then a janitor and fire chief.

Now that's what I'm talking about