Tim Rodriguez

Weather looks great for our outdoor tabletop games fair on Saturday 10/18! ☀️ Swing by from 12-4 to meet local designers and join us for a moderated discussion between three established gamer designers inside People's Book at 4pm!

In Minneapolis this week, visiting game shops, colleagues, and friends, telling them about Gorgon’s Garden!

www.mothspire.com/games/gorgon...

Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.

Coming soon: Gorgon's Garden A cooperative social deception game. Help mortals defy their fates and escape the attentions of Zeus and Hera.

Five weeks out. I'm launching a new Kickstarter for a really cool COOPERATIVE social deduction game. Please come and follow the project! The art is shaping up magnificently, and I'm so so looking forward to showing this off.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ogr...

Fascinating. I’ll give it a looksee!

The art is so good. I can't wait to show y'all more

Entirely accurate. Also just got my copy!

Graphic that reads: Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant 10 grants at $200 apiece Applications open until August 31 bannerless.games/grants

Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications!

I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece.

Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants

I used to run the Galileo website on Ghost!

TIL: Netflix customer service agents aren't allowed to voice their own complaints about Netflix. I can't imagine anyone likes the new household lockout system.. The agent I just spoke to certainly didn't. I also lodged a complaint about that.

New post up today! Part of a new "Games we Own" series.
www.mothspire.com/cursed-court/

If you buy one of everything from #Booth449 at #GenCon2025, it'll be 136 pounds, and we'll give you as many free tote bags as it takes to carry them.
$5300 if you get there when the booth opens Thursday!

If you buy out the entire booth, yes, that'd be well over a ton of fantastic indie TTRPGs.

I once made a character for a Mutants and Masterminds game, whose exclusive power was best-possible transit luck. As the game developed they ended up being a villain 🤷🏻

I'll give you a choice: take it or leave it. Exploring the concept of Hobson's Choice in tabletop games, how to identify them, and when they are a good (or bad) part of a game's design.

I'll give you a choice: take it or leave it.

Exploring the concept of Hobson's Choice in tabletop games, how to identify them, and when they are a good (or bad) part of a game's design: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/hobsons-ch...

#boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️

I’m deeply fond of the Studio Neat totebook. And I’ve been loving several different pens from both them and Tom’s Studio. (The Wren, especially).

Working on it! <3

Not a sore subject! Just kind of caught up in bureaucracy right now, I fully expect it’ll be back, just a matter of figuring out the legal specifics…which as you might imagine, is is kind of a bear.

Cover graphic for the game "The Old Ways Must Go," includes flowers and a skull above the credits: "by Samphire Savage & Moth Rodriguez"

This weekend you can find our game The Old Ways Must Go at Origins booth #1203, courtesy of @ipr.bsky.social
For more in the Tarot for Transformation series of 'zines, visit www.mothspire.com/publishing/t...

Well, I definitely want to be a bibliofenesetraire now.

Scrivener is fantastic. Welcome to the club.

A picture of an Arabic 7up can, explaining how they localized the name to be able to be read and recognized either right to left or left to right

This is the kind of thing that makes me extremely happy

Want to see me perform in Much Ado About Nothing this weekend? Info here!

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A pair of hands holding a very delicate octopus that has been cut from a sheet of paper, against a black background.

The Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this incredible life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the traditional art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and contrasting it against a dark background.

Hour 6: “Will the Senator yield for a question?”

“I will yield while retaining the floor.”

“My question is twofold. First, would you consider ‘Godzilla’ horror or sci-fi? Two, how much credence do you give to the idea that Honda took inspiration from ‘The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms’ when he was…”

Hey, I need to prep y'all.... Five Fires is coming to Kickstarter in a few months. I will need folks to get on the notifications sign-up when I post it this week. Get ready please!!!

An ancient manuscript. Along the left margin is a drawn-on octopus whose tentacles point out important sentences on the page.

In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much

(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

BALTIMORE - March 8 & 9th (2025) at Peabody Heights Brewery - FREE Vendors / Games / Social Media / Shirts / Sponsors /  Contact  / Arcade  / Archive MARCH 8 and 9, 2025 Baltimore's New Annual  Tabletop...

We’re at Gameface this weekend in Baltimore! Stop by if you’re in the area?

www.gamefacecon.com/2023/09/blog...

Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector The most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields gnawing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care....

Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government - defector.com/billionaire-...

Google just did this a few days ago too, eliminating their lower priced non-AI subscription tier and declaring it a “free upgrade.”

Trans rights are human rights.

Also, I care way more about potentially working with Marceline and other great designers, etc. than “offending ‘potential customers’.”