I am that thing! Can’t guarantee I’ll actually have time and capacity to say yes to a contract but doesn’t hurt to put my name in the hat.
Your friendly reminder that if it’s raining, go outside and just let the rain fall on your face for a little bit. Or at least reach out and touch a raindrop.
Hey thanks! Looks like you're a retailer? It's not up on IPR yet, but feel free to send me an email (goblin @ goblindoor dot com) and I'd be happy to talk about sending you some copies at a 50% retailer discount.
Couldn't have said it better!
Thank you so much! I was truly blown away by how kind y’all have been and am immensely grateful to have been granted this opportunity to share my work with such lovely people.
Also, a question: the OSR scene has a really robust ecosystem of blogs already, but I haven’t seen nearly as much surrounding the more story-gamey side of things. Is that your impression too, or am I missing a bunch of great blogs?
Ha! Well, consider me hooked. 🎣
I’m brand new to the RPG publishing world, and have been overwhelmed trying to figure out how to navigate social media and suchlike. This is definitely leaning me towards just focusing on writing a blog and newsletter instead of trying to be on a bunch of different (mostly shitty) platforms. Thanks!
Posted a weird guy on my patreon, support me so that I can be less discouraged by my art career or something.
Oh, and the Creativity was carried for our community by the spirits of dead Bards that haunted the mountains beyond our settlement, their ghostly songs echoing along the hills.
And when it came time to choose which resource would be Abundant and which would be scarce, did they choose Food or Magic or even clean drinking water to be Abundant? No. They chose "Creativity." Unanimously. There wasn't even any argument about it.
I'll go first. Yesterday I was running "A Quiet Year" for a group of teenagers at our local queer youth center. Now, of course, we started with an empty space (a big piece of paper) and began filling it with weird and wondrous things I couldn't have imagined on my own.
How and where do you try to leave empty space in the things you create? How have you seen it filled? Why was it more beautiful than you ever thought possible?
"First, gather a group of people around you that you love and that love you, and give them an idea that has enough empty space in it so that they can take it on and make it their own, and when you get it back it's more beautiful than you ever thought possible." - Jim Goddamn Motherfuckin' Henson
Mechadragon trying to break up a fight between his two bros about which of them won the skyscraper-stomping competition.
The specific culture and intentions of the people at a given table are always shaping the play experience more than anything else. *And* game systems can help to shape and incentivize a table culture influence expectations and help communicate what kind of experience players are agreeing to share.
Yes! It seems like a lot of ttrpgs are largely drawing from other rpgs in terms of setting and concept too, and I feel like the medium would really benefit from a broader range of inspirations.
“The most dangerous thing you can do under fascism is sit around a table with your friends and imagine a different world.”
This. This this this this this is why I make and play and study these games.
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Also shout-out to @moreblueberries.bsky.social! Elliot is such an incredibly kind and genuine human and “The Time We Have” is a beautiful, beautiful game I want to tell everyone about.
My booth at the Game Manufacturer’s Expo! Thanks to the Horizons Fellowship I was able to attend and have been met with overwhelming kindness and support.
Speaking as a sadpilled queer who loves crying, I love this.
If you ended up checking it out I'd love to hear any thoughts!
You were once a Librarian, but left the Order. And you took something with you when you went. Something your former colleagues would very much like back. What mattered enough to you that you would give up everything you knew?
Perhaps the Library was once open to all. But today, literacy is a highly guarded privilege in the World Above. Language, after all, is a very powerful thing.
The Library is much older than those who hold power in the World Above. The Far Stacks have not even been catalogued, though the Librarians labor ceaselessly to explore them.
The “No ICE in Minnesota” Bundle is almost at its $600k funding goal on itch.io! My game, “Before the Worms” (an Anti-Cosmic Horror RPG about the cost of resistance) is part of it.
Free games for a good cause! Fuck ICE ✊
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Thanks again for your kind words, Lyme! I made this game and it feels so cool to see that it’s meaningful to someone else.
Especially with the infrared, this reminds me of something seen on the edges of reality, where the world begins to fray. Maybe something from Disco Elysium’s “Pale.”
Ok I'm going to bed now.
Masks are passed down from Knight to Knight. When one falls, the other takes up their mask, and their name. Some say that the ghosts of all the fallen Knights live inside the mask. Whether a partial-fidelity neuro-scan at the moment of death can be called a "ghost" is a matter of interpretation.
