Kevin Thien Vu Long Nguyen

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game BETTER STRANGERS by Tyler Crumrine (illustrations by Ellie White): a stack of playing cards peppered with expressive cartoon figures. Text on the card reads, “Don’t be a stranger, valentine!”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game A LAND ONCE MAGIC by Viditya Voleti (illustration by John Gagne): a vivid, technicolor castles cape with a heroic-looking figure standing in the foreground. Text on the card reads, “Your magic never fades”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game FIGHT TRUCK: 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by Crows Danger (illustration by Samwise Lastname): a technicolor U-Haul truck, surrounded by white flowers on a black background. Text on the card reads, “Valentine, nothing worth doing is safe”

Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game GIRL FRAME by Isabelle Ruebsaat (illustration by MossAndTwigs): a girl in a mechanical flightsuit with a neural jack, standing in front of a massive mech hangar. Text on the card reads, “hey girl / i mean frame”

you know what time it is. another valentines day right around the corner, another set of indie tabletop rpg valentines

Cult of the Crow by Levees. A black and white illustration of a crow looking into an aged mirror, the bird has no reflection. Behind the bird stand two melted candle sticks, one is burning, the other is smoking- snuffed out.

My partner made some new music, and I made them some art to go with it!

Go give it a listen leveesfolk.bandcamp.com/album/cult-o...

Y'all I'm FREAKING OUT.

I wrote a game for two players about wanting to fuck each other so bad you save the world from fascism about it.

Caro's art perfectly encapsulates the game and I have been itching so bad to be able to share it

Please go pre save the campaign for this one PLEASE

Showing this to my mom to prove my bachelors in intercultural communications wasn’t such a big waste after all~ XD

We can do the Spider-Man meme at the dumpster where we dispose of the evidence XD

Jaen Nighly Butler Art Illustrator & Marquise of Shadows

i am beyond stoked to share in partnership w/@sandypuggames.bsky.social, i'm releasing 24 illustrations from THE EXQUISITE CORPSE IN MAGGOTS' KEEP under CC by 4.0 licensing!

find them in a folder in my existing CC by 4.0 drive, accompanied by pre-written alt-text for every piece.

jnbutler.art#ccla

Something I've been quite enjoying as I finish up 2025 is developmental editing. So if you're looking for a developmental editor in 2026 for a game... FUCKING PAY ME LET ME BE YOUR SICKO FOR THIS HIRE ME HIRE ME HIRE ME

Everytime your parents compare you to a cousin throw out one of their expired condiments.
1 point for every day they don’t notice.
2 points for every time they say “I know we have some!”.

CY_BORG art

Do we even need to track ammo in TTRPGs?

This week we are looking at ammo rolls in CY_BORG at Skeleton Code Machine. Subscribe to get it Tuesday: www.skeletoncodemachine.com

#morkborg #cy_borg #ttrpg

it's finally FINALLY time: INFINITE REVOLUTION, my star-powered, zodiac-inspired exosuit dogfighter RPG, is finished, crowdfunded, and publicly released!!

Spin up your Revolver Drive, defend the stars, fall in love, burn up, and remember—THE ONLY THING BRIGHTER THAN YOU IS MORE OF YOU🌠

Link ⬇️

Jumpgate Games Winter Sale 2025 by Jess Levine | Jumpgate Games A bundle by Jess Levine | Jumpgate Games, $25.00 for 4 games

still figuring out if insurance will cover it, but in the meantime it'd mean the world if you'd consider:

1. picking up my latest game "The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal Back": jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib
2. or a 20% bundle of all my other games: itch.io/s/176257/jum...

Get your game into a stable state and ready to ship?

Wrong! Feature creep!

Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy From Adam Bell Games - Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy

The Endtimes Trilogy is coming to #zinetopia & #zinemonth in February! Follow the page now!

I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology.

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Person on Threads asks for help pronouncing my last name. My reply: The reason there are like eight different pronunciations of Nguyễn proffered to English speakers is because there are several sounds we know they can’t really hear, let alone repeat. So most of us kinda cobble together sounds we know they can make.

The Nguyễn pronunciation question!

YouTube video by A.A. Voigt The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

As always, Aaron does great, vital, interesting work. I started playing RPGs in 2010, so it’s really nice to chart my own experience and slice of the hobby along with this video, and great to see Session Zero here as it was a really crucial turning point for me. Playtest Zero was born there!

I RELEASED A NEW TTRPG!! it's very silly & full of jewish shitposting!!

your attributes are "GREAT", "MIRACLE", "HAPPENED", and "THERE!", your progress clock is candles on a menorah, and these are the kind of tables i put in there.

if we do $613 in sales before Jan 1 i'll do a trifold print run!

Top physical games tagged poc-made Find physical games tagged poc-made like Alone Among the Stars, A Land Once Magic, Alone On A Journey, The Magus: Oracular Edition, Last Train to Bremen on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace

Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on itch.io?

Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old!

If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed!
itch.io/physical-gam...

In case you missed it, Dragon Reactor's digital edition is AVAILABLE NOW!
Grab your copy, gather your friends, and tell your story of myth, mechs, and mayhem!

https://forktwenty.itch.io/dragonreactor

One of the absolute coolest games you'll ever play!

Also, a wonderful addition to the roster of mech games out there, filling in a needed niche of less crunchy, narrative forward mechanics that still pushes dramatic combat!!

A Land Once Magic Logo over cover art by John Gagne of a colorful fantasy landscape "TTRPG Release Party + Q&Aw/ Designer Viditya Voleti Location: Twenty Sided Store Date: December 13th Time: 3-6pm" Twenty Sided logo in bottom righthand corner

New York friends! Come hang out at the Twenty Sided Store for an A Land Once Magic celebration!

Really leaning into method game dev right now.
Researching my nature photography adventure game where the fail state is burnout by getting burned out irl was really insightful.
When I get back to my OSR projects I'll think I’ll stop paying my power bill.

One Shot - THE MUSICAL?!?!?

On Monday, I'm terrified/excited to share this next One Shot with you

I partnered with the AMAZING cast of @rpgmajor.bsky.social - a musical improv actual play podcast

playing Last Train to Bremen by @seaexcursion.itch.io, we'll sing the tragedy of BROADSIDE

Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion A tragedy for a doomed quartet

Thirteen years of retribution, paid in full.

The 2025 Possum Creek edition of LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN, a Tragedy for a Doomed Quartet, is now available on itch: seaexcursion.itch.io/bremen

HIRE RU!!!

She did an amazing job with ALOM, a game that was written so in my voice that it was rambly and neverending without an editor that's heard me talk for years lol

Brace yourselves, Pilots: Dragon Reactor’s digital edition releases NEXT WEEK!

Sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the mythopoetic mech tragedy #ttrpg you’ve been waiting for!

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A Land Once Magic Infinite Worlds in Your Pocket A Land Once Magic is a conversational post-fantasy worldbuilding TTRPG by award-winning game designer Viditya Voleti and published by moreblueberries.   Format The print...

A Land Once Magic - A Conversational Post-Fantasy Worldbuilding Game by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social

Featuring
Illustration by @johngagneart.bsky.social
Layout/Graphics by @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social
Editing by @cherrydrop.bsky.social

NOW AVAILABLE

🌄A LAND ONCE MAGIC IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY!✨

Order one of these beautiful physical books and/or a hand-stamped bag + notebook!

The PDF is also out on my itch page!
vidityavoleti.itch.io/a-land-once-...

Make infinite worlds, never stop telling stories, create art with others!

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Rascal is the most important source of tabletop news in the hobby. If you can afford to subscribe, I highly recommend you do! My upcoming big video draws HEAVILY on the work of Rascal journalists, and would be much worse without their reporting

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.