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A black pen, an open notebook and a paperback copy of J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World. The notebook is filled with paragraphs of hand block print, which are favorite sentences culled from the book.

I wrote down some of my favorite sentences from J.G. Ballard's debut novel, The Drowned World (1962).

Hit the link below if you want to hear me read my Drowned World simile collection (and hear plot spoilers) 👇

#sciencefiction #jgballard

Scenario Book and Rulebook for the solitaire war game, Resist! Booklets depict Spanish maquis poised for action and peering out of the cover of woods. Above, rectangular mission cards and cards with satchel icons.

Use a maqui's most powerful action and they may end up tied to a chair somewhere, coughing up teeth and secrets.

I contend with the evocative mechanical dilemma at the heart of Resist! from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social in Episode 101 of Breakup Gaming Society.

👇Listen with link in comments

Thank you, homie, and a big Starkville welcome to anybody else who trickles in as a result!

Well... this is what I get for devoting my energy to a dying industry. My department has been made redundant and I'm out of a job.

If you know anybody who's looking for an emotionally dysfunctional super-genius, tell 'em you know a guy.

Yes, the overlay of available maquis abilities and variance in target/garrison effects make the mission selection a lot more tense and puzzly than I expected!

*Roger Tankersley and Trevor Benjamin are also designers on Resist!

Cards from the Resist! game showing cartoon illustrations of four Spanish maquis — Manuel, Anastasio, Ricardo, and Sagrario — and a Spy at the back. Visible on the table beneath: A grid of cards showing available missions and the hidden military/police forces the maquis will face if they attack a given target.

Coming up in just a few days: Episode 101, featuring my first plays of Resist! from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social and a retrospective of David Thompson designs that conquered my table this year.
#cardgames #podcast #soloboardgames #wargames

This is a keeper.

From my ongoing work with Dwelling, a #solo #journaling #ttrpg from @goodluckpress.co

Dwelling Solo RPG Session 4: One Plate of Sugar After Another — Breakup Gaming Society I think I was being fattened up for nuptials. Until love arrives, bet on calories.

"I have some of the ingredients and none of the touch. But those wouldn’t be enough, either. I don’t have the infrastructure: The bower of Saturdays and people who would just appear in them, or me in theirs, while I was mistaken for sweet and bankable."

Appreciate your circling back to talk Sykes-Picot. And this post. As we say on the show, may you fight long and well.

Sometimes you just gotta start riffing on what's at hand

Pyrotechnics Review + Two Wild Dystopian Indie TTRPGs — Breakup Gaming Society A delightful two-player card game about fireworks, then two lushly realized trips to a roleplaying hell that's kind of already here.

www.breakupgamingsociety.com/episodes/pyr...

Photo of components from the two-player card game, Fireworks. Rules and reference booklets at top, fireworks cards in middle, ringed by piles of cardboard Spark tokens in primary colors.

Episode 100 features:

• Review of the brisk and charming Fireworks 2p card game from @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

• Interview with @liberludorum.com about two wild #indie #ttrpgs from @sandroad.moe: Burnout Reaper and Digital Angel

Hear it all with link in comments 👇

I liked learning about them and am grateful to Walt for putting them on my radar.

Great work on this one, homie.

Burnout Reaper and Digital Angel TTRPGs: Walt Shows Us Two Challenging Itch.io Refugees — Breakup Gaming Society The bills are due and we can't pay 'em. Time to hunt organs. All kinds of organs.

www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/indie-t...

Rocks glass with orange twist on the rim and large ice cube is looped by a microphone cable. In the middle of the white table, a pile of green, red and yellow dice. At back of table, more dice and a bottle of West Bottoms Whiskey Co.'s Kansas City Whiskey.

Got a touch of orange and a fistful of ice for my second sit with Kansas City Whiskey.

Jumped into the recording room with @liberludorum.com and talked two TTRPGs that were too wild for the wusses at Itch.io — Burnout Reaper and Digital Angel.

Hit the link in comments to hear our chat 👇

Picture of yellow '70s Ford Galaxie with black top, looking like a good 12 feet for so of pure Dee-troit steel.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxie

A very happy one to @whovian223.bsky.social: Voracious player, voluminous blogger, con junkie and all-around swell pal and fun opponent.

Cheers, brother. 🫡

This was a wild one. A lot more blood spilled, partly due to my overstocking Andhra, which is a prime migrational path for the Rajas of Vijayanagara. Didn't realize until the final turns that I'd committed to a bloodbath that would let the Sultanate heavily garrison Delhi without fear.

Hey, good seeing you here. I'm Colonel Hector Bravado on RtT, with whom your sword is currently crossed!

Now that a solitaire wargame (Thunderbolt Apache Leader) has claimed #1 on my favorites list, these kinds of posts are catnip.

And now you know, your mind in a vice of ineluctable duty. 🫡

Battle Card Review + The Charming "Suicide by Hobby" of War With a Mate — Breakup Gaming Society Postmark Games' Battle Card is accessible, beautiful, and a huge solo print-and-play value. The War for North Africa is fun if Andy and James are talking about it.

www.breakupgamingsociety.com/episodes/bat...

A black and white map of WW2 Malaya showing a string of B/W six sided, two-value dice, representing Allied/Commonwealth troop positions and strength from the Battle Card print-and-play solo wargame series.

Outmatched Commonwealth forces in Malaya about to get bulldozed off the Eastern Road by an overwhelming Japanese push in Battle Card from @postmarkgames.bsky.social

Link's down there if you want to hear me talk this one up 👇

#ww2 #sologames #printandplay #boardgames

when optimization tips to the fatuous and neurotic

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