Gem Room Games

a tall stack of perfect bound and staplebound books on a desk, about to be packed into boxes for distribution

@ipr.bsky.social restock incoming!
9 Lives to Valhalla!
Letters to Sandra!
DUKK BÖRG!
Here we gooooooooo 📨

"... maybe this is a good enough place to begin from. May we all meet ourselves where we’re at and have fun making some things as we’re able!"

Absolutely, entirely.

2025 on Sabbatical: Kinda In which Kali reflects upon a year spent in sabbatical-ish. Preface Some way through 2024, as we approached DUKK BÖRG fulfillment, we looked around and realized that we were exhausted. We’d been pu...

We've spent 2025 on sabbatical.
Or, well, some of 2025.
On something like a sabbatical.
It didn't really go as intended.

Anyhow, Kali wrote about it, with some sabbatical takeaways at the end about making games not so much because you want to but because you need to.

TOOL FEEL: Trench Crusade One of my favorite things about Trench Crusade are Blood Markers. You get them nearly every time someone takes a potshot at you, representing a range of incidental harm that comes your way in the tren...

GORM BLOG: TOOL FEEL

What I like about Trench Crusade blood markers and how it's impacting the way I think about BURN.

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...

Our full catalog will be at PAXU this year including the FINAL print copies of our 9 Lives to Valhalla adventure Wreck of the Murderous!

Would you believe it was inspired by true events? We had to move and it was basically like getting attacked by giant crabs.

Some upcoming designer commentary on Aeonian Citadel (the Dukk Börg adventure), building the logic of an impossible place, and how Dan writes (or sometimes doesn't)

candy jam, candy jam, go collect your candy jammmmmm

It was Skeleton Horde, Darkoath Flesh, and Snakebite Leather that helped those coins rot, specifically, in that order.

Gem Room Games Tabletop RPGs & adventures by Gem Room Games

Keepin' us warm, yeah yeahhh shop.gemroomgames.com

gemroomgames.itch.io is good too

Shout out to EcoEnclose's kraft flatback tape!

a stack of brown kraft mailers decorated with gems, weapons, and onomatopoeia like "thud!" in jewel-toned sharpie sitting on a gray desk.

Gettin' some games packaged up, yeah yeahhh

We need a new furnace, so every game you buy right now goes directly to the keeping us warm in the winter fund.

Plus, you might get a lovingly rendered carnival mallet or one-eyed cat or various onomatopoeia on your package. Win-win!

Overloading the Faction Relationship Overloading the Faction Relationship Dan is working on a small game between bigger projects so obviously that means he needs to write a whole blog post to justify the inevitable scope creep! I Like Fa...

New on the blog: Overloading the Faction Relationship! Because we all know it's not what you know, it's WHO you know.

gemroomgames.itch.io/the-gem-room...

Secret Gem Room strats right here

We are powerless to stop this perfect collaboration.

yoooooooooo

Oh! We remember this! We used it to make The Shops at Hellfist Citadel (formerly dire testament to war, currently testament to outlet shopping).
It's part of the 2022 Hex+Setting Collection, our system-neutral interdimensional modular hex crawl.
It was fun.

you know, for all that downtime on [checks notes] the farm

UH HUH

When we first found out they were loaded with mörk borg stuff.

ok but can you buy it at Tractor Supply Co. yet?

(no seriously, and they change up their stock: www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/search/rpg )

Worm! Worm! Worm! Worm!

(wow this thing is heavy)

two brown kraft paper mailers on a red background. Each is decorated with little red ink doodles of stars and gems and phrases like "QUACK QUACK" and more phrases like "MEOOOW" in black on kraft tape

Gem Room status update:

- Tired
- Still enjoying little package doodles when we send out games

featuring DUKK BÖRG
DUKK BÖRG
DUKK BÖRG
at #PaxWest2025
courtesy of IPR in #Booth4320
Woo-oo-oo!

Every game is a miracle, a shining beam of love in a hard world.

We dont know how anyone does anything, including us.

Is it obvious that we're catching up on notifications on this sleepy Sunday morning?

We're sleepy, it's a fine use of time

🤘

Wooooo! We love a local gaming store sighting!
Also shout out to @ipr.bsky.social who makes these sightings possible ❤️

We were out of town on airplane mode when this post went up but
A) the Plus One team is great themselves, always working to help amplify voices & give chances to newcomers
B) the list in this thread is legit

Less than $1K before these gem friends hit their funding goal - go go go check it out!!

A game called Necromancer Heretic, in a plastic tote

A game called 9 Lives to Valhalla, in a plastic tote

A game called The Librarian's Apprentice, in a plastic tote. Another tote underneath it contains a have called Moon Rings.

A game called Dwelling, in a plastic tote. Another tote underneath it contains a game called Dialect.

A few close ups of the game kits in plastic totes. These kits include dice, coins, cards, character standees, etc., as required for Play by each game. Games by @junkfoodgames.bsky.social @gemroomgames.bsky.social @almostbedtime.bsky.social @smolghost.bsky.social

Dan & Kali met in library school & now a library is helping folks play one of our games.
Amazing, fantastic, beautiful thing, actual joy to behold, etc.