T.W.Wombat (aka Jim White)

I have a need to break out my papercraft tools again after seeing this. Just lovely.

darth vader and luke skywalker fighting with lightsabers in a dark room ALT: darth vader and luke skywalker fighting with lightsabers in a dark room

The stories we strive to emulate with obscure math and magic dice are not balanced.

Frodo and Sam are not balanced against the Orcs at Cirith Ungol. Luke is not balanced against Vader in Empire. Paul Atreides is a confused teen versus a Galactic Empire.

This imbalance is the point.

I've heard that, and I believe it. Eerily similar to the rush from gambling or constantly refreshing an eBay auction.

See also Evil Hat's concept of Catastrophic Success.

I think I'll keep chugging along quietly publishing my weird niche game add-ons for a while.

It's why I am taking Five Fires a different route - was honestly not up for the neurochemistry of a crowdfunding campaign

This whole thread about Dancey and the motivations behind creating the OGL is well worth the read.

An unplayable board game with expensive premium components that looks fabulous provides a great metaphor for the current state of generative AI.

I have a 30mm liquid core commission that's been abandon and would love for it to find a home.

$85 was the cost but more than willing to let it go for $60 + S&H.

If interested, please drop a comment or a DM!

#dnd #ttrpg #dice #customdice #commission

All Your Base, slight remaster 25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds. In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Inter...

The remaster you didn't know you needed:

www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02...

Do. Not. Do. This.

Everyone can literally crawl up your ass medically since you're basically waiving your HIPAA privacy protections by sharing your medical history with this experimental software that offers zero expectation of privacy.

Hay-Seuss Marimba.

Grok offers no expectation of privacy, so that's a voluntary forfeiture of HIPAA protections. Good luck getting them back after that boneheaded move.

Nor even count to 100 without giving up at 20 with "and so on up to 100".

I talk a lot about logos and branding/visual identity design as a service but I haven’t really gone into what those are.

So what is the difference between the two and why should you, as a game publisher, care?

This will probably be a blog at some point but for now it’ll be a (short?) thread.

1/?

A photo of the front page of a draft of bolthaven Folio #3: Settle Down.

This morning, I had an 8-page doc crammed full of notes and ideas. Now I have a laid-out draft of Bolthaven Folio #3. It still needs some work, but I'm much more confident about publishing this stripped-down settlement system this month.

#ZiMo #TTRPG

Small Folk in Big Coats A simple and chaotic RPG about a group of smallfolk with wildly differing goals.

My Zinequest project is live!

In Small Folk in Big Coats you each play as a little guy in a stack masquerading a single big guy. You're unlikely to get caught, but you’re even less likely to work together.

It’s very silly and easy to get playing. Go Check it out!
tinyurl.com/sfibc

Same, my friend.

Age verification? My first time on the Internet was posting to USENET Newsgroups.

Bandwagon: The Map is Not the Territory But It is the Topic — Prismatic Wasteland Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed Amanda Lee Franck!

All bloggers are hereby cordially invited to participate in a new blog bandwagon on the topic of MAPS, featuring art (which you can use, remix, distort as you see fit) from @amandalee.bsky.social (Garbage Barge, Vampire Cruise, et al)
You have 80 days starting now!
#osr #tttpg #blog

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Finally posting these before I forget or don't like them anymore. This is the first one of a small series. They're all kind of small reminders for myself. This one is about asking for help, relying on your loved ones and that doing stuff together is fun!

#myart #medieval #goblin #wizard #knight

I ran my D&D game last night, and I thought I'd write up how I prepped for it in hopes of starting some discussion about how y'all prep for "traditional" games. So have at it.

#Fellport #TTRPG #GMing

Legit. A massive load on my head and shoulders, as it were.

I haven't really had to wear my Network And System Troubleshooting Wonk hat in a few years.

I haven't missed that hat at all.

I swapped internet providers and routers this morning. Copied old wifi settings into new router for easy install.

My laptop refuses to see the SSIDs on the new router. Hardware issue. Grabbed a USB Ethernet dongle from a friend, and I can print again.

Moving on to today's task 2 at 5:30 PM.

FML.

Cover for the WYRM TTRPG. A large stone wall has a glowing doorway. An armored fantasy character carrying a torch is walking through the doorway. At the top of the image is the word " WYRM "

Looking for a new adventure TTRPG to try?

WYRM is here. Rules-lite, OSR inspired play, with a Gila twist.

Grab the core rules, starter adventure, and starting sandbox hexcrawl, all PWYW.

Plus it has a killer cover, with more art coming.

gilarpgs.itch.io/wyrm

Doomscrolling is actually Hopescrolling that doesn't turn up enough good things to satisfy our restless brains.

Maybe tomorrow?

Hang in there. Drink water. Get some rest. Resist injustice. Take your meds. Cultivate space for hope to grow within yourself. Dream big.

A game about black music, that doesn't center on black pain, by a black TTRPG designer is not the path to millions. I've always known that.

But still, I've been literally couch-locked for a few months RE: Five Fires because I'm terrified to launch it in this climate, this context.

Real talk time: I am looking at what I need to do on Five fires. I definitely plan to release it, I've had a lot of generous offers of support to help with it (thank you!!), But I still can't get even minimal movement on follows for the launch.

Cover for the WYRM TTRPG. A large stone wall has a glowing doorway. An armored fantasy character carrying a torch is walking through the doorway. At the top of the image is the word " WYRM "

Core rules, starter adventure, and starter sandbox hexcrawl, all coming out tomorrow.

All PWYW.

Plus a game jam to celebrate the release.

Get ready for WYRM. My take on OSR style games.

I replied with a few other links, in case they're hiding from your notifications.

Business Card Jam A game jam from 2019-10-30 to 2019-11-14 hosted by beatingthebinary & Star West. RPGs don't have to be book-length in order to be compelling game experiences. In fact, they don't even have to be page-...

And the Business Card Jam that I was thinking of ended back in 2019. itch.io/jam/business...

TTRPG Bookmark Jam A game jam from 2025-12-01 to 2025-12-15 hosted by Unknown Dungeon. Welcome to the TTRPG Bookmark Jam. This tabletop game jam is a spin-off from the ENNIE award-winning One-Page RPG Jam. In it, partic...

The TTRPG Bookmark Jam ended mid-December, but the entries are available. itch.io/jam/ttrpg-bo...