Dave Chalker 🔜 Unpub Festival

Maryland peeps, now is the time to get your rapid response neighborhood signal groups in order if you haven’t already.

There has been a near daily ICE flight out of BWI for more than a month. If you are interested in joining a group to observe flights/count captives, signal me at gbrockell.44.

It’s my favorite quote.

I didn’t think I could be less excited to do my taxes and yet they found a way.

Huge if true

Bebop, Skull and Crossbones

Tonight We Dine on Flavor Gems!

My 6,000 word flavor dive into the TMNT set is here!

www.coolstuffinc.com/a/jayannelli...

Richard Garfield's been explaining how luck & skill are not opposites for well over a decade, but I still encounter designers & players who haven't internalized this lesson. I suspect it's the number one reason people tend to underrate the amount of strategy in lighter games.

Netflix losing the bid for HBO and Anthropic refusing to capitulate to the Pentagon: big week for shitty companies that somehow aren’t the worst option

I hope it would be part cooking show but not anything one could make in real life.

An inverted curve diagram titled the players journey through the rulebook. Above the horizontal line is an outline of a rulebook structure, describing the content that would go on each page. Below the line is labeled the mood at the table. It begins with the peak of hope then the slope of interest than the pit of nuance than the wall of confusion and finally the rise of insight.

I started trying to explain how to outline a rulebook, but the metaphor ran away from me.

There’s learning curves but once you get into it that can be quicker. Generating the files is more the time sink.

Jimmibuffeton! I choose you! It was caught in the rain!

Just imagine that kitty chowing down on all of Pizza Face. See also: Ygra

Jenova, since it synergizes with mutants AND I think is a kind of salami

Three games in heavy rotation with me right now all were tested at Unpub:
Hot Streak
Message from the Stars
Vanity Plates

Yes, I'm biased, but I also think they're great games. (And this reminds me I need to pick up Sanibel)

this is so god damn funny

I remember a dude coming in to buy a few pens during a blizzard so we all cope in our own ways

This is why at least one of the Shredder cards should have the flavor text "I hate music"

Take my money.

Demolition Man (1993)

Argus, Agent of ARGUS probably wears a deerstalker on the job.

Wow there's two of them?

Milkshake puck

This is going right up there with "Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a q-tip"

Hey @wunfatkid.bsky.social @americanoonline.com

they will see us wuthering such great heights
come down now, they'll say

Unpub kick-off party: Wed Mar 11, 6–9 PM. Free for Unoub attendees. Hosted by Games and Stuff. All are welcome

Come play (published??) games with us at Games and Stuff!

logo for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award

Who wants to see some awesome-looking game pitches? These are the finalists for the 2026 Cardboard Edison Award!!! cardboardedison.com/award

you're the man now dog!

Post old memes to confuse young people

bender from futurama is holding a large barrel in his hand Alt: bender from futurama drinks a keg, belches fire, and crushes the keg on his forehead

Or, hear me out: