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COMMS: writing, editing, layout, design http://kumada1.itch.io https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/16294/richard-kelly Banner: Voidspiral. Icon: Cognoscor.

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Valentines, Galentines, Palentines, we got 'em all!

Check out the relationships bundles for a wide variety of relationship themed games

I can almost promise you that it's even wider than you're thinking. No, no, even wider than than 😆

09.03.2026 00:28 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
Late Valentines Relationship Bundle logo

Late Valentines Relationship Bundle logo

Tons of relationship, romance, and friendship themed ttrpgs!

One bundle, one place!

itch.io/b/3558/late-...

08.03.2026 23:56 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1

I was a playtester for this! It is a very good classical style train adventure.

08.03.2026 16:33 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I made Close Encounters as part of the first non-Kickstarter zine event a few years back. Inspired by my favorite Animorphs standalone, you are stranded on a planet that wants to eat you, and have to scavenge tech to feed it and built a ship off.

Remisince about your crew to relieve stress.

07.03.2026 15:14 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Ghost Roads & Moon Dust by Almost Bedtime Theater A solo RPG about taking back the moon.

In my new solo RPG, Ghost Roads & Moon Dust, magic is possible with moon dust and the rich have shattered the moon trying to take more and more. Walk the ghost roads to break into one of their vaults, take all the moon rock you can, and use that power to change the world.

#LeanGreenZineJam

07.03.2026 12:37 — 👍 30    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is on sale for 10% off for the Women's Day Sale for games by women-led studios from March 6th to 15th. Normally it's $12.12, and now it's $10.91. Hosted on Steam, organized by WINGS.

DEVIL'S LIMINAL is on sale for 10% off for the Women's Day Sale for games by women-led studios from March 6th to 15th. Normally it's $12.12, and now it's $10.91. Hosted on Steam, organized by WINGS.

The Steam #WomensDaySale by @wingsfund.me goes until March 15! Come support games made by women & gender-marginalized folks.

My yuri horror visual novel DEVIL'S LIMINAL is on sale!

DEVIL'S LIMINAL: store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/...

Sale: store.steampowered.com/sale/womensd...

07.03.2026 13:22 — 👍 19    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1

Be a couple of robots in love, trade whimsical pets with your friends, find the holy waters in the middle of the desert and so much more among so many other great creators' games with the Relationship Bundle!

itch.io/b/3558/late-...

#indie #ttrpg #solorpg

07.03.2026 11:56 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

No, no, wait. I'm invested. What's afoot?

07.03.2026 01:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, I'm dead serious here, trust your own enthusiasm. There are serotonin deserts in any creative outlet. Being a freak about the story you want to tell is the canteen you carry to get through them.

07.03.2026 01:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unfortunate but written is the first kind of good.

07.03.2026 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have a game in this bundle!

It's great value, and it's good to have games about love, relationships and such around in times like <gestures around>

07.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

I HAVE A GAME IN THIS!!! get this bundle and you will have many fun games including Another Love Note No One Got, an epistolary game based on the song Some Postman where you write love letters and see if your relationship survives stealing them! 💌💘

06.03.2026 23:05 — 👍 11    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

But overall, when adapting a ttrpg system for kids, you start as simple as you can get, and then you add complexity when they look for it.

I've got a few systems that can do this out of box, but I don't think it's a design goal for most of what's on the market (my stuff included.)

06.03.2026 22:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Crucially, the die has to feel fair. And there has to be some give to that fairness (just as with an adult) because sometimes the kid's going to have an idea that's better and more interesting than the system allows.

06.03.2026 22:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But even then, Rodreel's fishing is a lot of back and forth and guessing and that's interesting (hopefully!) to an adult who's rolled a lot of d6s before, but a kid might get plenty of novelty out of just "you roll the die and it tells you whether you succeed."

06.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In more seriousness, I think most systems I would abridge for a kid. *Especially* depending on age. A kid at twelve is different in interests and focus from a kid at ten, at eight, at five, etc.

Some systems require less abridging. In Rodreel you just hand Batman a fishing rod and a d6.

06.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Does Batman like fishing?

06.03.2026 22:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

Woohoo! We have a few games on love and friendship here, so be sure to check it out!

06.03.2026 22:36 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

march is more romantic than february anyway!

06.03.2026 22:36 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Some really fantastic games in this bundle! (including my own, Fractal Romance). Absolutely worth checking all the games out!

06.03.2026 21:01 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Late Valentines relationship bundle

Late Valentines relationship bundle

The Relationships Bundle is live!!

Find romance, make friends with birds, be a bird finding romance, and more!

itch.io/b/3558/late-...

#TTRPG #IndieTTRPG

06.03.2026 20:11 — 👍 8    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

The world doesn't need these. They will not make you happy. Half of them have names like Fall Out Boy song titles. I have to write another sixteen before there's at least a poetry book's worth.

06.03.2026 19:53 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I am fourteen poems into what is apparently going to be a collection of weird, bad, amateurish poetry.

06.03.2026 19:51 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Come and grab yourself a ton of great romance themed TTRPGs!

My duet TTRPG An Unabridged History of a Doomed Relationship is included!

06.03.2026 19:45 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

THE LOW POLY RAT JAM IS OPEN itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam
I WILL PLAY AND REVIEW EVERY GAME. GIVE ME YOUR RATS

06.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 26    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 2

I also post about 'em in the discord. The discord isn't required, but if you want another way to get updates feel free to message for the invite.

06.03.2026 19:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've got a game in this one! It's The One, my solo RPG about forming relationships with a variety of weird-ass fantasy creatures and slowly learning how not to be a bad partner.

06.03.2026 18:34 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

This unit's game about falling in love with the megastructure, FOR STEEL YOU ARE, is part of this bundle! Get it and 38 other great games for just $20!!

#DericSale #ttrpg

dericbindel.itch.io/for-steel-yo...

06.03.2026 18:43 — 👍 10    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
Late Valentines Relationship Bundle logo

Late Valentines Relationship Bundle logo

And the Late Valentines Relationship Bundle is live!

38 TTRPGs, friendship, romance, monsters, 80% off.

itch.io/b/3558/late-...

06.03.2026 18:31 — 👍 24    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 10

Yeah. Also the writers' room, and I don't think any of that lightning's re-bottleable, esp with the industry shift away from writers' rooms.

06.03.2026 16:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0