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Variant rules exist for extending the play for 5+ years…

A style of game where you get all your friends, sit down around a table, and debate the nuances and meanings of niche design categorization terms for 1-3 hours.

A zine with big sexy gothic lettering reading "We Shall Be Monsters" by Seb Pines, with a black cover and white lettering. The image on the cover is a faint and ghoulish negative of a wood cut or etching or a body on an operating table. The book is placed on a recycled cyan paper giving an almost hair look. In the background are a sharp implement, tweezers, and dried flowers. The book sits on top of a folded piece of lace, with a needle and sutures on top of it.

never be alone again. @smolghost.bsky.social's pax unplugged shadow drop is available now! WE SHALL BE MONSTERS.

a solo game of creation, obsession, and playing god to assuage your loneliness.

buy it now: goodluckpress.co/products/we-...

Been thinking a lot about what Diablo, PoE and similar games look like as a TTRPG.

I think I have some solid early combat rules. Gonna be playtesting in the coming weeks. Let me know if that sounds interesting to you!

Permit Crab Birthday by Courtana You have been visited by the Permit Crab on your birthday! How will you spend your permits?

Today's my birthday and I woke up wanting to make a silly little game.
I'd love it if people checked it out.

courtana.itch.io/permit-crab-...

Happy birthday!!

Coming soon: Diabolic Dialect Grab your Spellbook, don your robes! Dive into a magical game of weird wizards and insane, linguistic spellcasting!

Also check out the Kickstarter Pre-Launch for Diabolic Dialect! Coming in a full zine early 2026.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

If you haven’t gotten a chance to take a look at our games, enter our giveaway we’re doing for a chance to get a few for free!

Someone on the inside told me there’s a pamphlet adventure that has to do with gingerbread men coming for Diabolic Dialect sometime around Christmas…

This episode was a blast - its one of two this season that really immediately begged for a BIG game. At least comparatively.

Excited to hear what people think!

There’s a few places where I’m sort of baffled by Affinity’s regression in their UI in Studio.

Why are we just giving a percentage in text at the top of the window on exports and locking the whole page without any indicator that ANYTHING is happening otherwise?

Stacking The Deck – Mining Fallout: New Vegas for TTRPG Setting Ideas Fallout: New Vegas turned 15 in October, so I’m a bit late with this post, but whatever. With season 2 of the Amazon show coming up, I’m more eager than ever to revisit the Mojave Waste…

All the good posts get published when I'm asleep or walking the dog. @dicegoblin.blog, this is a good one.

The faction diagram should be copied to death.

dicegoblin.blog/stacking-the...

A photo of a parking lot with a cars red lights, a street light and the L train on the Blue line as the only light.

California blue line station with a passenger waiting on the platform.

Local bar’s Christmas tree through the window.

Walked around Logan with a camera in the snow tonight. Had some fun bloom around lights from water drops on the lens.

Oooh yeah this is sick! I’ll have to check this out!! I haven’t seen many others doing this but it’s so fun.

Hope it was good tonight! Wish I coulda been there.

Was lurking on @diceexploder.com discord last night, reading some of the fantastic design convos there, and had a brain blast about the Diablo inspired rpg I’ve been kicking around in my head for like… years.

Feels silly how simple the revelation was, but very exciting!

Black Friday Sale by Storygames Chicago A bundle by Storygames Chicago, $20.50 for 9 games

Today is the last day our whole catalog is on sale for 50% off!

Check out our games and get everything we’ve made for ~$20!

itch.io/s/170881/bla...

Black and white map of a local network of severs, corporate businesses and a firewall protecting a fractal AI.

Welcome to the NUWESTPAC Seboard, the starting network in CARD DRIVES. In the real corpo goons fight for territory, while in cyberspace their chained dog WOTAN tears your world apart.

Wanna sling some drives to save the day?

Follow the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...

Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.

If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟

If you enjoyed a game on Itch, leave a comment!

Honestly, it really brightens a creator's day. And it's a big encouragement for others who may be interested in getting that game.

Itch hides reviews from the game page, so I find comments more useful in the long run.

Like a game? Comment away!

Vesta Mandate by Storygames Chicago Hard sci-fi, political thriller TTRPG set on the Tense Powder Keg of Vesta Station

Vesta Mandate is a semi-competitive, sci-fi political thriller game. Connive, backstab and play the political game as you scheme to accomplish your hidden agenda!

And it’s 50% off on Itch today!

storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate

today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️

drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):

You can buy everything I've worked on for crazy cheap right now! Go take a look!

Hope next year will continue to be even better!

This was how my last corporate job was too

My game was on the local news!

That is so fucking cool!

One of the biggest things I’ve been working on that I think is gonna be super fun is a spell resolution oracle of sorts.

Something to help tables play GMless if they want. It’s still in development right now but I’m excited to see where it goes!

Diabolic Dialect by Storygames Chicago A game of frail wizards, over-reliant on their magic, twisting langauge to cast freeform spells.

I’m working on an expansion of Diabolic Dialect into a full zine and I have SO MANY IDEAS for fun variant rules!

The core of the game is gonna be the same weird wordplay and free form spells of the released game. Check the current version out at the link!

storygameschicago.itch.io/diabolic-dia...

In 2025 I will begin publishing Cairn supplements for third parties, under the moniker Cairn Press.

If you're a writer and want help with editing, layout, or printing I should be able to hook you up with the right people.

My goal is to make more Cairn content and get people paid for their work.