jay Dragon is in the wizardmines

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

The Voice of the Text (Triangle Agency) with Seraphina Garcia Ramirez - Dice Exploder Listen to this episode here. I bet you’ve heard of this game Triangle Agency. Big exciting Kickstarter, super flashy product design, a game with… spoilers in the back? It’s corporate...

God, we really did it, @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social and I talked about Triangle Agency on Dice Exploder for what felt like ten million years (2 hours, the longest episode of the show hopefully ever).

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Gamergate is the Dreyfus Affair of the 21st Century and I don't even know if I'm kidding or not.

i definitely feel like, reading the sequels, that im reading fanfiction about annihilation. its enjoyable! but its definitely not the same level

not quite my morning! the Leeway Community Care Fund ran out in... forty minutes! and the second stapler my neighbor loaned me to sell this last "vintage" copy of a zine of mine isn't strong enough -- the first one stapled right thru our coffee table LMAO! tips/purchases/shares would cheer me up.🎸🐉✌️

no definitely & i see that, im also just so in awe at how thoroughly the book laps the movie (a movie that i thought was pretty good!)

Dollhouse: A TTRPG about management A game where you and your fellow Handlers complete contracts for the titular "Dollhouse".

Dollhouse, my next major TTRPG, is now live!

Thank you to everyone who's been patiently waiting, and I hope you all like what you see from the game!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/125...

ttrpg fans are out here experiencing ttrpgs with truly no relationship to the text theyre supposedly a fan of

thats so fascinating. sometimes i wish books would include more histiography cuz that always rlly informs my reading

im some ways the novel feels like its subverting and working against all the tropes the movie plays straight

also having now read the book, the movie annihilation is Nothing in comparison

working my way through the southern reach series and im struck by how authority frames itself as a sequel to annihilation but is actually a weird fanfic/paratext around annihilation

A teaser poster for Nostos, a TTRPG coming to Kickstarter in early April. Impressionist stormclouds thunder over a roiling sea. Caption text reads "Let's find a way home" above the central word, "Nostos". Illustration by Kaysha Siemens.

The pre-launch page for Nostos is live on Kickstarter!

Give it a follow if you'd like updates about my TTRPG about sailing home and saying goodbye, coming April 7, 2026.

Let's find a way home.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

its also a very fun and silly game. i love it when a game gets to do both at the same time

been thinking about this game since kieron showed me, i think this game is (perhaps unintentionally?) a scathing and compelling deconstruction of the western genre / the way people trying to tell western stories treat indigenous genocide

I had probably too much fun with the random spark tables in this. For example...

only slightly tho

devising a new social media platform where you get three energy to spend every turn, posts can attack or defend, and the goal of the platform is slightly more obviously about defeating other commenters than here

cant wait to play one of my favorite cubes with a bunch of amazing ppl for a really good cause

Relatedly, I‘m guesting on @commandzoe.bsky.social’s stream on April 11th and we are drafting Girls Night, my spikey #mtgcube about the joys and terrors of living and dying as a woman. There’s rather a lot of feminist subtext to all the exploitation and corrective violence.

Come check it out!

LMAO

I think a lot about how actual marginalized people are never acceptable, but weird stand-in (controlled) versions are and what that says about just marginalizing people more under a false guise of access.

Shinier chains are still chains.

thats Very Appealling 👀

is it worth coming into now? i have friends who love it but talk about it like a guilty adolescent pleasure

Just like I like engaging w/ games I don't like to better develop my ability to talk about games, I also enjoy listening to game devs I respect but don't agree with talk about games. But holy shit, sometimes you just hear a take and it's like "Oh you just...refused to engage with this game. Huh."

octet hit like a motherfucker. perhaps unsurprisingly

Me, rushing in to stop a group of kids playing House and Superheroes on a playground: stop!! You’re only beginners! This is a niche category of Roleplaying, you aren’t ready for it!