jay Dragon is in the wizardmines

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!

A mockup of the Blades '69 book where the 69 has been crossed out and replaced with 69 in bright purple. Below that, the bio for April Kit Walsh which reads: April Kit Walsh writes games about feelings, vulnerability, and caring for one another, including Thirsty Sword Lesbians and End of the Line. She used to be a swordfighting ballerina, but claims those days are behind her; she has absolutely no idea who that masked heroine with the sword and the tutu might be. When not writing RPGs, April is a civil liberties attorney working to protect the rights of criminal defendants, activists, journalists, and everyone else impacted by the technologies of control or empowerment. Next to the bio, the description for the $420k stretch goal: Blades '69: The Sexual Revolution The 1960s were a time when the counterculture challenged establishment norms around sex, love, family, and a person's right to choose what happens to their own body. How does this conflict manifest in Doskvol? How does the Consensus exercise control through these dimensions of human experience, and what struggles and delightful deviancies does your group want to explore? Blades '69 is a combination of a worldbuilding exercise and safety tool to help you bring themes of both real-world and fantastical sexual liberation to your game.

yeah yeah we saw all you sly posters going "Blades '68? ...just ONE off."
Well we're not COWARDS. Challenge accepted!
At $420k we'll commission April Kit Walsh (designer of Thirsty Sword Lesbians) to write up... Blades '69
Time to put your money where your mouth is.
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i feel like the moment one starts questioning someone's gender or sexuality is the moment when ya jumps the shark, like idk. if nothing else its a sign one needs to interact with more annoying queer people in order to comprehend they exist

advice to new ttrpg creators: live most of your life outside of ttrpgs. if you catch yourself talking shit about another indie creator on some discord, y'know, questioning if they're really queer or something, stop and go outside.

a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."

tardy

so far the most dramatic performance from coverage was when @scenefour.bsky.social did a video on wanderhome that went viral on tiktok

i dont actually think i want any ap people to cause a huge spike rn, i feel like im currently more invested in slow cultural penetration

what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?