In the lead up to convention season I start thinking I miss going to them, and then the pictures roll in with nary a mask in sight and I remember why I'm sitting on my ass at home not seeing any friends or selling any games
Adam Bell
@adambell.games
tabletop game designer - uneasy lies the head, grasping nettles, my brain is a stick of butter, no stone unturned adambell.games newsletter: http://newsletter.adambell.games itch: http://adamebell.itch.io comradery: http://comradery.co/adamebell
hello genconnaires, you can get yourself a copy of Uneasy Lies the Head & Hungry Out of Habit at the IPR booth! You can also get dozens of other great games - the booth has enough games that it could be its own convention
3/18 IPR booth continues.
in the next month I'm gonna start ramping up for the Locked Room Murder Mystery Game kickstarter, currently scheduled to run in September. I'm historically terrible at reaching out to podcasts and such, so if you have one or have any advice, pls reach out www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...
Coming soon: The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game
A storytelling board game where you generate a murder mystery from scratch.
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The first two print copies of the Endtimes Trilogy have arrived and they look great.
hi I'm in the middle of receiving absurd veterinary bills and could really use some work, if your projects need anything reach on out to me (I think the freelance section of my website is down but that's s thread gives an idea of what I can do)
I'm officially looking for freelance jobs for your tabletop projects. Full details on my website: www.adambell.games/freelance I'm looking to do just about anything: writing, design consultation, mockups, overview videos, digital play tools, etc. If you have a project and need help, get in touch!
hi I'm in the middle of receiving absurd veterinary bills and could really use some work, if your projects need anything reach on out to me (I think the freelance section of my website is down but that's s thread gives an idea of what I can do)
I'm officially looking for freelance jobs for your tabletop projects. Full details on my website: www.adambell.games/freelance I'm looking to do just about anything: writing, design consultation, mockups, overview videos, digital play tools, etc. If you have a project and need help, get in touch!
Oh hey since we're Odyssey-posting: Did You Know? My game Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition (a blackjack-driven storygame about doomed travelers on a perilous journey home, inspired by an old poem) is available in the @rpgtrader.bsky.social GM-less Games Bundle rpg-trader.com/products/670...
looking at deathbringer and the cash it brings in makes me baffled at what the hell people even like. how can my tastes be so far away from some norm that a game I find both repulsive & truly boring. if I make things to my taste will I ever find an audience that's even a tenth as large? so far no 😅
Summers are where campaigns go to die. And from their ashes arise ONE SHOTS. I've gotten some fun one-offs to the table this summer and wanted to share them with you. @jaytreat.bsky.social 's Strange Gravity, @sidneyicarus.bsky.social 's Decaying Orbit, and @adambell.games 's Uneasy Lies The Head.
Hot One-Shot Summer (part 1 of ?)
Summers are where campaigns go to die. Schedules get impossible to coordinate, time passes, the fizz escapes the bottle. But where some see a campaign necropolis, I see opportunity! An opportunity …
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will they reschedule/relocate the world cup final or will they be sprinting around in 200 AQI air for 90 minutes plus stoppage time
the consequences in allowing the ultra wealthy to control & dictate the switch from horses & carts to the automobile are basically limitless. ecological devastation, wealth disparity, highways used as a cudgel to wipe out whole neighborhoods, climate emissions, endless oil wars george is a dipshit
George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
there is always something new draining your life force. you think, ah, that one's done, I can get back to normal, but that's a lie and you know it
I'm hearing Lindsey got the shitting parasite from eating a cheesy gordita crunch
eat shit Lindsey and may the rest of these ghouls contract the very same brief and sudden illness
i finished another book today [Hard to be a God; I liked it] and somehow i've already read more than I did last year. i'm going for a high score. give me a book recommendation
Humans have long hungered to reach the Chambers of Heaven. They seized control of the moon with the aid of their grotesque machinery. Now they pour into the firmament, the labyrinth we built to keep them out. Stop them. The Firmament: A tarot ttrpg of divinity and desperation, coming Fall 2026.
Coming soon: The Firmament - Tarot TTRPG of Divinity and Desperation
Read tarot and wield heavenly power to prevent ravenous humans from breaking into heaven.
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extremely American behavior to whine about a red card for a whole week then go out looking like a beer league team
i've never published an adventure but yet the appendix N jam is calling to me. here's my assigned title, The Thing Outside the Walls
I am back home in Verona for a few days, and back to games. I finally got my hands on the new edition of Rusalka by Nick Wedig: the game is published by @nessundovelab.bsky.social with art by @toadlett.bsky.social, and you can sign up for the pre launch here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... 1/
a democratic society is one in which a tyrant with zero oversight gets to control everything about your home, your job; your only choice in either matter is to beg a different tyrant to rule over you instead
why do I not just send a missive to city hall with what I'm looking for in a home and then work with a government agent to find a home (a home that's not owned by some rich freak who would happily hold my entire life hostage for monthly rent). wouldn't that be a better process
a prospective landlord sends you a email. it's clearly written by chat gpt. it's not just a home to him, you see. you haven't visited the apartment yet. he wants you to fill out an application. he wants a picture of you. when he signs the email, he places the word Evangelist in front of his name.
I've recently got hold of @adambell.games's Uneasy Lies The Head 2e (mega nice boxed edition) and honestly it's nuts how high the bar has been raised.
In honor of #FreeRPGDay, have two of my games on the house! Corpslayers is a loose, fun cyberpunk heist game: binary-star-games.itch.io/corpslayers Death Has Come to This Town is a game about 3 people battling a plague while pursuing their own agendas: binary-star-games.itch.io/death-has-co...