We are once again (and always) looking for recommendations! We are especially looking for short to mid-length games by marginalized designers! The longest games we are typically able to cover with the detail that we like are around 60-70 pages, but we prefer shorter for most months.

Tabletop Book Club@tabletopbookclub.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Is there a TTRPG that you love(d) reading? Whether it's a diegetic game manual to a dead MMORPG or a plaintext .doc with strong evocative language, we here at Tabletop Book Club want to hear about it! On Tabletop Book Club, Barclay & Bee read a new game every month and discuss its writing.

water is delicious

They should do a season of The Pitt set during the fuck purge.

I playtested Nine Space Games a lot and it's one of my favorite games in years. I could go on at length about what I love about it as a game designer. But the layout is maybe my favorite part. Some of the most gorgeous-while-functional layout I've seen in a game. Standing ovation.

Julien | Starlight Grove@julienlegault.bsky.social · 2w ago

I had the pleasure of working on the layout for this amazing set of games by @jmstar.bsky.social. each game is wonderfully unique, and the unique sci-fi setting that binds them is revealed to you the more you play/read. thank you for letting me put my spin on it! bullypulpitgames.com/products/nin...

Had that thing with a script I'm working on where I got an idea that made me feel so disgusted I knew it must be right

We're finally doing it.

The photo on the wikipedia page for "pornographic film" is so spectacularly well chosen. Just straight down the middle "yep, that's porn."

I take so few long rests in Baldur's Gate 3 that most of my party's character plotlines have stopped making sense.

NEW EPISODE! The ridiculous conclusion of Band-Aids & Bullet Holes featuring some guests from around the Many Sided Network! ft. @superdillin.bsky.social @ktartaglione.bsky.social @brianflaherty.bsky.social @diceexploder.com @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social Links below 🔗⬇️

NEW EPISODE! Part 2 of Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is out now! One thing is for certain, we GOTTA kill Barf. ft. @superdillin.bsky.social @ktartaglione.bsky.social @brianflaherty.bsky.social @diceexploder.com @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social Links below 🔗⬇️

In the ONE NIGHT ONLY universe, do you think the big bump of kids with birthdays ~9 months later are teased for it?

Anticipating the new Jane Schoenbrun movie by reflecting on how so little of my art is viscerally upsetting enough

I think Star Fleet should have "bleep blorp protocols." Like you walk into a room and say "warning everyone: bleep blorp protocals are in effect" and everyone knows to check if their newfound crush is secretly a Betazoid fever or whatever.

Sam D@diceexploder.com · 2y ago

Star Trek is great because one episode it'll be like "one horror of fascism is how it makes regular people complicit in genocide" and the next is like "uh oh don't touch the bleep blorps or they'll turn your spleen to goop!"

Was writing a blogpost recently that needs more time to cook, but part of the deal was talking about old school murder mystery parties. I have vivid memories of being young and playing a boxed murder mystery party, maybe the second rpg I ever played after D&D. But what was it? Texted my dad and-

Played some Ghost Court last weekend with my 9 and 10 year old nieces, and what I learned is that kids love playing pretend almost as much as they love gavels and wielding authority.

My game on One Shot! What a dream, One Shot was the first AP show I ever enjoyed, and this group was all killer.

One Shot Podcast@oneshotpod.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW EPISODE! This John Wick-inspired deck builder has players switching roles and escalating the chaos with simple, fast-paced mechanics. ft. @superdillin.bsky.social @ktartaglione.bsky.social @brianflaherty.bsky.social @diceexploder.com @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social Links below 🔗⬇️

Happy to report that I didn't cut the talking toilet and now have a dungeon I'm excited to playtest (sadly it's mostly much less dumb than this screenshot)

Sam D@diceexploder.com · 4w ago

Designing my second OSR style dungeon is going really well

Designing my second OSR style dungeon is going really well

When you think about how many people have ever existed and how long it takes for teeth to decompose, there's gotta be at least like 30 billion human teeth on the planet

Looking for recommendations for art for D&D style fantasy monsters that looks like it was drawn by a 16 year old and/or is in a sketchy/scribbly style, and especially adventure modules with art in this style. Any recs for me?

This has been a great year for movies (just walked out of Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass)

life was better 5 minutes ago when I was eating tacos. now I'm not and it just doesn't compare

“The entirety of the document consists of very specific battle plans for the scorched-earth military conquest of Azerbaijan and a clear directive that all persons named in the will immediately begin deploying troops to carry out these objectives,” said a person close to Graham’s family

Lindsey Graham’s Will Orders Estate To Start War With Azerbaijan

WASHINGTON—Stipulating that the South Caucasus nation should be nothing but ash by the time it’s all over, the will of recently deceased Sen. Lindsey Graham orders his estate to start a war with Azerb...

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Situations I would handle well: having the death note, finding a bag of money in the woods, being falsely accused of a crime, time loop, intentional time travel Situations I would handle poorly: psychic powers, wording wishes, targeted by a supernatural killer, accidental time travel

Sam D@diceexploder.com · last mo.

I couldn't handle having psychic powers but I could handle having the death note.

Heartfelt Apology Robs Man Of Cherished Grudge https://theonion.com/heartfelt-apology-robs-man-of-cherished-grudge-1819571566/

I always love logging into letterboxd after a screening at Vidiots for an older movie and seeing the recent reviews are like past 6 months - yesterday: 2 reviews today: 55 reviews These are my people.

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

Hmm...

Had a dream there were a lot of spiders

Psi*Run is a great game

MegueyB@megueyb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Speaking of #ttrpgs and #PsiRun2e, there's a @diceexploder.com episode in which @johnharper.bsky.social lays out why the Risk Sheet is so cool. I happen to agree! You can back Psi*Run 2e here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/117...