Arenas and data centers use the same playbook: Pressure local governments to give them billions in subsidies and lower regulations over the threat of going elsewhere. We're told it's best to let them make as much money as humanly possible because scraps for a few here are better than nothing.
I'm stupidly excited for this.
jay Dragon is sleepy@jdragsky.bsky.social · 3w agothe seven-part pact kickstarter launches TOMORROW! here's the Arcane Edition (mockup, images not final) ! it features a faux leather bound grimoire, hardcover codices, a plastic pull tab on the box, and beautiful art by @teanwitch.bsky.social
Raised as an orphan in 15th century London she got turned by a rich noblewoman who kept her as a handmaiden. She had to kill the only childhood friend she had. Mary later traveled to France and met a vampire who taught her to turn into a bat.
Octo@octodontidae.bsky.social · 4w agomy vampire actually had somewhat of a happy end
Proud to be the 304th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories
The Blue Way is a game of lost stories, colonialism, and its cultural aftermath from Jason Morningstar and Central Michigan University Press.
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I love seeing solo RPG events likes this one, and I wrote about my own experience earlier this year for The Soloist. I also like to see The Balsam Lake Unmurders getting some love!
Playing Alone Together
My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.
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Heart of the Deernicorn@heartofthedeernicorn.com · last mo.We held our very first solo RPG book club event this past week in Downtown Olympia! Thank you to everyone who came out to play a solo game with us. It was so much fun! Catch us at the next one on July 30th! #olympia #olympiawashington #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #journaling
the person i hate most in the world wrote me a birthday ttrpg about how much i hate her and how much she sucks!! look! thank you @tranphasmagoria.bsky.social , i hope you die loveless and afraid!
This is the first time I've seen a real sticker on the front of a copy of Thousand Year Old Vampire.
Adam G@karloff0734.bsky.social · 2mo ago@timhutchings.bsky.social Birmingham 2026
I haven't done one of these in a long while: I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 11th 2026 (Easy), in 03:11 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
Who would you rather fight - 60 Thousand Year Old Vampires or 60,000 One Year Old Vampires? @timhutchings.bsky.social
The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story. If you didn't read it already, read it. Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.
Jack Hutton 🇺🇸 @jackhutton.bsky.social · 4mo agoAn important read. [The Atlantic-gift article]: What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.By Josef Palermo www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
oh oh oh, one of my favorite game makers ever has a thing you can sign up for!
aura@aura-autumn.bsky.social · 4mo agonewsletter is live! follow to get periodic updates about my work. aura belle says words • Buttondown share.google/vWXRO8cU23xe... you can also find me at aurabellemakesthings.com - free physical games delivered to your address c:
I think this is gonna be the cover for the “zine” game that accidentally turned into 20+ pages
This explanation of the game's intentions is buried in the Saving Throw section of the AD&D DMG. Check the alt text for easier to read version.
Image from students in a TTRPG class I was teaching. Students made me an NPC in their Wanderhome game.
This is a good perspective on the orders of magnitude in the TTRPG publishing industry, and by and large positions us correctly at the bottom-most named tier (while acknowledging that there's a broad swath of indie designers further down). cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2026/02/11/f...
Five Tiers of RPG Publishing
Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earn…
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@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
Slow Walk by Six of Hounds
Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious larp.
sixofhounds.itch.io
Yeah, let game designers know when you are using their stuff in your classes.
Bully Pulpit Games@bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 6mo agoIf you are an academic interested in using our games for teaching and learning, know that we love to see it! Case in point, Willian Amboni Scheffer. a Professor at UNIGUAÇU in São Miguel do Iguaçu, has written a paper on his use of #FiascoRPG as part of the contract law curriculum.
If you are an academic interested in using our games for teaching and learning, know that we love to see it! Case in point, Willian Amboni Scheffer. a Professor at UNIGUAÇU in São Miguel do Iguaçu, has written a paper on his use of #FiascoRPG as part of the contract law curriculum.
Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Happy Weekend! My tiny Over the Garden Wall adventure game has hit 10k plays on itch.io🎉! It's FREE to play https://juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw -- A nice way to spend a cozy half hour or so indoors. ❄️ There's also a walkthrough, no worries about getting stuck!
The Round-about Orchard: A tiny Over the Garden Wall game by JuliaMinamata
A two-room adventure game that takes about fifteen minutes to play
juliaminamata.itch.io
the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
cyclical ttrpg discourse is important not only because it brings new voices and ideas into old conversations but also because it allows everyone who has participated before to feel like a grizzled old veteran of being a ttrpg person on the internet
We have to acknowledge private equity practices as detrimental to the nation and outlaw the way they operate.
As a composer of choral pieces for tardy cats I often sit frustrated, waiting for my muse.
ANNOUNCING MY WINTER ANTI-SALE for the next few weeks, itch.io is doing its winter sale, where devs who cut their game prices get promoted. but my games are all already underpriced, so i'm jacking up the prices by 50% instead. ho ho ho happy holidays
Winter Anti-Sale 2025 by Anna Anthropy
A bundle by Anna Anthropy, $40.50 for 10 games
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