Kayla MacQuarrie: "Stand-Up", October 8th at The Bread and Roses Pub as part of the Lambeth Fringe lambethfringe.com/events/kayla...
Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin))
@laurieoc.bsky.social
No-one of consequence. Twelvepinspress.com patreon.com/TwelvePinsPress
friends tell me that combining ghost and subsail is a really easy way to set up both mailing lists and a physical subscription based model, which should take no less than 2 hours. I really hope they are right or they will no longer be my friends
Just boarded a ferry called ulysses, what are my chances of getting there on time
For decades the spanish state has worked with moroccan authorities to brutalise refugees, deport them to the desert, beat them and steal their belongings in an attempt to prevent them from accessing ceuta, a city spain occupies on the african continent. Never scandals spoken about in the media.
You'll likely know @tomhumberstone.com from various things (his comic on the Luddites went large), but he's got a new one on the Gig Economy, couriers, the history of all that, specifics of exploitations and the fight against that. Read it, and spread it around. Strong. tomhumberstone.com/just-work
Just Work | Tom Humberstone
Just Work
tomhumberstone.com
For a long time I've been thinking of redoing Lichcraft but making it a bigger book and basing it on a D10 system similar to Heart
Signed a localisation deal for 2 games which is gonna pay for all my masters degree fees this year. Americans will think that means it was a lot of money.
It's REAL and its a DEAL! 6 BIG BOOKS FOR 150!?!!!!! WHAT A SAVINGS!!!!
HODAG RPG@hodagrpg.bsky.social · 6d agoHodag's Greatest Hits, all at one booth! -Death Game! -Barkeep on the Borderlands! -The Babylon Lottery! -Into the Oddish! -Campfire Scouts! -Picaro! (Probably, My Eyes are old now) Go tell Tony you want THE HODAG BUNDLE! He won't know what you're talking about, but show him the list above! Yowza!
We're have a stall at GenCon - come down to booth 458 to answer our riddles three (Riddles are communicated telepathically)
Hodag's Greatest Hits, all at one booth! -Death Game! -Barkeep on the Borderlands! -The Babylon Lottery! -Into the Oddish! -Campfire Scouts! -Picaro! (Probably, My Eyes are old now) Go tell Tony you want THE HODAG BUNDLE! He won't know what you're talking about, but show him the list above! Yowza!
Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
static.klipy.com
Plus One Exp @ 🔜 GenCon Booth 449@plusoneexp.bsky.social · 6d agoYou kids want some fucking games? Booth 449 starting RIGHT NOW
Editing at the laundromat
Thursday is Mechritter playtest day, which sets me up for friday to be my first full Playtest Material article edit day, as I managed to receive 6 article drafts this week (:
hello! are you a collage artist AND/OR tabletop game designer? I would be tremendously grateful if you'd fill out this survey about possible connections between the two practices, to inform a piece I'm writing for @playtestmaterial.bsky.social
forms.gle
As the mass movement in Azad Kashmir gathers pace, so does state brutality. Omar Jaleel died by the slogan he advanced: "we will give our youth to bring revolution!"
This game is one to watch! I haven't heard of it and will try to pick up a copy at a UK convention (or if any UK friends will be at Gencon and would like to get it for me...)
Jax "unembarrassed unrestrained semiotic yelling" Romana🌹🌈@rufflejax.bsky.social · 2mo agoI wrote this solo journaling game based on the 2008 French horror movie Martyrs and my own experience growing up in the American far right. plusoneexp.com/products/bea...
I've teamed up with @psychhound.bsky.social and @thecoppercompendium.co.uk to put together a bundle of 3 solo TTRPGs around the theme of death. Check out the Dead and Alone bundle now! itch.io/b/3822/dead-.... More info below:
Dead and Alone Bundle by Crackerjackalope Games, PsychHound, The Copper Compendium
Dead and Alone Bundle: a heart starts beating, A Witch's Pilgrimage, 3 Shining Motes for $8.00
itch.io
My friend is now running a version of this murder mystery with her ESL classes :) larp for learning!
Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin))@laurieoc.bsky.social · last mo.Just got done running a 15 person LARP I slightly tricked my friends into, I've discovered it's actually much easier to convince people to do this than play a ttrpg.
On the note of silly jokes in Mechritter: RIP Charing Cross station, we will miss you while you are down for maintenance for 21 days.
As someone who never used to consume actual play, its annoying how essential it is when attempting any detailed writing about ttrpgs
a little story about scope creep: In designing mechritter, it was initially supposed to be a small rules expansion and adventure book for mausritter, but we soon realised that the information design in mausritter is simply inappropriate for the game we wanted to make, so we
stilll looking for the ideal platform to host playtest material on long (ish) term. ghost.io looks good but I'm unsure if it comes with a method of managing physical subscriptions as well as digital ones.
Thoughts on rescuing cozy games from the dustbin of history (1/2)
some photos I developed from a recent trip (final picture is of the aswan dam)
I just posted an article looking at solo games through the lens of samuel beckett and the theatre of the absurd over on patreon. Right at the bottom members will find more advanced thoughts on the subject below. www.patreon.com/posts/164724...
RPG Book Club: Samuel Beckett and the inherent absurdity of solo journaling. | Laurie O'Connel
This is the second part of a series called RPG Book Club where I attempt to write about books I’ve read that make me think differently about
patreon.com
Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin))@laurieoc.bsky.social · 2w agoTrying to write an essay about how cozy games and bleak unwinnable horror games are usually just reskins of one another since they're both fundamentally concerned with rejecting the possibility of progress