It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2d ago

State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...

The amazing QQ Discord mods have arranged a review jam for the month of September! Super excited to offer tips and help give some awards at the end. (August can be for playing stuff you might wanna review, but it's not mandatory)

HUGE CONGRATS to the wonderful @serorpg.com and @mrthetrog.bsky.social who created and run the @solorpglist.com - which just brought a SILVER ENNIE to Aotearoa! Tumeke!!

The ENNIE Awards@ennie-awards.bsky.social · 5d ago

Silver for Online Content goes to Solo RPG List, Solo RPG List

Silver for Streaming Content goes to Cozy RPG Reviews, Cozy RPG Reviews

Looking for the perfect Halloween Game? Want to play as a kid in a magical costume fighting possessed decorations? Check out Fight or Fright at the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth at Gen Con this weekend! Booth 449!

Plus One Exp @ 🔜 GenCon Booth 449@plusoneexp.bsky.social · 6d ago

You kids want some fucking games? Booth 449 starting RIGHT NOW

On holiday so these are my plans every day basically!

RPG Trader’s digital storefront wants to be the creator-friendly, RPG-focused alternative www.rascal.news/rpg-traders-...

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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I spoke at Vienna's Spielefest about Playstorming, our Monthly RPG playtesting event here in the city On this slide, I talked about our joke (but not a joke?) goal to make Vienna the RPG Design capital of Europe! But all we really want to do is make a community space for sharing the joy of design

thepsychicmaelstrom.pika.page/posts/on-why... In the wake of Crescent 2e's Ennie nomination, I've written a new blog post about awards, chronic pain, and immigration

On why I hate awards, or “Please vote for me at the Ennies” - The Psychic Maelstrom

Preface. If you're a marginalized immigrant you already know what this one is about. Let's cut to the chase: please help me out by voting for Crescent 2e as the 2026 ENnies' "Best Family Game."1 Pleas...

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Explorers Design has been nominated for Best Online Content in The Ennies 2026! Not sure who to vote for? Let me win you over. Today's post is a special edition of The Explorateur. It features my favorite nominees and a long list of non-rpg design links. 🍻🎉 www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

The Explorateur: Ennies Special

The Ennie Awards, my campaign pitch, and the best graphic design links so far.

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NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

What a wild fucking list for the Ennies! The collaborative nature of the games, adventures & books on display here is real I could not be more proud than to see: Zine Club Yeah 2 win Judges Spotlight Tomb of 1000 Doors get two noms See 3 distribution partners on the list See dozens of friends 1/x

Team Gaovl Power Rangers

ALT: Team Gaovl Power Rangers

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Zine Club Year Two from @plusoneexp.bsky.social won a Judges Spotlight Award at the Ennies!! That includes my game Fight or Fright, which I released with them in October of Last Year. Massive congratulations to the entire 2025 cohort, it is an absolute honour to see my game alongside yours!!

📣 THE 2026 ENNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE OFFICIALLY HERE! 📣 ennie-awards.com/2026-nominees/ New Category Spotlight -We are incredibly excited to debut the new category for Best Solo Game! Solo gaming has exploded with creativity, and we can’t wait to highlight the nominees!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... ATRAPOS is coming soon, my most thoroughly autistic game yet, filled with poetry, hot+sad people and the kind of subtext that Garth Marenghi would call cowardice.

Coming soon: Atrapos: A Roleplaying Game of Odyssey

A doomed mythic fantasy roleplaying game of defying fate in an epic world of Gods and heroes.

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Fun project I've been helping out on at work - getting to talk to space scientists makes the little me very very happy!

ESA Operations@operations.esa.int · last mo.

Asteroids regularly slam into Earth, but in 2022 a little bit of Earth slammed into an asteroid - in the shape of NASA's DART spacecraft hitting Dimorphos. This autumn ESA's Hera spacecraft reaches this same body to try and find out: could we save Earth from an incoming asteroid? #AsteroidDay

Round two of Playstorming, our Monthly playtesting meet-up in Vienna, was a success! So many people showed up, even during a record heatwave. Will have a write up on mixuppixels.com soon!

Johannes@johanneso.bsky.social · last mo.

Ran the second public playtest of my in-development game "A Mother's Curse" at the amazing playstorming co-organized by @mixuppixels.bsky.social and www.paradice.wien - We had such a blast! Added this time: Play sheets. It worked just as great with the Spindlewheel Deck by @teacabbage.bsky.social!

Some subtle (?) indie propaganda this week. A video about how smaller #TTRPG contain the secret to GMing big trad games without the pressure and workload of prep. This is a dastardly plan to show D&D players that other games exist and might even be good. youtu.be/o_avAU642Jg

The Secret To Zero Prep GMing Is Not Improv

YouTube video by Cozy RPG Reviews

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Hi folks, now that my brain is slightly less mush, here's my regular post-con postmortems, this time for #UKGE 2026. byodinsbeardrpg.com/2026-06-01-u...

UKGE 2026 Post-con Postmortem

On Friday, 29 May 2026, I attended the UK Games Expo in Birmingham for the third time. Last year was a bit of a disappointment, with numbers down significantly from the first year, but this time was a...

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Had a lovely conversation with @laurieoc.bsky.social who is the organizing energy behind @playtestmaterial.bsky.social — I’m really optimistic about this one. We desperately need a space that neither journalism nor academic journals cover (as awesome as @analoggamestudies.bsky.social etc. are.)

The Stillfleet Studio ☉ more than play 🇵🇸 ☉ 🔜 Gen Con@stillfleet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dear fellow TTRPG nerds/adjacent journos and academics: you may want to go ahead and follow @playtestmaterial.bsky.social This is the account of a new critical journal of TTRPG studies, *Playtest Material*. Read about it here (more information to come soon): playtestmaterial.org

Hello UKGE!

This week on Dice Exploder Lady Tabletop is back to help close out my Band-Aids & Bullet Holes influences series with the show's first episode about a video game: Signs of the Sojourner, a deckbuilder rpg about having conversations on a trade route. Might even be my favorite video game!

Transcript: Deckbuilding (Signs of the Sojourner) with Lady Tabletop - Dice Exploder

Listen to this episode here. Further Reading Signs of the Sojourner by Echo Dog Games Band-Aids & Bullet Holes by Sam, on Kickstarter now Slay the Spire 2 by Mega...

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Unfortunately one of the panelists we had lined up for the panel on the impact of generative AI on the tabletop industry at #UKgamesexpo has had to drop out. If you're going to be at #UKGE2026 on Saturday at 10:30 and are in the industry or an academic and want to take part, please DM me!

A cool RPG marketplace created by a fellow @kiwirpg.bsky.social member, @hlashbrooke.bsky.social! Looking forward to getting Fight or Fright up on there :)

RPG Trader@rpgtrader.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RPG Trader is now in public beta as we prepare for a full launch! Creators can register and add/import their products now 🎉 🎲 Checkout is disabled until launch. rpg-trader.com

I interviewed Patrick Stuart of False Machine about his latest Kickstarter project! tricks-tales.blogspot.com/2026/05/patr...

Patrick Stuart (False Machine) Interview - The Doom of the Dark

Patrick Stuart of False Machine infamy has a Kickstarter out! The Doom of the Dark, a real-time, high-concept adventure for Tunnels & Troll...

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I was on Alex's podcast for one last dip into Band-Aids & Bullet Holes before the campaign starts wrapping up next week. Love this show, and this was a good record!

Alex MJ 🎲🎃@mixuppixels.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Do you need to playtest a game's art? How essential is community to game design? Who is the mysterious figure that inspired the now-iconic Barf artwork? All this and more on the latest episode of Wait, Roll That Again with @diceexploder.com open.spotify.com/episode/7EIr...

Do you need to playtest a game's art? How essential is community to game design? Who is the mysterious figure that inspired the now-iconic Barf artwork? All this and more on the latest episode of Wait, Roll That Again with @diceexploder.com open.spotify.com/episode/7EIr...

Playtesting the Art of Band-Aids and Bullet Holes (ft. Sam Dunnewold)

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Just wrapped up a beautiful, 3 session mini campaign of City of Winter with 4 of my friends last night. What an absolutely beautiful game!! Such an Emotional roller-coaster and the perfect ending for our characters

all kickstarters are governed by the interplay between two equations: (# of backers) x (average backer pledge) and (product MSRP) = (manufacturing cost) * [at least] 8