The list of games I want to run keeps growing but the number of days of the week stay the same 😔
Seyed P. Razavi (aka Syd)
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Having played some Cy Borg, I'm thinking about cyberpunk shizzle (Neuromancer film upcoming), is there an Into the Odd / Mythic Bastionland style hack for this sort of thing? Essentially looking for a rules lite, but rules interesting vehicle for cyber shenanigans.
I think we need more Dark Sun style consequences of extreme power mechanics.
sam “genial conversationalist” sorensen@samsorensen.bsky.social · 4w agoone thing I have noticed in my experience running long RPG campaigns is that most players are pretty uneasy being Extremely Powerful. like "D&D as power fantasy" is a common through-line, but I've found that once they hit a certain threshold things change very sharply and you enter new territory
A good day to remind you all that you can spend £5.50 on a 28mm @countbinface.bsky.social model from Troublemaker Games, £3 of which goes to NHS supporting charities Now who is selling some frog faced fiends and a scale model pier for them to fight over? www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page...
Can a TTRPG stop trying to simulate action movies and start making you feel like you're in one? I read Outgunned, a game built for explosions, one-liners, and impossible stunts. Here's my review: blog.monkeyx.games/2026/06/26/o...
Outgunned: Bullets and Banter (Review)
I am not, by any reasonable metric, an action movie person. If you looked at what I deliberately sit down to watch, it’s mostly horror, slow weird fiction, or something with too much subtext and not…
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Every time a gamer steps back from Yet Another Kickstarter I think an angel gets her wings.
Seyed P. Razavi (aka Syd)@monkeyx.bsky.social · 2mo agoI managed to talk myself out of it and withdraw my pledge. And for the low, low price of 1,299 SEK I can show you how!
In the deep forest There is a troll His fur is like a nest His back is like a knoll Rest your feet if they hurt He is the troll bus and his name is Burt.
Grab your trenchcoats and prep your gravelly voices, as we're back to shadowy streets of Berlin for the second chapter of our Cold City campaign files: blog.monkeyx.games/2026/06/19/c...
Cold City #2
The Schwarz Latern waited below street level, where Berlin kept its cheaper sins and dearer secrets. Red bulbs marked the stairwell. A woman with a cigarette watched the door, her coat hanging wrong…
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Reflection on Against Time and Death: The game works because the cards force humility. You plan a brilliant move, then the hand tells you to lose, bluff, or spend your only strong card early. The fiction gets sharper when the mechanics deny total control. 1/4
Seyed P. Razavi (aka Syd)@monkeyx.bsky.social · 5mo ago🧵A Thread for our game Against Time and Death (a duet Time War across the Weave). Two operatives trade scenes + secret letters for 8 exchanges, rewriting Threads toward their faction’s future. 1/n
Out of interest (& this is a genuine, non-loaded question) what visible impact have any of the higher ed courses teaching variations of game design had on tabletop game design? Can we point to actual things that have emerged from these courses? Ideas, coherent schools of thought, movements? In the…
Catching up with our Dragonbane campaign log as the ever-changing party finds themselves at the Road Side Inn: blog.monkeyx.games/2026/06/10/d...
Dragonbane - The Secret of the Dragon Emperor #5
When the party leaves Outskirt for Road’s End Inn, it does so with fresh bruises, thin patience, and more questions than answers. The last stretch in the village has sharpened every thread of the…
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I had a lovely time discussing my problem with Bladerunner RPG and listening to the rest of the panel's problematic settings. Thanks Steve for the invitation to take part. I may be biased but think this is worth listening to.
Orlanth Vex (He/Him)@orlanth.bsky.social · 2mo ago
The last Children of Fear campaign blog: blog.monkeyx.games/2026/06/05/c...
Children of Fear #11
27 November 1923. Derge’s ink-scented order didn’t last. Once the Parkhang’s deal was struck, the expedition became what it had always been threatening to become. It became a procession of small…
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We're back to our Children of Fear campaign, so time for a recap of the last session as the investigators leave China for Tibet and the mountains of Kham. blog.monkeyx.games/2026/06/01/c...
Children of Fear #10
28 November 1923. The cliffs of Ch’ien-fotung receded as a dream in daylight, still vivid, still wrong, but no longer within reach. The investigators left Tun-huang with the taste of dust and pigment…
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The second scenario I ran, Return to Sender, seemed to land well. Picked up lots of notes to improve it based on the run ways the players interacted with it. I had one player who picked up most of the literary inspirations for it so was well impressed.
I had a blast running The Off-Season People at Chaosium Con. Great players who really brought it alive. Piled on the social anxiety before slapping on the creepy folk horror.
Really need some Dragonbane campaigns that aren't collect the macguffins and confront the big bad. Made me think of Dragonlance's initial premise of heroes, and later refugees, on the run looking for safety. Can that be done without the railroading?
Off to @chaosium.bsky.social Con UK where I'll be playing a couple of things and running three scenarios I wrote: - The Off-season People - Return to Sender - Beneath the Summer Sky Very much looking forward to it and hoping getting there a bit earlier will mean more exploring the event.
Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits. Dragonbane Call of Cthulhu Cold City Out of the Ashes
Somerled@amacdon6.bsky.social · 3mo agoShare the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits. Dragonbane Dungeon Crawl Classics The One Ring 2e Night’s Black Agents
Wrote up the first session of our Cold City campaign. Felt it landed really well with our group combining noir with elements of horror. blog.monkeyx.games/2026/05/15/c...
Cold City #1
Berlin received the agents in the usual way with fog in the streets, damp in the bones, and too many men in too many uniforms pretending the war had ended cleanly. The city was still divided into…
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Men would rather roll on the Realm of Chaos - Slaves to Darkness random mutation table than ask literally a single living woman what it is they actually like
MikesGapingMaw@mikesgapingmaw.bsky.social · 3mo agoHey fellas. Would you respect me more if my balls looked like two swollen cantaloupes?
The current season of Delta Green scenarios comes to an end with my favourite scenario so far. Deserved a write up. One handler reviews the case file for Convergence, an After Action Report with lots of spoilers: blog.monkeyx.games/2026/04/29/d...
Delta Green: Convergence
Warning: Spoilers Ahead The file starts in Knoxville, Tennessee, with a videotape and a man named Billy Ray Spivey. That is often how these things begin in the Program records. A human name pinned to…
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