Join @liberludorum.com and I for a chat with @frogqueengames.bsky.social, creator of the solo journaling game, Yap. Perfect story portions. Fun menu. Five stars. Also: Pavlov's House revisited. Track of the Week is "Shut 'Em Up," The Prodigy vs. Public Enemy vs. Manfred Mann.

A cross section of my playing, reading, and listening life, including highlights from @whovian223.bsky.social, @natetylerwriting.bsky.social @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social, @postmarkgames.bsky.social, Ursula K. Le Guin and Wall of Voodoo. Mucho gusto: www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/breakup...

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I have a brilliant cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" to play for you, a great Discord for tabletop designers + four other things.

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Got connected with Phil Yates (Flames of War et al) and talked about he and Ian Burgos' forthcoming WW2 dogfight game, Angels One Six. #wargame #miniatures #ww2 www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/angels-...

Angels One Six is Inbound: A Talk With Phil Yates About His New WW2 Dogfighting Game — Breakup Gaming Society

The mastermind behind Flames of War and more makes a Kickstarter bid to perfect the crunch and the story of WW2 dogfights.

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Check out @natetylerwriting.bsky.social's new guest piece on Breakup Gaming Society, where he documents four generations of family tabletop play, from Minnesota to Taiwan. #boardgames #familygames

Documenting Four Generations of Family Tabletop Play — Breakup Gaming Society

Follow four generations of gaming, from Spite and Malice in the U.S. Midwest with grandma to Carcassonne with the author's own kids in Taiwan.

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The eight of clubs indicates my character, Brian, is about to visit a plumber. The five on the die indicates he will drop a 5-star review. I'm playing Yap by @frogqueengames.bsky.social. #solorpg #ttrpg #journaling

Got a killer guest contribution from @natetylerwriting.bsky.social that got me thinking about that "back in the day" trope in hip hop: My two current faves for tempo and sheer style: • "Memories," Slick Rick • "Whayback," Artifacts Putting links to those below. Share one of yours. Surprise me.

Got some reps in on the @thunderworksgames.bsky.social Cartographers #flipandwrite, so I articulated my thoughts about it thus far. Also interviewed @partymeeple.bsky.social about his killer Fantasy Flight Silver Line collection. Ever played Orcz? He has, and rates the best from his stack. 👇

Tracing some of my favorite applications of the Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s well-traveled "Blow Your Head" sample. The first time I heard it was on "Public Enemy No. 1." Yo! Bum Rush the Show is still my favorite PE album. #hiphop #publicenemy youtu.be/AAWVAbUAADQ?...

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Feeling myself after my best Cartographers score, I instructed the townsfolk in the leftmost cottage to start a fire in their hearth to annoy the neighboring monsters. Irrelevant to the final tally, but satisfying nonetheless. #soloboardgame #cartographers #flipandwrite

Club/hip hop hybrid beatmakers supreme, Mantronix, having a bit of fun building off Ian Dury and the Blockheads' "Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll." Off the 1990 LP, This Should Move Ya. youtu.be/tqKknwy2q9Y?...

Sex-N-Drugs And Rock-N-Roll

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I had three days to turn my pal Fritz into a Blood Angels Space Marine. He went from a dude who couldn't tell which way his Terminators were facing to doing pistolero tricks with a Storm Bolter. Episode 118 is here 👇 #warhammer40k #coopgame #spacehulkdeathangel

Some of my favorite recent finds on the game table and off, including items from @thebrdgmschronicle.bsky.social, @fiverandomsongs.com and @danielsolis.bsky.social www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/curatio...

Crate Digging: June 2026 — Breakup Gaming Society

My fave finds in music, board game blogs and related things like this Carcassonne heavy metal shirt I now want.

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@liberludorum.com leads a talk with Alessio Cavatore, who helped imagine Ghost in the Shell as a new #TTRPG. Hitting this summer, with all-original art from the beloved #manga. I also chat up @yoyoni.bsky.social about the hot summer of his Chicago '68 #boardgame and what he's working on next 👇

Bruno Faidutti’s ruthless role-selection mini-masterpiece spent a lot of time on our table during our heavy Fantasy Flight Games era. It is hard to pull a building permit for your city when you got a shiv in your ribs. #fantasyflightgames #citadels

Check it out, my Cartographer's name is Stafford Airbiscuit and his coat of arms is a butt that is farting. This and other accomplishments (Citadels in retrospective, Thunderbolt Apache Leader session) recorded in Episode 116. 👇 #soloboardgame #flipandwrite #podcast

One of the reasons I just broadcast here is because I need as much of the rest of my life as possible to coax memory in my own universe of books and games because I'm a freak and I'm tired and crossing the line into this century still feels like a colossal misstep #soloboardgame #books

Comancheria First Look + Chaos in the Old World Retrospective + I Try to Put Motion Man on Your Indie Throwback Playlist Breakup Gaming Society Episode 115 is here 👇 #boardgames #hiphop #fantasyflightgames

Get a load of @partymeeple.bsky.social's collection of Fantasy Flight Silver Series boxes. He's played 'em all. He can rank 'em. Keep an eye out on Breakup Gaming Society's growing Fantasy Flight Games retrospective in the future. Link to that is down there 👇

Chatted up one of the co-designers of Mix Up Fairy Tales with @liberludorum.com and learned how the concept for this family card game formed when the designer's two daughters got their hands on the prototype artwork from The British Library. Interview's down there 👇

Chaos in the Old World joins Arkham Horror, Tannhauser and Space Hulk: Death Angel in my growing Fantasy Flight golden age retrospective, including supplemental interviews with @mattthr.bsky.social and @shelfstablecast.bsky.social's Kenny Katayama Nothing sang like the brawl in that box 👇

"One cuppable butt in the night would be the rondure of one perfect word in the manifold unasked questions of the savior’s tongue." Work continues in the basement of @goodluckpress.co's Dwelling solo journaling RPG. Latest session (audio and written, whatever's your flavor) down there 👇

Metal Queens ov Skull Mountain RPG (@liberludorum.com) + My Magician Friend Mods Tarot (@phelyx.bsky.social) + Dwelling Solo RPG Session (@goodluckpress.co) + Keith Murray's Here to Make a Dollar Out of 15 Cents #rpg #tarot #hiphop #ttrpg Episode's down there 👇

If your Thrash stats feel neglected these days, join @liberludorum.com and I for a chat about Metal Queens ov Skull Mountain, a throwback with a straight-ahead d20 system designed to help you tell legendary stories at chugging tempo.

I wanted to know why Phelyx Hopkins was already ~500 hours in to the making of his own tarot deck. He talked to me about why he felt the need to hand-make a woodblock-style tarot mod — a deep-dive into tarot’s historical importance as a storytelling game for everyday folk. 👇 #tarot

Congrats to @phelyx.bsky.social, winner of Breakup Gaming Society's indie game bundle, including the fine work of @grumpyspidergames.bsky.social, @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social, @long-tail-games.bsky.social and @cjeggett.co.uk (who, along with Mary McGroary, comprises Ada Press).

Get rekt, Trish, Zeke, and Baghead. Ava triumphs in Final Girl: A Knock at the Door. Also: Scrabble with The Moms, Fantasy Flight retrospective with @shelfstablecast.bsky.social's Kenny Katayama, and a can't miss Latifah remix I want you to hear. 👇

After The Moms packed the set back into the drawstring bag, her imploring post-game question IDed the real opponent at the table: the doldrums of forgetting. “I need to ask you a question,” she said. I braced for unwanted family revelation. “Did you let me win?” Rest of the story's down there 👇

I picture a party banner loosening at one end in a room full of the slain. You can just make out the text before it folds over on itself: WELCOME BACK FUCKER. Ava just earned her stripes in Final Girl: A Knock at the Door.

The way the three killers at the bottom run through that house like a six-legged threshing machine is quite impressive. Final Girl: A Knock at the Door is underway. More on this in Episode 113, dropping at end of March. #finalgirl #soloboardgame #boardgamepodcast

Track of the Week guest @tismey.bsky.social came armed with more cuts than we could fit in the segment, so here they all are and you're welcome. www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/hip-hop...

Track of the Week Extended Remix: Tim’s Whole List of Hip Hop Suggestions — Breakup Gaming Society

Guest-curated hip hop playlist with cuts from Killah Priest, Prefuse 73 and more

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