Nine Space Games is now available! Get it here: bpglink.com/9spacegames or here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... as you prefer, but definitely get it.

Nine Space Games

Nine Space Games is a collection of freeform games that share a universe and a set of rules. They are designed to be played however you like, and they play fast—each lasts no more than an hour. And th...

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Leafing through the Invincible TTRPG from Free League. If you’re wondering, like I always do, how much this new superhero TTRPG lives in the shadow of the 1980s era TSR Marvel game, the answer this time is: VERY. FASRIP stat-cronym. Karma. Zones. Words+numbers for your stat ratings. Yyyep!

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

For GenCon peeps that were curious about my Shadowrun books - here's the first one! store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/sha...

Shadowrun: Carrying Capacity (Transverse Noir #1), by Cat Rambo and Lo

IT’S MORE THAN JUST A GAME… The virtual universe of Transverse Noir was Cevher’s escape from her mundane life as a low-level adept, until the game was abruptly shut down years ago when its creator, Co...

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Heads up to my fellow ttrpg designers, heretofore undiscovered picklist by Bram Stoker just dropped

Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

Everyone in the kingdom is being a big baby about the calamity that was prophesied to befall the land. Me? Grindset time. I've got a foolproof plan to avoid our fate that couldn't possibly seal it instead. No destiny on this road. I'd love to see this bullshit prophecy fulfil itself through MY acts

We had a shopping session in Before the Season Ends today and it ended up being the most "trad"-feeling, min-max-y session I think it is possible to have in this game 😂 absolutely incredible jen-adcock15.itch.io/before-the-s...

Before the Season Ends - Playtest Edition by Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock

Find friendship and romance as a debutante in Regency London

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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care”

I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.

A Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - Dropout

Dr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03]

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We were part of the panel on Manufacturing Your Game as part of the IGDN Summer Series! It was a great discussion alongside the Gal Pal Games and Hectic Electron designers!! @queenregnant.bsky.social @prairieeyes.bsky.social @hecticelectron.bsky.social @igdn-official.bsky.social

Manufacturing Your Game (Should I put that in my box?) — Summer Series 2026

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Planescape people! Casual reminder that 2e faction symbols were never really made available in a usable format, so I recreated 20+ of them for you to use. planescape.fandom.com/wiki/Faction...

Just 🔸2 days🔸 left to snag this TTRPG bundle and help designer Rae Nedjadi pay down the expenses incurred by a long hospital stay. Over $285 worth of games for just 25 bucks, and 98% of your donation goes directly to Rae. Act now, the bundle vanishes on Aug 1st! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

An argument for human connection masquerading as a book review. valerialoves.com/why-didnt-si...

Why Didn't Silent Titans Change the World?

Apprehension is worth the effort

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Tachyon Squadron from @evilhat.bsky.social is on a super sale. It's a dynamite Fate adaptation and great game. I've run a Star Wars version several times and I'm doing a Crimson Skies hack for our upcoming Shared Hearth online con. It's great. Buy it. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2... #ttrpg

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Today, Xueting's #popculture digest takes a look at upcoming Wuxia Cdramas (that I haven't talked about before). It looks like the media is no longer just focussing on Jin Yong, they've moved onto Gu Long, his younger contemporary. We're talking about a male writer active about 50 years ago, 1/

From the LinkedIn of an academic I have a lot of respect for.

some of my favorite pieces turned into basic lands #b&wart #mtg

1 week left on that big Bundle Deal folks! 650 Fonts for $19! Grab it while ya still can! :) hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-fo... #gamedev #fonts #indiedev #ttrpg #design #books #magazines

If you're an indie #TTRPG designer or publisher, my new video series is for you! I'm diving into the Affinity suite and how I use it to produce professional TTRPG print products, starting with the basics and covering every step of the process! Check out episode 1:

How I Make Awesome TTRPG Books With Affinity!

Have you ever wanted to make your own TTRPG books? Maybe you've got some D&D homebrew that you think people would love to see, or even a full TTRPG system that you want to get out there for people to play? Knowing how to start with design and layout for print is difficult, but there are tools whic

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I've spoken about how we need to go beyond not using genAI, and start actively resisting it in our everyday lives. This is a fantastic resource full of practical ideas for how we can do that airesistlist.org#resist-list

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

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Man, thankfully no one is playing or making stuff for this bad game run a billion dollar company that's putting AI into everything! www.geeknative.com/225567/hasbr...

Hasbro CEO claims AI integration is a "clear success" as Wizards of the Coast profits soar

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks reveals that AI integration has saved the company over a million work hours, even as Wizards of the Coast reports record-breaking 2025 profits.

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Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness We examine one of the earliest licensed games: mechanics, pitch, split of combat & skills, etc.. We then cover pub history, Turtles themselves & our general thoughts about TMNT and the KS reprint. #ttrpg

Around the Hearth | Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness

Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History looks at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, one of the earliest and most successful licensed supers games, kicking around for many more years th...

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Sporkle!

Bizarre

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

I'm begging you DTRPG publishers: when you update your game, please for the love of god, say something about what's been updated-- like is this a rules fix, layout change, page reference correction? Do I need to redownload it? I'm pretty sure you can add a detail to the email which goes out to us.

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

Uline is absolutely evil and you need to not be using them for anything no excuse refuseuline.com

Refuse Uline

Uline is a purposely political company aligned with extreme right-wing ideology. Despite their politics, millions of small businesses and artists still use ULINE completely unaware of what their dolla...

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Possible Worlds Games@possibleworlds.bsky.social · last mo.

now if everyone can just divest from ULINE too

Edige23 here: The second volume of the quartet of official Shadowrun novellas I've been co-writing with @catrambo.bsky.social has come out, www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/5... It's a multi-protag SR series in the LitRPG genre. #ttrpg #shadowrun