They just let you mock up covers and art for your game no matter how close to release the thing is. #markoftheodd #ttrpg #coverart

My first game is a solo journaling archaeology game. I only realized later that I am not, in general, much for solo RPGing. But I'm still proud of this game. If you are interested in archaeology, check it out in this bundle. I poured real field experience into it. rpg-trader.com/products/888...

RPG Trader@rpgtrader.bsky.social · 3w ago

📣 Calling all solo RPG creators! 👀 Now is the time to upload your solo RPGs. With 'Solo September' fast approaching, we've partnered with @solorpglist.com to run a #SoloSeptember gaming bundle. Submit one game now to our revenue-sharing, month-long bundle here: rpg-trader.com/dashboard/bu...

Our d6-only Games Bundle is officially LIVE! 108 games. Worth over $800. Just $25 - or PWYW! That’s a lot of tiny dice-powered adventures and new games to discover. 🩵 This one is definitely worth a look. 👉 Go grab it and support 100+ amazing creators! 🎲✨ rpg-trader.com/products/834...

d6-only Games Bundle on RPG Trader

A collection of 108 games that use the humble six-sided die

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Prison Book Program is a nonprofit that mails books to prisoners. They get lots of requests from prisoners for RPGs, but not many RPG donations. Most prisons ban hardcover books like the D&D corebooks. If you have any softcover RPGs to donate, the info is here: prisonbookprogram.org/donate-books/

Come to the Holiday Inn in Evanston on Sep. 25-26 for The Ettin, a growing gaming convention focused on actually sitting down to play games. I've told a few people about this and keep hearing, "Oh, I didn't know about that." Well no more excuses, greater Chicagoland. #ttrpg #chicago #theettin

For @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social, I created a drawing TTRPG. Draw your adventure into a comic where you actually carry out those elaborate plans the party makes. Just don't count on it turning out like you hoped. 10 Minutes Later... seeker8998.itch.io/10-minutes-l...

10 Minutes Later... by Seeker8998

Party RPG Drawing Game

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Since people seem interested, I've coded a version of this that yields better results, is more optimized, and allows you to customize the texture of the noise. It's free, and forever will be free. Enjoy! chaoclypse.itch.io/xerox-hell

Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu)@chaoclypse.bsky.social · last mo.

I coded a web app that xerox's your images for fun! Just drag an image in and play with the dials. If nothing shows up (or it's all black) you may want to play with the threshold (first slider). Press "S" to save the image! editor.p5js.org/Chaoclypse/f...

Little Game Monsters is LIVE over on @Kickstarter! Head over to the campaign, check out our starting rewards and what can be unlocked. I cannot wait to bring more more content to the LGM universe. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lgm... #DnD #ttrpgs #dungeonsanddragons

Coming soon: Little Game Monsters

A supplemental guide of beasts and monsters for use in the ennie nominated ttrpg Little Game Masters.

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I heard you like #sharkweek Or Bloodborne Or quick combat video gamey #ttrpg Or sharks falling from a super powerful cloud air tube Or wave crawls. It's one of those, and that's why I know you'll find Sharktooth interesting.

Sharktooth on RPG Trader

Open Sea Survival

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The Little Game Monsters @kickstarter launches July 28th. To give you a little sneak peak here is the Squashbuckler. This saber wielding squash is just one of over 150 monsters to use in your Little Game Masters games! Go check out the launch page now!

I have a $50 @tabletopbookshelf.com gift card. What am I buying, #ttrpg community? I'm a forever GM who dabbles in design. More dice and mechanics than open ended storytelling usually. I am not much for journaling games (yet).

There's been a big surge of solo game interest and it's got me wondering why. Are we not able to find time for each other? Do group games cause too much stress? All these questions make me concerned about how we treat group games. Why do you play solo games?

OK, It's that time. <slams hand on the desk> Tell me ( and others) about your dope TTRPG!!! Include links.

I am but a poor debut author, so cannot afford anything fancy, but if you'd like to come to my (completely online) book launch on the 12th of September, I'd really love it if you could join me in celebrating achieving my lifelong ambition. fb.me/e/kwrgh2Yzs

The rest of the year I'm a proceduralist dice loving fuddy duddy, but whenever @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social's jam comes around the brain is like, "What if you had a tiny world building game whose rules came as the label on an actual physical mason jar?" I don't recognize myself this month. #onepagerpg

My #onepagedungeon with more visual work

I'm working on a system-agnostic #onepagedungeon. Loot an eccentric's manor for hidden treasure before the whole thing is auctioned off by his wastrel nephew. PDF in progress here: drive.google.com/file/d/1YrGu... #ttrpg

They're here! Grab a physical copy of INFINITE REVOLUTION (with some minor external blemishes) for the lowest price I will probably ever offer them - $21 w INCLUDED SHIPPING to anywhere in the US, over 50% off retail. all proceeds go to medical care for my stupid disintegrated knee lol

Discount Seconds Copies Available

Hello! I'm putting a limited number of heavily-discounted (over 50% retail) physical copies on sale via itch.io. These are physical copies of INFINITE REVOLUTION with cosmetic defects that made them u...

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leo 🦈@darlingthresher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

hey pals guess who needs an MRI and forgot that those cost like $1200. i'll be put up some discounted printer's seconds of INFINITE REVOLUTION maybe tomorrow-ish. tell ur friends also still open for layout work moving into late july / august

This is a very welcome amount of honesty coming from a publisher and I think it's valuable for us to be asking if this is really what we want from a platform or crowdfunding as a concept.

BoardGameWire@boardgamewire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Plaid Hat Games cancels successfully-funded Kickstarter The Monolith after pledges ‘stagnated’ on day two, plans changes for post-Gen Con relaunch: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

For #FreeRPGDay, and every day, most of my 1 page games are free at seeker8998.itch.io. Personal recommendations: Broken Smile, Tooth for Tooth, Sharktooth, Run Foren

Seeker8998

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For Free RPG Day, a reminder that you can grab our free 2-pager "The Barely There Tap & Inn", a watering hole and overnight stop, ready for placement in any fantasy setting. Especially suited for small folk. Shenanigans are inevitable🐻 tabletopbookshelf.com/products/the...

The Barely There Tap & Inn

Submission for the Barkeep on the Borderlands Barkeep Jam 2024 The Barely There Tap &amp; Inn is a watering hole and overnight stop, ready for placement in any fantasy setting. It's especially suited ...

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There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

Random Blogwagon Roundup — Prismatic Wasteland

In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!

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Simulate the way most of us muddle through with our home tongue and snippets of foreign language in a #ttrpg. All it takes is 1 d6 roll per group.

A Quick Dialect System

Overlapping dialects

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For @prismaticwasteland.com's Random Blogwagon, I wrote about @mtrc.bsky.social's new book, Next Level. I don't have any grand insights for applying video game procedural generation to #ttrpg. I'm just happy to direct people to this easily readable and delightful book. It'll spark something for you.

Interacting with Next Level By Mike Cook

Hand-Crafted Random

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You didn't name the game that just for a dumb joke, did you? Me: youtu.be/XOQBu7GN7sU

Intergalactic Bastionland Teaser

YouTube video by Bastionland

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I'm starting to suspect that "Just make games" #ttrpg advice is not, as such, targeted at me. I have very little shame in pushing something to itch subscribers the day I think I have an idea worth sharing. What I do need is the "No one will buy my game" reminder. That's not why I enjoy development.

Kerisian Kult, my Indonesian friend, has just announced his new #ttrpg #osr project. Deep Dive is a Mark of the Odd project set in a submerged future Earth. Take on the role of Deep Diver, exploring the dark abyss where humanity has survived in underwater ocean. www.instagram.com/p/DZg5hTPlP-8/

If this didn't refer to video games specifically I'd never know this manifesto wasn't about #ttrpg "3. We must stop treating everything we make as a potential product" hits particularly hard. I've made plenty of absolute junk. I'm probably doing it now. But I sometimes forget how okay that is.

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

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Given how out of nowhere @rpg-trader.bsky.social felt like, I'm tempted to say it's some massive scheme, but the only scheme seems to be "make it easy to sell and discover TTRPGs based on search tools made for the medium," which is a great scheme.

Seeker@seeker8998.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've put some of my favorite work up on RPG Trader. Sharktooth: An Open Sea Survival game featuring the Sharklopedia and of course a Sharklone. And a new reactive combat system. Tooth for Tooth: A One Shot friendly consideration of what violence does to those who use it.