I am so absolutely stunned and proud to say that We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights has been nominated for Best Setting in the Indie Groundbreakers! www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

So much love and care to @alamhigo.bsky.social my editor, @jnb.art who did the wonderful cover (and who has also done the work for multi-nominee Little Wolves), @neonrot.bsky.social who did the fabulous layout, and to @shoutingcrow.bsky.social for the original moon game jam.

Make your very own Plato’s Mech, a featherless biped armed with guns and lasers! Color it. Cut it out and customize as much as you'd like. Art by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social! BEHOLD: exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech

Plato's Mech by Exeunt Press

Skeleton Code Machine MECH WEEK coloring contest

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What am I reading today? THIS:

Amber Macfarlane@amby.navy · 7mo ago

I wrote a game in ~8 hours. It's not fun, but it exists. Experience being a young person in the alt-right pipeline, and what it's like getting out of it. Content warnings listed on the page. ambynavy.itch.io/black-ice

Here's a link to the original essay. And if you enjoy this one, I recommend the essay that I wrote to conclude the series, which has had the most traffic. A Defense of Reading (or Reading as Play)🔗👇🧵

Essay: Bookplay in TTRPGs

An essay on how we play with books in ttrpgs, also SPINE the ttrpg

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REMINDER: WE'RE ON WINTER BREAK! ⚠️THE ONLINE SHOP'S OPEN BUT WE WON'T SHIP AGAIN UNTIL JANUARY 2026⚠️ (You can also find us IRL - our vending machine mini-boutique awaits you during TPK Brewing Co's regular operating hours, 5051 SE Hawthorne PDX OR)

New to the #SoloRPG List: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social You have to escape a horrible dungeon, armed with nothing but a magic frog! CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

Hey guys? For reasons, I'm gonna need you to go like the post I've quoted below. I need this adorable dragon.

Juniper Harper Lark@juniperhl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I think sometimes its important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. Shes dreadful. What a splendid beast.

DAY 1, GAME 7: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social is a silly and fun solo dungeon crawl game where you race to escape a failed dungeon raid, aided (and hindered) by a magical frog. A good quick play mix of story and strategy. @shoutingcrow.bsky.social

Haven't been online much, but here's a doodle I did recently of a CATAPHRACTS character I'm playing. They're... a really different vibe, for me. Usually I play big old dudes. Anyway, I swear I'm still alive!

For MECH WEEK last year, I teamed up with @shoutingcrow.bsky.social to release a Plato's Mech free paper doll coloring page. That's going to be hard to beat for SKIRMISH WEEK this year. Suggestions welcome. Wrong answers appreciated. exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech #skirmish #wargames

Plato's Mech by Exeunt Press

Skeleton Code Machine MECH WEEK coloring contest

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This is brilliant

Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah@percypropa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Pleased to tell y'all that We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights is OUT IN FULL! urania-games.itch.io/we-wander-be... This game was originally written in a fever dream state for @shoutingcrow.bsky.social's Below A Bad Moon Jam. Today, she's fully released with all the bells and whistles!

"In that moment, the immersion, the *feeling* of play, was unlike anything I could have imagined a month ago, when I let my buddy cajole me into trying out Cataphracts in Space." OVER/UNDER: The Bleed Machine, a preview of thoughts to come. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/overunder-th...

Picking up a pen and drawing something every day is a great way to build yourself up, especially when you don’t think of yourself as an artist. One day, you’ll feel like you’ve earned the title. Eventually you’ll realize you earned it the moment you picked up the pen. I’m proud of you, Exeunt.

Exeunt Press 💀🎲@exeunt.press · 10mo ago

#MÖRKTOBER Day 8 - Wizard

A lot will be happening over on my Itch page, including a ton of print at home foldable versions of my games inspired by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social But until they are uploaded, from now you can grab a physical copy of Pirouette and Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto! These are VERY limited, only 7 of each

Pirouette: A Solo Horror Ballet TTRPG by InnocentGoblin

The show must go on, even if it kills you!

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A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

Been a year. Time to repost this.

Oof, this one’s so heavy, I haven’t been able to commission art for it or finish the work myself. If you wanna feel some kinda way, check out this stream. Good luck, Wyvern!

A Screaming Wyvern@screamingwyvern.com · 12mo ago

I'll be going well out of my comfort zone for this week's #solorpg Thursday - Body to Die For by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social is about body horror, transphobia, body dysmorphia, and death. I've wanted to stream it for a while, but I needed to make sure I could respectfully handle the subject.

Interrupting my summer of inactivity to say: oh holy crap, one of our blue pearl neocaridina shrimp is carrying eggs! There’s a little yellow shrimp just below her, to the right. Li’l bonus for ya.

Got a lot of new followers today, but I haven’t been very productive this summer. Please enjoy this (invasive) mollusk shell that my kid found in the river. We spend a lot of time outside this time of year, but I’ll be back to posting bookbinding, publishing, and TTRPG stuff in September!

We bully people into great things in the Plus One discord. Also if you want to support @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Longsword @hipolita.itch.io's RAD @apesofwrath.bsky.social's Down We Go Tony's Through The Void Or one of our other house systems we would love to help you

Sam Armstrong is 4 Goblins in a Tuxedo@samarmstronggames.bsky.social · last yr.

So after a discussion in a discord server (and being told I'd be a coward if I didn't set this up) here's the Indie Adventure Jam. Make a THING for your favourite #ttrpg that doesn't have enough THINGS. Simple as that, you have two months. itch.io/jam/indie-ad...

I think about this a lot and definitely feel that a game is not truly complete until it has at least one adventure supplement to support it and show what playing that game is actually like. It's like a video game with no story. Cool mechanics but how do I use them?

Shouting Crow@shoutingcrow.bsky.social · last yr.

Critically, the rest of the book is a SAMPLE ADVENTURE. Do you know how USEFUL that is?! Even as a reference for formatting?! If you want people to write adventures for your games, for goodness’ sake, give them an idea of what those adventures should look like, more or less!!

So you’re a game designer who wants people to write adventures for your system. Here’s how you facilitate that:

Plus One is looking for 4 "Zine Weight" #TTRPS to help support next year in a very particular way. We want to run 4 titles by newer creators through 4 different "funding platforms" & track the process for each one. The platforms are: -Kickstarter -Backerkit -Gamefound -Zine Club 1/4

Write an adventure for an indie system you read or played recently. Go on, do it. Even if you don’t think of yourself as a game designer. It doesn’t have to be great— it just has to be playable. One page, back and front. Three pages. An unformatted google doc. A postcard dungeon. Doesn’t matter.

Sam Armstrong is 4 Goblins in a Tuxedo@samarmstronggames.bsky.social · last yr.

So after a discussion in a discord server (and being told I'd be a coward if I didn't set this up) here's the Indie Adventure Jam. Make a THING for your favourite #ttrpg that doesn't have enough THINGS. Simple as that, you have two months. itch.io/jam/indie-ad...

I try not to put spiders into my games, out of consideration for my arachnophobic friends, but I am making a terrarium for my girlfriend and look what I found while misting it today… webs! (This shot was selected because it does not have a visible spider) What a productive little dude.

A long time coming, but Mausritter now has an SRD! There’s a nice website where you can get the rules or download a markdown file, plus they’re now released under a CC-BY license so you’re free to use the rules text in your own projects mausritter.com/srd/

Game Rules | Mausritter

The Mausritter SRD is a complete, free, and open-source reference for the Mausritter, the sword-and-whiskers roleplaying game.

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All my friends are running ads for their projects and I can’t be arsed to charge more than $5 for a PDF simply because the rat race takes all the fun out of making stuff. Ho hum.

play games outside your discipline, even if you don't like them. engage with why you do or don't like them. it's great practice! you should try to experience OSR, trad, storygame, gmless, solo, fkr, larp, etc and see how they warp your idea of what our goofy little hobby is

Did you know that you can fit ~40 standard sized playing cards, five dice, and a rules sheet printed on the back of a J-card inside a cassette case without posts? Do something with this knowledge.