New to the #SoloRPG List: Underneath by @smolghost.bsky.social A game of perilous solo spelunking. LINKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...
seb pines
@smolghost.bsky.social
🪙 ½ @goodluckpress.co // horror goon // writer & game designer // bookmaker // eerie queer cryptid // they/she/ze 🌙 looking for work! https://themonstrous.me/ // https://goodluckpress.co/ // contact: asmolghost@gmail.com
Two of my works are currently nominated for the CRIT Awards! My solo game of perilous spelunking Underneath and Between the Covers an anthology collaboration with @willjobst.bsky.social of intimate and sensual games! Vote for both here: www.critawards.org
@smolghost.bsky.social is up for a CRIT Award for UNDERNEATH, and both seb & @willjobst.bsky.social for BETWEEN THE COVERS, and @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social is up for *two* CRIT Awards for her work on @talesyettold.com, and they all so SO deserve for you to take 5 minutes and vote for them.
Links for Voting and Finalist List with reference attachments can be found on linktr.ee/CRITAwards which is listed on all socials. Additional information can be found on our website: critawards.org Voting is open July19th - August 23rd
Good Luck Press is up for 2 CRIT AWARDS! for best solo game, please follow the link and vote for @smolghost.bsky.social's subterranean solitary freakout UNDERNEATH. for best multiplayer ;) game, vote for seb and I's anthology of intimate, sensual games for bodies BETWEEN THE COVERS
Links for Voting and Finalist List with reference attachments can be found on linktr.ee/CRITAwards which is listed on all socials. Additional information can be found on our website: critawards.org Voting is open July19th - August 23rd
All the Solo RPGs I played in 2025! It's live :D youtu.be/FEERSCJl0_g?...
I played 15 SOLO RPGS in 2025
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Voting for the 2026 ENNIE Awards is live! I’m one of the candidates to be a judge next year, and I’m asking for your vote! In this thread I’ll explain what that means, why you should vote for me, and where you can read more of my thoughts on tabletop games. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ 1/
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What makes an rpg cover great? Lots of things! We are spoiled for choice in rpgs. So, this week, I thought I'd show off 15 recent and lesser-known favorites w/ commentary. Let me know your favorites! I want to do a part 2. www.explorersdesign.com/great-book-c...
Great Book Covers '26 #1
Cover inspiration from across the tabletop rpg industry.
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NEW: Underneath is a solo cave exploration and mapping game of what we encounter when we venture alone in the dark. Map, journal, and roll dice to build out a winding cave system while dealing with all the dangers and perils subterranean caverns have to offer. By @smolghost.bsky.social
Canadian friends, please sign this govt petition by my MP to stop unregulated ai data centres
Canadian residents & citizens; I would highly recommend signing this one
#OriginsGameFair is in just one week, so I made this handy list of journaling games you'll find at @ipr.bsky.social's booth and at mine. These experiences are part creative writing, part solo RPG, part personal reflection -- and very often, deeply satisfying! ▶️ for disclaimers & credits
I have SO MANY games you can see and maybe touch for @torontogamesweek.com this week! Renters Market is being projected outdoors at the waterfront on Thursday, June 11th, starting at 8pm! More Info: www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...
Renter's Market by g blekkehorst @gblekkenhorst.bsky.social
Folks in and near #HamOnt, there is a proposed AI data centre to be built along the harbourfront. Sign the petition below to demand that the city engage in public consultation and do an environmental assessment on the project! ✍🏼 you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pr...
Protect Hamilton: No Steelport AI Data Centre Without Public Consultation
As the frenzy to build AI data centers sweeps Canada, Hamilton is next on the list. Right now, Slate Asset Management and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC) are trying to build an AI-dat...
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2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards winners will be premiering at 8:00PM EST tonight! Hope some of you will be watching and can make it! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bBS...
2025 Indie Groundbreakers Awards Ceremony
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Canadians, if it helps, there's a form on the page where all you have to do is fill in your name, email, postal code, etc and it'll be sent to your local MPP. It's incredibly important that you speak up on this matter because this is a road we do not want to go down.
This is absolutely unacceptable - for Canada or any country Contact your MP! dontsurveil.me/c22.html
Two of my games are up for consideration for the inaugural Canada Roles Awards! If you are Canadian you can vote for Underneath for Best One Shot and Short Form Game and We Shall Be Monsters for Best Visual Design! Voting closes May 15th! canadaroles.ca/doku.php?id=...
The latest Memoria playtest kit is now on itch! starlightgrove.itch.io/memoria Memoria is a ritual of remembering, where you tease out the history of your character by exploring strange myths from a distant realm. I'll talk a bit more about what this means below ⬇
Memoria by Starlight Grove
A ritual of remembering.
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🧡 Happy lesbian visibility week! 🤍 Want a copy of Lessons in Bitter Annihilation, my solo Belonging Outside Belonging game about childhood lesbophobia? Check out this bundle! 💜 You'll get 94 books, zines, and more all by sapphics for a wicked discount!
Celebrate #LesbianVisibilityWeek in style by treating yourself to some delicious queer literature! 📚📦 From 4/20-4/26, you can grab 94 sapphic & lesbian books, comics, zines, RPGs & more for only $40 — an 88% savings! Find it here: itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...
This year's Indie Groundbreakers Awards feature so many talented nominees. It's shocking to see my name among them. SPINE is nominated for 3 categories: • Game of the Year • Most Innovative • Best Writing Fellow SPINE nominees include @furtsburrow.bsky.social, @naladraws.com, and Holly Freiberg.
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I am beyond thrilled to announce that TWO of my games have been nominated for Indie Groundbreaker Awards! Underneath for Best Rules & We Shall Be Monsters for Best Writing Honoured to be nominated alongside so many great games and peers! www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers
tomorrow 🖤 you can find links to where it'll be streaming from 11-3 on insta, fb, & youtube here: ottawatranslibrary.ca & catch my set at SIX MINUTES AFTER NOON SHARP. tune in to support the ottawa trans library!!! let me bum you out for a good cause FOR ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gonna be doing a set at this telethon fundraiser for the ottawa trans library in april 🦇
In a recent issue of Skeleton Code Machine, @exeunt.press takes a look at what makes @smolghost.bsky.social's We Shall Be Monsters special. Find the rest of the piece over on Substack: buff.ly/sxEvP5B.
does anyone have a "Toronto has One unseasonably warm spring day" bingo card? I gotta check off "old woman in parka", "dude in the park with an acoustic guitar", and "100 dogs"
It’s endometriosis awareness month, so sharing this is the least you could do for us
If you’re Canadian, PLEASE sign this petition to have endometriosis classified as a disability!!! Living with this incurable disease is horrible, it’s debilitating, it’s even humiliating sometimes. Please give us a break. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
I really, really enjoy this game from Seb Pines and I think you should play it!
Become your own Frankenstein (the doctor, his monster, or both, even) in the new storytelling tabletop RPG We Shall Be Monsters. www.avclub.com/we-shall-be-...
Become your own Frankenstein (the doctor, his monster, or both, even) in the new storytelling tabletop RPG We Shall Be Monsters. www.avclub.com/we-shall-be-...
Perform mad science with creature-building RPG We Shall Be Monsters
Become your own Frankenstein (the doctor, his monster, or both, even) in the new storytelling tabletop RPG We Shall Be Monsters.
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we've also got games by friends @summoningpress.bsky.social and @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social! come by and say hi and peruse!
We're here at Breakout Con! Join us for a weekend of games, panels, and (of course) slinging zines and books. Stop by table C2 and say hello!
Realis—the moon-hopping TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social—lands on Kickstarter April 2026! Featuring 55 classes, 150+ NPCs, 100+ illustrations, expanded GM & homebrew guidance, and much more, bookmark the campaign today at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... | teaser art: @decassette.bsky.social