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a graphic showing the mock up CHILDREN OF TIME The roleplaying game book against a background of a planet and a long tubular ark spaceship.

🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!🚀

We're absolutely over the bloody moon to be making the Children of Time RPG!

Mina, Grant and Elaine have been sequestered away with author Adrian Tchaikovsky, building a new Ark to take you to the far reaches of space.

But what (or who) is waiting for you out there?

A spread from Blades '68, showing a scientist testing out a human-amplifier (a big robot claw exo-skeleton thing).

A spread from Blades '68 showing a computer terminal, ashtray, rolodex, and dot matrix paper on a desk. Some reel to reel machines arein the background.

The final 24 hours for the Blades '68 campaign!

To celebrate, a couple of new pieces:

Immersion is not as important as buy-in.

A grid of 24 character portraits for Mausritter: Junk City, depicting a mix of mice, rats and other critters.

Have been busy working on the Junk City guidebook, including making a lot of character portraits for all the most notable creatures in the city. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Apocalypse World and perhaps something like Brindlewood Bay is up there as well.

I saw a conversation recently where someone wished more designers talked about what a touchstone actually means means for a project, how it transforms into the work. This is a lovely look at exactly that!

Rating Every Room in White Plume Mountain — Prismatic Wasteland I review every single room (and some non-rooms) in the original funhouse dungeon and describe what makes them work or not work and what is worth stealing for your dungeons and what you should avoid, a...

I rate every room in White Plume Mountain (X out of 5 Stars) and explain why each room does, or does not, work and how you can take these lessons into designing your own dungeons, be they of the funhouse variety or not
#osr #ttrpg

Quick questions for TTRPG publishers that I’ve asked privately but it’s been a bit:

1. If a form of coverage (AP/review/other) has transformed your sales overnight, what was it?

2. If you could wave a wand & have one creator/creative/media outlet praise or play your TTRPG, what would you wish for?

they leaked the source code for godot on github

Coming soon: Abundance & Adversity - four adventure-filled seasons A brand new adventure collection for Mausritter. Also available in Dutch: Overvloed & Ontberingen - vier jaargetijden vol avontuur.

We've been working on this for quite some time (together with @geekitrealgood.bsky.social), but soon our new adventure collection for #Mausritter will finally be coming to Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/won...

The best thing I ever did as a TTRPG publisher is make lots of videos of me running our games. It’s my secret weapon.

They've got ~36 hours to make another $1,000!

One good reminder about self promotion and marketing (as much as I have a distaste for it): it's important.

And don't assume your followers or subscribers have seen it and won't be excited.

I just had a great interaction for the first time on something I've posted on multiple forums three times.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

KÖT: a city prowler solo RPG zine The city is changed. The air hangs heavy with the stench of alien ectoplasm. And you are not the only one who can smell it.

There's 3 days left on the crowdfunder for this solo game about being a mutant cat in a city gone wrong. Their final stretch goal seems to be about adding an endgame level set in Hell? I think it looks pretty cool!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/kor...

*GASP* Are we going to fund today???

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

cant help but cringe at people, casual users (not artists) who *went back to twitter* two years after they dropped it just bc they didnt get enough activity here. like, was a need for engagement on posts the reason you fuckin left?? and not the nazi shit?? and now youre going back??

fucking weak

27. More ttrpgs need cute sidebars where a personification of the designer pops up to explain their reasoning for a mechanic, as well as what sections it ties into.

39. There has never been and perhaps never will be a better use of the osr ethos than Mausritter. Reframing the dungeon fantasy into a world of tiny mice in the ruins of human civilization makes the playstyle SING and its fucking beautiful

Extra Ordinary TTRPG Softcover Print Run Physical copies of Extra Ordinary, a TTRPG about kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world!

Oh hey, 5 days left to back a game about kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world! Go support Extra Ordinary!

#TTRPG #indieTTRPG #TTRPGcommunity

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaz...

it really just feels like there's a concerted push to get as many people's faces into that system as fast as possible by any means necessary

You know what? No. I will not stay quiet while small businesses around me decide to mass-create visuals in AI to promote their businesses. I will tell them in the comments that I dislike this. And I will let them know that I will unfollow them and cease to visit their business if they do not stop.

Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID.

It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info

A page of search results from Sphaerenmeisters Spiele. Blades '68, Blades '68 Limited Edition, Players Gazette, Score Pad, Trouble Deck, Doskvol 968 City Map, and Faction Deck are all pictured.

🚨EU FANS🚨
We've made an arrangement with Sphaerenmeisters Spiele in Germany to allow you to pre-order rewards for Blades '68.
You can pre-order the Limited Edition cover, map, and other physical rewards and they will fulfill it through their store.
sphaerenmeisters-spiele.de?suche=blades...
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Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

not thrilled with this blog post but i wanted to write at least some version of this <3 injectorseat.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/w...

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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As I said before, I would like to see Dark Sun rehabilitated. Fixing it's first edition racism it's incredibly easy, and the setting is extraordinarily relevant: fascist tyrants that have wrecked the environment, enacted uncountable genocides, keep people uncultured and enslaved, etc.