Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Pax East

Send them to the publisher, not to us, please. All we will do is send them to our publisher, so, really, just eliminate the extra step.

It's hit protection, I know. Just blame autocorrect.

I half promised @moreblueberries.bsky.social I'd write "Smooch Borg," but it may turn into "Mythic Smooch."

It's Mark of the Odd, but the stats are Gay Longing, Sad Songs, Dexterity, and instead of hit points, you have "My Bullshit."

Chris Bissette

Hey so Loot The Room is going to disappear off the internet if I can't come up with about £250 in the next few days.

If you've ever thought about picking up any of my games now would be an excellent time to do that.

loottheroom.itch.io

This "Play" doesn't sound like we're taking games seriously.

Right now, I don’t think I know the game well enough to do good acquisitions for it (though so many of my friends love it). That may change in the latter half of this year, time permitting.

Will DM you!

We're streaming Sanguine Arch, Symphony's Vampire: the Masquerade campaign, NOW on Twitch!

www.twitch.tv/symphonyente...

Genuinely begging RPG writers to give more of a shit (read: any of a shit) about the actual craft and art of writing.

Yes, get into poetry, for the love of god.

RPG discussions on Facebook are already scary places without grace, honor, or joy, but they hit a new low today when someone called a decade+-old game “the future of the OSR.”

Don’t jog on them: sprint.

Thank you so much for having me!!!!

Dude, I’m so freaking excited.

Hear me out...

Univerally praised games are neat enough, but nothing hits quite like something unpopular that speaks to *you*.

So show-and-tell: Link and Explain a game that's UNDERRATED (sub-500 user reviews), UNDERRATED (sub 80% score) or BOTH (ideally!) that is near and dear to your heart.

Broke: What genre does your game emulate?
Woke: What storyworlds is your game a portal between?

Writing a short intro to queer theory for social workers with no background in post-structuralism was easier than writing a short intro to Itch-io charity bundles for social workers with no background in games.

The distracted boyfriend meme, but it’s me, the two big writing projects I love, and a monograph titled “Turn A11 On, Turn B17 Up: Storyworlds of Dwight Yoakam’s ‘If There Was a Way.’”

Once Zine Club’s 2027 Adventures are more settled, I’d love to talk more.

@plusoneexp.bsky.social, jump in if I’ve misspoken or you have more you want to add.

That’s a good question! Right now, I’m focused on Zine Club—booklet/short book production works well without relying on crowdfunding, but games in other formats usually need crowdfunding campaigns for the production costs.

My first-award-winning games—both about food & power—recently had a lovely, new, combined edition made by @plusoneexp.bsky.social

plusoneexp.com/products/fea...

tonight is the final time you can buy tickets for our raffle!

there are no limits to tickets and can increase your chances of winning! amazing prizes await you!

contribute to a cause to help keep me housed, I will truly be grateful.

[Hitting the board that reads "Death of the Author was meant to be a tool of literary criticism, NOT an excuse to give your bucks to a shitty person" with my finger until it breaks]

"Death of the author" might even suggest that Chris Cocks intent—no matter how fucking innocent (as unlikely as that is)—is irrelevant to how queer people read his actions as hatemongering and harmful.

As a dyed-in-the-wool reader-response guy, I cannot agree enough. "Death of the author" asks important questions about authorial intent in constructing meaning. It is not an excuse for empty-suited corpo tools to NOT FOLLOW THE FUCKING MONEY.

There is no such thing as "equality in everything but" any more than there is equality for most people and not others. Anyone who tells you otherwise does not understand the notion of "equality" and probably does not happen to be included in the exceptions to it.

Having Breakout FOMO because now I have to wait a whole year to hang out with my favorite Torontonians.

All of Rory’s complexity emerges from the reaction rolls @sfxprb.bsky.social tosses our way.

Can’t believe I left off Battlebabe.

I’ve got 3 characters, y’all:
- Angry gay socialist with no idea what to do
- Former Jesuit
- Rory, human fighter