Agreeable Chatter

My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...

Checklist for Making a Cool Monster Vampires are undeniably cool. I break down what makes them so cool and how that can be applied to designing other monsters to make them almost as cool as a vampire #osr #ttrpg

A meditation about the meaning of art and artist, after a visit to the Malaysian National Art Gallery and its vast collection of wayang kulit shadow puppets, learning more about the life and practice of the legendary puppeteer Pak Dollah Baju Merah: slowlorispress.com/post/8316254...

So we are supposed to believe that democrats are throwing trans people under the bus so that they win and then trans people will be safe because they are just fibbing?

Robert Evans famously told Coppola he had to cut 35 minutes out of the movie, and rather than argue, Coppola obeyed, and this was one of the scenes he cut. Evans, distraught, bolted up in the middle of the screening and cried, “where’s the blueberry scene?” Coppola only smiled, and put it back in

Meet Dixie, a hound dog with floppy ears, a nose that never stops, & very definite opinions about the world. Your job? Take Dixie for a fulfilling walk and get her home safely. I made a solo journaling game for @binarystar.games #MinimalistJam. Play it: skywater-ranch.itch.io/dixie-needs-...

itch.io/jam/minimali... It's almost over! Get in while you can!

Spent some time today thinking about Blades in the Dark and what I think people miss when they pitch it tbr.bearblog.dev/scores-are-t...

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

They call me and my friends "HERETICS" and "CULTISTS" in the local TTRPG scene afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/being-called...

There is way bigger news in the world right now 🇧🇷, but in the meantime I wrote a quick post about where this game came from and what I'd like to do with it after the jam! tbr.bearblog.dev/send-lawyers...

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Proud of my friends and RPG moots in Brazil.

Creatures from beyond the veil love to be like “I hunger.” We all hunger! That’s not unique to you!

we must not idealize the cheesecake factory. even with cheesecake automation, it's brutal physical labor with no rest ever since the advent of cheesecake taylorism

I wrote a 3-player card game for @binarystar.games 's #minimalistjam! Work with two other players to keep your triple agent out of jail in Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money! dadstep.itch.io/send-lawyers...

Just once in my life I’d like to give the order for all hands to go to battle stations

I wrote a 3-player card game for @binarystar.games 's #minimalistjam! Work with two other players to keep your triple agent out of jail in Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money! dadstep.itch.io/send-lawyers...

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I've got a special treat today! We organized a collaborative project in @prismaticwasteland.com's discord. Our goal was a hexcrawl project inspired by OVER THE GARDEN WALL. This is the PRISMATIC PUMPKINCRAWL. 31 powderkeg-packed hexes. It's completely free. mindstormpress.itch.io/prismatic-pu...

Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

I think I have taken more pictures of George from Deafheaven than the rest of my family combined

New chvrches record cover looking like something i’d pay $10 for on itch dot ip that promises to be a “system neutral un-canon/anti-canon reimagination of the hex crawl”

Vasovagal syncope kind of feels like your body is trying to take a screenshot and then freezes

"Give me something for the pain and let me die"

Having a mild headcold in my 30s

The retainer system I'd always wanted was waiting for me in the AD&D DMG. valerialoves.com/i-was-wrong-...

Taking Benadryl and NyQuil and cracking open the book of Job to see whether the hat man or the spiders have a more convincing take on theodicy

Dare you spend your hard-earned gold in the Dungeon Vending Machine? #osr #ttrpg #blogpost

Decades of film scholarship about the Halloween films culturally supplanted by “on god Michael myers be sprinting when nobody lookin”

My entry for the "Player Advice" bandwagon. More importantly a recipe for glazed carrots. billhook.bearblog.dev/advice-on-pl...

Ludacris' name is actually short for "Ludonarrative Crissonance"

We are LIVE! FREE H'WEEN ZINE! GET NOW! DO ITTTTTTT! hodagrpg.itch.io/hween2

Prison Book Program now has enough storage space for as many RPG books as people want to donate. Or any of the other frequently requested books, but RPG books are often requested, rarely donated, and most of the people I know here are RPG folks. prisonbookprogram.org/donate-books/

Ea-nāṣir Must Die! is out now! Thanks @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op and @plusoneexp.bsky.social for making this full release happen! A Bronze Age sword & sorcery house crawl adventure for 3–5 players, inspired by the historical figure and meme, Ea-nāṣir. Links below! #ttrpg #osr

Blogwagon Announcement: How to Be a Good Player. There is plenty of GM advice out there. How about advice for the rest of the people at the table? #ttrpg #osr

The first interview in the Mousetrap design series is with @newmadras.bsky.social on Theatre and RPGs. Did you know Thomas is not only an accomplished journalist and RPG critic but also an award-winning playwright?

An allegorical meaning may lurk here.

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

For the latest entry in my "could have been a ttrpg" series, I explore the mechanics of Final Fantasy IV, which introduces the Active Time Battle system. www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2026/10...