Blake Barton

We’re Bladework Games, a team of devs from all different walks of life. After years of quietly creating something a bit chaotic and a bit off-kilter, we’re finally coming up for air. If you like competitive dungeon crawlers, fast combat, and sabotaging your friends.. stick around. More coming soon!

Historical inaccuracies, poor costume design, terrible lighting, baffling omissions, incredible sexism, and a complete misunderstanding of the text ASIDE, Nolan's Odyssey's biggest crime is the fact that the script sucked complete ass

The thing is that people who post on reddit with any regularity are insane and in a just society would be microchipped

I want it burned to the ground.

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

it fucks with me that i won't get to live a life in every city. there's so fucking much life to live and i will only ever scratch the surface of the city i'm in and it drives me crazy sometimes. I want to have seen all of it and I won't and I don't always know how to reconcile that

I wrote a quick post last night about how much I enjoyed running the #ttrpg PUBLIC ACCESS for the first time. I originally put this on r/rpg, but I guess I liked it a little *too* much, because the powers that be took it down for "self-promotion". Anyway, love it. blakebarton.me/public-acces...

what's up gamers, I'm back with another blogpost about editing. this one's about development editing rather than line and copy editing, though, so the tips are all a little more vague and philosophical. hope you enjoy anyways: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-intangib...

All this “rule of three” talk and Alan Wake 2’s Final Draft isn’t even on NG++.

Updated my Tactician class for Shadowdark to beta 1.2.0 after some table testing. Check it out! blakebarton.itch.io/tactician-cl...

Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective youtu.be/RRh3r_AhUw0

Happy Halloween! Keeping up my momentum from yesterday with 10 magic items exclusive to my homebrew Tactician class for Shadowdark. Available for free on my itch page: blakebarton.itch.io/tactician-cl... #shadowdark #ttrpg #homebrew

I'm making stuff! Today the beta version of my homebrew Tactician class for #shadowdark. Had a lot of fun with this one :) blakebarton.itch.io/tactician-cl...

2025 Political Rising Stars To Keep An Eye On

I didn't make this (I sadly don't know who did), and I don't know how I feel about the name, but despite that, this is an INCREDIBLE resource for finding free-to-use, public domain art for your games. The MÖRK BORG community has been using it for years, so should you. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A film that takes place where you’re from

YOU CAN POST THE DAICON IV OPENING ON BLUESKY NOW

This is so devastating because it's absolutely true theonion.com/homesick-luk...

tonight i hope every Oscar goes to the facial expression Ralph Fiennes made near the end of Conclave when the new Pope announced his Pope name

spending 20 minutes trying to get a reference game loaded so i can look at something for 15 seconds and say "i've seen enough" before quitting forever

Severance is on its way to being the best television show of all time

David Lynch on inspiration in diners.

wrote about the demons (ie how being a writer is only going to get worse and how terrified I am) open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

This week on the blog: Coins! Contrasting historical coinage with the vision of ancient coinage presented through 'gold' in fantasy fiction. What were coins used for, why did much economic activity remain non-coinage and what do you use when you aren't using coins? acoup.blog/2025/01/03/c...

You are a game designer. You have so many ideas, and so few of them are published. Perhaps none of them are. Your WIP folder is full of genius, and you know it, but you cannot bring yourself to release it in an imperfect state. This is for you. Presenting THE 1E MANIFESTO.

Wrote up my loosey-goosey stocking 'procedure' idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/quick-dirty-...

Some of you may not have seen my weird little postcards