Dan Phipps

Hello new blue sky friends, I make games with Kali and you can buy them at shop.gemroomgames.com

Them: how do you maintain a healthy work/life balance and avoid burnout? Me:

It really is the best when a vampire is in Pennsylvania

Portland Public Schools Board, all fuckin' boo hoo, guess we'll just have to make things worse, nooooo alternative (don't look at the long list of alternatives)

Going to the Save Portland Schools meetup like: hi everyone I'm hoping there are some transferrable skills from making elf game booklets that would be useful here

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

ME: doing anything fun this weekend? MY PATIENT: are you fucking kidding me right now?

I wish System Shock 2 was a better game because at the end of the day it is definitely my favorite

When games workshop raises the point cost of a unit because its part of some specific combo they should also include a Normal Person Discount for when you're like, hey this little guy looks cool I'll get one.

Four reasons why I think MÖRK BORG's index is good. 1. It's divided into three sections so that you can quickly filter to the third you're looking for and not have to sift through as many irrelevant entries. If you're looking for a thing in the Rules, you just ignore The World and Creatures.

so Portland Public Schools is just gonna decimate my immediate neighborhood culture, damage my/many children's education, & embrace a death spiral, boo-hooing that they have no other choice because finances, while giving the superintendent a big raise & ignoring any other options hate this for us

Old-school Essentials has some real sickos.jpg rules for constructing a castle. Here is a simplified method: Print out this page. Each block costs 1,000 gp for basic construction, or 1,500 gp for a furnished section. Arrange to taste.

Found this list of rules author Mo Willems uses to write children’s books, and I might try applying some of these to TTRPG adventure writing www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLdkudGX/

Available in the shop... now???? Cover your wretched dome with my product! bannerlessgames.bigcartel.com/product/void... Don't forget, buying this automatically puts you past the $20 threshold for a free "Dice Tray." Just add it to the cart and it'll automagically become free.

I wish games workshop would publish their space ork balance updates and point changes in a newspaper so I could gesture with it while I drink my coffee.

I love a horror game as much as the next library school graduate but I have serious ethical concerns about a game where you make people use the Dewey Decimal system.

youtu.be/KcADqxnQA_4?... #wpbl

Good webcomics I am reading right now: Barbarous Swan Boy Worm in a Rock God Please tell me about more good webcomics so that I can read them with my eyes

This is my new favorite thing.

Put these jerks in your dungeon

Juice detected, I repeat, high levels of Juice have been detected, this is not a drill, report to battle stations

Wrastle in the Castle

Hail Mary full of grace, everything's fucked and you're in space

Wargame but instead of point costs each unit has a Tetris piece you have to fit on a board

We're gonna be there hanging out with Tim Hutchings! (You can tell because our art from 9 Lives to Valhalla is on the poster.) (If you come by 12-3 Dan will be running 9 Lives. You could play a cat from the poster.)

You need to write for yourself because some day years later you'll have a chance to show it to new people and you'll need to rediscover what you love about it even though you're very tired. I am running a con game of 9 Lives to Valhalla tomorrow at Guardian Games, come say hi if you're in Portland

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Please use the correct chart format going forward.

THIS WEEKEND! We were hoping to have a fun new thing to release in connection to 9 Lives to Valhalla in time for this weekend, but Kali took a bad fall & got all busted up so that's delayed. Come by & sign her crutch instead! (Wait, no, it's borrowed, just say hi)

Getting to the stage in Warhammer army building where I'm tracking the relationships between individual orks (the wartrakk driver and gunner are fighting and split up to drive a trukk and pilot a dakkarig :( )

SAVE THE DATE for our Trans Lifeline HELLWHALERS Charity Stream on Sept 23 AND 24! 👀 With @helpactionneeded.bsky.social @dmsteve.bsky.social @thecandacemarie.bsky.social and @ameliasom.com Sept 23 & 24 🐋 5:30 PT

Double feature: Whiplash (2014) Pygmalion (1938)

IDK who needs to know this but Oriental Trading is selling one gross of Harryhausen skeletons for $25 www.orientaltrading.com/bulk-mini-ha...

by artist Ginny Robbins

I think i might have designed most of a wargame if I can only find a way to find it again in the little journal I take with me to my day job

I spent way too long painting this axe tonight

Webcomics are good

Oh my God the firebelles come from behind victory on a grand slam!?

Just found the blog post below with a quote from @anneleckie.bsky.social that reminds me of things @scenefour.bsky.social says about gaming. githyankidiaspora.com/2025/08/29/a...

Hey hey here's some fun news: our FLGS Guardian Games is hosting their first ever Indie RPG Fest on September 19, and we're gonna be there! Dan's gonna run 9 Lives to Valhalla, and there will be more games and cool people than fit in this first post