John Harper

Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts is packed with new lore, gameable details, plug-and-play systems, GM tools, crew opportunities, and new artwork. Available now on itch and DriveThruRPG: Itch: johnharper.itch.io/deep-cuts DTRPG: shorturl.at/pKhsZ

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every shot in Full Contact feels engineered to be the coolest shit you've ever seen in your life

Full Contact appreciation post

Secret easter egg: In Rangers of a Broken World, if you flip the pages fast enough, you'll "scroll" across the lands of Amylte. See it in action for yourself. Instantly get the Prototype PDF (full rules, limited art but includes the page borders) when you back: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

28 pages of a twink crawling around a megastructure. all done in ms paint. i recommend this if u like twinks or megastructures

creepy reads for a haunted Halloweenie on the latest Little Oracles 🎃 (listen in thread!)

Banana's games are always hot. Definitely check this one out!

For Friday crowd: CMU Press has formally announced a new series of *peer-reviewed* tabletop games, co-edited by myself & CMU media librarian Ashley Werlinich. We have a call out for GAME SUBMISSIONS for a new anthology series called Promptuary. First volume's theme is Strange Worlds / Anthropocene!

Periodic reminder: Watch SON OF THE WHITE MARE.

Here at lumpley games, we love to make fun, spooky-themed casual rpgs and party games. Here are a few on sale, for your spooky-themed October get-togethers! itch.io/s/205552/spo... (With community copies, in case you find the skyrocketing price of trick or treat candy as terrifying as we do.)

This was a fun chat to listen to about Blades '68 (and running Blades in general), featuring veteran Blades expert @scenefour.bsky.social and the bois from @dmofnone.bsky.social. youtu.be/nfOrGMwkm9Y?...

This looks incredible.

Hey there #portfolioday I'm Pam Wishbow, an illustrator who works in a limited color printerly manner. I love working in publishing and am over the moon when working with games find more on my website pamwishbow.com, represented by How Do You Do

Tonight at 7 PST! I am going to try and scramble to take some photos and make a last second listing because my lino prints finally decided to dry

GOLD TEETH. What a handsome tome! A wonderful production; beautiful of course (those maps!), and full of delight. And you know I'm a sucker for huge type on a big spine. Hats off @rossignol.bsky.social & @marshdavies.bsky.social

the thing in The Spear Cuts Through Water where the dead interrupt the text in italics??? and their voices necessarily undermine the aesthetics of empire (and of epic fantasy as a genre)??? genius. im sick with envy

i was trying to channel Robert Eggers on this one...

I'm blown away by what Jack's doing in the Daggerheart space. No one saw this coming. Top tier badass shit.

Lighthouse sickos get in here.

This week, a day late, on Dice Exploder: @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social joins me to talk about fallout from Liminal Horror. It's adventure writing, how to make harm interesting, and horror modules! Take a listen:

It's the State of the Hat with @seannittner.bsky.social! Previewing Rangers of a Broken World plus updates on Designers & Dragons Origins, Blades '68, Umdaar, Tian Deng, AGON: Realms of Khaos and much more www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUIf...

The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

Been having a ton of fun with this and can confirm: if you like classic immsims, this is definitely for you.

The time has come, immsim sickos... 🪩!!! RETROSPACE IS OUT NOW !!!🪩 You're just a simple janitor, but it's up to you to save humanity from cosmic madness! > Immersive, disco-punk, space-horror, stealth-shooter, eurojank, janitor core > Grab the game now on Steam and consoles!

Want to see some layout/design fiddliness? Here's a before and after side-by-side. I decided that a table format was better for the threat listings and the miasma victim should be a bit more central on the page for visual balance.

Mitchell is having a sleepy #caturday as usual

Bad Salzdetfurth🥶

Now, there are some PbtA and post-PbtA games that do take "acting under fire" as their core template, and build their resolution rules on top of it. Significantly, crucially, they add new systems that deal with the problem I'm describing. Blades in the Dark's position and effect, for instance...

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

The Decay: Survival Horror Roleplaying is now live on Kickstarter! Go back your new favorite horror ttrpg and get the Early Bird prices during the first 24 hours. We have such sights to show you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cof...

It's my birthday! Get the full Gentleman series of solo+ poetry RPGs & the Telegraph generators for just $13: 🎂 Gentleman Bandit & the ghastly Dark Highway, dark Westerns 🎂 Gentleman Pirate, gay adventure on the high seas 🎂 Gentleman Scoundrel, a Blades in the Dark hack itch.io/s/78055/poet...

Watched the Traitors and then (randomly) (re)watched Goldeneye. Only conclusion: Alan Cumming is our most valuable (benevolent) demon. Protect him (and Lala) at all costs.

A year on from me starting it, I complete my list of 101 TTRPGs I played before my 50th birthday. How did you spend your birthday? I bet it wasn't doing your work and then hammering out 3.5k words about the chatgames with funny dice (or no funny dice, or no dice.) #ttrpg

Just caught up with the excellent @newmadras.bsky.social and @kierongillen.bsky.social reacting to reactions about the setting of Blades in the Dark and sharing even more insights and good tips. Thanks to @rascal.news for continuing to provide a platform for deep dives into TTRPG stuff like this.

💀⚠️💀 We are launching tomorrow, and we have another contributor to the Mass Grave stretch goal zine: @johnharper.bsky.social John is joining an already stacked list of folks who are going to be bringing their own unique perspectives to this zine. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cof...

Don't mess with this crew. 👀

Need a rec for what to watch next? Collected just for you, some memorable & marvelous TV and movies (with compliments to @johnharper.bsky.social) on the latest Little Oracles 📺 open.spotify.com/episode/2j4d...

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

My ttrpg take is that the bones are the skeletons' money and in our world bones equal dollars

Hey #portfolioday I’m Pam Wishbow, an illustrator that makes limited color, print inspired work based in Seattle, WA. I’m looking to do more work in publishing, editorial, and games this year. represented by How Do You Do pamwishbow.com