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Dawn of the Orcs is back on Backerkit for 10 days, as part of the Ennies Emporium! Play wizards and mad scientists. Build your own orcs. It's a GMless game with just the right mix of strategy and storytelling that everyone who plays it has a good time. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

If you are picking a name for your independent RPG publishing company, you can name it after corvids or after rats. Those are the only two options. I don't make the rules.

I do like a good Warren Zevon reference.

Excellent stuff from Chaosium!

I need to do another print run of Dawn of the Orcs. Looking for any mid-size distributors or webstores who would be interested in a bulk order. In the past I've worked with IPR, Peregrine Coast, Tabletop Bookshelf, and Pit ov Doom.

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/

I've been joking about this game for years, finally wrote it up for Minimalist RPG Jam #5: lymetime.itch.io/orc-the-krum...

The fall 2026 Designed in the DMV catalog features 80+ games made by folks in the DC-MD-VA region. We give these out to all the FLGSs in our region to encourage players to #ShopLocal. Thank you @evilhat.bsky.social (based in MD!) for making it possible! youtube.com/shorts/2pAxi...

Special challenge for RPG experts: did anyone ever make a condensed version of the 3.5/PF1e ruleset? Something around 40 pages or less. Something that does for 3.5 what the Black Hack does for OD&D.

Finding new location and character names for a grimdark setting is hard. Goetic demons, Biblical nasties, and Norse/Germanic myth names have already been done so many times.

all set up for tomorrow! look at all these artisanal, locally-crafted, independently-designed analog games!

Resident Evil '26 was a very fun movie.

It's a pretty cool game collection.

A big step forward for Cthulhu Eternal. After much lobbying, DriveThruRPG has added CE as a fully-fledged Rule System in its own right. That makes it MUCH easier to find the 50+ Cthulhu Eternal items that we've made but more importantly also find stuff by others. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?or...

I'm thinking of doing something at Everwinter game convention in downtown Boston this year. Anyone have experience tabling or running games tere?

I'm answering the important questions: what makes an rpg heavy metal? brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/what-makes-a...

Nic has always been incredibly helpful when I'm working with IPR. He's a pillar of RPG publishing.

Hey, this is the third project I worked with Plasmophage on! She's been great to collaborate with.

Honestly just needed to talk to someone about Game Wizards but I had a lot of thoughts so I wrote a blog post about it: brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/a-book-revie...

There's also a related topic to be had here: how dangerous it is to do crowdfunding at the point where you don't have the text (text; not artwork, layout, other pieces of finishing) finalized including editing. Evil Hat has been jokingly calling our crowdfunds "kickfinishers" for years for a reason.

Another interesting post from the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon! Magic as spirit-bargaining is common in traditions around the world. I suspect magic-as-craft is an Enlightenment thing or later. Stormbringer (1981) has an early spirit-bargaining magic system and Shadowrun might be the most famous.

I was disappointed to find out that TTRPG wiki uses AI to write their game descriptions. I've asked them to remove my games and delete their posts.

Just tinkering with my horror game a little. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/design-diary...

Just finished watching Widow's Bay. This show is the opposite of everything you normally think of when you hear horror comedy. It uses the comedy of mundane life to make us attached to the characters, so their perils and dilemmas feel more true. There's so much care in the acting and cinematography.

This is a great philosophy for playing RPGs.

Here's an original setting for my horror game Fear and Panic, although you can probably use it as inspiration for a modern horror campaign in any system. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/time-of-mons...

This was a really interesting read. It's about playgroups that use English for all IC talk and Indonesian for all OOC talk.

Does anyone remember the name of te metal song that used bits from Cthulhu's 2nd edition D&D statblock as lyrics? It was intended to be parody, I remember that.

Someone recommend me an interesting oneshot adventure to run at a game store event in a month or two. Any system. Just anything I haven't run before. Looking for variety.

There are community copies of the Griot Anthology available! If you don't have the means to buy one, grab your copy of this zine celebrating the brilliant work of black #TTRPG game designers for FREE while they last! (If you've already got one, give it a review!) thoughtcrimegames.it...

Ran Cairn for the first time. At a con. Someone asked me if they could play their Githyanki necromancer. We homebrewed a new background in five minutes and got to adventuring. The Horrendous Hounds of Hendenburgh were victoriously laid to rest. It was a great time!

I'm going to be running four RPGs at #FanExpoBoston this weekend. Anyone else headed there?

The Prisoner is on the criterion channel ⚪

IPR truly are the best.

Born to write RPGs, forced to resize thumbnails for multiple platforms.

I love everything about this and want to see more like it. "The cost of paying an unlikely company of heroes to deal with the dragon is cheap when compared to hiring a competent group of specialists to deal with the aftermath."

If I had a nickel every time I went to a free afternoon concert at the town park and some guy played the fiddle faster and more furiously than Yngie Malmsteen shredding I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's cool it happened twice.

After complaining for years that there are no font managers around, I found out last night that font managers have been around for years