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🎙A new Wait, Roll That Again episode! I met @coppershaman.com (Nikita) at Dragonmeet 2025, and his story designing his first game really inspired me. We caught up earlier this year to find out how that went, and I think it might be one of the show's best convos! www.buzzsprout.com/2203539/epis...

www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/atrapos We're launching later today, let's fucking gooo

Session 4 of Stonetop tonight!

I'm very excited to make more Rascal Reading Club. It's a fun show to do (especially the talk back episodes) and I'm not-so-secretly very proud of the first season. Help me decide what season two should be about via the magic of ranked-choice voting.

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It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.

The amazing QQ Discord mods have arranged a review jam for the month of September! Super excited to offer tips and help give some awards at the end. (August can be for playing stuff you might wanna review, but it's not mandatory)

HUGE CONGRATS to the wonderful @serorpg.com and @mrthetrog.bsky.social who created and run the @solorpglist.com - which just brought a SILVER ENNIE to Aotearoa! Tumeke!!

Silver for Streaming Content goes to Cozy RPG Reviews, Cozy RPG Reviews

On holiday so these are my plans every day basically!

RPG Trader’s digital storefront wants to be the creator-friendly, RPG-focused alternative www.rascal.news/rpg-traders-...

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

I spoke at Vienna's Spielefest about Playstorming, our Monthly RPG playtesting event here in the city On this slide, I talked about our joke (but not a joke?) goal to make Vienna the RPG Design capital of Europe! But all we really want to do is make a community space for sharing the joy of design

thepsychicmaelstrom.pika.page/posts/on-why... In the wake of Crescent 2e's Ennie nomination, I've written a new blog post about awards, chronic pain, and immigration

Explorers Design has been nominated for Best Online Content in The Ennies 2026! Not sure who to vote for? Let me win you over. Today's post is a special edition of The Explorateur. It features my favorite nominees and a long list of non-rpg design links. 🍻🎉 www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

What a wild fucking list for the Ennies! The collaborative nature of the games, adventures & books on display here is real I could not be more proud than to see: Zine Club Yeah 2 win Judges Spotlight Tomb of 1000 Doors get two noms See 3 distribution partners on the list See dozens of friends 1/x

Zine Club Year Two from @plusoneexp.bsky.social won a Judges Spotlight Award at the Ennies!! That includes my game Fight or Fright, which I released with them in October of Last Year. Massive congratulations to the entire 2025 cohort, it is an absolute honour to see my game alongside yours!!

📣 THE 2026 ENNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE OFFICIALLY HERE! 📣 ennie-awards.com/2026-nominees/ New Category Spotlight -We are incredibly excited to debut the new category for Best Solo Game! Solo gaming has exploded with creativity, and we can’t wait to highlight the nominees!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... ATRAPOS is coming soon, my most thoroughly autistic game yet, filled with poetry, hot+sad people and the kind of subtext that Garth Marenghi would call cowardice.

Fun project I've been helping out on at work - getting to talk to space scientists makes the little me very very happy!

Round two of Playstorming, our Monthly playtesting meet-up in Vienna, was a success! So many people showed up, even during a record heatwave. Will have a write up on mixuppixels.com soon!

Some subtle (?) indie propaganda this week. A video about how smaller #TTRPG contain the secret to GMing big trad games without the pressure and workload of prep. This is a dastardly plan to show D&D players that other games exist and might even be good. youtu.be/o_avAU642Jg

Hi folks, now that my brain is slightly less mush, here's my regular post-con postmortems, this time for #UKGE 2026. byodinsbeardrpg.com/2026-06-01-u...

Had a lovely conversation with @laurieoc.bsky.social who is the organizing energy behind @playtestmaterial.bsky.social — I’m really optimistic about this one. We desperately need a space that neither journalism nor academic journals cover (as awesome as @analoggamestudies.bsky.social etc. are.)

Hello UKGE!

This week on Dice Exploder Lady Tabletop is back to help close out my Band-Aids & Bullet Holes influences series with the show's first episode about a video game: Signs of the Sojourner, a deckbuilder rpg about having conversations on a trade route. Might even be my favorite video game!

Unfortunately one of the panelists we had lined up for the panel on the impact of generative AI on the tabletop industry at #UKgamesexpo has had to drop out. If you're going to be at #UKGE2026 on Saturday at 10:30 and are in the industry or an academic and want to take part, please DM me!

A cool RPG marketplace created by a fellow @kiwirpg.bsky.social member, @hlashbrooke.bsky.social! Looking forward to getting Fight or Fright up on there :)

I interviewed Patrick Stuart of False Machine about his latest Kickstarter project! tricks-tales.blogspot.com/2026/05/patr...

I was on Alex's podcast for one last dip into Band-Aids & Bullet Holes before the campaign starts wrapping up next week. Love this show, and this was a good record!

Just wrapped up a beautiful, 3 session mini campaign of City of Winter with 4 of my friends last night. What an absolutely beautiful game!! Such an Emotional roller-coaster and the perfect ending for our characters

all kickstarters are governed by the interplay between two equations: (# of backers) x (average backer pledge) and (product MSRP) = (manufacturing cost) * [at least] 8

📣We're trying something completely NEW today and sharing our first customer survey! We want to learn a little bit about the folks that follow us, which of our games they play and enjoy, what they want to see from us in the future etc. Share your thoughts here: forms.gle/8XoqhgeSGNec...

these episodes are So Good, please go round out them out by submitting your thoughts on turning these movies into games so we can chat about them!!!!!

This absolute gem of a podcast is a new favourite of mine!! So excited for these episodes and a good excuse to watch these films

tricks-tales.blogspot.com/2026/05/lore... More rules from my game inspired by the early life of Genghis Khan!

Looking great today, Vienna! (At the Song Protest against Israel's participation in Eurovision here in Austria)

Save the date y’all!

Let's track the character sheet for Band-Aids & Bullet Holes over the course of design. "But wait," you say. "The game doesn't have a character sheet!" Well then this should be extra interesting.

@goodenough.us hey team, is there any way to share a preview of a pika blog before it is published? I'd like to share a copy with friends before it goes live!

I was just saying to a friend in Reform-laden UK that the worst thing about the turn to fascism everywhere is that every piece of “the establishment” has at best shrugged and let it happen, if not promoted and normalised it. NZ government must raise hell about this. Our own future depends on it!