Freya

There was a jazz festival near me this weekend. There was a jazz festival in the town I visited last weekend, too. With the wide variety of performances on offer, I still only really paid attention to a couple. Jazz festivals are about the plays you *don't* note.

New System Shop: Relationships in play! Featuring very special guest Avery Alder @lackingceremony.bsky.social ! We approach the taxonomic expanse from various different angles - power dynamics, stat(e)s of being, emergent ephemera - with Interesting results! open.spotify.com/episode/2bOk...

Whenever I see a sculpted, shaped, and carefully mowed lawn, I can't help but imagine it as a golf course. My doctor says it's just par-eidolia.

Violet and I realised that this year's Ennie nominees either fell into "I own and have GM'd this" or "I've somehow never heard of this", with little in between, so we made a bonusode to survey the field and each pick something new to try! open.spotify.com/episode/0uBA...

As I send hundreds of books soaring across the Atlantic, I thought I'd see what folks are interested in next for JourneyMon expansions. Check out the poll in the Kickstarter update to have your say! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ilg...

New System Shop! This one was recorded earlier in the summer but since then we've had another two heatwaves and until recently it was too hot to sit in my office for long enough to edit the dang thing 🥲 open.spotify.com/episode/1Xrh...

Imi has worked so hard on this and I've worked so soft and we're both incredibly proud of the result. And now people can have it! And play it!

I don't have air con, but I do have two fans, a slightly too small tub of water with an ice pack in it, and Nicholas Cage.

UKGE and high doses of @ava.foxfort.net have done strange things to my brain, but I slept soundly nonetheless.

I will be running Tool Team at 7pm on Friday (tomorrow!!)

*handshake meme* Me --> [Excited about seeing Adrian] <-- Rocky Hailmary

...also, this month's System Shop bonusode went unsung, by which I mean, I forgot to herald it. It's a good un, though! open.spotify.com/episode/35xn...

@ilgingell.bsky.social and I will be wandering the halls of UK Games Expo next week! Spot us, as usual, in our white JourneyMon t-shirts! I'm also hopefully going to run at least one demo of severalseals.itch.io/tool-team - more details to follow...

I'm having a pretty awful time right now, but my Amaryllis flowered yesterday and it's reminding me that there's still good in this world, Mr Frodo.

Afflicted by an amnestic framing device, our only hope of salvation is that one paragraph on page 4 of your favourite RPG.... whatever one of those is. open.spotify.com/episode/7jaK...

Iiiit's time for two slightly belated episode announcements! First up, Violet and returning guest Roz talk about making hunger mechanics feel meaty, in Worlds (plural) of Darkness and more: open.spotify.com/episode/2YNY...

I am back from Contigency 2026, and full of love for Friends and Games. Mostly, I'm full of shitposts about the impossibly complicated Elf Game we made for @uncannydice.bsky.social's inhuman game jam. Which included a design phase where we just. Went outside and sketched trees to study their vibes.

Well well well! 💖

If you know me, you'll probably have heard me rant about Tchaikovsky's flagship bugworld series. They're all here! All ten of them! And also some mammalworld if that's your thing I guess.

It's the final sprint! Let's gooo 🏃‍♀️

@ilgingell.bsky.social joins me and Violet to talk about bringing monster training to the tabletop, discussing existing games in the space and how JourneyMon tackles the design puzzles of the genre! We even dig up a monster catching TTRPG that predates Pokémon... open.spotify.com/episode/2VLl...

Oh hey that's me! You may be wondering about the photo. You see, I was mimicking a mimic.

JourneyMon is live on kickstarter now! Imi has been working hard on it for many actual years, and even your humble Freya has been working... soft(??) on it, too!

I'm excited to announce the Kickstarter campaign for JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying will go live on October 28th, in just 3 weeks from today. The big day is nearly upon us! Are you ready for your next #ttrpg journey? Follow the campaign here: kickstarter.journeymonrpg.com

@redstrawbaby.bsky.social Falin may be a healer, but she gotta get that bread

I will be running JourneyMon at #tabletopscotland this weekend! If you spot me in my JourneyMon shirt, say hi and I will give you a bag of (locally-sourced) monster munch. If you bring friends and ask nicely, I may even run a session for you, time permitting!

We've raced on past 275 now so its about time to crack open the first booster pack and release a new playbook... You can vote on which one on a poll on our Discord server. Follow the link to join in! community.journeymonrpg.com

The JourneyMon #TTRPG pre-launch is full steam ahead, hitting 250 followers! To celebrate and drive for the next milestone, I'm excited to announce we'll be releasing Quick Start 'booster packs' for the Youngster and Oldtimer playbooks. One will unlock at 275 followers, and the other at 300! 🎁

Episode 8, Mapmaking (part 1), is our first two-parter, and features Roz Leahy, our first guest! Among many other benefits, this means there's 50% more wordplay in the shownotes! redcircle.com/shows/6991e0...

I'm thrilled to share that the Green Bone Saga is being adapted into a TTRPG by @evilhat.bsky.social. Yes, now you too can be a jade warrior prowling the streets of Janloon. More info & sign up to playtest at the link below 👇

Did you know it's *exactly* 5 years today since I first started working on JourneyMon? (At least according to the edit history of my first ideation document.) Find out the game's original code name, its development history, and current progress in my first Devlog: ilgingell.itch.io/journeymon-q...