Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press

Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press

@ssto.press

carson brown, he/him publishing #ttrpg stuff as single stage to orbit press, mostly in the #mothership rpg system https://ssto.press

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Beyond the obvious “free space” in the middle, there’s a lot more nonfiction in there than I thought there’d be.

Personable | Markus@personable.bsky.social

More cuts than I'm comfortable with to get down to 9, but I don't think there's any of these nine that do not belong on my list.

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Go get some amazing games from the Canadian and UK marketplace.

Compose Dream Games@joshuakitz.bsky.social

Everything is set for our week long annual site-wide sale in celebration of Dave Arneson game day and blackmoor week. If you love #RPGs go to either our UK or Canadian site!

Systems: Monolith 2e Mothership Delta Green Forbidden Lands Adventures: VR Dead Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays The Screaming on the Alexis Derelict on Arrival

Gareth Hanrahan@mytholder.bsky.social

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective* Mythic Bastionland Merryshire Detective Club Trail of Cthulhu *: if we eliminate this as being more of a board game, then, uh, Sleepaway I think.

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Last couple days of our #ttrpg store in the Byward Market! Appreciate all who have come out, and all who helped make it possible. This afternoon they'll be a bunch of RPG designers, writers and publishers networking and talking pitching games. See you round.

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Keep hating AI. We can stop this.

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

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a machine that promises to contain everything but in fact contains nothing. a box that promises to contain one thing but in so doing contains everything

They can take the rule of three, em-dashes, and semi-colons from my cold, dead hands.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

I *love* it when rooms on a map link to the pages they’re described on. I found that especially tricky to implement but it was rewarding once I figured it out.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social

A short piece on the power of hyperlinks this week. If you're designing for digital and not using them, you're leaving one of your format's greatest strengths on the table. www.explorersdesign.com/how-to-hyper...

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I’m happy with the filters, page layout, and other store features at RPG Trader. I think larger rulebooks could be a great fit for POD, but the booklets and pamphlets from Mothership’s giant third-party community aren’t compatible with the POD options there right now.

Unfortunately, Lulu’s print cost is high enough that the margin on selling it (with PDFs) would have a lower margin than the digital-only version. Even with a compromised print quality. If you want this kind of module from me, the online retailers kind enough to list my work are still the best bet.

I've been digging through the whole Organ Failure sister zine to Flatline on the Blocks, and that adventure is a banger. The whole zine is a trip. I can't wait to bring this to a table.

MeatCastle GameWare@meatcastlegameware.com

My adventure in this is pretty sick nasty mean. It's basically just a Violence adventure in the style of Glass Men as much as it's anything Mothership. Heist from a high-end spa! Potentially end an evil mega rich sicko scumfuck!

41% of 2026 is over. So far, I’ve had 49 ttrpg sessions. Some stats: - I gm’d 20% - 47% in 1 of 5 campaigns - 30% at 1 of 3 conventions - 19 systems - Most frequent: Mothership (20%), Forbidden Lands (16%), Classic Traveller (12%) - 10 systems played once I’d love to reach 100 sessions by year-end!

The company that hired the Pinkertons doesn’t like unions? No way! No one could have predicted this.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social

Saying "It may be helpful to understand how union representation works:" before proceeding to spread old lies about how union representation works is unfortunately both crazy and very predictable.