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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal

@newmadras.bsky.social

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He/him. Journalist at Rascal News. Interested in the art, history, and science of games. Makes the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indied Podcast. [email protected]

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · Nov 18

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Indie RPG Newsletter: ttrpg.in
Yes Indie'd Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/yes...
Rascal News: www.rascal.news/author/thoma...
Itch store: newmadras.itch.io

Email in bio!

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2h

Yes! Yes!!!!

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 3h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Hendrik ten Napel checked into the Genziana Hotel @napel.itch.io · 3h

🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️

Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.

The Girls of the Genziana Hotel by Hendrik ten Napel - Gamefound

Play as chambermaids in a 19th century alpine hotel investigating the disappearance of their friend.

gamefound.com

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Theo 🏳️‍🌈🌙 Comms Open @theotimegm.bsky.social · 8h

#PortfolioDay

Hey, I'm Theo, french artist working in TTRPG and character design. I love mechs and knights, scifi and fantasy.

Open for comms.

cara.app/theogm
[email protected]

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 8h

Up to date with this, and am really enjoying it - I find myself thinking what Quinns is doing with these heavy games is doing what most these games don't - follow the old screenwriting adage of Turning Exposition Into Ammunition. As such, it's both an intro to the players AND the audience.

Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 11d

The new season of my actual play show where we play old rpgs from history BEGINS!

Here at the start of the season I mostly hold it together as the GM. Later, you can practically hear the steam coming out of my ears. Podcast links are in the video description!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLB...

Play to Find Out, S3E1: Nobilis

YouTube video by Quinns Quest

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 1d

That's awful. Have you tried this?

itch.io/t/5345077/im...

IMPORTANT: Payout Or Tax-Related Issues? Read Here! (NO THREADS) - Questions & Support

If you need help with a payout, we have refined our payout process and added an updated “Contact support about this payout” link on the Payout page within your dashboard. Please use this link to conta

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 1d

We are looking for panels for Metatopia Online 2025 which will be taking place on December 6 and possibly December 7, 2025. If you can't attend Metatopia in person this year for any reason, please join us at this online event and spread the word! forms.gle/aTqCs7bBJpfC...

METATOPIA ONLINE 2025 Panel Proposal Form

METATOPIA is Double Exposure, Inc.'s Game Design Festival, an event for people who are passionate about the design, publishing, selling, or playing games of all types. This year, the Double Exposure...

forms.gle

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 1d

In Ghost, straight out of the box you can decide to either email or post something to the blog. Nothing extra needed.

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Tabletop Arts Fund @tabletopartsfund.org · 3d

Hey there! Couldn't help but notice that you haven't applied for the 2026 TTAF AP Grants yet. It's cool. I get it -- you've been busy. But why not take some time today to give your show a shot at being screened 'round the world?

apply.tabletoparts.fund/actualplay2026

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🌱Elaine Lithgow 🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 3d

Last week I challenged myself to film daily vlogs about making TTRPGs for a living.

They're now live on youtube. Featuring chill vibes, broken ankles, and a creaking bucketload of my infamous vocal fry.

Is This Something? Daily TTRPG Dev Vlogs - YouTube

A series of daily vlogs where I talk about what it's like to make TTRPGs for a living.

youtube.com

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

littlesis.org

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! I can't DM you but please do DM me.

Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! Could you DM me your email? I think your DMs here aren't open.

Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 4d

I wish I was, that sounds really interesting! This is about the broader culture outside the games themselves.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! I'll check this out!

Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 4d

I really want that for you, me, and everyone else!

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 4d

Hahaha, I am VERY tired

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, this worked really well last time! I need someone from Brazil who knows about the RPG scene (specifically Vampire/White Wolf) in the early 2000s. Anybody here who could answer a couple quick questions?

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Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 4d

I was thrilled to talk with @newmadras.bsky.social a few days ago about Designers & Dragons: Origins for Rascal News.

Rascal News is paywalled, but well worth it if you're interested in keeping up on the news & trends of the industry. (I'm a subscriber!)

Rascal News @rascal.news · 5d

A mammoth sequel to the Designers & Dragons set of RPG histories, this new book from Shannon Appelcline and Evil Hat seems like it'll be a treasure trove of facts for fans of the first few decades of D&D.

Shannon Appelcline returns with a product-by-product history of the first decades of D&D

Designers & Dragons: Origins promises to be another essential reference.

www.rascal.news

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 5d

They sound like anti-social deduction games

Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 5d

It was a real pleasure to chat with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social about his upcoming new set of books.

"Appelcline: I was delighted to write about the original edition of Palace of the Silver Princess. This is one of the most legendary products ever published by TSR because the first edition of it was destroyed. They printed it, they gave out copies to the people at TSR, they got some out to distributors, and then — this is all hearsay, but that's part of what made it exciting, trying to figure out what happened — management, apparently, got a look at it and said, oh, this is terrible, we can't send it out. They went around, they collected the copies from everyone at TSR, they tried to get whatever copies that they'd sent out back. And then they had one person in charge of bringing them out to the landfill and watch as they were bulldozed under, so that no one else got copies of them."

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 5d

can't wait for the deepwater horizon of videogames

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 5d

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 5d

Except One Piece, the last of the ancients

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 5d

It's because we ran out of years

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 8d

If you're a creator looking to launch soon (which we encourage you to do!) and want to show some support for our union on your projects, we've prepared some assets you can use for your project stories and assets kickstarterunited.org/union-assets/

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Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 6d

New ep Wednesday! We talk all about @epidiah.bsky.social's Swords Without Master, our upcoming fixup campaign, and bringing on @portablecity.bsky.social as Art Director!

Listen: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/24
Subscribe: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/subscribe
Support: patreon.com/UnwrittenEar...

The Episode Without Master

The Season of Swords is upon us! Nathan and Eppy talk about Eppy's sword & sorcery classic Swords Without Master, how it came to be, how it works, and what's next for the game: a full standalone relea...

unwrittenearths.fireside.fm

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