David Garrett
@amalara.com
Patriotically antifascist. Also, technologist, game designer, and dad. He/him.
Find my games at: https://amalara.com
Find my games at: https://amalara.com
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More of this nationwide please!
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
More of this nationwide please!
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Happy Critique Navidad my friends! A year ago, Clayton suggested the best gift of all was to write about a designers game, so I decided to review your games for the holiday season! I’m doing it again this year — a review (or so) every day! Submit your own if you dare!
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Happy Critique Navidad my friends! A year ago, Clayton suggested the best gift of all was to write about a designers game, so I decided to review your games for the holiday season! I’m doing it again this year — a review (or so) every day! Submit your own if you dare!
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Happy Critique Navidad everyone! Today I take a look at Vengeance California, a bloody violent romp through a crime filled city! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/03/c...
Critique Navidad: Vengeance California
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
idlecartulary.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Happy Critique Navidad everyone! Today I take a look at Vengeance California, a bloody violent romp through a crime filled city! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/03/c...
Nova kicks off Critique Navidad 2025 with my necromancers-in-space game, This Mortal Coil!
The first review of Critique Navidad 2025 is This Mortal Coil, a game based on Liminal Horror where you play sci fi necromancers looking for people willing to trade their souls so that you can turn the powers of hell to your own uses! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/01/c...
Critique Navidad: This Mortal Coil
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
idlecartulary.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Nova kicks off Critique Navidad 2025 with my necromancers-in-space game, This Mortal Coil!
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Best TTRPG name ever? Or just this millennium?
"Hate gets HAMMERED"
No Nazis In Valhalla
(Playtest available now!)
2024
No Nazis In Valhalla
(Playtest available now!)
2024
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Best TTRPG name ever? Or just this millennium?
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
This! This x1000!
November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This! This x1000!
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It is not every day that your game is called "the best TTRPG I've read or played all year," much less by one of the best reviewers out there.
I know I've asked a lot recently, but I'd be additionally grateful if you would help me share this review.
I know I've asked a lot recently, but I'd be additionally grateful if you would help me share this review.
Spine is probably the best TTRPG I've read or played all year, and — unbelievably — it's a solo TTRPG. Find out how this remarkable piece of work changed me, even as I changed it! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/30/i...
I Read Spine
I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…
idlecartulary.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It is not every day that your game is called "the best TTRPG I've read or played all year," much less by one of the best reviewers out there.
I know I've asked a lot recently, but I'd be additionally grateful if you would help me share this review.
I know I've asked a lot recently, but I'd be additionally grateful if you would help me share this review.
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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New to the #SoloRPG List: The Greatest of These is Love from @amalara.com
Play a guardian spirit who is charged with watching over a family member.
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
Play a guardian spirit who is charged with watching over a family member.
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
New to the #SoloRPG List: The Greatest of These is Love from @amalara.com
Play a guardian spirit who is charged with watching over a family member.
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
Play a guardian spirit who is charged with watching over a family member.
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
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New to the #SoloRPG List: Wendigo from @amalara.com
A solo, journaling game about the joy of believing that you're alone in the woods and the terror of finding out that you're not. #Horror #TTRPG
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
A solo, journaling game about the joy of believing that you're alone in the woods and the terror of finding out that you're not. #Horror #TTRPG
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New to the #SoloRPG List: Wendigo from @amalara.com
A solo, journaling game about the joy of believing that you're alone in the woods and the terror of finding out that you're not. #Horror #TTRPG
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
A solo, journaling game about the joy of believing that you're alone in the woods and the terror of finding out that you're not. #Horror #TTRPG
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...
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I just grabbed VOIDLIGHT but I’ll also say i’ve been playtesting a little pickup and play #ttrpg occult investigator game and honestly i think I’m just going to toss my clunky bullshit and convert it to the
base rules, Boundless.
base rules, Boundless.
I've been talking a lot about Voidlight recently, but Voidlight is pretty much a scifi version of Boundless, my new soulslike tabletop RPG with old-school grit and modern design.
Boundless is free + open licensed, and is my go to "what do we play tonight" game.
farirpgs.itch.io/boundless-rpg
Boundless is free + open licensed, and is my go to "what do we play tonight" game.
farirpgs.itch.io/boundless-rpg
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I just grabbed VOIDLIGHT but I’ll also say i’ve been playtesting a little pickup and play #ttrpg occult investigator game and honestly i think I’m just going to toss my clunky bullshit and convert it to the
base rules, Boundless.
base rules, Boundless.
It is bananas that these projects are free. I have Saint Magnus, and it is deeply impressive.
Hi to all my new followers!
I make RPGs with my brother @willtempest.bsky.social. We released our first two projects this year. Saint Magnus and Frogmen!
You can download them for free over on our itch:
tempestrpg.itch.io
I make RPGs with my brother @willtempest.bsky.social. We released our first two projects this year. Saint Magnus and Frogmen!
You can download them for free over on our itch:
tempestrpg.itch.io
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It is bananas that these projects are free. I have Saint Magnus, and it is deeply impressive.
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I wrote another adventure. It's free. It's a forestcrawl. Get it!
The next module in the Cairn Adventure Series is now available! And it's free! The text, art, and layout is all CC-BY-SA as well.
Have fun!
yochaigal.itch.io/the-feast-of...
Have fun!
yochaigal.itch.io/the-feast-of...
CAS-3: The Feast of Tegny Wood by Yochai Gal
yochaigal.itch.io
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I wrote another adventure. It's free. It's a forestcrawl. Get it!
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We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.
Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.
Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
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Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
![A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”
A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kfrqgupz2gfe4fnqs7tunewt/bafkreih7pn6bwnhxtkd6xpfcck6gnwiqsuuixc4suhzfo4qi7djweo3ggm@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
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Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals
Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals
QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...
theonion.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals
Since it is spooky season, it's a good time to release the free Creator's Kit for my necromancers-in-space game, *This Mortal Coil.* It has logos, a third-party license, and the full text in markdown. Plus, I added 100 community copies of the game itself.
carpedavid.itch.io/this-mortal-...
carpedavid.itch.io/this-mortal-...
This Mortal Coil by David Garrett
Play a necromancer in space! A setting and sourcebook compatible with Liminal Horror.
carpedavid.itch.io
September 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Since it is spooky season, it's a good time to release the free Creator's Kit for my necromancers-in-space game, *This Mortal Coil.* It has logos, a third-party license, and the full text in markdown. Plus, I added 100 community copies of the game itself.
carpedavid.itch.io/this-mortal-...
carpedavid.itch.io/this-mortal-...
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This tweet is for everyone like me who feels like they're working too hard but also not doing enough 🫂 I hope you find time to put your feet up, drink some water, and breathe deeply for a minute or three. We'll get there, I promise 💜
September 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This tweet is for everyone like me who feels like they're working too hard but also not doing enough 🫂 I hope you find time to put your feet up, drink some water, and breathe deeply for a minute or three. We'll get there, I promise 💜
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This is a fun jam to create for. I’m considering making another Onegeon.
September 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is a fun jam to create for. I’m considering making another Onegeon.
This is extremely enlightening.
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is extremely enlightening.
Need a slightly whimsical Alchemist’s Lab to drop into your dungeon? I just published my entry to @catshavenolord.itch.io ‘s Onegeon Jam on itch.
carpedavid.itch.io/the-alchemis...
carpedavid.itch.io/the-alchemis...
The Alchemist's Lab by David Garrett
A one-page, system agnostic dungeon room.
carpedavid.itch.io
September 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Need a slightly whimsical Alchemist’s Lab to drop into your dungeon? I just published my entry to @catshavenolord.itch.io ‘s Onegeon Jam on itch.
carpedavid.itch.io/the-alchemis...
carpedavid.itch.io/the-alchemis...
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What's your plan for #MÖRKTOBER?
Stock a dungeon? Create some scrolls? Art or just text? Make one of those awesome calendar maps? Music? Poetry?
Prompt preview on September 1, 2025.
Stock a dungeon? Create some scrolls? Art or just text? Make one of those awesome calendar maps? Music? Poetry?
Prompt preview on September 1, 2025.
August 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
What's your plan for #MÖRKTOBER?
Stock a dungeon? Create some scrolls? Art or just text? Make one of those awesome calendar maps? Music? Poetry?
Prompt preview on September 1, 2025.
Stock a dungeon? Create some scrolls? Art or just text? Make one of those awesome calendar maps? Music? Poetry?
Prompt preview on September 1, 2025.