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Kati, A Certified Yapper
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Kati, A Certified Yapper @bakenshake.bsky.social · 4d
My book, Game Development with Godot 4 and C#, is currently #1 for Hot New Releases in the #gamedesign section? Someone pinch me.

#godot #godotengine #books
An image showing 4 of the 10 books for Amazon Hot New Releases in the Game Design section. 1. Game Development with Godot 4 and C# 2. Unreal Engine 5 Best Practices 3. The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 4. The Godot 4 Game Developer's Bible
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sfxprb.bsky.social
Disgusting. Unsurprising. Tragic.
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d
“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice.
Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be
counting his bullet wounds.”
January 25, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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velocitree2.bsky.social
Overloaded reaction rolls are good fun: dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/01/over...
Overloading the reaction roll
Reaction rolls are my favorite part of OSR/NSR play.  But they have been around forever, in largely unchanged form, since the early days of ...
dreamshrike.blogspot.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:05 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
My book, Game Development with Godot 4 and C#, is currently #1 for Hot New Releases in the #gamedesign section? Someone pinch me.

#godot #godotengine #books
An image showing 4 of the 10 books for Amazon Hot New Releases in the Game Design section. 1. Game Development with Godot 4 and C# 2. Unreal Engine 5 Best Practices 3. The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 4. The Godot 4 Game Developer's Bible
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
Love these dungeon pics so much. Feels good. We need more hand drawn maps in our lives!
morphs001.bsky.social Morphs @morphs001.bsky.social · 5d
#Dungeon26 Week3!

An Ancient stepwell.
The nearby river flooded it and there it lay submerged for half a century. After, only the entrance was visible.

Level 3 The Underworld! 👻
Almost gave myself carpal tunnel with the art, but had fun writing this one!
#ttrpg #dungeon #ttrpgart #gamedev
January 21, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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69dinguses.bsky.social
There's a lot of good discussion of randomness in tabletop, so I wanted to be a real sicko and talk about how to model random engineering processes with dice

tbr.bearblog.dev/reliability-...
Reliability and Fatigue as Random Processes in Tabletop
There has been some discussion in the ether over the past month about the function and utility of randomness in adventure modules. This discussion probably g...
tbr.bearblog.dev
January 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
What if creating maps was done through letter writing? I give you....Epistle Maps. Frist write-up of my first system :)

theplayreports.com/posts/epistl...
The Play Reports
Epistle Maps, An Exquisite Hamlet
theplayreports.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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mockman.bsky.social
Skerples writes an alternate parallel version of the D&D universe based solely on the OD&D rules, with no “Appendix N” suggested reading, and it turns out… pretty interesting and cool #ttrpg coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2025/11/osr-...
OSR: Beyond the Western Desert (or OD&D with Appendix N-1)
The conceit of my current OD&D game is "OD&D without context". What weird mutant offshoot of the tree of RPG development will we create if...
coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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servsci.bsky.social
January issue of Carouse just dropped!

If you like indie TTRPGs check out this collaborative newsletter from a diverse group of indie creators.

www.carouse.blog/january-2026...
January 2026 - The Carousies
Happy New Year! This issue is a little different; in place of our usual columns and gameable goodness we're handing out some awards! Plus, you'll find a thoughtful review by Sprinting Owl of a unique ...
www.carouse.blog
January 15, 2026 at 1:25 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
Using these ticket prompts for #DungeonYear26 until I get sick of it!
A pink hexagonal box that says, "Take-a-ticket creativity 200 tear-off-prompts"
January 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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prismaticwasteland.com
A tale of playtesting and how you don’t really know what mechanics work until you bring ones that don’t work to your table, maybe more than once
Playtest Early, Playtest Often — Prismatic Wasteland
To design a game, you have to break a few eggs and discard some rules or completely rewrite them. But you won’t know what to discard and what to rewrite until you feed those eggs to your players.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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vorpalcoil.bsky.social
New free post up! A simpler yet more open-ended way of handling conditions in Mausritter-like systems, or any system with a character sheet. I'm genuinely excited to experiment more with this one.
Stress Tokens | Rose Skye
Get more from Rose Skye on Patreon
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January 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
First play report of the year, and we're kicking things off with Slugblaster!

#blog #ttrpg

theplayreports.com/posts/slugbl...
The Play Reports
The Golden Jungle - Slugblaster
theplayreports.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 AM
bakenshake.bsky.social
My book, Game Development with Godot 4 and C#, is out now! You can order it here: www.amazon.com/Game-Develop...

#godot #godotengine #gamedevelopment #gamedev
Game Development with Godot 4 and C#: Develop a dynamic 3D game while exploring a robust node system, level design, and animations
Amazon.com: Game Development with Godot 4 and C#: Develop a dynamic 3D game while exploring a robust node system, level design, and animations: 9781805124139: Kati Baker: Books
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January 7, 2026 at 8:37 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
It is never too late to enjoy what you love.
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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zedecksiew.bsky.social
Decolonising the Dungeon Crawl---

Like everything else re: decolonisation and TTRPGs discourse, this is a solved problem. There's only metric that matters:

How many creators from the colonised world are participating in and able to make a living from their games?

That's *it*.

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January 5, 2026 at 3:03 AM
bakenshake.bsky.social
RELEASE: The complete #hexmas map is now available for you to peruse! Download the pdf version to see all the bloggers who contributed to this awesome blogwagon by @prismaticwasteland.com.

#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere

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Hexmas Map 2025 by Bakenshake
A hexcrawl of all the hexes created by Bloggers for Hexmas 2025
bakenshake09.itch.io
January 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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laurieoc.bsky.social
new one page rpg dropped
this is a one page rpg entitled regime change super soldiers. You are state-engineered super-soldiers from a morally impeccable foreign power. You have been deployed to the world’s largest rogue state, the United States of America, to perform a humanitarian extraction of the President, who must be taken alive to face criminal charges back home. Players: Create a Character. They should have a bombastic name, an absurdly strong power and an ideological justification. Example Names: The Human Shield, Johnny Nukes, Project Necessary Evil, Marshal Democracy Example Powers: Can punch holes into the future, can fire precision strikes that hit everything within three miles, can instantly declare anything a “military-aged male”, can reroute international supply chains instantly. You also have three STATS: POWER: raw force, explosions. AUTHORITY: legality, consensus. IMAGE: optics, media, vibes. Assign 3,2,1 to these stats. GM: Create the President. They are: extremely protected, constantly moving, definitely not resigning. Beyond that you can choose which real US President from the last two decades you pick. Change vibes/era of game to match. Pick which American city they start in. Performing Actions: Every action has two features: it is cool and media-worthy and it causes untold destruction. To carry out an action: 1.Stand up (optional). 2. Announce the cool and media-worthy part of your action, for example: “I surgically neutralise hostile forces with my precision strikes” 3. Secretly write down the untold destruction caused by your action and hand it to the GM. Be specific and cruel. For example: “I level a whole district of LA including six schools and a hospital.” 4. Remove one point from the relevant stat. GM: Write down the names of locations which must be destroyed before the President can actually be captured. Keep adding decoys, obstacles and opportunities for destruction until you are satisfied that the conditions for regime change have been achieved.
January 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
The state of affairs of my country is appalling as usual. Staying informed and doing what I can, but I'm also looking beyond the stars, rewatching Star Trek. A comfort watch of sorts and a reminder that maybe, at some point, we'll be better.
January 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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personable.bsky.social
Inspired by everyone else, I also went and wrote a 2025 retrospective post, with a dash of "hopes and dreams for the year ahead": personable.blog/new-year-2026
A year has passed, a year begins: 2026
Looking back on 2025, looking forward to 2026.
personable.blog
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
Got my end of year review of games played in 2025! I played a bunch of new systems and ran 30+ one-shots last year. What are the numbers saying, and what am I gonna do differently this year?

#blog #ttrpg

theplayreports.com/posts/2025-r...
The Play Reports
A Review of 2025 Play
theplayreports.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
bakenshake.bsky.social
AMANDA, IT'S AMAZING!!!! Thank you so much. 😍
amandalee.bsky.social The Amanda Lee Mystery House @amandalee.bsky.social · 23d
Prospero's Trust from #over/under
(subscriber request from patreon) It was so nice to get back to the old spacestation for a bit
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
Y'all are killing me with this @goodmangames.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
Go read blogs and submit then!! I really enjoyed this gameable piece from Warren D. This is the beginning of a thread on my nominations.

icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/03/rand...
January 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
bakenshake.bsky.social
Big Gay Empire of reading last year.
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM