Aaron Lim 林家丰
@ehronlime.bsky.social
He/him. Makes tabletop games http://ehronlime.itch.io. Shouts about tabletop playtesting (Playtest Zero!) every other week. World's 2nd foremost expert in being Aaron Lim.
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Aaron Lim 林家丰
@ehronlime.bsky.social
· Nov 13
ehronlime
ehronlime.itch.io
Hello hello I'm Aaron Lim (he/him), a gamemaker based in PJ, Malaysia.
I made An Altogether Different River, Spectres of Brocken, and shitposts like Baby's First RPG, which you can find at ehronlime.itch.io.
I also organize a fortnightly online TTRPG playtesting meetup, Playtest Zero, on Discord.
I made An Altogether Different River, Spectres of Brocken, and shitposts like Baby's First RPG, which you can find at ehronlime.itch.io.
I also organize a fortnightly online TTRPG playtesting meetup, Playtest Zero, on Discord.
For all you Playtest Zero fans out there, reminder that our meetups next week are the last time you get to bring a game to playtest this year! We have one more set of meetups in December, but those are our end-of-year party Zero Playtest sessions, where no playtesting is allowed!!!
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
For all you Playtest Zero fans out there, reminder that our meetups next week are the last time you get to bring a game to playtest this year! We have one more set of meetups in December, but those are our end-of-year party Zero Playtest sessions, where no playtesting is allowed!!!
Did you know games are cool?? Find out at our next Playtest Zero! For our US-friendly session, join us next Thursday, 4 December from 6 pm (PT) / 9 pm (ET) to late over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Did you know games are cool?? Find out at our next Playtest Zero! For our US-friendly session, join us next Thursday, 4 December from 6 pm (PT) / 9 pm (ET) to late over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)
The wait is over! Join us next week at Playtest Zero for a sweet, fruity time! For our SEA-friendly session, join us next Tuesday, 2 December at 8 pm (GMT+8) over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The wait is over! Join us next week at Playtest Zero for a sweet, fruity time! For our SEA-friendly session, join us next Tuesday, 2 December at 8 pm (GMT+8) over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)
What's the flavour of the current era of TTRPG design? Social Media Refragmentation? Is it a consolidation cycle? What are the new upcoming designers struggling with and against now?
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
What's the flavour of the current era of TTRPG design? Social Media Refragmentation? Is it a consolidation cycle? What are the new upcoming designers struggling with and against now?
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It's my birthday, also known as "thank's giving". Ways you can thank me:
- Read my new fiction (link below)
- Back the Patreon (www.patreon.com/ettin)
- Check out my games (ettin.itch.io)
- Straight up give me money (paypal.me/ettin)
- Read my new fiction (link below)
- Back the Patreon (www.patreon.com/ettin)
- Check out my games (ettin.itch.io)
- Straight up give me money (paypal.me/ettin)
ZETTAMALL: A Sci-Fi LitRPG
"Welcome to the ZETTAMALL®, the universe's greatest shopping experience!"
William Tombaugh was looking forward to a normal Saturday: finish a shift at one of Sydney's worst supermarkets, go home, play...
www.royalroad.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It's my birthday, also known as "thank's giving". Ways you can thank me:
- Read my new fiction (link below)
- Back the Patreon (www.patreon.com/ettin)
- Check out my games (ettin.itch.io)
- Straight up give me money (paypal.me/ettin)
- Read my new fiction (link below)
- Back the Patreon (www.patreon.com/ettin)
- Check out my games (ettin.itch.io)
- Straight up give me money (paypal.me/ettin)
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i am going to need a lot of B-roll for my upcoming video. If you have an AP, animatic, TTRPG fanart, or other video/picture related to roleplaying games that you wouldn't mind being featured in a YouTube video, please let me know if I could use it!
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
i am going to need a lot of B-roll for my upcoming video. If you have an AP, animatic, TTRPG fanart, or other video/picture related to roleplaying games that you wouldn't mind being featured in a YouTube video, please let me know if I could use it!
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Do you like Nightmare Before Christmas? Do you like easy to pick up games for players of all ages?
Zombieees at Santa's Village is here for you this merry season. Save Santa and Christmas ✨ as zombie elves ✨
joieyong.itch.io/zombieees-isv
#ttrpg #adventuremodule #zombieees
Zombieees at Santa's Village is here for you this merry season. Save Santa and Christmas ✨ as zombie elves ✨
joieyong.itch.io/zombieees-isv
#ttrpg #adventuremodule #zombieees
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Do you like Nightmare Before Christmas? Do you like easy to pick up games for players of all ages?
Zombieees at Santa's Village is here for you this merry season. Save Santa and Christmas ✨ as zombie elves ✨
joieyong.itch.io/zombieees-isv
#ttrpg #adventuremodule #zombieees
Zombieees at Santa's Village is here for you this merry season. Save Santa and Christmas ✨ as zombie elves ✨
joieyong.itch.io/zombieees-isv
#ttrpg #adventuremodule #zombieees
What’s the backronym equivalent of portmanteau? Backportmanteau?
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
What’s the backronym equivalent of portmanteau? Backportmanteau?
You can tell when I’m taking a big poop
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
You can tell when I’m taking a big poop
“portmanteau” a combination of “portman” (someone who carries things at the port) and “mantou” (a steamed bun”, meaning someone who carries buns
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“portmanteau” a combination of “portman” (someone who carries things at the port) and “mantou” (a steamed bun”, meaning someone who carries buns
“adventure”, a portmanteau of “adversity” and “venture”
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“adventure”, a portmanteau of “adversity” and “venture”
the key to understanding adventuregame RPGs is that their narrative rules are called “blogposts” and “comments” and “gm/player advice videos”
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
the key to understanding adventuregame RPGs is that their narrative rules are called “blogposts” and “comments” and “gm/player advice videos”
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I think the return of mid-budget sci-fi shows with 22 episodes and filmed around Vancouver would heal this planet
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I think the return of mid-budget sci-fi shows with 22 episodes and filmed around Vancouver would heal this planet
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a great crime of capitalism to me is how a lot of art (like, say, My Dinner With Andre) ends up taking on the role of an empty signifier of a particular type of person who will wield it as something "not for you" if you're below a certain income bracket or education level. art is for everyone
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
a great crime of capitalism to me is how a lot of art (like, say, My Dinner With Andre) ends up taking on the role of an empty signifier of a particular type of person who will wield it as something "not for you" if you're below a certain income bracket or education level. art is for everyone
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once I came out as trans, some women and queer folks in the industry finally told me the stories they told each other about the Dice Tower, and frankly the "neutrality" is a smugly-deniable front
Leave it to The Dice Tower to continue to exhibit anti-trans sentiment by reviewing the much maligned, not-a-secret-that-it’s-controversial-and-awful, transphobic wizard game version of a mediocre party game.
Fuck them some more. God damn. Sanitized, hands-off, noncommittal bullshit people. Ugh.
Fuck them some more. God damn. Sanitized, hands-off, noncommittal bullshit people. Ugh.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
once I came out as trans, some women and queer folks in the industry finally told me the stories they told each other about the Dice Tower, and frankly the "neutrality" is a smugly-deniable front
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you may have the Nintendo Power, but your soul will be restless until you find Nintendo Peace
the day that they finally put the Super Nintendo version of Wario’s Woods - a game that I can already play across 4 devices I own - is the day I will finally know Nintendo Peace
The latest Switch Online update has brought two NES and two Game Boy titles to the service - Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden 2, and more!
buff.ly/gaZYvNI
buff.ly/gaZYvNI
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
you may have the Nintendo Power, but your soul will be restless until you find Nintendo Peace
“And then”, “meanwhile”, I’m thinking of Polaris’ key phrases and PbtA move triggers, and of scenes and framing and gutters, and what the equivalent technology is in native TRPG terms, if you model it on live conversation and dialogue rather than received media
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“And then”, “meanwhile”, I’m thinking of Polaris’ key phrases and PbtA move triggers, and of scenes and framing and gutters, and what the equivalent technology is in native TRPG terms, if you model it on live conversation and dialogue rather than received media
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I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.
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The operating assumption of those who design and champion this software is that it's all just 'content' anyhow, and the easier it is to access that content without having to deal with the orthographic or material form that it takes the better. Nothing of evidential value inheres outside the semantic
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The operating assumption of those who design and champion this software is that it's all just 'content' anyhow, and the easier it is to access that content without having to deal with the orthographic or material form that it takes the better. Nothing of evidential value inheres outside the semantic
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when you're not feeling down about it
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
when you're not feeling down about it
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i need a bookstore open from 9pm to 3am, that would just work so well for me
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
i need a bookstore open from 9pm to 3am, that would just work so well for me
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Eeeeeeeee I'm late to the excitement on this but it's honestly just so lovely to read!
I let OddFolk be messy because it's what I needed creatively and emotionally and it's great to hear that being met with enthusiasm!!
I let OddFolk be messy because it's what I needed creatively and emotionally and it's great to hear that being met with enthusiasm!!
The curious, playful, and intentionally unfinished Oddfolk left @newmadras.bsky.social completely charmed.
Oddfolk is the most fun you can have with four lines
Warning: can cause game design.
www.rascal.news
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Eeeeeeeee I'm late to the excitement on this but it's honestly just so lovely to read!
I let OddFolk be messy because it's what I needed creatively and emotionally and it's great to hear that being met with enthusiasm!!
I let OddFolk be messy because it's what I needed creatively and emotionally and it's great to hear that being met with enthusiasm!!
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Just saw a really interesting game design post from someone whose bio said "one of Omaha's many playtesters", but I can't remember the username. Anyone know who that was?
Some additional context: I was asleep and am talking about a dream. If that helps narrow it down.
Some additional context: I was asleep and am talking about a dream. If that helps narrow it down.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just saw a really interesting game design post from someone whose bio said "one of Omaha's many playtesters", but I can't remember the username. Anyone know who that was?
Some additional context: I was asleep and am talking about a dream. If that helps narrow it down.
Some additional context: I was asleep and am talking about a dream. If that helps narrow it down.
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Been playing a lot of Warframe recently to destress from con prep haha
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Been playing a lot of Warframe recently to destress from con prep haha
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Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at