Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony
@lackingceremony.bsky.social
I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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Going For Broke - Buried Without Ceremony
Going For Broke is a fast-paced sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to get enough money together. Choose one of twelve house members, pick an episode, and dive right in.
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Going For Broke is now available! This is a lightweight, pick-up-and-play sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to make rent. It's designed for 4-8 players, only takes 40-70 minutes, and fits in your back pocket!
Learn more at:
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
Learn more at:
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
you guys, I did it.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
January 17, 2026 at 3:30 AM
you guys, I did it.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
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Ich leite bei @systemmatters.bsky.social in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn auf Twitch Monsterhearts (von @lackingceremony.bsky.social).
Wir spielen in Heidroda, meiner Kleinstadt-Kulisse im Harz.
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#pnpde
Wir spielen in Heidroda, meiner Kleinstadt-Kulisse im Harz.
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#pnpde
January 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Ich leite bei @systemmatters.bsky.social in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn auf Twitch Monsterhearts (von @lackingceremony.bsky.social).
Wir spielen in Heidroda, meiner Kleinstadt-Kulisse im Harz.
1/
#pnpde
Wir spielen in Heidroda, meiner Kleinstadt-Kulisse im Harz.
1/
#pnpde
A small update to the production process for The Quiet Year - I've abandoned the hand-stamped box in favour of sticker labels. So much quicker and more consistent to assemble!
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
A small update to the production process for The Quiet Year - I've abandoned the hand-stamped box in favour of sticker labels. So much quicker and more consistent to assemble!
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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Avery @lackingceremony.bsky.social is an award-winning tabletop RPG designer hailing from Treaty 6 territory. Her work includes The Quiet Year, Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, Ribbon Drive, and Going For Broke.
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#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #rpg #ttrpg #rpgcommunity
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#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #rpg #ttrpg #rpgcommunity
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Avery @lackingceremony.bsky.social is an award-winning tabletop RPG designer hailing from Treaty 6 territory. Her work includes The Quiet Year, Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, Ribbon Drive, and Going For Broke.
breakoutcon.com/articles/202...
#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #rpg #ttrpg #rpgcommunity
breakoutcon.com/articles/202...
#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #rpg #ttrpg #rpgcommunity
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Get Ready for Five Fires!
Follow the BackerKit page and help take this #ttrpg of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers from PDF to Print.
Follow the BackerKit page and help take this #ttrpg of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers from PDF to Print.
Get Ready for Five Fires
From Thoughtcrime Games LLC - Get Ready for Five Fires
www.backerkit.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Get Ready for Five Fires!
Follow the BackerKit page and help take this #ttrpg of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers from PDF to Print.
Follow the BackerKit page and help take this #ttrpg of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers from PDF to Print.
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Tales from the Cryptids is edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, and features art by @artofamberramirez.bsky.social and games, stories, and poems from @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, Jason B Crawford, @shing.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, and @dragons.bsky.social.
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Tales from the Cryptids is edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, and features art by @artofamberramirez.bsky.social and games, stories, and poems from @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, Jason B Crawford, @shing.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, and @dragons.bsky.social.
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Get ready for Tales from the Cryptids! We are crowdfunding our first anthology in February 2026! Edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, this collection of TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and other uncanny ephemera flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore: tinyurl.com/cryptidtales.
Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera
From Scryptid Games - Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera
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January 5, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Get ready for Tales from the Cryptids! We are crowdfunding our first anthology in February 2026! Edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, this collection of TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and other uncanny ephemera flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore: tinyurl.com/cryptidtales.
TTRPG designers, consider making this new years resolution: when designing a pick list of options for a player to circle, make sure that none of the options run across a line break!
It makes circling a nightmare, and it's evidence that you didn't center design and testing on your play materials.
It makes circling a nightmare, and it's evidence that you didn't center design and testing on your play materials.
January 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
TTRPG designers, consider making this new years resolution: when designing a pick list of options for a player to circle, make sure that none of the options run across a line break!
It makes circling a nightmare, and it's evidence that you didn't center design and testing on your play materials.
It makes circling a nightmare, and it's evidence that you didn't center design and testing on your play materials.
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Not only did Avery Alder, one of the best RPG designers of all time, release a new game this year, it's also maybe the best pick-up-and-play game ever! New-player-friendly, 90-minutes-or-less, actually funny comedy game with such a small footprint and box size it will blow your mind!
Did you know that I released a new game this year? Going For Broke is a fast-paced, party roleplaying game that tells sitcom stories about a collective house that's scrambling to pay rent. It's cheap, easy to teach, and takes less than an hour to play. Check it out!
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
Going For Broke - Buried Without Ceremony
Going For Broke is a fast-paced sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to get enough money together. Choose one of twelve house members, pick an episode, and dive right in.
buriedwithoutceremony.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Not only did Avery Alder, one of the best RPG designers of all time, release a new game this year, it's also maybe the best pick-up-and-play game ever! New-player-friendly, 90-minutes-or-less, actually funny comedy game with such a small footprint and box size it will blow your mind!
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Avery’s Going for Broke is my favorite new game this year!! Wonderfully fun, easy to learn game. I had a blast playing it, especially with @madelancholy.bsky.social on stream!
youtu.be/xltq4vechgQ?...
youtu.be/xltq4vechgQ?...
December 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Avery’s Going for Broke is my favorite new game this year!! Wonderfully fun, easy to learn game. I had a blast playing it, especially with @madelancholy.bsky.social on stream!
youtu.be/xltq4vechgQ?...
youtu.be/xltq4vechgQ?...
Did you know that I released a new game this year? Going For Broke is a fast-paced, party roleplaying game that tells sitcom stories about a collective house that's scrambling to pay rent. It's cheap, easy to teach, and takes less than an hour to play. Check it out!
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
Going For Broke - Buried Without Ceremony
Going For Broke is a fast-paced sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to get enough money together. Choose one of twelve house members, pick an episode, and dive right in.
buriedwithoutceremony.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Did you know that I released a new game this year? Going For Broke is a fast-paced, party roleplaying game that tells sitcom stories about a collective house that's scrambling to pay rent. It's cheap, easy to teach, and takes less than an hour to play. Check it out!
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
I need help! Do you have an example of a book (likely a guidebook, textbook, or similar) that has a little cartoon character head that appears occasionally to add commentary through a little word bubble or callout textbox? I need an image of this to use as an example and am having trouble googling.
December 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I need help! Do you have an example of a book (likely a guidebook, textbook, or similar) that has a little cartoon character head that appears occasionally to add commentary through a little word bubble or callout textbox? I need an image of this to use as an example and am having trouble googling.
Draft Strip Mine, recursion, and acceleration. Trophy every time.
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
December 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Draft Strip Mine, recursion, and acceleration. Trophy every time.
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
I loved getting to chime in on this amazing video essay about the recent history of indie RPGs/story games. Aaron Voigt gives us a phenomenally researched and focused account of the past fifteen years of tabletop game design, with rightful emphasis on the impact of Apocalypse World. Check it out!
My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I loved getting to chime in on this amazing video essay about the recent history of indie RPGs/story games. Aaron Voigt gives us a phenomenally researched and focused account of the past fifteen years of tabletop game design, with rightful emphasis on the impact of Apocalypse World. Check it out!
Something I believe about food is that one can generally (with a handful of notable outliers) map a bell curve with "how much you know about and feel affinity for a cuisine" on the X axis and "how much you care about and give credence to authenticity" on the Y axis.
December 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Something I believe about food is that one can generally (with a handful of notable outliers) map a bell curve with "how much you know about and feel affinity for a cuisine" on the X axis and "how much you care about and give credence to authenticity" on the Y axis.
Vintage Cube 🏆🏆🏆
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Vintage Cube 🏆🏆🏆
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!
Here it is. The final 24 hours. You've helped coax banked embers into a steady flame. Tell me, what is one thing you'll bring with you into What-Comes-Next? Seeds? Thread? A good kitchen knife? What will you make of what's left? Together, let's light up the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!
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HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled.
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
How's Next Week? by grave snail games
A solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled.
gravesnail.itch.io
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled.
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Excited to see Going For Broke in someone's top five list for games of the year, alongside some excellent company.
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Excited to see Going For Broke in someone's top five list for games of the year, alongside some excellent company.
Last cube season, Boros aggro was my pick for easiest trophy in the vintage cube. But this season, in both the regular vintage cube and the No Holds Barred version, it's been Gruul land destruction/recursion. The lane is always open and it can crater most decks that aren't already winning by turn 3.
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Last cube season, Boros aggro was my pick for easiest trophy in the vintage cube. But this season, in both the regular vintage cube and the No Holds Barred version, it's been Gruul land destruction/recursion. The lane is always open and it can crater most decks that aren't already winning by turn 3.
After numerous scrapped paint scheme ideas, I've finally committed to one I feel really excited about for my Drukhari army! Here's my test model - going for "scavenger pirates, far from home, flying through a world of dust and rust."
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
After numerous scrapped paint scheme ideas, I've finally committed to one I feel really excited about for my Drukhari army! Here's my test model - going for "scavenger pirates, far from home, flying through a world of dust and rust."
Turn one: Stomping Ground
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
December 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Turn one: Stomping Ground
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
*firing up my first draft in the No Holds Barred Vintage Cube*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
*firing up my first draft in the No Holds Barred Vintage Cube*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
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Hey #YEG friends! Are you involved in indie TTRPGs? Do you love running and designing and playing #TTRPG games? We've got a meetup for local indie TTRPG folks at @pemetawe.bsky.social on December 27 at 1:00 PM :D Be there or be too cool for this XD
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey #YEG friends! Are you involved in indie TTRPGs? Do you love running and designing and playing #TTRPG games? We've got a meetup for local indie TTRPG folks at @pemetawe.bsky.social on December 27 at 1:00 PM :D Be there or be too cool for this XD
US customers can now pick up the new boxed set version of The Quiet Year. Check out my webstore for more info!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
US customers can now pick up the new boxed set version of The Quiet Year. Check out my webstore for more info!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com