Mark Wallace
@markwallace.bsky.social
Anguish flâneur and professional writer: NYTimes Mag, Salon, LARB, Rumpus, GQ, more. Ex-ED at the Writers Grotto.
Games: markwallace.itch.io
News: inlooking.substack.com
Once wrote a book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262513227/the-second-life-herald/
Games: markwallace.itch.io
News: inlooking.substack.com
Once wrote a book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262513227/the-second-life-herald/
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Just spent a week with my aging dad. Had a nice time and was happy to be able to help him out. Fringe benefit: came back with these 15mm Napoleonic figures he's had for 50 years and which we used to wargame with when I was ca. 8yo. Some of these little Prussian guys I painted when I was a kid!
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Just spent a week with my aging dad. Had a nice time and was happy to be able to help him out. Fringe benefit: came back with these 15mm Napoleonic figures he's had for 50 years and which we used to wargame with when I was ca. 8yo. Some of these little Prussian guys I painted when I was a kid!
Mausritter people, a question: any good Mausritter campaign settings or even just adventures that are set in a house? Looking for something along the lines of The Borrowers or similar. But for mice, natch ⚔️ 🐭
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Mausritter people, a question: any good Mausritter campaign settings or even just adventures that are set in a house? Looking for something along the lines of The Borrowers or similar. But for mice, natch ⚔️ 🐭
@amby.navy I never ran into you in O/U, but I was one of the quiet cowboys, if you're looking for people for your starter pack.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
@amby.navy I never ran into you in O/U, but I was one of the quiet cowboys, if you're looking for people for your starter pack.
Age yourself with gaming
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Age yourself with gaming
Lucky 1,300th backer for Junk City, that's me
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Mausritter Junk City
Mausritter: Junk City is the new official campaign for everyone's favourite mice game.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Lucky 1,300th backer for Junk City, that's me
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www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
This is the kind of book I would love read — if not for the harebrained pricing @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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www.bloomsbury.com/us/listening...
Listening to Landscape
The first book-length exploration of how English landscapes are represented in contemporary electronic and experimental music, Listening to Landscape ploughs it…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is the kind of book I would love read — if not for the harebrained pricing @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/listening...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/listening...
This was of course an automatic yes. Love to see it @lumpley.bsky.social
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This was of course an automatic yes. Love to see it @lumpley.bsky.social
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
what a brilliant book
Russell Hoban's masterpiece *Riddley Walker* is 45 years old today!
“In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming.”
@russellhoban.bsky.social
“In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming.”
@russellhoban.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
what a brilliant book
Reposted by Mark Wallace
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today we celebrate the heritage, beauty, and perseverance of hundreds of cultures and nations across North America that have thrived and endured here for thousands of years, and will be around for thousands more.
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs
October 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today we celebrate the heritage, beauty, and perseverance of hundreds of cultures and nations across North America that have thrived and endured here for thousands of years, and will be around for thousands more.
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs
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on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...
Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen
Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for
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October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Today's harvest. (About 4x this many went in the compost — too many worms.)
October 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Today's harvest. (About 4x this many went in the compost — too many worms.)
What was your first tabletop wargame?
October 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What was your first tabletop wargame?
why do people bother publishing infographics about cities and populations and demographics and such without a date on them? useless.
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
why do people bother publishing infographics about cities and populations and demographics and such without a date on them? useless.
it's fun when William Gibson reads like the lore in a TTRPG module, especially when he's just talking about the here and now
September 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
it's fun when William Gibson reads like the lore in a TTRPG module, especially when he's just talking about the here and now
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The Eternal Jam for September kicks off today!
Come join us in the jam and make a game about movement, exploration, and physical space!
#ttrpg #indiettrpg #eternalttrpgjam
Come join us in the jam and make a game about movement, exploration, and physical space!
#ttrpg #indiettrpg #eternalttrpgjam
Eternal TTRPG Jam - September 2025 - Physical Space
A game jam from 2025-09-01 to 2025-10-01 hosted by Rowan Sender. Welcome to the September Edition of the Eternal TTRPG Jam! This is a game jam for TTRPG designers to test ideas, experiment with…
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September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Eternal Jam for September kicks off today!
Come join us in the jam and make a game about movement, exploration, and physical space!
#ttrpg #indiettrpg #eternalttrpgjam
Come join us in the jam and make a game about movement, exploration, and physical space!
#ttrpg #indiettrpg #eternalttrpgjam
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Want to make a game but art and layout are holding you back? This one not only doesn't require those, it forbids them!
This might be the jam for you. 🎲✏️📄
#ttrpg #minimalism #gamedesign
This might be the jam for you. 🎲✏️📄
#ttrpg #minimalism #gamedesign
September 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Want to make a game but art and layout are holding you back? This one not only doesn't require those, it forbids them!
This might be the jam for you. 🎲✏️📄
#ttrpg #minimalism #gamedesign
This might be the jam for you. 🎲✏️📄
#ttrpg #minimalism #gamedesign
Immediate yes
Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride?
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Coming soon: Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Immediate yes
No new pictures, where are you mentally
August 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
No new pictures, where are you mentally
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In the Light of a Setting Sun is a rules-lite game of bigger-than-life cowpokes on an unforgiving frontier. It it, you can play as cowherds on a long cattle drive, gunslingers solving problems in dusty border towns, or no-good outlaws on the run from a bloodthirsty sheriff. (1/?)
August 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
In the Light of a Setting Sun is a rules-lite game of bigger-than-life cowpokes on an unforgiving frontier. It it, you can play as cowherds on a long cattle drive, gunslingers solving problems in dusty border towns, or no-good outlaws on the run from a bloodthirsty sheriff. (1/?)
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This week @markwallace.bsky.social saddles up and takes a gander at Orbital Blues from @soulmuppet.co.uk
Find out what it means to play the blues as a sad space cowboy in this space western roleplaying game 👇
tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet... #ttrpg
Find out what it means to play the blues as a sad space cowboy in this space western roleplaying game 👇
tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet... #ttrpg
August 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This week @markwallace.bsky.social saddles up and takes a gander at Orbital Blues from @soulmuppet.co.uk
Find out what it means to play the blues as a sad space cowboy in this space western roleplaying game 👇
tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet... #ttrpg
Find out what it means to play the blues as a sad space cowboy in this space western roleplaying game 👇
tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet... #ttrpg
I suppose I need to read Daggerheart now.
August 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I suppose I need to read Daggerheart now.
What is the word for the effective presentation of information in a book, whether you get sufficient information in the most useful order, etc. Not Information Design or Information Architecture, those are technical terms that mean other things. But I think there's a word for this and what is it?
August 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
What is the word for the effective presentation of information in a book, whether you get sufficient information in the most useful order, etc. Not Information Design or Information Architecture, those are technical terms that mean other things. But I think there's a word for this and what is it?