Nate
@bigratgames.bsky.social
He/They
Currently working on Endeavour, a big game about big monsters.
Every day I wake up in Birmingham.
Currently working on Endeavour, a big game about big monsters.
Every day I wake up in Birmingham.
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Psst. #TheBlackCompanyRPG ... the playtest opens December 1.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Psst. #TheBlackCompanyRPG ... the playtest opens December 1.
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New Quinns Quest review is a boxed RPG special! 📦✨
I dunno folks, I think running RPGs out of 400 page hardback books might be dumb and bad
I dunno folks, I think running RPGs out of 400 page hardback books might be dumb and bad
Quinns Quest Reviews: The Boxed RPG Special!
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November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
New Quinns Quest review is a boxed RPG special! 📦✨
I dunno folks, I think running RPGs out of 400 page hardback books might be dumb and bad
I dunno folks, I think running RPGs out of 400 page hardback books might be dumb and bad
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I think a lot of my personal game design theory boils down to "systems are inescapable, and if you think you're not using one you're just using one you can't or won't acknowledge".
God help me I'm thinking about game design theory again. 🙄
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I think a lot of my personal game design theory boils down to "systems are inescapable, and if you think you're not using one you're just using one you can't or won't acknowledge".
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D66 Things Guards Say When You Pass A Stealth Check (Fantasy)
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
D66 Things Guards Say When You Pass A Stealth Check (Fantasy)
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I played YET ANOTHER 8 Souls-Like games you've never heard of
YouTube video by Iron Pineapple
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November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Hey, I'm doing an AMA over on r/PbtA, if anybody's interested:
www.reddit.com/r/PBtA/comme...
I've answered a bunch of questions and a bunch more to go. If you want to read up or add to the pile, please come!
www.reddit.com/r/PBtA/comme...
I've answered a bunch of questions and a bunch more to go. If you want to read up or add to the pile, please come!
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November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hey, I'm doing an AMA over on r/PbtA, if anybody's interested:
www.reddit.com/r/PBtA/comme...
I've answered a bunch of questions and a bunch more to go. If you want to read up or add to the pile, please come!
www.reddit.com/r/PBtA/comme...
I've answered a bunch of questions and a bunch more to go. If you want to read up or add to the pile, please come!
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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The obsession with not wanting to "let rules gets in the way" dovetails nicely with the theory that the average American adult is mired in an Eternal Childhood and, therefore, treats the Player's Handbook as if it was full of things like "no snacks before bed" and "wash your hands before eating".
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The obsession with not wanting to "let rules gets in the way" dovetails nicely with the theory that the average American adult is mired in an Eternal Childhood and, therefore, treats the Player's Handbook as if it was full of things like "no snacks before bed" and "wash your hands before eating".
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Alberto Dianin and Andrea Ruggeri are cheap, tasteless, talentless grifters and I would not piss on them if they were on fire
UK Games Expo promoted a tabletop RPG on Instagram that claimed to use "fully ethical and transparent" generative AI. Everything went downhill once the publisher began responding to criticism.
UK Games Expo criticized for promoting RPG with generative AI imagery
Gates of Krystalia’s creators insult commenters, struggle to explain provenance of LLM training material.
www.rascal.news
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Alberto Dianin and Andrea Ruggeri are cheap, tasteless, talentless grifters and I would not piss on them if they were on fire
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This blew up. Check out my anarchist game of sentimental constructs surviving atop a sentient landmass maybe?
bsky.app/profile/fsoh...
bsky.app/profile/fsoh...
In the #ZephyrRPG, you travel the back of a sentient, walking landmass as the Windfolk - sentimental constructs that seek to fulfill sacred obligations by travelling through the wondrous landscapes of Ophoi, mediated through a system based on color tokens, survival, and mutual aid.
Links below!
Links below!
November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This blew up. Check out my anarchist game of sentimental constructs surviving atop a sentient landmass maybe?
bsky.app/profile/fsoh...
bsky.app/profile/fsoh...
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I'm not sure how you could NOT come to the conclusion that D&D is basically a great big smothering pillow shoved over the face of "the non-D&D RPG hobby/industry" unless you're being deliberately obtuse or are so fundamentally ignorant nobody should listen to anything you have to say ever
Listening to people say D&D has no negative bearing on the indie creative space at large has me tweaking.
This is a creative monopoly unlike anything seen before or ever. I have a list of marketing outreach channels where 95 out of a 100 contacts exclusively cover D&D/OSR (D&D adjacent)...
This is a creative monopoly unlike anything seen before or ever. I have a list of marketing outreach channels where 95 out of a 100 contacts exclusively cover D&D/OSR (D&D adjacent)...
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I'm not sure how you could NOT come to the conclusion that D&D is basically a great big smothering pillow shoved over the face of "the non-D&D RPG hobby/industry" unless you're being deliberately obtuse or are so fundamentally ignorant nobody should listen to anything you have to say ever
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the cinemasins of imagination
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
the cinemasins of imagination
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DnD 4e was the only edition that actually knew what it was and that’s why it’s the best one
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
DnD 4e was the only edition that actually knew what it was and that’s why it’s the best one
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I just wanna say for the purposes of humblebragging and future employment prospects: Despite being 2 years overdue and despite the various trials that led to that situation, with the majority of fulfillment costs pay, HELLPIERCERS still lands in the green.
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I just wanna say for the purposes of humblebragging and future employment prospects: Despite being 2 years overdue and despite the various trials that led to that situation, with the majority of fulfillment costs pay, HELLPIERCERS still lands in the green.
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SURPRISE!
I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.
It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?
Anyway enjoy!!!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.
It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?
Anyway enjoy!!!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Oath of Moment
【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
SURPRISE!
I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.
It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?
Anyway enjoy!!!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.
It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?
Anyway enjoy!!!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm sorry but stealing the crown jewels from the louvre is a crime so cool that I don't think you should be allowed to go to prison for it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'm sorry but stealing the crown jewels from the louvre is a crime so cool that I don't think you should be allowed to go to prison for it.
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In today's TTRPG Dev Vlog I chat about a clever way to design covers and other large expensive illustrations to get the most bang for your buck.
TTRPG Covers Can Be So Much More
YouTube video by Is This Something? A TTRPG Dev Vlog
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October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In today's TTRPG Dev Vlog I chat about a clever way to design covers and other large expensive illustrations to get the most bang for your buck.
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Hey gamers, Luna here. I'm a graphic designer for ttrpgs, you can hire me to make your zines cooler, or to kill your enemies with my mind. Unless they deal poison damage, then I'm out. Anyways, you want this. Yes?
March 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Hey gamers, Luna here. I'm a graphic designer for ttrpgs, you can hire me to make your zines cooler, or to kill your enemies with my mind. Unless they deal poison damage, then I'm out. Anyways, you want this. Yes?
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People using Margaret Thatcher' 100th birthday to celebrate her death is so disappointing to me. You can celebrate her death EVERY day of the year, people!
October 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
People using Margaret Thatcher' 100th birthday to celebrate her death is so disappointing to me. You can celebrate her death EVERY day of the year, people!
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By the way, my real hot take is, die choice doesn't really matter. It's a tiny, unimportant part of game design that gets massively overfocused on. Calling a game "2d6 based" or whatever is like saying a car is "red paint job based".
October 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
By the way, my real hot take is, die choice doesn't really matter. It's a tiny, unimportant part of game design that gets massively overfocused on. Calling a game "2d6 based" or whatever is like saying a car is "red paint job based".
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Papercult is still up and running and thriving, which is something I *should* periodically remind people when the owner of this site isn't crashing out, but especially when they are: papercult.club
papercult.club
October 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Papercult is still up and running and thriving, which is something I *should* periodically remind people when the owner of this site isn't crashing out, but especially when they are: papercult.club
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I Was Reborn Into Another Randomly Generated World?
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I Was Reborn Into Another Randomly Generated World?
One of the few "I will automatically buy this game if you said it was good" voices on youtube.
You know, I don't really have the complete understanding how people look at me, so I'm shooting the arrow here. Like me, hate me, let's see it.
September 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
One of the few "I will automatically buy this game if you said it was good" voices on youtube.