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Binary @binarystar.games · 6h

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Death Has Come to This Town by Binary Star Games

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 4h

Part 3 is here. The deep dive into the Ennies. If you're someone who doesn't know much about the Ennie Awards, you should read parts 1 and 2. But if you like a bit of inside baseball and are interested in award shows in general—this is the article for you.

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-3/

How are the Ennies designed?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part three. How does the structure of the Ennies determine its outcomes? And what does it mean for others?

www.explorersdesign.com

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Deb Fuller @bigpuffingames.bsky.social · 5h

More shameless plugging for the Indie and Local Tabletop Game Fair!

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charlotte @fragrant.garden · 5h

come get prints

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support me making prints of stuff @ www.patreon.com/cw/dreamware...

prints will also be put up on the dreamware shop soon

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charlotte @fragrant.garden · 5h

pincushion raider

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Binary @binarystar.games · 6h

#MinimalistJam

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Binary @binarystar.games · 6h

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Death Has Come to This Town by Binary Star Games

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 8h

this girl finishes her WIPs eventually #ttrpg #art #digitalart #illustration #absentiaart

An illustration from Absentia's TTRPG of a woman posing with a katana. She has a pale complexion, long and straight white hair, elf ears, and a yellow hairband. She wears lightly armored attire in a modern/sci-fi style with a translucent, plastic coat overtop. One of her arms is covered in high-tech armor that projects a magical shield over her side. There is a revolver holstered at her waist, opposite her sword's sheath.

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 20h

Hello #horror #ttrpg enthusiasts. Would you be interested in a new game, written and illustrated by yours truly, a fellow human who is #notAI, and is also an #lgbtqa+ icon? Well, check it out.

If you back and we fund, you can get the ashcan in early November!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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Binary @binarystar.games · 20h

Eleven days away! We'd love for you to join us.

Sticky Doodler @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 1d

Once you start going to local tabletop design events you start realizing how many people make games, some right in your own hometown. @playsamovar.bsky.social is someone I'm delighted to share a neighborhood with. Come check out his love letter to Ursula Le Guin's Hainish cycle:
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Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair
featuring Samovar Games
Emissary: A story game inspired by Ursula Le Guin's Hainish Cycle
📆 Sat, Oct 18
🕛 12-5pm
📍 People's Book, Takoma Park MD

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Binary @binarystar.games · 20h

Oh nice!

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole @tabletopbookshelf.com · 21h

A little news...

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theworksofegan @theworksofegan.net · 23h

A little write-up for the new project!
theworksofegan.net/posts/2025-1...

Introducing: My Cool Blog

You should make your own website.

theworksofegan.net

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theworksofegan @theworksofegan.net · 1d

Putting my unemployment to good use and getting another personal project out in the world:

I made a template to help people quickly set up personal websites and blogs with 11ty!

Available for free, but a few bucks wouldn't hurt if you've got 'em!
theworksofegan.itch.io/my-cool-blog

My Cool Blog by theworksofegan

An 11ty blog template

theworksofegan.itch.io

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a very good piece too and it is out now (shop.wyrd.science)

@rhi.bsky.social send us a message if you see this and want to and we’ll send you a copy

The new issue of Wyrd Science open to a feature about the recent republication of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch as a Penguin Modern Classic

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snow @snow117.bsky.social · 1d

I've been working on an essay about The Struggles of TTRPG Outreach and Fandom but I think this tumblr post just captured the whole sentiment im like 100 words.

Fact: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than your OCd is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any.

Corollary: you don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what your OC's story is, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots from that story that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

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Sticky Doodler @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 1d

Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair
📆 Sat, Oct 18
🕛 12-5pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com

Learn more: peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/indie-...
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Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair 2025

The DMV is home to some of the world’s leading tabletop game designers! Come meet your neighbors whose games are available at hobby shops, online, and even your local bookstore. Designed in t…

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Sticky Doodler @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 1d

Once you start going to local tabletop design events you start realizing how many people make games, some right in your own hometown. @playsamovar.bsky.social is someone I'm delighted to share a neighborhood with. Come check out his love letter to Ursula Le Guin's Hainish cycle:
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Ben (he/him) {samovar games} @playsamovar.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Gene for repping Emissary! DMV folks, come out to @peoplesbooktakoma.com on Saturday 10/18 to check it out!

Sticky Doodler @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 1d

Once you start going to local tabletop design events you start realizing how many people make games, some right in your own hometown. @playsamovar.bsky.social is someone I'm delighted to share a neighborhood with. Come check out his love letter to Ursula Le Guin's Hainish cycle:
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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

this was called Cohost—not enough people used it or spent money on it relative to the amount of money it cost to (1) pay its 4 employees a living wage for their labor; and (2) keep the site running, so it died, nothing like it has taken its place at the scale it existed, and now we're here

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Worker owned social media when

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charlotte @fragrant.garden · 1d

support me making prints of stuff @ www.patreon.com/cw/dreamware...

prints will also be put up on the dreamware shop soon

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Binary @binarystar.games · 8d

VOID_SHIFT is out (digitally)! It's a solo deckbuilder that takes like, I don't know, half an hourish to roll through a job. 30 cards to assemble a 15 card deck, 6 job cards that comprise what you're doing.

binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift

VOID_SHIFT by Binary Star Games

Assemble your deck and don't get fired.

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 2d

It's October! Are you looking for a spooky and cool playing card deck?? Well, you're in luck!

Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 24d

BIG NEWS! Moon Rings playing card decks are available now!

Edition of 100, standard 52-card deck. Can be used for playing Moon Rings or for any reason you'd use a card deck.

Get them from the game's itch page. Shipping to the U.S. only atm

Please share!

junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings

Photo of a deck of cards for Moon Rings laid out in a grid. There is a yellow meeple on one of the cards and red 12-sided dice in the background.

hands holding a deck of cards for Moon Rings being fanned out

deck box for Moon Rings playing cards. the deck box is black with red foil that has the game title and graphics of tiny stars.

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Binary @binarystar.games · 2d

I do have to give him credit, it IS better-looking than I remember, and it looks like the amount of text per panel has shrunken a bit.

(I did have to check when the first one came out. 2003, my god. Shout out to him for lasting through 2 full edition wars)

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Binary @binarystar.games · 2d

This is how I found out OotS is, against all odds, still running

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