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Evan Nyquist
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floppyadult.com
Closest thing you'll see from me maybe ever to a personal essay about a video game vgbees.com/im-great-at-...
I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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rogue.site
Everyone shut up: a demo for Dinoblade is out, and in it, you play as a spinosaur with a buster sword.

www.rogue.site/news/everyon...
Everyone shut up: dinosaur with a sword demo just dropped
Dinosaurs with swords. Stop reading and go get the demo.
www.rogue.site
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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christinelove.bsky.social
Eris is an idealistic Trans-Neptunian Object who longs to find a place for herself, and Comet Halley is a Cis-Neptunian Object named for a comet that's famous for always returning to Earth in the end… can these two women find true love, or are they doomed to never truly be able to reach each other?
Star Sword Nemesis by Love Conquers All Games
mecha betrayal girls love in distant space
loveconquersallgames.itch.io
October 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
leovigilded.bsky.social
Kira, Mariner, Tom Paris, Shrang, Barclay, Archer, and Trip aboard a Maquis vessel doing revolutionary actions against the Cardassian Empire that broke time somehow and we get temporal hot war. Also a lot of holodeck episodes.
star trek based game of “build your own crew.” top text reads: “you have $20 to build your dream crew…” and below “HARD MODE: YOU NOW HAVE $15” characters by tier in order: $5 = sisko, kirk, janeway, kira nerys, pike. $4 = spock, uhura, archer, una chin-riley, picard. $3 = tilly, trip, mariner, beverly crusher, t’pol. $2 = tom paris, la’an, tendi, shran, harry kim. $1 = reginald barclay, dal, quark, wesley crusher, t’ana.
September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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epidiah.bsky.social
If you crave adventure—for its wonder, for its glory, for its peril, or for its own sake—you have only to join the Unwritten Earths Symposium Discord: discord.com/invite/cgJa5...

Starting in September we will be organizing #SundayAMSwords games there.
Join the Unwritten Earths Symposium Discord Server!
Check out the Unwritten Earths Symposium community on Discord - hang out with 97 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
discord.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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authorkaraj.bsky.social
Tell the IRS that we all love direct file (and that Intuit/Turbo Tax's lobbists can go pound salt)
itep.org ITEP @itep.org · Aug 29
The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service
IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.
www.irs.gov
August 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
Writing a GM section is hard.

So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go
WHAT DOES BEING A GAMESMASTER INVOLVE? As Gamesmaster, you’ll have a lot of different roles to play. Here are some of them in no particular order; you’ll adopt all, some, more, or none of these during every single session. You don’t have to be all of these things all at once, nor do you have to do all of them yourself - when you’re starting out, as long as players are getting the chance to roll dice and mess around they’ll probably still have fun. As you play more, you’ll find which ones you enjoy and which ones you don’t, and you’ll find your style. FUN ADMINISTRATOR If it wasn’t for you, this game would never happen. You arranged a time and date. You reserved the back room in the pub to play. You helped everyone make their characters. You’re the first person they talk to if they can’t make it to a game, and you’re the final judge as to whether a session goes ahead as planned or must be rescheduled. You’re taking responsibility for all the background details that let the foreground details - the game - work. PETTY GOD This is your world. We just described it in loose terms - it’s coming out of your mouth, and you’re making all the decisions. You can adjust numerical values up and down as you wish. You can wipe cities, countries, concepts off the map entirely if you don’t like them. You alone determine whether things are possible or impossible, and you can dictate how dangerous a given task is with ease. Nothing happens unless you want it to. The player characters are scrubbing about in this world of yours, and you graciously let them do so, because they’re having fun. And so are you; you call the shots, you set the boundaries, you show them the fantastic world you’ve dreamed into being. ORACLE You are the sole focus of interaction that the players have with the game. In one direction, you are the source of all information about the fiction at the table: so if they want to know what colour a non-player character’s eyes are, they have to ask you and you’re beholden to tell them, or tell them how their characters could find out. In the other direction, you are the fuzzy authority that stands between every player and us, the designers of the game, and therefore the interpreter of the rules. All fictional and mechanical action goes through you. A CAST OF THOUSANDS You are everyone else in the world that isn’t a player character. You invent and then adopt their mannerisms, you spin together obvious motivations and secret desires, and you flip between your charges with ease. Sure: many of their voices might sound … TOUR GUIDE We’ve written a guidebook for a world that doesn’t exist, and you’re the tour guide who’s leading slack-jawed holidaymakers around that world. You know everything there is to know about the game world - and if you don’t know, you can make it up, and that’s just as good. You’re relentlessly enthusiastic, you give evocative descriptions, and you clue the players into what’s interesting or important - and you know all the best places to take them, too, so they’ll experience the world as best they can. WET COMPUTER At the core of every roleplaying game is a set of rules that power the experience, and you are the fallible, non-silicate computer on which these rules run. You know the rules, you enforce them (or ignore them, as you see fit), and you remind players of how best to interact with them. Players might use some bits themselves - rolling to hit, for example, or keeping track of their character’s health - but you’re the ultimate authority on what rule to use when. CON ARTIST Players? Bunch of feckless rubes. Look at them, wide-eyed and open-mouthed: they think this is a living, breathing world. They think that you’ve got this all written down, like some kind of Tolkien; they couldn’t be more wrong. You’re just making it up on the fly. There’s nothing behind the curtain, no master plan, no wheels within wheels: just you, regurgitating some half-remembered details about Bloodborne and talking about bones breaking a lot because that makes them wince. They’ll buy anything you sell ‘em. WORKSHOP LEADER You don’t have all the answers, but you know where to find them: inside the players’ heads. You ask them questions like “Who are we meeting here?” “What’s the most dangerous thing that awaits you on your journey?” “Which one of you does this guy hate the most?” and then you listen to the answers and incorporate them into the story. You love it - it saves work, saves time, and means that the players are more involved and engaged than ever. Involved and enga… DRUMMER The drummer sets the pace. In a band, they dictate the song’s tempo. In a regiment, they dictate the marching speed. (In a marching band they do both, presumably.) You’re in charge of saying when things begin and end, how long a scene takes to play out, how long a non-player character waffles on about their problems, how descriptive an average description is, and so on. You can cut away from situations and cut back later, you can put the pressure on players to make a decision, or you can leave them to chat to one another unobstructed as the hours roll by. ABSOLUTE BASTARD You’re going to kill them. You’ve trapped them in your lair. They dared to step up and try to defeat your monsters, overthrow your villains, and now they’re on the back foot. Smash them to fucking bits. Throw ‘em through a window, rip off arms and legs, take grim pleasure when their luck turns against them. No-one gets anywhere by being nice all the time - and the players don’t want you to be nice all the time. They want their characters to get beaten up, humiliated, murdered, hung-drawn-and-quartered. You know that this is a masochistic endeavour and you are happy to indulge them. TORTURED ARTIST You always wanted to be creative, and this is your outlet. You’ve spun a world of torment and tragedy (or light-hearted slapstick, depending on the game) for your players to explore - or crafted a complex story within someone else’s, full of betrayals and comeuppances and juicy details. You’ve taken the time to make something clever and you can’t wait for your friends to admire it; what matters most is getting the artistic intent of your world across to the players so they can react appropriately. OBSESSIVE FAN Oh my god. You love the player characters so much. Like your favourite character in your favourite TV show, you’re fascinated to see what they’ll do next - and you can probably take a good guess at what it’ll be, because you know them so well. You get a bit sad when bad things happen to…
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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epidiah.bsky.social
Psst. Do you do that #ttrpg streaming thing? Would you be interest in streaming some Swords Without Master? Perhaps with the creator?

Cause I know him. And I can hook that up.

If you were interested, that is.
August 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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sonybaloneyart.bsky.social
Hi, it's my birthday today. Can you reshare my art?

I'm also open to do character design, cover illustration, interior illustration, or card/box art for games!
sonybaloneyart.com
Cover for hunter/ed evie sitting on the steps of a grand ballroom, crying dahlia side profile cover and interior art for bone appetit!
August 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank. Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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wildwoodsgames.bsky.social
Do you ever grow up on a remote British island where life is golden—land & sea are bountiful, the community strong. But omens start happening—mice devour each other, trees bleed, rabbits hunt foxes—and your parents finally tell you that the island hungers and only death can pay for life.

Anyone????
Harvest by gamesfromthewildwood
A bloody folk gothic RPG of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io
July 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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machineiv.bsky.social
Gonna talk for a second about Nazis, Republicans, DrivethruRPG, that Star Wars game, and more importantly, my grandpa.

Bear with me, the edibles are just kicking in. Might be a little thread.
July 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
leovigilded.bsky.social
A millenial mayor of New York sounds so fucking cool to me.
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Conservative scorning, poster's warning.

Conservative fight, poster's delight.
June 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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machineiv.bsky.social
Mena's teaching Daggerheart at below her normal price, AND benefiting charity?

Seriously if you have been curious about Daggerheart or want to learn a cool new game in a quick and fun couple of hours, check this out.
filamena.bsky.social Unexplainable Finomenon @filamena.bsky.social · Jun 5
Okay. So. I really want to show you Daggerheart if you haven't tried it out yet. Like. So much that I figured out a way to raise some money for charity? Gay charity? (Happy Pride!) I have three special listings. They're not on the site. You can only get them from me (but also right here.)
Learn to Play: Daggerheart!
Learn to play Daggerheart and find out: is it the perfect balance between narrative and dice-flinging table top games? Let's explore together!
startplaying.games
June 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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shawntomkin.bsky.social
Here's my little PYYW product cozying up with Daggerheart on the @drivethrurpg.com bestselling list.
A screen capture of the DTRPG homepage, showing Daggerheart as the #1 seller followed by Ironsworn: Lodestar at #2.
June 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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wildwoodsgames.bsky.social
the passage of time is weird these days. what do you mean Harvest has been out for TWO WEEKS???

Anyway, if you like MIDSOMMAR and THE WICKER MAN, if you like historic British folklore, if you like bloody tales of necessity and sacrifice, this "beautiful cursed woodcut of a game" might be for you:
gamesfromthewildwood
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Fourteen Thousand.

The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.
May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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taliautsch.bsky.social
(for uncertain reasons) there's lot of new people following me here, so PLEASE check out my game it is so cool and cheap and pretty and cool and has some translation issues but that adds character yknow? its cool i swear a lot of cool people like it daniel kwan said it is pretty cool you should b
taliautsch.bsky.social tália @taliautsch.bsky.social · Mar 23
MY WORLD WAR 2 TANKER TTRPG IS FINALLY AVAILABLE

12:Hours is a deeply tactical game in which players crew together a single tank to fight through the bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen

✅ Complex Damage
✅ Mission Generators
✅ Downtime Activities
✅ Beautiful Pages

taliautsch.itch.io/12hours
May 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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chequered.ink
Every commercial font we've ever made, all zipped up in one pack. There are handwriting fonts, techno fonts, pixel art - the whole pack has a vast range of genres and vibes to choose from. Use them in game dev, books, album covers, ttrpgs, web comics etc ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

#gamedev #booksky
An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack An image with many previews of all the different fonts in the All Fonts Pack
May 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
leovigilded.bsky.social
I have three types of TTRPG characters:
1. Violent Rebel who would be King
2. Wise and Conflicted Holy Warrior
3. Practical Wizard that views magic as A tool in their toolbelt
wildwoodsgames.bsky.social Luke Wildwoods @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social · May 14
I have three types of TTRPG characters:
1. Spooky (as fucked up, grounded in folk practice, embedded in particular landscape, and haunting as I can manage)
2. Careworn (often with an underlying skeleton of steel or past violence)
3. Scheming (let me do Intrigues™️)
johnharper.bsky.social John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · May 14
I have three types of ttrpg characters:
- Overconfident rogue who miraculously fumbles past problems
- Stone cold ass-kicker who takes no shit
- Self-destructive weirdo who's their own worst enemy
May 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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wildwoodsgames.bsky.social
It took many hours of hard graft and much blood spilled into the thirsty black soil, but the PDF is finally out! Happy Harvest Day all - pray you are not the one whose blood must be spilled, but the one to hold the knife!

I'm fucking thrilled, the game looks gorgeous, and I'm thriving!!!
May 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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wildwoodsgames.bsky.social
hey folks. passing around the hat once more - quarterly utilities and tax season and delayed contract work are all colliding

all my early games are 60% off (or $30 bundled)! there's horror, history, intimacy, community - the wildwood signatures. reposts greatly appreciated.

itch.io/s/152368/60-...
May 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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hazelmonforton.com
"average American has fewer than 3 friends" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has many friends. Mark Zuckerberg, who lives in a 1,400-acre compound in Hawaii & is universally hated, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
May 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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sambiddle.com
Imagine this being your coolest idea
May 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM