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Luke 🧔‍♂️ @graycastlepress.com · 13h

I've really been looking forward to @magathachristie.bsky.social's 2025 Train Jam, and it's at full steam!

A bunch of cool people making #TTRPG concepts about trains? It's never going to be a bad time

Tabletop Train Jam 2025

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-30 hosted by Maggie Mahoney. Welcome to the Tabletop Train Jam 2025! We're back for a second year, because people asked for it! Just like last year, your goal is ...

itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 14h

I just backed Shackling by @melissasuestanley.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com — and I think I had the honor of being the backer that met the funding goal, which delights me.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bab...

Shackling

Tales From Baba Yaga's Garden

www.kickstarter.com

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 2d

New goal unlocked, to play this game while wearing my snail (and slug) skirt.

Spring Villager @springvillager.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing Snail Herders, a #ttrpg for solo & group play.

Lead a caravan of humans and giant snails along ancient trails over weeks of travel. Trade tales and tend the snails. A game about care, journeying, and stories that travel faster than you.

Art by @garin.bsky.social
Coming Nov 2025 🐌

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Jes the human 🔜 Twitch Con @jesthehuman.itch.io · 2d

The Games against Genocide via tiltify charity bundle submission period is now open: bit.ly/gamesagainst...

All TTRPGs and TTRPG adjacent supplements are welcome* Submissions are open until November 3 and the charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders will be live November 10 - December 12 🍉

Submission form for Games against Genocide

Hello all! Thank you so much for your interest in joining the Games against Genocide charity bundle via Tiltify! Please read all of the following before deciding to join the bundle. By submitting ...

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 4d

🐴🐴🐴 It's #SelfPromoSaturday and I want to shout out an old free favorite #ttrpg of mine, Great & Terrible Horses. It's a #HoneyHeist hack where you play, unsurprisingly, horses at the county fair.

🐎 be a horse
🥇 win ribbons
💥 be a chaotic menace

maggiemahoney.itch.io/great-and-te...

Great & Terrible Horses by Maggie Mahoney

a honey heist hack about horses

maggiemahoney.itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 5d

My game “Together & Ever” is available in this fundraiser bundle. Please consider donating at least $5 to get the 46 games that are available, and support Diana’s expenses.

Ashlee Craft (he/they) @ashleecraft.bsky.social · 5d

💖BUNDLE NOW AVAILABLE!💖

The Itchio bundle to help my super cool friend @dianamoon.bsky.social with important life + medical expenses is now available!!!

For a minimum of $5, you'll get 46 amazing games & more from a total of 30 creators! 👀

itch.io/b/3291/help-...

[IMAGE ID: a rectangle graphic with a teal & yellow background with yellow stars. On the background there is a photo of Diana, a queer Latine femme with long dark hair, and her parents, her father is a man with a beard wearing a hat & gray shirt, & her mother is a woman wearing a red shirt & straw hat. Text on the graphic reads "Bundle Now Available! Help Diana Thrive Fundraiser Aid Bundle". END ID]

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Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 5d

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability.

Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't.

You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius.

Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill.

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 8d

For the evening crowd on TrainJam Eve…

Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 8d

#TabletopTrainJam begins TOMORROW and we already have more people signed up than last year. All aboard!!!

itch.io/jam/tabletop...

Tabletop Train Jam 2025

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-30 hosted by Maggie Mahoney. Welcome to the Tabletop Train Jam 2025! We're back for a second year, because people asked for it! Just like last year, your goal is ...

itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 8d

#TabletopTrainJam begins TOMORROW and we already have more people signed up than last year. All aboard!!!

itch.io/jam/tabletop...

Tabletop Train Jam 2025

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-30 hosted by Maggie Mahoney. Welcome to the Tabletop Train Jam 2025! We're back for a second year, because people asked for it! Just like last year, your goal is ...

itch.io

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Jay N @jaynboston.bsky.social · 17d

Packed theatre (and laughing so much it was hard to hear all the lines) for D(e)AD today!

Great work @izball.bsky.social! Hope this gets on a streaming platform lots of people can see it on.

youtu.be/SKmkHP9IUcs #Dropout #Comedy

D(e)ad | Official Trailer | Directed by Claudia Lonow and Written by Izzy Roland

YouTube video by Isabella Roland

youtu.be

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 20d

I know it doesn’t help the low reading for pleasure stats, but libraries ALSO have DVDs of some of those shows and movies on your recently cancelled streaming service….

Buying a little laptop disc drive DVD player was one of the best things I ever did!

wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 20d

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 20d

We’re actually up to 44 participants now, but this thread is still where I’m linking to last year’s games, slowly but surely! Check out the ones I’ve already highlighted in the replies!

Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚂 One month out from #TabletopTrainJam and 27 creators have already joined! I can't wait to see what folks make.

🛤️ This month, I'll be highlighting some #ttrpg entries I love from last year's jam, to help get everyone in the creative spirit for this year.

🚋 Join us >> itch.io/jam/tabletop...

Tabletop Train Jam 2025

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-30 hosted by Maggie Mahoney. Welcome to the Tabletop Train Jam 2025! We're back for a second year, because people asked for it! Just like last year, your goal is ...

itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 20d

Bonus, some adventures already created by @ratinasuit.bsky.social too! Featuring village tragedies, transit mishaps, traitors, and more…

rat-in-a-suit.itch.io/tales-from-t...

Tales From The Tracks by Rat In A Suit

A collection of 5 adventures for The Trains of the Glorious Republic of the People

rat-in-a-suit.itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 20d

In THE TRAINS OF THE GLORIOUS REPUBLICS OF THE PEOPLE, play as a train crew in a totalitarian state. If it feels too real right now, maybe you can find some agency in storytelling; @ratinasuit.bsky.social created some great tables to build compelling adventures. rat-in-a-suit.itch.io/the-trains-o...

The Trains of the Glorious Republics of the People by Rat In A Suit

This is a tabletop RPG where the players play as a train crew in a fictional 1930s totalitarian state

rat-in-a-suit.itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 21d

Don't forget that if you're local to the Boston area, you can grab a physical copy of my game Just Passing Through at @sidequestbooks.bsky.social, one of my very favorite stores.

Honestly, the selection is so good you'll probably find five other things too...

maggiemahoney.itch.io/just-passing...

Just Passing Through by Maggie Mahoney

A cozy fantasy gm-less duet game about old friends.

maggiemahoney.itch.io

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Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 22d

Help libraries add your indie TTRPG to their collection: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/game-catal...

#ttrpg #libraries #publiclibraries #gamedesign 🎲✂️

Help libraries add your game to their collection

Exploring the world of library catalog and bibliographic data, and why it is important for indie creators to understand the basics. Let's talk about ISBNs, MARC records, and CIP blocks!

www.skeletoncodemachine.com

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 24d

Hahahaha it was such a fun homage to a specific type of children’s book. I dream of turning it into a larger game… still noodling on the best format for that though.

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 24d

Omg just seeing this and the lovely comment you left on itch. Please go ahead and print as many copies of Revisions as you like - I hope the print resolution comes out okay! And I hope that you raise some wonderful donation funds!

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 26d

Summer turning into Fall makes me think of The Velveteen Rabbit, a story I love so much that I turned it into a solo journaling game by hacking Anamnesis.

Writing this game made me cry. (This does NOT constitute a guarantee that PLAYING it will make YOU cry.)

maggiemcgee.itch.io/how-toys-bec...

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 27d

(this game is specifically why I am so enthusiastic that roller coaster games count for train jam!)

Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 27d

This morning I felt like I woke up directly into a brick wall of Allergy Symptoms. It's rough stuff.

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 27d

Does someone want to let me talk about #TabletopTrainJam on a game podcast or blog?

(This wish made not-so-secret in honor of passing 40 participants signed up, and being less than 20 days away from the jam start date.)

itch.io/jam/tabletop...

Tabletop Train Jam 2025

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-30 hosted by Maggie Mahoney. Welcome to the Tabletop Train Jam 2025! We're back for a second year, because people asked for it! Just like last year, your goal is ...

itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 27d

@mortaine.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy's I WANT TO GET OFF MR BONES WILD RIDE is a delight. Influences include Huis Clos & Dante's Inferno, but all YOU need to know is you're stuck on an endless roller coaster. Among many things, I love how this game explores time passing.

mortaine.itch.io/i-want-to-ge...

I want to get off MR BONES WILD RIDE by Stephanie Bryant (Mortaine)

A game jam entry about being on a terrible amusement park ride

mortaine.itch.io

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 27d

I'm hype that you're joining up!!! So excited for this year!!

But also, see gif for footage of me trying to figure out the charity side of it in time. Lol.

a cartoon dog is carrying a box on a train track

Alt: Gromit, the claymation dog from Wallace & Gromit, is riding on top of a quickly moving train. In his hands is a box of tracks, and he's laying them out as quickly as he can in front of the moving train car.

media.tenor.com

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Maggie 🇵🇸 @magathachristie.bsky.social · 27d

Folks who have looked into newsletter stuff - I'm deciding between Ghost and Buttondown as platforms, and would love to know if anyone has insight about either!

(I've got research on both, more interested in any personal reflections from your own experiences!)

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