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lacey

@byelacey.bsky.social

getting your epic mount so you can fly to raid on your own (EXPENSIVE :() (more rep grinds???) ❌😭💸
vs
sitting in town and typing "123" (FREE) (EASY) (NO WORRIES) ✨☀️😄

January 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM

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cavegirl

@cavegirl.bsky.social

an infuriatingly large portion of the ttrpg playing public are to rpgs what the illiterate are to novels.
no, D&D does not offer equal support to "Thrilling Dungeon Adventures" and "Harvest-Moon-Esque Cozy Socialising", and if you think it does I will treat you like you are terminally stupid.

December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM

Nate

@bigratgames.bsky.social

Genuinely would never have seen it coming

December 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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RJ Palmer

@rj-palmer.com

Sharing some of my thoughts from the other site but man I'm really pissed off about this shit.

December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM

Nate

@bigratgames.bsky.social

It's woefully underserved in the indie scene but man, I do love a proper crunchy tactics rpg

December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Nate

@bigratgames.bsky.social

Any time a new 40k thing comes out I sorta get how fans of shit football teams feel. Not one but two Imperium factions, no nids, no chaos. Wake me up when 40k total war has anything cool in it.

December 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM

Nate

@bigratgames.bsky.social

Extremely interested to see how this turns out

November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Dennis Detwiller

@drgonzo123.bsky.social

Psst. #TheBlackCompanyRPG ... the playtest opens December 1.

Sign up to be alerted:
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November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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Quinns

@itsquinns.bsky.social

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

Quinns Quest Reviews: The Boxed RPG Special!

YouTube video by Quinns Quest

www.youtube.com

November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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Chris Longhurst

@potatocubed.bsky.social

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".

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · Nov 17

God help me I'm thinking about game design theory again. 🙄

November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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Grant Howitt

@gshowitt.bsky.social

D66 Things Guards Say When You Pass A Stealth Check (Fantasy)

This is a D66 table which is too long to fit into the alt text. It's 36 different things a Guard might say when you pass a stealth check. Here's a selection, anyway:
“Huh. Guess it must have been the wind.”
“Blimey, the size of the size of the rats ‘round here!”
“I must be tired.”
“Don’t bother. This place makes all sorts of weird noises.”
“You’re hearing things! You ought to lay off the whiskey.”
“Guess it was nothing.”
“I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that.”
“Go on, get out of here!”
“I’m not checking it. You check it.”
“Come on, who’d try to sneak in here?”
“Ugh. I hate this job.”
“Any more noises like that and I’ll be forced to stand up and take a look.”
“I don’t feel like getting shanked in the ribs tonight. Just let it slide.”
“What you mean, ‘strange noise?’ Sounds like a perfectly normal noise to me.”
“My doctor said I’m not supposed to investigate mysterious sounds after 6pm.”
*aimlessly whistles a sea shanty, and dreams of their true purpose: sailing the mighty ocean*
“Ohhh, my aching back! I can barely stand up straight, let alone search for intruders!”
“Geoffrey? Is that you? I’ve told you not to do the hiding thing any more. It’s dangerous.”
“I think someone must have left a window open somewhere.”
to themselves: “Don’t be scared. Shh. There’s no such thing as ghosts.”
“Probably just a harmless drunk. They kip in here sometimes.”
“Hey, your shift’s over! It’s my time to guard. Let me have this, Sylvia.”
reading aloud, weeping: “Dear Erik. I am very sorry, but I must leave you. I’ve found a new lover. He wants to start a family. I can’t wait for your promotion any longer.”
“No, no: my grandfather told me about a time he investigated a nearby disruption. I’m not going to make the same mistake.”

November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Nate

@bigratgames.bsky.social

It's so strange how these people read "there is clearly an ideological appeal for fascists here" as simply "you are a fascist for engaging with this."
Like this guy turned up to upset himself and the gets mad at you for asking him to think slightly harder about it than that.

November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM

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Iron Pineapple

@ironpineapple.bsky.social

new vid :)

youtu.be/xO2V210-0hE?...

I played YET ANOTHER 8 Souls-Like games you've never heard of

YouTube video by Iron Pineapple

youtu.be

November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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lumpley

@lumpley.bsky.social

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!

From the PBtA community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the PBtA community

www.reddit.com

November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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lumpley

@lumpley.bsky.social

And away we go.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

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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Peter

@notalawyer.bsky.social

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

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Katherine Stark

@kastark.bsky.social

Alberto Dianin and Andrea Ruggeri are cheap, tasteless, talentless grifters and I would not piss on them if they were on fire

Rascal News @rascal.news · Nov 3

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

Nate

@bigratgames.bsky.social

Now this is a throwback

November 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤

@fsohns.bsky.social

This blew up. Check out my anarchist game of sentimental constructs surviving atop a sentient landmass maybe?

bsky.app/profile/fsoh...

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · Oct 23

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!

Zephyr interior spread where a Windfolk is seen prostrated before a majestic Fleeting

Zephyr interior spread where a group of Windfolk are seen paddling across an underground river

Zephyr interior spread showing Windfolk hunters riding atop Wrecklings through a sunlit treeline

Zephyr interior spread showing a Windfolk desperately running away from a colossal monstrosity of the deep woods

November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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Foucault's Pudendum

@kaitave.bsky.social

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

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · Nov 1

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)...

November 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM