Brandon Leon-Gambetta
blg.bsky.social
Brandon Leon-Gambetta
@blg.bsky.social
Tabletop games designer of Pasión de las Pasiones, RADCrawl, Deadly Kobold Racing, and Chase the H0ll0w.
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Hey! I used to be bleongambetta on Twitter!
You may know me from my telenovela #ttrpg Pasión de las Pasiones or the podcasts Stop, Hack & Roll and Protean City Comics!
I've had to step back from the social media and ttrpg spaces, but when I'm occasionally checking, it's here!
There's no 🌽 🏈 in this 🏈 🏆 so I'll be ❄️🩰.
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I've joked about playing many off-label things in Pasión de las Pasiones and I was ready to do it again for Neopets. But I can't stand behind that one. I don't think it would work well at all.
February 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Bluesky has decided that I am interested in posts where sport fans say without any context beyond their display names "This game sucks" and "What's even the point of this game?"

This combined with an otherwise ttrpg feed makes it look like people with names like PackersFanDad hating on Mörk Borg.
January 27, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Reposted by Brandon Leon-Gambetta
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Updating some old work on Pommel Ball to hopefully test a minimal 3v3 build this weekend.

If that works, I'll probably try to make it web play test ready over the next week.

I'm smoothing out the pieces that are time consuming.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Enough time has gone by since I made a layout that I need to relearn how to use affinity. Keeping things basic and trying to find a card template I can slap a csv into is probably my play.
January 20, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Gonna go to a second hand Lego store because my daughter has gotten extremely interested in very specifically Lego gears and there isn't a Lego 3-in-1 Just A Ton Of Gears set.
January 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM
My Kingdom for a System Doesn't Matter thread that doesn't include "of course we all understand system matters" after a couple dozen tweets.
January 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Due to Baby Sleep, I've been playing more retro videogames and that's been very nice. I'm very interested in finding where board games can play out (and sometimes intentionally slow down) some of the moments that feel great on the screen without losing excitement.
January 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Brandon Leon-Gambetta
Outlook for the new year ...
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
🌽 🏈 season is over so it's time for me to start thinking about Pommel Ball again.
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I feel extraordinarily blessed that when I ego search Pasión de las Pasiones i see people looking forward to, playing, and enjoying it.

I feel sincerely even more blessed when I get to see Pasión de las Pasiones used as an example of off-genre play (ex: you wouldn't play a dungeon crawl in PdlP)
December 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Slowly coming to a place that I'm catching up with people but just want to say from the bottom of my heart 🌽 🏈.
December 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🌽 🏈
September 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Clear my schedule on October 1st. I'm going to be reading about terrible frogs.

#mörktober
September 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🌽 🏈
August 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
A couple of weeks ago I almost hyped that the playable version of Pommel Ball would be available on Nebraska's first football game of the season.
Glad I didn't because that's tomorrow and I'm not even close.
August 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Wonder what ttrpg discussion is today!
👀
🫩
😩
Pass.
August 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Happy birthday to my two favorite Jeffs!

Past Jeff (@jeffstormer.gobirds.online) GM of the absolute gem of a podcast Party of One. Happy birthday!
AND
Future Jeff (@jeffstormer.gobirds.online) host of the absolute gem of a podcast Party of One. Happy birthday!
August 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Reposted by Brandon Leon-Gambetta
You know those cutouts that you use to measure range in wargames?

I'm pretty sure I've come up with one for turning that has reignited Deadly Kobold Racing.
August 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I've been exploring Homebrew video games (modern indie games for existing consoles) and there's SO much cool stuff going on. I wish a bit that I were better at video content so that I could share some of the awesome stuff going on.
August 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Okay. Tonight is Pommel Ball Kits, possibly default teams too.

Then the dreaded play materials layout.

I'm considering just hand drawing the character sheets and scanning them.
August 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
One thing I'm pretty pumped about in Pommel Ball is Formations which are basically ritual-stype spells that cast by getting your team into a specific shape on the field. That's thrown off by how much pushing and movement is inherent to the game.
August 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM