Sam Leigh
@goblinmixtape.bsky.social
They/She. Award-winning TTRPG designer of Blinking Birch Games. Author of Anamnesis and Outliers. Freelance writer and editor.
Website: blinkingbirchgames.com
Itch: blinkingbirchgames.itch.io
Logo: @alderdoodle.bsky.social
PFP: @nebuleeart.bsky.social
Website: blinkingbirchgames.com
Itch: blinkingbirchgames.itch.io
Logo: @alderdoodle.bsky.social
PFP: @nebuleeart.bsky.social
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Sam Leigh
@goblinmixtape.bsky.social
· Oct 17
I'm Sam, a TTRPG designer from Virginia!
I publish under Blinking Birch Games and make short-form videos about indie TTRPGs.
You can check out my games and learn more about what I do here:
Itch: blinkingbirchgames.itch.io
Carrd: samleigh.carrd.co
I publish under Blinking Birch Games and make short-form videos about indie TTRPGs.
You can check out my games and learn more about what I do here:
Itch: blinkingbirchgames.itch.io
Carrd: samleigh.carrd.co
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Glatisant from @graftbound.bsky.social is a GM-less, asymmetrical TTRPG for two players using the Carta system. Discover a world of high adventure as you cross a tableau of playing cards, encountering people & places from Arthurian myth with each card. tabletopbookshelf.com/products/gla...
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Glatisant from @graftbound.bsky.social is a GM-less, asymmetrical TTRPG for two players using the Carta system. Discover a world of high adventure as you cross a tableau of playing cards, encountering people & places from Arthurian myth with each card. tabletopbookshelf.com/products/gla...
figured it out (for now)
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
figured it out (for now)
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Alanna Yeo spoke to Rascal about Nazogaku, a celebration of Japan's puzzle-like games that take advantage of real-life spaces.
This year's "Final Last Nazogaku" pitted a censorious organizing committee against a grassroots resistance of mystery lovers.
This year's "Final Last Nazogaku" pitted a censorious organizing committee against a grassroots resistance of mystery lovers.
Solving secret puzzles at the Japanese mystery school
Alanna Yeo talks nazo, design cultures, and her unique ARG-style experience at Nazogaku.
www.rascal.news
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Alanna Yeo spoke to Rascal about Nazogaku, a celebration of Japan's puzzle-like games that take advantage of real-life spaces.
This year's "Final Last Nazogaku" pitted a censorious organizing committee against a grassroots resistance of mystery lovers.
This year's "Final Last Nazogaku" pitted a censorious organizing committee against a grassroots resistance of mystery lovers.
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We are TWO WEEKS AWAY from the release of the final series of The Tower.
We're also halfway through Part 3 in our full series relisten over on Twitch. Tonight we'll be listening to Ep4: Temple Of Contemplation, an episode where A Lot Happens
8pm UK/3pm Eastern
twitch.tv/tincanaudio
We're also halfway through Part 3 in our full series relisten over on Twitch. Tonight we'll be listening to Ep4: Temple Of Contemplation, an episode where A Lot Happens
8pm UK/3pm Eastern
twitch.tv/tincanaudio
ARTWORK REVEAL
We are delighted to reveal the artwork for the final series of The Tower, created by series regular Sarah Grant.
The 2-part finale of The Tower drops November 24th and November 26th.
pod.link/1480997091
We are delighted to reveal the artwork for the final series of The Tower, created by series regular Sarah Grant.
The 2-part finale of The Tower drops November 24th and November 26th.
pod.link/1480997091
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We are TWO WEEKS AWAY from the release of the final series of The Tower.
We're also halfway through Part 3 in our full series relisten over on Twitch. Tonight we'll be listening to Ep4: Temple Of Contemplation, an episode where A Lot Happens
8pm UK/3pm Eastern
twitch.tv/tincanaudio
We're also halfway through Part 3 in our full series relisten over on Twitch. Tonight we'll be listening to Ep4: Temple Of Contemplation, an episode where A Lot Happens
8pm UK/3pm Eastern
twitch.tv/tincanaudio
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One of the things I was most delighted by in this conversation was the way @byconniechang.bsky.social and @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social speak about AP in terms of other art forms: dancing, singing, weaving
"we are choreographing, not scripting" is a framing that will particularly stick with me
"we are choreographing, not scripting" is a framing that will particularly stick with me
Talk of the Table -- Dramaturgy in Actual Play (w/ @byconniechang.bsky.social & @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social )
We dive deep on the use of dramaturgy in actual play: how it supports players, safe artistic storytelling, and long term actual play in @transplanarrpg.bsky.social
pca.st/u2b4x321
We dive deep on the use of dramaturgy in actual play: how it supports players, safe artistic storytelling, and long term actual play in @transplanarrpg.bsky.social
pca.st/u2b4x321
Dramaturgy in Actual Play (w/ Connie Chang & Sea Thomas)
pca.st
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
One of the things I was most delighted by in this conversation was the way @byconniechang.bsky.social and @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social speak about AP in terms of other art forms: dancing, singing, weaving
"we are choreographing, not scripting" is a framing that will particularly stick with me
"we are choreographing, not scripting" is a framing that will particularly stick with me
at least The Girls are across the room to watch me struggle
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
at least The Girls are across the room to watch me struggle
new place, new bookshelves, new "dear christ now do I organize these" moment
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
new place, new bookshelves, new "dear christ now do I organize these" moment
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If you don't have the means to financially support your local food pantry or mutual aid distribution center, volunteer there.
The places I work with have had double the normal attendees and having all hands on deck helps keep the operations running.
The places I work with have had double the normal attendees and having all hands on deck helps keep the operations running.
Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
If you don't have the means to financially support your local food pantry or mutual aid distribution center, volunteer there.
The places I work with have had double the normal attendees and having all hands on deck helps keep the operations running.
The places I work with have had double the normal attendees and having all hands on deck helps keep the operations running.
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It's my birthday 🎉 and I'd love for you to go play some of my games! I make both browser point-and-click and TTRPGS
you can find them here: k-ramstack.itch.io
you can find them here: k-ramstack.itch.io
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's my birthday 🎉 and I'd love for you to go play some of my games! I make both browser point-and-click and TTRPGS
you can find them here: k-ramstack.itch.io
you can find them here: k-ramstack.itch.io
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IT IS A GOOD MORNING
We are starting a new One Shot series this week - playing Hinterlight, from Gossamer Coast and @plusoneexp.bsky.social - where the Noble Fae have summoned the nameless dead who haunt their forest, and we accept our invitation.
podlink.com/688242106/ep...
We are starting a new One Shot series this week - playing Hinterlight, from Gossamer Coast and @plusoneexp.bsky.social - where the Noble Fae have summoned the nameless dead who haunt their forest, and we accept our invitation.
podlink.com/688242106/ep...
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
IT IS A GOOD MORNING
We are starting a new One Shot series this week - playing Hinterlight, from Gossamer Coast and @plusoneexp.bsky.social - where the Noble Fae have summoned the nameless dead who haunt their forest, and we accept our invitation.
podlink.com/688242106/ep...
We are starting a new One Shot series this week - playing Hinterlight, from Gossamer Coast and @plusoneexp.bsky.social - where the Noble Fae have summoned the nameless dead who haunt their forest, and we accept our invitation.
podlink.com/688242106/ep...
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Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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looking at my interstitial 2e playbook jam writing and i think this is the funniest move i've ever written
![[ ] BAD DREAM BABY
If you both go to sleep during downtime, you can invade each others’ dreams for a conversation that is guaranteed to be private. If your GM or another player wants an eavesdropper to be there, they have to send me $10 first.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vvyf6fd53j3spnbv2ss5ifsh/bafkreidrzr2xu6ghhygsfmbocst4xbo6bw3pcvznxkfza437zq4vmj4xly@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
looking at my interstitial 2e playbook jam writing and i think this is the funniest move i've ever written
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It's a Gamble EP 1 today!!! Jump in and fall in love with these characters, and listen to us have a bunch of fun playing A Fool's Errand. it's a good game i think!
these players absolutely smashed it and you're gonna love the world they created. listen today!!
these players absolutely smashed it and you're gonna love the world they created. listen today!!
🎰🃏 IT'S A GAMBLE 🃏🎰
💎🤖 E1 - THE BIG HOOF 🤖💎
OUT TODAY!
Welcome to Denseburg! A perfectly normal city where some entirely standard criminals perpetrate a completely routine diamond heist that goes totally smoothly, with not a single unexpected complication.
LISTEN NOW!
💎🤖 E1 - THE BIG HOOF 🤖💎
OUT TODAY!
Welcome to Denseburg! A perfectly normal city where some entirely standard criminals perpetrate a completely routine diamond heist that goes totally smoothly, with not a single unexpected complication.
LISTEN NOW!
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's a Gamble EP 1 today!!! Jump in and fall in love with these characters, and listen to us have a bunch of fun playing A Fool's Errand. it's a good game i think!
these players absolutely smashed it and you're gonna love the world they created. listen today!!
these players absolutely smashed it and you're gonna love the world they created. listen today!!
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The realities of crowdfunding are complicated, but Equinox's situation should beggar our collective tolerance for stretching that reality.
If companies must tell €2 million fibs, under guidance by platforms, to make crowdfunding work.
Well, then crowdfunding doesn't work.
Well, then crowdfunding doesn't work.
Words must mean something
When is a goal not a goal?
www.rascal.news
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The realities of crowdfunding are complicated, but Equinox's situation should beggar our collective tolerance for stretching that reality.
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The Getty Museum in LA added over 80,000 pieces of art to the public domain with a CC0 license. That means you can download it with no legal restrictions. You just need to click that open-content filter.
Could be useful for projects or photo-bashing.
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
Could be useful for projects or photo-bashing.
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection
Explore the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.
www.getty.edu
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Getty Museum in LA added over 80,000 pieces of art to the public domain with a CC0 license. That means you can download it with no legal restrictions. You just need to click that open-content filter.
Could be useful for projects or photo-bashing.
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
Could be useful for projects or photo-bashing.
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
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if you don't need a commision, and instead would like to keep me alive for absolutely no reason, my ko-fi is here o/
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
if you don't need a commision, and instead would like to keep me alive for absolutely no reason, my ko-fi is here o/
LETS GO VIRGINIAAAAA
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
LETS GO VIRGINIAAAAA
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Hello gamers I'm opening *emergency* graphic design commissions, to help me keep my healthcare due this friday. Flexible pricing, I'll do:
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hello gamers I'm opening *emergency* graphic design commissions, to help me keep my healthcare due this friday. Flexible pricing, I'll do:
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
huge congrats to NYC, also happy to say that after a shit few years VA swung back to a dem governor. we're eating well tonight friends
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
huge congrats to NYC, also happy to say that after a shit few years VA swung back to a dem governor. we're eating well tonight friends
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Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM
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The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is live! Come support Palestinian children and get a ton of TTRPG and Pring/Play titles for $10! itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Free Palestine!
Free Palestine!
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF by Molgannard Press and 102 others
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF: 243 items for $10.00
itch.io
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is live! Come support Palestinian children and get a ton of TTRPG and Pring/Play titles for $10! itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Free Palestine!
Free Palestine!
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Pax is up in a month so now is a great time to get your Covid and flu shots and you’ll build up the antibodies by then
(this is likely not the right medical verbiage but knowing takes a week or two to kick in and that’s what I’m talkin about)
(this is likely not the right medical verbiage but knowing takes a week or two to kick in and that’s what I’m talkin about)
October 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Pax is up in a month so now is a great time to get your Covid and flu shots and you’ll build up the antibodies by then
(this is likely not the right medical verbiage but knowing takes a week or two to kick in and that’s what I’m talkin about)
(this is likely not the right medical verbiage but knowing takes a week or two to kick in and that’s what I’m talkin about)
happy to report that the copy of @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social's Spine I left in the little neighborhood library 2 days ago has already disappeared
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
happy to report that the copy of @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social's Spine I left in the little neighborhood library 2 days ago has already disappeared