Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony
@lackingceremony.bsky.social
I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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Going For Broke - Buried Without Ceremony
Going For Broke is a fast-paced sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to get enough money together. Choose one of twelve house members, pick an episode, and dive right in.
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Going For Broke is now available! This is a lightweight, pick-up-and-play sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to make rent. It's designed for 4-8 players, only takes 40-70 minutes, and fits in your back pocket!
Learn more at:
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
Learn more at:
buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb
Vintage Cube 🏆🏆🏆
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Vintage Cube 🏆🏆🏆
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!
Here it is. The final 24 hours. You've helped coax banked embers into a steady flame. Tell me, what is one thing you'll bring with you into What-Comes-Next? Seeds? Thread? A good kitchen knife? What will you make of what's left? Together, let's light up the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!
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HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled.
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
How's Next Week? by grave snail games
A solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled.
gravesnail.itch.io
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled.
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Excited to see Going For Broke in someone's top five list for games of the year, alongside some excellent company.
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Excited to see Going For Broke in someone's top five list for games of the year, alongside some excellent company.
Last cube season, Boros aggro was my pick for easiest trophy in the vintage cube. But this season, in both the regular vintage cube and the No Holds Barred version, it's been Gruul land destruction/recursion. The lane is always open and it can crater most decks that aren't already winning by turn 3.
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Last cube season, Boros aggro was my pick for easiest trophy in the vintage cube. But this season, in both the regular vintage cube and the No Holds Barred version, it's been Gruul land destruction/recursion. The lane is always open and it can crater most decks that aren't already winning by turn 3.
After numerous scrapped paint scheme ideas, I've finally committed to one I feel really excited about for my Drukhari army! Here's my test model - going for "scavenger pirates, far from home, flying through a world of dust and rust."
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
After numerous scrapped paint scheme ideas, I've finally committed to one I feel really excited about for my Drukhari army! Here's my test model - going for "scavenger pirates, far from home, flying through a world of dust and rust."
Turn one: Stomping Ground
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
December 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Turn one: Stomping Ground
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine
Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine
😎
My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.
*firing up my first draft in the No Holds Barred Vintage Cube*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
*firing up my first draft in the No Holds Barred Vintage Cube*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
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Hey #YEG friends! Are you involved in indie TTRPGs? Do you love running and designing and playing #TTRPG games? We've got a meetup for local indie TTRPG folks at @pemetawe.bsky.social on December 27 at 1:00 PM :D Be there or be too cool for this XD
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey #YEG friends! Are you involved in indie TTRPGs? Do you love running and designing and playing #TTRPG games? We've got a meetup for local indie TTRPG folks at @pemetawe.bsky.social on December 27 at 1:00 PM :D Be there or be too cool for this XD
US customers can now pick up the new boxed set version of The Quiet Year. Check out my webstore for more info!
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Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
US customers can now pick up the new boxed set version of The Quiet Year. Check out my webstore for more info!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Happy Every Five Minutes Day to all who celebrate.
NEWS: Alberta to test emergency alert system Wednesday
Alberta to test emergency alert system Wednesday
The province of Alberta will be joining the rest of Canada in testing the Alert Ready system this Wednesday. At 1:55 p.m. MT, the alert will sound on radio, television, and compatible mobile devices to ensure the system is functioning correctly.
dlvr.it
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Happy Every Five Minutes Day to all who celebrate.
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Fear. Progress. Evolution. Disaster. Disaster. Disaster.
Enjoy our live play of The Quiet Year, where we will have live artist and endlessly talented Art Director @naladraws.com to draw our world as it unravels.
@kendomakesfilms.bsky.social
@edwardspence.bsky.social
@drakoniques.itch.io
Enjoy our live play of The Quiet Year, where we will have live artist and endlessly talented Art Director @naladraws.com to draw our world as it unravels.
@kendomakesfilms.bsky.social
@edwardspence.bsky.social
@drakoniques.itch.io
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Fear. Progress. Evolution. Disaster. Disaster. Disaster.
Enjoy our live play of The Quiet Year, where we will have live artist and endlessly talented Art Director @naladraws.com to draw our world as it unravels.
@kendomakesfilms.bsky.social
@edwardspence.bsky.social
@drakoniques.itch.io
Enjoy our live play of The Quiet Year, where we will have live artist and endlessly talented Art Director @naladraws.com to draw our world as it unravels.
@kendomakesfilms.bsky.social
@edwardspence.bsky.social
@drakoniques.itch.io
Every time I read one of the emails from my MLA, I'm super impressed. She sends a detailed breakdown of what she does and doesn't like about Carney's proposed budget, the factors she's weighing in deciding how to vote, ends on a genuine ask for constituent feedback, then drops a classy post script.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Every time I read one of the emails from my MLA, I'm super impressed. She sends a detailed breakdown of what she does and doesn't like about Carney's proposed budget, the factors she's weighing in deciding how to vote, ends on a genuine ask for constituent feedback, then drops a classy post script.
Apocalypse World has had a bigger impact on my life than any other roleplaying game. It's just a phenomenal game, designed by phenomenal people. You should pick up a copy of the new edition!
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 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Apocalypse World has had a bigger impact on my life than any other roleplaying game. It's just a phenomenal game, designed by phenomenal people. You should pick up a copy of the new edition!
Is there a good descriptor for the type of story—which I mostly encounter in chamber horror and time loop thrillers—where the protagonists interfacing with and attempting to circumvent The Rules is the focus of the story?
I'm thinking especially of Talk to Me, It's What's Inside, Russian Doll, etc.
I'm thinking especially of Talk to Me, It's What's Inside, Russian Doll, etc.
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Is there a good descriptor for the type of story—which I mostly encounter in chamber horror and time loop thrillers—where the protagonists interfacing with and attempting to circumvent The Rules is the focus of the story?
I'm thinking especially of Talk to Me, It's What's Inside, Russian Doll, etc.
I'm thinking especially of Talk to Me, It's What's Inside, Russian Doll, etc.
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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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Ok, @lumpley.bsky.social & I have been very up-front over the years on our sales data & etc, so here's a thing, & thanks Will, for bringing it up. Starting a career in #ttrpgs means making games. it means writing in a goggle doc or notebook, trying mechanics with a friend, finding 3 folks to play.
I don't really see any false vision of success — virtually anybody who talks about it is very up front, and people who ask about "starting a career in games" get told very plainly that the only way to have money while working in RPGs is to start with money.
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ok, @lumpley.bsky.social & I have been very up-front over the years on our sales data & etc, so here's a thing, & thanks Will, for bringing it up. Starting a career in #ttrpgs means making games. it means writing in a goggle doc or notebook, trying mechanics with a friend, finding 3 folks to play.
Ending cube season with an easy trophy playing this very broken Grixis wheels deck. 🏆✨
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Ending cube season with an easy trophy playing this very broken Grixis wheels deck. 🏆✨
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
Some drafts, you need to bounce around a bit before you find your lane. Other drafts, you accidentally put together Breach-LED-Brain Freeze plus power in your opening seven picks.
October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Some drafts, you need to bounce around a bit before you find your lane. Other drafts, you accidentally put together Breach-LED-Brain Freeze plus power in your opening seven picks.
This orzhov pile felt like it had absolutely no business winning a trophy! But it turns out Phelia blinking Staff of the Storyteller is enough to carry a draft. 🐕✨
October 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This orzhov pile felt like it had absolutely no business winning a trophy! But it turns out Phelia blinking Staff of the Storyteller is enough to carry a draft. 🐕✨
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"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone."
Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.
Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.
Apocalypse World: Burned Over is kinder and much angrier
The end of the world isn’t what it used to be. It might be better.
www.rascal.news
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone."
Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.
Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.
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We played „Going for broke“ by @lackingceremony.bsky.social at a recent con and had an absolute blast. Our sitcom cast had a run in with the mob. Before we knew it, one of the thugs was living with us 💕
#ttrpg #indiettrpg
#ttrpg #indiettrpg
October 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
We played „Going for broke“ by @lackingceremony.bsky.social at a recent con and had an absolute blast. Our sitcom cast had a run in with the mob. Before we knew it, one of the thugs was living with us 💕
#ttrpg #indiettrpg
#ttrpg #indiettrpg
"i hate losing to trash" my opponent types in chat, before conceding to my 3-0, 6-0 Boros aggro deck that was efficient, redundant, synergistic without compromising card quality, with a tight curve that anchored on powerful two-drops, that beat them by playing to the board without overcommitting.
October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"i hate losing to trash" my opponent types in chat, before conceding to my 3-0, 6-0 Boros aggro deck that was efficient, redundant, synergistic without compromising card quality, with a tight curve that anchored on powerful two-drops, that beat them by playing to the board without overcommitting.
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Lemurs! Lemurs! Listen up! It's here!
Our Kickstarter for Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake is live! Go check it out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud... !
Join us as we make rad queer art with our tiny lemur paws!
Our Kickstarter for Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake is live! Go check it out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud... !
Join us as we make rad queer art with our tiny lemur paws!
October 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Lemurs! Lemurs! Listen up! It's here!
Our Kickstarter for Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake is live! Go check it out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud... !
Join us as we make rad queer art with our tiny lemur paws!
Our Kickstarter for Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake is live! Go check it out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud... !
Join us as we make rad queer art with our tiny lemur paws!
This deck did not feel like it was supposed to trophy a vintage cube elimination draft. (I'm sitting at 68 QPs right now, making this my most winningest season ever.)
September 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This deck did not feel like it was supposed to trophy a vintage cube elimination draft. (I'm sitting at 68 QPs right now, making this my most winningest season ever.)