Matthew Ayers
@matthewayers.bsky.social
Check out Blightfall, my TTRPG about doomed heroes here: https://tinyurl.com/blightfallttrpg
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Blightfall - Tabletop Tragedy Roleplaying Game
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Shouting out my own game, Blightfall, a dark fantasy TTRPG that combines collaborative world building with tragic stories of doomed heroes. Follows greatly appreciated! #ttrpg #darkfantasy #gamedesign
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I call Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast ‘Yazzy B’s” and Liminal Horror ‘Limmy Ho Ho’ and NONE OF YOU can stop me.
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I call Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast ‘Yazzy B’s” and Liminal Horror ‘Limmy Ho Ho’ and NONE OF YOU can stop me.
My dog, Kiwi, managed to escape her crate and opened my birthday present for me. I didn’t need the joy of opening my own gifts anyways … thanks, Kiwi.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
My dog, Kiwi, managed to escape her crate and opened my birthday present for me. I didn’t need the joy of opening my own gifts anyways … thanks, Kiwi.
It’s funded! Huzzah! A little over a day left to get in on this action and support this awesome project.
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s funded! Huzzah! A little over a day left to get in on this action and support this awesome project.
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Back this. Now.
Ephemeris is just a few pledges away from funding!!
Super excited to start riso printing this game. Grab your copy and help us take it to print!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Super excited to start riso printing this game. Grab your copy and help us take it to print!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet
A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates, brought to glorious undeath with risograph
www.kickstarter.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Back this. Now.
I still feel gross about posting links to my own blog, even if the blog is about hyping up someone else’s project.
Maybe I’ll get better about this one day.
Maybe I’ll get better about this one day.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I still feel gross about posting links to my own blog, even if the blog is about hyping up someone else’s project.
Maybe I’ll get better about this one day.
Maybe I’ll get better about this one day.
Hot new blog post about the glut(?) of TTRPGs, the point of creation, and a game that's crowdfunding called Ephemeris.
theblighted.com/2025/11/09/t...
theblighted.com/2025/11/09/t...
Too Many Games – The Blighted
(And I Love It) Cropped cover art of Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet. Why? We'll get to that. A question I've been pondering is, "Are there too many games?" There are certainly more games than I c...
theblighted.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Hot new blog post about the glut(?) of TTRPGs, the point of creation, and a game that's crowdfunding called Ephemeris.
theblighted.com/2025/11/09/t...
theblighted.com/2025/11/09/t...
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Today I randomly played Wordle for the first time in a year. I put in my usual first word.
Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square.
One try baby. Thanks 'ARISE'.
Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square.
One try baby. Thanks 'ARISE'.
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Today I randomly played Wordle for the first time in a year. I put in my usual first word.
Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square.
One try baby. Thanks 'ARISE'.
Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square. Green square.
One try baby. Thanks 'ARISE'.
Trying to resist backing everything so I can pay for things for my own game. No one ever told me about this dark side of game design.
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trying to resist backing everything so I can pay for things for my own game. No one ever told me about this dark side of game design.
This is going to be a terrific episode!
Following up on his wonderful article linked below, Clayton will be joining me on Friday to discuss promotion and marketing in tabletop games. We'll be hitting a variety of topics but if you have any questions let us know in the comments!
Join us live Friday at 10am pst
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
Join us live Friday at 10am pst
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is going to be a terrific episode!
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Tonight seems to be a strong rebuke of the Republican Party’s “make shit as bad as possible as quickly as possible” strategy
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Tonight seems to be a strong rebuke of the Republican Party’s “make shit as bad as possible as quickly as possible” strategy
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Ugh, just got followed by this loser. That’s how shitty these AI weirdos are, just having bots search for the AI keyword and follow blindly. They don’t care about connection or art. They just want to get your attention and use you. BLOCKED.
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Ugh, just got followed by this loser. That’s how shitty these AI weirdos are, just having bots search for the AI keyword and follow blindly. They don’t care about connection or art. They just want to get your attention and use you. BLOCKED.
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Please go vote today.
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Please go vote today.
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Shouting out my own game, Blightfall, a dark fantasy TTRPG that combines collaborative world building with tragic stories of doomed heroes. Follows greatly appreciated! #ttrpg #darkfantasy #gamedesign
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Blightfall - Tabletop Tragedy Roleplaying Game
From Matthew Ayers - Blightfall - Tabletop Tragedy Roleplaying Game
www.backerkit.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Shouting out my own game, Blightfall, a dark fantasy TTRPG that combines collaborative world building with tragic stories of doomed heroes. Follows greatly appreciated! #ttrpg #darkfantasy #gamedesign
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
This game looks absolutely gorgeous and if I weren’t so tariff-ied of shipping fees I would back it immediately. (Pun intentional, I’m no coward)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/144...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/144...
Loin du feu
Qui sait ce qui nous attend lorsqu'on s’aventure loin du feu ? Who knows what awaits us when we venture far from the fire?
www.kickstarter.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This game looks absolutely gorgeous and if I weren’t so tariff-ied of shipping fees I would back it immediately. (Pun intentional, I’m no coward)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/144...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/144...
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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 5:03 PM
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.
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As I block someone on TikTok:
If you use Generative AI, I don’t want your opinion on anything. It means less than nothing to me. Your taste is rancid with the corruption of billionaires and empty of thought and interest. You are alike in critical thought to a rock on a lake shore.
If you use Generative AI, I don’t want your opinion on anything. It means less than nothing to me. Your taste is rancid with the corruption of billionaires and empty of thought and interest. You are alike in critical thought to a rock on a lake shore.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
As I block someone on TikTok:
If you use Generative AI, I don’t want your opinion on anything. It means less than nothing to me. Your taste is rancid with the corruption of billionaires and empty of thought and interest. You are alike in critical thought to a rock on a lake shore.
If you use Generative AI, I don’t want your opinion on anything. It means less than nothing to me. Your taste is rancid with the corruption of billionaires and empty of thought and interest. You are alike in critical thought to a rock on a lake shore.
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Gates of Krystalia are doing numbers on Kickstarter again, so I'm tapping the sign to remind folks that the publisher, "Top Notch International" does strikingly irresponsible (with a side of appropriation), unreadable AI-generated books, marketed under multiple (fake) authors and titles. #ttrpg
May 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Gates of Krystalia are doing numbers on Kickstarter again, so I'm tapping the sign to remind folks that the publisher, "Top Notch International" does strikingly irresponsible (with a side of appropriation), unreadable AI-generated books, marketed under multiple (fake) authors and titles. #ttrpg
We must find all AI-use and shame them.
Ok I can’t resist sharing more of these.
The game is called Noctids. It’s not even an RPG, it’s a Blood on the Clocktower knock off. Almost word for word.
I did point this out and the guy said he’d heard of BOTC but not played it, convincing no one.
Avoid if you see this shit in the wild.
The game is called Noctids. It’s not even an RPG, it’s a Blood on the Clocktower knock off. Almost word for word.
I did point this out and the guy said he’d heard of BOTC but not played it, convincing no one.
Avoid if you see this shit in the wild.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We must find all AI-use and shame them.
Gorgeousssss
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Gorgeousssss
Posted about the UKGE advertising Gates of Krystalia, an AI art-filled game, on my blog: theblighted.com/2025/11/02/g...
Big thanks to @alderdoodle.bsky.social for posting about this situation.
Big thanks to @alderdoodle.bsky.social for posting about this situation.
Gates of Krystalia – The AI Terror – The Blighted
UKGE <3 AI Apparently A note before we begin: I'm no journalist. This situation just pisses me off and I want to talk about it. A few days ago, the UK Games Expo posted this ad on their Instagram. I l...
theblighted.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Posted about the UKGE advertising Gates of Krystalia, an AI art-filled game, on my blog: theblighted.com/2025/11/02/g...
Big thanks to @alderdoodle.bsky.social for posting about this situation.
Big thanks to @alderdoodle.bsky.social for posting about this situation.
What if we called it a Chocolate Tacolate instead?
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
What if we called it a Chocolate Tacolate instead?
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TRICK OR TREAT!
A bunch of community copies of Perils & Princesses, the Candy-Cursed campaign Sweet Revenge, and The Secret of the Night market are up on itch. outrider-creative.itch.io
A bunch of community copies of Perils & Princesses, the Candy-Cursed campaign Sweet Revenge, and The Secret of the Night market are up on itch. outrider-creative.itch.io
Outrider Creative
outrider-creative.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
TRICK OR TREAT!
A bunch of community copies of Perils & Princesses, the Candy-Cursed campaign Sweet Revenge, and The Secret of the Night market are up on itch. outrider-creative.itch.io
A bunch of community copies of Perils & Princesses, the Candy-Cursed campaign Sweet Revenge, and The Secret of the Night market are up on itch. outrider-creative.itch.io