Possible Worlds Games
@possibleworlds.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of unique, engaging TTRPGs.
www.possibleworldsgames.com
www.possibleworldsgames.com
for those curious, this was 2026's winner (which arrived today and is absolutely gorgeous) lazercao.bigcartel.com/product/orga...
December 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
for those curious, this was 2026's winner (which arrived today and is absolutely gorgeous) lazercao.bigcartel.com/product/orga...
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My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
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December 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
So glad @friends-table.bsky.social got on the @adambell.games train—Adam's out here designing cool, weird games left and right.
Join us at 3pm ET on the 1st of January for a New Year's LIVE AT THE TABLE - @notquitereal.bsky.social, @carberry.deals, and @sylvibullet.bsky.social will be playing the ashcan edition of @adambell.games's Locked Room Murder Mystery lockedroomgame.com twitch.tv/friendsatthetable
The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game
Official Website of the Locked Room Murder Mystery Game
lockedroomgame.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So glad @friends-table.bsky.social got on the @adambell.games train—Adam's out here designing cool, weird games left and right.
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tune in thursday afternoon to watch some of the best to do it play The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game. i'm excited to see it!
Join us at 3pm ET on the 1st of January for a New Year's LIVE AT THE TABLE - @notquitereal.bsky.social, @carberry.deals, and @sylvibullet.bsky.social will be playing the ashcan edition of @adambell.games's Locked Room Murder Mystery lockedroomgame.com twitch.tv/friendsatthetable
The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game
Official Website of the Locked Room Murder Mystery Game
lockedroomgame.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
tune in thursday afternoon to watch some of the best to do it play The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game. i'm excited to see it!
Tadd has a great year—including contributing to the success of Tacklebox! Get to know the rest of his writing in 2025 better!
A quick publishing/writing wrap up for 2025: My story "A Haunting" was published in @ergot.bsky.social and later featured in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's "One Great Short Story to Read Today"; you can read it here:
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tadd has a great year—including contributing to the success of Tacklebox! Get to know the rest of his writing in 2025 better!
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The Endtimes Trilogy is coming to #zinetopia & #zinemonth in February! Follow the page now!
I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy
From Adam Bell Games - Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy
www.backerkit.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Endtimes Trilogy is coming to #zinetopia & #zinemonth in February! Follow the page now!
I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
i respect congratulations defenders but little dark age is in fact the best mgmt album
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i respect congratulations defenders but little dark age is in fact the best mgmt album
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big ups to fellow Story Games Boston alumn and long-time “your favorite designers favorite designer” getting some well-deserved recognition!
Tacklebox is kinda blowing up at the moment, thanks to Quinn's Quest (~1500 copies & counting). Just in case anyone's interested, I would also be open to co-publishing some of my other games (Geiger Counter, Planarch Codex, Restless, Tomb Priestesses, Lofty Beacons, Metrofinal, Last Kings, etc).
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
big ups to fellow Story Games Boston alumn and long-time “your favorite designers favorite designer” getting some well-deserved recognition!
Jonathan is as great collaborator as he is a designer, with multiple all-but-art-complete RPGs publishers would be lucky to have in their catalog. Hell, I want to publish him again too—it'll just be 2+ years before I have room. Now's your time to seize the momentum & start a convo: www.jwalton.media
Tacklebox is kinda blowing up at the moment, thanks to Quinn's Quest (~1500 copies & counting). Just in case anyone's interested, I would also be open to co-publishing some of my other games (Geiger Counter, Planarch Codex, Restless, Tomb Priestesses, Lofty Beacons, Metrofinal, Last Kings, etc).
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Jonathan is as great collaborator as he is a designer, with multiple all-but-art-complete RPGs publishers would be lucky to have in their catalog. Hell, I want to publish him again too—it'll just be 2+ years before I have room. Now's your time to seize the momentum & start a convo: www.jwalton.media
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Year I first designed an RPG: ~1995.
Year I first discovered indie RPGs: 2002.
Year I first did a game jam: also 2002 (Game Chef 1).
Year I first sold something at GenCon: 2006.
Year I first made a significant profit: 2025.
You never have to stop making games, even if it never becomes your day job.
Year I first discovered indie RPGs: 2002.
Year I first did a game jam: also 2002 (Game Chef 1).
Year I first sold something at GenCon: 2006.
Year I first made a significant profit: 2025.
You never have to stop making games, even if it never becomes your day job.
December 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Year I first designed an RPG: ~1995.
Year I first discovered indie RPGs: 2002.
Year I first did a game jam: also 2002 (Game Chef 1).
Year I first sold something at GenCon: 2006.
Year I first made a significant profit: 2025.
You never have to stop making games, even if it never becomes your day job.
Year I first discovered indie RPGs: 2002.
Year I first did a game jam: also 2002 (Game Chef 1).
Year I first sold something at GenCon: 2006.
Year I first made a significant profit: 2025.
You never have to stop making games, even if it never becomes your day job.
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Yeah I get influenced by the motherfucker too sometimes.
(Though to be fair some of this had been in my to-purchase teaching list)
(Though to be fair some of this had been in my to-purchase teaching list)
December 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Yeah I get influenced by the motherfucker too sometimes.
(Though to be fair some of this had been in my to-purchase teaching list)
(Though to be fair some of this had been in my to-purchase teaching list)
the cool thing about paying larger royalties is that they make a larger difference in people’s lives
December 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
the cool thing about paying larger royalties is that they make a larger difference in people’s lives
Love the surreal tone of Tacklebox? Read more from contributing prompt author James Tadd Adcox!
Thrilled to learn that my story "A Loss" has been nominated for @altcurrent.bsky.social's Best Small Fictions by @newworldwriting.bsky.social. Thanks to Kim Chinquee, Elizabeth Wagner, and Evan Harrison for nominating it and for all their work at New World Writing.
You can read "A Loss" here:
You can read "A Loss" here:
James Tadd Adcox ~ Three Stories About Loss - New World Writing Quarterly
Unable to Sleep For several nights now he had believed himself unable to sleep. Each morning he would rise remembering having spent the previous eight hours
newworldwriting.net
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Love the surreal tone of Tacklebox? Read more from contributing prompt author James Tadd Adcox!
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Part 2 is finally here! Apologies for the delay—I got engaged !! then the rest of December flew by. I hope you enjoy this write-up of my Saturday at PAX Unplugged. Featuring a lot of cool indie TTRPG creators!
PAXU has seriously become a favorite con 💜
🎲 www.spacevalkyries.com/blog/pax-unp... 🎲
PAXU has seriously become a favorite con 💜
🎲 www.spacevalkyries.com/blog/pax-unp... 🎲
December 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Part 2 is finally here! Apologies for the delay—I got engaged !! then the rest of December flew by. I hope you enjoy this write-up of my Saturday at PAX Unplugged. Featuring a lot of cool indie TTRPG creators!
PAXU has seriously become a favorite con 💜
🎲 www.spacevalkyries.com/blog/pax-unp... 🎲
PAXU has seriously become a favorite con 💜
🎲 www.spacevalkyries.com/blog/pax-unp... 🎲
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Check out the full video on YouTube.com/ at quinns_quest or by searching “Quinns quest” in the search bar. You can buy a copy for yourself through our website, link in our bio! This is a fun two player surreal RPG that will leave you going “wait… what?” #ttrpg #indiegame #larp #roleplayinggame
December 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Check out the full video on YouTube.com/ at quinns_quest or by searching “Quinns quest” in the search bar. You can buy a copy for yourself through our website, link in our bio! This is a fun two player surreal RPG that will leave you going “wait… what?” #ttrpg #indiegame #larp #roleplayinggame
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Wake up, Sleeper. Congratulations to our Narrative recipient for 2025, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector!
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Receives the Indie Game Award 2025 for Narrative
YouTube video by Six One Indie
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December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Wake up, Sleeper. Congratulations to our Narrative recipient for 2025, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector!
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Check out the full video on the Quinns Quest YouTube channel at YouTube.com/ at quinns_quest or by searching “Quinns quest” in the search bar. You can buy a copy of Tacklebox for yourself through our website, link in our bio! #ttrpg #larp #liveactionroleplay #indiegames
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Check out the full video on the Quinns Quest YouTube channel at YouTube.com/ at quinns_quest or by searching “Quinns quest” in the search bar. You can buy a copy of Tacklebox for yourself through our website, link in our bio! #ttrpg #larp #liveactionroleplay #indiegames
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For this month’s bonus actual play @shenuque.bsky.social and @moreblueberries.bsky.social played Tacklebox by @possibleworlds.bsky.social
It’s a surreal fishing game and it gets WEIRD!
Listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/146098...
It’s a surreal fishing game and it gets WEIRD!
Listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/146098...
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
For this month’s bonus actual play @shenuque.bsky.social and @moreblueberries.bsky.social played Tacklebox by @possibleworlds.bsky.social
It’s a surreal fishing game and it gets WEIRD!
Listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/146098...
It’s a surreal fishing game and it gets WEIRD!
Listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/146098...
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
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The Swords Without Master campaign page has been updated with the final Eidolon Folio we are preparing for the initial campaign: Maps!
We are pumped to have @queerwizard.co.uk, @salvaterra.bsky.social, @mapcrow.bsky.social and Arlin Ortiz on board for this one!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
We are pumped to have @queerwizard.co.uk, @salvaterra.bsky.social, @mapcrow.bsky.social and Arlin Ortiz on board for this one!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Swords Without Master campaign page has been updated with the final Eidolon Folio we are preparing for the initial campaign: Maps!
We are pumped to have @queerwizard.co.uk, @salvaterra.bsky.social, @mapcrow.bsky.social and Arlin Ortiz on board for this one!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
We are pumped to have @queerwizard.co.uk, @salvaterra.bsky.social, @mapcrow.bsky.social and Arlin Ortiz on board for this one!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
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‘The Circuit Slate’ commissioned for the upcoming ttrpg ‘Realis’ by @austinwalker.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
‘The Circuit Slate’ commissioned for the upcoming ttrpg ‘Realis’ by @austinwalker.bsky.social
another banger from @explorersdesign.bsky.social
99% of rpg zines and books should have page numbers.
And that's just the start. There's actually a lot of technique and intentionality behind things like page numbers, running headers, etc.
Let me know what you think!
www.explorersdesign.com/designing-si...
And that's just the start. There's actually a lot of technique and intentionality behind things like page numbers, running headers, etc.
Let me know what you think!
www.explorersdesign.com/designing-si...
How to Design Signals in Books
User-friendly definitions, tips, and tricks for tabletop rpg designers.
www.explorersdesign.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
another banger from @explorersdesign.bsky.social
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Me, @ehronlime.bsky.social, and @aaronmfking.bsky.social have stepped from the shadows to make the Council of Aarons public. We pass judgement on 3 Harvests, and evaluate the course of 2025--at least in tabletop games.
2025: Harvest | Aaron on Aaron on Aaron
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December 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Me, @ehronlime.bsky.social, and @aaronmfking.bsky.social have stepped from the shadows to make the Council of Aarons public. We pass judgement on 3 Harvests, and evaluate the course of 2025--at least in tabletop games.
more like aaron King Of RPGs
Four RPG books I'm printing new/collected editions of in 2026.
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
more like aaron King Of RPGs
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Halfmoon, Twaincut. Done for Realis.
I just put up a post for my $1 tier talking about the process for Halfmoon Twaincut, as well as a layered PSD of what my layer stack madness looks like if you're at the $5 tier.
www.patreon.com/posts/145625...
I just put up a post for my $1 tier talking about the process for Halfmoon Twaincut, as well as a layered PSD of what my layer stack madness looks like if you're at the $5 tier.
www.patreon.com/posts/145625...
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Halfmoon, Twaincut. Done for Realis.
I just put up a post for my $1 tier talking about the process for Halfmoon Twaincut, as well as a layered PSD of what my layer stack madness looks like if you're at the $5 tier.
www.patreon.com/posts/145625...
I just put up a post for my $1 tier talking about the process for Halfmoon Twaincut, as well as a layered PSD of what my layer stack madness looks like if you're at the $5 tier.
www.patreon.com/posts/145625...