Radmad
@radmad.bsky.social
He/Him
TTRPG Designer
All my stuff on Itch & DriveThru - https://radmad.itch.io/
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/16893/radmad-rpgs
TTRPG critique - https://radmad.substack.com/
TTRPG Designer
All my stuff on Itch & DriveThru - https://radmad.itch.io/
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/16893/radmad-rpgs
TTRPG critique - https://radmad.substack.com/
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Radmad
@radmad.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Well folks, unfortunately we did not hit our goals for the All the World's Prey Kickstarter. But don't worry! All the World's Prey will still be released! It just some more time to fully bloom.
Preliminary reports indicate he believes himself to be some kind of racecar driver under the alias Goggles Pisano
BRAZIL'S IMPRISONED FORMER PRESIDENT BOLSONARO BEING TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOR TESTS AFTER FALLING, HITTING HEAD, WIFE SAYS
January 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Preliminary reports indicate he believes himself to be some kind of racecar driver under the alias Goggles Pisano
Real sicko opinions over here - Porco Rosso
In honor of Hayao Miyazaki's birthday, what's your favorite Studio Ghibli film? Doesn't have to be the one you think is "the best," just the one that nestled in your heart. Mine is Howl's Moving Castle.
a painting of howl 's moving castle shows a cloudy night sky
Alt: a pixelated gif of Howl's Castle sitting on a hillside under an evening sky.
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Real sicko opinions over here - Porco Rosso
You can tell X-COM is a fantasy because when your paramilitary force fails to stop invading threats they reduce your funding.
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
You can tell X-COM is a fantasy because when your paramilitary force fails to stop invading threats they reduce your funding.
Is the world told to the players like a place they live in or a place they're visiting
A common refrain I see in TTRPG spaces is, “Why aren’t my players taking the setting and characters and plot hooks I made for them seriously? They prefer to make jokes!”
And I’m like… you have to give players a reason to care, not just things to care about.
And I’m like… you have to give players a reason to care, not just things to care about.
January 6, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Is the world told to the players like a place they live in or a place they're visiting
So Eclipsium is pretty cool huh
January 6, 2026 at 2:23 PM
So Eclipsium is pretty cool huh
"this just goes to show social media is bad", that's not true. Social media is a fruit fly speed reproduction of real life. This is what life looks like when every public org is infiltrated by people too lazy to manage communities.
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM
"this just goes to show social media is bad", that's not true. Social media is a fruit fly speed reproduction of real life. This is what life looks like when every public org is infiltrated by people too lazy to manage communities.
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New blog post! This one about the role played by (the lack of) games media in the tabletop RPG landscape: personable.blog/media-crowdf...
Crowdfunding and The Death of the Media
Reflecting on how the lack of a games press affects how games are funded.
personable.blog
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
New blog post! This one about the role played by (the lack of) games media in the tabletop RPG landscape: personable.blog/media-crowdf...
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The last and most important point of our manifesto. In our art, treat every person as real, even if they only exist for a fleeting moment.
January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
The last and most important point of our manifesto. In our art, treat every person as real, even if they only exist for a fleeting moment.
Do you guys hear yourselves talk
This and do your own laundry and do your own dishes like you were living alone really do negate out a lot of extra curricular pain points that are leaned into when a real fight happens. Take care of your own shit and don't leave it for someone else to do. People are disgusting in the bathroom.
One of the best things you can do for your marriage is not share a bathroom
January 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Do you guys hear yourselves talk
This fucking rules. I love it. A platoon of archers that enter tight corridors and don't look up, get ambushed, and then kill themselves. Aces. Pure art.
My favourite take on this, just in sheer absurdity, is the 2018 Robin Hood where the entire first act is shot like an Iraq War movie, complete with Saracens ambushing English longbowmen with automatic crossbow emplacements and shoulder fired scatterbows. It's such a pristine parody of the genre.
January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
This fucking rules. I love it. A platoon of archers that enter tight corridors and don't look up, get ambushed, and then kill themselves. Aces. Pure art.
Beast mode
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Beast mode
I'm a sick freak now I love the hardware store
one thing no one tells you about homeownership is how often you'll have to go to the hardware store to buy many, many fasters with minute size differences
January 5, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I'm a sick freak now I love the hardware store
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Re: games like neo-Tomb Raider and Last of Us, it's concerning the way exaggerated and fantastic kink has been ostracized while respectable, mainstream media has incorporated extremely realistic depictions of violence in a kink way.
No I love ryona and guro I just didn't expect to play a Lara* (I always think there's a U for some reason) Croft game and get the violent disembowlment and skull-crushing I was planning to enjoy in my spicier eroge. Just thought it was weird to do that in the reboot correcting evil sexism.
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Re: games like neo-Tomb Raider and Last of Us, it's concerning the way exaggerated and fantastic kink has been ostracized while respectable, mainstream media has incorporated extremely realistic depictions of violence in a kink way.
Picked Metaphor ReFantazio back up after the urging of a friend and now I'm hooked. Really makes me appreciate how poorly set up it is lol.
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Picked Metaphor ReFantazio back up after the urging of a friend and now I'm hooked. Really makes me appreciate how poorly set up it is lol.
This will move zero product with straight people, but it will move product.
Hey everyone take a look at this necklace I saw on Instagram that you fill with your partner’s jizz and wear around
January 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
This will move zero product with straight people, but it will move product.
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What if the intelligentsia had bad vibes
January 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
What if the intelligentsia had bad vibes
The thing about Torment Nexus post is that nobody wrote "Don't Build the Torment Nexus", they write books like "Life is Like a Torment Nexus" and then a bunch of people gape and gawk at the real life villains behaving like the villain in Life is Like a Torment Nexus.
January 5, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The thing about Torment Nexus post is that nobody wrote "Don't Build the Torment Nexus", they write books like "Life is Like a Torment Nexus" and then a bunch of people gape and gawk at the real life villains behaving like the villain in Life is Like a Torment Nexus.
Ozempic For Gamers was not on my 2026 bingo card
January 5, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Ozempic For Gamers was not on my 2026 bingo card
I would not indicate that the apartheid demon child has better media literacy than me in the paper of record.
January 5, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I would not indicate that the apartheid demon child has better media literacy than me in the paper of record.
This is a very difficult lesson to learn because the Big Elf Game does not care about making characters with goals.
Reframing my GM mindset from “challenge comes from threatening the PCs’ lives” to “challenge comes from threatening their goals” has made my experience at the table more fun.
The tension can come from the chance of them completing their goals rather than the possibility of death.
#ttrpg
The tension can come from the chance of them completing their goals rather than the possibility of death.
#ttrpg
January 5, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is a very difficult lesson to learn because the Big Elf Game does not care about making characters with goals.
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I want players to actually have to fucking PLAY the game theyre all meeting up and sitting around for hours to enjoy together, people are ALWAYS complaining about retaining player focus, but its mostly because TTRPGs hardly ask anything of the player beyond showing up and talking when asked to.
January 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I want players to actually have to fucking PLAY the game theyre all meeting up and sitting around for hours to enjoy together, people are ALWAYS complaining about retaining player focus, but its mostly because TTRPGs hardly ask anything of the player beyond showing up and talking when asked to.
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Autumnal Conductor, Outstanding Transfeminine Fantasy novel of 2025!
As well as earning multiple distinctions.
Get the sleeper hit that has trapped critics and the public in her Underworld.
cyberneticcoven.itch.io/autumnal-con...
As well as earning multiple distinctions.
Get the sleeper hit that has trapped critics and the public in her Underworld.
cyberneticcoven.itch.io/autumnal-con...
January 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Autumnal Conductor, Outstanding Transfeminine Fantasy novel of 2025!
As well as earning multiple distinctions.
Get the sleeper hit that has trapped critics and the public in her Underworld.
cyberneticcoven.itch.io/autumnal-con...
As well as earning multiple distinctions.
Get the sleeper hit that has trapped critics and the public in her Underworld.
cyberneticcoven.itch.io/autumnal-con...
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And my computer, my sole source of employment and income, just broke...
Well, if you like me and what i do, nows the time
$robinvbelle if u wanna be more direct. Ko-fi's got memberships and direct donations
Even if I just need to get a cheap chromebook, i need a computer to live
Well, if you like me and what i do, nows the time
$robinvbelle if u wanna be more direct. Ko-fi's got memberships and direct donations
Even if I just need to get a cheap chromebook, i need a computer to live
I'm a working artist escaping homelessness. If you like stories of weird worlds, impactful poems, inventive tabletop games, and more, consider checking it out and tipping.
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I'll get
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January 2, 2026 at 11:11 PM
And my computer, my sole source of employment and income, just broke...
Well, if you like me and what i do, nows the time
$robinvbelle if u wanna be more direct. Ko-fi's got memberships and direct donations
Even if I just need to get a cheap chromebook, i need a computer to live
Well, if you like me and what i do, nows the time
$robinvbelle if u wanna be more direct. Ko-fi's got memberships and direct donations
Even if I just need to get a cheap chromebook, i need a computer to live