RJ Lackie
@rjlackie.com
Writer @ Epic Games. Screenwriter. Emerging tabletop RPG designer. Gay as hell, broken in a fundamental but amusing way, and trying his best to make you laugh and/or cry.
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RJ Lackie
@rjlackie.com
· Sep 4
RJ Lackie's Into the Portal
Thoughts, stories and ideas from a budding TTRPG designer.
www.rjlackie.com
Heyo! I’m RJ, a game writer, screenwriter and burgeoning self-taught TTRPG designer who’s three years into a grand adventure at Epic Games. I’m gay as fuck, very friendly, and a barely-functioning human being with a general addiction to yearning.
You can find my TTRPG ramblings at Into the Portal.
You can find my TTRPG ramblings at Into the Portal.
Cozy holidays, folks! 💫
December 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Cozy holidays, folks! 💫
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Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1.
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games
A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.
bannerless.games
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1.
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
Grab, play, share, enjoy.
bannerless.games/voidam
bannerless.games/ntm
bannerless.games/lighthouse
bannerless.games/wayfarer1
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Merry Community-Copy-mas
(50 added on all my games, go nuts)
(50 added on all my games, go nuts)
Elliot Davis
moreblueberries.itch.io
December 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Merry Community-Copy-mas
(50 added on all my games, go nuts)
(50 added on all my games, go nuts)
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Actually if someone has a nice atmospheric shot of flooded modern city ruins / a subway especially that would also serve.
Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Actually if someone has a nice atmospheric shot of flooded modern city ruins / a subway especially that would also serve.
Currently reading my way through ttrpg BAND OF BLADES, small chunk at a time, and it is *really* cool. Military fantasy is an intriguing genre, and to fulfill it the game builds out interesting worldbuilding and some very neat mechanics on its FitD base.
December 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Currently reading my way through ttrpg BAND OF BLADES, small chunk at a time, and it is *really* cool. Military fantasy is an intriguing genre, and to fulfill it the game builds out interesting worldbuilding and some very neat mechanics on its FitD base.
Happy holidays folks! I’m relishing my chance to wear some of my fanciness.
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Happy holidays folks! I’m relishing my chance to wear some of my fanciness.
Ten games I want to make/playtest/finish in 2026:
- The Box
- Story Builders
- Eternal
- Devil’s Hollow
- Unbecoming
- Junker’s Peace
- Decades
- Service
- Unwelcome
- Worst Night
If I can get all of these drafted, playtested and revised by end of next year, I will feel like a GOD.
- The Box
- Story Builders
- Eternal
- Devil’s Hollow
- Unbecoming
- Junker’s Peace
- Decades
- Service
- Unwelcome
- Worst Night
If I can get all of these drafted, playtested and revised by end of next year, I will feel like a GOD.
No way I could make ten games in 2026. No way you'd play ten if I made them. But if you're most excited about any of these tell me and maybe shift my order making them?
- Feast of Life and Still Alife
- Onsen With the Moms
- Road Trip
- The Marriages of Lucy Alcott
- To Throw and Be Thrown
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- Feast of Life and Still Alife
- Onsen With the Moms
- Road Trip
- The Marriages of Lucy Alcott
- To Throw and Be Thrown
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10 Games I want to make/finish in 2026. And yes, feel free to ask questions!
- Blood Begets Blood
- Little Wanderer
- The Ruined Land
- Legendary Pro Wrestling
- Get In The Robot, Kid
- Mästare
- You’ll Never Know Me, I’ll Never Know You
- The Last Guardian
- Witch’s Brew
- Deified
- Blood Begets Blood
- Little Wanderer
- The Ruined Land
- Legendary Pro Wrestling
- Get In The Robot, Kid
- Mästare
- You’ll Never Know Me, I’ll Never Know You
- The Last Guardian
- Witch’s Brew
- Deified
December 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ten games I want to make/playtest/finish in 2026:
- The Box
- Story Builders
- Eternal
- Devil’s Hollow
- Unbecoming
- Junker’s Peace
- Decades
- Service
- Unwelcome
- Worst Night
If I can get all of these drafted, playtested and revised by end of next year, I will feel like a GOD.
- The Box
- Story Builders
- Eternal
- Devil’s Hollow
- Unbecoming
- Junker’s Peace
- Decades
- Service
- Unwelcome
- Worst Night
If I can get all of these drafted, playtested and revised by end of next year, I will feel like a GOD.
Dipped back into Anomaly Collapse. That game is so fucking good. I really like the free new character they added via DLC, and hope they do more of that... and I'd kill for a sequel.
December 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Dipped back into Anomaly Collapse. That game is so fucking good. I really like the free new character they added via DLC, and hope they do more of that... and I'd kill for a sequel.
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Warning signs for recession have been flashing all year, says Rob Fahey, but the US sales slump is the starkest sign yet of how vulnerable the industry’s narrow focus has made it.
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
November’s data shows gaming struggling to reach beyond the core | Opinion
Warning signs have been flashing all year, but the US sales slump is the starkest sign yet of how vulnerable the industry’s narrow focus has made it.
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Warning signs for recession have been flashing all year, says Rob Fahey, but the US sales slump is the starkest sign yet of how vulnerable the industry’s narrow focus has made it.
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
www.gamesindustry.biz/novembers-da...
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the universal gamer experience of stumbling across a lore tidbit that makes you say out loud “ @rjlackie.com when I find you……. @rjlackie.com it’s on sight………”
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
the universal gamer experience of stumbling across a lore tidbit that makes you say out loud “ @rjlackie.com when I find you……. @rjlackie.com it’s on sight………”
Things I want to do in a two week break:
- Finish all my video games
- Finish drafting all my projects
- Write multiple blog posts
- Read all my bluesky bookmarks
- Read all my books
- Read all the TTRPGs in my collection
- Catch up on Critical Role & other APs
- Rest & relax
Clearly, very doable.
- Finish all my video games
- Finish drafting all my projects
- Write multiple blog posts
- Read all my bluesky bookmarks
- Read all my books
- Read all the TTRPGs in my collection
- Catch up on Critical Role & other APs
- Rest & relax
Clearly, very doable.
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Things I want to do in a two week break:
- Finish all my video games
- Finish drafting all my projects
- Write multiple blog posts
- Read all my bluesky bookmarks
- Read all my books
- Read all the TTRPGs in my collection
- Catch up on Critical Role & other APs
- Rest & relax
Clearly, very doable.
- Finish all my video games
- Finish drafting all my projects
- Write multiple blog posts
- Read all my bluesky bookmarks
- Read all my books
- Read all the TTRPGs in my collection
- Catch up on Critical Role & other APs
- Rest & relax
Clearly, very doable.
Don’t half-ass two things. Half-ass approximately seventy-six things.
- Me, apparently
- Me, apparently
a man with a mustache is sitting at a table and saying `` i regret nothing . ''
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting at a table and saying `` i regret nothing . ''
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Don’t half-ass two things. Half-ass approximately seventy-six things.
- Me, apparently
- Me, apparently
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Ha… for this moment at least, both of the highest rated individual episodes of television on IMDB were written by Canadians.
Moira Walley-Beckett and Jacob Tierney.
Moira Walley-Beckett and Jacob Tierney.
December 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ha… for this moment at least, both of the highest rated individual episodes of television on IMDB were written by Canadians.
Moira Walley-Beckett and Jacob Tierney.
Moira Walley-Beckett and Jacob Tierney.
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I propose the widespread replacement of "themselves" with "theirself" when referencing an individual.
We're using the singular "them", but the plural "selves" in "themselves", which is unnecessary and nonsensical. The singular "their" should be paired with the singular "self", hence, "theirself".
We're using the singular "them", but the plural "selves" in "themselves", which is unnecessary and nonsensical. The singular "their" should be paired with the singular "self", hence, "theirself".
December 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I propose the widespread replacement of "themselves" with "theirself" when referencing an individual.
We're using the singular "them", but the plural "selves" in "themselves", which is unnecessary and nonsensical. The singular "their" should be paired with the singular "self", hence, "theirself".
We're using the singular "them", but the plural "selves" in "themselves", which is unnecessary and nonsensical. The singular "their" should be paired with the singular "self", hence, "theirself".
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Ryan Coogler's script for #Sinners and more 2025 screenplays are now available to download for free.
thefilmstage.com/download-the...
thefilmstage.com/download-the...
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Ryan Coogler's script for #Sinners and more 2025 screenplays are now available to download for free.
thefilmstage.com/download-the...
thefilmstage.com/download-the...
The only way this can scale forever is you send every player their own little board. Very Seven Part Pact.
A Pactlike, if you will.
A Pactlike, if you will.
a boardgame that does, genuinely, work for any number of players
December 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The only way this can scale forever is you send every player their own little board. Very Seven Part Pact.
A Pactlike, if you will.
A Pactlike, if you will.
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- sword
- blade
- foil
- slicer
- ol’ feller (IP collab with Old Yeller movie)
- glaive???
- intermission to fight with @rjlackie.com over what a glaive is
- pokey sharpy guy
- spaghetti axe
- sword 2
- find out hard lock was 2 days ago and we have to ask for a loc hotfix now
- yay we made a game!
- blade
- foil
- slicer
- ol’ feller (IP collab with Old Yeller movie)
- glaive???
- intermission to fight with @rjlackie.com over what a glaive is
- pokey sharpy guy
- spaghetti axe
- sword 2
- find out hard lock was 2 days ago and we have to ask for a loc hotfix now
- yay we made a game!
When you have to name 9 swords before content lock
game development
December 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
- sword
- blade
- foil
- slicer
- ol’ feller (IP collab with Old Yeller movie)
- glaive???
- intermission to fight with @rjlackie.com over what a glaive is
- pokey sharpy guy
- spaghetti axe
- sword 2
- find out hard lock was 2 days ago and we have to ask for a loc hotfix now
- yay we made a game!
- blade
- foil
- slicer
- ol’ feller (IP collab with Old Yeller movie)
- glaive???
- intermission to fight with @rjlackie.com over what a glaive is
- pokey sharpy guy
- spaghetti axe
- sword 2
- find out hard lock was 2 days ago and we have to ask for a loc hotfix now
- yay we made a game!
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When you have to name 9 swords before content lock
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
When you have to name 9 swords before content lock
This remains my favourite short story I’ve ever read, by a fair margin, and owns property in my brain.
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This remains my favourite short story I’ve ever read, by a fair margin, and owns property in my brain.
Watched the new ep.
I repeat my prayer.
I repeat my prayer.
Watched the new Heated Rivalry, and I would like to thank the gods for François Arnaud.
a hockey player wearing a bauer helmet holds a stick
ALT: a hockey player wearing a bauer helmet holds a stick
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Watched the new ep.
I repeat my prayer.
I repeat my prayer.
A genie that allows you basically infinite wishes, as long as they contribute to your three overall macro-wishes.
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A genie that allows you basically infinite wishes, as long as they contribute to your three overall macro-wishes.
This year has felt, for me as a creator, like a transition year. I finally moved my blog. I got a bunch of smaller TTRPG projects drafted and into the world. A project I love that I thought was dead is stubbornly alive. I’ve written work I’m proud of. Did things that scared me. I feel… movement.
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This year has felt, for me as a creator, like a transition year. I finally moved my blog. I got a bunch of smaller TTRPG projects drafted and into the world. A project I love that I thought was dead is stubbornly alive. I’ve written work I’m proud of. Did things that scared me. I feel… movement.
As someone who straddles the video game and TTRPG communities, who already both tend to use ‘game’ on here to only mean their type of game with no recognition of how confusing that is:
You are trying to kill me.
You are trying to kill me.
Where did the movement to call RPGs "TTRPGs" start? How can I fight them?
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
As someone who straddles the video game and TTRPG communities, who already both tend to use ‘game’ on here to only mean their type of game with no recognition of how confusing that is:
You are trying to kill me.
You are trying to kill me.