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HELLPIERCERS by Sandy Pug Games
Tactical Harrowing Action.
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HUMANITY BLEEDS FOR ITS DEAD
ASCEND AND BRING THE UNIVERSE WITH YOU
TACTICAL HARROWING ACTION
HELLPIERCERS is here!
Tactical battles, strategic map games, esoteric and mystifying secrets buried in the soulash.
Your time has come HELLPIERCERS. BREAK HELLS BARS!
sandypuggames.itch.io/hellpiercers
ASCEND AND BRING THE UNIVERSE WITH YOU
TACTICAL HARROWING ACTION
HELLPIERCERS is here!
Tactical battles, strategic map games, esoteric and mystifying secrets buried in the soulash.
Your time has come HELLPIERCERS. BREAK HELLS BARS!
sandypuggames.itch.io/hellpiercers
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Two soldiers from the Domekan garrison take it upon themselves to harass a local talisman peddler on the streets of Karazad. But more caution is in order- one who walks these haunted streets bare-faced may hold powerful magics of their own…
December 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Two soldiers from the Domekan garrison take it upon themselves to harass a local talisman peddler on the streets of Karazad. But more caution is in order- one who walks these haunted streets bare-faced may hold powerful magics of their own…
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trying to read augé and de certeau for worldbuilding game design and
December 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
trying to read augé and de certeau for worldbuilding game design and
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a city is an expressionist game
December 30, 2025 at 5:40 AM
a city is an expressionist game
prediction for 2026 is everyone gets into Taxi for no clear reason
December 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
prediction for 2026 is everyone gets into Taxi for no clear reason
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I DON'T WANT TO GO TO BED YET. SEND ME ASKS. IDEAS. RATE YOUR FAVOURITE FLOWERS BY HOW SLUTTY YOU FEEL THEY WOULD BE IF THEY WERE HUMANOID. DISCUSS GOBLIN.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I DON'T WANT TO GO TO BED YET. SEND ME ASKS. IDEAS. RATE YOUR FAVOURITE FLOWERS BY HOW SLUTTY YOU FEEL THEY WOULD BE IF THEY WERE HUMANOID. DISCUSS GOBLIN.
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This is such an outstanding impulse that, imo, identifies a unique material concern of our scene. We tackled this in Monster Care Squad with the Ald-Amura grant; we set $3k aside and dolled out grants of up to $300, low questions asked, to incentivize community engagement Might be worth considering!
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Profit Sharing pt 2: The other side of our "profit share" model is to give back to the community. We're also still figuring this out as well, but we will be finding ways to provide mutual aid and support to our community. We truly believe in a rising tide.
Profit Sharing pt 2: The other side of our "profit share" model is to give back to the community. We're also still figuring this out as well, but we will be finding ways to provide mutual aid and support to our community. We truly believe in a rising tide.
December 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is such an outstanding impulse that, imo, identifies a unique material concern of our scene. We tackled this in Monster Care Squad with the Ald-Amura grant; we set $3k aside and dolled out grants of up to $300, low questions asked, to incentivize community engagement Might be worth considering!
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Okay, so we're working on this with Infinite Citadel - we're doing a couple different things to make sure people get paid.
There is a lot I've been thinking about so, let's start this in a thread!
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There is a lot I've been thinking about so, let's start this in a thread!
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In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
December 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Okay, so we're working on this with Infinite Citadel - we're doing a couple different things to make sure people get paid.
There is a lot I've been thinking about so, let's start this in a thread!
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There is a lot I've been thinking about so, let's start this in a thread!
🧵 1/8
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Royalties are powerful things! A frequent discussion ttRPG writer space is how we could make the jump to full time. More royalty-based models like this would make it way easier!
In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Royalties are powerful things! A frequent discussion ttRPG writer space is how we could make the jump to full time. More royalty-based models like this would make it way easier!
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this year alone we sent out about $50k in royalties for triangle agency work ✌️if your games aren't making money for the people who made then why sell them at all
In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
December 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this year alone we sent out about $50k in royalties for triangle agency work ✌️if your games aren't making money for the people who made then why sell them at all
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Genuinely the royalties that I do receive are what help pay my bills, especially when freelance work is slow! It makes a huge difference
In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
December 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Genuinely the royalties that I do receive are what help pay my bills, especially when freelance work is slow! It makes a huge difference
You might consider, in ttrpgs we all earn so little that this kind of thing doesn't matter; you sending a friend $19.17 every 6 months isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but the goal is bigger than that, it's about setting standards. You do this, I do this, in 10 years? Everyone does this.
We're always refining, but the SPG Royalty Process shakes out like this; We ask everyone to keep rough track of how many hours they spend on work, and how that time is spent across pieces of work. If someone struggles with this, we ask them to estimate it at the end of the project.
Would love to hear more about it!
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
You might consider, in ttrpgs we all earn so little that this kind of thing doesn't matter; you sending a friend $19.17 every 6 months isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but the goal is bigger than that, it's about setting standards. You do this, I do this, in 10 years? Everyone does this.
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We're pretty much settled (barring future changes) on how we did this for How To GM Romance and this is what we came up with.
The breakdown of artists is by shares based on image size/complexity and everyone else is an even split of each category a person contributed to.
I wanna keep doing this.
The breakdown of artists is by shares based on image size/complexity and everyone else is an even split of each category a person contributed to.
I wanna keep doing this.
December 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We're pretty much settled (barring future changes) on how we did this for How To GM Romance and this is what we came up with.
The breakdown of artists is by shares based on image size/complexity and everyone else is an even split of each category a person contributed to.
I wanna keep doing this.
The breakdown of artists is by shares based on image size/complexity and everyone else is an even split of each category a person contributed to.
I wanna keep doing this.
We're always refining, but the SPG Royalty Process shakes out like this; We ask everyone to keep rough track of how many hours they spend on work, and how that time is spent across pieces of work. If someone struggles with this, we ask them to estimate it at the end of the project.
Would love to hear more about it!
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We're always refining, but the SPG Royalty Process shakes out like this; We ask everyone to keep rough track of how many hours they spend on work, and how that time is spent across pieces of work. If someone struggles with this, we ask them to estimate it at the end of the project.
In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
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they're trying to remake this creature through bulldog breeding
Since Dinanomodon guoi is only known from a compele cranium, I using Turfanodon jiufengensis (a close-reletive taxon of Dinanomodon) as a reference to reconstruct its postcranial region.
December 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
they're trying to remake this creature through bulldog breeding
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in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake
December 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake
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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.
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shoutout to the brave ttrpg warriors engineering complex new opinions designed in a lab to render them universally unlikeable
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
shoutout to the brave ttrpg warriors engineering complex new opinions designed in a lab to render them universally unlikeable
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Watched STRANGE DAYS (1995) for the first time, what a goddamn film!!! Angela Bassett!!!!
December 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Watched STRANGE DAYS (1995) for the first time, what a goddamn film!!! Angela Bassett!!!!
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hyping the fuck out of your friends and being nice is fun and feels good to do. there's sometimes benefits but that's never why i do it i just want to see people i think are cool succeed and i weirdly have a great way to platform them
December 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
hyping the fuck out of your friends and being nice is fun and feels good to do. there's sometimes benefits but that's never why i do it i just want to see people i think are cool succeed and i weirdly have a great way to platform them
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Also I discovered Nestflix, a site that catalogs fictional movies and TV shows, and it's kinda amazing. nestflix.fun
Nestflix
A platform for fictional films and shows within other films and shows.
nestflix.fun
December 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Also I discovered Nestflix, a site that catalogs fictional movies and TV shows, and it's kinda amazing. nestflix.fun
slapping one more fat dub on the wall before the year's out.
December 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
slapping one more fat dub on the wall before the year's out.
fuck all of y'all i'm going in the portal
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
fuck all of y'all i'm going in the portal
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Starting tomorrow I am going to be releasing my most ambitious, longest, most earnest shitpost TTRPG yet.
Every day in December I will be sharing one prompt from the Wild Magic Advanced 2e table - which will then be available in its entirety for free download on my itchio January 1.
Every day in December I will be sharing one prompt from the Wild Magic Advanced 2e table - which will then be available in its entirety for free download on my itchio January 1.
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Starting tomorrow I am going to be releasing my most ambitious, longest, most earnest shitpost TTRPG yet.
Every day in December I will be sharing one prompt from the Wild Magic Advanced 2e table - which will then be available in its entirety for free download on my itchio January 1.
Every day in December I will be sharing one prompt from the Wild Magic Advanced 2e table - which will then be available in its entirety for free download on my itchio January 1.