Eric Faber 🚀🐖
@airborneham.bsky.social
Game Designer in a tiny town on the shores of Lake Superior. LARPs, TTRPGs, Board Games, Party Games, Trivia, Comedy, etc.
www.airborneham.games
airbornehamgames-at-gmail.com
www.airborneham.games
airbornehamgames-at-gmail.com
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Eric Faber 🚀🐖
@airborneham.bsky.social
· Nov 27
ttrpgs: airborneham.itch.io
website: www.airborneham.games
articles: airborneham.substack.com
larp: www.dystopiarisingwi.com
website: www.airborneham.games
articles: airborneham.substack.com
larp: www.dystopiarisingwi.com
Love an October horror bundle. This is a great value for a pile of great games.
🎃 Happy Halloween you freaks, I made a discounted bundle of digital horror ttrpgs for ya itch.io/s/161155/hal...
🧛🏼♀️ You can also use the code SCAREDSTUPID for 15% off orders over $31 at Worldchamp.io/store all of October.
🧛🏼♀️ You can also use the code SCAREDSTUPID for 15% off orders over $31 at Worldchamp.io/store all of October.
Halloween 2025 by World Champ Game Co.
A bundle by World Champ Game Co., $25.00 for 7 games
itch.io
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Love an October horror bundle. This is a great value for a pile of great games.
It's October, so it's time for folks to break out the #spooky games & #horror #ttrpgs. If you haven't yet, give The Last Hand a shot for a poker-driven take on the Play-To-Lose horror experience. You have to cooperate to play, but only the winning hand survives:
airborneham.itch.io/the-last-hand
airborneham.itch.io/the-last-hand
The Last Hand by AirborneHam
A GM-less storytelling RPG about escaping an unknown creature and prioritizing your survival in the final scene.
airborneham.itch.io
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's October, so it's time for folks to break out the #spooky games & #horror #ttrpgs. If you haven't yet, give The Last Hand a shot for a poker-driven take on the Play-To-Lose horror experience. You have to cooperate to play, but only the winning hand survives:
airborneham.itch.io/the-last-hand
airborneham.itch.io/the-last-hand
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
This is really important and not thought about enough. Even games that say "everyone is a player" still use terms like "NPC" and "the GM has the final say" and such which are fine short-hands because we all know that already, but does convey an implicit authority that influences play at the table.
"The GM is a neutral referee and not a player" is a holdover from wargaming, and still visible in language like "NPC" - not a player character.
And, look, I think there's value in that paradigm, but I also think many games have inherited the rhetorical clutter, not the value.
And, look, I think there's value in that paradigm, but I also think many games have inherited the rhetorical clutter, not the value.
September 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is really important and not thought about enough. Even games that say "everyone is a player" still use terms like "NPC" and "the GM has the final say" and such which are fine short-hands because we all know that already, but does convey an implicit authority that influences play at the table.
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You can just make character sheets for games that don’t exist. It’s free and no-one stops you
September 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You can just make character sheets for games that don’t exist. It’s free and no-one stops you
I'm glad I finally got to play @felixisaacs.bsky.social's Wildsea to unlock the FitD design space I needed to keep working on Odd Army. Lots of great ideas in that book.
September 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm glad I finally got to play @felixisaacs.bsky.social's Wildsea to unlock the FitD design space I needed to keep working on Odd Army. Lots of great ideas in that book.
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And that's a wrap on the playbook openers. Choose your poison.
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
And that's a wrap on the playbook openers. Choose your poison.
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Deciding to move my fulfillment/e-commerce to Plus One/Brandfox after the Bloodfields campaign saw me not getting any $ from sales for 9 months, lost ~500 zines, & took months to get my things out of a warehouse to my current, far better partner. Plus, I even lost 25% of sales for the great service!
Long read: For around one year, indie publisher Plus One Exp operated as a business unit within a shipping and warehousing company called Brandfox. They worked with Possum Creek Games, Stockholm Kartell, among others. It was disastrous for almost everyone involved.
www.rascal.news/plus-one-exp...
www.rascal.news/plus-one-exp...
Plus One Exp's Brandfox Saga
A tragic story of RPGs, facial hair, religion, and third-party logistics.
www.rascal.news
September 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Deciding to move my fulfillment/e-commerce to Plus One/Brandfox after the Bloodfields campaign saw me not getting any $ from sales for 9 months, lost ~500 zines, & took months to get my things out of a warehouse to my current, far better partner. Plus, I even lost 25% of sales for the great service!
This is the article that finally got me to be a subscriber. I love the work Rascal does and the kind of investigative journalism in our small industry. I've been meaning to sign up for a while and this was a good reason to give them money today.
Long read: For around one year, indie publisher Plus One Exp operated as a business unit within a shipping and warehousing company called Brandfox. They worked with Possum Creek Games, Stockholm Kartell, among others. It was disastrous for almost everyone involved.
www.rascal.news/plus-one-exp...
www.rascal.news/plus-one-exp...
Plus One Exp's Brandfox Saga
A tragic story of RPGs, facial hair, religion, and third-party logistics.
www.rascal.news
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is the article that finally got me to be a subscriber. I love the work Rascal does and the kind of investigative journalism in our small industry. I've been meaning to sign up for a while and this was a good reason to give them money today.
This was sitting on top of my library's new books getting stocked today. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This was sitting on top of my library's new books getting stocked today. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
This is super cool. The Last Hand has had 1 review ever, and that person is the coolest person in the world.
Award nominations are cool.
But you know what's even cooler?
Leaving 5 star ratings for games on itch.
But you know what's even cooler?
Leaving 5 star ratings for games on itch.
April 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is super cool. The Last Hand has had 1 review ever, and that person is the coolest person in the world.
Playing another game of Oath by @leder.games. Lost my seat as Chancellor last game and now my lil eyeball guy has to try and take back the scepter. Or, my real plan, get exiled and revolt against my own empire.
March 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Playing another game of Oath by @leder.games. Lost my seat as Chancellor last game and now my lil eyeball guy has to try and take back the scepter. Or, my real plan, get exiled and revolt against my own empire.
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Andor (2022)
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
March 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Andor (2022)
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
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Sci-fi and fantasy settings are always like "The defining trait of humans is their adaptability and perseverance" but I'm beginning to think the defining trait of humans is superstition and willingness to believe in conspiracy theories.
March 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Sci-fi and fantasy settings are always like "The defining trait of humans is their adaptability and perseverance" but I'm beginning to think the defining trait of humans is superstition and willingness to believe in conspiracy theories.
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chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
March 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
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This is the story of Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian entrepreneur who was detained at the San Diego border while attempting to renew a US work visa. She spoke fluent English, had a Canadian passport, lawyers, and media attention. And was still in jail for two weeks.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is the story of Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian entrepreneur who was detained at the San Diego border while attempting to renew a US work visa. She spoke fluent English, had a Canadian passport, lawyers, and media attention. And was still in jail for two weeks.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I can't stop thinking about that big Joel video and how much better of game designers we all are than Mr Jimmy
March 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about that big Joel video and how much better of game designers we all are than Mr Jimmy
The honest game designer
I was brainstorming some game ideas last night that were getting me excited and let me tell you whatever game I make next is going to be absolute dogshit
March 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The honest game designer
@bigjoel.bsky.social new video about Beast Games is a great dive into how good or bad game design can make good or bad TV. While watching I can help but compare it to @samreich.bsky.social and @gamechangershow.bsky.social and how much better Dropout is at making a game show
youtu.be/SaiMNBpN9Yw?...
youtu.be/SaiMNBpN9Yw?...
Beast Games: An Autopsy
YouTube video by Big Joel
youtu.be
March 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@bigjoel.bsky.social new video about Beast Games is a great dive into how good or bad game design can make good or bad TV. While watching I can help but compare it to @samreich.bsky.social and @gamechangershow.bsky.social and how much better Dropout is at making a game show
youtu.be/SaiMNBpN9Yw?...
youtu.be/SaiMNBpN9Yw?...
Part partner got her job at the Forest Service reinstated, back pay for the time she wasn't working, and is now being paid on indefinite paid leave while they figure out how to actually get them back to work or fire them legally. So she got the most stressful paid vacation.
Efficient.
Efficient.
March 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Part partner got her job at the Forest Service reinstated, back pay for the time she wasn't working, and is now being paid on indefinite paid leave while they figure out how to actually get them back to work or fire them legally. So she got the most stressful paid vacation.
Efficient.
Efficient.
1. A made up "roll a d6 to see what happens" game in middle school.
2. That same "roll a d6" game with no other rules and all vibe.
3. Probably World of Darkness/Changeling/Mage at this point
4. Blades/Forged in the Dark maybe?
5. Probably Forged in the Dark games.
6. Changeling
7. The Last Hand?
2. That same "roll a d6" game with no other rules and all vibe.
3. Probably World of Darkness/Changeling/Mage at this point
4. Blades/Forged in the Dark maybe?
5. Probably Forged in the Dark games.
6. Changeling
7. The Last Hand?
1. First #ttrpg you ever played?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
March 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
1. A made up "roll a d6 to see what happens" game in middle school.
2. That same "roll a d6" game with no other rules and all vibe.
3. Probably World of Darkness/Changeling/Mage at this point
4. Blades/Forged in the Dark maybe?
5. Probably Forged in the Dark games.
6. Changeling
7. The Last Hand?
2. That same "roll a d6" game with no other rules and all vibe.
3. Probably World of Darkness/Changeling/Mage at this point
4. Blades/Forged in the Dark maybe?
5. Probably Forged in the Dark games.
6. Changeling
7. The Last Hand?
Oh no
The scope-creeper would like to know if that project you're working on could maybe needs to be scaled back a bit? Perhaps you could add those extra features as an update or supplemental material? Just sayin'.
March 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh no
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Wild how Shadowrun today feels like an optimistic alternate future. Native Americans gain independence from the U.S. government? A benevolent dragon becomes the president and governs by suicide? People still communicate primarily through message boards? Sign me the fuck up.
March 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Wild how Shadowrun today feels like an optimistic alternate future. Native Americans gain independence from the U.S. government? A benevolent dragon becomes the president and governs by suicide? People still communicate primarily through message boards? Sign me the fuck up.
Making change logs to my fake sport rules in my LARP.
March 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Making change logs to my fake sport rules in my LARP.