Jo'lal to some
@firestorm-ink.com
melon; firestorm ink; chaos muppet; pleasantly average designer; And the only way to live it / is to hold on when you get love / and let go when you give it, give it ; d'eau
BEHEXT // We Used to Be Friends // Behind you!
firestormink.itch.io
BEHEXT // We Used to Be Friends // Behind you!
firestormink.itch.io
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@firestorm-ink.com
· Nov 13
@firestormink | Linktree
Game designer?
linktr.ee
Forgot to pin an old intro.
I'm Jonathan and I've been slowly designing games for 20+ years now. Started with a line license to CyberGeneration and have been publishing my own stuff through my own company or through others.
Recent games are We Used To Be Friends and BEHEXT
linktr.ee/firestormink
I'm Jonathan and I've been slowly designing games for 20+ years now. Started with a line license to CyberGeneration and have been publishing my own stuff through my own company or through others.
Recent games are We Used To Be Friends and BEHEXT
linktr.ee/firestormink
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Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
HAMILTON, ON - Local residents this morning report driving past an excitingly long lineup and assuming it was for a blowout Black Friday sale, before realizing that it was just a regular queue for a b...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Because it is @itch.io creator day you should check out my stuff on my page! I've got We Used To Be Friends, which is my collaborative teenage detective drama pbta game. I've got another collaborative horror game pbta called Behind You! and my funny fantasy game Critical!
firestormink.itch.io
firestormink.itch.io
Firestorm Ink
firestormink.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Because it is @itch.io creator day you should check out my stuff on my page! I've got We Used To Be Friends, which is my collaborative teenage detective drama pbta game. I've got another collaborative horror game pbta called Behind You! and my funny fantasy game Critical!
firestormink.itch.io
firestormink.itch.io
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Why go home when you and stay & play!? The Breakout hotel discount code is now live on the website! Get yours before February 18, 2026 (or while supplies last)!
breakoutcon.com/hotel-and-tr...
#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #boardgames #rpg #ttrpg #TTRPGcommunity #boardgamegeek
breakoutcon.com/hotel-and-tr...
#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #boardgames #rpg #ttrpg #TTRPGcommunity #boardgamegeek
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Why go home when you and stay & play!? The Breakout hotel discount code is now live on the website! Get yours before February 18, 2026 (or while supplies last)!
breakoutcon.com/hotel-and-tr...
#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #boardgames #rpg #ttrpg #TTRPGcommunity #boardgamegeek
breakoutcon.com/hotel-and-tr...
#breakoutcon #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #boardgames #rpg #ttrpg #TTRPGcommunity #boardgamegeek
Introducing myself with five concerts I’ve seen
Weird Al Yankovic
Michael Franti
Placebo
Baby Metal
The Halluci Nation
Weird Al Yankovic
Michael Franti
Placebo
Baby Metal
The Halluci Nation
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen.
Crooked Still
Toad the Wet Sprocket
The Cranberries
Natalie Merchant
Better Than Ezra
I’m mostly a 90s guy I guess
Crooked Still
Toad the Wet Sprocket
The Cranberries
Natalie Merchant
Better Than Ezra
I’m mostly a 90s guy I guess
Billy Joel
Chicago/Hall & Oates
Journey/Foreigner
Huey Lewis & the News
Great Big Sea
Chicago/Hall & Oates
Journey/Foreigner
Huey Lewis & the News
Great Big Sea
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Introducing myself with five concerts I’ve seen
Weird Al Yankovic
Michael Franti
Placebo
Baby Metal
The Halluci Nation
Weird Al Yankovic
Michael Franti
Placebo
Baby Metal
The Halluci Nation
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I am working hard to make the playmaps etc available outside of my local neighbourhood! If you are looking for my comics, The Beguiling ships internationally: beguilingbooks.com and if you want my games, 401 Games and Sword and Board have your back: store.401games.ca www.theswordandboardtoronto.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am working hard to make the playmaps etc available outside of my local neighbourhood! If you are looking for my comics, The Beguiling ships internationally: beguilingbooks.com and if you want my games, 401 Games and Sword and Board have your back: store.401games.ca www.theswordandboardtoronto.com
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Find my playmaps, comics, and more, at the Danforth Arts Market! 1856 Danforth Ave, in Toronto.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Find my playmaps, comics, and more, at the Danforth Arts Market! 1856 Danforth Ave, in Toronto.
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Alright, okay, little preview announcement: I am setting up shop in the Danforth Arts Market this winter!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Alright, okay, little preview announcement: I am setting up shop in the Danforth Arts Market this winter!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
I can't believe how excited I am to have a local storefront location! Still lots more art and books to come, but if you've been looking to grab a playmap, Toronto friends, you are IN LUCK!
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I love the practice of making games from the components of other games. My duet game, The Same Beach, uses Timeline cards.
paulczege.itch.io/the-same-beach
paulczege.itch.io/the-same-beach
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I love the practice of making games from the components of other games. My duet game, The Same Beach, uses Timeline cards.
paulczege.itch.io/the-same-beach
paulczege.itch.io/the-same-beach
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Outlining the newsletter for next week - surprise surprise, it's probably going to be another long one lmao mailchi.mp/3eea8c0e2287...
Owl Knight Newsletter
Semi-monthly TTRPG design updates
mailchi.mp
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Outlining the newsletter for next week - surprise surprise, it's probably going to be another long one lmao mailchi.mp/3eea8c0e2287...
Game design question. Designing initiative for a game we are using as a working title Quantum Plier and what sounds better?
One person who is directed by the GM to decide the initiative order and then competing rolls to determine how much the GM can mess around with the situation …
One person who is directed by the GM to decide the initiative order and then competing rolls to determine how much the GM can mess around with the situation …
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Game design question. Designing initiative for a game we are using as a working title Quantum Plier and what sounds better?
One person who is directed by the GM to decide the initiative order and then competing rolls to determine how much the GM can mess around with the situation …
One person who is directed by the GM to decide the initiative order and then competing rolls to determine how much the GM can mess around with the situation …
Posting twice because J am so glad that this game is being made. Get on the list to get updates on when it goes live!
Five Fires, my love letter TTRPG to 80s/90s hip-hop, is launching in February. Join us! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Get Ready for Five Fires
From Thoughtcrime Games LLC - Get Ready for Five Fires
www.backerkit.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Posting twice because J am so glad that this game is being made. Get on the list to get updates on when it goes live!
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Five Fires, my love letter TTRPG to 80s/90s hip-hop, is launching in February. Join us! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Get Ready for Five Fires
From Thoughtcrime Games LLC - Get Ready for Five Fires
www.backerkit.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Five Fires, my love letter TTRPG to 80s/90s hip-hop, is launching in February. Join us! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
In the 1988 game Hot Rod, if you buy a Chevy two door Styleline, strip it down and sell everything on it you can sell it on the market for any price.
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In the 1988 game Hot Rod, if you buy a Chevy two door Styleline, strip it down and sell everything on it you can sell it on the market for any price.
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ttrpgs rule becauese you can put a lot of work into studying a form and make intentional visual/artistic choices to comment on that form and fuck with it and youll get told its the easy way by some turbid-tongued cuntbag who thinks youre just making fatal 5e
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
ttrpgs rule becauese you can put a lot of work into studying a form and make intentional visual/artistic choices to comment on that form and fuck with it and youll get told its the easy way by some turbid-tongued cuntbag who thinks youre just making fatal 5e
I was walking through the woods and this person stopped me to ask for directions. It was easy enough so I explained where to go and they asked me for my name so they could thank me.
I gave it. They didn’t thank me. They smiled told me the only way to be free is to find their name in a TTRPG book.
I gave it. They didn’t thank me. They smiled told me the only way to be free is to find their name in a TTRPG book.
“How did you get into TTRPGs?”
Professor Utonium created me and two other chaos goblins in the lab using carbs, beer, and not enough fear, along with the accidental addition of Chemical TT-RPG
Professor Utonium created me and two other chaos goblins in the lab using carbs, beer, and not enough fear, along with the accidental addition of Chemical TT-RPG
"how did you get into TTRPGs"
Get into? I woke up like this. Woke up on a slab at the top of a castle tower, wired up to tanks full of dice and surrounded by stacks of AD&D and VtM splats. 35 years of roaming the earth and I still can't escape the need to make another roll table.
Get into? I woke up like this. Woke up on a slab at the top of a castle tower, wired up to tanks full of dice and surrounded by stacks of AD&D and VtM splats. 35 years of roaming the earth and I still can't escape the need to make another roll table.
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I was walking through the woods and this person stopped me to ask for directions. It was easy enough so I explained where to go and they asked me for my name so they could thank me.
I gave it. They didn’t thank me. They smiled told me the only way to be free is to find their name in a TTRPG book.
I gave it. They didn’t thank me. They smiled told me the only way to be free is to find their name in a TTRPG book.
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One significant technical difference you’ll notice between NFL Super Bowl games and CFL Grey Cup games is that if you watch a CFL Grey Cup game closely you can see the tiny extension cord for the block heater trailing behind the ball when it’s thrown.
Follow me for more pre-game insights like this.
Follow me for more pre-game insights like this.
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
One significant technical difference you’ll notice between NFL Super Bowl games and CFL Grey Cup games is that if you watch a CFL Grey Cup game closely you can see the tiny extension cord for the block heater trailing behind the ball when it’s thrown.
Follow me for more pre-game insights like this.
Follow me for more pre-game insights like this.
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You can play my latest game, In the Pines. It’s a PbtA horror game that’s like the Descent made out with The VVitch at Lilith Fair. Link: www.patreon.com/posts/127144...
In the Pines Play materials | sarahdoom
Get more from sarahdoom on Patreon
www.patreon.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
You can play my latest game, In the Pines. It’s a PbtA horror game that’s like the Descent made out with The VVitch at Lilith Fair. Link: www.patreon.com/posts/127144...
Because my RPG journey was weird I knew the name Mike Pondsmith before I knew the name Gary Gygax.
Started with Cyberpunk and CyberGen. Didn’t play D&D until 3e.
Started with Cyberpunk and CyberGen. Didn’t play D&D until 3e.
Conversation with @deadlyfredly.bsky.social has me trying to remember the first time I consciously remembered the name of an RPG designer who wasn’t Gygax. Embarrassingly, I am pretty sure it wasn’t until college, after I’d been playing for years and had been exposed to many games.
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Because my RPG journey was weird I knew the name Mike Pondsmith before I knew the name Gary Gygax.
Started with Cyberpunk and CyberGen. Didn’t play D&D until 3e.
Started with Cyberpunk and CyberGen. Didn’t play D&D until 3e.
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If say, like, just a thousand people bought just one of my games...
That would be great.
#SelfPromoSaturday
#TTRPGS
#IndieGames
That would be great.
#SelfPromoSaturday
#TTRPGS
#IndieGames
Since I just sold a copy (YAY!), I'm going to #SelfPromoSaturday what I think is my best named game:
Claws & Affect - Cats versus the Supernatural.
And "affect" is used correctly!
#ttrpgs #cats #IndieGames
kpetker.itch.io/claws-affect
Claws & Affect - Cats versus the Supernatural.
And "affect" is used correctly!
#ttrpgs #cats #IndieGames
kpetker.itch.io/claws-affect
Claws & Affect by K. Petker
Cats versus the Supernatural
kpetker.itch.io
September 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If say, like, just a thousand people bought just one of my games...
That would be great.
#SelfPromoSaturday
#TTRPGS
#IndieGames
That would be great.
#SelfPromoSaturday
#TTRPGS
#IndieGames
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WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
![Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gdife25rfr5drwr2nhncr3rf/bafkreidfgv3xytmgta3x35mjze22ojok7lwh3vlhgrcfbcwr7hjg6bb6eu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
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Coming up later tonight!
Do you love hockey? Do you consider yourself part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community or an ally? If you check both those boxes, do we have a treat for you! Tomorrow, November 12th at 10:30pm MST we'll have a LIVE STREAMED GAME between the Calgary Inclusive Hockey Associations' two teams Terra and Luna!
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Coming up later tonight!
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On some level, every RPG design is an argument for how things could be better. Few things motivate design like seeing another game and being inspired by what it could be, but is not.
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On some level, every RPG design is an argument for how things could be better. Few things motivate design like seeing another game and being inspired by what it could be, but is not.
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
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Anyone who thinks they need genai for comics should be FORCED to read thru the entirety of www.qwantz.com clockwork orange style before being allowed to make that call.
If Ryan North can drop 4000 copies of the *same* little dinosaurs you can just do some crayon drawings and get your ideas out
If Ryan North can drop 4000 copies of the *same* little dinosaurs you can just do some crayon drawings and get your ideas out
Dinosaur Comics!
but again, good thing that has never happened, particularly in MY case!!!!!!
www.qwantz.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Anyone who thinks they need genai for comics should be FORCED to read thru the entirety of www.qwantz.com clockwork orange style before being allowed to make that call.
If Ryan North can drop 4000 copies of the *same* little dinosaurs you can just do some crayon drawings and get your ideas out
If Ryan North can drop 4000 copies of the *same* little dinosaurs you can just do some crayon drawings and get your ideas out
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I SHOULD ALSO CLARIFY: trying to link up World of Darkness/Vampire the Masquerade storytellers!
ROLL CALL
If you’re a BIPOC Storyteller, please introduce yourself and tag others in the replies 😈🧛♂️
#vamily #vtm
If you’re a BIPOC Storyteller, please introduce yourself and tag others in the replies 😈🧛♂️
#vamily #vtm
a vampire is standing in a dark forest with trees in the background .
Alt: a vampire is standing in a dark forest with trees in the background, dispersing into bats
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I SHOULD ALSO CLARIFY: trying to link up World of Darkness/Vampire the Masquerade storytellers!
For local GTA RPG designers! You should come with me to Protospiel North! I know traditionally it is a board game playtest convention but I am to infiltrate it with RPGs!
jslack.lpages.co/protospiel-n...
jslack.lpages.co/protospiel-n...
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
For local GTA RPG designers! You should come with me to Protospiel North! I know traditionally it is a board game playtest convention but I am to infiltrate it with RPGs!
jslack.lpages.co/protospiel-n...
jslack.lpages.co/protospiel-n...