Thomas M, Full-time Rascal
@newmadras.bsky.social
He/him. Journalist at Rascal News. Interested in the art, history, and science of games. Makes the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indied Podcast. notrueindian@outlook.com
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Indie RPG Newsletter: ttrpg.in
Yes Indie'd Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/yes...
Rascal News: www.rascal.news/author/thoma...
Itch store: newmadras.itch.io
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Indie RPG Newsletter: ttrpg.in
Yes Indie'd Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/yes...
Rascal News: www.rascal.news/author/thoma...
Itch store: newmadras.itch.io
Email in bio!
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Remember this?
Following up: I'm open for business
If you need a new blog/portfolio/e-commerce/project management tool hit me up, or book a call!
I love to build lightweight and fast websites.
Here's my portfolio.
ateliereffe.com
Reposts appreciated: ❤️
Following up: I'm open for business
If you need a new blog/portfolio/e-commerce/project management tool hit me up, or book a call!
I love to build lightweight and fast websites.
Here's my portfolio.
ateliereffe.com
Reposts appreciated: ❤️
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Remember this?
Following up: I'm open for business
If you need a new blog/portfolio/e-commerce/project management tool hit me up, or book a call!
I love to build lightweight and fast websites.
Here's my portfolio.
ateliereffe.com
Reposts appreciated: ❤️
Following up: I'm open for business
If you need a new blog/portfolio/e-commerce/project management tool hit me up, or book a call!
I love to build lightweight and fast websites.
Here's my portfolio.
ateliereffe.com
Reposts appreciated: ❤️
me, on social media: everyone is buying stuff, should i be buying more stuff
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
me, on social media: everyone is buying stuff, should i be buying more stuff
my dream is to quotepost someone with a picture and a speech bubble so as to recast the original post in a new, truer voice and thus earn the admiration of my peers
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
my dream is to quotepost someone with a picture and a speech bubble so as to recast the original post in a new, truer voice and thus earn the admiration of my peers
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A lovely review of RiverBank in ttrpgfans.com! "Kij Johnson and Kobold Press have created something quietly revolutionary: a game about manners as mechanics and chaos as comedy." 19/20! #riverbankrpg
Kobold Press' RiverBank RPG (Deep Dive & Review)
We offer our take on Kobold Press' "Riverbank RPG," a new critter-filled, cottagecore game of manners and mischief inspired by The Wind in the Willows.
ttrpgfans.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A lovely review of RiverBank in ttrpgfans.com! "Kij Johnson and Kobold Press have created something quietly revolutionary: a game about manners as mechanics and chaos as comedy." 19/20! #riverbankrpg
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Last Kiss crowdfunding campaign is LIVE www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
My new TTRPG from Luck of the Harbor is here! Get the Quickstart right away! Please come join me for this. I have never been more excited about a game I worked on. I have never cared more.
I truly think you will love it!
My new TTRPG from Luck of the Harbor is here! Get the Quickstart right away! Please come join me for this. I have never been more excited about a game I worked on. I have never cared more.
I truly think you will love it!
Last Kiss
Ever feel like the world is out to get you? It is.
A TTRPG of unheroic teens facing down the end of the inevitable world. You're the main character, with all the misery that entails. How will you mak...
www.backerkit.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Last Kiss crowdfunding campaign is LIVE www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
My new TTRPG from Luck of the Harbor is here! Get the Quickstart right away! Please come join me for this. I have never been more excited about a game I worked on. I have never cared more.
I truly think you will love it!
My new TTRPG from Luck of the Harbor is here! Get the Quickstart right away! Please come join me for this. I have never been more excited about a game I worked on. I have never cared more.
I truly think you will love it!
Really fun interview with @thornandkey.com about her experience presenting a game at a cool event!
Alanna Yeo spoke to Rascal about Nazogaku, a celebration of Japan's puzzle-like games that take advantage of real-life spaces.
This year's "Final Last Nazogaku" pitted a censorious organizing committee against a grassroots resistance of mystery lovers.
This year's "Final Last Nazogaku" pitted a censorious organizing committee against a grassroots resistance of mystery lovers.
Solving secret puzzles at the Japanese mystery school
Alanna Yeo talks nazo, design cultures, and her unique ARG-style experience at Nazogaku.
www.rascal.news
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Really fun interview with @thornandkey.com about her experience presenting a game at a cool event!
youtu.be/yHpy7lBsBCk?...
Video about solo journalling games that hit 96k views thanks to the whims of lord algorithm. Comments are great, people discovering then for the first time.
@ickbat.bsky.social, you're on here.
Video about solo journalling games that hit 96k views thanks to the whims of lord algorithm. Comments are great, people discovering then for the first time.
@ickbat.bsky.social, you're on here.
Solo journaling rpgs, writing, and YOU! They're awesome!
YouTube video by Michael Regina
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
youtu.be/yHpy7lBsBCk?...
Video about solo journalling games that hit 96k views thanks to the whims of lord algorithm. Comments are great, people discovering then for the first time.
@ickbat.bsky.social, you're on here.
Video about solo journalling games that hit 96k views thanks to the whims of lord algorithm. Comments are great, people discovering then for the first time.
@ickbat.bsky.social, you're on here.
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Four more days of funding! ⏳
If you like:
- struggling against the patriarchy of 1815's Bavaria
- grieving your beautiful friend's disappearance
- chambermaids
- slacking on your job to investigate an occult mystery
Then check out The Girls of the Genziana Hotel: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
If you like:
- struggling against the patriarchy of 1815's Bavaria
- grieving your beautiful friend's disappearance
- chambermaids
- slacking on your job to investigate an occult mystery
Then check out The Girls of the Genziana Hotel: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Four more days of funding! ⏳
If you like:
- struggling against the patriarchy of 1815's Bavaria
- grieving your beautiful friend's disappearance
- chambermaids
- slacking on your job to investigate an occult mystery
Then check out The Girls of the Genziana Hotel: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
If you like:
- struggling against the patriarchy of 1815's Bavaria
- grieving your beautiful friend's disappearance
- chambermaids
- slacking on your job to investigate an occult mystery
Then check out The Girls of the Genziana Hotel: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"
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Hi, I'm Seng, I offer digital B&W/ full-colour TTRPG/RPG/fantasy characters/monsters comm art service on Ko-fi, seeking freelance card/ board game art project & sell POD merch on RB.
I'm thankful for you hosting this artshare & that Bluesky & everyone on it exists.
🙏4️⃣🏷 @chronixmakes.bsky.social
I'm thankful for you hosting this artshare & that Bluesky & everyone on it exists.
🙏4️⃣🏷 @chronixmakes.bsky.social
Hi I’m a freelance artist who enjoy creating #digitalart of #ttrpg #rpg #fantasy character/ monster. I offer commission art service on Ko-fi.
You can get yours at:
ko-fi.com/c/174d870a15
🔁+❤️+💬 are most welcomed 🙏
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#rtcart #dnd #dndart #art #illustration #characterdesign #bskyart #commissionopen
You can get yours at:
ko-fi.com/c/174d870a15
🔁+❤️+💬 are most welcomed 🙏
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#rtcart #dnd #dndart #art #illustration #characterdesign #bskyart #commissionopen
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Hi, I'm Seng, I offer digital B&W/ full-colour TTRPG/RPG/fantasy characters/monsters comm art service on Ko-fi, seeking freelance card/ board game art project & sell POD merch on RB.
I'm thankful for you hosting this artshare & that Bluesky & everyone on it exists.
🙏4️⃣🏷 @chronixmakes.bsky.social
I'm thankful for you hosting this artshare & that Bluesky & everyone on it exists.
🙏4️⃣🏷 @chronixmakes.bsky.social
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Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia:
(Thread)
(Thread)
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia:
(Thread)
(Thread)
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We've never played Apocalypse World on @friends-table.bsky.social, and yet I think it's pretty fair to say that the show (and a big part of my career) relies on its existence.
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We've never played Apocalypse World on @friends-table.bsky.social, and yet I think it's pretty fair to say that the show (and a big part of my career) relies on its existence.
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
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A write up on why reading other critics is worthwhile in all instances, with extensive quoting from others works I have read, and publicly sharing the very large games writing resource document I've been slowly accumulating links for these past months (years)
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
A Reading Manifesto
or a theory on how to break through circuitous discourse
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A write up on why reading other critics is worthwhile in all instances, with extensive quoting from others works I have read, and publicly sharing the very large games writing resource document I've been slowly accumulating links for these past months (years)
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
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Tabletop rpgs
everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tabletop rpgs
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"It's not a tomb. It's a town. And it will always be."
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
A Czech larp group wrestles with Nazi history by roleplaying in its bones
Exploring Disco Elysium and the power of art in a former concentration camp.
www.rascal.news
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"It's not a tomb. It's a town. And it will always be."
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
Czech larp group, Rolling, are based out of a former Nazi concentration camp hospital. Their performances embrace the complications and pain of that history.
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Was there a Greg Stolze adventure for Unknown Armies where you played one group of people and then switched to playing the other side? Or something like that? Am I just imagining this?
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Was there a Greg Stolze adventure for Unknown Armies where you played one group of people and then switched to playing the other side? Or something like that? Am I just imagining this?
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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if you don't need a commision, and instead would like to keep me alive for absolutely no reason, my ko-fi is here o/
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
if you don't need a commision, and instead would like to keep me alive for absolutely no reason, my ko-fi is here o/
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I love how No Pun Included go about their work of reviewing and criticism. It's opinionated but informed, sharp but open-minded. If you like board games, give the channel a follow.
Hi, I hate doing self promo so I'll just say that this indie board game coverage channel that could is about to hit a milestone of sorts.
There is no skeet that can summarize who we are or what we do, but we do cool work and you should check us out. www.youtube.com/@NoPunIncluded
There is no skeet that can summarize who we are or what we do, but we do cool work and you should check us out. www.youtube.com/@NoPunIncluded
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I love how No Pun Included go about their work of reviewing and criticism. It's opinionated but informed, sharp but open-minded. If you like board games, give the channel a follow.
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New Smiling Fox 🦊 from @gthynk.bsky.social, Horst, and me.
Here's a section I like, where @newmadras.bsky.social says that not all myths are spills in the supermarket.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wReO...
Shout out to @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social and @madjay.bsky.social for their epic AP with Thomas! 🙌
Here's a section I like, where @newmadras.bsky.social says that not all myths are spills in the supermarket.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wReO...
Shout out to @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social and @madjay.bsky.social for their epic AP with Thomas! 🙌
Ep 4 - Storytelling
YouTube video by The Smiling Fox
m.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New Smiling Fox 🦊 from @gthynk.bsky.social, Horst, and me.
Here's a section I like, where @newmadras.bsky.social says that not all myths are spills in the supermarket.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wReO...
Shout out to @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social and @madjay.bsky.social for their epic AP with Thomas! 🙌
Here's a section I like, where @newmadras.bsky.social says that not all myths are spills in the supermarket.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wReO...
Shout out to @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social and @madjay.bsky.social for their epic AP with Thomas! 🙌
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