My body is a machine that turns 35 hour RPGs into 135 hour RPGs.
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
My body is a machine that turns 35 hour RPGs into 135 hour RPGs.
*finalizes audio for Top Ten Mario RPGs*
*realizes it's 50 MINUTES LONG*
Guys. I think I might like Mario RPGs...
*realizes it's 50 MINUTES LONG*
Guys. I think I might like Mario RPGs...
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
*finalizes audio for Top Ten Mario RPGs*
*realizes it's 50 MINUTES LONG*
Guys. I think I might like Mario RPGs...
*realizes it's 50 MINUTES LONG*
Guys. I think I might like Mario RPGs...
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
I have been trying to gather all my RPGs into one place.
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I have been trying to gather all my RPGs into one place.
I'm sure Expedition 33 is an excellent game, and I'll probably check it out at some point, but I do think it's silly to claim it saved turn-based RPGs when plenty of turn-based RPGs have done well in recent memory. Indie darlings like Undertale and Deltarune, Metaphor, Persona 5 Royal...
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm sure Expedition 33 is an excellent game, and I'll probably check it out at some point, but I do think it's silly to claim it saved turn-based RPGs when plenty of turn-based RPGs have done well in recent memory. Indie darlings like Undertale and Deltarune, Metaphor, Persona 5 Royal...
congrats to expedition 33 entering the pantheon of "the good one" rpgs including Persona 5 and Super Mario RPG and that's it
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
congrats to expedition 33 entering the pantheon of "the good one" rpgs including Persona 5 and Super Mario RPG and that's it
I was on Triple Click the other day talking about the state of RPGs and also my book on Assassin’s Creed! maximumfun.org/episodes/tri...
The RPGs of 2025 (with Cameron Kunzelman) | Maximum Fun
Kirk, Maddy, and Jason bring on special guest Cameron Kunzelman to talk about this year’s suite of roleplaying games, from Avowed to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to The Outer Worlds 2.
maximumfun.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I was on Triple Click the other day talking about the state of RPGs and also my book on Assassin’s Creed! maximumfun.org/episodes/tri...
The US wasn't the only country to pin an entire moral panic on tabletop RPGs. We spoke with players in Brazil and Spain about their own bookbound boogeymen.
The Other Satanic Panics
How RPGs become scapegoats for murders across the world.
www.rascal.news
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The US wasn't the only country to pin an entire moral panic on tabletop RPGs. We spoke with players in Brazil and Spain about their own bookbound boogeymen.
Zedeck is the Hemingway of RPGs. Reading this is so fun.
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Zedeck is the Hemingway of RPGs. Reading this is so fun.
Happy 59th birthday to Monolith Soft Founder Tetsuya Takahashi!
Monolith Soft has become a vitally important studio to Nintendo. Not just creating ambitious RPGs, but the support they give to Nintendo's biggest games.
He's currently working on a new RPG.
Monolith Soft has become a vitally important studio to Nintendo. Not just creating ambitious RPGs, but the support they give to Nintendo's biggest games.
He's currently working on a new RPG.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Happy 59th birthday to Monolith Soft Founder Tetsuya Takahashi!
Monolith Soft has become a vitally important studio to Nintendo. Not just creating ambitious RPGs, but the support they give to Nintendo's biggest games.
He's currently working on a new RPG.
Monolith Soft has become a vitally important studio to Nintendo. Not just creating ambitious RPGs, but the support they give to Nintendo's biggest games.
He's currently working on a new RPG.
There's an RPG Maker but specifically for Tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem?!
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November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There's an RPG Maker but specifically for Tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem?!
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rpgs have always been a popular genre with worldwide cross pollination and different evolutionary lines. jrpg style games made in the west growing in popularity is just another extension of wizardry style games blowing up in japan in the 80s. everyone's in conversation with each other
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
rpgs have always been a popular genre with worldwide cross pollination and different evolutionary lines. jrpg style games made in the west growing in popularity is just another extension of wizardry style games blowing up in japan in the 80s. everyone's in conversation with each other
by which i mean like. souls games and monster hunter games are both rpgs made in japan that have evolved and experimented in unconventional ways and then people just start saying well they're not jrpgs anymore so its like ok this discussion is pointless then lol
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
by which i mean like. souls games and monster hunter games are both rpgs made in japan that have evolved and experimented in unconventional ways and then people just start saying well they're not jrpgs anymore so its like ok this discussion is pointless then lol
the best thing about Oglaf is that, like, 80% of it is actually useful ideas for your RPGs
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
the best thing about Oglaf is that, like, 80% of it is actually useful ideas for your RPGs
Do you like card RPGs? Then you're gonna want to listen to our latest episode of Axe of the Blood God. 🃏
In what I'm retroactively calling "Part 1" we discuss the origins of cards themselves, the roleplay that comes from improvising with the hand you're dealt, and why we love Card-Based Deck-Building RPGs!
You can't hold'em OR fold'em; because they're digital!
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You can't hold'em OR fold'em; because they're digital!
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Card-Based RPGs - PART 1: History and Appeal | Axe of the Blood God
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November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Do you like card RPGs? Then you're gonna want to listen to our latest episode of Axe of the Blood God. 🃏
Here's an interesting blog post about RPGs other the D&D, what they do, and how different systems support and demand different sorts of play. Thirty years ago, this is what I wanted to see one day: lots of story-oriented RPGs on the shelves.
sagaofthejasonite.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...
sagaofthejasonite.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...
Beyond D&D: A Complete RPG Guided Tour Through Tabletop Design Philosophies
I’ve created this guided tour for GMs and players who’ve played D&D and want to explore what else tabletop RPGs can do. It features 12 games arranged in a specific sequence, designed to show th…
sagaofthejasonite.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Here's an interesting blog post about RPGs other the D&D, what they do, and how different systems support and demand different sorts of play. Thirty years ago, this is what I wanted to see one day: lots of story-oriented RPGs on the shelves.
sagaofthejasonite.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...
sagaofthejasonite.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...
[1/3] I've had a couple of folks give me a hard time lately about "why does a cis dude know about mechsplo", and it shouldn't surprise you that the answer involves indie tabletop RPGs.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
[1/3] I've had a couple of folks give me a hard time lately about "why does a cis dude know about mechsplo", and it shouldn't surprise you that the answer involves indie tabletop RPGs.
If nothing else, openly horny tabletop RPGs are a positive development because the alternative isn't NOT being horny – it's just not admitting that it's a horny thing. If you think nobody was playing "Paranoia" for the D/s vibes in 1988, you're living in a fantasy world.
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If nothing else, openly horny tabletop RPGs are a positive development because the alternative isn't NOT being horny – it's just not admitting that it's a horny thing. If you think nobody was playing "Paranoia" for the D/s vibes in 1988, you're living in a fantasy world.
I'd like that more than another wave of dogshit action games pretending to be rpgs
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I'd like that more than another wave of dogshit action games pretending to be rpgs
I’m feeling an inverse of that vibe a lot of White Youtubers must have when they watch a Nintendo Direct, see a bunch of Japanese RPGs, and complain, “They’re all the same game!”
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I’m feeling an inverse of that vibe a lot of White Youtubers must have when they watch a Nintendo Direct, see a bunch of Japanese RPGs, and complain, “They’re all the same game!”
Jennell Jaquays and Rebecca Heineman dying in consecutive years is some real "we're losing recipes" shit for RPGs
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Jennell Jaquays and Rebecca Heineman dying in consecutive years is some real "we're losing recipes" shit for RPGs
Finally getting around to Expedition 33 and this game just oozes ps1 ps2 era rpgs.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Finally getting around to Expedition 33 and this game just oozes ps1 ps2 era rpgs.
every time i see someone talk about how clair obscur is the be all and end all of rpgs and that nothing ever has come close to matching it, i consider giving up my material possessions and becoming a missionary dedicated to spreading skies of arcadia to communities
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
every time i see someone talk about how clair obscur is the be all and end all of rpgs and that nothing ever has come close to matching it, i consider giving up my material possessions and becoming a missionary dedicated to spreading skies of arcadia to communities
The common idea that people who love clair obscur dont play J/RPGS is SO annoying to me
Sometimes popular things are popular for a reason
Sometimes popular things are popular for a reason
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The common idea that people who love clair obscur dont play J/RPGS is SO annoying to me
Sometimes popular things are popular for a reason
Sometimes popular things are popular for a reason