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marshdavies.bsky.social
ICYMI, this week's newsletter interviews 18th-centuryist, Actual Play scholar & TTRPG megabrain @friede.bsky.social. It's full of good stuff: on microcelebrity, the Mercer Effect, authenticity & anachronism in historical games, & the world's greatest break-up novel.
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Marsh & The Magdalena, Dr Emily Friedman on Actual Play, the 18th century, other things.
Ahoy, and welcome to the TEETH newsletter. This is an (aspirationally) weekly report about our travels on the TTRPG-seas, written and compiled by implacable...
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August 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
marshdavies.bsky.social
Ahoy! Here's a juicy newsletter from @rossignol.bsky.social about wrapping up our internal playtesting campaign of GOLD TEETH (the players won, the world at large lost). Plus this map of Kingsland - soon to be liberated, or simply ignited, in the forthcoming beta.

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A map of Kingsland, the British seat of power in the Punchbowl of the Antilles. It's an irregularly shaped splodge of an island, with many bays and promontories, rising to a sparsely inhabited volcanic centre, labelled "Mind-Your-Back-Country" for very good reason. There are three rival settlements called Plymouth, or some variant thereon, due to bitter infighting among the early colonists over the distribution of salt pork. How many will be left standing once the players are done with the place?
August 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
It has been many unpleasant weeks since the last TEETH newsletter, but you can stop holding your breath at last, as we say "hi, we've been doing GOLD TEETH stuff":
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Trying To Find Redemption Before The Sea Claims You
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July 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
rolewise.bsky.social
Welcome to Part 2 of our Play of the Teeth RPG, Night of the Hogmen. Follow our travelers as they run from the epic hoard of hogmen as we reach our exciting finale.
#ttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgactualpay #teethrpg

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Role Wise Plays | Teeth: Night of the Hogmen #2 (End)
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June 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rolewise.bsky.social
We will only have one episode this week. Which is part one of us playing through the super fun Teeth RPG, Night of the Hogmen one shot! Come join us as we battle the perils of the Hogstorm!
#ttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpgactualplay #teethrpg

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Role Wise Plays | Teeth: Night of the Hogmen #1
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June 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
scifireader.bsky.social
No need to apologize! Creativity flows like the warp drive in "Star Trek." 🚀 Have you ever thought about the impact of RPGs on storytelling? 🪐📚 #TeethRPG #SciFiEngagement
rossignol.bsky.social Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · May 29
More newslettering. It just keeps coming out of me. I am sorry. buttondown.com/TeethRPG/arc...
I was equally stunned to discover that my first two polyhedral dice were d10s. Why? Where were the promised fistfuls of colourful platonic forms? Well, it turned out that despite Star Frontiers being all FROM THE PRODUCERS OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS etc, it was a d100 game. To my kid brain this was because percentages are more science fiction than d20 based systems with additional dice in the wings for damage. Is that true? I… actually don’t know. Maybe? The evidence of more recent times seems to support young Rossignol’s vibes-based assessment of percentile systems. Mothership uses percentages! Is that because d100 is the language of the androids? It could be. It could be.
May 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
More newslettering. It just keeps coming out of me. I am sorry. buttondown.com/TeethRPG/arc...
I was equally stunned to discover that my first two polyhedral dice were d10s. Why? Where were the promised fistfuls of colourful platonic forms? Well, it turned out that despite Star Frontiers being all FROM THE PRODUCERS OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS etc, it was a d100 game. To my kid brain this was because percentages are more science fiction than d20 based systems with additional dice in the wings for damage. Is that true? I… actually don’t know. Maybe? The evidence of more recent times seems to support young Rossignol’s vibes-based assessment of percentile systems. Mothership uses percentages! Is that because d100 is the language of the androids? It could be. It could be.
May 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
We did a newsletter! It has merhogs and Links Of The Week and updates on LUCK and other mechanics in the development of GOLD TEETH, our horrible game of cursed pirates and hidden agendas. Read it and tremble! buttondown.com/TeethRPG/arc...
Nine foot of snapping, snorting sea-monster with a glistening musculature
It’s the TEETH RPG Newsletter! By Jim Rossignol & Marsh Davies. Hello, you.Links!That’s it! Merhoglet. Hello, you. Yes, it’s been a good while since the last...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
brentnpc.bsky.social
love the look of this RPG design.. great cover and from the actual plays i have heard so far.. seems so fun..
..hopefully can play it soonish.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
marshdavies.bsky.social
Chatted about @hauntedtable.bsky.social's superb corporate-horror game Triangle Agency in the latest newsletter. We had to censor it on pain of having our access to the Agency froyo room revoked, but that just means you have to play the game itself—and you should!

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A heavily redacted transcript of a conversation from the newsletter. It reads as follows: "Marsh: It's probably not a spoiler to say that the early player-facing parts are written from the perspective of a Triangle Agency employee guide, but the further you get into advancement, ████ █████████ ██ ██ ████. And that changes not only what you think about the game, but the graphic design of the book! Even the earliest revelations you get are exciting; there's a sort of gleeful, "Oh, I'm really allowed to do this?" Noel: The moment when you ███ ████ ███████ for the first time and neither of our other two players had any concept as to why—that was pretty awesome. And there's a lot more to come! So that has been really cool to watch. I think one of my favorite little details is █████ ██████████ ███ ██ ████ ████. You don't necessarily notice it when you read the player guide for the first time, but if you go back, knowing what you now know, █████ ███ ██████ comes up a lot and in very particular ways, so ████ █████ ████ ███ ██████ █████ what is being communicated to you and why. And that continues in extremely dramatic fashion in the GM section as well."
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
Triangle Agency! @marshdavies.bsky.social has been playing it. He's gone and newsletter'd a vital discussion he had about with GM, Dr Noel Warford.

*We were forced redact the spoilery stuff, because those bits are just so very important to this quite anomalous TTRPG.
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Marsh and Noel don't spoil anything, but they do make Triangle Agency sound like a game you are not going to want to miss.
April 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
rossignol.bsky.social
Myself and the dashing illustrator-writer-designer @marshdavies.bsky.social write TTRPGs. But we ALSO write a newsletter about our myriad adventures in TTRPG land. Here's the latest one: buttondown.com/TeethRPG/arc...
The Vast In The Mörk
It’s the TEETH RPG newsletter! Vast and dark in your inbox. Written by Marsh Davies and Jim Rossignol. And hey, you can buy our tabletop games! (More on...
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March 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
Wrote a newsletter, with an ape, a psychic sceptic, and some sweet X-Files references.
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A Scooby-Doo rubber-mask-type situation.
It’s the TEETH RPG newsletter! Pulsing and electronic in your inbox. Written by Marsh Davies and Jim Rossignol. And hey, you can buy our tabletop games.1....
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March 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
We sent out a fresh TEETH RPG newsletter yesterday, featuring a detailed interview with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social, whose Cold City and Hot War games are poised to be re-released quite soon. He talked about the Cold War and Trust mechanics in games. buttondown.com/TeethRPG/arc...
MC: I’d already come up with the idea of Cold City in 2005 and had sketched out the mechanical framework, but that framework was deeply unsatisfying. Then at GenCon 2005 I played The Mountain Witch by Tim Kleinert and a lightbulb appeared above my head. TMW used the idea of trust between the characters in a sophisticated, satisfying way that really made the game sing. So my immediate thought was “This kind of thing would work really well for my Cold War Berlin game!” Trust in Cold City isn’t the same as Trust in TMW, but you can see the genealogy very clearly.
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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This might be a good overview - It's a bit rambly (my fault, not Jims)
Or creativelearning.arts.wales/case-studies... for our current (nearly finished!) on the other end of the spectrum (a formal case study)
Any homebrew adventure is game design.
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January 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
ehronlime.bsky.social
Here's one from @rossignol.bsky.social on how "every place tells three stories" buttondown.com/TeethRPG/arc...
The Chattering Of January's Teeth (And Some Writing Advice)
Hello! We are Jim Rossignol, and Marsh Davies, we make the TEETH RPG series. Welcome to our TTRPG Newsletter! If you fancy hanging out and further talking...
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January 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
marshdavies.bsky.social
I'm a bit hesitant to offer advice to GMs/creators - I'm no grand authority, and I don't believe there are hard rules. That said, there's a thing I've brought with me from videogame design that I find helpful: Every Place Tells Three Stories. I wrote about it here!

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The Chattering Of January's Teeth (And Some Writing Advice)
Hello! We are Jim Rossignol, and Marsh Davies, we make the TEETH RPG series. Welcome to our TTRPG Newsletter! If you fancy hanging out and further talking...
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January 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
potatocubed.bsky.social
@rossignol.bsky.social and @marshdavies.bsky.social newsletter today has some absolutely golden writing advice in it: Every Place Tells Three Stories.

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The Chattering Of January's Teeth (And Some Writing Advice)
Hello! We are Jim Rossignol, and Marsh Davies, we make the TEETH RPG series. Welcome to our TTRPG Newsletter! If you fancy hanging out and further talking...
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January 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
rossignol.bsky.social
The stuff that you see on here will, for my part at least, often appear on the TEETH newsletter first buttondown.com/TeethRPG which I produce with the brilliant @marshdavies.bsky.social, who you can and MUST follow on here if you haven't already. /3
Teeth RPG
A TTRPG newsletter by Jim Rossignol & Marsh Davies.
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January 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
reekstar.bsky.social
Re-reading #TeethRPG by @rossignol.bsky.social & @marshdavies.bsky.social. Astonishingly good setting. Tonally somewhere between Dolmenwood and the Warhammer Old World but totally unique.

Ran the Blood Cotillion one-shot earlier this year. Must do a campaign in '25.

Can't wait for #GoldTeethRPG
December 24, 2024 at 5:58 PM
paulscottcanavan.com
A few excerpts from a lovely interview I did with @marshdavies.bsky.social of Teeth and Crate and Crowbar fame (also Minecraft and other THINGS).

All manner of Pale Tides secrets are revealed within!

Here's the full interview:
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#paletides
November 10, 2024 at 11:56 AM
marshdavies.bsky.social
I chatted with the powerful and handsome @abigbat.bsky.social about his upcoming witch game Pale Tides. It's got tarot! Pseudo-Scotland! A vampiric church!

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The Right Side Of Witches: An Interview With Pale Tides's Paul Canavan
Hey! We are Jim Rossignol, and Marsh Davies, we make TEETH RPG. Welcome to our TTRPG Newsletter. If you fancy hanging out and further talking about TTRPGs,...
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November 7, 2024 at 6:12 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
We did a newsletter! Including a splendid interview with @handiworkgames.bsky.social
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The Bundle Of Holding Is Full of TEETH / That's Some Nice Handiwork
Welcome, News-Riders of The Great Wastes, to the TEETH newsletter! This is a (mostly) weekly transmission about our explorations in the very secret land of...
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October 28, 2024 at 3:49 PM
rossignol.bsky.social
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In the meantime, you can keep up with adventures (both published, figurative, and physical) via our regular Newsletter: buttondown.com/TeethRPG Join us! We're having a lovely, horrible time.
BUNDLE OF HOLDING with the holding part crossed out and TEETH written instead, and below a drawstring bag with teeth spilling out.
October 26, 2024 at 1:35 PM
wyrdscience.bsky.social
What if you could get 20% off all our in-stock magazines & t-shirts this month & all you had to do is feign interest in our editor going on about caravans, bingo & why mags are the absolute best for a bit… imagine that!

Well, it turns out you’re in luck!

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48 Hours To Back GOLD TEETH! And The Wyrd Science Of Interviews
Welcome, favoured adventure-folk, to the TEETH newsletter! This is a (mostly) weekly transmission about our explorations in the very secret land of Tabletop...
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October 15, 2024 at 2:25 PM