Sign in

Bliz

@blizzic.bsky.social
285 followers 37 following 645 posts

He/him. Video essays, releasing whenever the planets align. www.youtube.com/blizzic

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Bliz
lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h
15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:
3248103
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is also true for GMs and the next campaign
010
Reposted by Bliz
Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
6919349
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Regretfully I have just had another idea
000
Reposted by Bliz
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rounding out my Summer Reading posts on Quinns Quest with an absolutely electric final brace of releases. I've been reading Infinite Revolution, City of Espers, Asher's Ridge and Girlframe. They are all SO GOOD. www.patreon.com/qquest/posts...
1231268
Reposted by Bliz
Gila RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NOVA 2 is live on Kickstarter! Pilot powerful mechs on a sunless world in this action packed scifi TTRPG. This new edition of NOVA improves on, and adds a ton to the original. Let's get ready to go NOVA! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
kickstarter.com
NOVA 2
Pilot mechs in a sunless world in this exciting second edition of the NOVA TTRPG!
17858
Reposted by Bliz
headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
122260805
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One catastrophic failure after another. It’s looking like Xbox is going to slowly die, and they’re going to go out kicking and screaming, taking as much as the game industry with them as possible. Sweet. love that
100
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My submission to the 2nd TTRPG Manifesto Jam hosted by @jellyfishlines.itch.io and @finleyjinley.bsky.social is done! It's about not wasting the hours you have left to live. I hope you like it. blizzic.itch.io/theres-no-time
blizzic.itch.io
There's no time. by Bliz
A manifesto for faster play
172
Reposted by Bliz
nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
When your sword is a square:
304561981
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you can tell the executives who make these kinds of decisions are really good at their jobs because they keep fucking reversing them
120845
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Still so damn funny to me that Toby Fox put “Jarona” in the game. I remember looking it up after playing the chapter expecting to find out it was a sensible reference to something I was unfamiliar with, and instead only finding other people asking “what the fuck is Jarona?!”
000
Reposted by Bliz
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
6138733684
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I need to become an expert in every conceivable field of human knowledge and I need to do it yesterday
010
Reposted by Bliz
Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’ve had a conversation like this at every networking event I’ve been to in the last year:
The umbrella academy driving meme. Chekhov is driving from right to left and making eye contact with Five as he drives left to right.
The captions read:
Top: diversifying into animation because the games industry is a binfire
Bottom: diversifying into games because the animation industry is a binfire.
94128681
Reposted by Bliz
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
11077423611
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNi...
youtube.com
every AI ceo all of a sudden
YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing
000
Reposted by Bliz
Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Crunch is inevitable” guys are so funny, just openly admitting they can’t and won’t make a production plan
241903425
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
100%. The actual game you are playing is not superfluous! It actually *does* affect your experience! Baffling, I know!
140
Reposted by Bliz
Mr Fabulous @mrfabulous.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The majority of 5e players would be at least 3x happier playing something else designed to create the experience they actually want to have, but they don't and I don't understand why. Do they not know? Do they just not care?
6311
Reposted by Bliz
Ishmael, The Transition will be Live @comrade-ishmael.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The problem with the average 5E player is that they're playing a game that asks you to manage resources and get upset when you point out the game involves managing resources.
1428637
Reposted by Bliz
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning AND reduced the risk of metastasis.
statnews.com
Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
4753111866
Reposted by Bliz
Viditya ✨ Voleti @vidityavoleti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh wow!!!! What a lovely review, thank you so much for digging into my game and appreciating (and minorly criticizing, which is always welcome) the stuff in it and what it's trying to do. Your intro is so beautifully on point with my feeling on fantasy, the appreciation and tiredness, thank u
042
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My review for Knowledge Knight's Review Jam (on the Quinns Quest discord) is now live here: blizzic.com/a-land-once-... I wrote about A Land Once Magic, an awesome worldbuilding game by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social, and had a splendid time. Big ups to Knowledge Knight for the opportunity
blizzic.com
A Land Once Magic is the Fantasy I've Been Looking For - Review
Review of the fantasy worldbuilding game A Land Once Magic from designer Viditya Voleti.
22210
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Somewhere out there is an underrated indie game with a soundtrack that fits your RPG campaign PERFECTLY. You just have to find it :) I believe in you :)
001
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
its so embarrassing for us as species that “what if we remade old games/movies/whatevers that people already like, but worse, and we use modern technology to make them look ugly” seems to be a winning business model
000
Reposted by Bliz
Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’
192733589
Reposted by Bliz
Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...
valerialoves.com
How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?
A survey on campaign length and lethality
1824882
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am finally MAKING STUFF! I’m excited! If all goes well you’ll get to see some of it soon!
010
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fandom gotta be one of the worst websites ever
010
Reposted by Bliz
Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ranma
3945811910
Reposted by Bliz
RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 03/09/2026
⚠️ Accessories are here! RPG Trader just got a big upgrade. Creators can now offer print-on-demand physical accessories for their games - alongside digital downloads & print books. Cards. Dice. Maps. GM screens. Tiles. Character sheets. Game boxes. And it all happens directly through RPG Trader.
Screenshot showing the 7 accessories now available - Screen, Tear-off pad, Sheet, Cards Hex Tiles, Dice and Game box
18454164
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They have figured out that they don’t need to be subtle. They can just flagrantly commit crimes against the people of the country they’re supposed to be running and no one will care. Of course they’d do shit like this
020
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As a young writer, I used to fear the semicolon; now, I cannot get enough of her, no matter how much this "editor" fellow asks me to be rid of her. Surely not; all things their place, including her. No, I shan't abandon my love; not after it was forged through flame!
120
Reposted by Bliz
Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
my main piece of advice to aspiring video essay type youtubers is: Make less ambitious claims. You don't NEED to tell me about the direction of society as a whole. You don't even need to tell me a big story about how some person or text is all one way or all another way. just tell me what u see
242247251
Reposted by Bliz
Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.
10389335438
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The sun is a deadly laser
020
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It feels unfair for one person to have made so many influential games. You start looking into the history of indie RPGs and you’re like “Whoa, it’s Avery Alder *again*” Simple World was a gateway to experimenting with RPG design for me, and I like The Quiet Year a lot. Highly recommend
010
Reposted by Bliz
Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 25/08/2026
the thing about indie games is that if someone designs one single game I love, I’ll get whatever they make for the rest of their lives and pretty much always have a good time. people are so attached to ip but imo you really gotta know the creators.
241691388
Reposted by Bliz
Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Street art in her honor from SE Seattle
A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."
766891721
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Continually impressed by how dedicated TKG are to their line and to the amazing third party scene that’s built up around it
091
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
They could get away with it too, if they just applied actual writing and pacing to their fights, but instead they're just like "I think we need another ass-pull to increase Random J. Coolguy's hype and aura"
130
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
How I feel reading a new RPG and knowing that even if I get to play it I won’t be able to get it to the table for like 4 years
static.klipy.com
Spongebob Crying Edit - Inefablejuly
Alt: Spongebob Crying Edit - Inefablejuly
000
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
People be writing short form poetry, microfiction, quick little jokes that could go in a standup routine, manifestos, critiques, and all sorts of other absolutely amazing work and then they just post it on Bsky or Tumblr and call it a day. It's crazy
110
Reposted by Bliz
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 25/11/2025
ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
5584771801
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I know multiple people who were forced to cut ties with parents long before they were ready, and they are now suffering from economic precarity with nowhere to fall back to in a crisis. If you told them that they should have considered staying with their parents, I‘d consider setting you on fire
020
Reposted by Bliz
Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I know several people who have cut off their parents, and more importantly I know several people who haven't despite ample justification. No one cuts off their parents, an insanely drastic and difficult thing to do, without extremely good reasons.
121325200
Reposted by Bliz
Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Shout out your favorite resources for creating #ttrpg art and imagery that are *not* gen AI! Whether it's artists who provide stock art, a repository of CC-BY images, or a directory of public domain works, drop your faves in the replies! We'll start: Smithsonian Open Access www.si.edu/openaccess
si.edu
Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian Institution
Learn more about Smithsonian Open Access
14195103
Bliz @blizzic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Oh that's a few more likes than normal, I wonder who reposted it-"
Sean McCoy, with a red arrow pointing out that he is the creator of Mothership, having reposted my bluesky postFrightened dog
120
Reposted by Bliz
AnEternalEnigma @aneternalenigma.com · 13/08/2026
The more I ponder what Mary said here, I think it is VERY important for those who don't like this EVEN IF YOU DON'T STREAM and want to send a message to Amazon on where the Twitch community falls in the genAI discussion to go in their settings and turn this off. The metrics are what speaks to them.
3536062257