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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Good morning! It's December, which means it's time for my annual advent calendar! The Mouth Of Winter is 25 chapters of grimdark fantasy, releasing daily through Christmas. Mercenaries break an ancient covenant. A monster wakes up. Nobody's having a good time. loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 ❄️

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The Mouth Of Winter by Chris Bissette

A serialised dark fantasy novella

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Okay it's been 15 hours of perfectly hinged marketing it's time for the weird shit loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025

The booktok book marketing meme with arrows everywhere pointing at a book cover. Text is next to the arrows. It should make you want to read the book but somebody has clearly given up trying to write good marketing copy. The various text chunks say:

Contains 0% romance, 100% poor life choices

The monster has a better work-life balance than you

Very cheap (this one is in really big letters)

Why read it all at once when you could wait for daily chapters instead?

Is it a novel or a novella I don't know

A Christmas story (threatening)

The protagonist becomes his father (it's a horror novel)

A large Amazon "Buy Now" button is in the bottom right corner. "Amazon" has been scribbled out and replaced with "itch.io".

At the bottom of the whole image is the following text:

loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 (people smarter than me said there should be a url here)

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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 02/12/2025

EVERYTHING IS POINTCRAWL! Are hexcrawls just pointcrawls with extra steps? How do we choose the right type of map? Is it just the illusion of choice? Might be the longest SCM article so far! www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/everything... #boardgames #ttrpg #hexcrawl #pointcrawl 🎲✂️

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Everything is pointcrawl!

Exploring hexcrawls, pointcrawls, and other crawls to see if everything is actually just a pointcrawl. How we can reduce the illusion of choice and instead have players make meaningful decisions?

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Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Well, I promised I would, so I did! Following in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague @byodinsbeardrpg.com (and several others), here is my write up (including all our numbers) of Dragonmeet 2025 and our experience tabling there. Check it out and let me know what you think! shorturl.at/j9f9A

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Dragonmeet 2025 Running the Numbers — Three Sails Studios

I follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleagues (primarily the brilliant Colin le Sueur of By Odin’s Beard RPG fame) in writing my very first post-convention report. My name is George, I’m the...

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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading.
From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community.
There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation.
Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us.
We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 01/12/2025

New Episode out now! Ryan sits down with CJ Somavia of Hothead Collective to talk GLAIVE, a quarterly magazine dedicated to gaming and the subcultures surrounding its various forms of expression. We also talk, PAX Unplugged, the loss of third spaces, the "osr" and storygames, Inq28, and more.

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EP 296 | We Interview HOTHEAD COLLECTIVE

YouTube video by The Weekly Scroll

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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 01/12/2025

HUGE NEWS: Today we're launching a pack of 10,000 game assets! All existing Chequered Ink Assets + hundreds exclusive to the pack, across a variety of genres for commercial use in all your projects. AND they're all made by HUMANS 🫨 ci.itch.io/all-game-ass... #gamedev #indiedev

Four screenshots showing that the pack contains: card game assets, puzzle game assets, platformer assets and pool assets.

Four screenshots showing that the pack contains: Adventure assets, RPG assets, darts assets, board game assets.

Four screenshots showing that the pack contains: icons, dice and letter tiles.

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Nick Bate @ickbat.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Indie ttrpg folks, where did we come down on GPSR now that the dust has settled a bit? Any leads on good value EU Responsible Persons?

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

sometimes you have an image in your head and you just have to get it out

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I’m looking for someone who knows their way around InDesign, has a passion for the hobby, and would be up for taking some layouts off me for Secret Passages issue 3 and – if we both have a lovely time – beyond. If that sounds like you, DM me! #ttrpg #zine #design #indesign #graphicdesign

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Tiny Tome 3 is funded! Pick up 50 games by 50 indie creators, and if it hits the first stretch goal my game Litter, Detective! will be included too!

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Tiny Tome 3 is funded! Pick up 50 games by 50 indie creators, and if it hits the first stretch goal my game Litter, Detective! will be included too!

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C. R. Legge 🩷💛💙 @crlegge.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Tiny Tome 3 from @long-tail-games.bsky.social just launched! It has a lot of great games from some amazing designers (and my game Rêve too). Its already funded and will be shipping in time for the holidays. Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...

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Tiny Tome 3

We're back with 50 single-page RPGs from 50 different creators.

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Proud to say that seeing Tiny Library for the first time at Dragonmeet 2 years ago inspired Litter, Detective! which is now one of the stretch goals to be included in Tiny Tome 3! October has been the biggest month of my life and I'd love this full circle moment to be part of it. Get it 4 xmas?! 👀

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

One page games can be fun romps and artistic explorations of the edge of the medium, but they are cost prohibitive to print and distribute -- which is why the Tiny Tome series by @long-tail-games.bsky.social is so great for both designers and players. And one of my games is in here! 🤩

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

There's a lot of neat games in here! (mine is hiding amongst them, find it if you would like to will your skeleton to someone as dice)

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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 19/10/2025

The latest stretch goal has unlocked another adventure! "Lair of the Gobbler" will now be part of the DURF Adventure Zine! www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This guide really is COMPREHENSIVE. If this topic remotely intersects with your work you should give it a read, this is such a valuable resource.

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𓇢𓆸𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆ꫂ❀ @fsohns.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

TTRPG creators, there are innumerable reasons, and a nigh indescribable bliss to be found, if you dare learn to draw. And at least, if you do not, it's cool for you to learn some of the basics, since you will sooner and later need to work with artists: www.patreon.com/posts/compre...

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A Comprehensive Guide to TTRPG Art Commissioning & Licensing | Araukana

Get more from Araukana on Patreon

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🍐 FINAL 24 HOURS to preorder the new Troika! book from @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io written & illustrated by me! 🐞 A richly interconnected pointcrawl ecosystem of faction politics exploring definitions of dungeons & personhood both, by way of creepy-crawly hijinks for fans of bugs with swords!

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Here, I did the hard part and googled it for you; here's the first reasonable result for "free rss readers". I've tried about half of these and they were all reasonable. Look at what features you need to pay for, they're all slightly different, and choose one. bloggingwizard.com/free-rss-fee...

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Bot Verification

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

RSS is, and I say this without hyperbole, an incredibly useful tool for psychological independence in the current environment. Newsblur, as Vajra suggests, is good, I use Feedbin, there are others. Most remarkably easy to set up.

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 07/10/2025

Warning: if you grabbed a Love Minis, Hate Fascism shirt from me/Fenris a couple of weeks ago, please make sure it was me you ordered from. Just had somebody here asking about the poor print quality of their shirt...when I've not received them from the printers yet. Fucking scammers.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

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US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

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Goblins and Gardens @goblinsandgardens.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Got my latest copy of @wyrdscience.bsky.social and it’s already my favorite volume so far (and I’m not even in this one!)

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 07/10/2025

To call the Forsaken heroes is preemptive; perhaps their deeds will be few and worthless, or worse — they may be great, yet bring naught but ruin. As for their past, speculate as you wish. At this point, neither you nor they can ever truly know. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

mockup of the Doomspiral core book showing two of the character backgrounds, the choir crusader and the tomb robber scum.

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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I made these for two works for the Straight Arrows RPG campaign based off @mothership.bsky.social. I'm looking to make more. Front covers. Alternate covers. My secret wish is to buddy up with a writer to collage an entire campaign. Characters, story art etc

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Chloe 🦌 @plumtreechloe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Go grab a physical copy of Goblin Country! Pending a new print run these are the last ones available in the world!

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Casper | Friendly Ghost Games @friendly-ghost.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I absolutely refuse to social-media-cize my utopian cottagecore life, despite the fact it would easily make me the most popular ttrpg designer by a wide margin. You're welcome.

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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Woof woof, girl.

An angry dog stands among flowers. Text reads: "you are not living authentically."

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J Riley L Hopkins @badfuckinpodcasts.com · 06/10/2025

a pokemon is an employee. if you call a pokemon your friend it's like when your boss says this place of work is a family. you got a direct power imbalance. now a digimon. thats a friend. me and kokabuterimon are getting beers.

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 05/10/2025

Hi bluesky, idk how to get people to see this, but I'm a game designer, writer, poet, and graphic designer who makes books! You should follow me and help me achieve the impossible: getting ihop to stack my pancakes 8 high instead of the default 4. Anyways, here's some recent work <3

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

🍐 3 DAYS REMAIN Preorder by Oct 7 (18:00 GMT) 🦋 Shrink to size & explore a labyrinthine world of bug factions inside a sapient pear tree, racing against the clock to shape the future of a dungeon that was never yours to delve & escape before you grow to full size! www.melsonia.com/products/pre...

Silksong but make it D&D. Official Troika! adventure DIY crowdfunding right now.

Hand drawn illustration of a beetle with a staff in one hand, a lantern in another, pulling the husk of a ladybird from insect ruins. Digitally coloured with purple stipple shading.

The Perilous Pear & Plum Pies of Pudwick.

Shrink to insectoid sizeand venture into the uncanny world that exists inside a sapient pear tree in this weird fantasy pointcrawl for the Other World's Favourite Roleplaying Game!

Illustration of a ladybird with a spear and cloak abseiling in a cavern, as two others descend in the distance.

52-page full-colour, fully illustrated pointcrawl micro-setting for TROIKA! written and illustrated by Josh Blincow (Goblincow) with layout by Shuyi Zhang (Fungi of the Far Realms).

East to adapt for use with any good rules-light dungeon crawling tabletop RPG.

Illustration of a humanoid fungal sprite with a mass of petals where its head should be.

An all ages tabletop roleplaying adventure for beginner & veteran tables with easily adjustable complexity & themes to suit all players.

Inspired by works like: Hollow Knight; Bug Fables; The Legend of Zelda – The Minish Cap; A Bugs Life; Honey I Shrunk The Kids.

A beetle dangles in a void from the tight webbing that grips its shell, surrounded by webbed cocoons and husks hanging from their own sticky threads.

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🐛 The Perilous Pear & Plum Pies of Pudwick is DIY Crowdfunding on Melsonia's website now! I was directly inspired by the world building of #HollowKnight & pitched this book in 2019, so it's been in development as long as #Silksong! Go buy my first book! It's good! www.melsonia.com/products/pre...

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Crowdfunding: The Perilous Pear & Plum Pies of Pudwick

PLEASE NOTE: This is a crowdfunding campaign for an upcoming book which we plan to deliver no earlier than January 2026. The crowdfunding will run for 30 days. Please see the bottom of this descriptio...

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Goblincow 🍉 @goblincow.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🐜 Shrink to insectoid size in a 52 page full-colour, fully illustrated weird fantasy pointcrawl inside a sapient pear tree, written & illustrated by me with layout by Shuyi Zhang. 🪲 Inspired by #HOLLOWKNIGHT | #BUGFABLES | THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE MINISH CAP | HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS | A BUGS LIFE.

An insect explorer carrying a lantern drags the husk of a ladybird from ruins with signs of battle. A dead ant is curled amid the wreckage as a woodworm beast of burden looks on.

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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 26/09/2025

on top of everything else, choosing to publish this in the telegraph is so fucking funny man. washed party, washed leader, washed country

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The designer of excellent TTRPG Teeth (and friend of mine) @rossignol.bsky.social has started doing POV videos where he leafs through RPG books! Solid stuff, give him a subscribe www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckA4...

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A quick look at Doomsong

YouTube video by Jim Rossignol

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Well, we were aiming for 1000 pre-launch followers by the end of September, and we're at 96% of that goal with a full week to go. If you've been meaning to click that "notify me" button, please do – even if you're sure you'll remember on your own, it does affect the project's visibility on launch!

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