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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So exciting! Microscope is such a foundational game - really psyched for it to be getting a second edition

Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 16h

‼️NEW PUBLIC PATREON POST‼️ I laid out some setting details. Sorry for not being active for a bit, life has been kicking my ass. www.patreon.com/goobernuts/p...

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The Shattered Isles at Sea's Edge | goobernuts

Been inactive for a few months now, so I think I owe a post. The game is having a bit of an identity crisis that I'm having difficulty solvi

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 29/09/2026

i need the face with bags under eyes emoji in here because thats been my mental state the past few months. my emotional support emoji

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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Killer Kites Possessed by wayward wind spirits, these untethered kites hide in clouds, preying on birds and lone travellers.

Southeast Asian Fantasy: A girl running away from a Wau-type of kite, but morphed into looking pretty demonic, with evil eyes and fangs.

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 13/09/2026

i haven't been in a good place mentally the past week. getting better though. talked to friends, they confirmed I was overthinking shit

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 06/09/2026

why do I feel like my friends will abandon me the moment I drop the ball

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 04/09/2026

On this, what I've been working on is nailing down the world more. What the world was like, what colonization did and how it changed, and what the new reality of this world is now. I think I have been too vague about the world for too long, so much that the idea has become blurry to me too.

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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My TTRPG hot take is we need stronger prescription in order to make games sing. When you offer complete player freedom across character builds, itemization, and challenges you have created a fundamentally unbalanceable system. You have to lock *something* down to create effective friction.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 03/09/2026

In Guadalajara, kids who once photocopied game books now design RPGs and run conventions www.rascal.news/in-guadalaja...

Hugo Hernandez,a mexican man sitting behind a convention table full of games like Cy-Borg, Nuerocity, Deify, Cosmere

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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We should make a game jam where we all try to make the game Jeff wants, genuinely

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 30/08/2026

been bringing a physical notebook and scribbling on it to conceptualize game stuff. helps untangle jumbled thoughts more than typing on a word doc

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 29/08/2026

ICYMI: Hokkaido University issued its first formal apology for collecting more than 1,000 Ainu ancestral remains for research it now admits was built on discrimination. Read below on how Ainu families fought to bring their ancestors home.

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Hokkaido University Apologizes for a Century of Ainu Remains Research

After many years of calling its actions "extremely regrettable," Hokkaido University has finally apologized for how it handled Ainu remains.

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 22/08/2026

What Dust Remains is a finalist at the CRIT Awards. Community copies are now available at momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re... so you can try out the game—and explore legacy and sacrifice in a unique GMless experience.

A faded photography partially obscured behind paper. On top of it is the text "What Dust Remains is a CRIT Awards Finalist".

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 22/08/2026

I work so slowly. I apologize to and am eternally grateful to all who support me despite this.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"what do students lose when they give up writing" THEY FUCKIN GIVE UP WRITING, MAN

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 16/08/2026

I can't seem to decide what colonization is in Mangayaw; how it has affected the world, what it continues to do, what form it takes

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arisia s @arisia.work · 13/08/2026

Probably the solution is to just *combine* the interest in urban-fantasy mahou shoujo (plus plus) with late Spanish-colonial Philippines into a single TRPG.

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Har·bowoputra @handle.invalid · 04/08/2026

Thank you for the shout out! 🙌

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You can get my games at TWO conventions this weekend: at the IPR booth at Gen Con, and at our booth at ID-19 on the Indie Wavemakers space at TableCon Quest in Singapore!

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halfminotaur farmer @johnerrwin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Amazing time playing under @goobernuts.itch.io! Had a chance to try his WIP Mangayaw - Folk Hero Edition. And it is looking good. We delved into @munkao.bsky.social 's Deluge at Drizzle Distillery. Managed to free the CEO, find a legendary item, and had Rain God duke it out with [Redacted] God.

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you're at GenCon, you can get my games What Should We Have Tomorrow? (solo journaling game about cooking for your loved ones) and Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition (blackjack play-to-lose storygame inspired by The Odyssey) at the IPR booth!

Copies of Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just 🔸2 days🔸 left to snag this TTRPG bundle and help designer Rae Nedjadi pay down the expenses incurred by a long hospital stay. Over $285 worth of games for just 25 bucks, and 98% of your donation goes directly to Rae. Act now, the bundle vanishes on Aug 1st! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

On the left, an illustration of Rae Nedjadi with short curly black hair and horn-rim glasses, wearing a purple and pink striped robe. Next to that, the covers of the games in the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle: Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, Doomsday Delights, Brindlewood Bay, Defy the Gods, Once More Into the Void, Blue Rose, Raccoon Sky Pirates, Glow, The Love Balloon, The Wildsea: Ships Gardens, Paragons, Gingerbread Kaiju, The Hunger in the Void, Space Post, Seers & Roebuck, For Coin & Blood, Dynasties & Demagogues, Party Beach Creature Feature, Heroic Maps - Villages (Summer), Quantum Entanglement, and Infestation at Devil's Glade.

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 29/07/2026

i feel like im making the chassis to a game i dont know the look of yet

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What's the deal with games needing monsters you can kill with no remorse? I keep seeing TTRPGs touting this in their marketing ... There was Obojima, a while back; now Deathbringer with its pig-faced orcs. I genuinely don't get this! What desire is being served here---and whose? 1/

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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Doing cons for the next two weekends. This weekend: Table Con Quest in Singapore, my only con in SG this year. Friends in SG, please come say hi! Next weekend: Klzineetc in Kuala Lumpur!

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Illustration of a girl holding a giant bird mask.

Table Con Quest (ID-19): 1-2 Aug, Suntec convention Centre, SG

Klzineetc: 7-9 Aug, KLSCAH, KL

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 27/07/2026

I recently read a whole book about Philippine ethnoastronomy (the sky, sun, moon, stars, etc in the imagination of different ethnolinguistic groups in the archipelago) to work on something for Mangayaw

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 27/07/2026

reacher s4 is coming i love my dadslop

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Designing games is easy, finishing and releasing is impossible, no one has ever done it before

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 24/07/2026

COMING SOON: ATRAPOS A #TTRPG of cursed heroes, wrathful Gods and a desperate journey home, inspired by the tragic and heroic tales of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Learn more & follow along on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/04/2024

remembering the greatest interview of all time

An interview with the guy who yells MORTAL KOMBAT in the theme for Mortal Kombat

interviewer: I see. will you do it over the phone?
guy: would i do it over the phone? absolutely.
interviewer: let's hear it.
guy: Mortal Kombat!

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Bastionland Press @bastionland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Did you know that Intergalactic Bastionland has a follow page already? www.kickstarter.com/projects/bas...

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Coming soon: Intergalactic Bastionland RPG - Beyond Into the Odd

Rules light roleplaying amongst the living stars of Bastionland.

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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

With all the Odyssey talk going on, my take is I don't want folklore/myth movies "if they were real" I want more surreal myth movies. I want The Fall, The Green Knight, Pan's Labyrinth, Mirrormask. I want movies where weird dream shit be happening and the world feels eerie and unhinged.

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 21/07/2026

Breathless started as scrambles like "d12>d10>d8>d6>d4>.... consequence?" on a notebook my wife bought me for christmas in 2021 now, it powers 300+ hacks with half of them published in japanese. whatever works! (its free btw farirpgs.com/breathless/ )

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BREATHLESS

Shoot. Loot. Survive.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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One-Page RPG Jam @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The One-Page RPG Jam is back for 2026, with the optional theme of 'Fractured'! It runs 13th July to 16th August. Head over to the jam page to sign up itch.io/jam/one-page...

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Playtest Zero is back, so get ready to throw your prototype into the playtesting pool! For our SEA-friendly session, join us next Tuesday, 14 July at 8 pm (GMT+8) over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)

A small black sign affixed to an outdoor wall, featuring an image of a fish and the caption "Please! I Can'ts Stand COPPER. I Hate All Coins."

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The first Cairn Press "double feature" ends in three days! We are 200% funded, the zines are complete and ready for print, and we are fulfilling in the US, CA, UK, EU, AUS and NZ! Also, if you pledge for both zines you can get them for cheaper than retail! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cai...

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Cats Have No Lord @catshavenolord.itch.io · 04/07/2026

Doing a Patreon on a whim. Help support me paying other people (artists, editors, etc…) on future projects. Get all my paid work plus whatever I decide to post on there: dungeons? Art? Monsters? Who knows what will show up? #TTRPG #OSR patreon.com/CatsHaveNoLord

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The Cats Have No Lord Mystery Box — Old School TTRPG Goodness

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 03/07/2026

I am obsessed with thinking about time keeping rn

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 24/06/2026

i gotta write about power in mangayaw as a patreon post one of these days

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 20/06/2026

a friend has pointed out the irony of me writing about timekeeping when this is my first post in months

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 19/06/2026

There is something very satisfying with doing layout

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 19/06/2026

☀️BEHOLD, A NEW BLOGPOST ON PATREON🌕 How do you keep time in a world without clocks as a standard? By fire, vice, and the bright burning bodies in the sky. www.patreon.com/posts/161438...

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Timekeeping in Mangayaw | goobernuts

How do you keep time in a world without clocks as a standard? I have long been using abstractions of time in my own games. Common terminolo

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Crunch-focused folk want new supplements, to give them more subsystems they can theorycraft on but never use. Storygames folk want new systems, to give them more genres they will turn into girlfailure yuri comedies. OSR folk want new adventures, to give them more rooms they will never dare enter.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 16/06/2026

Nineteen Ways of beating the shit out of Wang Wei

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