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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You see, you decide to do some marketing so you can sell some games and that will pay for some weirdos to eat and have a house, but when you make that decision were you expecting to read paragraphs like this? I nearly lost my lunch on this one.

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Back in 2023 I first heard the pitch for Hollows, an RPG where you enter the personal hells of other people and destroy the monsters within, knowing that eventually you will end up becoming one of these monsters yourself. Today I finished running players through the personal hell of a PC they knew.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 12/08/2026

Rowan, Rook and Decard workers unionize with IWGB Games Worker Union www.rascal.news/rowan-rook-a...

A wolfish humanoid wearing a headdress of scrap metal preaches to a gathered crowd. One hand is raised, while the other holds an open book.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard have secured the first union recognition agreement in the UK table top games industry! 🙌 iwgb.org.uk/en/post/tabl... Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today!

Graphic showing Voidheart Symphony, a table top game produced by Rowan, Rook and Decard and a caption "Union Recognition! Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard secure the first tabletop games union recognition agreement in the UK."

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fuck yeah. Very pleased and proud with this. I think it's a real step towards a better industry and a whole bunch of people have put work in to get here. Let's see who goes second. And third. And so on.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you're at GenCon, then so am I. Maybe you should say hello.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Kickstarter for the Children of Time ttrpg is now live!

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Are any of you going to GenCon? We could say hi, IF YOU CAN FIND ME.

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 03/07/2026

I took a look today at the Children of Time RPG quickstart and holy crap is it intelligently designed, beautifully rendered, and very clever. It’s not a traditional RPG, but I think it would be a really fun storytelling experience with the right group. rowanrookanddecard.com/announcing-c...

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Announcing... Children of Time: The RPG - Rowan, Rook and Decard

Guess what, folks? We’re making a Children of Time game. CW: spiders. Adrian Tchaikovsky is teaming up with Rowan, Rook and Decard to bring his smash-hit sci-fi Children Of series to your gaming table...

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The longer you look at this 'full English breakfast' the more questions you'll have.

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

UKGE is well over so I can FINALLY tell you what really happened... First! 📚The Haul🎒 from our very own tastemakers (including Maz's from the paper fair that they were incredibly excited about)

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So I am gonna be running Arkyvr, the Mothership hack where you play a film crew trying to (mostly) film a normal documentary about people working on space stations and stuff, with obvious hilarious consequences. For those unfamiliar: alewoodgames.itch.io/arkyvr

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ARKYVR by Alewood Games

Equipped with only your camera gear, expose corporate atrocities while surviving the void’s unspeakable horrors.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In our house we have long used Google home for controlling our lights, checking our calendar and the weather. Nothing fancy. Recently it switched over to using Gemini, and my feelings about this are complex. We'll probably move to something more open source long-term. But also it's utter shit.

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Here's what we've been playing at RRD 🧵 (punishments if staff don't have one of our own fuckin games on the list)

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The other day someone posted in an FLGS Discord I am in asking for assistance making Transformers characters in 5e. I asked if they had tried the Transformers RPG. They hadn't heard of it and immediately asked the FLGS to order them a copy. Sometimes it is that easy.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Either this a strange name for a clothing store, or siege appropriate clothing is about to get much more accessible where I live. I do live in a 2000 year old fortress town, so there is some hope.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Get Elaine a cookie, it's the right thing to do.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sometimes RPG books get in the way of good RPG texts so much I want to hit someone with the book. There's a growing amount of stuff I like the idea of but wouldn't run (or maybe run again) because the book is just a hot nightmare.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

More films need fluidly diegetic/non-diegetic spooky organ music justified by the main character being a total babe who plays the organ. It's an underused trope.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm at the asmodee booth. I'm at the combination asmodee booth & asmodee booth. I don't see you here dog.

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I'm looking for some extra work and would be very interested in any part-time or contract gigs that could make use of my writing, editing, and project management experience. Creative work, research and reporting, consulting; I am happy to do it all. Email: chasewritesthing [at] gmail DMs open here!

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 20/04/2026

I’m curious if any other TTRPGs have been published tête-bêche…

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is the funniest thing I have seen in some time.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The thing is, once Cthulhu has a statblock you can kill it with a dagger, or a shotgun, or by pushing it down enough stairs. Stop it.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Decided to go check in Traveller 5e now it's in stretch goal territory. Glad to see we have unlocked erm, character sheets. Those are really going to enhance the experience of playing versus not having them.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The response to all of this is interest because a lot of people are talking about this campaign as if it is wildly successful, but actually it is yet to reach 800 people. That isn't a huge number. This is successfully extracting a lot of cash from a relatively small number of people.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

There is a lot to unpack with Traveller 5e, and lots of people are doing that. I'm just going to talk about a little bit of that's a little slice of me browsing the page went. Our story starts here, with some cool tokens. I am actually a sucker for stuff like this.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I think today of all days we should just let the trans people have their KitKats.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I dunno about you, but I think something is up with the language settings on this ad.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

RPG night is cancelled because of accursed children (not mine) and their needs. This is good, because it means I can read the adventure I was going to run.

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚨 IN THE LIBRARY WITH THE WRENCH IS NOW LIVE!🚨 My new GMless, diceless game of stormy night murder mystery is currently funding on Backerkit and I'd love your support! Back it here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

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In The Library With The Wrench

A stormy night murder mystery tabletop RPG inspired by Cluedo and Brindlewood Bay, played without dice or a GM. Uncover secrets, play your suspects, and solve the crime together!

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I own something like 30 feet of RPG books and I've only properly read a fraction of them and only used a fraction of the read ones at the table. I am at least as concerned with the experience of browsing them for ideas and reading them for enjoyment as I am using them at the table.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Personally, I would love to retire and be replaced by a badger, or an otter, or whatever.

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🅳🅴🅰🅳🅻🆈 🅵🆁🅴🅳🅻🆈 @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Tchaikovsky would be hard pressed to find a better-fitted crew for this mission than the RRD folks. Solid choice, and an amazing series of books if you haven't gotten into reading them yet.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 12/03/2026

Children of Time: The Roleplaying game, from @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social, adapts @aptshadow.bsky.social's book series into a tabletop RPG spanning both tense moments and yawning eons. You won't have to include the uplifted spiders.

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Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game puts the fate of two civilizations in players’ hands

Your own personal "facsimile Adrian" Tchaikovsky.

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!🚀 We're absolutely over the bloody moon to be making the Children of Time RPG! Mina, Grant and Elaine have been sequestered away with author Adrian Tchaikovsky, building a new Ark to take you to the far reaches of space. But what (or who) is waiting for you out there?

a graphic showing the mock up CHILDREN OF TIME The roleplaying game book against a background of a planet and a long tubular ark spaceship.

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

updating my rolodex, who are my setting/narrative-focused TTRPG writers who are open for freelance work? (don't have specific opportunities, but it's good to have folks to point towards when stuff gets sent to me that I have to pass on)

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's worth remembering that with how Kickstarter works, when you raise a hypothetical amount like say 427k USD, you receive more like 385k because of KS fees and payment processing. So if you were then, hypothetically of course, to be in a position where everyone wants refunds it'd cost you 42k.

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Matt Sanders is going to GenCon @iammattsanders.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Recently I've seen a few 'successful' TTRPG folks framed as if their success means they are now drenched in cash / running big businesses. On any kind of scale except comparing to the DIY and hobbyist folks, this just isn't true. RPGs are a tiny field in terms of headcount and money.

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