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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 13h

It's OCD Awareness Month so if you have OCD remember to be aware of it at all times so you can finally solve it

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 8h

"How did you get into ttrpgs" i didnt have enough time to attend my larps anymore

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 8h

trans women are responsible for most, if not all, good rpgs btw

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13h

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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ceej @ceej.online · 14h

incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 15h

What perfect timing! After Arcs came out I took about a year break from the game. With Beyond the Reach, I've had a good excuse to be playing it a lot again and rediscovering what fired me up about the game in the first place. This is a marvelous review and well worth the wait.

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Herding a Space Whale | Arcs: Blighted Reach Review

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 15h

an excellent and thoughtful essay here that mirrors a lot of the points i was trying to make yesterday. sharing the archived version because the website appears to be down at the moment.

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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming

Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...

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Moss Powers, with Eyes to PaxU @mossdaggar.bsky.social · 16h

Open call to Portland, Oregon TTRPG designers or aspiring designers. I'd love to meet up with you and talk about games, what you're doing, and just generally share wisdoms and enthusiastic energy for the work we do! Comment or DM me and we can see if we can manage a meetup!

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Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️ @floramerigold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 17h

As a game thinker, personally, I'm not interested in distinguishing games clearly from other kinds of behaviors and activities. I'm interested in finding and learning from the games that are hiding, unidentified, unrecognized, unacknowledged in the other things we do.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 17h

once again there is a huge overlap in the rhetorical tropes of ableism and the rhetorical tropes of old-school homophobia and the rhetorical tropes of anti-transness-- i think it's interesting how these all echo and feed off one other

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 19h

bad fucking week to be a survivor of sexual violence ill tell you that much not that there's often a *good* week

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now, there are some PbtA and post-PbtA games that do take "acting under fire" as their core template, and build their resolution rules on top of it. Significantly, crucially, they add new systems that deal with the problem I'm describing. Blades in the Dark's position and effect, for instance...

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my stance on fantasy vs sci-fi is that i think these are aesthetic labels that have gotten so broad that they're barely informative at all. the real slop genre is orc fiction. if there's an archetypal "orc species," a nuance-free inherently evil group of morally uncomplicated enemies, it's slop.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/10/2026

IDK this surge of “if every rape survivor self-IDs on the internet change will happen” is sure making me wonder if you all have collective amnesia from 2017

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Nicholas ➼ visiting The City! @omophagic-beast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hello one and all and none and you! its your favorite lost traveler looking for a way out: me!

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah this Cornell thing is like a mass disabling event for survivors. I am fine, I *was* fine. But now it's in the zeitgeist again so I get to be reminded of my own college experience, something I hadn't thought about in decades, on a daily basis.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hold a very specific skepticism for ppl who dig up shit from more than a decade ago and haven't bothered to like, talk to the person who was actually hurt. Like do you actually care about whether this is helpful or do you just see this as "ammo" against someone you dislike

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i just think it's notable that no apology is ever good enough, no concession ever complete enough. anything less than "i'm a monster and deserve your rage" is dodging accountability, minimizing victims, etc etc etc. it simply cannot be the case that no one in geller's position is capable of honesty.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are no incorrect reactions to this situation, but i have to believe that ten years is long enough to learn and grow from a catastrophic mistake, and i see in geller's statement at least provisional evidence of that process. it's okay if you don't agree. this is all very difficult stuff.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's just awful. every side of it is awful. friends who were victims of assault triggered by the threat of someone weaponizing their story against their will. friends who've suffered spurious/malicious callouts triggered by the threat that they will never be better than their worst (alleged) moment.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

bad day to be someone who actually wants to reduce harm instead of gawk at it

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

bad day to be someone who believes in rehabilitation

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 01/10/2026

jay is a dear friend who deserves your support, not to mention her patreon containing an immense amount of amazing game design. I count myself lucky to be able to support her, if you haven't already check it out and consider joining as well! (Then read the draft of 7pp and talk about it with me)

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 01/10/2026

Jacob Geller | Sexual Assault or Sexual Violence | Definite suspension for one semester

Many of you have seen the results of my college Title IX investigation. I can confirm that the findings are true. The records were recently shared without the permission of the victim and, without knowledge of their wishes, I do not want to provide any more potentially identifying details. She and I spoke about it the day after and agreed — I had assaulted her. She later reported this to the university’s Title IX office, I cooperated with the investigation, and I was given the (very mild, I concur) sentence of a semester suspension.

Suffice to say, it is the greatest regret of my life. I traumatized a brilliant person who trusted me, hurt them in a way I can never undo.

For more than a decade now, I have attempted to reckon, grow, and recover from the version of myself who did this. I think about it every day. I’ve previously shared this history with many of the people close to me, including early in my relationship with my now-wife, and I’m deeply sorry that this has now hurt so many of you. My continued drive to make myself and the world better is closely tied with the pain I’ve caused.

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gemelli has played a lot of Hollows. More than me, that’s for sure. So that’s why you should have a bash on his thorough (and, admittedly, glowing) review of our game:

Sometimes things veer into record-keeping, breaking out rulers and cone templates. Sometimes you just don't feel the sense of danger right out of the gate.
Enter the Hollows grid system, which wrestles these problems to the ground and makes them squeal:

[image of the hollows tactical grid]

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Playtest Material Issue One is out now: playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

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Playtest Material Issue One: An RPG Is Like...

Read the full magazine today.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

im dealing with tax bullshit and god let me tell you, it is demoralizing on the best of days to have the government say you owe them money, its doubly so when the current government is an unstable band of kleptocrats who want me & people like me dead

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see young people, creatively, desperately finding ways to make their own third spade, maybe you keep an eye on it to make sure they are okay, maybe you don’t tear the branches down and yell “the kids stick fort is Right Here and they are talking about things that matter to them!!!”

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also: solid TTRPG critique comes from analysis of the actual game or games in question, rather than just the odd "social-influencer meme" version of the thing that's lodged in folks' brains, reproduced in reductio ad absurdum dunks. Then you'd produce some valuable discussion!

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Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · 30/09/2026

The number one skill I've learned from making Dice Exploder and contributing to the online rpg design scene is how to identify when a conversation is headed somewhere fucking stupid (or has arrived there already) and to not get involved.

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eight! the artist formerly known as deepseasmetro @deepseametro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the gleefullness with which people will circulate the trauma of somebody else, with zero care for if *they* want this publicized, never ceases to disgust me. none of you give a fuck about victims!

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am definitely not allowed to talk about specifics of the legal business around the Diamond bankruptcy, but can I just say damn everyone who saw this as an opportunity to squeeze money out of Paizo to hell for what they've done to upend the lives of my friends.

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m bathtub posting so maybe this is only gonna make sense to me but: one of the reasons Act Under Fire was so quick to become “the” model for the cultural mindset is because of how the most widespread games were all related around violence and skirmish heroics as a primary standard.

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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 30/09/2026

Fantastic thread on a common misread of move structure. Practically required reading for folks interested at all in PBTA design.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot more about freelance design and how mystifying it is to most people, especially if you came through the proverbial back door with rpgs. Today, I’m thinking about the three most popular pricing models and my thoughts on them. www.explorersdesign.com/working-desi...

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Design Hireling: Pricing Models

3 pricing models for freelance graphic designers and artists in rpgs.

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

all this is why flying circus got that move which is just "hey if you do a thing there's not a move for, you do it, and then consequences emerge" i was so sick of people trying to 'roll stealth' lol

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Digital Poppy Poppy Zone @poppyzone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the world if trans women all got into Foucault's Pendulum instead of warhound

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026

In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)

The fractal game of epic histories

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tanze bravopueblo / w.s. healed @tattletale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a rulebook should never give players 'permission' to change or break the rules -- the 'permission' is inherent in the fact that it's an inanimate object that can't do anything to stop you. it's at once condescending to the players and denigrating to your own design work

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 28/09/2026

The lead dev on Scarlet Hollow gave an excellent talk some years back about branching narrative in video games and how to manage the scope/scale of it. Players want to feel like their choices matter in a story-driven game, but the more choices matter, the more work for the devs.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ttrpgs are a generally myopic field of design and have a small fraction of the creative variety present in other kinds of games, and this is somewhat (although not entirely) due to social pressure and aesthetic standards historically exerted by conservative players, designers, and publishers

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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the OSR and PbtA scenes have some real common ground and i'm glad that some of the petty tribalism around both has died out. we get better games when folks take from multiple movements for their designs, imo!

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days

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