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Shout out to the best game store in the region, Durham NC's great Atomic Empire.

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Honestly the sweetest treat would be to see you two lovebirds again, so lets make that happen soon.

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You two are cute and all but the one you both owe a sweet treat to is me

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 06/10/2026

You will quickly develop favorites and your favorites will end up *heartbroken* and *alone* as the man you love - and who clearly loves you - is married off to some harridan to prevent *her* from marrying the (admittedly, common and poor) man that *she* loves, oh dear I'm ranting again

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The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Microscope (2nd Edition)

The award-winning game of epic fractal histories

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It's so good! I was *gasping* at some of the cards I drew. Shock, excitement, indignation, horror at the fragile bonds I was about to callously tear asunder without recourse...

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My Rusałka mocked a priest by rising from the pool wearing a backward orthodox cross made of the priest's uncle's finger bones, as one does.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Played this weekend! Ate an old man! Ruined a farm! Crushed some dreams!

Rusalka box and cards scattered around a table

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If you haven't submitted to @goldencobra.bsky.social , I really encourage you to use it as a creative prompt and just do it. Don't think about winning, don't try to do something "good'. Just write a LARP you'd want to play. www.goldencobra.org

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Golden Cobra Challenge

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's already a movie, "In Flight Are The Night Witches", directed by Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, who served in the 588th.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Playing DESPERATION by @jmstar.bsky.social in my @nyugamecenter.bsky.social class! A generous donation from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social!

The black-and-white cards of the game set up in a table

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you ever seen a Jacques Tati comedy? Mon Oncle is streaming variously and is a beautiful, funny film.

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Corollary: Design your games to seamlessly allow people to get up and leave without disrupting their friends who are still having fun.

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are we doing hot TTRPG takes? Here's mine: If a game isn't working for you, get up and leave. You can be graceful about it but don't stick around. If someone at your table gets up and leaves, thank them, because they are improving everyone's experience.

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Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And now for a look beyond the CLGS curtain -- we were playtesting one of the expansion decks for The Blue Way (we're thinking of calling it "Death to Tyrants") in class today! #thebluewaygame #jasonmorningstar #samuelarayaart #playtesting

Photograph of multiple hands and game ephemera for The Blue Way on a neutral linoleum table.

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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of @jmstar.bsky.social's favorite (and one of his favorite films generally) is Věra Chytilová's 1978 comedy Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště (English: Prefab Story; or How A Housing Estate is Born). He always wanted to capture the feeling of these stories in a game and here is The Apartment!

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The Apartment | Bully Pulpit Games

There's a sub-genre of Socialist comedy film that gently pokes fun at what was, perniciously, a miserable post-war housing crisis that never

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I thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, fucking never.

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It doesn't take away from your thesis, but I sold outdoor apparel for years and Patagonia's build quality and functional design are impeccable. The average use case might be cringe but the gear is actually pretty great. I sorta wish it weren't.

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*Another* thing, I generally hate including a dedicated facilitator role, because being a facilitator is sort of boring and potentially intrusive, but it is also an act of service and for a big, elaborate game like White Death it is essential, and that's OK. Plus it is fun to watch, very wild.

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Another thing, White Death runs to a soundtrack that is unmoored from the game's theme and full of complex lyrics, which you'd think would be off-putting, but it is absolutely on point *tonally*, and works perfectly. I am generally anti-music in larp for various reasons but am reconsidering (again).

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One thing I've taken away from seeing this go so well is that I should try some riskier things, maybe make some experiences that are not so carefully bounded, that allow for the extremes of epic failure and epic success. I don't know what that looks like for me yet!

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Trust is hard! I prefer to have more control over the entire experience, which generally means games I make are *reliable* within a set range and rarely drive themselves into a ditch, and also rarely reach the heights that a game of White Death will routinely reach.

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Facilitating a game like White Death, play is so intensely internalized that you just can't tell from the outside whether a player is bored or having some astonishing cathartic epiphany. But it's incredibly well designed and built to make space for good play, so you just have to trust the process.

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Late in the game, melancholy music plays and only five people remain alive. Twenty-five Transparent Ones are dancing in ecstasy in the darkness just off camera.

Five players stand bathed in harsh light amid chaos and detritus. Darkness surrounds them. We can't see their faces.

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The campaign for Lonely Timbers is chugging along nicely so I thought I would talk about the game's origins. This game was originally born from the GameChef competition back in 2017 where we were encouraged to design games around the themes of borders, both literal and metaphorical.

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day, here's a 20-minute Stanislav Petrov larp I made for Ringling College many years ago: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/11uas...

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Dropbox

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I had to take powerful steroids six times last year and each time the nurse said "this is definitely a sometimes thing because they will turn your bones to dust". But it made me feel fucking great and I wanted to fight people.

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Me too! Happy to share what I know and collaborate. Could be amazing.

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There absolutely are! In Fair Verona is a famous larp that uses tango as conflict resolution.

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I just helped run a nonverbal somatic larp for 30 students carefully timed to a Tom Waits/Nick Cave playlist. Music is super powerful for evoking sense memories and emotion. So is movement!

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(whispers) come join us on the larp side, Quinn, it is nice over here, why fight it Quinn

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I've had a lot of fun games with people who only knew D&D. If you're open to the experience it isn't that big a leap. I often feel like we, as a hobby, argue about games the way birders argue about different kinds of finch. To an outsider it all looks the same.

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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I *was* going to take the bait, I'd say Fiasco is 100% an RPG but Dungeons and Dragons quite obviously is not, just to stoke the vein-popping rage.

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That's the alternative cover for #NineSpaceGames...

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It was documented, so assuming we get permission from the participants there will be amazing photos to share.

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