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Steph @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My issue of @playtestmaterial.bsky.social came today! Can't wait to dive in, there's a lot of very interesting think pieces in here and I'm very glad it exists. Awesome to print it too 🥹💕

A copy of the inaugural issue of play test material magazine on a navy blue foot stool

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This might have passed people by, but last month I posted on my Patreon a pretty interesting chapter of Maymead in which two characters debate literature. I'm hoping it might convince some of you nerds of the benefit of 🎇membership 🎇 www.patreon.com/TwelvePinsPr...

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The Gentleman of La Mancha [Tales from Maymead County] [Chapter] | Laurie O'Connel

This is a paid supporters only chapter of Maymead, because it's quite an experimental one: I haven't yet decided whether or not to include i

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

playtest material made it, we're finally getting AI pitches 😀

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just as an update for playtest material inquiries- we have had so many and we need to look at everything at once. If you haven't heard back please bear with us. Still really keen for reviews, literary essays and experimental pieces!

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Is Playtest Material also an attempt to legitimize role-playing game-related things as art? Maybe. RPG people at the moment do struggle to access funding sources and spaces that are open to other writers and performers, [and] one hopes that we can begin to open some of those doors."

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my experimental piece within the issue's pages references card-altering games & proxying, fluxus, the abovementioned jerry's map, & @morphicrooms.bsky.social project 'additions'. also contains some collaged provocations & some things that could possibly be described as RPGs.

a collaged image captioned 'Journey kit, after George Brecht'. it contains words, letters and shapes pasted over a triangle grid. the words are: desires; plans; copy; paths; skate; bones; paper; press; garden. the letters are: L; G; E. the shapes are: a large polyhedron; a hand in the motion of slicing something.

a collage featuring a diagram of a printer, some scissors and a square grid on a pink background. text reads: collage & games / inspire scenarios / enhance a dungeon / top tip: repurpose anything that is not a role-playing game to provide potential. the scissors are in the act of snipping in half the word 'character'.

a collage featuring a flower-shaped hex grid and a hand tossing a pair of six sided dice. text reads: method 2 / flowering / cut out images/ shuffle them / this is a place of surprise

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

have you checked out issue 1 of playtest material yet? it's so full of exciting exploration & thought, absolutely worth your time if you like thinking what TTRPGs are/are like/could be. joyfully proud and honoured to have work in here.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Playtest Material @playtestmaterial.bsky.social Issue 1 is out, and it's freely available online. But if you can, also consider subscribing - it's a great way to support this kind of great projects! playtestmaterial.org Thank you @laurieoc.bsky.social for creating this resource!

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Playtest Material

publishing critical writing about roleplaying games

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hey im having a horrendous day/week, if you wanna support my work it might be a good time to back my patreon and be nice to me patreon.com/possumcreek

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Nicholas Orvis @nsorvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This seems like an amazing issue that I can't wait to dive into. I'm honored to be included!

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am really grateful to @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social for agreeing to be my guest editor, and to Wythe @stillfleet.bsky.social for taking on Issue Two. I'm still looking for guest editors for future issues and it really is a journey!

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

rare vulnerable moment: the release of this magazine is a huge deal for me and the culmination of hundreds of hours of quiet and often pretty gruelling effort. Having moved to another country weeks ago I have nobody to celebrate it with but I am exceptionally proud of it as a curated piece of work.

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

So many people have put so much effort into Issue One of Playtest Material. It releases today online, with complete open access, at 20:00 UTC. playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

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Playtest Material’s First Subscription Drive - A Resounding Success

Last week, we launched a subscription drive for the inaugural issue of Playtest Material. Our aim was to meet a target of 75, which would allow our magazine to break even after paying contributors’ ...

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kraldum: a solo fantasy mudlarking RPG is live on Gamefound! create your mudlark, descend to the foreshore, uncover treasures & ancient mysteries, & do your best to survive. here begins a megathread where i go on about this thing until all targets are obliterated 💙 gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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Kraldum: Solo Fantasy Mudlarking RPG by tooth & shore - Gamefound

Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.

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Frederic Walker @fwalkerrpgdev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am returning to roleplay in the Late Bronze Age Collapse with a new TTRPG, designed for both solo journaling and GMless group play: None Could Stand Before Them A Roleplaying Game about the Sea Peoples of the Late Bronze Age Collapse Coming later this year. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fwa...

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Coming soon: None Could Stand Before Them TTRPG

A GMless and solo journaling TTRPG about the Sea Peoples of the Late Bronze Age Collapse

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

saying that a game is "good" or "bad" only works as a method of determining value if we assume that most games are the same tropey slop that you can just put on a scale of quality, and at a certain point you're just judging the art

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

maybe it is a mixed game, I don't know, but if something looks different to what you're used to, why not try to think if there's a reason for it rather than just saying "wrong" lol

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still remember when the one public review for full send said "I just don't know why they did the info design this way, it feels disrespectful to the theme" when it LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE A GUIDEBOOK

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

can't believe it's tomorrow 😱 excited and nervousssssss

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Actually went backwards a bit in September but that's to be expected!

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

go! go! go!

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Progress towards my birthday goals (November 20) Paid members: 10/20 Free members: 72/100

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you! I definitely wanted it to see the light of day eventually

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a solo memory game I initially made for an exhibition about medieval life. It never made it into the actual exhibition due to practical concerns (a custom card deck just wasn't going to work) but at least I can share it here. www.patreon.com/posts/170660...

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The Herbalist's Garden: A Repurposed Game for Historic Learning | Laurie O'Connel

Many months ago, I worked on an exhibition at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham entitled "Weird Hope Engines." The exhibition was about r

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“If we interpret a 'traditional' GM’s authority over storytelling as being similar to that of a Rakugoka to their 'banashi', then perhaps we can consider the traditional Rakugoka’s structured training in empathy to be a useful lens through which to understand safety in TTRPGs.”

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

google search , how to stop my gen z housemates from using chatgpt to calculate their kingmaker battle odds instead of simply mathematically expanding the odds table to accomodate our larger forces

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🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 25/09/2026

WE BEAT 75 AND I KNOW WE CAN HIT 100!!! KEEP THIS DRIVE GOIN FOLKS!

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James @ Unknown Dungeon @unknowndungeon.itch.io · 25/09/2026

Super excited for this. I've just subscribed to the print edition.

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1) since everything is ready, I am offically on holiday until playtest material issue one releases on tuesday. 2) patreon supporters, some very fun posts should be scheduled for over the weekend. 3) the playtest material subscription drive will continue til MONDAY, but I won't be updating so often.

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even before tori emailed offering to produce a piece for the magazine, I had already envisioned their art on the cover. I just knew it would be perfect for the magazine. If I could have only them do the covers forever, I would. They have a project on at the moment so take a look at their profile.

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🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 23/09/2026

We are at 66/75!! Thank yall that have subscribed so far! We still have a little to go and even shorter time to meet subscription goal, so please, share with friends and family tell them to pass it along too!

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Nicholas Orvis @nsorvis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My latest essay is up on Playtest Material! Looking at the points of contact between theater and RPGs. If you want a sense of this "gameful theater" thing I've been banging on about, I get into a bit of that near the end!

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Nicholas Orvis @nsorvis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Many thanks to @laurieoc.bsky.social and the @playtestmaterial.bsky.social team for helping out this together! It was a pleasure! ❤️

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The Stillfleet Studio ☉ more than play 🇵🇸 🔜 Gaelcon @stillfleet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TTRPG designers, players, readers, and commentators: the new journal of RPG studies, Playtest Material, is seeking subscribers to help grow and sustain itself. PM is something special. The caliber of writing has been incredible from the start.

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🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 21/09/2026

I have a piece in here on lyric games, interpretation of others words, how we build canon in our games with only a loose sense of what exists there, reading as a form of play, and where what may be next with ttrpgs & an interview on site with @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social abt lyric games and YWDITP!

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Nicholas Orvis @nsorvis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've got an essay on theater, TTRPGs, and critical spectatorship in the inaugural issue of Playtest Material, a new quarterly journal of serious RPG criticism. And they're having a subscription drive right now! If RPG crit interests you, check out some of the previews and consider a sub.

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it's going so well! love to see a plan come together and all that

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John Lee Brougher @johnbrougher.com · 20/09/2026

Please support new TTRPG magazine Playtest Material if you can! I have an article in the inaugural issue, as do folks like @jellyfishlines.itch.io and others!

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

pretty cool cover art too (i did it)

paper collage made up partly of colourful textured squares and partly more organic shapes and cut-out images including gems, etched artefacts, tabletop minis and a hand doing shadow-play. there are snippets of text which read: roll up a character / ancient puzzle / new thrills / useful or unusual forms

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Juhana Pettersson @juhanaonparas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This looks cool, I subscribed.

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Sean Tibbitts Is Submitting to Sprigs & Kindling! @pizzoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I believe what Playtest Material is doing is important. If you agree, and you are able, please subscribe—either to the print version, or as a supporter. If you can't do either, please help by sharing the post below!

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Hags @h4gs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

UK folks you should do this! a quarterly journal ran by the Most Highly Sound Laurie O'Connel. great way to bring the conversation forward

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