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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Asa Donald, also known as Man Who Pisses Me Off Because He's So Brilliant, has a great new article (and series) that you should absolutely check out. Let the metagames begin!!

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The first essay in my design series for Mousetrap is "Let the Metagames Begin," which surveys games that are about games and what I find both exciting and challenging about them:

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Let the Metagames Begin

Games about games

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Robert I'm not upset with you I just want to know what possessed you to think of this

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You could definitely throw in the Loom SRD if you're looking for something a little more abstract! clawhammergames.com/the-loom-sys...

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not sure who here heard already, but Nic from IPR was in a really bad car crash two weeks ago, and his car is completely totaled. Anything you can give would be immensely appreciated, and even if you can't, please please please spread the word on this! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...

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Donate to Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement, organized by David Gales

I'm raising funds for my dear friend Nicholas, who was recently in a ter… David Gales needs your support for Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nic has always been incredibly helpful when I'm working with IPR. He's a pillar of RPG publishing.

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Sam van der Voort 🔜 PAX Unplugged @laggardson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please give what you can!

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satahshanks the kale gay cat 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 16/09/2026

xtreme energy swords boost on this-- im pretty sure the first physical copies of anything i ever made were in that car at some point & nic's kind & chill help was innnvaluable to me when i was a nervous wreck about getting books to a convention for the first time so Please Do Help Give Back A Bit !

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Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nic is truly one of the best folks in indie gaming. Please do what you can to help!

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Nicholas ➼ visiting The City! @omophagic-beast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

hey so some of yall may remember when i totaled my car two weeks ago! well the lovely @lonelamplighter.bsky.social has set up a gofundme to help me gather some funds for a new car - something thats kinda necessary to have out here when my closest grocery store is 100 miles down the road

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

nic is one of my boys, the backbone of indie small press publishing, the sweetest and most personable fellow in ttrpgs, a ray of sunshine at every gencon, and my champion when rogue swordswomen challenge me. please please help support him!

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

gofundme.com

Donate to Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement, organized by David Gales

I'm raising funds for my dear friend Nicholas, who was recently in a ter… David Gales needs your support for Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if anyone is curious COVID still sucks ass and you shouldn't get it

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Jeeyon Shim's connected path games are absolutely something to keep an eye on. She doesn't really do them anymore, but they're worth studying for sure

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Looks like the website is down right now, I've poked my site admin to take a look at it ASAP! I'll ping you here when I have the links for it :)

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R. LaFille @rivkahlafille.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I am on the hunt for two artists to recommend for the two scripts I've just been contracted for through Scholastic, soooo...if you are a cartoonist who finds a sweet older midgrade romcom set in New England in the fall totes your cup of hot apple tea..MESSAGE ME. (before end of July)

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

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Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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Tyeewhyee @tyeewhyee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today, July 14th, is International Non Binary Peoples Day. Non Binary identities are diverse, and greatly misunderstood. Non Binary folks do not owe you androgenous presentation, and non binary identities are not "new". In fact, they long predate the colonial insistence of a gender binary.

An infographic for International Non Binary Peoples Day. It features a transluscent non-binary flag with yellow, white, purple, and black stripes. Superimposed behind the flag is a picture of folks at a pride march carrying signs. At the front is a sign which reads "Non Binary People Have Always Existed". The words "Happy International Non Binary Peoples Day" and the date, July 14th are written atop.

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Happy to announce that Before The Flood has won a Sprinty!

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

IT'S TIME AGAIN For The Most Legitimate Award In TTRPGs, The Sprinties. THE RULES: You can nominate your game. If you nominate your game, it will win. When you win, you may record on your game page that you are an award-winning designer.

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A proposed rule fueled by Trump’s conspiracy theories would require the USPS to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—and give them the power to hold those ballots hostage. Urge them to say NO and help protect voting by mail: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...

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Don’t Let Trump Sabotage Vote by Mail!

In a new proposed rule, the USPS would be required to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—as well as the power to stop those ballots from being delivered. Urge them to ...

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Well, shit. We knew the ruling was coming, but it still hurts.

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Your brain is fucking luminous and I want to devour it neuron by neuron

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Seven Part Pact is coming to kickstarter July 2026 ! it's a massive ambitious TTRPG about magic, masculinity, and power. here's what brennan lee mulligan has to say about it

“If you’re a sucker for hoary tomes and dread grimoires, if your heart cries out for wicked homunculi and crafty familiars, if at the end of the day you’re out here just trying to ponder some goddamn orbs, then Jay has crafted the perfect game for you. Seven Part Pact is a vast, robust, visceral game about the powers and limitations of magic, the invisibility and essentiality of the work it takes to change/save/destroy the world, and an epic saga sung to the part of our soul that wishes to stroke our beard and sunder our staff upon the very mountainside. Take heed, o master of these most potent arts - the legend of your wizardry awaits within this very book!”
— Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dimension 20

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Washington Monument Reflecting Pool, Aerial View (2026)

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's Kyle Tam's Birthday/launch day! Moriah is @percypropa.bsky.social #TTRPG about ordinary folks facing the extraordinary. The game asks, "What will you sacrifice to save what matters most?" This is the Final Cut of the game with expanded text & visual design! Back it at ttrpg.link/moriah 1/X

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MORIAH: Final Cut

MORIAH is a simple role-playing game of ordinary people facing the extraordinary. It is a game of sacrifice, where people living quiet lives at the base of a holy mountain must attempt to ascend it in...

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Did you know? The more you know, the more information you have, and the more information you have, the more important it is that you learn when to use that information!

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Does anyone want to play Marathon with me or do you hate me

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Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

What a pleasure to finally share our cover artwork for Swords Without Master, by the incomparable @elemei.bsky.social! Swords! Sorcery! Foes defeated! Danger looms! Wonders undreamt of wait to be discovered! Truly, everything you can expect from the game. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

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Ceinwen Langley @ceinwenlangley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

The Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin asks his dad to come play in the snow with him. His dad initially says no, because he has to work. Then, angry at himself, his Dad goes out to build a snowman with Calvin. As the Dad works into the night to make up for it, we see Calvin’s mum lifting him up to give one of the few, if only, kisses he ever gives his dad in the Calvin and Hobbes run. His dad is content. It’s a textless comic, and it’s lovely.

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

clawhammergames.itch.io/fame-ashcan The ashcan of Fame, my upcoming game, is now available on itch.io (and soon to be available for free on my website as well)!

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FAME: Ashcan Edition by Clawhammer Games

a TTRPG of all-consuming celebrity

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grey @aliengenic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

👀👀👀

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

clawhammergames.itch.io/fame-ashcan The ashcan of Fame, my upcoming game, is now available on itch.io (and soon to be available for free on my website as well)!

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FAME: Ashcan Edition by Clawhammer Games

a TTRPG of all-consuming celebrity

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 08/06/2026

Shrew Monk Summer

i redrew a richard scarry page but put my little guys in there instead

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Wrapping up the prepwork before I drop my new ashcan and I can already tell you that you're uhhhhhh not ready for this bullshit

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 31/05/2026

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.