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@madjay.bsky.social
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Black at the Table 🤬 Catch me on www.madjayzero.com #ttrpg #indiedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey KC gamers, I’m trying something new next month: a hands-on workshop for new and newer GMs. For folks thinking about running their first RPG, getting ready for their first session, or you want to get more comfortable with prep, improvisation, pacing, and handling players being players.
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Run your first great game session! by Play Fearless Games | Eventbrite
You want to run a tabletop RPG. Something's stopping you. A 3-hour RPG workshop: real examples, real questions, no experience needed. Come with a friend or come alone. Bring dice, pen and paper — and ...
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mothership distress signals.... If you run this game AND haven't listened to these, BRUHHHHH. 🙀
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Phil, Ziapelta Games @gruefodder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lavender Hack kickstarter is live here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lav... It's a short campaign, running for 10 days. Check it out for an interesting take on handling resources in fantasy exploration games!
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Lavender Hack RPG: Grindcore Edition — Book #1 (Core Rules)
You are not limited by your imagination. You are limited by crushing levels of debt.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All this time, I thought He went gunning for his stolen woman...and nearly hung for it...🤠 It was water. 🙃 And now I'm out lunch and a song.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"I bundle, amongst you cold mother-uckers The world is bitter, like baby mothers Look how far El Dorados and wine bottles drug us Least God and the sun love us, it's the Sun God" — The Sun God, Hi-Tek #codeJamz
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's Friday. I'm off today. —and back on some 🐴 💩 🤣
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Indie Game Reading Club @indiegamereadingclub.com · 24/09/2026
E2 of the Indie Game Talk Club is live! Available wherever you get your podcasts. If you get our newsletter emailed to you when I post, I discovered you don't get a link to the episode, just the show notes without context. We're learning so much. 😳 indiegamereadingclub.com/making-and-b...
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E2: Making And Breaking Genre
Episode Synopsis Paul and Dusey talk about onboarding new roleplayers, monetizing your hobbies, priming a table for optimal play, and the power and limits of genre. Content warning: D&D is ment…
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🤯 "don't know why it's been yapping on about goblins, and cheese, and kitty-location"
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AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I will be IMMORTAL!! #zerodays
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We wrapped up an epic IRL 10+ session run of Monster of the Week in the Occulted Kansas City! Dive into the mysteries of the Frog Monsters, the Fae Circus, and Curse Speakers! Would play again!! #TabletopRPG #MonsterOfTheWeek #PlayFearless
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Played It: Running Monster of the Week in Occulted Kansas City
Discover Monster of the Week gameplay set in Occulted Kansas City. Explore urban fantasy horror, hunter archetypes, and mystery-driven sessions in this Powered by the Apocalypse RPG.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHA! So that's how it is?!
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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At CIGS yesterday I had a person refer to Velvet Glove as a "unicorn" - a game they desperately wanted to buy and haven't been able to. Velvet Glove is currently under development with a publisher. Which means the official version will be coming out! We're currently in editing, but more news soon!
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@Badger Knight Castle A halfling knight on a donkey with a lance pulls a goblin hat-trick! Then strips off armor to climb a ruined tower for recon, in the pouring rain! And a goblin with the right initiative card draws can outrun a halfling on a donkey...just not forever! #dragonbane-sundays
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
WE called it 'Tops' in Jersey City. My first street game.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
CROWNBREAKERS! Thx for hosting #TurnBasedThursday Y'all keep me AMPED!! 🤘🏾 I'm coding away on Zero Days, my Netrunner + Gibson Sprawl inspired hacking deckbuilder where your deck is your deck and you're running the ICE Follow along: madjayzero.itch.io/zero-days Run the ICE. 🧊
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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My list is up to 119 names. Did I miss one? Did I miss you? Please comment if you're a female game designer and I'll add you to the list. www.patreon.com/sarahdoom/po...
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Who Gets to be Named, Part 1 | sarahdoom
So I'm curious after reading Sen-Foong Lim's interview about the importance of naming designers. You can read it here: https://www.ttrpginsi
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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is great and you should read it and then make a zine: commonplacezines.substack.com/p/why-every-... I’m thinking about what the version for ttrpg designers would be, but maybe the manifesto jam already covered it?
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Why Every Artist Should Make a Zine
zines aren't just for writers, they're for everyone
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Like the good book says: To do it, ya gotta do it.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Do you remember The 21st night of September? #indiegamedev #ttrpg www.patreon.com/madjayzero/p...
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State of Play: September | Mad Jay, GM-at-Large
My Ars Magica + Cortex Prime project has a first name: Magonia. A Metatopia date and two playtest scenarios. Zero Days posted its first scre
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Date yourself with an image of your first ever computer. (my mom saved it)
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Started a campaign of Dragonbane today IRL, forgot pics! We've got a dwarf artisan, a halfling knight, and an old-ass elf mage! They discovered the death of their mentor/employer/client, Aldric Tolliver, and accidentally let his bound harpy escape!! Next week: Harpy Hunt! Gotta find a Harpy mini!!
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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'll be running 2 games of Velvet Glove at the Chicago Indie Games Showcase on Sept 13th - including the all new playbooks moves and revised basic moves! If you've played Velvet Glove before, no you haven't.
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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Paid subscribers to my Patreon got an early copy of the PDF for In the Pines. You can subscribe here if you want your copy! www.patreon.com/sarahdoom?ut...
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sarahdoom — games and stories with a dark witch metal sensibility
Get more from sarahdoom on Patreon. games and stories with a dark witch metal sensibility. Support sarahdoom and get exclusive access to their work.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Saw a thing IRL that inspired me, got me working a node-graph view of the network map today — trying to figure out if its better than grid-card view. Cute, might delete later 🤷🏾‍♂️ Anybody else fighting with "does this UI actually communicate anything" this week? #sologamedev #gamedev #zerodays
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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New post up where I start my thoughts on which game designers get to be named: www.patreon.com/sarahdoom/po...
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Who Gets to be Named, Part 1 | sarahdoom
So I'm curious after reading Sen-Foong Lim's interview about the importance of naming designers. You can read it here: https://www.ttrpginsi
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Folk Emerging 🦣 stone age 4X (OUT NOW) @curiousdynamics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excited to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday thread! 🎮 If you're a #gamedev with a turn-based game, showcase it in the replies, and use the hashtag #TurnBasedThursday. We're all boosting this thread! ♖ If you love turn-based #Gaming: ❤️, 🔁, & follow your faves!
hunting for great turn-based games
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Sarah Doom @scorchadoom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’ll be demoing both In the Pines and Velvet Glove there. And go listen to @cyborgurl.bsky.social’s talk!
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Mad-Dice 🤬 The Tiny VTT. Been building Mad-Dice for a few games. Now it's getting a real launch. Say it out loud: Very Tiny Table. Dice-forward. Minimalist. Sociable web app. This next iteration adds cards, safety & comm tools. Zero config. You know what to do👇🏾 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...
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Coming soon: Mad Dice Next: The Tiny VTT
Play together. Stay connected. Remember the games you played.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Zero Days demo proof-of-concept Unlocked!! Imma have to start thinking about art soon now! #indiegamedev
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ICYMI: Challenge Accepted!! 🚀 Mad Jay takes the Spelljammer DM helm! Dive into the zany world of Spelljammer with no initiative & fixed combat phases and 5-6 new XP milestones. www.playfearless.games/p/challenge-... #DND #Spelljammer #PlayFearless
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Mad Jay's Spelljammer Challenge: Running D&D's Wildest Setting
Discover how Mad Jay tackles the Spelljammer challenge with D&D 5e. Explore innovative GM techniques and house rules for running space fantasy campaigns.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And there I was, deep in the middle of a client's Rails and Tailwind code, trying to make a dollar outta 15 cents... And UI inspiration. 'Zero Days' is @70% set on gameplay, but 0% on art direction. I got some thoughts now! (pay no attention to the data behind that left panel!!) #indiegamedev
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New (to me) free public domain art resource just dropped: fineartfree.com No login!
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Fine Art Free — Download 500,000+ Public Domain Paintings & Art
Browse and download 500,000+ classic paintings free. Public domain art from top museums. Free for any use.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🚀 Challenge Accepted!! 🚀 Mad Jay takes the Spelljammer DM helm! Dive into the zany world of Spelljammer with no initiative & fixed combat phases. Curious? Check out the full adventure on Play•Fearless 🤬 And a peek at some new Mad Dice... #DND #Spelljammer #PlayFearless
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Mad Jay's Spelljammer Challenge: Running D&D's Wildest Setting
Discover how Mad Jay tackles the Spelljammer challenge with D&D 5e. Explore innovative GM techniques and house rules for running space fantasy campaigns.
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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 22/08/2026
Appreciation post! ❤️🎲 To the creators uploading games, joining bundles & trusting us with their work. To the players coming back, discovering new games & supporting indie creators. And to everyone sending messages, sharing ideas & cheering us on - thank you. We genuinely love this community. ❤️
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
ICYMI 🎲 Dive into "Solo vs. Collaborative Game Design" with Sarah Doom on Muses of Play Ep04! Discover the magic of creative feedback loops and more. Listen now: www.playfearless.games/p/solo-vs-co... #GameDesign #TabletopRPG
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Muses of Play Ep04: Solo vs. Collaborative Game Design
Discover solo vs. collaborative game design insights with Sarah Doom on Muses of Play Ep04. Explore RPG design strategies and creative techniques.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Everything's changin' around me and I wanna change too It's one thing I know, it ain't cool bein' no fool I feel different today, I don't know what else to say But I'ma get my shit together, it's now or never" —Now or Never I love both song&video you're welcome #codejamz youtu.be/nWhIayQL8YY?...
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The Roots 'Now or Never'
YouTube video by RoadwingsVideos
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When you work alone, there's no friction. Nothing to push against. You don't find out you're wrong until it's on the table in front of players, and by then it's supposed to be a playtest, not a rescue mission! Ep4 Muses of Play w/ @scorchadoom.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/934318/episo...
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Muses of Play: Reflections - The Diceology Podcast
😋 "The Zoom Cloud Ate It"You didn't miss episode three. We recorded Tim Hutchins. It was unhinged. I loved it. Zoom holds recordings for about 30 days and I wasn't paying attention, so it's gone. My f...
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Backers get ready... time to run them dice. h/t @rustysellsword.com for all the support, talks and games. to @ndpdesign.com for making it all look Incredible! #Lifted:Indomitable #CortexPrime
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Raznag @raznag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This amazing package is available on @rpgtrader.bsky.social until August 10th. My Dungeon Commercial Map Pack is included in this bundle: a great way to get map for your commercial projects! rpg-trader.com/products/775... #ttrpg #maps #fantasy #fantasymaps #noai
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TTRPG Maps Bundle on RPG Trader
A large collection of maps for your games
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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Now I'm excited about some TeeVee youtu.be/g79GPZSQHBk?...
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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ok, big code move from Lua/Love2D to C++ and the Cute Framework. No shade on Lua, it was always going to be C/C++ for me 🤷🏾‍♂️ No big UI changes except for the Dear IMGUI features baked into the CF. I'm shooting for a fall Steam demo. Zero Day Bandits still the working title. #gamedev #indiegamedev
Icon catalognode/card dev info panel
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One day left! 🤘🏾 Free yourself!
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PsiRun Second Edition
Whoever was holding you captive, you're free, for now. You have superpowers & amnesia. You know they're after you. What could go wrong?
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The eXorcists vs The Reavers. Newport Centre Mall, Hoboken. Mimic, after a round of bullet hell w/Pretty Boy: "Look out, he's got a gun" Two issues left. Wild Talents. My thoughts at my new web-home. www.playfearless.games/p/field-note...
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Iain McAllister @giantbrain.co.uk · 13/07/2026
Blades 68 from @evilhat.bsky.social and @olddog.games has hit the production stage and I'm excited to get the final books. I took a look at the text complete PDF recently in a Skim Read article.
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Blades 68 - Skim Read - The Giant Brain
Blades 68 is the latest game from Tim Denee. It brings Doskvol screaming into the light of the swinging 60s wtih bold changes and additions.
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Argentina!!! 🇦🇷
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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Dive into "Field Notes: The eXorcists" - a GM's journey with Wild Talents RPG! From prep to session 3, explore the world of Supers RPGs with us. Check it out on Play Fearless! www.playfearless.games/p/field-note... #TTRPG
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Field Notes: The eXorcists - Wild Talents RPG Campaign
Explore GM prep and session 3 gameplay of Wild Talents RPG in this field notes series. Behind-the-scenes insights from the eXorcists campaign.
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ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 08/07/2026
Every other tuesday we host Playtest Tuesday in the @unwrittenearths.bsky.social Discord, and folks? People are playtesting games! discord.com/invite/cgJa5...
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Join the Unwritten Earths Symposium Discord Server!
Check out the Unwritten Earths Symposium community on Discord - hang out with 220 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 07/07/2026
A Tuesday reminder about my Jacksonian Gothic horror game Imp of the Perverse. Follow your imp-afflicted protagonists as they deal with the real monsters in their world. If you give in? You GM the next game as your comrades now hunt your former protagonist! www.ndpdesign.com/imp
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Imp of the Perverse - A Jacksonian Gothic Horror TTRPG — ndpdesign
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