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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Congrats, @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social! Brigitte’s The Goodest Girls won the 2026 CRIT Award for Best GM-less TTRPG and Nat’s Assemblage was a finalist for Best Multiplayer TTRPG! Celebrate with 20% all of our games through 10/4. scryptidgames.com/discount/FABLE

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Last chance to vote for @natmesnard.bsky.social and @brigittewinter.bsky.social for CRIT Awards! Voting closes 8/23.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's such an honor to have my game Assemblage nominated for the @critawards.bsky.social this year! Check out all the great games and creators and vote!

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm teaching an online interactive fiction course in a 6-week workshop format this summer w/ @onestorymag.bsky.social and there's still a few slots left. All-levels class, focus on providing the creative community and conversation needed to publish a major IF piece: one-story.com/product/inte...

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Interactive Fiction Workshop with Nat Mesnard – One Story

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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our Interactive Fiction Workshop with @natmesnard.bsky.social of @scryptidgames.bsky.social will run July 8-Aug. 12th! Limited to 10 students. Join us for 6 weeks of play & turn your IF idea into a finished project. For complete details visit: bit.ly/4fz3N4Z #interactivefiction

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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This six-week, 10-student class with @natmesnard.bsky.social of @scryptidgames.bsky.social invites you to explore interactive narrative writing and design in a workshop-style format. For details visit: bit.ly/4fz3N4Z

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IGDA NYC @igdanyc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

June 5 deadline: Apply to the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social Fall Game Incubator $15K funding Executive Producer Mentor Workshops Coworking Spcae Advisors Shortlisted applicants pitch by video (remotely) for final slots. Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #NYMakesGames

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hey #nyc, @meganmilks.bsky.social is running their Prose Workshop this summer. I'll be taking this course for the second time (my first was last year) & I'm so excited about it. In-person, writing prompts, genre-weird workshopping, yeess, all of these things are very good: www.meganmilks.com/classes

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Megan Milks | Classes

Class offerings from Megan Milks, author of SLUG and MARGARET AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BODY

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

These are the things that I write about 🙃

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Poems live on @electricliterature.com The Commuter today! Thank you to @kellyluce.bsky.social for giving this work on desire and longing and memory and video games and problematic pop music and expensive soft felted snails a home. ✨ electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...

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The Delicious Hell of a New Jersey Sex Dungeon - Electric Literature

Two poems by Nat Mesnard

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

For NYC folks, this class is happening TODAY at 1-3PM ET. A few spaces are still open! Come make a #ttrpg with us and explore innovative story game design.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

What a lovely review of Why We Fight by @sdrgames.bsky.social! 🎉

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Never not going hard. 💪 It's been so fun to read submissions for this project.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is happening today. Lots of registrations already, but a few spaces are still open if you want to spend your Sunday doing experimental #ttrpg design! Class starts at 3PM ET.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is tomorrow! Space is still open. If you're in NYC and want to design something new, come join us. We'll playstorm #ttrpg concepts using Legos and you'll leave with new game ideas + maybe the beginnings of a first draft.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

You 👏🏻 love 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 see 👏🏻 it!

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Hey, NYC cryptids, come out! This is going to be a great class, and Session 1 will be exploring @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Lego-based #ttrpg Space Goblins! 🎉

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If you're based in NYC and want to study #ttrpg design w/ me, come out on Sunday 3/22 at 1-3 PM for Session 1 of MAKE WEIRD GAMES, my workshop on "weird" story game design where we explore brilliant indie zines & playstorm new game concepts! All levels welcome: twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

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Workshop | Make Weird Games w/ Nat Mesnard

Workshop | MAKE WEIRD GAMES w/ Nat Mesnard (3 Sessions) In this three-session workshop, we'll take inspiration from "weird" story games and other innovative indie titles to playstorm new game concepts...

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New Substack post live today, and it's about being a drag clown, attending #AWP26 and the #ttrpg design classes I'm teaching this month ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/natmesna...

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Clown, Conferences, and Complicité

Would you study tabletop game design with a nascent drag clown?

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Can't wait to find out how the Beta version of this cool game I've been making w/ @laurieblake.bsky.social plays! ✨ For my Metatopia pals, this ran as "Solarpunk Naturalists" at the con last year. The title is now officially "Natural Selection." 🍄

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 13/03/2026

Rather get metaphysical? For a TTRPG try... 🏍️ Starlee Davidson, created by @natmesnard.bsky.social + @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social and brought to us by @9thlevelgames.bsky.social (grab your tarot deck and play the motorcycle-riding spirits of Starlee's inner self, guiding her after a bad breakup)

An interior example from Starlee Davidson. The lefthand page shows an illustration of a robot character in a three-piece suit. It is accompanied by a blurb about them (their name is Secret Danger). The righthand page is a character sheet that shows their name, pronouns, which die to use, their secret tarot card, and their stats

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Stoked to see this recap of my #AWP26 panel from @amandatien.bsky.social. The vibes were SO brilliant and having them recapped in this delightful piece is a gift.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Heyyy that's my game STARLEE DAVIDSON designed w/ @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social about a woman's inner motorcycle gang & their breakup-transcending trip through the woo-niverse! ✨🏍️

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I'm teaching a 2.5 hour Zoom workshop on March 29 called MAKE SHORT GAMES. We'll discuss tiny #ttrpgs and one-pagers, and playstorm games of our own. A great opportunity to design your first game, or (for experienced folks) make something new: www.eventbrite.com/e/make-short...

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Make Short Games with Nat Mesnard

A Zoom workshop taking inspiration from short TTRPGs to playstorm new games.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A total delight to play bass in this band of game-writing rock stars. 🎸

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Brigitte Winter @brigittewinter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Looking forward to @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Story Game Presses: Pitching, Submissions & Publishing" with some incredible publishers: @domsdickey.bsky.social @nearfutures.bsky.social @justinsirois.bsky.social @natmesnard.bsky.social

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We're bound for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 in Baltimore, MD this week! If you'll be around, come by the panels @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social are running on games/writing, and visit us at Booth #T425 on the showroom floor.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

So excited for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Prose, Poetry, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice" with some incredible designers/writers: @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @davering.bsky.social, @nirele.bsky.social, and @brigittewinter.bsky.social! Join us 🎲

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is going to be delightful. My two spookiest friends, Will and @brigittewinter.bsky.social, in one livestream! Come watch us ~~~scare~~~ each other w/ how much we all love to read and write creepy queer fiction 💕

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Stop, Drop & Roll @sdrgames.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Stayed up way past our bedtime for this earlier in the week, 10/10 would stay up late again! Very interesting conversations as a whole

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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Of potential interest to fans of 2025's "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology from Middle West Press: Baltimore-based @scryptidgames.bsky.social is crowd-funding an anthology comprising story-telling TTRPG, fiction, and poetry! Campaign ends Feb. 27, 2026! Info: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera

A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I had an excellent time chatting with @natmesnard.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social about games, the playful erotic, the rise of fan-games (the next step to fan fiction?) and more! They are cool people, if you didn’t know. Just saying.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This was suuuuuch a dynamic conversation with @superdillin.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social last night! People in the chat were...taking notes?! Tons of good stuff on subversive game design, erotic TTRPGs, and "emancipatory bleed." www.youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

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Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New livestream! Join Scryptid Games Co-Founder @natmesnard.bsky.social tonight, 2/17, at 7pm ET for a chat with @backerkit.com #ZineTopia designers @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social on their new games & the thriving New York City tabletop scene! youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

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Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard

YouTube video by Scryptid Games

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

clown is cryptid; the wind chill in NYC today is NOT cryptid

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Always fun to be a little unhinged on the internet with my buddy @brigittewinter.bsky.social. Never once have I tried to be cool 😤

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Don’t miss our livestream tonight, 2/6, at 7pm ET. @natmesnard.bsky.social and @brigittewinter.bsky.social will share the story of how this project came to be, what Brigitte wants from submissions, and what to expect from the new "Make Short Games" class Nat is offering as a campaign reward.

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Don’t forget to reserve your ticket for the Assemblage launch party! See you at 4pm today! 🍄 ❤️

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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

TODAY is last chance to submit.

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm stoked that this is coming up on Saturday in NYC at @20sidedstore.bsky.social. If you're coming, grab your spot! Tix are free, but space is limited. Let's play together & tell stories of grief and ecological resilience: twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

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Spotlight | Assemblage Eco-Storytelling Release Party

Come celebrate the release of Assemblage, Nat Mesnard's TTRPG of world-building and world-breaking. We'll kick off at 4p with a short design talk between Nat and featured guest Hannah Tinti. Then at ...

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

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The Quiet Year (box set)

The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...

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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is such an important @rascal.news read highlighting the awesomeness and depth of @laurieblake.bsky.social as a designer and as an activist! So stoked to see your words and your work highlighted. 💕

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 21/01/2026

Assemblage from @scryptidgames.bsky.social is a card-based eco-fantasy storytelling game for 2-6 players where each player portrays an entire species—and collaborates in crafting an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of collapse. tabletopbookshelf.com/products/ass...

A promotional graphic featuring the box art for the game Assemblage by Nat Mesnard. Large yellow text at the top reads "NEW ARRIVAL." The game box features surreal, vibrant artwork of a nature scene with strange, mutated animals, such as a pink deer-like creature and a frog with wings, above a cross-section of earth showing deep roots. Text at the bottom of the graphic reads "NOW @ TABLETOP BOOKSHELF.

A product display showing the components of the game Assemblage spread out on a grey background. The game box and a guidebook stand upright in the back. In the foreground are two folded cards labeled "Species Name" and several stacks of square colorful cards labeled with categories including "Habitat," "Exploration," "Relationship," "Event," and "Cataclysm." To the right are loose cards labeled "Myth-Making," "Season," "Assemblage," and "Keystone Species.

A close-up view of eight specific cards from Assemblage, showcasing their artwork and flavor text. The top row features "Interloper," "Seismic Upheaval," "Psychic Disturbance," and an "Assemblage" instruction card. The bottom row features "Cosmic Event," "Toxic Influx," "Superspecies," and a "Keystone Species" instruction card. The artwork depicts various environmental and sci-fi events, such as a large moth creature, a glowing galaxy, and toxic green landscapes.

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New podcast episode just dropped featuring an interview with @natmesnard.bsky.social and Talk of the Table! open.spotify.com/episode/52Oq...

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Designing for GMless Play w/ Nat Mesnard

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