iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you haven't checked out Vesta Mandate yet but you ARE into scifi and political media I want you to take a second to read this: "The amount of delightful friction that this game creates is astounding. This is a gold standard game of politics." from the talented @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social.

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fantasy City 26 starts today with our first main prompt: RESOURCES - What resource caused the city to be built where it is? Has that abundance waned? Is the city forced to rely on trade and imports for their continued existence? Join the discord to check out what others are already writing!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

New York, 1970. Gay Liberation Front Protest.

Female protester with the sign - GAY POWER BLACK POWER WOMEN POWER STUDENT POWER ALL POWER
TO THE
PEOPLE

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Andy | Pandion Games @pandiongames.com · 01/06/2026

I'm excited about Driftless, our new zonecore TTRPG! Inspired by Control, Annihilation, & Pacific Drive, and invokes 90s episodic TV game sessions. It'll show off streamlined Muscadines rules for modern settings, & takes place in the Driftless Area in the Midwest. Can't wait to share more!

a series of sketches by Galen Pejeau showing off different technology mashups from odd film cameras, modified gameboys, and other hacked together devices.

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 08/06/2026

NEW: City of Blood and Plaster is a system agnostic setting zine with NPCs, factions, and mysteries for your next exploration of Gilded Age Chicago. The scenarios and play materials all take inspiration from Gothic horror and Chicago history. From @storygameschicago.bsky.social

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The aftermath of our playtest for Drove to Chicago. A melancholic, hopeful game of figuring out who you want to be as a teen graduating high school. This is the last summer to see your crush, to be with your friends, before everything change.

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 29/06/2026

Just read this, and I love how this adapted the Boundless pool (using d10!) in a totally fun and new direction, using it as a shared resource for the entire group and as a way to abstract how much resource the group has on their ship. Brilliant stuff. I've also been going in similar directions:

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Got some film back from when @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I were exploring random areas around the convention center on a break at Gamehole Con and a shop near our AirB&B that had a sick sign. This film stock (Phoenix II 200) is pretty wonderful.

A small bridge crossing a little creek on a sunny day with a big orangey-yellow tree in the background and a handful of clouds in a blue sky.

The same bridge over the creek but now Ryan stands in it.

The orangey-yellow tree in the background from a different angle. Ryan crashed on the ground in the shade under a tree in the foreground.

An old neon sign of a grocery store called Miller’s set against a blue sky with cars and buildings in shade as the sun sets.

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 07/06/2026

NEW: Vesta Mandate is a sci-fi political thriller roleplaying game for 2-4 players. On Vesta Station, you play the conniving mastermind with a secret agenda that will bring the Station to its knees or uplift it to a new era. from @storygameschicago.bsky.social

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Even as we were finishing and getting ready to go to print with Vesta Mandate @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I were having ideas that were big enough that had us questioning moves, considering large shifts in a potential 2E for the game. So we sorta experienced this in realtime somewhat recently!!

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Storygames Chicago @storygameschicago.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The hunger for communion with the Entities grows on Vesta Station. Vesta Mandate: COMMUNION is a new expansion with three new Crises, custom moves, and mechanics to transform the sci-fi political thriller #ttrpg into an alien horror experience. storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

no ai image will ever match the charm and humor of The Obvious Photoshop. this is what they took from us

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

NUNS:
Reading
Praying
ECSTATIC VISIONS.
Gardening

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 23/04/2026

Wait, why does Oxford get one? We want a comma.

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Vesta Mandate has been nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker award for Best Setting! It’s so cool to see an aspect that @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I spent so long agonizing over get highlighted. And it’s amazing to be in the company of such incredible games. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

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Indie Groundbreakers Awards — Indie Game Developer Network

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Ryan Zenith @ryanzenith.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

@chkurk.bsky.social @tonytranrpg.bsky.social and I will soon be releasing Vesta Mandate: COMMUNION, which will turn the sci-fi political thriller game into an alien horror experience. Check out Vesta Mandate storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate and check for updates on Communion! #ttrpg #pbta

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I wanted to talk about this moment quickly cause I've been thinking about it a lot. It felt like a climax of the session mechanically and it feels worth exploring why @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I built it like this. Watch like 2 minutes from the point shared here for context.

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Vesta Mandate | Harboring War Criminals - One-Shot

YouTube video by StoryGamesChicago

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♡🎃hale-oween🎃♡ @halehound.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

me and my special interests

Florence Welch saying “medieval, vampire, witchcraft”

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Word that's overdue a popular return, having plenty of applicability: Jeremiad: A long literary work in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, containing a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.

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🐓 SCARY PENDRAKE 📦 MOVIN'! @peripendrake.art · 13/03/2026

Seal, Comet, Sea 🦭 ☄️ 🌊 March's mailed print 📮 Holbein Acryla Gouache on hot press watercolor paper.

An anthropormorphic seal wearing dull green and teal fleece and wool european medieval clothing such as a hood and undershirt. Around it curves a net flush with seaweed and shells dropping with water and behind its head is a tyrian purple banner with a cormorant grabbing a moon in its beak. In the dull sky above a comet streams across.

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

CHECK IT OUT!! We have some other people working on APs (that will probably have fancier setups than this) but this one dives into all the details of getting a game going at your table. They also somehow managed to show almost every single mechanic in a one shot. Which is sort of impressive!

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Ryan Zenith @ryanzenith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Has no one mentioned Wilderfeast yet? horribleguild.com/eu/product-c...

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Wilderfeast – Horrible Guild

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

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Erica Bridges @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The pre-launch page for Nostos is live on Kickstarter! Give it a follow if you'd like updates about my TTRPG about sailing home and saying goodbye, coming April 7, 2026. Let's find a way home. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

A teaser poster for Nostos, a TTRPG coming to Kickstarter in early April. Impressionist stormclouds thunder over a roiling sea. Caption text reads "Let's find a way home" above the central word, "Nostos". Illustration by Kaysha Siemens.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

there is something so poignant and sad about the coffee-making robot at the Stonestown Mall. you can see the human gestures replicated by its algorithm in the gentle way it taps out the portafilter. but it can't clean the portafilter properly. each new puck contains a crust of the previous one.

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DREW WISE @drewwise.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🩷 ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴇꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ! 🩷

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Ryan Zenith @ryanzenith.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

come see our gaaames and play shuffleboard

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scorpy @socpens.com · 03/03/2026

fuck playstation 5 this is what im playing

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

And download the game to see how our ideas from the episode translated into the ashcan of Cry Out To God! A game of rumors, rituals and religion! storygameschicago.itch.io/cry-out-to-god

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Cry Out To God by Storygames Chicago

A game of Ritual set in the Great Awakening where the people CRY OUT TO GOD.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 01/03/2026

Events like Gen Con owe their community an explanation of how they intend to ensure the safety of convention-goers who may be targeted due to national origin, racial profiling, or “gender policing” in a state like Indianapolis, while justifying their continued presence in such an unwelcoming state.

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Indiana ICE immigration bill heads to governor’s desk for final signature into law

The Indiana Senate approved a bill that allows local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and cooperate with ICE.

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

HELP HIM

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

We've gotta protect him at ALL costs. Or maybe burn him at the stake...

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The second season of Gamestorm is starting with a bang! Our first episode is out now with guest @outridercreative.bsky.social. Come checkout the first episode and the game we made! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3atsr... storygameschicago.itch.io/when-we-were...

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When We Were Teenage Ghost Hunters by Storygames Chicago

a storytelling game

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Skullboy @betterlegends.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

new trend, every time you theorypost about ttrpgs you have to go outside and you can't come back until you've made a new friend.

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 15/02/2026

the Black Panthers were right

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Switching from reading fic to writing my book is like. Oh no. Wait. I actually have to do work to read this story?

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

If you’ve enjoyed Gamestorm, then go check out the Jam starting tonight and running for a month! Pick a prompt from any episode of the first season and make a little game based on it! You can find all the details in the jam below! itch.io/jam/gamestor...

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Gamestorm: Season 1 Prompt Jam

A game jam from 2026-02-15 to 2026-03-17 hosted by Storygames Chicago. The Jam Gamestorm is a podcast all about game creation and how easy it is for everyone to make games. 90%+ of the work that comes...

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 15/02/2026

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

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Ryan Zenith @ryanzenith.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

would love to hear what you think about it when you get a chance to read it! ✨

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The first spell that was ever cast in my very first playtest session of Diabolic Dialect was ‘BONES ON THE OUTSIDE!’ Pretty horrific, I know. But man what a tone-setter! Check out the pre-launch and the full campaign coming next week! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

A comic depicting two images. One of a man casting the spell ‘BONES ON THE OUTSIDE’ successfully on another wizard and the other of the wizard misshaping and turning his own hand to jelly (and not the sweet kind)!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

City of Blood and Plaster and the Print & Play for my upcoming Kickstarter - Diabolic Dialect - are both in this! Go support a good cause and get so… many… incredible games!

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Tim Denee @olddog.games · 10/02/2026

Back it or don't, but PLEASE watch the video trailer five times, I worked very hard on it 🙏✌️

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Hot take: In fantasy games, big pantheons where there's a deity for every type of character morality and it's assumed you'll go for yours? That sucks the juice out of defining characters as sinners, apostate, of walking away from faith and returning to it; if faith is easy pablum, it has no spice.

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