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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is where I say loudly: Unless y'all are all Absolute D&D Specialists and understand the game in its context, you do your students a disservice if you don't teach a wide variety of non-D&D TTRPGs. They should be running and writing a wide variety of games for a mixed audience.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rather than prioritizing *understanding what TTRPGs are*, we instead prioritize TTRPGs as *just another medium for creators to work with* (like painting or violin). The sooner they start expressing themselves in these games, the sooner they get over stupid "good ol boy" industry doxa from the past.
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Nicholas ➼ visiting The City! @omophagic-beast.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
new blog up! im once again talking about Realis by @possibleworlds.bsky.social and @austinwalker.bsky.social this time: Austin Walker Made Game Design Discourse Real In Realis And I Can Prove It notes-from-the-labyrinth.ink/game-design-...
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Game design discourse in Realis: The Mechanicalogica vs The Narrasoulic
You find yourself in front of a rusted spaceship port - though, on closer inspection, that rust looks an awful lot like old blood, and are those insect legs ...
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
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Fun Key Boi Games @fun-key-boi-games.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Welcome to Big Wheel One, where the 309th Drive is soon to start. As the race spans an entire lap of the wheel, take pit stops. Hang out with your crew. Meet the locals.
A little rusty cantina sits under a cliff along the road through the desert. In the background one can see that this desert is inside of a massive halo-like superstructure in orbit of a gas giant.
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🎃Farmer GaddAAAHH!!!!🎃 @farmergadda.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW BLOG POST! Warren F. Smith's "Into The Oddish" is out and unfortunetly, incapable of covering the entire expanse of the Pokemon Franchise it's parodying. Here's a short list of Gen 1 stuff that's up for grabs by us bloggers to flesh out! 🔫 get to work. farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/missin...
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Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft : Missing? No! - Absent and Misplaced Content from Into The Oddish
I did the work so now you have to
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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 20/07/2026
i know page count is A Thing Long Fetishized in places like r/rpg, commentors on itch who don't have pfps, and other groups of ppl who don't wipe their asses when they shit, but the trend of obsessing over page count in marketing copy (esp e.g. crowdfunder copy) makes me physically sick.
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Neo Trad game: you can map out the increasing specialness of your guy for 20 levels in the future (of which you will play 3)
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Slay-lor Kill-icity @rollforfelicity.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Narrative game: you play a little guy and they’re special OSR: you play a little guy and they’re not special Wargame: you control little guys and they aren’t special but you spent a lot of time painting them to look special Worldbuilding game: the world is your special little guy
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Mitchell Daily @mitchelldaily.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A quiet coastal getaway where your troubles seem to slip away... along with your memories. Check out False Star, an antimemetic/false hydra pamphlet for Into the Oddish! mitchelldaily.itch.io/falsestar
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False Star by Mitchell Daily
An antimemetic scenario for Into the Oddish
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 01/07/2026
Another Pokemon horror adventure for Into the Oddish!
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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My big gripe with this very good article: “We should make it easier to learn about the cultures and history of the hobby.” How? What do you want us, your audience, to do differently?
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Toyota Alphard, that's the character from Final Fantasy XIV right?
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Perfect ("satirical") summary of the AI bubble. The whole thing is gold: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
"Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit."
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
After a year of blue prince I don't feel that bad looking up an answer to a stumper and trying to skip ahead a little bit, but the hilarious way this game keeps giving me more is that the thing i skip over is key to finding the even wilder next part.
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Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
You don't wanna know how many pulls this took, actually. #friendsatthetable #perpetua
Fan art of Brontë Adelvys from Perpetua with wings, done up in a Gacha Splash Art style.
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Teegan @teegan.dog · 06/06/2026
bisexual final boss
Bisexual flags everywhere on the person and also a huge bi flag display like a peacock
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I would wager this is the primary reason that Lancer has such a prominent online play culture of one-shots and West Marches style servers, because it's a game that really facilitates "making cool mech builds" as a form of engagement, but you probably aren't gonna actually be in 30+ Lancer campaigns
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
When I was in high school, I loved Shadowrun 2E, a game that is a classic example of a gameline full of obtuse jank and bullshit. Was this friction why I loved it? Or was it that I was a teenager and had endless time to bash my head against it for days and weeks and months?
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Super Mario Galaxy skyboxes use perspective tricks to reduce the number of polygons that would normally be needed. The Melty Molten Galaxy skybox appears to be two large spheres, but is actually an illusion painted onto the sides of a burger.
This is what Melty Molten Galaxy's skybox looks like in the game.
Artist's conception of what it is representing: two stars connected with magma pillars.
However, moving the camera to the edge of the skybox reveals that the stars are not modeled spheres, and are instead partially drawn onto the wall.
The full model is a perspective trick that draws the horizon onto the sides of a burger-shaped skybox so that the spheres would not have to be modeled.
Modeling actual partial spheres of that size would require them to be extremely smooth, which would use a lot of polygons and can be avoided with this burger trick.
Source: Peardian, models.spriters-resource.com/wii/supermariogalaxy/asset/354100; noclip.website
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willow @fireatwillow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
that’s a very excellent point regarding The Graduate! however, this is a podcast about star wars
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Mobius Digital Games @mobiusdigitalgames.com · 29/05/2026
Happy 7th birthday, Outer Wilds! 🚀🧡 Fun fact: Hearthians need to call Riebeck over to count to 7
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Tom W @tewhit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On this May 4th I am remembering how in the short brilliant life of Cohost @dimosar.bsky.social made not one but two of the best Star Wars posts in history
Post by @Sullivan on Cohost
YODA: Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be...except for Ahsoka Tano, Ezra Bridger, Cal Kestis, Quinlan Vos,
LUKE: ...Who?
YODA: ...Gungi- the wookiee jedi kid,
LUKE: a Wookie Jedi?? Master, isn't that a bit tireso-(continued @Sullivan post on Cohost)
YODA: NOT finished I was...Reva, some other Inquisitors I bet, Opo Rancisis- the ugly-looking tree guy from Phantom Menace, he was. And Ka-Moon Kholi, Kelleran Beq, Selrahc Elous, Baylon Skoll, some guy named "Naq Med" if reading this right I am,
#STAR WARS #yoda
(A reply, also from @Sullivan)
LUKE: Cal...Kestis? Mouthfeel on that one is a little off...
YODA: a double jump, he can do.(pasting full text in here, it's gonna get cut off sorry)
Sheev's Plan:
get elected to senate for naboo
start new sith order
work republic and separatists against each other. recruit evil guy to lead separatists.
(this jedi kid is wicked strong!)

get jedi in deep with clone army. (save some clone jars for later? just in case...)
PIVOT: Make the jedi kid evil. dont need separatist guy anymore. got a new evil guy.
make my evil guy kill his jedi pals when they come to arrest me. ill finish em off with my lightning attack
(fucking guy used his sword to bounce my lightning back at me! honestly my fault. takes a minute for the lightning to wind down and he got my ass on the bounce. fair play. now i look like a leather couch but its fine. can blame jedi for THAT too)

Use the clones to kill the jedi, have my evil guy kill the seperatists, keep the army, spin into empire
GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

chill as emperor for a while. humiliate Vader for a laugh. make death star.
Endgame achieved.

(Vader's kid blows up my death star)

PIVOT: get new young apprentice by turning him evil once he kills his dad, or maybe make Vader cooler by making him kill his gay son. either way its a win-win for me.
(thrown down hole and killed.)

PIVOT: good thing i kept those clone jars!! make new clone body to inhabit. takes time to get right. need something to do until then
build enormous fleet of big spaceships, each with their own super death star laser. keep em on the down low... why use em? they lose half the value as soon as you fly them off the lot
(clone son betrays me but its no biggie. its fine. have loads of clones at this point. whats one clone son?)

create a DECOY fascist empire. put one of my weirder clones in charge. Not giving them any of my ships though. can build his own shit. dont look at me. get a bank loan
let failed clone recruit vaders grandson (will explain why later) let those guys take over the galaxy with a different super death star. assume they built this one the…
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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Genuinely what do you have to be scared of. Tell every KS user you cannot accept pledges in the upcoming future because two companies are limiting your right to commerce. If Uber can pull this shit on a state why can't you.
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Much like all of the world's problems are like 20 rich assholes, all of ttrpg discourse could probably be traced back to 20 shitheads that people would be better off blocking.
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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I love it when JRPGs do this
Three eggs with legs: the first, a normal white egg, is under text that says (first 20 minutes of gameplay). It's titled "Egglet", and has 2 strength and 4 defense.

The second egg, which is made of magma, is under text that says (40 hours in). It's titled "Vulcan Yolk", and has 365 strength and 700 defense.

The final egg is under text which says (120 hour+ postgame dungeon). It is a jewel-studded glowing blue egg, and is titled "Fabergé Genocide Embryo". It has 1600 strength and 4000 defense.
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
BUT MY WIP TTRPG WILL BE OUT SOON
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Using real life improvised graffiti to inspire environmental storytelling in a game is very cool and also very archaeological
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast for people who sit down to listen to a podcast.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
As someone who will talk and fight about almost anything, this is possibly my least favourite entry on the Wheel Of Discourse.
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Finally digging into BG3. What a fucking video game.
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Goated Post
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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 14/03/2026
Like, I just think the assessment that the majority of the work being released is stagnant has no basis in reality. I fear that people who share this sort of critique are mistaking trans women flirting with each other by paraphrasing WARHOUND, for actual new works being released in the scene.
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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 14/03/2026
i will gladly shut up about mechsploitation forever if someone can send me a dozen (12) pieces of mechsploitation fiction that are entirely redundant and have absolutely nothing new to say, and have over 5 'kudos' on ao3.
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Failprince Irina @roadkillbjsplatter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
actually drop your mechsploitation stories below and she'll repost them all!!
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Alyx @prometai.world · 14/03/2026
Y'know, the aesthetic isn't exactly matched, but for under 5$ this IKEA town is pretty effective miniature terrain.
Warhammer miniatures on an IKEA Mala Town set, colored with markersThe same from another angle
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Inititives like this are a huge part of how developers in Canada, Germany, and other countries with such grants were able to wind up such flourishing indie scenes tbh
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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
There's an insistence that 1,000 pages of exactly what backers want is written and now going to waste, which I find... hard to believe, to put it gently.
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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It really speaks to how far TTRPGs have to grow as a medium that a game about taking care of a Tamogotchi completely imploded because it's designers couldn't fathom any gameplay other than combat.
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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I bet flat earthers are mad finding out every conspiracy theory is true except theirs.
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If I can't condense my statements to one sentence online it gets harder to rhetorically defend imo.
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
couldn't log on in bluesky for like 2 weeks and i feel so out of touch from ttrpgs lol
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Moving in with my partner would have gone hard as parasocial content in 2015
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Scampir @scampir.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
something that's finally clicked with me about the hobbit is that Bilbo does go home.
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i'm coffee @ahcoffeebeans.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
this stream includes the INCREDIBLE "HORSE//GIRL" by toomanyfeelings5, one of my fave game designers. check out the game below and the stream on the 28th! toomanyfeelings5.itch.io/horsegirl
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HORSE//GIRL by toomanyfeelings5
A silly game for horse girls.
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