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Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · 26/09/2026

Nobody fucking @ me about how I said I was leaving Dice Exploder because I was out of things to say about rpgs and then published like three blogposts this week.

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 13h

Tonight in Blades- After being at war with the Billhooks for a few sessions, they burned two of our houses down, and our Hawkers responded by constructing and then detonating a Tier V Ghost Bomb inside their headquarters, destroying 23 souls and leaving their bodies catatonic. God I love this game

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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have been lucky enough to have played BOTH of these games and let me assure you: you really really want in on this

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 29/09/2026

I am delighted to note that I have written a mostly-true introduction to the history of Shakespearean games for MOUSETRAP.

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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I TOLD you all you weren't ready; playing this was one of the most interesting, challenging, and genuinely funny experiences I've ever had playing tabletop. If you're up to it, Mousetrap will reward you in spades.

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 29/09/2026

Working with Asa as a dev editor on this project has been an honor- Mousetrap is a really special project and he’s doing things with the form I have not seen anywhere else. Asa is pushing the boundaries of the medium, and I am so excited for everyone to read and table what we’ve been working on.

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briar, duke of dykes @weregazelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

indie ttrpg design is hard because a lot of us are very beautiful and it's really distracting

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 28/09/2026

Celebrating my one year wedding anniversary, 5 years living together, 8 years with the love of my life. I am unbelievably lucky to have found the love of my life in my first relationship at 19, my best friend who has been at my side through our greatest adventures. I’m looking forward to many more ❤️

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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hi, everyone! Excited to announce that I’m launching I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again: Game of the Year Edition on itch! This serves both as an actual physical page for Bugs as well as a way for you to support me, if you so choose :) tomorrow-today.itch.io/i-dont-remem...

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I Don't Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again: Game of the Year Edition by sage tomorrow, today

a single player journaling rpg WITH UPDATED GRAPHICS AND NEW MECHANICS

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 27/09/2026

talking with jay made me realize my name shares poetic meter with some limericks and Oh, across all the west hemisphere is, there a kind and quite beautiful peeress? I am sure you must know Of the star of the show Seraphina Garcia Ramirez Highly recommend writing autobiographical poetry, it rules

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve just spent the last two months prepping a megagame. Its a live text discord RPG set on a space station full of factional intrigue and desperate people, incorporating all the lessons we've learned since the time we all did that last October. Enjoy! thegardenbelow.blot.im/apa-1/so-im-...

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APA-1 / So, i’m running a megagame. - The Garden Below

An announcement of a new live text discord megagame starting October 16th 2026.

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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's the alternative cover for #NineSpaceGames...

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Nightcrawler is My Boyfriend Podcast @nimbf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today we're discussing, as the great Seal once said, "my power, my pleasure, my pain." The Shadow King has us thinking about politics of pleasure and who gets to use power. Also, trips to Japan and Canada and the first appearance of Alpha Flight. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/RAKrhgR2F6b

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 23/09/2026

My final moments in Last Train to Bremen this morning- Cat pulls out a wine bottle, uncorks it, pours a drink into a tin mug, swirls it around, takes a sip, stare into the eyes of the three headed Devil, wearing the face of my ex-lover Hound. My last words- “I always knew you’d be the death of me.”

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 21/09/2026

On my lunch I went through these pictures and tallied all the games I have/haven't played- almost 40 of the 80ish physical games I own I have tabled in some fashion! More than I expected honestly- The best part of doing this has been feeling more in touch with what my engagement has looked like

A spreadsheet with a list of games, sorted into Played and Unplayed

Played-

Project Ecco
No Tell Motel
Curios: Albrecht Manor
Escape From Dino Island
Medusa's Garden
Fall of Magic
City of Winter
Yazebas Bed and Breakfast
Juggernaut
Tacklebox
Conviction
Nine Space Games
Before the Flood
Stonetop
Uneasy Lies the Head
Hungry out of Habit
Last Train to Bremen
Zhenya's Wonder Tales
Desperation
Ghost Court
Monty Python
Koriko
Royal Blood
The Wildsea
CBR+PNK
Spine
Dawn of the Orcs
This Person Should Not Exist
Triangle Agency
Swords Against
Pathfinder 2e
The Zone
Alice is Missing
Eat the Reich
Apocalypse Keys
Girl by Moonlight
Blades in the Dark

Unplayed-

A Mending
Ork Borg
Pukeapocalypse
Pico
Blades 68
Letters to Sandra
My Brain is a Stick of Butter
Looking Presentable
Build a Burial
Oddfolk
Glatisant
Big Dog, Big Volcano
Girl Underground
Sapphic Slumber Party
Sock Puppets
Digital Angel
Miru
The Deepest Dark
Inspirisles
Thephrotic Nightmares
Himbo Tactics
Curios: Jasper Park
borglite
Night Witches
Carolina Death Crawl
Winterhorn
Tales from the Gods
Little Wolves
Exile
Crescent 2e
Cyrptid Creeks
The Slow Knife
Dragon Slayers
You're in Space and Everything's Fucked
In a Mirror Brightly
Handbaskets
His Majesty The Worm
Hellwhalers
You Will Die In This Place
The Time We Have
Slugblaster
Sleepaway

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 20/09/2026

I had a wonderful time answering these questions and taking some pictures to go with them. Many thanks to Jonas for inviting me to share, and I hope y’all enjoy my collection!

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 20/09/2026

I had a wonderful time answering these questions and taking some pictures to go with them. Many thanks to Jonas for inviting me to share, and I hope y’all enjoy my collection!

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive

Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.

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Ash the Stampede @ashthestampede.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

80% funded, with only 7 days to go! girls, gays, and theys destroying patriarchy and white supremacy in space!

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 16/09/2026

I've playtested this twice with sage and it fucking ripped. game is sick as hell, read it and you'll be inspired to make cooler art, play it and you'll have an incredible time. give sage your money and buy this game!

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sage the anagogue @anagogue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

FUCK IT WE BALL PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING HAS RETURNED TO ITCH DOT IO FOR NOW 140 PAGES OF HORNY EROGURO TTRPG BULLSHIT anagogue.itch.io/praise-the-h...

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PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING by Sage The Anagogue

The gonzo dark eroguro TTRPG about teenage zombies killing devils

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Sylvan Lawrence Is Carfunding @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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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hate to do this again on the heels of his kidney obstruction but Onion got into a dangerous amount of garlic powder and I have to take him to the emergency vet. If you’re able to help us out a little, my Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim, and my PayPal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com

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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 14/09/2026

i drew a MAP about this game the other day. idk if you're ever gonna see it. but i drew it. for my own purposes. Tone Indicator: Ecstatic

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[rings bell] theoryslop! theoryslop! come get yer theoryslop while it's still hot!

one page. header reads "RPG DESIGNER THEORYSLOP ALIGNMENT CHARTS & SHEET." gray text under the header reads "You have 20 points to assign to each stat array, Pendragon-style. For tri- or otherwise multi-polar arrays, express the stats as ranges, e.g. “Gamist 1–7 / Dramatist 8–9 / Simulationist 10–20.”
subheaders followed by lines for writing read: "Designer: / Project: / Link:"
subheader reads "Binary Traits," followed by a list of silly game studies paired descriptors and space to write stats: "Ludologist / Narratologist // Game-as-Activity / Game-as-Object // Proceduralist / Anti-Proceduralist // Diegetic / Endogenous // Suitsian / Non-Suitsian // Closed Lusory Goal / Open Lusory Goal // Toy-Game / Meta-Game // Character-Locked / Authorial // Problem-Solving / Story-Telling // Rulebooks / Adventures."
subheader reads "Special Twinned Binary Traits (the Bartle Zone)," followed by gray text reading "Assign 20 points to each axis, but make a single roll when testing the combined traits." following is a two-axis chart, north-south reading "Social / Non-Social" and west-east reading "Aggressive / Passive."
in the second column, a subheader reads "Multi-Polar Traits" followed by shapes with stats at their corners: triangle, "Dramatist / Gamist / Simulationist"; square, "Agon / Alea / Mimicry / Ilinx"; hexagon, "Classic / OSR / Trad / Nordic larp / Neotrad / Storygames"; square, "Gamer / Actor / Socialite / Immersive."
a subheader reads "Skills," followed by a big list of 32 skills, with space for stats next to each: Academia, Acting, Art Direction, Blog, Cartography, Copyediting, Credit Rating, Day Jon, Game Studies, Graphic Design, Illustration, Layout, Line Editing, Livestream, Marketing, Networking, Operations, Organizing, Podcast, Printing, Production, Proofreading, Shitpost, Shortform Video, Social Media, Thirst Trap, Video Essay, Web Dev, Writ. (Adventure), Writing (Lore), Writing (Rules), Other: "
gray text reads "Sam Sorensen, September 2026"

same theoryslop designer sheet as before, this time filled out in handwritten green, for me, Sam. I skew towards problem-solving, goal-driven play, as well as towards adventures, imaginary worlds, and simulationism. the notable inclusions in my skills lists are a +6 in game studies, a +4 in academic, blog, layout, line editing, and adventure-writing, and a +2 in "museum," my "other" skill

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 11/09/2026

Useful context- the professional being referred to was an ancient creature called Old Scorchbones, born from the nightmares of the last Sage. He whispered directly into your head, appearing to only move between blinks or when you weren’t looking, and talked frequently about loving the taste of fear.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my biggest game design triumph for seven part pact is that it is often mechanically a good strategy to take a random kid, train them to be a brave hero, and then sacrifice them in a dramatic moment of bravery when they turn against the pact

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 11/09/2026

Just finished an accelerated threeshot of The Seven Part Pact with @jdragsky.bsky.social - I came into this final month with a checklist, accomplished everything on it, and then promptly died due to a horrendous spell of my own making. What a wonderful game!

A screenshot of text which reads-

"Sage's Checklist for March

1. Time on the Sorcerer's old master, testing Calliope's Destiny
2. Time on Arnet Starling, testing Calliope's Destiny
3. Time on Calliope, giving her a dream of becoming the Wizard King
4. Engagement: Dinner with the Sorcerer's daughter and the Devil
- Have dinner with the Sorcerer's daughter, Calliope
- manipulate her into accepting her destiny, ally with her against the sorcerer
- ask if she would want the crown of the wizard king
- invite the devil, make three bargains with him and offer her one for the crown
- ask for the casket of hell's finest vintage, mirrored helm of mirasta, staff of the wizard king for myself
5. Time on the Wizardmoot, attend, make Calliope die bravely with a crown on her head, thereby restoring the future of the Pact."

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I feel like if you enjoy my work you'll like @ashthestampede.bsky.social 's work - we are two peas in a pod and I adore Ash's stuff. Listen to Ash talk about Night Witches (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...) and then go back Mars Watch (www.kickstarter.com/projects/wun...)!

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Mars Watch | PBTA space military + survival horror

An almost tenth-anniversary second edition of award-winning RPG The Watch by Ash Kreider, with a new setting and playbook

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...

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How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?

A survey on campaign length and lethality

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This Should Be A Game! @thisshouldbeaga.me · 04/09/2026

📚🥶🎃 On Monday, we're back from our summer break with JOHN CARPENTER'S HALLOWEENLESS HALLOWE'EN-- talking about turning some of his non-Myers horror flicks into TTRPGs with @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social, @weregazelle.bsky.social, @adisasterqueer.bsky.social, and @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social!

This Should Be A Game! Double Feature: John Carpenter's Halloweenless Halloween! Movie one: In The Mouth of Madness with Kendrick Smith and Briar Sovereign. Movie two: The Thing with Alyssa and Seraphina Garcia Ramirez.

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 03/09/2026

Just played this game, and it was truly magical. I dearly enjoyed the opportunity to play a strange, divine, mysterious creature, and the rituals and tensions Ben is weaving together here are fantastic. Plus some really cool tech with secrets and emergent narrative- I can’t wait to table this again.

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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 03/09/2026

having now done a lil playtest dip...... you're gonna wanna go ahead & click follow on this one. ben is doing something very beautiful & strange & i'm immediatelyyy excited to have the experience of this game at a bunch of tables to feel the different vibes

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 02/09/2026

Dan is dramatically underselling himself here. The entire Liberation Ludology series so far has been a fantastic review of this collection of scenarios, grounded in an understanding of both design and history- this most recent installment rises to that standard and beyond. Go read the whole series!

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 01/09/2026

Can confirm, I am a girl who knows and this game is such a treat

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sage the anagogue @anagogue.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

im working on finding a home for suzi (may work with a publisher on it ?? my philly friends got me a hookup) so please be patient with me. right now there are links to gdrives if youre friends with girls who know

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Musings about the industry. Talks about the town. Caning my shins. Playing the bagpipes. It's a new issue of the Explorateur; a newsletter of design links by game designers for game designers. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

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The Explorateur: Issue #23

Monthly jams, critique, theory, and resources for rpg designers.

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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 31/08/2026

there are few people i'd be as excited to see getting a platform like this!!! seraphina is so brilliant & kind & loves games in a way that always stokes my own passion for them & i'm thrilled to have new regular auditory access to that on the horizon. Let's Go Let's Freakin Go

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 31/08/2026

Sam has created something magical with Dice Exploder- it was the impetus for my passion for games blossoming. I'm so thankful for all the work he's put in. I'm stoked to carry the show forward! Great season coming up, and I'm thrilled to show you all what I have brewing for the future of the show

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 26/08/2026

Avery is one of the most impressive designers in the scene, for her ability to convey meaning through both her writing and her game design. You owe it to yourself to pick up one of her games, and see who your favorite game designers have been getting their inspiration from!

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i'm gonna put forward a concept i've been explaining to people off and on while consulting for a while, which i hope can usefully and practically show how TTRPG crowdfunders work. i've been calling it (in my head) The Balatro Theory of Crowdfunding 1/16

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 26/08/2026

Recently I interviewed @anagogue.bsky.social, @notwritinggames.bsky.social, and @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social about their games SUZi, HYBAGG, and Girl Frame. Here's the essay that followed. It's about three sci-fi ttrpgs and how they are the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAvk...

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The Future is Trans - Three TTRPGs Changing Sci-Fi

YouTube video by snow

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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm going to be playing the playtest of Dark Ages with my friend @distractedelf.bsky.social and company this Sunday, for anyone that wants to see the game in action. In addition to the video, I'll be doing weekly posts about my prep, and general thought process around playing the game.

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