Mike Balles 🔜 2026🔜 MEGA XP in Mexico City

Coming soon: Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!

We’re sooo close to 4000 followers on the Public Access campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

Making Enemies — Spy & Owl A treasury of ideas for inventing all-new abominations for player characters to confront.

Yo-HO! March fo(u)rth! It's #InternationalGMsDay! And what better way to show your GMs your appreciation than another book for their groaning, overburdened shelves?

MAKING ENEMIES is a deep dive into monster creation, a treasury of ideas for inventing all-new abominations for PCs to confront.

Art and nationality

spongebob and squidward are standing next to each other in a cartoon ALT: spongebob and squidward are standing next to each other in a cartoon

time to sniktbub all the bubs, bub!

Day trip to Rochester, Kent today visiting the Whales installation by Tessa Campbell Fraser in Rochester Cathedral. Beautiful and peaceful.

Photo of wooden boards covering up glass windows, with the word "Gundam" and an arrow scrawled on it in marker.

Get in the robot, it's time for Playtest Zero again! For our SEA-friendly session, join us next Tuesday, 10 February at 8 pm (GMT+8) over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Raffle (in rainbow text) Charity (in chromatic text) Holy Shit! (In orange big text) Daggerheart Core Set With book and domain cards Draw Steel Heroes and Monsters Core rules pdf bundle Mtg Final fantasy commander decks

🦀 ANNOUNCEMENT 🦀

I don't have much to give BUT I am GIVING AWAY one (1) Daggerheart Core Set, (4) Final Fantasy commander decks and a Draw Steel Core Rules PDF Bundle raising funds for the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

Tickets are $5 but you can donate any amount here:

🎟️ tilt.fyi/8RCqUl7NDk

(1/3) 🧵

First milestone completed! Lets go :) Please share with peeps that might enjoy:
-Daggerheart additional content
-Agnostic Villains and enemies
-Support Latine talent in the industry

Firs milestone has been passed, lets get this all the way up there for tomâs!

An acrylic painting showing a Korean ghost 처녀귀신 visiting Día de los Muertos festivities in Mexico, with a local ghost woman sharing a drink with her. They're sitting in front of an offrenda with candles, skulls, photographs, and offerings of fruit and flowers.

"Ghost Tourist" - a Korean ghost on a trip around the world (here for Dia de los Muertos), and a nod to how rituals and traditions can mirror and echo each other even over great distances.

Acrylics on panel 🧡

So happy for you, Taylor! Love to see the lineup being grown with such strong and present peeps from the community spaces. <3 Well earned, well done! Hyped for the things to come :D

A woman in a red dress wearing glasses stands in front of stones and a dragon sculpture inside an office building

"A wizard is never late, nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to."

I am thrilled to let y'all know I'm joining #WotCStaff as a Game Designer for the Dungeons and Dragons team! This move starts a new chapter in my life and I am so excited to see what adventures await me 💜

Lets help a fellow latineamerican artist contribute to our space. Right now the ticket is heavily discounted, lets get him through the starting line.

tgimenezrgm.itch.io/crypt-of-the-n…

#LatineLounge #RolEnTuIdioma #TTRPGNoticias #NoticiasTTRPG

This itch project looks amazing. Crypt of the NekroLych looks promising and is currently itch funding. Tomas is prepping for a big slugdown for daggerheart enemies & villains and i am here to see it come through! Well planned & sustainable for the artists involved and set for growth. #TTRPG

Received this incredible, hand-bound and hand-drawn version of the barebones edition MÖRK BORG. Including house rules and the intro adventure Rotblack Sludge. This is the real shit.

a goddess spreads a veil of morning light across the night sky, bringing the dawn.

Happy new year. - may 2026 be kinder.

The woman watching over the grazing sheep was startled by a sudden gust of wind. She thought it was just the wind, but the sheep around her, and the dog she kept, realized this wind was a phenomenon caused by a different presence.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls

My boy Laios 💕✨ #dungeonmeshi

Wip of two figures, one a prismatic angel and one rugged knight

Wip, something cool is in the works

Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun

Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun https://theonion.com/explanation-of-board-game-rules-peppered-with-reassuran-1819579569/

BIPOC Designers’ Awesomeness in TTRPGs Is Nothing New — Indie Game Developer Network Gamers often appear a homogenous bunch: white, male, middle class, straight, and from the Global North. Structural access to more leisure time and resources for this group of folks—as well as not havi...

Here's a nice little article about BIPOC designers in #ttrpgs and their influence on the indie scene now, brought to you through the @igdn-official.bsky.social blog. Not every article has to be deep-deep-deep. Sometimes it's just lovely to hear from the community.
www.igdnonline.com/blog/2026/1/...

And it's @writersavvy.com! :)

No one is forcing a creator to have a particular goal. It’s the creator setting that up and choosing what to offer and determine how that scales and how to compensate their contractors and employees. That’s work you are expected to do up front. It’s mandatory! It’s the job!!!

Kickstarter giving a creator more money than the creator knows how to handle on an RPG project is not a Kickstarter problem. Its a “you” problem to figure out what profit really is, how to deliver, and how to manage people well. You don’t get a pass for getting more than you could handle.

Si educaramos a nuestros más pequeños a dedicarse aquello q quieren por vocación/interés y ética, no tendríamos tanta corrupción el país.
Manzanas podridas existen en todos lados, pero es verdad q aquí la mentalidad de "aprovechar" se les facilita a muchos porque socialmente es, aceptable.
Triste.

Delayed several times but now finally in comic shops today, the STREET FIGHTER MASTERS: ELENA one-shot is a throwback to my favorite fighting game franchise, reuniting SF3 characters I enjoyed writing back in 2010!

Ibuki and Makoto head to Africa to visit Elena and tournament-laden trouble ensues.

But as a TTRPG publisher, any time I have chosen to launch a product without that crowdfunding promotional surge, that product has underperformed considerably.

You're leaving tons of money on the table if you don't play the game (and gamble with as much borrowed money as possible).

But the way that the TTRPG industry uses it, as a high-profile, boom-or-bust product launch strategy that leverages flashy upsells and manufactured urgency to try to make number go up, that stakes 6-18 months of work on how big that number gets, structurally produces precarity and volatility.

If crowdfunding was primarily a tool for scraping together the meager startup costs for underfunded artists and makers to make their dreams happen, through the power of community, that would be a different story.

And it's the story that crowdfunding told about itself initially!

I hate that small press publishers are incentivized to overextend, overpromise, launch their new title with a suite of add-ons and upsells, reveal high-profile surprise collaborators at a moment of surging attention, and leapfrog past a healthy, iterative scaling-up of production capacity.