From one social media person to another, I hope youβre not beating yourself up too badly and can enjoy your weekend!!
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"Hell, the worst I can get is life." Jack of several trades including TTRPG design, recipe writing, and photography. Any pronouns. Opinions now yours. website + blog both in progress at smallstories.io
From one social media person to another, I hope youβre not beating yourself up too badly and can enjoy your weekend!!
Game devs, graphic designers & artists - our All Fonts Pack is back on sale at 90% off for the whole of March! π»
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Of course itβs also possible it was done on purpose, in which case this still would not have occurred to a bad actor to try if the Rascal community press releases were not visually identical to the editorial work
Several things can be true at once:
- this probably was not on purpose from the MCG team
- whoever put this together should have done better due diligence
- this might not have happened if Rascalβs community press releases were not presented in visually identical ways to the editorial work
If you need art for your TTRPG project, we have made this small list of affordable places to look (we even update it from time to time)!
The Queer Games Bundle is officially disbanding. There will not be another bundle this year. Thank you for your support over the years.
Please continue to help each other. A community can only exist if it helps each other survive in a meaningful way.
Read our final statements here:
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldnβt be concerned because agents will βpromptly let the individual go.β
For these Americans, that wasnβt true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)
Five Tiers of RPGΒ Publishing
Hasbroβs annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the onlyβ¦
Bookmark the URL: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... the bundle launches at midnight PT
were it not for the active exploitation of contract workers i would find this neopets ttrpg debacle really enjoyable. what a treat to have an adaptive work that completely crashes the original thing through a plate glass window
Melo and I also constantly static shock each other haha
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We're looking for GenCon 2026 GMs!
We won't be going ourselves, on account of the *fucking everything* right now.
But if you're going, and fancy getting paid money to run multi-table games, please fill out this freelancer form.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
my friend Ahmad and his family are suffering in the cold, and the rain tore their tent apart so they desperately need to secure a new one, but it's expensive. on top of that, his mother's eyesight is deteriorating without medical help. please consider sharing/donating πβ€οΈβπ©Ή
chuffed.org/project/1572...
Page decor illustrations with a mining town theme.
6 colour cover illustrations on vintage bookbinding style.
30 colour illustrations of fantasy swords.
Black and white page decor illustrations with a nature theme.
Psst. Hey you. There's free stuff in my ko-fi library for you to use in your projects - even commercial ones.
Don't tell anyone I told you π€«
ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...
icymi⦠if you have games on itch, consider participating in another charity bundle. this one is for minnesota.
Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on itch.io?
Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old!
If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed!
itch.io/physical-gam...
Exactly. When you play a game you donβt just play rules or a system you also play people and ideas and media and society. System is blurry, games are blurry, play is blurry. All theory can provide is a lens. Long live play. Long live Sonic the Hedgehog.
The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back, with a hand-drawn menorah. A silly, Dreidel-Powered rotating-DM trifold heist TTRPG by Jess Levine about reclaiming the Temple Menorah from the Vatican.
Just in time for Jewish Christmas, we have a new TTRPG π²: The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back!
TVSTMAWGTSIB is a dreidel-powered heist TTRPG about reclaiming the Temple menorah from the Vatican. Itchfunding a print run till Jan 1! π
π: jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib
My favorite play example of all time
In 2026 I hope to make a positive difference for how people perceive & talk about fat characters in TTRPGs
- Include βno body shaming/fat phobiaβ in lines and veils. Bring it up in your session zero
- Ask artists to give your character a double chin or belly. if itβs not right give clear feedback
This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
genuinely my favorite episode of folio ever
Itβs really wild to read the millennial optimism about technology here (Deliria was published in 2004) in this modern day but it spoke to me at the time, when I was a lonely preteen who made a lot of friendships through the internet
I also truly love this writing about the state youβre in when you engage with the digital world and Online
I am rereading Deliria, the TTRPG that made me fall in love with TTRPGs, for the first time in probably 20 years/since I was 13, and at the time I did not appreciate how genuinely great an approach this is. Tbf when I was 13 I didnβt know Brucato was best known for writing Mage the Crunchcension
The Quiet Year should be on here...but I don't know what I'd evict