My interview with @wranglerofchaos.bsky.social of #YoungDragonslayers is up!
We cover all aspects of the design of Little but Fierce, including simplifying rules, my approach to accessibility and representation and some general advice on running games for kids.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVYu...
He's put all much thought into the design of the mechanics, the inclusion of the world, and the accessibility of the presentation. This was an easy choice to back!
(We got to chat about the game - interview in replies)
Please take a moment to check out this and the rest of Drintera. I cannot overstate my respect for those project, its leadership, and the work of its incredible team. I was a writer on it before Tiny Dragon was born and got to see from the inside the sheer talent, care, and creativity involved.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
Thanks for putting this out there! Is there an approximate/recommended deadline to fill this out, or is it more of a rolling-application situation?
Woo-hoo! My partner and I are planning our first proper vacation this year, and we decided to make a gaming pilgrimage to Wisconsin, so we'll get to check it out in person 😎
Find Imagine Queer Worlds digital copies at @itch.io and @drivethrurpg.com (you already know these ones!)
jaclynlewis.itch.io/imagine-quee...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Find Imagine Queer Worlds at @ko-fi.com, a creator-first platform that lets me run my own little indie shop without corporate nonsense: ko-fi.com/jaclynlewis/...
Find Imagine Queer Worlds at @tabletopbookshelf.com, a delightful dad-led indie getup who just opened up their first brick-and-mortar in Wisconsin! tabletopbookshelf.com/products/ima...
Find Imagine Queer Worlds at @ipr.bsky.social, an awesome (and solidly anti-fascist) game distributor that's my personal favorite place to get weird little TTRPGs: www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Imagin...
three sample cards from the Deck of Queer Worlds
the mockup of the Imagine Queer worlds zine
Last year's Zine Month, I started working on Imagine Queer Worlds. This radical worldbuilding game takes creators on a journey to imagine how the fictional societies, cultures, and environments they craft engage with the personal questions of sex, gender, attraction, and more – and it's finally out!
NEW: Imagine Queer Worlds from Jaclyn Lewis @wranglerofchaos.bsky.social and Makenzie Marts takes creators on a journey to imagine how the fictional societies, cultures, and environments they craft engage with the personal questions of sex, gender, attraction, and more
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New!
Fluff n' Fury Official Core Rules
I Don't Belong Here
Imagine Queer Worlds (cards only)
Imagine Queer Worlds (zine)
Imagine Queer Worlds (zine+cards)
Vileborn
Vileborn: Apocrypha
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
THANK YOU
The folks who were coerced and harassed are, and should be, the focus here. But for those who haven't heard, are unsure what to think, or considered my DayLITE work an endorsement, I wanted to spread the word (and share that I've experienced the poor management - and a touch of RP ick - firsthand).
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"It's so-and-so's turn right now."
"Technically, that's not in the rules, but we can make it happen."
"You do WHAT?!?"
A smiling portrait of Nex Benedict appears over a faded purple background. White and yellow text reads, “Remembering Nex Benedict.” The HRC logo appears.
Nex Benedict should still be here with us today.
Nex was a 16-year-old non-binary high school student who loved nature and enjoyed drawing, reading, and playing Minecraft.
Trans and non-binary youth deserve to be safe in school, just like every other child in America.
Woo-hoo! Keep the support for this awesome project coming!
YEAH!! 🎉🎉🎉
This is a nifty project of bite-sized mysteries perfect for GMs to either sprinkle into their existing all-ages campaigns or run as a one-shot. (Also if we meet the next stretch goal, I get to write one!!)
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
Really looking forward to hearing Yeet's insights here
Ngl, I did forget I was tagged in this and was so engrossed with Heather's thoughts that I got jumpscared by my own book 😄
Very much worth a watch!
Activism step 1: Identify local groups already working on the issue you want to work on.
Activism step 2: Join those groups and get involved. There may be a vetting process and it may take time, for everyone’s safety. Just be patient and build relationships. That’s the work.
Send me a DM! Would love to feature you on the Young Dragonslayers blog (www.youngdragonslayers.com/d-and-d-vide...)
✨ Hey TTRPG folks who want to do something to support Immigrants' Rights in Minnesota this thread is for you ✨
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
Running @aqhpublications.bsky.social's Adventures in ADHD with a twist - the Archfey is an Earth teenager; the abandoned Fey Wild is their tablet of fanart (which they'd turned off in a bout of depression). The party scared off the depression and gave the Archfey skills and tools to keep it at bay!
In the spirit of reflection, celebration, and the many things I didn’t post about in 2025, here are 25 treasured experiences from my youth/TTRPG work in the last year (posted gradually as Tiny Dragon is snacking, napping, etc. 😄).
