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jex thomas
@lastpinepress.com
Nonbinary Dad // Author of Crit Awards Best Indie TTRPG Finalist BUMP IN THE DARK // Not as Punk as I Used To Be // Forever Aspiring to be Your Weird Gay Aunt // ACAB // https://lastpinepress.com #ttrpg #fitd #pbta
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it's Itch Creator Day!! the site is waiving their portion of every purchase today - so 100% of the cash goes to indies like me! if you haven't yet picked up my new Mothership pamphlet, my solo game HARDCASE, my Beam Saber playbook, or my cyberpunk microgames, the time is now:
Went ahead and put a bunch of my most popular work - including my Mothership class, my sci-fi gig economy solo RPG (and its Online-focused expansion!), and my cyberpunk microgame trilogy - on sale through the end of November!

itch.io/s/166208/thu...
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Ah, yes... Another shopping holiday is here again and you know what that means? That's right: #Savings on #TTRPGs on my itch page! #Cool!

itch.io/s/167939/bla...
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Peeps!

It’s Creator Day + Black Friday on itch—100% goes to creators.

It is a great day to support your favorites 💞

I’ve got all my games 1/3 off. Check them out: itch.io/s/170559/bla...
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I feel like the five concerts thing is a little weird if you've been in a band that plays out and/or grew up going to basement shows and VFW halls etc

Get to know me with these five (hundred) bands that time has forgotten
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@wharthur.bsky.social is doing incredibly interesting stuff and this Kickstarter is worth checking out!
Mud Ghost Estate is a spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by the urban legends and folklore of Hong Kong. 👻
The Redux edition is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This Creator Day, consider giving me some extra money so I can hire people to help me with my next thing

itch.io/s/170022/bla...
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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When the ALA recognizes one's work, that's pretty dang cool.
"The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater."

#ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
GameRT Announces 2025 Platinum Play Award Recipients
www.ala.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Decided to go with the baritone uke. Also may have picked up a looper pedal for myself ....
7 year old wants a guitar for Christmas. Looked into Loog and they have very mixed reviews with some absolutely atrocious stories about bad customer service. Thinking maybe a baritone ukulele instead. Six strings, even if a half or 3/4 scale guitar, seems a lot to manage for a 2nd grader, idk.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
7 year old wants a guitar for Christmas. Looked into Loog and they have very mixed reviews with some absolutely atrocious stories about bad customer service. Thinking maybe a baritone ukulele instead. Six strings, even if a half or 3/4 scale guitar, seems a lot to manage for a 2nd grader, idk.
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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@evilhat.bsky.social have a sale in everything in their catalog celebrating their 20th anniversary, including City Of Red Waters, my blood-soaked colonial alternate setting for Blades In The Dark
evilhat.com/product/city...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Huge congrats to EH team on 20 years!🎉
City of Red Waters - Blades in the Dark Setting - Evil Hat
Take your Blades in the Dark TTRPG adventures to a new setting - a complex and dynamic colonial city called Inverrogue - with City of Red Waters.
evilhat.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Redstone Rescue is a fun fantasy detective story that gradually shifts into flat out adventure. It's got adventure and humour and peril and several readers have called it borderline cozy, which is probably fair. A little magic, a lot of faith in people: turnanother.page/book/the-red...
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This just feels ... sad
The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules!

Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, Traveller 5E is coming from World's Largest RPGs, with crowdfunding in March 2026...

#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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It's the start of the "holiday season" for Americans this week and I always feel like it's a good time to mention that you do not have to go see your family and especially your parents for any reason if it's going to be a bad time.

Imagine a reality where you don't suffer through this process.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Vistemeres now live! This is a PBTA-Adjacent fantasy gothic roll over system with an emphasis on player cooperation, set in a country beseiged by a mysterious force that calls people beyond the northern tundra to die. You set off on a journey to put a stop to it! #ttrpg #pbta #fantasy
chiyokobirb.itch.io/vistemere The ashcan's up! pay 3.35 usd or 5$ canadian for access to the project, and regular updates and adjustments as the project is tested and demoed. Thanks to everyone thus far who have suggested changes and offered advice! #vistemere #ttrpg #pbta #ruleslite #itchio
Vistemere by Chiyoko
A TTRPG about faith, the human condition, and surviving a supernatural anglerfish
chiyokobirb.itch.io
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Magnolia saved my relationship
What movie are you most thankful for? (not necessarily your favorite!)
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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It's holiday season, and this year we're excited to put together our first holiday gift guide, filled with our top recommendations to delight the tabletop gamer in your life.

tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/news/s...
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I just cannot imagine feeling the need to do this. It seems like it would be miserable. Stories don't have to all make sense, fitting into some approximation of reality. Now excuse me while I go write out my theory of shared painterly universes
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Direction not destination. There is no arriving.
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It'll be nice when the semester is over
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Ten days ago, a magical tower appeared outside of town. The tower's wizard has invited you to spend a few months in the tower, in exchange for an honest account of your time there.

Are you up for the challenge? A world of magic and wonder awaits!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
The Tower in the Meadow: a solo rpg - Sam Robson | DriveThruRPG
The Tower in the Meadow is a solo rpg utilising the For Truth's Sake system pioneered by H. Moon.  Ten days ago, a tower appeared in a meadow outside of town. This tower is home to not only mages, but...
www.drivethrurpg.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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DriveThruRPG's new Partner Shipping Program has drawn criticism from several corners of the tabletop industry, with professionals calling it "a half solution" and an “outright a bad deal”.
DriveThruRPG’s offset print option proves unpopular among small creators
Many cite the steep revenue cut without fulfillment support as a key issue.
www.rascal.news
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Excited to be talking about a new game coming soon by Sen-Foong Lim, Di Anne Hong, Calvin Wong Tze Loon, Sean Nittner and myself with @evilhat.bsky.social

Graphics by @crislv.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Cool people do cool stuff: I am blessed to have friends like @autumnrecoil.bsky.social who make such beautiful music

meaningofeverything.bandcamp.com/track/d-i-y
D.I.Y., by meaning of everything
track by meaning of everything
meaningofeverything.bandcamp.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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I cannot agree enough.

It’s no coincidence anarchism has been equated with random chaotic violence. It’s imperative that power never let the masses understand what is possible.
The feds target Anarchists because they know that if Americans really understood what capital-A Anarchy is all about, we'd take to it like ducks to water.
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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HUGE update to the BUREAU of CHRONOLOGICAL AFFAIRS. The #Daggerheart campaign frame has been expanded into a 62 page book that now includes an Agent class and a reworked version of the Daggerheart SRD -- stripped down and remixed to fit the game perfectly.

Now includes EVERYTHING you need to play.
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM