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Riwhi K @takataapui.bsky.social · 2h

Buy this cool Halloween themed bundle, for two of my games and some other very cool games by some awesome Aotearoa-based/affiliated game designers!

Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 5h

Let's talk about some others in this halloween bundle. @takataapui.bsky.social 's 'bog body, watching' and 'the farmer and the bog body' are one- and two player games about change, whether experiencing it yourself or watching it happen to others and the world around you.

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Mids Meinberg @meinberg.bsky.social · 7h

New article out! Lots of thoughts here from my reading of The Rule Book by Stenros and Montola. Highly recommend people give both that book and this article a read! Got some interesting thoughts here, derived from my reading and discussions thereof.
goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/a...

A Formalist Approach to The Rule Book

The Rule Book by Jaako Strenros and Markus Montola is a key text in understanding the relationship between games and rules. After reading an intriguing article from Jay Dragon that heavily referenc…

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · Sep 14

A to scale model of myself, with a beating lego heart and a lego mind that yearns to kill and replace me

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Sep 9

in case you - how do I put this delicately - also need perhaps a bit of a wholesome palate cleanser in your feed tonight, let's play a game

what is the #1 thing in all the world you MOST would want to build and display a huge Lego set of

(money no object. say you get one free bc it was your idea)

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 11h

Only real og's will remember the edit hole gag

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 11h

It me, I'm in my edit hole again

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 1d

One reason fascists hate trans people and - because of their blatant misogyny, often trans women specifically - is because transness is not exceptional to us but is a prototype for everyone.
Fascism demands to relegate you to the poverty of form and circumstance of birth. We show you make yourself.

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 1d

Hey what are people using for blogging/newsletters nowadays that isn't like evil n' shit?

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 1d

Tactical rpg where combat is always resolved in one round, swnd teet

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 1d

I've read the previous build, I'm very excited. Isabelle has a unique talent for making mechanics that hit you in the gut when you learn them

Isabelle (Thistle), Anxiousmimicrpgs @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 1d

Girl Frame Releases October 21st over on anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io. If you like Mechsploitation, Evangelion, 86, or just mechs+oppressed lesbians+eldritch horrors in general, I think you'll like this. #mechsploitation #ttrpg

Here's one of my favourite playbooks:

MOCKINGBIRD
You fell to the Gorgons, becoming a Harpy - a corrupted girl. The Foundation took you back, ripped you out of voidspace with a cold hand, deprogrammed and reprogrammed you back into working order. Purging what the Gorgons put in your head and body with scalpels and chemicals.
You were a human, and you tasted what it was to be a dream. Now you’re less than either.

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Okami 🔜 PAX Unplugged @keichiokami.itch.io · 1d

OMFG! They are doing a Lost Boys Musical!!

www.lostboysmusical.com

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys is the killer new musical based on the 1987 Warner Bros. film. Broadway performances begin March 27, 2026 at the Palace Theatre. Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden and featuring...

www.lostboysmusical.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Activism and community building online may be critical, but it's also increasingly subject to surveillance. Trans and queer activists are looking toward new models, with degrees of visibility that balance safety with surveillance, just as sex workers have learned to do.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 1d

Ai is an attempt to enclose the digital commens. Ban small erotic artists and sex workers. Then sell it back to us filtered through their shitty compression algorithm that runs on droughts

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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grey @aliengenic.bsky.social · 1d

it’s a good day for indie game funding. not a good day for my wallet.

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 1d

This is your call to action dear reader to tell the cute boy that you got a crush on that he's pretty

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 1d

I like calling men handsome but it’s even better when you call them pretty and they get all flustered

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Daria LeFevre @hodagsoup.bsky.social · 1d

Woah!!!! This diagram is amazing!!! 😁 I'm so excited for how this project is turning out!!!

Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I drew a test illustration to accompany the rules. But note that it is just a test as I think Daria is still tweaking things.

And I naturally love the character sheets! Remember what I posted about character sheet artist being a good niche to fill in the indy #TTRPG ecosystem. :)

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 1d

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a really damn good year for rpg's and this one is my favorite

Elizabeth Little @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social · 1d

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Oh, right, this goes live today. I should probably say something.

You Will Die In This Place by Shrike Studio - Gamefound

You Will Die In This Place is a nihilistic survival-horror dungeon crawl TTRPG about exile, decay, and the inevitability of death.

gamefound.com

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Corey (NomDeGirl) @nomdegirl.bsky.social · 1d

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

And #MothershipMonth2025 is LIVE for all you TTRPG fans out there!1

EXTRAJUDICIAL WARFARE: gladiator gang war for Mothership RPG

Skeevy lawyers try to take control of the advocate gangs aboard Prospero's Dream in this zine for Mothership RPG. It's all out war, how are you going to put your thumb on justice's scale?

www.backerkit.com

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 2d

Everything here is so sick. Gnawing chomping, feral about it

snow @snow117.bsky.social · 2d

Songbirds is my dungeon crawler game that is more persona and disco elysium than it is DnD. Look at this shit: weird classes, survival-horror style dungeons, body mods and magic.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 2d

LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 3d

The really troubling part of getting older and confronting one's own mortality is the realisation that you've only got so many decade-long indie metroidvania development cycles in you. Imagine getting super hyped for a forthcoming game, then dying of old age before it comes out.

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 3d

Look, ya gotta play improvisational jazz with the clit

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 8d

“well, it doesnt sound fun now!” jennifer groaned as she reeled back with a look of utter betrayal. “jesus christ, every time you tell me about trans stuff i feel like a YA protagonist learning about the soul war thats been waged in the shadows of society for ten thousand years.”

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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 3d

Funky coins/curency

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 3d

Gods I FUCKING LOVE art

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