Johannes
@johanneso.bsky.social
Story Games Enthusiast,
veteran in roleplaying and larp
veteran in roleplaying and larp
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Make A Scene is looking for fresh new parlor larps. They will give you $300 and help you tune up your game and then run it multiple times. They premiere first-time designers every year! It's a great festival and the sort of thing I'd love to see more of. makeascenemn.org/en/call-for-...
Submit a Scenario | MAKE A SCENE!
Calling all scenario authors, past, present, and future! We are seeking brand new live-action roleplaying scenarios exploring the festival theme of Tempo to premiere at Make a Scene in August 2026! We...
makeascenemn.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Make A Scene is looking for fresh new parlor larps. They will give you $300 and help you tune up your game and then run it multiple times. They premiere first-time designers every year! It's a great festival and the sort of thing I'd love to see more of. makeascenemn.org/en/call-for-...
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Just this morning I was thinking how much I'd like to see a series of interviews with folks operating at 'upper indie' scale in which they explain their business process.
I'm just a single jerk doing my thing, I can't stand working with people and I've made most of my process up on the fly.
I'm just a single jerk doing my thing, I can't stand working with people and I've made most of my process up on the fly.
February 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Just this morning I was thinking how much I'd like to see a series of interviews with folks operating at 'upper indie' scale in which they explain their business process.
I'm just a single jerk doing my thing, I can't stand working with people and I've made most of my process up on the fly.
I'm just a single jerk doing my thing, I can't stand working with people and I've made most of my process up on the fly.
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We hear that sssome people are jusst dissscovering that freeform larping exissts.
Yessssss
The Golden Cobra Challenge hass a huge wealth of material dating back to 2014 waiting for those who dare.
Download and try a larp.
You might like it?
sssssssssss
goldencobra.org
Yessssss
The Golden Cobra Challenge hass a huge wealth of material dating back to 2014 waiting for those who dare.
Download and try a larp.
You might like it?
sssssssssss
goldencobra.org
Golden Cobra Challenge
goldencobra.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:56 AM
We hear that sssome people are jusst dissscovering that freeform larping exissts.
Yessssss
The Golden Cobra Challenge hass a huge wealth of material dating back to 2014 waiting for those who dare.
Download and try a larp.
You might like it?
sssssssssss
goldencobra.org
Yessssss
The Golden Cobra Challenge hass a huge wealth of material dating back to 2014 waiting for those who dare.
Download and try a larp.
You might like it?
sssssssssss
goldencobra.org
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Don’t miss the poll at the end! 🗳️
Are lane battlers actually area control games?
How far can we modify a lane battler by adding thematic elements before it comes a "troops on a map" area control game?
Full article: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/lane-battl...
#boardgames #gamedesign 🎲✂️
How far can we modify a lane battler by adding thematic elements before it comes a "troops on a map" area control game?
Full article: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/lane-battl...
#boardgames #gamedesign 🎲✂️
Are lane battlers actually area control games?
Exploring lane battlers and area control via the example of Air, Land, & Sea. How far can we modify a lane battler by adding thematic elements before it comes a "troops on a map" area control game?
www.skeletoncodemachine.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Don’t miss the poll at the end! 🗳️
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discovered some life-changing ttrpg tech during friday’s session: after taking a mid session break, before getting back into the scene, do a sports style locker room interview with each player (in character). it’s 1) funny 2) focusing 3) immediately and personally characterizing
February 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
discovered some life-changing ttrpg tech during friday’s session: after taking a mid session break, before getting back into the scene, do a sports style locker room interview with each player (in character). it’s 1) funny 2) focusing 3) immediately and personally characterizing
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Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!
Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind
An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG
www.kickstarter.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!
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Hello, new followers!
My name is Avery, and I'm a tabletop roleplaying game designer who makes games about self-doubt, queerness, community, and the apocalypse. Learn more here: buriedwithoutceremony.com
I also talk about the necessity of an anticapitalist, decolonized, gender-liberated world.
My name is Avery, and I'm a tabletop roleplaying game designer who makes games about self-doubt, queerness, community, and the apocalypse. Learn more here: buriedwithoutceremony.com
I also talk about the necessity of an anticapitalist, decolonized, gender-liberated world.
Buried Without Ceremony - Games that mean something.
My name is Avery Alder. For the past thirteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games about community, doubt, queerness, and apocalypse.
buriedwithoutceremony.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Hello, new followers!
My name is Avery, and I'm a tabletop roleplaying game designer who makes games about self-doubt, queerness, community, and the apocalypse. Learn more here: buriedwithoutceremony.com
I also talk about the necessity of an anticapitalist, decolonized, gender-liberated world.
My name is Avery, and I'm a tabletop roleplaying game designer who makes games about self-doubt, queerness, community, and the apocalypse. Learn more here: buriedwithoutceremony.com
I also talk about the necessity of an anticapitalist, decolonized, gender-liberated world.
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In a few weeks, I'll crowdfund the 20th Anniversary Edition of Play Unsafe, my book about improvisation, story and roleplay.
Go here and follow the Kickstarter. (And please repost this, it really helps!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg
Go here and follow the Kickstarter. (And please repost this, it really helps!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg
February 2, 2026 at 11:56 AM
In a few weeks, I'll crowdfund the 20th Anniversary Edition of Play Unsafe, my book about improvisation, story and roleplay.
Go here and follow the Kickstarter. (And please repost this, it really helps!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg
Go here and follow the Kickstarter. (And please repost this, it really helps!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg
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@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
Slow Walk by Six of Hounds
Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious larp.
sixofhounds.itch.io
February 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
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Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it
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I've played in many cultures and I don't even believe immersion is a thing. When someone brings it up I mentally replace the word with "selfishness" and everything gets much clearer.
February 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I've played in many cultures and I don't even believe immersion is a thing. When someone brings it up I mentally replace the word with "selfishness" and everything gets much clearer.
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I broke and rebuilt my own mind about a thing. Is roleplaying *really* a conversation?
Monologue Games
Not all RPGs are a conversation I’ve had this maddening…koan, I guess, spinning around in my head for a couple weeks now. It came from a buddy being completely dismissive of solo RPGs. Maybe it was…
www.indiegamereadingclub.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I broke and rebuilt my own mind about a thing. Is roleplaying *really* a conversation?
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Hands-on activities for tabletop game design workshops!
The four design principles and hands-on activities I used when teaching a recent tabletop game design workshop at the Gettysburg Library. Details and resources to help others run design classes: omnes.exeunt.press/p/hands-on-t... #ttrpg
The four design principles and hands-on activities I used when teaching a recent tabletop game design workshop at the Gettysburg Library. Details and resources to help others run design classes: omnes.exeunt.press/p/hands-on-t... #ttrpg
Hands-on activities for tabletop game design workshops
The four design principles and hands-on activities I used when teaching a recent tabletop game design workshop at the Gettysburg Library. Details and resources to help others run design classes.
omnes.exeunt.press
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Hands-on activities for tabletop game design workshops!
The four design principles and hands-on activities I used when teaching a recent tabletop game design workshop at the Gettysburg Library. Details and resources to help others run design classes: omnes.exeunt.press/p/hands-on-t... #ttrpg
The four design principles and hands-on activities I used when teaching a recent tabletop game design workshop at the Gettysburg Library. Details and resources to help others run design classes: omnes.exeunt.press/p/hands-on-t... #ttrpg
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This guy just wants to give you a big hug.
Art by @nightjargames.bsky.social for an upcoming WYRM release.
Art by @nightjargames.bsky.social for an upcoming WYRM release.
January 28, 2026 at 12:50 AM
This guy just wants to give you a big hug.
Art by @nightjargames.bsky.social for an upcoming WYRM release.
Art by @nightjargames.bsky.social for an upcoming WYRM release.
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I meant to do this last week but time sure is slippery at the moment. Here's my playtest report for AW-Dark Ages.
We've been playing, adapting, and re-writing this game for a few months at this point, and we just wrapped a 6ish session playtest with some new folks
We've been playing, adapting, and re-writing this game for a few months at this point, and we just wrapped a 6ish session playtest with some new folks
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I meant to do this last week but time sure is slippery at the moment. Here's my playtest report for AW-Dark Ages.
We've been playing, adapting, and re-writing this game for a few months at this point, and we just wrapped a 6ish session playtest with some new folks
We've been playing, adapting, and re-writing this game for a few months at this point, and we just wrapped a 6ish session playtest with some new folks
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It's really exciting to see the design minds of Andrew Gillis and Luke Jordan working on Apocalypse World: Dark Ages with the Bakers' blessings. Can't wait to see the game.
I meant to do this last week but time sure is slippery at the moment. Here's my playtest report for AW-Dark Ages.
We've been playing, adapting, and re-writing this game for a few months at this point, and we just wrapped a 6ish session playtest with some new folks
We've been playing, adapting, and re-writing this game for a few months at this point, and we just wrapped a 6ish session playtest with some new folks
January 25, 2026 at 4:15 AM
It's really exciting to see the design minds of Andrew Gillis and Luke Jordan working on Apocalypse World: Dark Ages with the Bakers' blessings. Can't wait to see the game.
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This is such an important @rascal.news read highlighting the awesomeness and depth of @laurieblake.bsky.social as a designer and as an activist! So stoked to see your words and your work highlighted. 💕
Why We Fight's designer believes RPGs can teach players how to put their politics into direct, radical action, even if the steps between tables and communities aren't so clear.
Why We Fight sees a connection between dice and direct action
Play as praxis boasts one ardent defender.
www.rascal.news
January 23, 2026 at 9:34 PM
This is such an important @rascal.news read highlighting the awesomeness and depth of @laurieblake.bsky.social as a designer and as an activist! So stoked to see your words and your work highlighted. 💕
I finally got Why We Fight to the table. We played a one shot mission from the Direct Action quickstart book - and I gotta say, I was quite impressed.
It takes inspiration from a lot of good and recent design, but it's really doing its own thing.
#WhyWeFight
#SoloRPG
#TTRPG
#GMlessGames
#ZeroPrep
It takes inspiration from a lot of good and recent design, but it's really doing its own thing.
#WhyWeFight
#SoloRPG
#TTRPG
#GMlessGames
#ZeroPrep
January 24, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I finally got Why We Fight to the table. We played a one shot mission from the Direct Action quickstart book - and I gotta say, I was quite impressed.
It takes inspiration from a lot of good and recent design, but it's really doing its own thing.
#WhyWeFight
#SoloRPG
#TTRPG
#GMlessGames
#ZeroPrep
It takes inspiration from a lot of good and recent design, but it's really doing its own thing.
#WhyWeFight
#SoloRPG
#TTRPG
#GMlessGames
#ZeroPrep
slightly diminish a game:
Apocalypse Neighborhood
Apocalypse Neighborhood
slightly diminish a game:
Hearsay Bastionlands
Hearsay Bastionlands
slightly diminish a game:
Mage: The Abstention
Mage: The Abstention
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 AM
slightly diminish a game:
Apocalypse Neighborhood
Apocalypse Neighborhood
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If you would put together a kind of 2026 calendar for #ttrpg designers, what moments of the year stand out to you? #ZineMonth? #rpgenesis? The ongoing kickstarter for #ApocalypseWorld?
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
If you would put together a kind of 2026 calendar for #ttrpg designers, what moments of the year stand out to you? #ZineMonth? #rpgenesis? The ongoing kickstarter for #ApocalypseWorld?
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This is accurate, but also feels backwards, which is a little bit odd to say.
There are a LOT of complicated factors Involved in this, but one of the weirdest and most disruptive is a sense that RPGs are an unwelcome activity, *even while doing them*.
There are a LOT of complicated factors Involved in this, but one of the weirdest and most disruptive is a sense that RPGs are an unwelcome activity, *even while doing them*.
The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players.
Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.
Broader implications about community in there, y'all.
Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table.
Broader implications about community in there, y'all.
January 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This is accurate, but also feels backwards, which is a little bit odd to say.
There are a LOT of complicated factors Involved in this, but one of the weirdest and most disruptive is a sense that RPGs are an unwelcome activity, *even while doing them*.
There are a LOT of complicated factors Involved in this, but one of the weirdest and most disruptive is a sense that RPGs are an unwelcome activity, *even while doing them*.
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follow the page for The Endtimes Trilogy if you like weird storygames, GMless games, games with a GMPC who's a total jerk, games with playing cards, games with tarot cards, games with dice, games inspired by Krasznahorkai books, games inspired by 10 cloverfield lane, anthology trilogies, zines, etc
The Endtimes Trilogy is coming to #zinetopia & #zinemonth in February! Follow the page now!
I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
I'm bringing three interesting new tabletop rpgs about the end of the world. They play great standalone, or pair nicely as a three part apocalyptic anthology.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy
From Adam Bell Games - Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy
www.backerkit.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
follow the page for The Endtimes Trilogy if you like weird storygames, GMless games, games with a GMPC who's a total jerk, games with playing cards, games with tarot cards, games with dice, games inspired by Krasznahorkai books, games inspired by 10 cloverfield lane, anthology trilogies, zines, etc
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The Civil TTRPG discourse guide
Via the magic of ice cream
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM