Look, I get it. You need to pitch your game on social media and write a description of it for DriveThruRPG. Then you need to promote it. Let me help you do a better job of it with a bad example. #ttrpg

Machine Gods of the Noxian Expanse looks absolutely fantastic. For some reason, they won't take my money. You should check it out anyway. #TTRPG #MachineGods #solo

It's been a while since I posted, but we're jumping back in with a banger. Some brief thoughts on a fantasy militia versus insidious psionicists scenario setup. But I'm definitely not suggesting D&D

Politics have a massive influence on war and on the lives of the exceptional, and yet we spend so little real time thinking about the politics of our worlds and obsess about the politics of our lives.

Your Moment of RPG Inspiration: Stop giving your players easy decisions. Make it easy to be the bad guy. Make it hard to be the good guy. Make the people in charge well-intentioned. Make their allies scumbags.

What do you do when there is a product firmly targeted at your demographic and personal interests, but it is connected to another product you have absolutely no interest in at all? Clearly, you ramble

It never ceases to amaze and horrify me how commonly people have only played and only conceive of Dungeons & Dragons. Then they muse about mechanics which aren't as if they never existed. #TTRPG #design

Clint Warren-Davey, designer of One Hour World War II, has five great player psychology insights for game design that can make your RPG better, and which you should be well aware of. Let's talk about them.

You know, I'm a big fan of military RPGs and tactical wargames, but if you're going to promote yours, you really need to evidence some knowledge of the genre in your promotional material. #TTRPG #military

I love it when I stumble through things which connect in my head. And while I love science fiction, sometimes the ideas lead to pure fantasy. How is satellite penetration technology related to fantasy

Your Moment of RPG Inspiration: Artificial Life. How can it fit into your games? How can it inspire your imagination? What even is it? #TTRPG #MoRI #ArtificvialLife #AI

Oh look it's another Tempest in a Teapot. The current outrage is all about Eldar Wraithbone, but when you hate both sides of the people holding forth most loudly, can you really stake out your own spot?

My musings about how hit points are a terrible mechanism to represent damage and the discussion of Tarrasque versus Clay Golem illustrates why. #TTRPG #DnD #design #HPConsideredBad

Hey, do you remember that Jack Chick tract Dark Dungeons? Yeah, the one that made D&D out to be a nest of occult power? Did you know they made a movie a decade ago? It premiered at GenCon. Would you

Diamond Distribution is going Chapter 13, which means that some of the games you love may be harder to find, but they may end up cheaper for a little while. Plus, it may give WotC and Catalyst a black

We show off a game about the last days on the last day. Infaernum puts you six days from Judgment Day, surrounded by the teeming forces of evil and carrying nothing more than very minimalist mechanics.

You missed the point, however. If you can express negativity, but “you don't see it that way,” then you've eroded your ability to say fuck the rest because you're ignoring that they may not see it that

Looking for a mission-based mecha game with faction and mission mechanics unlike anything you've ever seen? Check out Celestial Bodies along with Edgar Vinter as we go to near post-human space. #TTRPG

The irony being that “Fuck the rest” is inherently a negative statement and caps off what is essentially a complaint by putting more negative energy out in the world. So either you lack self-reflection

That is to say in response to your implicit question, “No, I'm not just some rando talking out of his ass, I have some experience with multiple LLMs and judging their relative usefulness.”