Galen Pejeau

Speaking of space games, SOLARCRAWL, my system-neutral campaign of "what if NASA did an OSR" is printed and on its way to backers! That means we can sell it to the rest of you all as well! Copies will soon be available from pandiongames.com/products/sol...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

This is spitting in the wind on Bsky, but if you're getting angry at a politician who's insufficiently committed to your cause, because you just heard/read them for the first time from some ragebaiting account re-post, please consider that you are not immune to propaganda.

Synchronize your watches, crew. We're doing this heist by the numbers.

it is happening again

Synchronize your watches, crew. We're doing this heist by the numbers.

Can you beleive this game only has 7 sales on itch? I can't. Solo noir mystery game inspired by True Detective, John Constantine, and Control. You are Kassandra King, and you navigate the world with moves like Fuck Someones, Night Out, and Listen to the Streets notwriting.itch.io/kassandra-ki...

Hey, the cat's out of the bag and... jumping through flaming hoops in a dark fantasy circus ring? That's right, I'm excited to be doing a little bit of art for Becky, being a huge fan of her previous work (Wreck this Deck is a delight), and excited to see what they're rehearsing in the big tent!

I've got an early look at Rustic Road 55 and I am very excited for this new Hints and Hijinx mystery TTRPG! It's all the right amounts of spooky road trip vibes. It launches tomorrow on Kickstarter, so make sure to check it out!

My three player asynchronous journaling game about three witches cursed to share one body - We Three Shall Meet Again - is getting an actual play / novella release this December. @notwritinggames.bsky.social, @napel.itch.io and I essentially co-wrote a novella, and the audio book is coming soon.

Today in Boundless Space: It's not too hard to write rules for a spaceships and hard sci-fi space combat. Unfortunately, today I am also learning it's very hard to write *concise* rules for space combat.

In late 2025/early 2026 I ran a game of Fabula Ultima from level 5 to level 22. Doing so required spinning up over a hundred enemy stat blocks, at least some of which never got used because the players kept dodging my planned encounters. Get all of them here, for free.

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As far as I'm concerned, this was just a moose presented at actual size. They are scarier in RL than any dragon!

René Magritte, The banquet, 1958

What if we just wrote the games?

This is so good, and could be up your alley, @levistahl.bsky.social.

Can you imagine that a game I worked on for two years, designed and laid out myself, with amazing art from Galen Pejeau and a banger of an adventure by Ryan Lucas, has reached 1,300 followers on BackerKit? There’s no big publisher behind this. Just raw passion after years of work. damn

APOCALYPSE FRAME 2E devlog #2 is up. Tags are dead. Long live not-tags. binarystar.games/posts/origin...

Good morning, friends!

If you didn't catch my post on Tues, the first interview in my newest series is with Thomas Manuel. In this interview, Thomas probes easy generalizations about theatre, considers for whom these analogies are useful, and speculates on the purpose of metatheatre and metagames. Really good stuff!

WHAT IS MYTHWORKS PRESENTS?! Mythworks Presents are projects that we love! They may have the same passion for worldbuilding as we do, tell a compelling story, or offer a different perspective of the world. See what we love 👉 https://www.myth.works/collections/mythopoeia-presents

The Gila RPGs Discord Bingo Game has officially begun! From today through the end of October, create things, share ideas, shout out people. All while filling in your bingo board. Get bingo? You get a free game! I hope you'll join us!

This week on Dice Exploder @zedecksiew.bsky.social joins me to talk about Thri-Kreen, the mantis people from Dark Sun, and the broader idea of how playing non-humanoid characters changes the way you play, think, and imagine. This ep is PACKED with ideas, Zedeck is as always such a thoughtful person.

One day before Lunchtime is Dicetime! We are talking about 'How to be a good player?' Join me, @armadajosh.bsky.social, @ickbat.bsky.social and our amazing viewers giving top quality chat in the channel. 14th October, 12.30pm BST - sign up below #ttrpg #rpg #role-playing #playertips #dnd

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Pelagic stalkers move low to the ground, like starving amphibian mongrels. They like to hide in the mud, covered in algae, waiting near the shores of subterranean pools and seas. They prefer their flesh softened by water and rot. They always attack in pairs. fomoria.com #fomoria #ttrpg

Opening Commissions back up get in touch!

New update on patreon, featuring v2.0 of my 14th century mercenary management ttrpg Free Company! www.patreon.com/calumgrace/p...

Who wants to be number 300? www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

I am here to sing the praises of Flock. It's a beautifully candy colored world, with a hint of melancholy, wrapped around a lightweight game of finding elusive beasts and identifying them. We found it while teaching our kid to always be observant when walking/hiking/camping, and it was perfect.

Posted some musings on spaceship shapes and a surprise playtest of a solo jousting RPG (!!!) to my Patreon. it's free, so why not give it a look? www.patreon.com/NightjarGame...

ALMOST finished with the big v2.0 update of Free Company, coming to my patreon soon. Includes a bit of a map shake-up to fix some ahistorical stuff like the fact that the Serbian Empire wasn't that big in 1370. Its place on the map is now taken by the Banate of Bosnia and a sliver of Hungary

Posted some musings on spaceship shapes and a surprise playtest of a solo jousting RPG (!!!) to my Patreon. it's free, so why not give it a look? www.patreon.com/NightjarGame...

WYRM is good, y'all.

I’m looking for freelance work! Would LOVE to do some book cover gigs or concept gigs in the game space. Help a girl out and hire meee 🩷 #artistforhire

New art for NOVA! Meet a Spark who's got such hot hands that they need heat sinks on their fingers.

my website might have one of the best worldbuilding maps of all time

I stayed up late last night reading the playtest doc for Dead Net from @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social and @navidrake.bsky.social. I'd have done it earlier but I hadn't realised it existed. It's pretty raw text but also complete enough you can see the game and test it out if you are minded to do so.

I just backed this. Looks great!

Get in the ship, loser.

Tried out an idea for a solo jousting game, and I think I may be on to something good here.

Altered Beast (1988)

How would you folks like to meet 13 colorful lowlifes, and get rich with them?

He's too modest to bring it up, but Lari has a perfectly good take on how to cook a Michelin star meal in an RPG with Chef's Blades. It's Forged in the Dark, rather than PbtA, but if you've ever worked in a kitchen, you know the scoundrel overlap makes sense. lari-assmuth.itch.io/chefs-blades...

Less than 36 hrs left till our Kickstarter for Galactic Dawn finishes up. We're hoping to get at least 1 stretch goal in, and we're not too far away from it!

New to the WYRM page: The Fungal Crown Can the Wyrms stop whatever has transformed this once verdant land into a fungal swamp? Grab this new one-page hexcrawl pamphlet, the core rules, and all things WYRM, all PWYW. gilarpgs.itch.io/wyrm

yo, go check out NOVA 2 by @gilarpgs.bsky.social NOVA 1 was the first indie ttrpg I ever bought and this new edition looks amazing