I know it's been a minute, my podcast editing chops have been out of shape... I just completed the FIRST hour of a TWO hour conversation with the Amazing Baker family @megueyb.bsky.social @lumpley.bsky.social That'll go live soon. Until then catch our first episode!
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I just backed Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Tabletop RPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...
Because @openhearthrpg.bsky.social got to me!! Check us out on Roll For Origin Ep7 geeking out about M&M: aroundthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/episodes/rol...
A Zero Day Bandits (prototype) update. Mad love to Brian Cronin: Black Box Sim for Roguelikes youtu.be/jhcHlg7YhPg?... helped me organize my shit. Anyways, took a break to update my graphics a little and added a preview screen. #indiegamedev
Musing on Curiosity, friction, and iteration.
Good Monday, Gamers! 🤬
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We’ve added a Curse-eater mentor, an exorcist consultant, and an occultist librarian to the roster.
The Disciples are squabbling, and they have a pet frog monster.
And no one has seen Bennie in a minute.
Welcome to the Occulted KC
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Inside you’ll find things like:
- building fantastic one-shots that rock!
- running online games like a demon!
- planning and trusting emergent play.
I’m also running a few limited online game sessions as reward tiers — a fast CBR+PNK heist setup and a short The One Ring: Moria. #ttrpg
37 Hours and @$600 to go, my gaming friends.
A curated zine collection of essays and practical tools pulled from a few years of writing Play Fearless on Substack, focused on running better sessions and building stronger table culture.
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a|state second edition is on sale at our webstore for a limited time. Check out the source of The Trouble Engine, and the faction rules used in Blades '68. handiwork.games/product/asta... #astaterpg
Super Nerd out with Lowell and I on Mutants & Masterminds!!
Another nostalgia game is building.
TMNT & Other Strangeness is back on my desk. Prepping Wild Talents for Lifted and new tech at the IRL table.
50% funded and 5 days to go, Help me pull off an upset!
Good Monday, Gamers!
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“You're not having a good night, are you, John?” -Cassian
I’ve been watching John Wick and musing about RPGs. So I wrote up a piece on running The Continental at your table. Focus on the institution — not the muzzle flash.
Good Monday, Gamers.
#ttrpg
"you not having a good night are you John?" --Cassian.
Thanks @bowtiediene.bsky.social ❤️ I also second @3d6downtheline.com 🤘🏾
Week one in the books. A new update is live.
Every piece in Play Fearless: Greatest Crits earned its place through play experience.
Small run. PDF + print. If you believe good GMing is learned in motion, not in theory — I’m your huckleberry.
Get in where you fit.
Play Fearless.
#TurnBasedThursday
Seeing everyone’s art/ui work today inspiring❤️ The diverse graphic details help me think about my WIP art direction.
Zero Day Bandits (my Netrunner-inspired deckbuilder RPG) is still deep in prototype mode — placeholders everywhere. Thanks for hosting @runelightowl.bsky.social
all the boring, non-sexy stuff for prototyping card play of my deckbuilder: Zero Day Bandits.
'cause nobody's working on a Netrunner Deckbuilder game for me to play. 🤷🏾♂️ #indiegamedev
"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic and frog monster shenanigans in Occulted KC (our Monster of the Week campaign), a Zine update and a Zero Day Bandits update.
Good Monday Gamers!!
#TTRPG #Gamedev
Alright, The Play Fearless Greatest Crits zine is live!!
I’ve been writing Play Fearless for years.
This is the part I wanted for my coffee table.
If you’ve ever pulled something from this work into your own games, I’d love your support.
You know what to do!
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Hey in the run up to the crowdfunding campaign for Cold City and Hot War, (Both games are now out in PDF) I sat down with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social to chat about the upcoming new edition. You can watch (or listen) to all of the parts in one go: youtu.be/Hds6fbPzvJE #coldcity
This is one of those weeks where a bunch of small, separate things quietly click into place.
None of it is flashy on its own. Taken together, though, it feels like momentum—and I’ll take that kind of Monday every Monday.
Good Monday, Gamer!
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We are live on Patreon. 2026 is the year of Diceology Rerolled and also me (Play Fearless) moving away from Substack.
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A little something-something I’ve been working on with the most awesome @scorchadoom.bsky.social Creativity in the TTRPG space. Should be going live today, it’s been a while since I did any podcast work, a brotha’s a bit rusty!
Secret KC: Winter's Last Dance - Warm Rooms, Slow Vibes & Quiet Intentions! www.secretkc.com/p/the-big-th...
Someone ran the experiment anyway.
It worked.
It can’t be shut down.
Occult infrastructure.
Leaking systems.
Bad assumptions baked into reality.
Good Monday, Gamer. You Don’t Know Jack
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just submitted two of my games, Birth of the Resistance Age (which is about fighting an authoritarian regime) and Imp of the Perverse (which is about ending the threat of monsters in your community), it’s not much but something’s better than nothing!
abolish ice, all power to MN.
Behind the scenes of my weekly Monster of the Week campaign in an Occulted Kansas City. Practical prep, player-led discovery, table presence, and why I don’t stat baddies until I must.
Friday Field Notes: Occulted KC. open.substack.com/pub/playfear...
Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 6 Godlike & Wild Talents
In this ep @madjay.bsky.social and I cover Godlike, the WW2 supers game that leans into realism and consistency. Second Wild Talents, which can follow that first game's history or be recast into a generic supers RPG.
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Your best NPCs aren’t planned.
For me, they’re often player consequences.
A failed roll created Bennie.
Three sessions later, he’s an emergent antagonist with ambitions.
I wrote about letting the table grow your villains vs forcing them.
Good Monday, Gamers!!
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