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I wrote a bunch of GM guidance and narrative game management pieces in TorchLite, both in terms of straight-up "here's a thing you can do in your game" advice column stuff as well as embedding best practices and opportunities into the mechanics.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this game out in the wild. And that happens... in TWO DAYS!!!

TorchLite is Epic. Turn simple fantasy tropes into a sprawling, bespoke world built out of your own likes and loves, unfolding in fascinating detail every time you sit down to play. Miriam Robern is your guide through epic worldbuilding and characterization in TorchLite. TorchLite ignites on Nov 13 at xine.ink.

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I've been so consumed by playing journaling games, and making and publishing them, and writing about them as zines.

The Ink That Bleeds is a how-to zine about playing them immersively. You can read an excerpt here at the Indie Game Reading Club Blog:

https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/excerpt-the-ink-that-bleeds/

It's about a way of writing that aids immersion when you play.

You can get a copy here:

https://www.paulczege.com/

I send everything myself as stamped letter mail.

Copies of journaling game/zines by Paul Czege, including The Ink That Bleeds: How To Play Immersive Journaling Games, Inscapes: How The Worlds We Make Make Us Who We Are, Be With Me, which is a journaling game about your time on a reality dating show like The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, The Sneeze, which is about people talking about you when you're not there, and Vampyres Are People Too and Millennium Self, which are small journaling games on 5 x 7 cards.

Are you a fan of Buffy, Stranger Things, Scooby, The Goonies, Sabrina, or just fancy yourself as one of the Frog Brothers?

Spells, Starbucks & Candles is my four-page GM-less, cooperative, narrative, rules-lite about witches and regular kids fighting a Big Bad that is plaguing their town. Find clues! Investigate spooky locations! Use magic and gadgets! And hopefully defeat that weird clown in the sewer before the sun rises.

⭐ Did I mention it's free? ⭐

https://dozywolf.itch.io/spells-starbucks-candles

Looking for some spooky, silly fun this Halloween?

Bone Boogie is a free, one-page that’s fun for the whole family. It’ll get you up on your feet and then rolling on the floor with laughter (assuming you still have leg and jaw bones by the end).

https://empyclaw.itch.io/bone-boogie

Created by indie designers and artists in , .

I have a request for the and folks.

Strap in; I don't usually do threads. But I need help from the angriest, un-White-est, un-eurocentric-ist corners, un-bound-by-gender-norm-ist corners of this place, the folks who play joyfully with their allies and kids because it's not a luxury, it's what we fight for.

(Sealions will be blocked instantly.)

My family---my children---love role playing games, and I have used collusive narratives with some rules, lots of world building, and dice since they were very small. But now that they are old enough to go looking on the internet, to read the rulebooks... we have a serious representation problem.

I guess it's (roughly) comparable to the systematic oppression in the , though I really, really don't want to trivialise-by-comparison the appalling violence that Black heroes here are struggling to name and dismantle.

But when we look at the popular …

Chers mastopotes,

J'ai deux grosse caisses (une 35-aine de kilos chacune, j'imagine) de vieux jeux de rôles (années 90, surtout - en anglais et en français) à DONNER A UN CLUB DE JdR SUR NANTES.

On convient d'un RdV, vous arrivez à deux avec un véhicule adapté (je suis près de la gare), vous repartez derechef - et hop c'est fini c'est bonheur c'est doubichou.

Je commence par proposer sur le Fedi, car les gens sur le Fedi sont beaux et intelligents.

Si vous êtes un particulier nantais qui veut acheter, on peut faire un truc aussi. Quelques exemples de bouquins dans le thread.