# tabletop games (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tabletop games. Page: Feed: --- ## [Building Aliens From Scientific Literature](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/building-aliens) _2026-08-10 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ How I'm turning biology research into playable creatures. ## [Thought Complex: Design Journal Two](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/07/30/thought-complex-design-journal-two/) _2026-07-30 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ This week, I received the copies of Thought Complex that I’ll be selling at the PAX West Indie Night Market. Check out all the games available for purchase at the market using this link: PNW Tableetop Game Market 2026 Everything turned out looking fantastic! The game feels nice and compact but the tarot-sized cards and \[…\] ## [Thought Complex: Design Journal One](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/07/29/thought-complex-design-journal-1/) _2026-07-29 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ Development of this game felt like a fever dream. It came and went, start to finish, in two months. But I cannibalized elements for this from other games that I had been working on for several months. It was both a lengthy and brief process. Let’s talk about it. This is my first narrative-ish game \[…\] ## [The Quarterly Crust: Summertime Sunshine Edition](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/07/22/the-quarterly-crust-summertime-sunshine-edition/) _2026-07-22 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ DISCLAIMER: I don’t copyedit most of my posts, including the Quarterly Crust. Become frustrated by my tyops at your own risk. (See what I did there?) Hello Hot Days & Sun Rays; The weather: Sweltering. The days: Long. The sky: Blue. I have spent most of my time this season with my nose to the \[…\] ## [Heck Yeah! “Cloudy”](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/07/16/heck-yeah-cloudy/) _2026-07-16 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ OMG stop, you're a ball of light, we get it, okay? ## [50 First Rejections: Author Journal Three](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/07/14/50-first-rejections-author-journal-three/) _2026-07-14 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ 2026 Rejection Count: 2 I’ve received my second official rejection this year! My first rejection was a short story I submitted to a reputable publication. They have a great turnaround time for responses and I was able to witness their lightning fast ‘we don’t want it’ form response first hand. This new rejection was from \[…\] ## [Heck Yeah! “Uncle Sam”](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/07/04/heck-yeah-uncle-sam/) _2026-07-04 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ ## [Xeno-Ecological Devlog!](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/xeno-ecological-devlog) _2026-07-02 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ Mechanics meet Scientific Thematics while Designing an Alien Ecosystem. ## [Heck Yeah! “The Ultimate Taboo”](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/06/16/heck-yeah-the-ultimate-taboo/) _2026-06-17 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ ## [50 First Rejections: Author Journal Two](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/06/10/50-first-rejections-selling-fiction-2/) _2026-06-10 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ Welcome to another edition of rejection kink porn, the blog. Getting published is a spray and prey process, most writers submit to hundreds of publications throughout a calendar year. This year, my goal is to submit to over fifty. And I’ll calculate that goal by rejections alone. My goal is to get at least fifty \[…\] ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CHUUraEFxgoq) _2026-06-10 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Heck Yeah! “Key”](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/06/01/heck-yeah-key/) _2026-06-01 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ Where's that ol' key to life? ## [Heck Yeah! “Nows”](https://mutantpizza.net/2026/05/19/heck-yeah-nows/) _2026-05-20 · Mutant Pizza · Mutant Pizza_ Live in the now now, you know? ## [New Release: A Grotto Called!](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/grotto) _2026-04-19 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ Defeat the monster through through inference and phone calls. ## [DevLog: Pokemon Shale - Mystery Dungeon meets Tower Defense](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/devlog-pokemon-shale-mystery-dungeon) _2026-03-05 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ Writing up some background for a coming TTRPG zine, and centering it around joy. ## [Keeping AWS bills low with a cheap NAT instance on Amazon Linux 2023](https://jbargu.github.io/en/post/terraform-nat-instance-al-2023/) _2026-03-03 · In pursuit of a global minimum ..._ I love a good cloud infrastructure bargain. For a long time, my go-to was the fantastic (and cheap!) int128 NAT module to handle routing without paying the dreaded AWS Managed NAT Gateway premium. But as it with tech, things inevitably break. When I tried pairing the module with newer AMIs, it started causing some issues, specifically, it flat-out refused to reboot on failure. I went digging and… ## [Resources to take only data, leave only footprints.](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/stamps) _2026-01-16 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ Resources to take only data, leave only footprints. ## [Archaeology, Mushroom Church, and Finding Poetry.](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/poetry) _2025-11-30 · The Holistic Dice_ A couple weeks ago, the entire cathedral was full and completely silent in anticipation. ## [Archaeology and Uncovering the Mess](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/archaeology) _2025-09-21 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ A Second Cohort of Archaeologists Play, Create, and Reflect with Artifacts ## [Archaeology and Connection through Tabletop Games](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/archeology) _2025-09-01 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ “I knew like a three-year-old’s level of Russian,” Reese shared, laughing at a memory. ## [How I Won the 2025 Tabletop Games Balancing Competition](https://jbargu.github.io/en/post/balancing-competition-2025/) _2025-08-28 · In pursuit of a global minimum ..._ Game design is an art, but balancing a game? That is pure math. Recently, I decided to put my algorithm skills to the test and entered the 2025 Tabletop Games Balancing Competition . The goal was straightforward but quite difficult: write an algorithm that automatically finds the fairest, most balanced set of rules for a variety of popular board games. I’m thrilled to announce that my… ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/noDuXRKzgxjG) _2025-08-27 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [Tower Theory: Running Collapsing Sessions](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/tower) _2025-04-30 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ Adding momentum to both floor-to-floor or town-to-town conflicts ## [Perserving home partition after upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04.01](https://jbargu.github.io/en/post/ubuntu-24-04-lts-perserving-home-after-upgrading/) _2025-03-10 · In pursuit of a global minimum ..._ Recently I have tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04.1. After the infamous do-release-upgrade my system was bricked and I had to reinstall the Ubuntu 24.04.1 the old fashioned way. That’s when I hit my next roadblock. During the installation, I noticed that the checkbox to format my home partition was grayed out. That’s right - Ubuntu was essentially telling me, “You will… ## [Why does Climate Change matter in my game?](https://holisticdice.substack.com/p/climate) _2024-12-05 · Kai Srinivasan-Medina · The Holistic Dice_ How Incorporating Science into Tabletop Gaming can be Useful. ## [From zero to Netrunner PnP hero](https://jbargu.github.io/en/post/print-and-play-netrunner/) _2024-11-01 · In pursuit of a global minimum ..._ The beginning This summer I offered my local shop to teach Android:Netrunner . It is a dynamic two-player asymmetric card game where one side plays an evil corporation and the other one a “runner” - a hacker that tries to breach the corp’s servers and steal their hidden agendas. The shop loved the idea, and I was thrilled to get started. The plan seemed simple enough. I needed at…