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The Balsam Lake Unmurders was the inaugural game of the Heart of the Deernicorn Solo RPG Book Club yesterday‼️

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heartofthedeernicorn.com Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · Jul 4
This past Thursday, we hosted our very first Solo RPG Book Club event! Thank you so much to everyone who came out and played a solo game with us - together!

We are so grateful for this incredible community here in Olympia, and we had so much fun playing the Balsam Lake Unmurders with you.
July 4, 2026 at 2:32 AM
paulczege.bsky.social
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Copies of The Balsam Lake Unmurders at a game store in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
It's journalgaming. I don't even need to click through. It has to be. You know it is.

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The push headline for an article on The Independent titled "The hobby that can rewire your brain and help you build resilience"
June 22, 2026 at 2:52 AM
paulczege.bsky.social
Mailing secret game/zines to a friend.

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August 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Check out what The Mystic has for sale on the top of those racks.

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heartofthedeernicorn.com Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · Aug 1
New retail racks are up at The Mystic. We’ve been experimenting with better solutions to help retailers display zines and other rpgs with small spines.
It is a blessing having the Mystic next door to try things out in a live retail environment!
August 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
paulczege.bsky.social
When you describe stream-of-consciousness journalgaming and bleed to someone at a zine/comics fest and they say, "Interesting. Thanks for being here," it means they think you're insane.
paulczege.bsky.social Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · May 4
Czege & Son are tabling at DeCaf this coming Saturday from 11am to 7pm at the Schoolyard in downtown Denver. Come check us out if you like comics, journaling, tarot, games, or metaphysical journeys 😮.

#DeCAF #Denver #zines #journalGaming #comics
The poster for DeCAF, showing a bunch of people reading comics outside Schoolyard Beer Garden. The info: The Denver Comics & Arts Festival, Saturday, May 9th at School Yard (1115 Acoma Street), 11am-7pm, a free event featuring over 100 creators of comics, art, and zines, including me and my son.
May 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Today on Mastodon @mirror-lock.bsky.social 🌞

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A screenshot of a post on Mastodon by Alessio Persichetti that reads: After having read the zines by @PaulCzege, I'm going to play a lot of journaling games. Notebooks and the fountain pen have arrived yesterday. I've begun with Her Odissey. #JournalGaming https://mirror-lock.itch.io/her-odyssey
January 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Look at that pointing journalgaming finger with the quill pen! You know you'll have a use for it.
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Shows 8 different pointing hands icons, mostly in fantasy/medieval theme. All made by me.
September 30, 2026 at 10:51 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
I went through my journals and did my #JournalGaming #Wrapped 🖊️📓 for 2025 ‼️

Journaling Games Played: 12
Pages written: 202.8
Games played to completion: 4 (33%)

(cont'd!)
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
"It’s a great read, and it was my gateway into finally understanding the point of solo RPGs"

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sam.diceexploder.com Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · Feb 29
My long, long response to reading The Ink That Bleeds by @paulczege.bsky.social and then playing solo games to prep for this episode. I really love this little zine-memoir/how-to, but I also have some disagreements with it.
The Ink That Bleeds: Review and Response — Dice Exploder
www.diceexploder.com
February 29, 2024 at 6:23 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
This is apparently what I look like when I'm talking about journaling games.

(Photo by @lexshoots.bsky.social taken at #DenverZineFest a week and a half ago)

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Paul Czege, standing, wearing a KN95 mask, behind a table of journaling game/zines and using his hands when he's talking to a customer about them.
September 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Want to design a great, immersive journaling game? Make one that asks you questions that vex you in your life.

#ttrpg #JournalGaming #Inscapes
August 18, 2024 at 3:36 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Hopefully you can just focus on catching the necromancer and not get too drawn in.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/252...

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Coming soon: The Balsam Lake Unmurders
Play Your Cards Right, Catch the Necromancer. A Journaling Game of Method, Motive, and Opportunity In a Forested Minnesota Town.
www.kickstarter.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Holy cats! Look at the size of that group!

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bigpuffingames.bsky.social Deb Fuller @bigpuffingames.bsky.social · Nov 1
Having fun teaching people about solo journaling games at DC Zinefest with Designed in the DMV.
#zine #SoloJournaling #DitDMV
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
A journaling game. Two prompts.

You are (roll a d6)...

1. Lonely
2. Stupid
3. Naked
4. Broke
5. Arrested
6. Near Death

Write stream of consciousness in your journal to find out why.

Your BFF does something reckless to try to help you. Write how it plays out.

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April 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Who's up for some #JournalGaming!
My hand holding a home-printed copy of The City I Love, It Speaks to Me, by Irving Benitez. I'm outside at a green-painted cement picnic table at a park. There are sun-dappled shadows on the table from an overhead tree and my composition book and orange pen as well.
July 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Sometimes you write the journal entry first and then have to figure out how to make the game it would be part of.

#JournalGaming #GameDesign
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
#journalGaming #ttrpg #zine #BalsamLake
A photo of a professionally dressed woman driving. There is a caption, as if it's a movie frame, which says, "9:30 a.m., March 5th. Entering the town of Balsam Lake."
March 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Most games give you engagement via complexity and incomplete information.

I want my journaling games and zines about playing them to give you engagement via clarity.

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#Inscapes
August 24, 2024 at 5:16 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
I love the idea of this. I've been going through my journals to do a 2025 journalgaming wrapped.
jellyfishlines.itch.io 🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · Dec 8
Games that stuck with me in 2025
Games that stuck with me: Blood in the margins, Excavation One, Endling, Glatisant, Public Access, Prequel, Biotrophication, Seething, Dream Investigator, Who is the Dreamer, The Dignity of (Lycanthrophy based) Risk, CHVLR, and Covet"
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
I suppose if I had just posted online "An immersive journaling game isn't about the creation of a story, but about the creation of a self," that would have been easier than writing two zines. But who would have believed me?

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November 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
@stickydoodler.bsky.social and I talk with Jason Slingerman about journaling games on his just released episode. I really enjoyed it. Check it out:
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-715-...

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Episode 715: Writing the Game: Part 1 of… – Building the Game
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
It is submitted‼️

Check it out:

paulczege.itch.io/two-raw-mors...

🥩

#MeatCircusJam #ttrpg #journalGaming #mythology
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
Second conversation with @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Jason Slingerland about journaling games:

www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-726-...

What do you think? Did you listen to the first one? Should we continue?

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Episode 726: Writing the Game: Part 2 of… – Building the Game
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com
April 27, 2026 at 9:17 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
I love when someone's just a few entries into a journaling game I made and they message me to tell me. I can feel how they're getting drawn into it and they can tell how I made it to do that to them and needed to let me know. It's such a great, felt connection.

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February 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM