New public/free post up for everyone: 🎨Art process breakdown for my current illustration ✒️Book progress update + gushing about @ellipsus.com 🏪Future plans for prints, signed books, and special editions (including sprayed edges!)

If anyone with a show or blog is interested, I'm available for interviews or to run Actual Plays. The launch is planned for January 27th. #TTRPG #MagicOfInventorying

I did the thing where I made my profile name my itch URL, this means the game will sell a million copies right?

Tuesdays are for Twitch! This week, @mrdowden.com is joined by UnstoppableX to play some Dune Awakening! Join us at 5:00 PM EST, over in the usual place!

Please take & share our Measuring Authentic Allyship survey (forms.monday.com/for...) by January 19! We’re gathering community input as we prepare our Authentic Allyship presentation for GAMA Expo 2026 (March 1-5), because allyship is strongest when it’s grounded in real, lived experiences. 1/2

It's the first full week of 2026. Everyone's shaking off the haze of the last few weeks. Please remember to be patient with yourself, and each other, as we all get used to writing/typing 2026 in documents.

Good morning! It's 10 AM EST on Monday, January 5th, and the shop is back up and running for all of your 3D printed TTRPG accessory needs. Here's a blog post talking about what's going on: troxellstradingpost.mayhem.my/blog/monday-...

As we roll into the first weekend of 2026, do you have any exciting plans?

Friends! It is the first stream of the year for me, and the studio is open! Come on in! I am painting pokey-tools, and starting to prime and assemble a scorpion man! www.twitch.tv/sylvaerthorne/ #DragonsEyeGraphics #LinuxStreamer #Gamer #MiniaturePainting #Minis

Oh hey, new year and a new chance to support creators on Patreon, ko-fi and by commissioning human artists making amazing art! Leaving this one open to all to REPLY, not QP with your own links. Your own, not someone elses.

Oh yeah! Happy New Year, everyone!

It's the final day of 2025! What was your favorite TTRPG of this past year? What are you most looking forward to in 2026? Let us know!

Tuesday is normally for Twitch, but it's the holidays. We'll see you next Tuesday when @mrdowden.com is joined by X to ease into 2026 with some Dune Awakening. Have a great afternoon!

boosting for reach!

Yay engagement!

I would always attempt to do some manner of song when I played a bard, but my last group also had two members of a local band in it (Sorcerer and Cleric, not bards), so that was always a little bit intimidating.

Happy Monday, everyone! We're back! So, did you get any cool games?

Happy Wednesday, everyone! We're going to take a break until Monday, but before I go, I hope you're all having the best holiday season you can, that the games you want show up under your tree, and you're having good times with good friends. Take good care of yourselves, and each other.

Grab more adventures to take your #ttrpg table into the occult depths of your superhero setting! 🐦‍⬛ Valravn cultists 🦑 Eldritch-powered super soldiers 🤘 Riot grrl warlocks Face them all in Cypher Shorts: Dark Supers Shorts Vol. 2! Store: undergroundoracle.co... Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com...

I'm calling this post ☝️ my Advent of Swords Day 7 post! Follow the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw... Be alerted of it's arrival! And you to can fill your mitts with worlds to explore with your friends!

Tuesday is for Twitch! Today, we're taking it easy. @twenty20sight.com and @mrdowden.com are going to chat and play some PC games for a bit. Want to come relax with us on Christmas Eve Eve? Join us at 5 PM Eastern Standard, over on Twitch!

Sweet!

Good morning! It's Monday, December 22nd and in the midst of all the holiday havoc, I was wondering if you were able to play anything over the weekend? For me, the closest I got was putting my Daggerheart cards into sleeves.

My husband @artificerind.bsky.social has been having an especially rough go of it this year, and it's really been weighing on him this week. Maybe consider chipping in on his holiday wish? It's already over half funded!

Advent of Swords, Day 3: If you're designing a #ttrpg, what's its objective? What are the players trying to accomplish? Can you clearly put that into words? Would those words help you organize your thoughts and design? If you confessed the objective to the players, would that help them play?

Swords Without Master blew the lid off of the way I think about RPG play. I will never not enjoy running it for people because it brings out magic at the table. I see people pull out storytelling chops they didn't know they had.

We didn't feel like we had enough going on, what with the Twitch streams and the YouTube channel and the newsletter and the work we continue to do to make Lore Link an asset for anyone running a TTRPG, so we decided to start a blog. lorelink.com/blog

Looking for something...different? There's still time to get a bag of CLOTH #TTRPG maps on its way home for the holidays! Drawn by hand screen printed that way, too in very small batches on 14 x 14 squares of fabric only once and never again making these a rare gamer treat!

So Epimas is in a week, and the gift I most want for the holiday is to see the number of followers on this to hit 666: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw... I think it's possible. I believe in the power! To help it along, for the next week, I'm doing an Advent of Swords.

No, I do not need a "year in review" from LinkedIn.

This Friday, the next edition of our newsletter will be hitting subscriber's inboxes! Are you going to be one of those wonderfully fantastic people? Would you like to be?

I had a great time chatting with @epidiah.bsky.social about Swords without Master. It's a unique TTRPG that really encourages everyone at the table to take an active role in building an epic Swords and Sorcery story.

And that's a wrap! We want to thank @epidiah.bsky.social for spending time with @markdc.bsky.social today, talking about how he approaches making and playing games.. First off, I want to point you all to his upcoming Kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

hey, I am not gonna doompost about it necessarily but, a glance around will tell you it's a hard & stressful time for artists, and especially so this year consider dropping a kofi donation, or reposting a shop link, or even just, leave a comment so someone knows you like their work it does matter

Tuesday is for Twitch! Join @markdc.bsky.social as he talks with @epidiah.bsky.social about Swords Without Master, making games, and other projects! Conversation starts at 5 PM Eastern, over on Twitch!

Wow. Just wow. If there was anybody in your life who ever said, “hey, what OTHER cool RPGs are out there?” send them this link. This is an instant “start your own RPG hobby” starter kit.

Magic of Inventorying is going live on January 27th. 🤫 www.kickstarter.com/projects/rol...

Good morning! Today is Monday, December 15th, and tomorrow's stream has a guest! Join @markdc.bsky.social as he talks with @epidiah.bsky.social about Swords Without Master! You can do some pregaming at these links! * unwrittenearths.itch.io/worlds-witho... * www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

I don’t have any new games on my wish list at this time, but I do have some classic ttrpgs I would like in my game library. I have some AD&D 1e and L5R 1e books that I still need to rebuild my collection. A more specific book I am seeking is the Big Blue Book version of Champions 4th edition.

SO MANY, mostly ones we played on stream 😂 off the top of my head: Alien, The One Ring, Pendragon, and when it comes out The Magic of Inventorying!

Good morning! Today is Friday, December 12th, and we're right smack dab in the middle of the holiday season! What games do you have on your wish lists?

Running a Pathfinder->Starfinder game as well as a separate Starfinder game. Been reading through the Marvel Multiverse RPG lately (seems neat) as well as HC SVNT DRACONES. Not really looking to run more at the moment though, but would love to play a new character in something.

Currently running a D&D5e adventure lifted from an old 2e adventure. The players have to rescue a cursed temple from the fifth layer of Hell in order to save the soul of their friend.

Good morning, it's Thursday, December 11th, and I'm back on this! 😇 Today, I'm curious. Are you currently running a game. I mean, not right at this minute... Anyway, if you are, what are you running? Like I said, I'm curious. One would even say nosy. 🤣 Anyway, whatcha runnin'?

[pls share!] putting out a call because i am prepping for next year's trans rights bundle - i'm looking to focus on Idaho or Arkansas, both of which have had 10+ anti-trans bills passed this year. So - ID and AR residents, what are some local queer and trans organizations you know and trust?

Would you like to catch our Twitch streams, but are just too busy? You're in luck! They're also available to watch over on the Lore Link YouTube channel! Check it out, and something something like and subscribe! www.youtube.com/@LoreLink

Tuesday is for Twitch! This afternoon, come see @markdc.bsky.social run the Lore Link Players through a game of Reel Fear with their very special guest, @ugli4life.bsky.social! Join us, starting at 4 PM EST, over on Twitch!

Tomorrow, on Twitch! Mark and the Lore Link Players are joined by Justin from Ugli Games as they check out Reel Fear! Everything's starting up at 4:00 PM EST, over on Twitch! If you'd like to get a bit of pre-gaming in before the stream, here's their Itch page!

Good morning! It's Monday, December 8th, and I want to know if you played any good games over the weekend?