Howdy! I'm Brian, an illustrator/cartographer/comic maker in the tabletop games industry with decades of experience and I am actively looking for more freelance work. Check out brianfnpatterson.com for my portfolio, client list, and commission inquiries. Let's make your thing! #ttrpg

Ah, the life of a TTRPG designer.

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TTRPG designers should be paid more!! In accordance with this I upped all the prices of the Imagination Simulations catalogue! Help me afford groceries and estrogen! imaginationsimulations.itch.io

We've been tossing around the idea of the occasional Twitch stream lately, and today is gonna be the day! Austin is a big fan of The Finals, and they just dropped a fantasy themed season. He'll be live in 20 minutes if all goes according to plan!

Where is the weirdest place you've played a TTRPG? We've played in a barn loft, a church, and overnight at an office. Not sure which takes the cake there.

Describe your WIP with images only:

If you're revisiting Doskvol in anticipation of Blades in '68, check out our Lost Archives of ready-made inventions and rituals, to drop in as rewards, inspire scores, or even to base a whole season of play around! From Inception dream rituals to Jekyll and Hyde elixirs, we've got you covered!

If you haven't seen us at a con, don't worry! We're there—it's just that the spectral barrier keeps B. from fully crossing into the larger temporal space, rendering us mostly invisible. That said, if you are at a con and CAN see us, please contact your closest Agent to prevent timeline collapse.

This is tangentially TTRPG related, but we've been playing Slay the Spire 2 over here at the Biscuit Wolf top secret HQ, and honestly love the MS Paint placeholder art.

It's important to take a moment and enjoy when you reach certain benchmarks. Looking forward to getting this into the world Soon™

Free actual play idea: City of Mist, but the only mythos are advertising mascots. Chester Cheetah, Toucan Sam, the General, and so on.

3. As if Blades '68 doesn't have enough touchstones already, I wrote a design diary about four "meta touchstones". blog.olddog.games/posts/what-i... These are less aesthetic touchstones and more creative guides for my own process. Two books, a TV show, and an ad campaign.

It's Game Master Appreciation Day! Make sure you leave out some Dr Pepper and a slice of pizza for the Spirit of the Dice tonight so you get good rolls for the next year! Or, just let your GM know how much you appreciate them. It'll do wonders for your character's mortality.

There's a strategy to this. No Cheetos or other dusty food UNLESS you also use chopsticks. Charcuterie is good, as are pretzels and jerky. And no sauces, or those will end up on your character sheet!

We're very proud of our work, and very impressed by all the other entries in the Jams of the Timescape #2! Check out the whole list of winners here, but especially our entry, the Arrakszhai!

If you want to grab one for yourself, head on over to dngn.club

Hey tabletop gamers, if you bought or were considering buying this bundle but got overwhelmed by the number of games to sort through, have I got the spreadsheet for you!! All 1,074 games tagged as "physical" sorted by play style, with language, engine, and genre notated to the best of my ability:

B. has provided us with a helpful(?) infographic about their enthusiasm for Blades '68. B. has also assured us that accidental nukes are definitely a problem that everyone has, not just them.

I don't know who keeps doing this but you have to stop I'm begging you

Y'all surged past the goal ALREADY!? Not even two days into a month long fundraiser? . . . How high can we get this? Support us and other creators by donating $10+ and getting some incredible video and tabletop games, as well as assets for creating your own stuff!

We've got our entire catalog up in this bundle, along with hundreds of others doing the same! Help a good cause, and get some great games (video and tabletop) along the way!

I had totally forgotten about this

B. here - I do most of the layout & design for Biscuit Wolf and I have ZERO tolerance for "but I'm disabled!" as an excuse for using AI... Because I am both neurodivergent and physically disabled. The truth is that a lot of you are standing in an unlocked skinner box, pretending you can't leave.

Play like a GM, GM like a player. Is that anything? It sounds wise.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Gods Beneath I love me some maps. Especially the kind you lay out in the middle of the table as you plan the next score.

"Being anti AI is class privilege! Poor people can't afford to learn how to make art without it!" Yes. Famously, all artists are extremely wealthy.

Are we having the "I need to use AI for art because I can't draw for whatever reason" discourse again? Michelangelo had osteoarthritis. Chuck Close had severe paralysis. John Bramblitt is functionally blind. I don't think there's a single artist who isn't neurodiverse in some way.

First Rule of Blades '68: There will be no mention of The Forbidden Touchstone.

Nice try.

Watching this right now, and really love listening to two masters talk about controlling the flow of time at the table, as editing/directing. It's something I'm very conscious of, and I don't see a lot of "GM tips" about that.

If you're spinning up Blades in the Dark campaign this year to use the new Deep Cuts expansion, or getting ready for Blades in '68, do yourself a favor and grab our collection of rituals and inventions! Perfect rewards for scores, or as weapons used against the crew by other factions!

Really digging the art, and very curious to see how this game plays!

Less than 24 hours for submissions for these fundraisers! Get them in there and help a noble cause!

If you're cold, they're cold— invite them inside 🥺 We just dropped The Arrakszhai, our entry to the Draw Steel Jam of the Timescape #2 in collaboration with @mrstonebender.bsky.social! It's free, so check it out now.

All our stuff from Biscuit Wolf Games is in here. If you have a game (ttrpg or otherwise), you should think about putting it in here.

If you're cold, they're cold— invite them inside 🥺 We just dropped The Arrakszhai, our entry to the Draw Steel Jam of the Timescape #2 in collaboration with @mrstonebender.bsky.social! It's free, so check it out now.

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

TTRPG friends, Matt, our friend and community member @nurdrocks.bsky.social has been taken by ICE while his back was turned, peacefully protesting. Matt is the founder of Justice Frontline Aid that provides aid & education in the MN community. I've linked the video footage below. Do not stay silent.

This is most certainly going to end up in my Daggerheart games. It's too much fun not to use!

A David Lynch quote for every creative person who may need it today. It resonated with me when I came across it reading it in Lynch on Lynch.

We've put OUR ENTIRE CATALOGUE of games into this bundle, because fuck ICE. That's Lost Archives for your Blades game, our Costume generator, our newspaper templates, and over 1,000 more games from creators all over the world. It's going live in 5 days, so get ready for a hell of a fundraiser!

"Forget it Jake, it's Doskvol."

B. here popping out of my writing well for a rare post to say: Pay your fucking people what you agreed on. So much of this industry at its base level relies on favors/trades/exposure that when you have the ability (and the contractual obligation) to pay someone, just fucking do it.

I needed to job hunt today but I just made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. I have no regrets.

I wrote a thing. A games taste manifesto, sort of, but not really. AGAINST GAMES THAT SAY I CAN DO ANYTHING (BUT THAT I CAN'T PLAY SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Don't be weird. www.patreon.com/posts/148413...

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