Running a #Daggerheart one-shot tonight and brought my own options for the Madlibs style mini-game you play to set up the session. I'll post the PDF later!

My First Dungeon: Perils & Princesses premieres on January 1st! We're kicking off this season with a conversation with the designer and illustrator @outridercreative.bsky.social who will teach us the rules and get @brianflaherty.bsky.social ready to run this awesome game!

Game Informer makes *three* best-of-year list placements for Daggerheart (along with NPR and Nerdist. If you know of others, please let me know!) gameinformer.com/tabletop/202...

Harmonies was a big hit during the family visit for Christmas. The combination of lovely animal art and several ways of scoring that interact in a fun variety of ways helped it appeal across different levels and types of game experience. And we didn't even get to try the animal spirit cards!

Re-upping this in case someone needs to hear it going into the weekend and New Years. You aren’t alone— this is the hardest time of the year for so many people, and there’s *nothing* wrong with you if you’re one of them.

Just wanted to remind you that I'll be rising my prices soon, so this is the last week to #commission me at the current rates. You would be getting a cool art piece, and also help me replace my tablet that is giving up. Please, check out my offerings here: ko-fi.com/haclif/commi... #DnDart #ttrpg

Bendi Barrett's "Empire of the Feast"--a novella about an attempted coup, a newly-reborn emperor, and an all-devouring beast. Like Machineries of Empire if the core technology of the empire were not a calendar but an endless orgy.

Surprise! 100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥 Download these games for free—for a limited time only. momatoes.itch.io/arc momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or... momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...

10 ttrpgs I want to play/run in 2026 A Land Once Magic Draw Steel The Between Armour Astir The Time We Have Ambition The Beckoning Dream Fabula Ultima Mörk Sol The Lands Remaining (Daggerheart is a free space)

Offloading some more #ttrpg core rulebooks (opp edition) to make room for new books. These are all in excellent condition, well loved. Selling legendlore, cavaliers of mars, scion: book one, werewolf: the forsaken + st screen, vampire: the Requiem + st screen. Dm for interest. Might trade.

I and the team are looking for potential people who want to review Wondrous Environments ahead of it's release. If you're interested, please let me know.

Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on itch.io? Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old! If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed! itch.io/physical-gam...

Hello, morning crew! In case you missed it last night, be sure to check out this year's slate of grant selections -- and add six outstanding actual plays to your "must watch" list. C'mon. We know you'll need something to do over the holidays.

I'm really enjoying Death Howl, a tactical deckbuilder about a grieving mother delving into the spirit world to rescue her son from death. It's got some strong Souls-y vibes, from the enemy re-sets when you rest to retrieving your souls to the very hard fights that take repetition, learning, & luck.

Forged in the Dark innovators thread! Who's doing cool new stuff with the FitD model? (promote your own or someone else's). I'll start: Slugblaster, by @wilkiescandylab.com is a smart hack of the core systems, tweaked in just the right way to fit the more light-hearted adventure style of the game.

3 hours remain. This is where I know there will be people who will find out tomorrow that they’ve missed this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

The organization has thankfully reversed course on this. We should not have had to yell about this to reach this point. www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...

✨🚂Art Train🚂✨ Thanks @kezrek.bsky.social! Here's a few of things that I made for Daggerheart Core Share four pieces, tag four artists! These artists also worked on Daggerheart 😏 @hijennyt.bsky.social @reikomurakami.bsky.social @matwilma.com @lauragalliart.bsky.social

I had been planning on renewing my membership, but not anymore. Any validation of slop-machine-made work completely eradicates the organization's legitimacy as an advocacy group.

Here it is. The final 24 hours. You've helped coax banked embers into a steady flame. Tell me, what is one thing you'll bring with you into What-Comes-Next? Seeds? Thread? A good kitchen knife? What will you make of what's left? Together, let's light up the world. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

As a Children of the Sun, you don't fear the Eldritch. You break them. Kalava, might be proud and severe, even cruel, but a valiskar does not tend to miss when they strike. One of the 8 pregens that will be available in Fomoria's Quickstart. #ttrpg #fomoria

Enjoy a little respite at The Last Hearth. Until a rambunctious elemental turns everyone's day upside down. A new #Daggerheart compatible surprise every day 'till Christmas. Art is by Nathan Erbe. Find more: starlitarchivesgames.substack.com/p/a-lone-hea... #ttrpg #art #artsky #adventcalendar

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands. If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!

Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?

Paid patrons and YT subs get exclusive access to this Best of 2025 Daggerheart Advice video, which also includes a brief reflection on 2025 overall in terms of my game design career: www.patreon.com/posts/best-o...

How much content do you expect to see in a TTRPG's "quick start"? #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpg

Folks, I need your help. I want to run a Rapscallion AP set in the world of Pasha the Storm. But in order to get any kind of marketing budget from my publishers, I need preorders. If you want to see me run a table of bawdy pirates through a magical action-adventure fantasy, snag yourself a copy.

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

Another laid-back #Daggerheart discussion with @thewelshdm.bsky.social ! Grab a cup of tea and join us! #TTRPGcommunity

My friends! The Apocalypse World 3rd Ed kickstarter ends on Friday night. We launched with a Q&A on Reddit and I think we'd like to wrap up with a Q&A here. Ask me anything! Ask @megueyb.bsky.social anything too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

ICYMI, last week I posted a 7200+ word WIP draft of a Tier 1 adventure for use with the Daggerheart rules and the Witherwild campaign frame, called "Voice of the Swarm". It explores themes of military occupation, humanity's relationship to nature, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/145149...

I went and wrote it. Here are some things you can do as a ttrpg project manager to make freelancing fun and easy: barilleon.com/managing-ttr...

A wicked cool table with wicked cool players (and an incredible GM)! Go listen if you can!

This is very silly. Tiny Bookshop is an extraordinarily mild, largely cozy game about building community and not being able to argue with fictional customers who contradict themselves with their requests.

You really shouldn't squeeze blood from the stone because the blood's not coming out of the rock, it's coming out of your hand.

Daggerheart Is NOT "D&D but Different"!🧠 Ft. @mikerunderwood.bsky.social #daggerheart #criticalrole #dnd #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity

Some day I want to produce an actual play where we play a half-dozen or so worldbuilding/character-focused one-shots using various games (For the Queen, Revolt!, Kingdom, A Land Once Magic, etc.) to build the setting before the main campaign ala @friends-table.bsky.social's "Road to" model

I just released Volume 1 of Pistolheart. It’s a western themed supplement for Daggerheart. This is the first of four planned volumes, with the intent of combining them into a larger collection. Volume 2 due out in March. ckc09c.itch.io/pistolheart-...

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

If you played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 or just want your hair blown back first thing in the morning, The Game Awards delivered the performance I was hoping that Geoff would make happen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7I...

Coming soon!* *Probably not until the new year.

Carlos is developing an excellent Investigation and Rumor system here in Pistolheart Volume 2. You are going to want to steal it for your game!

NEW on the Blog: Skill Challenges. You know 'em. Or maybe you think you know 'em. Let's take a look at what they were, and what people thought they were. Three games came out this year with some improvements to the tech. Let's look at those, too! barilleon.com/skill-challe...

I know the AI Slop crash will really hurt (and not just the slot merchants themselves), but on a personal, moral, and aesthetic level, I need to to happen ASAP.

Full episode is here! @brightbard.bsky.social @keichiokami.itch.io @alewoodgames.bsky.social @mikerunderwood.bsky.social @gilarpgs.bsky.social

👋 Check out our special episode of WHY WE ROLL on the floor at PAX Unplugged 2025! We interviewed 5 cool game designers • Jon Boyle/Okami/Rhodrick Magsino/Mike Underwood/Spencer Campbell. #podcast #whyweroll #gamedesign #rpg #ttrpg #tabletopgames #paxu #interview #indierpg

Daggerheart makes @nerdist.bsky.social's Best Tabletop Games of 2025 list: nerdist.com/article/best...

Live with our countdown! Grab a drink and a comfy place to watch as we get ready to talk about designing armor, weapons, and other items for use with the Daggerheart rules.

Today at 1pm est!