How it started > How it's going, and going, and won!

I'll be joining two other authors and our regional lead to talk about the three Legends of Greyhawk adventures premiering this weekend as part of Weekend in Highfolk. The stream is at 6pm eastern, which is 3h15min from this post. www.twitch.tv/baldman_games #dnd #ttrpg

Woot! We have topped $140k for Designers & Dragons: Origins. Thanks to backers! It's great knowing that I'm not the only one interested in roleplaying history (and that I can publish books on the topic as a result!).

Playing a little Illimat at Alchemy Cider in Portland on a Friday afternoon… like you do.

Public playtest of the Beastheart for Draw Steel is now available: www.patreon.com/posts/143079...

Join us tomorrow as we chat about Legends of Greyhawk: Highfolk and answer questions from attendees!

Daggerheart! How it started... AND how it's going.

The RS-MOON16 Trilogy is now up on the Guild as a bundle! I loved this trilogy so much, as we delve deep into the Howling Disease, the corruption of the moonwells, and the Once and Future Guardian. www.dmsguild.com/en/product/5...

In case any of y'all are working on crowdfunders and need a time saving acronym: DOHSTCI Depending On How Successful The Crowdfunder Is

Designer Kelly Pawlik (Kobold Press / Zombie Sky Press) shows off The Bense Trilogy, featuring her adventure “Troll of the Town” and two other tales set in and around in the eponymously named Scandinavian-inspired city.

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

I have the honor of being Lead Designer on the Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart Campaign Guide project! For those curious about our approach, I did a stream walking through the free beta campaign frame we have on the KS page: youtu.be/yNfa7AWRK6g?...

Cautionary Tales - The Treaure Hunt that Broke America (Pt 1) timharford.com/2025/11/caut...

This is good news.

Delve into the early history of the hobby. Designers & Dragons: Origins examines the inspiration, design, lore, and stumbles behind *each and every product* TSR published for OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&D 1E. Pledge today to access the expanded 140 page backer-only PDF! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Good morning #ttrpg folks! Thank you for the amazing launch for #AW3rd! Y’all have pushed us so far over the stretch goal for the digital e-zine of additional materials we’re going to have to think about what might come next. It’s a lovely day! Let’s see where this thing can go!

Spelljammer confirmed

If you're in Portland this Friday, join me for a round of Illimat! @twogetherstudios.bsky.social will be at Alchemy Cider on November 7th from 3-9 PM. No experience is required. The event is free but space is limited, so please sign up using this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/illimat-wh...

I am laid out in bed, because sick. My son comes to check on me and see's I'm working on a spreadsheet. Him: Still working? Me: No Him: :Gestures at the spreadsheet: Me: This is for fun. Him: :long, flat look: Me: It is! Him: I love you, dad.

How influential is Apocalypse World? This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.) www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...

Karen is the editor for Designers & Dragons: Origins, and I'm very grateful for her work finding all the intricate little details that I'd been inconsistent with over the course of four books, so definitely someone I endorse if you're looking for editorial or proofreading work!

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

A lower cost version of Fury of the Forsaken featuring just those maps appearing in the PDF/hardcover (plus a mead hall) and none of the variations of Day/Night, normal/battle has just gone up on @shardtabletop.bsky.social #ttrpg #dungeonsandragons #talesofthevaliant

Ooh! Matt Mercer too?!!! Excited to see what comes of that dagger they plunged into that heart!

Join us on Saturday, Nov 22nd @ 8:00 PM ET in the Main Theatre at PAX Unplugged or twitch.tv/pax for the continuation of Acquisitions Inc! Featuring @matthewmercer.bsky.social, Jeremy Crawford, @ifycomedy.com, @thatbronzegirl.bsky.social, @cwgabriel.bsky.social & @tychobrahe.bsky.social!

If you love RPGs, don’t miss this show looking at the astounding history of our hobby!

Did you know I run a small Patreon, #HarlemUnbounding, packed with goodies for TTRPG fans? I just dropped a brand-new Harlem Unbound profile with stats, for none other than Rudolph Fisher, ready for the #OuroborosSystem! Check it out & bring one of Harlem’s sharpest mind to your table!

Getting ready to run more of this soon!

Two cool things from me this morning! First - the campaign frame read-through for Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart is now on YouTube: youtu.be/yNfa7AWRK6g Second - patrons at $10 and up get an early WIP version of my idea for *GM* character class choices for DH: www.patreon.com/posts/142837...

Somehow Bluesky absolutely DESTROYED the quality of the image. Let's try again? Myth Drannor - Area Map for "Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun" ©Wizards of the Coast AD: Emi Tanji Schmincke Watercolor on Arches Paper

If you are financially able to do it and fit the definition, do it. We've benefitted so much. You know who you are! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

If you haven't, do watch the KS video. The animation segment is by Annika Sturmer and we're absolutely thrilled: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvno...

The Venn diagram of men who think women destroyed the workplace and want women to go 50/50 on bills and 98/2 on home chores in their relationships is a circle

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Most of the games we've published in the last 10 years (ie Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Blades in the Dark) either use the Powered by the Apocalypse engine or are hugely influenced by it. Happy to back this latest incarnation from the Bakers. Strongly recommend you check it out:

I just backed Apocalypse World: Burned Over on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... I have been a PbtA fan from day one. The engine is so compatible with my gamer brain that it's become second nature to me to borrow from it when I run other games.

Hey! That's me! A bit thank you to @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social and @jawska.bsky.social for inviting me on the show! RPG R&D was one of the first ttrpg design podcasts I ever started listening to! nerdburgergames.com/rpg-rd-episo...

We are going to #PAXUnplugged! Join us for games, panels, & so much more. At Booth 3637 we'll have #SolarGardens demos, signings, & #Daggerheart's next chapter! Also 45-min & 4 hour session of Daggerheart running the entire con! 📜 https://darringtonpress.com/pax-unplugged-2025/

Drawing Steel: Day 9 Angulotl Daybringer

For anyone interested in a cleaner shot. Role-playing games aren’t here because they’re downstairs in my office.

Designers & Dragons: Origins is of course on Backerkit. Two weeks in, two to go, approaching 1000 backers. Whew!

Funny to look at the screenshot. It was a morning interview (often the case in Hawaii), so I sat at my dining room table to control the sunlight (also an issue here!), and my board games were behind me. By chance, including one of my favorite Evil Hat releases: The Dresden Files Co-Op Card Game.

I was thrilled to talk with Teos and Shawn at @masteringdnd.bsky.social this week. We talked about Designers & Dragons: Origins, of course, but dug into some nice history too: Greyhawk's dungeons, Jack Fred, Palace of the Silver Princess! (The show is nicely indexed, so you can hear what you want!)

The Delian Tomb has so many great areas to explore that wrap up nicely in a single 3-4 hour session in my experience. I hope everyone is getting into the teamwork the game creates.

There'll be a new work-in-progress episode of 50 Years in the Dungeon livestreaming tonight—6pm Pacific. I'll be working on my cartoon homage to Denis Beauvais's classic cover painting to Dragon Magazine 86 (the first of his chess-themed covers). Hope you can join us! youtube.com/live/U81ktVQ...

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

Just got Draw Steel in the post. Who wants to play?

Terrific in-depth discussion here with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social on @masteringdnd.bsky.social. Not just about Designers & Dragons: Origins but also covering Shannon's early career in gaming and how he got started documenting the history of TTRPGs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6v...

Designers & Dragons: Origins is @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's comprehensive effort to tell the history, design, and lore behind each and every product that TSR published for OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&D 1E. Find out more and download the free 57-page preview here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...