Taking a summer break from Hexingtide w/ my home group. Running a minimalist sword & sorcery #ttrpg of my own design. Here's a character sheet draft (needs to be more grungy). 1-3d10 roll under die pool. Blackjack style damage. Not strict #OSR, not dungeon crawling. Kinda #NSR. More to come.

Scheduling really is the BBEG of gaming, oof. I've now got TWO OPEN SPOTS for a one-shot of Hexingtide, my TTRPG love letter to monster stories, Hellboy, World of Darkness, etc. Game is this Saturday, May 2, 1-4 CST. Hit me up! (Would 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 appreciate any reposts!) #rpgsky #ttrpg

Scheduling really is the BBEG of gaming, oof. I've now got TWO OPEN SPOTS for a one-shot of Hexingtide, my TTRPG love letter to monster stories, Hellboy, World of Darkness, etc. Game is this Saturday, May 2, 1-4 CST. Hit me up! (Would 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 appreciate any reposts!) #rpgsky #ttrpg

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I launched the Beta for my 10mm skirmish rules Rattle and Rend three weeks ago. I recently hit a few milestones: 750 members in the Facebook group, triple digits on the email list, and I'm aware of players on three continents! 😮 It's all surreal for a solo indie project. #wargaming

Late night, rambling observation on what seems to help draw attention to your indie tabletop game project in a very saturated space... from a hobbyist design who has no track record of his own: #rpgsky #ttrpg #tabletop

How kind of NASA to give the kid a tour of Kennedy Space Center, but I gotta know when is this shirt getting sold to the public.

Aaaye.

Here's how I like to run a campaign in an established setting: I kill Luke Skywalker. I find a load-bearing character and kill them in the first session. The player characters are the Marty McFly of their universe. The moment they drop in, the timeline changes. Other thoughts on canon by Pris:

Rattle and Rend is a rules-light, miniatures-agnostic 10mm skirmish game designed for quick, brutal battles on a 16x16" board. No sprawling tables or rulebooks required. The Beta rules just released today! Links in the reply. #wargaming #10mmscale #indietabletop

Just how you like to see your printed resin minis delivered, am I right?? #ttrpgsky

Hey #ttrpgsky I'd love your thoughts. 🤔 1. Outside the D&D/OSR family tree,* what are the best examples of non-d20 starter adventures you've played or read? 2. What are the "must-have" elements in a demo to ensure the mechanics and genre click for new players? #ttrpg #tabletop #foreverdm

Hey #ttrpgsky I'd love your thoughts. 🤔 1. Outside the D&D/OSR family tree,* what are the best examples of non-d20 starter adventures you've played or read? 2. What are the "must-have" elements in a demo to ensure the mechanics and genre click for new players? #ttrpg #tabletop #foreverdm

"We have a beautiful moonrise... and we're heading right at it." Godspeed, Artemis II.

Still have a few spots open!

I hate this common gamification of crowdfunding campaigns. I also hate that people are forced into this kind of slick hucksterism to fund their projects.

I am so excited for this game! It does so many clever things while incorporating all the best cliches (which is a good thing!)

👋 I’m working on Hexingtide, a minimalist #TTRPG love letter to monster stories like Hellboy & World of Darkness. I’m running two online one-shots on Tues April 12 & Sat May 2. I'm testing a demo adventure and have a few seats left. Links in reply. Appreciate a repost! #indierpg #ttrpgsky

👋 I’m working on Hexingtide, a minimalist #TTRPG love letter to monster stories like Hellboy & World of Darkness. I’m running two online one-shots on Tues April 12 & Sat May 2. I'm testing a demo adventure and have a few seats left. Links in reply. Appreciate a repost! #indierpg #ttrpgsky

Free League has made the OGL rulesets for five of its games available for third-party creators in more than seven additional languages. These include Dragonbane, Coriolis, Symbaroum and more.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Hol' up. Blog web rings are back?

🎉 Excited to share that the Beta for Rattle and Rend, my rules-light, miniatures-agnostic 10mm skirmish game will be available Mon. April 6th! Join the 600+ players in the Facebook Group here: www.facebook.com/groups/rattl... #wargaming #miniatures #10mmscale #warmaster #SelfPromoSaturday 1/2

I am learning, painfully, that 10mm scale miniatures supported by standees are way too fragile... and that's saying a lot about how breakable these small 3d prints are, anyway. Might try to drill a brass rod, but now? I'm walking away from my desk. Ungh. Crap. #10mmscale #wargaming

Ever reach that point in painting minis that you are suddenly 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕? Rushing to get these dudes done so I can take pics to announce the Beta dates for Rattle and Rend and, yeah. #wargaming #paintingminis #10mmscale

Frequency compared to overall content length is an important factor. I also think of acronyms and terms in common use in the hobby, such as the common OSR (hurr hurr) use of "AC" or "saves" or "HP" (even when the hipsters want to call it "hit protection"). Unique term? Spell it out.

ICYMI I'm running a pair of one shots for Hexingtide, my rules light love letter to Mike Mignola, Guillermo del Toro, and the World of Darkness.

This looks very clever.

If you see this, post a #StarTrek

The road to the 🎃 𝐇𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐈𝐃𝐄 autumn launch starts now! I'm running 2 online one-shots of my TTRPG of Minimalist Monstrous Roleplaying to test the starter adventure. Details here: 🔗 hxti.de/spring26ones... (Signup in reply!) #ttrpg #indiegame #mignolaverse #vamily #playtest #rpg #tabletop #vtm

Got a playtest game of the upcoming Beta rules for Rattle and Rend in today. Lots of good feedback. This is why we playtest. #wargaming #skirmishgames #10mmminiatures

The opening spread of the Rattle and Rend beta got a glow up to go to two pages of slightly snarky, actually earnest, meme messaging. Gonna have to take ole Jimmy McMillan, the "rent is too damn high" guy, off for any publication, but I'll worry about that in the future. #wargaming #indiegames

Shutting down the Hexingtide Discord to pivot to an email list for playtesting in prep for an autumn 2026 release. In that, I was grateful to get this note. Can be a lonely experience designing new, standalone TTRPGs (no hacks, no SRDs) as a part-time, solo, hobbyist. #ttrpg #tabletop #ttrpgfamily

Okay just go with me here. Let's find some fantasy adventuring equivalents. Instead of Snakes, what about.. Dragons. And Ladders? Let's go the opposite direction. Dungeons. Dragons & Dungeons. Now there's a game begging to be made.

The opening spread of the Rattle and Rend beta got a glow up to go to two pages of slightly snarky, actually earnest, meme messaging. Gonna have to take ole Jimmy McMillan, the "rent is too damn high" guy, off for any publication, but I'll worry about that in the future. #wargaming #indiegames

Got a playtest game of the upcoming Beta rules for Rattle and Rend in today. Lots of good feedback. This is why we playtest. #wargaming #skirmishgames #10mmminiatures

Made it 1.5 episodes into the new Scrubs and bounced. Bummer. I get it: we're all older, the world sucks, etc., but there was a lot of hard edges and snarkiness that wasn't making it a fun watch for me.

Shutting down the Hexingtide Discord to pivot to an email list for playtesting in prep for an autumn 2026 release. In that, I was grateful to get this note. Can be a lonely experience designing new, standalone TTRPGs (no hacks, no SRDs) as a part-time, solo, hobbyist. #ttrpg #tabletop #ttrpgfamily

So uh... can someone give me the TL;DR on the whole Neopets TTRPG drama going down?

The frustrating irony of my own GMing is that I have oodles and oodles of random tables in the various binders for the games and campaigns I've run and yet... I rarely, rarely go to them for reference in the middle of a session. #ttrpg #foreverdm

Good morning, TTRPG BlueSky! ICYMI, I'm moving my playtesting for Hexingtide to an email list and shutting down its Discord (at least for now). More details here: tabletop.willphillips.org/2026/02/laun...

Yuuup.

Good morning, TTRPG BlueSky! ICYMI, I'm moving my playtesting for Hexingtide to an email list and shutting down its Discord (at least for now). More details here: tabletop.willphillips.org/2026/02/laun...

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

Spinning my wheels playing catch up with Hexingtide (monster mash TTRPG) and Rattle & Rend (10mm skirmish wargame), so I'm considering pivoting my home game to something I can lazy GM my way through on autopilot. No uber-unique worldbuilding here. Just a mishmash of sword & sorcery tropes. WIP map.

The core rules for 🎃 𝐇𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐈𝐃𝐄 are rock solid, but for my solo creative energy, a mailing list is a better fit than Discord. I’m moving to email to coordinate with playtesters and get this indie #ttrpg finished for autumn. Sign up here: hxti.de/newlist #selfpromosaturday

What is a flavor or subgenre of fantasy you think is underrepresented in TTRPGs?

Now I'm not normally a fan of all the hundred and one Mork Borg retreads, but being a sucker for historically based or inspired games, that was enough to get me to back this one. Looking forward to the PDF. Congrats on the funding! #ttrpg #morkborg #zimo

WE MADE ITTTTTTT! FUNDED IN 4 HOURS! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I will pour all my love into this one, I promise. Thank you, thank you, thank you🖤 #OSR #MORKBORG #ttrpgcommunity

If you've read enough of my blabbering on about Hexingtide and would be interested in an online playtest one-shot, let me know what days and times work best for your schedule.