Had a blast today playing some Incredible Creatures #Daggerheart content at CreatureCon! Ran a creepy investigation session then narrowly avoided a TPK in a session run by the awesome @worlds4all.bsky.social

Elric of Melniboné 🗡️ #Commission

Just watched a fantastically educational seminar on creating adversaries for #daggerheart 👇👇👇👇👇

Looking forward to previewing some new adversaries! #daggerheart

Prepping the Car Wars Classic adventure Convoy for The Ettin (The Evanston TableTop INitiative)! theettin.com #theettin #theevanstontabletopinitiative #carwars #ttrpgs @stevejacksongames.bsky.social

Starting tomorrow! You can still attend by clicking the link below!

Crack! The! Sun!!

I had a truly awesome creative day today with the MCDM team! Some amazing fun is going to come your way!

I assume #ttRPG players here have heard of Alarums & Excursions, the RPG APA which shut down earlier this year? Well, a bunch of A&Eers set up a successor APA, in PDF form, called Ever & Anon, and you can download the first four issues here, for free: www.everanon.org

Reposting for the weekday crowd. The Castle Automatic was a result of my efforts with the #Dungeon23 project! Give me a room number, and I'll give you a teaser for the room's contents.

Here's my folder of personal RPG campaigns, things I worked on for my own purposes. Lots of good memories.

This is basic but I'm doing a lot of economic history right now for Tides of History and the reason prosperity and growth matter is because they usually make people's lives better: having enough to eat, access to shelter, avoidance of violence and massive stress, that's what economies are for.

5. Transgender advocacy organisation T-Net has released a statement welcoming the Sapporo Family Court's decision, and professing the hope that "courts across the country will continue to make flexible rulings, based on the lived realities of transgender people."

Today we are proud to announce our next crowdfunding campaign. Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social examines the roots, artwork, and lore behind each and every product released by TSR for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D with his latest effort, Designers & Dragons: Origins. 1/3

It's almost showtime.

Pleased to announce that my report for the @leidenasiacentre.nl, on Japanese LGBTQ+ politics, has been published! In this publication, I cover some of the latest developments concerning key policy issues, such as Japan's lack of marriage equality, and analyse factors influencing policymaking.

Part of my possibly unfortunate fixation on the "medieval" part of "medieval fantasy" means that I would like to see fewer (or no) D&D characters with surnames, and more should have lineage-names ("Ragnal, Erik's Son"), epithets ("Halfdan Worm-Tamer"), or place-names ("Aethel of Badwall").

Excited to announce our next Kickstarter! Coyote & Crow: Legends & Icons - a compendium of spirits, creatures, and unique NPCs. w/ cover art by @claudiopozas.bsky.social! Launching soon. Sign up now to be notified! www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy... #ttrpg #tabletop #rpg #NativeSky #Indigenous

New post from "Tabletop & RPGs Archives - Geek, Anime and RPG news"! @geeknative.bsky.social #ttrpg #blog

Game Designer Breaks Down 13th Age Rogue Design #gamedesign #gamedev #youtube

So! As promised, I published a collection of my past #ttrpg posts that appeared on Substack in a very convenient package: PDF and EPUB. Go check it out, it's free anyway!

This is where I show my unabashed Expressionism fandom, especially as it pertains to the TTRPG medium. Also: manifestoes are great!

No matter where you are, If you’d to support Canada and Canadians during this unprecedented economic attack, please consider supporting Canadian businesses by buying Canadian products, services and industries, and supporting Canadian tourism in our great cities and places. Please share. Thank you.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

A perfect afternoon in Astoria.

THE 2021 GOLDEN COBRA COMMITTEE LARP GUIDE written by Golden Cobra co-founder @jmstar.bsky.social isss a great sstarting point for any larpwright trying to get the basics right. How do you structure a human meeting so it'ss interessting to its participants? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

When people ask "How do you design a larp?" -- I have 3 responses: --Get together a group of adults to play costumed "Let's pretend" and let me know how it goes. --Peruse @goldencobra.bsky.social contest submissions. Now write your own. --Read our free textbook! trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024...

RPG tip: Show the world reacting to the actions of the characters. #dnd #ttrpg

Next week @themikeballes.bsky.social and I will be at #PAXUnplugged! We'll run D&D in Spanish and host (again!) the panel "The Asexual Bard: Representation Beyond Tropes" alongside these fine humans! @ilananight.bsky.social @naladraws.com @heycalamityyy.bsky.social @aprilraygun.bsky.social

Mike Balles and Spanish Language RPGs! Mike Balles and Teos examine the state of Spanish-language play and support across companies, conventions, and creator spaces! Listen or watch: masteringdungeons.podbean.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip8G... #DnD #TTRPG

Support the Latine Lounge and get a shot at a special edition #Daggerheart boxed set!!! www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-... Info: youtu.be/ip8GLLl3HIM?...

7 days! Highest support wins it!

Over the decades, loot in D&D has become less central to play and to character motivations. (BTW, I loved working up the random treasure tables for 3E!) These days how big a deal is loot in 5E play? In the olden days, loot was the motivation that united chaotics, lawfuls, and neutrals. Today?

Blades '68 playbooks: the Paranormalist, and the Hull.

And we're live! Please help us bring our actual play podcast (from @manysidedmedia.bsky.social and @talesyettold.com )to life and bring Coyote & Crow content to @foundryvtt.store and @roll20.net www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy... #TTRPG #RPG #tabletop #NativeSky

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How do we convince publishers to stop doing this? Bibliographies and footnotes matter. They should be printed. Websites decay faster all the time. Especially in an era of huge mergers like the one that created Penguin Random House, where calls for efficiency see pages culled at every chance.

The Thing is one of my favourite movies and this short video has some fantastic images of the miniatures they used. A lot of attention is justifiably on the amazing practical effects by Rob Bottin and his team but a lot of the other models were also stunning. youtu.be/lNrpM9fXoRE?...

All my stained glass illustrations for MCDM's Draw Steel! ⚔️

✥ Ancestries ✥ And here’s my latest illustration for Draw Steel! ✨ This is officially the biggest piece I've ever worked on - and I couldn’t be prouder of how it turned out 💙

From 9/3 to 9/5, Barnes & Noble members get 25% off all pre-orders. Use code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/notes-on-b...

Are you: 1) A fan of the The Cosmere RPG? 2) A fan of solo TTRPGs or interested in solo play? If yes to both, I am co-developing the Cosmere RPG Solo Sourcebook, and we're looking for playtesters! Toss your name into the hat here:  forms.gle/PaMJF4JvfL7H...

It's been 70 years since Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. He was 14. After years of pushing for it, the Chicago church where Emmett's mother bravely held his open-casket wake is a national monument. May Emmett and Mamie Till-Mobley's stories never be forgotten.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

"Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today, I'm an amateur." -- David Warner as Jack the Ripper in TIME AFTER TIME (Nicholas Meyer, 1979) Nobody was better at bad than David Warner. R.I.P.

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title Tom Clancy's The Shadow Of The Torturer