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Freelance Additional Writer to Senior Game Designer 2017~2026

Omg try heating TJs gyro meat and then pan-toasting chickpeas in the rendered fat 👀👀👀

2026 is going to be my year and that is a threat (I listened to Hopes and Dreams on repeat making this)

I have a big announcement to make... youtu.be/zHKS2y9reRM?...

my favorite pieces from 2025

I have a lot of respect for the Knives Out movies just as an exercise in people making solid B+ level entertainment where everyone seems to be enjoying the experience without it needing it to win Oscar’s or make 3 billion dollars. It’s like going to a good steakhouse.

the first time in history this shit has happened. first time and it's on camera. what a privilege

If you’re a fan of TTRPGs and are coming from Twitter, first off congratulations for leaving this aweful platform. Second, the community here is great so here’s a nice starter pack of great TTRPG content creators to follow on Bluesky Welcome! go.bsky.app/BrCdFvX

Happy Christmas y'all. Shit's fucked but a better world remains possible.

Created a new horizontal composition of this image of Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm to use for gaming playmats (newly available and they look great!) Love how the Balrog is now suggested with a swirl of the whip! You Cannot Pass! Original oil painting 30" x 24", 2007

𝕹𝖆𝖎𝖆𝖉 💧 From 'Beyond The Fields We Know: An Almanac or Midwestern Prairie Spirits.'

I saw the GenAI creep in the studios I worked for this year. Everything from the initial concept art phase to finished assets. This is why teams who care about human work is going to be so important to the future of our industry.

We live in a weird time. It’s only right to get weirder yourself

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...

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

AI imitations of creative work (art, writing, etc.) aren't bad because it's "ugly". They already look "good enough" to satisfy most people. AI is bad because it's laundering plagiarism of real human artists AND making us ever-more dependent upon trillion-dollar tech companies.

A new Table Talk Interview is out today! In this episode, I chat with @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social, former lead writer for DnDBeyond, lead writer and GM for Dungeons&Cabins, and co-host of @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social's Eldritch Lorecast, and discuss running large scale events and finding creative muses

I feel like starting a fight I won’t finish. Which is the primary purpose of a ttrpg rule book? (You can choose A or B, you can’t say both.) A) To teach readers the rules B) To be a reference guide for the rules

It's my birthday today! Please roll a die and tell a tall tale, and I'll raise a glass to you!

An old journal comic repost to remind myself that the time is now and I’m not stuck

I can't be the only one who sees it 💀

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

Sea of Cortez Research Center - Mazatlan, Mexico (2023) r/brutalism

So in my book Violent Triangles I take game artists back to fundamentals of game art so you understand what is going on under the hood of your game engine and the tricks to exploit it, all presented in clear visual diagrams. Stuff like rasterisation, anti-aliasing, overdraw, texture memory etc.

I’m happy to share that I’m stepping into the role of Game Design Director for the Dungeons & Dragons TRPG. I'm immensely grateful to my team, my mentors, and everyone who has supported my career along the way. A short 🧵 below!

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

Homebrew is only homebrew if it never leaves your home game, otherwise it's sparkling game design.

Tomorrow (Wed) at 1pm EDT, I'll be debuting The Design Lab, a stream series about my more experimental projects for use with the Daggerheart rules. We're starting with the Inspiration Deck, a deck-builder sub-system! Watch live at Twitch.tv/turbotango or on Youtube.com/mikeunderwood Thu morning.

It's Eldritch Lorecast time! Come join us before we go on Chrimmis Break! twitch.tv/ghostfire_official

✧ Mystryl's Wish ✧ [-339 DR - My #dnd oc, netherese arcanist Zeno and his wyvern Dethorth]

Arcadia.

This is basically an A-tier Foxtrot strip

“Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.” -Tom Stoppard

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

We think of the TTRPG space as a hobby, but it's really a collection of related hobbies. Some love playing. Others collecting. Others watching. Some prefer theory. For some it's hating. The number of people whose sole focus is hating on a game or edition they don't play is incredible. Joy vampires

The big box Kickstarter - The overly produced roleplaying game - The New Novelty - The horror - The history - The Glamour www.failforward.moe/2025/10/the-...

Any wordsharps out there know a good, single word to describe a "vault or room for containing many relics, as in a church"?

not to try to have a nuanced political take on a microblogging website but my issue with "yimby" is that despite agreeing with many tenets i think a myopic focus on housing supply can lead to unprincipled or reactionary positions however if you think yimby is worse than nimby you're dumber than dirt

at a certain point there has to be some recognition that it's probably impossible to actually sanitize the output of the plagiarism regurgitation machine when it takes in literally any input. of course i think we'll put $50 trillion more dollars in it tomorrow, but hey it's the thought that counts!

Dividing people into ... bigots and non-bigots? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[shit rpg designer voice] yeah so this character option is deliberately worse at everything that you usually do in the game, but gets a HUGE bonus to haggling. The haggling mechanic we dedicate precisely one paragraph to in the rulebook. Most merchants don't haggle btw.

Turned 33 yesterday and had a great time celebrating! I understand the ancient laws on this website states I can ask for retweets for my work on this special day? Haha. Cheers!

A titan of games was taken from us today. May she always be known and remembered.

It's always an honor for Titus to illustrate a location I wrote in a D&D adventure =)

Hello folks. My indie RPG column is expanding. I will now be writing about forthcoming games. First issue this will happen in goes out 26th December. If you have an RPG project coming out, Kickstarter launching, or ending, within a month or so after that date, get in touch.