i gotta know - is Blackbox a reference? #Firefly

I finally watched the trailer for the new Odyssey and yeah... I feel kinda underwhelmed. I'm just getting a lot of angry husband energy, which is not the greatest. I clearly prefer sad husband energy (ala Gladiator.) That said, I could actually hear the dialogue over things! What is this?

WHERE DO I VOTE

Last night's #D&D session was hilarious but @rachel-aaron.bsky.social isn't allowed into the realms of death anymore. She found out that living food = money, so she cast WISH to cast Magnificent Mansion which comes with food for 100. Then she turned it into a nightclub of the dead to make bank. 🤣

"Health potions are expensive, but you only live once. And it's not a long once if you don't have these!" -Improv ad read by one of my players #D&D #playreports #ttrpg

One of my favorite side characters in Death Has Joined the Party has to be the Cleric of the Admin. The Admin is basically the god of the internet. So the cleric is a holy hacker devoted to the freedom of information and moderating. I love this idea SO MUCH. #manarunners #5e #D&D #litrpg

TIL the literal translation of Frieren's Japanese title 葬送のフリーレン/Sousou no Frieren is "Frieren of the Funeral" or "Frieren the Undertaker." It's a play on the fact that "sousou" can mean both attending a funeral or sending someone else to their grave and damn if that isn't perfect.

My favorite dungeon boss of this recent campaign had this power. I stole the this "choice punishment" design from the #LancerRPG This is my first time attempting a text-image on Bluesky so let's see how this goes. #5e #D&D #ttrpg #dungeonmasters

The Cut - Ground Level The first of three map sets of these ruins and the dungeons beneath them - all centred on the gap shown in the middle of the northern building that looks down on a water canal in the dungeon below. dysonlogos.blog/2026/05/12/t...

Looking back at my catalogue of books and wow. I really like monsters, don't I? Also death. And parental issues. I swear they're not dark books! I just like cheerful/good people in dark situations. That gap is where the character magic happens!

My favorite magical items to give players are things like the Decanter of Endless Water and The Immovable Rod. Sure, zap zap pew pew armor weapon damage is powerful but physics toys lead to hijinks. #D&D #TTRPG #dungeonmaster

I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A BUSINESSMAN

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

We saw the Sending spell, which allows for instant communication across infinite amounts of time and space, and thought, "Wow! You could build a freaking awesome communications network out of this thing." Thus the sendernet was born. #5e #D&D #manarunners #MayWorldbuilders

"That was the most encouraging insult I’d heard all day." -My favorite line from today's audiobook. All thanks to @rachel-aaron.bsky.social #manarunners #D&D #litrpg

All right, pick your marble and... Let's roll. 🎱 #marblerun #fun #race

"You're wasting your time marketing on Bluesky because it's all authors" my dude nobody reads more than authors. I've read nine books this year and it's only May. One of the authors in my discord has read a whopping 39. Good authors are also good readers, and good readers buy books.

Season 2 of Freiren makes me want to make a magical item for #5e #D&D #homebrew Gonna call these the First Class Iron Wings I'd give them a better name, but I wanna avoid spoilers. Let's steam-of-consciousness build!

We need someone to reinvent the glorious madness of the SNES Super Dodgeball game for the modern era.

"let’s all just calm down before—" “I will not be calm in any direction!” 🤣🤣 I'm proof-listening to the audiobook for Death Has Joined the Party right now and I just had to share this line cause it makes me laugh every dang time. #manarunners #D&D #LITRPG

Here's this week's Monday Blues Map #216 Map Details: paratime.ca/mb05-04-2026... Enhanced DriveThru Link: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #FreeD&DMap #MondayBluesMap #ParatimeDesign #TimHartin #D&D #Dungeons&Dragons #OSR

"Starve to death while you wait for everyone to make their characters before they join you and you can all start playing together." -Every survival game ever for some reason.

Did two good things happen in a row? Is this statistically useless information? NONSENSE! My expectations are

Here's the May 1st Friday Freebie map Map Details: paratime.ca/ff05-01-2026... Enhanced DriveThru Link: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #FreeD&DMap #FridayFreebieMap #TimHartin #ParatimeDesign #OSR #D&D #Dungeons&Dragons

I'm a world-building lifer, that's for sure. I particularly love post-apocalypse bc, while the scrambling of the world is eventful, I'm more fascinated by how societies reshape themselves. 100 years after a volcano covers the land in ash that also gives people magical powers? Hell yeah!

'Everyone supporting everyone' is something I emphasise when folks ask me what's the key to getting followers, meeting authors, making connections. Look, you can't wait for folks to come to you. Conversation and connections don't happen magically. Drop into a thread and go, 'Hi!' Start there.

Reading Project Hail Mary right now. It's fun time! I love the baked-in science teacher enthusiasm! More coherence forthcoming at a later date.

How does Charisma casting work? Do you just ask the spell nicely and the magic's like "Aww, you seem like such a fun ball of chaos. Sure! Let's cast a spell!" #DnD

NASA’s view of the Himalayas from space

I just learned that #randomtables is a thing. I gotta post to this! This is one of my favorite tables. #ttrpg www.travisbach.net/blog/2026/4/...

Here's my Monday Blues Map #215 Map Details: paratime.ca/mb04-27-2026... Enhanced DriveThru Link: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #FreeD&DMap #MondayBluesMap #TimHartin #ParatimeDesign #OSR #D&D #Dungeons&Dragons

My favorite magical item from this current campaign is, "The Ring of Dumb Frog" Which I'm gonna post the full deets for below, but be warned that it's broken AF in hilarious ways. (The players LOVE it.) #D&D #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #dungeonmaster #homebrew #5e 1/

My Mom joked that there's an old-person hobby group for everything. If you want to knit in all-black yarn, there's probably a group for that. To which I said, "Goth Yarn It" Now I really hope that somewhere somehow this is a group.

Roommate has been reading this aloud while I draw, and it is a delight. 💖️ You can really feel the authors' love for D&D. (Who knew you could use the SRD materials to create a fully believable magic-cyberpunk society?) Also, I appreciate mimics even more now. :3 Very much looking forward to Book 2!

Sure, a normal potion might heal you for 2d4+4 HP, but ours also moisturizes. Give you skin a healthy glow after every battle, today!

Here's my April 24th 2026 Friday Freebie map. Map Details: paratime.ca/ff04-24-2026... Enhanced DriveThru Link: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #FreeD&DMap #FridayFreebieMaps #TimHartin #ParatimeDesign #OSR #D&D #Dungeons&Dragons #Dragon'sHordeTavern

I often run into DMs who struggle with combat. There's loads of advice for players out there, but DMs have different needs. So, I'm gonna start blogging my way through DM-specific tactical fundamentals. #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #rpg #ttrpg #dungeonmaster www.travisbach.net/blog/2026/4/...

Himalayas as seen from Space 🌍 🛰

We did an interview! If you want to hear how the LitRPG sausage gets made, you should definitely give it a listen. It was super fun! Thanks to the UpperPen for inviting us! Spotify -> open.spotify.com/episode/6lEz... YouTube -> youtu.be/G4h1O2M_sh4

"Do I look like I'm here to micromanage a goose?" - out of context #dnd quote of the evening

Last night's #D&D had the most epic moment. I gotta #playreport this cause @rachel-aaron.bsky.social was a freaking boss. (I'm in love all over again!) It starts with the party being trapped in a room of ever-worsening cold. 1d6/turn, then 1d8/turn, etc... #TTRPG

I'm contemplating the shape of the first #5e #manarunners adventure. The format is a whirlpool maze that encourages contestant "collisions." #D&D but with an audience layer. So there's popularity points, a time limit, other contestants, drama, post-dungeon interviews, etc +mobs, loot, and traps.

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

The application has remained stable since approximately 9 PM PDT, April 16 despite ongoing Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. We will provide a further update by end of day.

A story's lore is the Matrix. It's in every name, it's in the flowers people give, it's in their food choices, it shows up when you buy a knife, it's what taxes you pay, it's the mercenaries, it's in the statue we passed, it is the magic system, and it's in the history that drove us to this point.

I wanted to Bluesky some this morning, but the buttons aren't buttoning. At least, not consistently. Lots 504 errors.

I put together a blog post about one of my favorite DMing tools - the drama engine. It's a printable one pager that's used to generate DEEERAMA. Specifically, character-based problems, wants, goals, and so forth. It's system agnostic, too. #D&D #ttrpg www.travisbach.net/blog/2026/4/...

"What? To Detect and Good and Evil, one must also study evil." - our Celestial's excuse when he got caught reading books we stole from a very questionable necromancer #dnd

I'm here! I've finally made a work account on Bluesky. Hi, I'm Travis: an editor, a writer, and a forever DM (GM or whatever-the-given-game-calls-that-role today.) Hopefully you'll see me around in the D&D, TTRPG, Writing, and SFF spheres hereabouts.

One series ends, a new one begins... introducing DEATH HAS JOINED THE PARTY! We loved it so much we made a fancy page for it with audio samples! If you're ready to read/listen to something geeky, new, and hilarious, check out rachelaaron.net/manarunners!