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Ross Cowman

@rosscowman.bsky.social

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🛠 Owner: heartofthedeernicorn.com 📜 Designer: #fallofmagic ❤️ #bffrpg ❄️ #cityofwinter 👑 #lichlords 📣 President: Tabletop Game Alliance of Washington State 📷: Barham Lashley w/ Emma Juncosa

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · Jul 29

BFF is coming and I am in love with these characters! Please share and help us reach 1k followers!

Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · Jul 29

BFF is back and better with age,
Follow us on Kickstarter! 💅
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

Coming soon: BFF! The Golden Years

A heartwarming tabletop rpg of elder lady friendship.

www.kickstarter.com

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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · Jul 29

BFF is back and better with age,
Follow us on Kickstarter! 💅
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

Coming soon: BFF! The Golden Years

A heartwarming tabletop rpg of elder lady friendship.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · Jul 29

BFF is coming and I am in love with these characters! Please share and help us reach 1k followers!

Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · Jul 29

BFF is back and better with age,
Follow us on Kickstarter! 💅
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

Coming soon: BFF! The Golden Years

A heartwarming tabletop rpg of elder lady friendship.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 12h

show off A preview OF BFF.
I can type folks, I swear. It's been a long one.

Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 12h

Looking to show off preview BFF Golden Years with press folks. If that is you drop me a DM. I'd be happy to set up an interview with any/all of the designers, send a VTT key, or run a game for anyone interested.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

Coming soon: BFF! The Golden Years

A heartwarming tabletop rpg of elder lady friendship.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 19h

I just backed Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting

Forge your own sci-fi trilogy in this solo narrative card game.

www.kickstarter.com

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 1d

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 1d

One Missed Call (breakup via voicemail by Less Than Three Games)

Tacklebox (have an existential crisis on a fishing boat by J.Walton )

S/lay With Me (are we going to fight or fuck or both? by ron edwards)

Starcrossed (everyone already knows this one!)

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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 3d

Grab your handprinted Deernicorn shirt now on our website! #ttrpgs #ttrpg #screenprinting

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 2d

thats pretty good!

Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 3d

That is a good direction. I think people would assume you were talking about a board game or card game though.

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 3d

Role Playing Games without GMs get called gmless games. IMO it is kind of a bad defining something by an absence of something else like what you were saying about Human Made vs No AI.

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 3d

thanks for making this. can you fix GMless next?

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 4d

that story is WILD. The butterflies effect is so real with the rpg industry

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 4d

Fabricated Realities

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 8d

Role Playing Design is a combo of prompt writing and system design and you don’t need to be good at both.

If your talents lean towards prompt writing you can use other designers game systems for bones.

And if you are more into systems, you can make designs where players prompt themselves.

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 18d

This seems to be a mashup of our Koriko and BFF - The Golden Years content? So weird and creepy! Why would you do this? It is actual garbage.

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 18d

Youtube has a new "inspiration" tab for creators. I regrettably clicked it and was transported to an AI hell world of prompts "inspired" by the Deernicorn channel. They cooked up this hot number for Deernicorn...
Thanks YouTube. We'll get right on it.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 18d

I want this! Look at that art!

Jason Price @alwayscheckers.bsky.social · 18d

Okay I’ve been keeping this under wraps but here we go:

Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting is coming to Kickstarter 14/10/25!

A collab ft. @mousehole.press & @turbotorbo.bsky.social

A brand new boxed game and original system ft. 450+ unique cards!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

Coming soon: Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting

Forge your own trilogy in this solo narrative card game.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 18d

really cool

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 18d

A game I made is getting reviewed by Dice Tower next week. I've been a big DT fan for a long time and tt is a bit of a surreal feeling for me!