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Mike Balles 🔜 GAMEHOLECON🔜 NYCC 🔜 PAXUnplugged @themikeballes.bsky.social · 16h

Hey Emily! We would love to talk to you about me and my wife's experience with these events. We were part of both, with us being talent on the descent & were also part of the first D&D wotc sponsored & twitch streamed spanish language AP for the game.

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Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo @phillygamingexpo.bsky.social · 19h

ATTENTION GUESTS AND ATTENDEES
We're together our first Adventure Anthology!
Were looking for contributions of 2 to 4 page OSR, 1e and/or 2e adventures.
No theme this time around. Just fun one shots.
Pitch your ideas to [email protected]
Proceeds will benefit the Gamer’s Assistance Program. #PAGE

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 21h

POV: you've just had some of the best cochinita pibil in Quintana Roo, and may be about to explode.

A wreckage of a plate of soft tacos at a plastic table in a Mexican market, along with a bottle of coke.
It is Sunday morning, and a Spanish language cover of Harry Niellsen is playing over the bustle and chatter.

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 1d

It’s not often you get a new VHS release but this one you won’t want to miss it.

Available in all blockbusters near you, to be released soon.

Breathless Frightmare Edition, the beloved zombie survival rpg that spawned over 280 different other TTRPGs.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

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MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social · 22h

Tis the season! The spooky season. Murderous Ghosts is a great one-shot for 2 to 20 players. You're a resourceful urban explorer, lost in a haunted building. Can you find your way out before the ghosts find you? Outlook uncertain!
lumpley.itch.io/murderous-gh...

Murderous Ghosts by Meguey & Vincent Baker, et al

A roleplaying party game for Hallowe'en or horror fans.

lumpley.itch.io

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 23h

In the book The Black Cauldron, there is a great class of monster called the Huntsmen of Annuvin. When one died, his power flowed into the rest of them. The fewer there were, the harder they were to kill. Very gameable enemy.

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Claudio Pozas — Commissions Open @claudiopozas.bsky.social · 13d

Hey, Wednesday is my birthday! Great time to join www.patreon.com/claudiopozas or buy me a coffee at www.ko-fi.com/claudiopozas .

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 1d

✨ EN 60 MINUTOS ✨

Acompáñenos para el último juego de Games For Raices que será un espectacular juego de Daggerheart con un increíble elenco:

GM: @largsigh.bsky.social

Jugadores:
@dungeongangster.bsky.social
Héctor Coyote
@chalochokorrol.bsky.social
Alex Flyer

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James Introcaso @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social · 3d

This is a reminder to try out new stuff that you think you might like even if it might make you uncomfortable at first.

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 1d

✨ IN 2 HOURS! ✨

Join us for Games for Raices with a Kids on Brooms game celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and raising funds for Raices Texas!

We will be giving away a gift card to @fridaytea.com thanks to our wonderful sponsor @gmdax.bsky.social

check thread 🧵

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 1d

✨ IN 2 HOURS ✨

Games for Raices continues with a Draw Steel game raising funds for Raices Texas!

We will be giving away Draw Steel Core Rules PDFs thanks to our wonderful sponsor @hellomcdm.bsky.social

(check this thread 🧵)

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Polygon @polygon.com · 3d

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

You’ll never see D&D monsters the same way again after reading this essential TTRPG book

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

www.polygon.com

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 3d

"Making Enemies is a powerful resource that will kickstart the imagination of any game master. Even if you're not in the business of designing monsters for your game, the insight, knowledge, and examples provided here will help you become a better GM and improve basically any campaign."

Polygon @polygon.com · 3d

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

You’ll never see D&D monsters the same way again after reading this essential TTRPG book

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

www.polygon.com

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 3d

I wrote 30 horrible creatures for y'all to use in your Voidlight games on top of the 8 rolling tables for you to design your own.

I want to get to 36 creatures.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 3d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 3d

An Altogether Different River is a beautiful game about returning home, and it’s available on our website #ttrpgs #ttrpg

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 13d

IT'S ALMOST HERE! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for TTRPGs includes not only a treasury of ideas for creating your own homegrown abominations but also TWENTY original monsters, illustrated by @jencmars.bsky.social.

Preorder now at spyandowl.com/making... to get your copy on Oct. 7!

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies rests on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

A wickedly grinning jack-o-lantern, larger than a man, running around on spider legs. You can tell it's larger than a man, because it's grabbed one with a viny tendril and is stuffing him inside itself, having lifted its own lid with another tendril.

A carriage with darkened windows, speeding through a ghostly mist. Its headlamps are eyelike and glowering, and there's an incriminating bloodstain on the front of it, right where it might impact a person's head.

Some horrible, shapeless thing that looks sort of like a gargantuan nudibranch, plowing through everything in its path, including entire trees. It's such a juggernaut, it's even breaking the frame.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 5d

TODAY'S THE DAY! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, with cover illustration by @kroovv.bsky.social and interior illos by @jencmars.bsky.social, is now on shelves!

Get it at your friendly local game store or through one of these links: spyandowl.com/making...

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 6d

Old repaint of thief from Capcom's D&D Shadow over Mystara. Was initially a doodle on a post-it note.

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 11d

And last but not least, if you want to sponsor this event by either donating for giveaways or matching donations, please DM me or send me an email to [email protected]

Thank you so much for your support! 💚

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 11d

We will be raising money for Raices Texas via tiltify and you can start donating right now!
tilt.fyi/IqGjR3AZw1

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 11d

Y para cerrar con broche de oro...

¡Un orgullo presentar una aventura de Daggerheart con este increíble elenco el día Sábado 11 de Octubre a las 5pm Pacífico!

GM: @largsigh.bsky.social

Jugadores:
@dungeongangster.bsky.social
Héctor Coyote
@chalochokorrol.bsky.social
Alex Flyer

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 11d

Y'ALL KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT DRAW STEEL SO...

Join us on Saturday, October 11th at 2pm Pacific for a Draw Steel one shot with an amazing group!

Director: @ghostofezekiel.bsky.social

Players:
@omnisx.bsky.social
@lorddurok.com
And Myself!

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 11d

HAPPY HISPANIC/LATINE HERITAGE MONTH!

I am so excited for this All-Latines Kids on Brooms game with this incredible cast on Saturday, October 11th at 9am Pacific!

GM: @vocolon.bsky.social

Players:
@levrs23.bsky.social
@ohcatrina.bsky.social
@themandii.bsky.social
@cutestpatoot.itch.io

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 11d

✨ ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

I am so thrilled to announce Games For Raices Pt 3, a ttrpg event raising funds for Raices Texas!

🗓️ Saturday, October 11th starting at 9am Pacific
📺 Twitch.tv/ttrpgifs

Check out the lineup

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