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Tidal Wave Games @tidalwavegames.com · Aug 29

ON KICKSTARTER NOW: MONSTER CONDO

The spiritual sequel to Castle Gygar. 17 areas. 100+ rooms. Factions, cults, monsters and more.

Art by @chaoclypse.bsky.social, editing by Roz.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Monster Condo

A 17-area dungeon for old school roleplaying games

www.kickstarter.com

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 1d

finished up this bad boy yesterday! commission piece for @thegeoffskinner.bsky.social in their upcoming project about titans

mountain city, in fog, large winged creature in background

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Luke Gearing @lukegearing.bsky.social · 1d

to all the haters, to all those who never believed: it's over for you. i won

screenshot of bsky notification: "cow tools daily followed you back"

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Space Penguin Ink @spacepenguinink.bsky.social · 1d

Red Solstice is the premier bi-annual magazine for GMs wanting to make their game bigger, livelier, and most importantly, weirder.
spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 2d

MCDM just released the symbols they use in stat blocks under a free license.

mcdm.gg/DrawSteel/Dr...

If you've never worked with a CC-BY-SA license, check out the thread for some guidance.

mcdm.gg

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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apricot @areyoshi.bsky.social · 2d

Reality sucks, I want video game rules 😤

This comic is public on Patreon with some additional commentary: www.patreon.com/posts/dirt-b...

#comicoop #comics

A two panel comic in which apricot, their dad, and their sister (who has a baby on her back) are all hiking up a hill on a clear day. In panel one, the sister says "The race track is different this year to avoid all the windmill construction (so they gotta go around it.)
In the next panel, apricot looks disappointed and bitter as they look down and note, "...In a video game you'd get to ride THROUGH the construction sites..."

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2d

An old photoshopped image I previously posted to Cohost of a fake YouTube video titled, "2 Hours of Shiori Fujisaki Rejections to Fall Asleep to." The thumbnail depicts Tokimeki Memorial's own Shiori Fujisaki standing at the school gates at the end of the day, rejecting your character's offer to walk home together. As icing on the cake, the fake user icon is a picture of Tokimeki Memorial's crazed science girl Yuina, as depicted in the puzzle game spinoff Taisen Puzzle-dama.

It's one of the dumbest posts I ever ran on there and I'm still proud of it and completely forget I'd ever made it until browsing through my pictures folder just now instead of finishing this translation assignment I'm supposed to deliver.

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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 3d

THE BEASTMEN BRAY.

Illustration for MONSTER CONDO by @tidalwavegames.com!

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Stella, Sandwich Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 3d

I've ended up advertising a lot more than I typically do but October is turning out to be a busy month for me. Red Solstice Issue 6 is for sale via @spacepenguinink.bsky.social. It has lots of amazing sky themed articles and this beautiful cover art by @daniilune.bsky.social

Art of a pale skinny woman with floating white hair adorned in flowing blue robes and red scarfs. She sits atop a dreamlike black dragon in front of a red moon and multicolored blue yellow night sky

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 4d

"A thing that I'm really thinking about is the holistic quality of the game. This is a game that, even if you don't ever actually get a group together to play it, it enriches your life and it provides you with meaning and you can sit down with it and engage with it."

Interview: Jay Dragon on Bookplay

An interview with Jay Dragon about how ttrpgs play with books

www.backwardstabletop.com

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Tidal Wave Games @tidalwavegames.com · 3d

I only know because I engage with the professional wrestling industrial complex

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 5d

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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Brian Yaksha (He/They) @brianyaksha.bsky.social · 4d

Duginthroat Divided launched on KS.

It is one of those rare instances of a work I am proud of.

I was able to push some angles in ways that got my brain firing up right.

I was able to witness something come to form that made me appreciate a modality I otherwise often ignore.

I endorse the work.

Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 4d

I have had a blast playing a few session of this sandbox with @iknowadamseats.bsky.social Ivy & @danielharila.bsky.social!

We finish our adventures tomorrow, but I'll be excited to get back into play when the whole thing is out!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...

Duginthroat Divided

Weird fiction meets fairytale whimsy in this dungeon on your doorstep! For Old School Essentials and other roleplaying games.

www.kickstarter.com

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Tidal Wave Games @tidalwavegames.com · 4d

Bruh. Overthinking it.

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Chris Bissette 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 4d

Given that #mörktober marks the 5th serialised adventure I've written, I thought it might be time to write something about how I approach working on these things.

So here that is.

www.patreon.com/posts/writin...

Writing Mörktober | Chris Bissette

Get more from Chris Bissette on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Séamus @phantom-limbs.bsky.social · 4d

Sure would help if I included the blogpost huh
kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/leonard-cohe...

Leonard Cohen's Advice for Novice OSR Referees

Leonard Cohen's (1978) speaks to a time when the public performance of poetry was transforming into what Marc Smith would call "slam poetry" some six years ...

kattkirsch.bearblog.dev

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 6d

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HODAG RPG @hodagrpg.bsky.social · 6d

Psy-yi-yi

Psyduck in a dungeon abt to touch a skeleton head

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snow @snow117.bsky.social · 6d

Hi bluesky, idk how to get people to see this, but I'm a game designer, writer, poet, and graphic designer who makes books! You should follow me and help me achieve the impossible: getting ihop to stack my pancakes 8 high instead of the default 4.

Anyways, here's some recent work <3

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Tidal Wave Games @tidalwavegames.com · 6d

Ran my first in person session of Draw Steel tonight and it went extremely well. Killed War Dogs, took a job.from dwarves to clear out a cave. Fought a Basilisk on the way there. Negotiated with kobolds occupying the cave. Fought slimes. Montage Test to navigate the cave. Excellent shit.

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Stella Joy @500poundsofnothing.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I made a d66 random potion generator mostly based off of the ad&d dmg potion descriptions. https://poundsofnothing.blogspot.com/2025/10/d66-random-potion-generator.html

d66 Random Potion Generator

I love chugging unknown substances in caves. Pdf for home printing.

poundsofnothing.blogspot.com

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Tidal Wave Games @tidalwavegames.com · 8d

For this part: use Tiled (or any other tile layer program)

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 8d

PGX starts today! Visit us in the expo hall, kinda near the middle on the left when you're going towards the arcade. (it's the fifth row, we think).

#Monroeville #PA #PGH #Pittsburgh #gaming #expo #retrogaming

The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Going to PGX this weekend? We just got the time on @inversephase.bsky.social's panel, "The Computer Art Underground". It will be in Panel 2 at 1pm on Saturday!

If you haven't picked up a badge yet, you can get 10% off with BLOOP2025 at pittsburghgamingexpo.com/buy-badges

#pittsburgh #PGH #PGX2025

Buy Badges | PGX 2025

pittsburghgamingexpo.com

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Javmaster @javmaster.bsky.social · 8d

www.timeextension.com/news/2025/10...

Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now

Heineman's career in games stretches back over 40 years

www.timeextension.com

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Night of the Living Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 8d

The next installment of my Middle-earth Hexcrawl project. In this entry, trouble begets trouble as trolls (driven towards these lands by the Necromancer, no doubt) awakens an entity older than the Shire. A stalwart company may be able to unravel the mystery before things get out of hand.

Troubles in the Northfarthing

An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. In this entry, t...

riseupcomus.blogspot.com

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