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The Dark Pictures @thedarkpictures.bsky.social · 21d

Alone, together.
#Directive8020

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · 21d

I love the brevity of description in the new D&D starter set. Locations and NPCs are pared down to the bare minimum, without turning things into an ugly list of bullet points. I think we could all learn a lesson from this!

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · 28d

We’re down to the last day! Get your pledges in now, me hearties!

Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ten days left on this kickstarter and we're smashing through those juicy stretch goals! If you’re still on the fence about joining us, let me hit you with some reasons why I think it’s going to great...(cont)

Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BHE...

Aetherial Expanse: Dreams of the Drowned God

Embark on a plane-spanning 5E 2024 adventure full of mystery, war, and cosmic catastrophe.

www.kickstarter.com

Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm going to be trying out the Draw Steel RPG next month with my old 4E group. They never really clicked with 5E, so I'm hoping this game will be more up their street.

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The Dark Pictures @thedarkpictures.bsky.social · Sep 8

First contact at Gamescom: unsettling...unforgettable.
#Directive8020

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 3

Three titles that I contributed to are available in this Humble RPG Bundle: Durnan's Guild to Tavernkeeping, Lost City of Mezro, and Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else!
www.humblebundle.com/books/dungeo...

Humble RPG Bundle: Dungeon Master’s Guild Top Content from the D&D Community

Get the latest and greatest campaigns for your Dungeons & Dragons adventures today and help support charity with your purchase!

www.humblebundle.com

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

5. The writing team is a heavyweight lineup of RPG champions: you’ll be in the trusted hands of Andy Collins, Erin Roberts, and James Haeck, with me waving them on from the ship’s helm and Shawn Merwin and Joe Raso manning the deck guns. It’s going to be EPIC.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

4. It’s classic “High Adventure”. You’ll cross cutlasses on the decks of sinking ships, explore ruined tombs, get sucked down whirlpools, battle more than one moustache-twirling villain, hunt enormous sea monsters, pose as undead, plan an infernal prison break, and even steal a moon from the sky.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

This system of exploration is something I’ve been plotting for a long time, and I’m really happy with where we’ve got to with it! It’s essentially mixing very light board game elements into your RPG campaign, while keeping your own stories at its heart.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

3. We’re doing some funky things with exploration. At the heart of the campaign is this nonlinear point crawl where you’ll use 'Clue Cards' to guide your journey across a sea map. Your story develops around these cards, at your own pace, and your actions change the makeup of the world in fun ways.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

2: It uses the Aetherial Expanse as a "hub" setting. This realm hooked me from the off: an astral sea where rival colonial powers clash over an arcane power source, aetherium. It’s Master and Commander meets Spelljammer meets Arcane meets Pirates of the Caribbean. I love it.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

1. It’s a love letter to one of my favourite campaigns of yesteryear, Stormbringer’s ‘Rogue Mistress’ - a madcap heavy metal romp across a bunch of unorthodox worlds, on a magic galleon armed with laser guns. Our campaign has the same drive for big ideas and inventive settings.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ten days left on this kickstarter and we're smashing through those juicy stretch goals! If you’re still on the fence about joining us, let me hit you with some reasons why I think it’s going to great...(cont)

Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BHE...

Aetherial Expanse: Dreams of the Drowned God

Embark on a plane-spanning 5E 2024 adventure full of mystery, war, and cosmic catastrophe.

www.kickstarter.com

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Sep 1

Finally watched Vivarium. I know it's a bit of a divisive horror movie, but my god it got under my skin. Kept waking up all through the night, thinking there were children running about my bedroom.

Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 31

Lovely detailed unboxing of the new starter set here (it's in German but autotranslate works well). Great to see our maps in print, including the Keep on the Borderlands and Wilderness map posters. The set looks amazing overall, definitely going to run a mini campaign at work.
youtu.be/Ub_xg2U4V2g

Unboxing D&D STARTER SET 2025 - ALLE Inhalte im Überblick! | Heroes of the Borderlands | D&D deutsch

YouTube video by RollenspielWelten

youtu.be

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 29

Also, never swear in front of a bee.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 29

Excerpt from a book of English folklore I’m reading. Looks like powdered frog is the material component of a knock spell.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 28

My first 3 #TTRPGbox sets:

1. Call of Cthulhu
2. Pendragon
3. Ghostbusters

Took us a while to get to D&D!

Feels like everything was in a box back then: sort of wish more games were now.

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 26

Right now Rogue Trooper is going strong, Dredd obvs, Dexter appeared in a spinoff based in future Downlode, there was even a one shot the other week featuring Jonny Alpha…

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 26

Still churning out the zarjaz thrills!

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 26

For Father’s Day this year my family got me an annual subscription to 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine and I have to say it’s brought me more happiness than I ever expected.

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James J. Haeck @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank ye dogs o' the Aetherial Expanse! You've unlocked Barrowheap, the plane that the lost things of the multiverse drain into! It's a pirate's dream... and who knows what else might be hiding there?

kickstarter.com/projects/ghostfiregaming/aetherial-expanse-dreams-of-the-drowned-god

starter.com

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you!!

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our swashbuckling kickstarter is live! Go back now, ya landlubbers!

Joe Raso @joeraso.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ghostfire Gaming's latest 5e hardback adventure--Aetherial Expanse: Dreams of the Drowned God--is now live on Kickstarter.

Climb aboard our campaign to experience a swashbuckling adventure to save the Starlight Seas of the Aetherial Expanse.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Aetherial Expanse: Dreams of the Drowned God

Embark on a plane-spanning 5E 2024 adventure full of mystery, war, and cosmic catastrophe.

www.kickstarter.com

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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · Aug 13

Glad you liked the article. I never expanded the idea, but I'm pleased to hear you've enjoyed it. There isn't really a framework for building them - as I recall, we went through a load of playtest iteration!

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