Kris McClanahan
@deeplydapper.bsky.social
Artist, author, soapboiler and TTRPG creator.
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This is an excellent video. It's wild to remember that I lived through this, made games alongside this.
It's really tempting to do a lot of "what might have been"-ing but I've honestly had an amazing career.
It's really tempting to do a lot of "what might have been"-ing but I've honestly had an amazing career.
My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is an excellent video. It's wild to remember that I lived through this, made games alongside this.
It's really tempting to do a lot of "what might have been"-ing but I've honestly had an amazing career.
It's really tempting to do a lot of "what might have been"-ing but I've honestly had an amazing career.
Lap dogs, lap dogs…perfectly sized lap dogs.
December 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Lap dogs, lap dogs…perfectly sized lap dogs.
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The Hope Springs Eternal Daggerheart Kickstarter funded today & even though I haven’t been on social media much today, I’m so happy and thrilled that we managed to reach our goal 🤩🥰💕 thank you to everyone who pledged, boosted, & otherwise supported our project! ❤️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...
Hope Springs Eternal
A supplement for Daggerheart. Five campaign frames, each complemented by a location (factions, NPCs, environments, advers. ,loot, etc.)
www.kickstarter.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The Hope Springs Eternal Daggerheart Kickstarter funded today & even though I haven’t been on social media much today, I’m so happy and thrilled that we managed to reach our goal 🤩🥰💕 thank you to everyone who pledged, boosted, & otherwise supported our project! ❤️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...
SMÖRK BORG and its companion adventure book are now available from DriveThruRPG - get your Mörk Borg fix in the form of a yellow goblin one pint glass tall! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
SMÖRK BORG and its companion adventure book are now available from DriveThruRPG - get your Mörk Borg fix in the form of a yellow goblin one pint glass tall! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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#TTRPG 🎲 Advent Calendar, Day 7:
"Tombpunk" by Alan Bahr ( @alanbahr.net ), art by Kris McClanahan ( @deeplydapper.bsky.social )
A game about how we need to eat the rich because landed lords are parasitic middlemen taking all our Coin, dressed up as an #OSR dungeon game with comic book aesthetics
"Tombpunk" by Alan Bahr ( @alanbahr.net ), art by Kris McClanahan ( @deeplydapper.bsky.social )
A game about how we need to eat the rich because landed lords are parasitic middlemen taking all our Coin, dressed up as an #OSR dungeon game with comic book aesthetics
![Inside spread from Tombpunk regarding the rules for managing expenses in the game. White, orange, red, & yellow text against a glossy black background reads: "Dungeon Econ 101: being an adventurer blows. In the world of Tombpunk, it costs a non-landowner one Coin a week to not starve and die in the gutter. You lose this Coin at the start of the week. That's right. Every time your Narrator [GM] tells you a new week started, you have to lose one Coin from your Coin resource. Not very fun, huh?" Adventurers who survive deadly dungeons can make around 3 Coin per week, if they're lucky!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pki4hm42fiilkjj4isy2ss46/bafkreifa5xwnfqsppd3umhepwaugszppomttdtr64u2dk5oylgxu5p7vfq@jpeg)
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#TTRPG 🎲 Advent Calendar, Day 7:
"Tombpunk" by Alan Bahr ( @alanbahr.net ), art by Kris McClanahan ( @deeplydapper.bsky.social )
A game about how we need to eat the rich because landed lords are parasitic middlemen taking all our Coin, dressed up as an #OSR dungeon game with comic book aesthetics
"Tombpunk" by Alan Bahr ( @alanbahr.net ), art by Kris McClanahan ( @deeplydapper.bsky.social )
A game about how we need to eat the rich because landed lords are parasitic middlemen taking all our Coin, dressed up as an #OSR dungeon game with comic book aesthetics
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OK, so this is cool. GRIM DEATH & BILL THE ELECTROCUTED CRIMINAL by @tomsnig.bsky.social and @mikemignola.bsky.social is now an audio drama! This is a great way to step into the world of GRIM DEATH whether you've read the novel or not! Two episodes are LIVE.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal
Drama Podcast · Updated Biweekly · In this quirky, supernatural investigative thriller from acclaimed artist Mike Mignola (Hellboy) and NYT bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski, Bentley Hawthorne li...
podcasts.apple.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
OK, so this is cool. GRIM DEATH & BILL THE ELECTROCUTED CRIMINAL by @tomsnig.bsky.social and @mikemignola.bsky.social is now an audio drama! This is a great way to step into the world of GRIM DEATH whether you've read the novel or not! Two episodes are LIVE.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
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The fuzzy foursome decided that I needed to stop working and rest my injured hand and read. They also decided that I no longer needed legs.
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The fuzzy foursome decided that I needed to stop working and rest my injured hand and read. They also decided that I no longer needed legs.
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AYO! The new #Tombpunk book, Shallow Graves, is currently live on KS & *I* wrote the titular adventure for it! 🌙🕷
Please do me a favor, and share this far & wide, in the hopes that its success will lead to more opportunities to write with/for other wonderful people's #TTRPG projects 🎲 #OSR
Please do me a favor, and share this far & wide, in the hopes that its success will lead to more opportunities to write with/for other wonderful people's #TTRPG projects 🎲 #OSR
Shallow Graves: Cult of the Moon Spider for Tombpunk RPG
All-new adventures, Stick Figures, and a reprint for the lo-fi, high-chaos roleplaying game TOMBPUNK!
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Man, these two are cute.
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Man, these two are cute.
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read the damn license of an artist before acquiring their stock art! 😤
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
read the damn license of an artist before acquiring their stock art! 😤
My lap is filled with a golden pup and a new book and that’s an ok way to spend an evening.
October 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My lap is filled with a golden pup and a new book and that’s an ok way to spend an evening.
Drinking coffee, listening to 40s jazz and working on the last few pieces of art for Streetlights & Shadows today!
September 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Drinking coffee, listening to 40s jazz and working on the last few pieces of art for Streetlights & Shadows today!
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The apex of Japanese cinema.
September 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The apex of Japanese cinema.
More Tombpunk art!
September 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
More Tombpunk art!
I let Aspen sleep on my lap for too long and she got burnt and turned into her daughter Figgy.
September 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I let Aspen sleep on my lap for too long and she got burnt and turned into her daughter Figgy.
We are going to have to fund a new print run of Tombpunk to replace the defective books we have/to get backers functional books, so we figured a new adventure book would be a great addition to it. I finished the cover tonight!
September 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We are going to have to fund a new print run of Tombpunk to replace the defective books we have/to get backers functional books, so we figured a new adventure book would be a great addition to it. I finished the cover tonight!
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"Dear inner child," they said. "Wouldn't it be cool to own ALL the Rifts supplements?"
"Shut up, www.bundleofholding.com," I said. But it didn't work well.
"Shut up, www.bundleofholding.com," I said. But it didn't work well.
Rifts Worlds Bundle 2
Adventurer! This all-new Rifts® Worlds Bundle 2 presents 11 .PDF World Book supplements, new to the Bundle of Holding, about many lands in the Rifts tabletop roleplaying game from Palladium Books. Not...
www.bundleofholding.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"Dear inner child," they said. "Wouldn't it be cool to own ALL the Rifts supplements?"
"Shut up, www.bundleofholding.com," I said. But it didn't work well.
"Shut up, www.bundleofholding.com," I said. But it didn't work well.
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Great sketches from today’s Herceg Novi festival 🙏🏻
September 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Great sketches from today’s Herceg Novi festival 🙏🏻
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i have the IMMENSE HONOR of editing, not one, not two, but all three the games in @possibleworlds.bsky.social kickstarter: COSMIC CENTURY KNIGHTS, HOMECOMING, and CHUCK!
one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover
BACK NOW
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover
BACK NOW
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
PWG Presents: Cosmic Century Knights, Homecoming, and Chuck
Three TTRPGs: one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover.
www.kickstarter.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
i have the IMMENSE HONOR of editing, not one, not two, but all three the games in @possibleworlds.bsky.social kickstarter: COSMIC CENTURY KNIGHTS, HOMECOMING, and CHUCK!
one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover
BACK NOW
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover
BACK NOW
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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My new Kickstarter will launch tomorrow at 12PM (noon) PST!! 👀
August 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My new Kickstarter will launch tomorrow at 12PM (noon) PST!! 👀
Wadsworth looks cute in his T-shirt. (He has a cut from roughhousing that we need to cover to keep the other dogs from licking it)
August 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Wadsworth looks cute in his T-shirt. (He has a cut from roughhousing that we need to cover to keep the other dogs from licking it)
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The creators you see as "competition" are dealing with the same challenges you are. Share resources, compare notes, support each other's launches. Building a peer network is building your safety net.
August 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The creators you see as "competition" are dealing with the same challenges you are. Share resources, compare notes, support each other's launches. Building a peer network is building your safety net.
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This crew has serious intentions. Once in the crypt, failure isn’t an option.
#Mausritter #illustration #ttrpg #art
#Mausritter #illustration #ttrpg #art
August 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This crew has serious intentions. Once in the crypt, failure isn’t an option.
#Mausritter #illustration #ttrpg #art
#Mausritter #illustration #ttrpg #art