Dan Phipps
@itsdanphipps.bsky.social
Ttrpg making guy with a flowchart brain. I make lists of things. Half of Gem Room Games. He/him.
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Dan Phipps
@itsdanphipps.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hello new blue sky friends, I make games with Kali and you can buy them at shop.gemroomgames.com
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I thought this mashup might've just been done for that portmanteau, but it actually works really well
Rick James Dio - "Holy Mary Jane"
YouTube video by Bill McClintock
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January 26, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I thought this mashup might've just been done for that portmanteau, but it actually works really well
Relearning how to make a game this month.
step 1: write the pitch for other game design sickos
Step 2: dig into the design doc until you find the juice
Step 3: write the pitch for anyone with a pulse
Step 4: make the game until you delivered the pitch
Then you ignore the dread and hit print!
step 1: write the pitch for other game design sickos
Step 2: dig into the design doc until you find the juice
Step 3: write the pitch for anyone with a pulse
Step 4: make the game until you delivered the pitch
Then you ignore the dread and hit print!
January 26, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Relearning how to make a game this month.
step 1: write the pitch for other game design sickos
Step 2: dig into the design doc until you find the juice
Step 3: write the pitch for anyone with a pulse
Step 4: make the game until you delivered the pitch
Then you ignore the dread and hit print!
step 1: write the pitch for other game design sickos
Step 2: dig into the design doc until you find the juice
Step 3: write the pitch for anyone with a pulse
Step 4: make the game until you delivered the pitch
Then you ignore the dread and hit print!
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For those looking to attend PDX OSR Con (February 21st), badge registration has opened. Game tickets should be open at the end of the month. We’ll have two official Liminal Horror sessions going, including our new special con event Outbreak.
tabletop.events/conventions/...
tabletop.events/conventions/...
January 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM
For those looking to attend PDX OSR Con (February 21st), badge registration has opened. Game tickets should be open at the end of the month. We’ll have two official Liminal Horror sessions going, including our new special con event Outbreak.
tabletop.events/conventions/...
tabletop.events/conventions/...
Slightly diminish a game:
Cybermetal 2011
Cybermetal 2011
Slightly diminish a game:
Break!
Break!
slightly diminish a game:
the area
the area
January 24, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Slightly diminish a game:
Cybermetal 2011
Cybermetal 2011
Cloud Empress is very beautiful. I like the style of writing in the rulebook, layering evocative passages throughout.
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Cloud Empress is very beautiful. I like the style of writing in the rulebook, layering evocative passages throughout.
Sometimes game design is wistful thinking about what miniatures games could be at the day job
January 22, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Sometimes game design is wistful thinking about what miniatures games could be at the day job
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and it takes SECONDS to do.
Seriously, it took literally 42 seconds for me to hammer this message in again with a call. 42 seconds.
Seriously, it took literally 42 seconds for me to hammer this message in again with a call. 42 seconds.
PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨
January 22, 2026 at 7:27 PM
and it takes SECONDS to do.
Seriously, it took literally 42 seconds for me to hammer this message in again with a call. 42 seconds.
Seriously, it took literally 42 seconds for me to hammer this message in again with a call. 42 seconds.
Sometimes you read your own post and say to yourself "nothing good will come of this" and that's what they made the delete button for
January 22, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Sometimes you read your own post and say to yourself "nothing good will come of this" and that's what they made the delete button for
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What's your fantasy? No, seriously: A Land Once Magic wants to know.
A Land Once Magic wants you to create your own tabletop fantasy
What's your fantasy? A Land Once Magic is a game that pushes you to create new, unique fantasy worlds for your RPG campaigns.
www.avclub.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
What's your fantasy? No, seriously: A Land Once Magic wants to know.
Hey,
Sleigh Bells
You never made out behind the bleachers, but the divebar couch the semester you turned 21 felt pretty close. The soundtrack of that night is lost to time, but you imagine it had "Rill Rill," a song your now-tweens will always associate with drives to soccer practice
You never made out behind the bleachers, but the divebar couch the semester you turned 21 felt pretty close. The soundtrack of that night is lost to time, but you imagine it had "Rill Rill," a song your now-tweens will always associate with drives to soccer practice
January 20, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Hey,
My parents dropped off a box of 45s including a ton of children's records.
My eldest combed through the whole thing while I was making coffee and emerged with the Rankin Bass Return of the King for breakfast listening.
My eldest combed through the whole thing while I was making coffee and emerged with the Rankin Bass Return of the King for breakfast listening.
January 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM
My parents dropped off a box of 45s including a ton of children's records.
My eldest combed through the whole thing while I was making coffee and emerged with the Rankin Bass Return of the King for breakfast listening.
My eldest combed through the whole thing while I was making coffee and emerged with the Rankin Bass Return of the King for breakfast listening.
Product Health and Safety should require Pantone to describe the effects of each color of magic.
January 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Product Health and Safety should require Pantone to describe the effects of each color of magic.
It is a moral imperative that you use dice instead of cards, and you should buy a copy of His Majesty the Worm and read it and play it and make stuff inspired by it just so you can TRULY UNDERSTAND how wrong this take is.
Grrr! Ohhh! I don't think you should use DICE anymore! Dice are for BABY Gamers. CARDS are for EPIC L337 GAMERS. Buy my tarot based dungeon nowwww www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
The Castle Automatic Preorder
Publisher and web store for Indie Role Playing games, Role Playing game supplements, weird art, doom, horror, and all that sort of thing.
www.exaltedfuneral.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It is a moral imperative that you use dice instead of cards, and you should buy a copy of His Majesty the Worm and read it and play it and make stuff inspired by it just so you can TRULY UNDERSTAND how wrong this take is.
It feels like every 6 months I come back to ryuutama's dragons and how it makes characters for GMs.
And then I go hell yeah that rules let's do more of that sort of thing.
And then I go hell yeah that rules let's do more of that sort of thing.
January 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
It feels like every 6 months I come back to ryuutama's dragons and how it makes characters for GMs.
And then I go hell yeah that rules let's do more of that sort of thing.
And then I go hell yeah that rules let's do more of that sort of thing.
Finally reading BitD Deep Cuts and it's rolling around in my brain like a fish in the percolator.
January 14, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Finally reading BitD Deep Cuts and it's rolling around in my brain like a fish in the percolator.
I do not want to learn a single thing about 3D printing or resin or whatever, but I would like a monthly subscription to Bits.
Just weird random 28/32 mm scale stuff that I can glue on my little dudes and make em into freaks. In my mailbox every month, no rhyme or reason, let's go
Just weird random 28/32 mm scale stuff that I can glue on my little dudes and make em into freaks. In my mailbox every month, no rhyme or reason, let's go
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I do not want to learn a single thing about 3D printing or resin or whatever, but I would like a monthly subscription to Bits.
Just weird random 28/32 mm scale stuff that I can glue on my little dudes and make em into freaks. In my mailbox every month, no rhyme or reason, let's go
Just weird random 28/32 mm scale stuff that I can glue on my little dudes and make em into freaks. In my mailbox every month, no rhyme or reason, let's go
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Remember when Hayao Miyazaki designed a model kit, and it was a redonculous multi turret tank with a 20 pig strong crew, including chef and waiter? Yeah good times.
December 22, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Remember when Hayao Miyazaki designed a model kit, and it was a redonculous multi turret tank with a 20 pig strong crew, including chef and waiter? Yeah good times.
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so that's where they keep 'em
January 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
so that's where they keep 'em
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@ipr.bsky.social restock incoming!
9 Lives to Valhalla!
Letters to Sandra!
DUKK BÖRG!
Here we gooooooooo 📨
9 Lives to Valhalla!
Letters to Sandra!
DUKK BÖRG!
Here we gooooooooo 📨
January 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
@ipr.bsky.social restock incoming!
9 Lives to Valhalla!
Letters to Sandra!
DUKK BÖRG!
Here we gooooooooo 📨
9 Lives to Valhalla!
Letters to Sandra!
DUKK BÖRG!
Here we gooooooooo 📨
The d20 is Bouba and the d4 is Kiki.
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The d20 is Bouba and the d4 is Kiki.
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If you ever wanted to play @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social's Maleghast using your grandmother's nativity set...now you can!
Playing War Games with your Grandmother's Nativity Set
I worked on this over Christmas. It's a little late but perhaps you (like me) haven't quite cleaned up your tree yet. I have limited exposu...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
If you ever wanted to play @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social's Maleghast using your grandmother's nativity set...now you can!
Gonna need batman to knock me into a vat of this at the Ace Chemical Processing Plant
they're gonna need to dunk me in this scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-i...
Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis
A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells. Researchers at Stanford Medicine report that...
scitechdaily.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Gonna need batman to knock me into a vat of this at the Ace Chemical Processing Plant
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The first two hours this morning
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
The first two hours this morning
When I'm assembling minis and don't feel like trimming the mold lines
January 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
When I'm assembling minis and don't feel like trimming the mold lines
Dreaming up intricate, overly complicated rules for shield walls that will slow down combat without adding any tactical depth or narrative impact
January 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Dreaming up intricate, overly complicated rules for shield walls that will slow down combat without adding any tactical depth or narrative impact