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Starry Knight Press provides roleplaying aids & supplements for tabletop gaming! starryknightpress.com #DungeonsandDragons #OldSchoolGaming #ClassicDnD #D&D #DnD #OSR #ADnD #5E #OSRIC #RPG #TTRPG #Writer #IndiePublisher #CatDad #SlavaUkraini #Resist ✊️

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 10d

I'm please to announce my new #OSR book: "Sunken Halls of the Demi-Lich"! This challenging adventure (levels 8-10) has your PCs invading the submerged & shattered tomb of an ancient demi-lich, in search of treasure & a good story! 💀 #dnd #d&d #osr #osric

LINK: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Cover of the Starry Knight Press book "Sunken Halls of the Demi-Lich", featuring the demi-lich Dimarius, holding his staff of withering.

SYNOPSIS: You are enjoying some down time at the Golden Harp Inn, in the seaside village of Dùn Mara, along the western border of the nation of Dùn Bhriste. You’ve just been treated to a rather stirring tale by the skald-in-residence, one Justin Rakes, who sang of the doomed archmage Dimarius, who tried and failed to gain immortality. It comes as somewhat of a surprise when Justin approaches you after his show, and asks to join you. Intrigued, you offer him a seat, whereupon he tells you he pegged you as adventuring heroes from your gear and demeanor, and he chose to sing the “Ballad of Dimarius” tonight, because he has a proposition for you. He tells you Dimarius’ tale is real, that the demi-lich still lives and that he knows the location of this unspoiled tomb! Here is his pitch: Justin will give you his information and a magic sword, but he gets the exclusive artistic rights to record the tale of your taking on the demi-lich.

Are you ready at your own shot at immortality, being preserved in prose for all time for, ironically, taking down a deathless demi-lich?

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21h

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for all the info, I will check out both of them! 👍

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 20h

Huh wonder where I've seen this before...

Oh right, the Two Minute Hate!

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 21h

More of this!

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

BIG thanks to another kind reader who bought my NEW book "SUNKEN HALLS OF THE DEMI-LICH", a challenging delve into the dilapidated tomb of an ancient archmage, stuck between death & true lichdom, and mad as heck about it! 😜 #DnD #D&D #ttrpg #OSR #OSRIC #DungeonsandDragons

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 10d

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

MASSIVE thanks to the kind reader who just bought ALL 4 books in my "ENDLESS LAIR" #SoloAdventure series! Based on random-tables and set encounters, these scenarios are great for times when you can't get your crew together! #dnd #ttrpg #osr #osric #dungeonsanddragons

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · Nov 13

I want to share some of my books, now that #TTRPG folx are showing up here!

First up, my #SoloAdventures Series: The "Endless Lair" Check 'em out for random table based solo play when you can't get a crew together! #DnD #OSR #OSRIC #DnDClassic

LINK: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

A knight floats above a square maze holding a sword.

A knight floats above a round maze, drawing a sword from its sheath.

An man stands at the entrance to a round maze, with a minotaur and a cyclops waiting in the maze for him.

A scowling red dragon's head floats above a fiery orange maze.

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Jared Dahl @mn-ttrpg-dad.bsky.social · 2d

Day 222, random old school TTRPG art from random book: “Dungeon Adventures #7”, TSR 1987, Jim Holloway, page 15. #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #d&d #dnd #osr #ad&d #fantasyart #art #ttrpgcommunity #dndart #osrart #dungeon #fort

An armored adventurer with a conical helm looks up at the hilltop trading outpost he is headed to. A log palisade surrounds stone buildings, and smoke rises from a tall chimney.

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

Take that! High level fighter with a 2H sword FTW!

tyberioaeus @tyberioaeus.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 10 - sweep
#inktober #inktober2025 #inktobersweep #inktober2025sweep #inkdrawing #dnd #rpg #osr

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

Yup, people enjoying their #ttrpg is a good thing!
Make games not war!

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

While waiting for the release of #OSRIC 3.0, I've been enjoying the OSRIC Players Guide v.3 from Seattle Hill Games. Have the PDF cut would love to get my hands on a printed copy.

LINK: seattle-hill-games.blogspot.com

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Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober, Day 10 "Sweep": I've often wanted the barmaid, or alewife, to join our adventuring party on a D&D quest. I think having someone who was less skilled in fighting and looting would bring an honest perspective to the quest, not unlike Samwise Gamgee in "The Lord of the Rings"...

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

This has a Grenadier Golden box vibe to it! I like it!! 👍

towershade @towershade.bsky.social · 2d

#fantasyart #dnd #grimdark #osr #gaming

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

Cool item but also zoink!

Travis Lockwood (He/Him) @indentyourcode.itch.io · 4d

Magic Item #6: The Needle of Desire.

This one is heavily inspired by Into the Odd's Pierced Heart Arcanum. I adapted it for my Mythic Bastionland game, but it'll suit any OSR just fine I'd imagine.

#osr #nsr #shadowdark #rpg #dnd

A magic item designed for Shadowdark and other TTRPGs.

Title: Needle of Desire.

Flavor Text: A sliver of silver, cloaked in pale moon light.

Benefit: When inserted into a fresh heart, speak your desire. When held in the direction of your desire the heart beats. The heart ruptures into a gorey mess when the goal is in sight.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 1d

The MSNBC host pointed out a hole or two in the DOJ cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Lawrence O'Donnell Slams 'Madman' Trump, Predicts Outcome In DOJ Indictments

The MSNBC host pointed out a hole or two in the DOJ cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

www.huffpost.com

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

In addition, as Trump has said, he's targeting Democrat government employees, so I imagine a good lawyer could argue this is a 1983 Civil Rights violation as well.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Russ Vought's directive to fire federal workers during a shutdown is blatantly illegal

Vought’s memo is political intimidation, not valid administrative guidance, says Rep. James Walkinshaw.

www.msnbc.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

Just wrong, period.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

A producer and editor for WGN-TV was violently forced to the ground this morning by two Border Patrol agents, before having her hands cuffed behind her back, during an ICE action in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Debbie Brockman has worked for the local television station since 2011.

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

www.aol.com

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Jim Zub @jimzub.bsky.social · 1d

"I heard it's Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend so I brought you pumpkin pie to thank you for Conan."

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

Assaulting the press and abusing women? That's what these goons live for. They must all be unmasked & prosecuted when sanity returns to America. #Resist ✊️

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

Good stuff all-around! 🤘

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 1d

Who Metallica were listening to in 1998.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."

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Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #Farmers, are you seeing who your guy is really helping out? Not you!

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

www.motherjones.com

Starry Knight Press @starryknightpress.bsky.social · 1d

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