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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · Nov 19

Ok new #TTRPG and #Newsky fam, I have a whole new thread for finding stuff on and using Bluesky.

1) Find people. Search for a few familiar faces to follow here. And explore trustworthy Starter Packs. CAVEAT: User-made. Lean on trusted hosts and trustworthy recs. blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs

Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 3h

Prophecies (and high knowledge characters) are a common pain point for a lot of players and GMs. Come explore methods performers, would-be prophets, and charlatans have used for centuries to create convincing insights and predictions.
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#TTRPG #Blog

Mastering the Art of Illusion: GM & Play Tips for Prophecies

Creating the Illusion of Omniscience and Prophecy In the world of tabletop role-playing games, creating the illusion of omniscience or crafting seemingly accurate predictions can elevate the storytelling experience. But it's also something a lot of players and GMs struggle with! Effectively con

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Ghostagonist @contagonist.bsky.social · 5h

Lancer is probably the cleanest and most legible rulebook I've ever had the pleasure of using

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 5h

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!

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#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

Open Source TTRPG Resources

Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 6h

🎨 Explore the Motif SRD for creating your own Runs On Motif games and system-neutral tools! From a simple oracle to a full #TTRPG, the open license lets you build as you like. PWYW.

Check it out now!
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#OpenGaming #SRD #TabletopGames

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Epic Tales and Critical Fails - Our GM is a Crit Award nominee @etalesandcritfails.bsky.social · 10h

Catch our #pathfinder2e #actualplaypodcast where six misfits are brought together by strange dreams & become embroiled in the schemes of a mad clockwork automaton.

Prepare for adventure, terror & the occasional use of bad language. Not to mention the dubious dice rolls.

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Chantel Jones @thebosschantel.bsky.social · 10h

Yes it's true my name is Chantel and I need six new Goblins to join my Army. www.patreon.com/c/u14964776/...
what's even more true is that I need to sell 3 copies of Escape from Cyclops Island to become a Copper Best-Seller legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/2607...

Get more from The Swamp on Patreon

Content for Role-Playing Games. (D&D,C&C and so many more)

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 7h

Let's celebrate the unsung heroes of utility! We've all fought poorly organized rulebooks, frantically flipping.

Which #TTRPG book is the complete opposite: an absolute masterclass in usability? The one where the information is so intuitive, it's always right where you need it to be.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 8h

You can create deep, rich #TTRPG settings with succinct descriptions and minimalist #worldbuilding. Come explore some ideas about simple worldbuilding that leads to complex living worlds that inspire play imaginations.

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#Blog #RPGAdvice

Crafting Minimalist Settings for Tabletop Roleplaying Games

Create Worlds That Spark Imagination Without Overwhelming Tabletop roleplaying games thrive on the limitless power of imagination. At their best, they transport players to extraordinary worlds brimming with wonder and possibilities, each decision weaving into an unforgettable tapestry of shared

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 8h

Justin Long is my favorite scream queen.

#Horror #ScreamQueens #Movies

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CypherCA @cypherca.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for the space @thoughtpunks.com today! I work on D&D 5e homebrew, with hundreds of species feats and two dozen strange dragonborn. I'm also working on a big Spelljammer project.

You can support me and find all my works linked at my ko-fi!
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Buy CypherCA a Coffee

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The Wyvern's Den @wyvernden.bsky.social · 11h

So, I did a small sea side adventure
now it is kinda better-ish

A D&D 5e adventure, The Feast of the Feathered Fish!
(It is a mystery horror)

More lore, more encounters, and same price!
Waiting for your party beneath the fishing village of Tern Watch!
#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg #IndieRPG #itch.io #TTRPG

The Feast of the Feathered Fish (EXPANDED EDITION) by The Wyvern's Den

Adventurers are sent to solve a famine problem, but turns out their problem has more feathers than they expected.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 9h

Don't wanna keep yelling but hurt shoulder is bleeding funds. Few hundo in the hole for out of pocket seizure med. Every bit helps!

Tips:
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https://paypal.me/tpipc
(credit/debit option): https://bit.ly/payrev

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#MutualAidRequest

Support Rev Casey ❤️

Become a supporter of Rev Casey today!

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Madness Heart Games @mhp-games.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for the space! Want to try our BADASS system (which takes the rule of cool to ludicrous heights) FREE? Lucky you! KILL THE NAZI distills our system to a business card! Give it a try and tell us what you think! #TTRPGs #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #Geek bsky.app/profile/mhp-...

Madness Heart Games @mhp-games.bsky.social · 6d

KILL THE NAZI is FREE: our BADASS system (Overgrowth, Splatter League) distilled down to a business card! Download it, share it, upload your playthroughs, message us, and tell us what you did! After all, we fight fascists through community! #TTRPGs madness-heart-games.itch.io/kill-the-nazi

Art card featuring a stylized, socialist realist portrait of a worker throwing a Molotov cocktail at a figure in a suit with a long red tie. Text reads "KILL THE NAZI! A Micro-BADASS Game for 1 GM & 2-3 Players"

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TDungeonator @tdungeonator.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks, Thought Punks!
Added a new chapter to my solo ttrpg novelization! I've been playing my own weird horror game, The Insensate Ones. A disaffected PhD grad returns home and finds everything... the same? Except for some kind of infection from the deep sea.
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Mind Made Up ToC

The Dungeonator published a post on Ko-fi

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 10h

Intrigue & politics are overwhelming for many GMs + hard to engage with for many players, even when the idea itself is appealing. So let's talk about both TTRPG mechanics and psychological tools you can use to more easily bring the intrigue!

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#TTRPG #Blog

Mastering Intrigue: Crafting Suspense and Tension in TTRPGs

Handling Intrigue in Tabletop RPGs with Trackers, Tags, and Motif Rolls Political intrigue in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) is often one of the most challenging genres to run. Balancing complex relationships, shifting loyalties, and a web of lies and secrets can quickly overwhelm a Game

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 11h

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Real simple: Get ALL of the Thought Punks releases: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/7970/Thought-Punks?affiliate_id=741284 *And* get a lifeti...

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Fiery Discourse @fierydiscourse.bsky.social · 13h

Check out Fiery Discourse, the only podcast on the internet dedicated to media featuring dragonesses, female dinosaurs and other similar saurians and scalies! www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQTONab-Vd57q0dx8XZDftqdKUxwMehi

Fiery Discourse - YouTube

Fiery Discourse is a podcast discussing media that features dragonesses, female dinosaurs and female reptiles of all kinds. Each episode is about an individu...

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AJ || Pasta_Parade @pastaparade.bsky.social · 14h

Campaign 2 of Choose Your Roll kicks off this October! The Rolls We Choose follows Raphael, Lowell, Lucien, Einar, and Sylvie through the French-inspired realm of Lyon. Join us for Session 0 on Oct 18th at 7PM EST: twitch.tv/choose_your_...

#dnd5e #a5e #ttrpgcommunity #SelfPromoSaturday #ActualPlay

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 12h

🎭 Meet the Motif Character Engine! 🎭 Perfect for:
* Crafting #SoloRPG parties
* Adding NPC unpredictability
* Solo GMing your campaigns
* Testing your own indie #TTRPG

🚀 Level up your game today!
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#IndieGames #GameDesign

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Red @redfuze.bsky.social · 14h

I play with a group of Dnd-or-nothing guys. Once, I got them to try HoneyHeist. It was like 3 yrs ago, but we still have jokes from that session that will reduce the table to tears. New players are regaled with the tale of The Best Driver and feeling bad about accidentally mauling a security guard

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 15h

Some of the biggest stories come from the smallest packages.

What's a micro-RPG, one-page #TTRPG, or a #zine game that delivered an experience way bigger and more memorable than its tiny size would ever suggest? We NEED to hear all about the tiny titan that gave you an epic evening!

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KOKOTÖNA Pre-launch LIVE 📌|E💀C @elchupalabras.itch.io · 14h

Thank you for the chance!

We're literally 1 FOLLOWER AWAY from reaching our goal of 200 followers for KOKOTÖNA's Kickstarter so please share with anyone and everyone y'all think would be interested in it!

KOKOTÖNA Pre-launch LIVE 📌|E💀C @elchupalabras.itch.io · 19h

#KOKOTÖNA goes live on #Kickstarter in LESS than 24 hours & we're REALLY CLOSE to achieving our follower goal!

If you like:

• #MÖRKBORG, #OSR or indie #TTRPG titles
• Grimdark #Fantasy
• Aztec & Mayan myths

Then join the ALMOST 200 flesh-bearers ready to venture into Teotlan!

#SelfPromoSaturday

Coming soon: KOKOTÖNA: A Grimdark RPG inspired by precolonial Mesoamerica

A standalone, MÖRK BORG-compatible descent into a Mesoamerican-inspired apocalypse. Dark fantasy roleplaying of xokol & blood-obsidian.

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d'Artagnan @dartagnantt.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for the space, Thought Punks!

I've been working on a 5e replacement for about two years. Where I do things like make fighters tactical, give rangers themes, and warlocks spell slots! My patrons get access to the playtest materials!
Check it out, it's awesome!
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d'Artagnan @dartagnantt.bsky.social · 23d

While playing 5e, can you never find a spell worth casting that doesn't eat at that concentration you're already holding?
In #6thDawn I've modified spellcasting where concentration is usually optional, but you might not want to give it up.

#TTRPGRising #TTRPG #DnD
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Optional Concentration

Some spells have an active component beyond yourself that you must control, but otherwise work without your intervention. If you choose to concentrate on these spells, they work just as concentration spells above. However, you can choose to not concentrate on them, this keeps the spell going with no control over it whatsoever.

Fear

3rd-rank illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (30-foot cone)
Components: V, S, M (a white feather or the heart of a hen)
Duration: Optional concentration, up to 1 minute

You project a phantasmal image of a creature's worst fears. Each creature in a 30-foot cone must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or drop whatever it is holding and become frightened of you for the duration. *While concentrating on this spell*, you can use your action to target all creatures in another 30-foot cone, but can't affect a creature again if it has succeeded on a saving throw against this casting of fear.

Invisibility
2nd-rank illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (an eyelash encased in gum arabic)
Duration: Optional concentration, up to 1 hour

A creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends. Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target's person. The spell ends for a target that attacks or casts a spell.

*While concentrating on the spell* and no creatures currently benefit from the spell, you can use your action to touch another creature to turn it invisible.

Moonbeam
2nd-rank evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (several seeds of any moonseed plant and a piece of opalescent feldspar)
Duration: Optional concentration, up to 1 minute

A silvery beam of pale light shines down in a 5-foot radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within range. Until the spell ends, dim light fills the cylinder.

When a creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it is engulfed in ghostly flames that cause searing pain, and it must make a Constitution saving throw. It takes 2d10 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

A shapechanger makes its saving throw with disadvantage. If it fails, it also instantly reverts to its original form and can't assume a different form until it leaves the spell's light.

*While concentrating on this spell*, you can use an action to move the beam 60 feet in any direction.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 13h

🥇 Motif Story Engine is our flagship bestseller.
🎲 Simple d6 system for answer oracles, enabling solo and low prep modes with your favorite TTRPG games!
👇 Get your copy today.
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#TRPG #SoloRPG

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Fiery Discourse @fierydiscourse.bsky.social · 14h

Fiery Discourse - YouTube

Fiery Discourse is a podcast discussing media that features dragonesses, female dinosaurs and female reptiles of all kinds. Each episode is about an individu...

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Zosimos @zo51m05.bsky.social · 16h

Hey there!

I'm putting the finishing touches on some spooky new linocuts for my retrofuturist vampire hunting RPG Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet!

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Coming soon: Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet

A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates

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