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Valiant ‘Love Wins’ Dorian @valiantdorian.bsky.social · Oct 17

I am Valiant Dorian (he/him) and I am a TTRPG creator and storyteller🐻

I am a transmasc, Desi Malaysian award-winning performer, wildhearted designer and exuberant talkshow host!

Let us weave beautifully heartbreaking tales together ✨

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 14h

CHAOS RETURNS
OCT. 25 | 8PM ET

❌

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Valiant ‘Love Wins’ Dorian @valiantdorian.bsky.social · 16h

Happy 2nd Anniversary to my beloved husband @maxdaisy.bsky.social 🐻❤️

Being married has been the greatest joy and I’m so blessed to share it with my incredible, strong, kind and loving husband. I can’t wait for us to finally be in the same time zone and spend the rest of our lives together 🥺

Pictured is Valiant Dorian with Max Daisy on their wedding day surrounded by friends in a beautiful cosy autumnal background

Pictured is Valiant Dorian with Max Daisy on their wedding day holding hands in a beautiful cosy autumnal background

Pictured is Valiant Dorian with Max Daisy on their wedding day kissing in a beautiful cosy autumnal background

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Cai K 𓄿 𝖈𝖔𝖜𝖇𝖔𝖞 𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖎𝖉.𝖞𝖊𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖜. @estelofimladris.bsky.social · 4d

Every reflection of you I've shown with love
Reflects back on me in your face in pain
We who were all one
Shattered apart again
But the great thing is we still hold each other
And the terrible thing is we still are each other

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 5d

You can trust this face.

This is a face you can trust.

This is the face of a Game Master who will be SO nice and kind to their players as we reconvene for the first time in 3+ months. 😇✨

Join me now for the Bar at the End of the World at twitch.tv/TransplanarRPG!

Connie grins with their mouth open, holding a thumbs up against their home office. Connie is a Chinese person with short black hair shaved on the sides wearing black over the ear headphones, square glasses, and a green collared button up shirt patterned with small white dots.

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Valiant ‘Love Wins’ Dorian @valiantdorian.bsky.social · 5d

❌𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖢𝗁𝖺𝗈𝗌 𝖯𝗋𝗈𝗍𝗈𝖼𝗈𝗅 𝗂𝗌 𝖮𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝖺𝗅❌

Mission ???: Not Applicable

Strike Team Nova-- No, Nova has made a leap of faith after to save themselves and each other. Now, they are...by Fate, where are they now?

Where will they go?

LIVE NOW!
❌twitch.tv/transplanarrpg❌

A promotional graphic for Transplanar RPG’s Interlude Episode. The graphic features a black background with dust particles, glowing white text down the center line, a red X, and cropped horizontal strips of professional headshots, centered on and solely revealing the eyes. The photos are of Valiant Dorian, Connie Chang, Zo Williams, Jonathan Mendoza, Cai Kagawa, and Samm Star. Text across each strip reads, "THE BAR AT THE END OF THE WORLD." Text at the bottom of the graphic reads, "Saturday Oct 4th @ 8pm ET. Arc Interlude. Twitch.Tv/TransplanarRPG."

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JT Havoc, but spooky 𐚁.˚⊹ ࣪𓉸 ࣪⊹ @jthavoc.bsky.social · 6d

Finished comm for @kevincasas.bsky.social !!
So happy to work on Noah again!! 🐺✨

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 6d

This ARC INTERLUDE features:

🪐 @byconniechang.bsky.social as GM
🍂 @estelofimladris.bsky.social as Xainan
🕰️ @lusttforlifeex.bsky.social as Lumièra
🦌 @valiantdorian.bsky.social as Seir
♣️ @ryomasa.bsky.social as [REDACTED]
🎲 @radicalzo.bsky.social as Kimani

🌙 @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social as Producer

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 6d

❌ INTERLUDE TOMORROW ❌

The Hanged Man confronts a ghost,
The Star finds the space between,
The Chariot surges onward,
and The Hermit tries to forget.

♦️♠️♥️♣️

Our hiatus ends TOMORROW (10/4) at 8pm ET with a very special episode of THE CHAOS PROTOCOL. Come for a meal — and stay for the memories.

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Valiant ‘Love Wins’ Dorian @valiantdorian.bsky.social · 7d

I got to play a character that is deeply Akaza-coded and that felt REALLY FUN! I do not often play characters aligned this way but I am enjoying the change of pace

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 7d

As trans creators of color, we’re always on the lookout for cool projects by fellow marginalized artists.

The Black Market Guide to Immortality offers a decadently necromantic setting based on Korean, Chinese, and Japanese mythos — and it’s made by East Asian folks!

💀 bit.ly/BlackMarketGuide 💀

ALT: A Way of Transcendence monk sits cross-legged atop a throne of red flesh that unfurls from the unzipped backs of six headless worshipers arranged in a circle underneath them, facing outward, like an organic flower in bloom. The monk is lithe and lean, the top half of their head covered in a flower-like fleshy crown with four staring eyes. Their mouth is visible and smirking. Sleek fleshy armor adorns their torso, shoulders, forearms, and legs in a dark blue color, with exposed organic flesh in a pale white shade. Six small wings unfurl from their back, forming a lotus blossom shape with staring red eyes that point in various directions. Text at the bottom reads: “The Monk. Evolution, immortality, perfection. Maeters.”

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Cai K 𓄿 𝖈𝖔𝖜𝖇𝖔𝖞 𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖎𝖉.𝖞𝖊𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖜. @estelofimladris.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely this!!

When people ask me what to support that authentically shares East Asian culture in TTRPGs, @nineheavenspress.bsky.social is one of the ONLY examples with writers bringing their own culture to an East Asian storytelling to the table!!

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J @rabentanz.bsky.social · 8d

very excited to meet mr. pridesire 🙏

#criticalrolefanart
[ #criticalrole | #art ]

portrait of travis willingham's character for the fourth campaign

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 8d

It has always been our ethos to stand against racism, fascism, and colonialism, and we’re not stopping now. As artists, radical imagination is our tool for carving better worlds into existence — worlds where everyone can live in prosperity and dignity.

Hope is a weapon. Let’s wield it together.

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 9d

WE'RE (ALMOST) BACK FROM HIATUS! 📣

Need to catch up on The Chaos Protocol before Saturday? Want a reminder of what happened the last time we were live... months ago? 😅

You're in luck! You can find succinct, one page recaps of every CHAOS episode and a full character appendix at bit.ly/ChaosRecap!

Transplanar RPG: THE CHAOS PROTOCOL RECAP

THE CHAOS PROTOCOL - RECAP DOCUMENT - Art by @Crowesn. Transplanar RPG is an all-transgender, people of color-led dark fantasy TTRPG show set in an original non-colonial, anti-orientalist multivers...

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 10d

What news on the winds? 🍃

We are so proud to share that GODKILLER: Last Hope picked up the award for Best Costuming & Makeup at the @njwebfest.bsky.social — and @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social was awarded Best Player Performance in the Video AP category for their work as Litany!

We’re feelin’ the love!!

A photo of Sea and Connie standing in front of the New Jersey Web Fest banner, holding awards. They are both wearing black outfits with white and gold detailing, and matching black masks. Sea wears a gold glasses chain and a long black dress revealing one arm covered in tattoos, while connie wears a high necked black top and a long black and white striped jacket, gold earrings, and a huadian.

A photo of Sea and Connie standing in front of a large screen and a microphone at the New Jersey Web Fest, holding an award. They are both wearing black outfits with white and gold detailing, and matching black masks. Sea wears a gold glasses chain and a long black dress revealing one arm covered in tattoos, while connie wears a high necked black top and a long black and white striped jacket, gold earrings, and a huadian. They are both facing to the left with a speaker and large gala space behind them.

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 9d

our GM looks like this so our award can look like that 🥰

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Valiant ‘Love Wins’ Dorian @valiantdorian.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! I can’t wait to get back to my usual routine 😭😭

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kani @kankanik.bsky.social · 15d

#dragonage my beloved 🥹

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Fail & Fortune @failnfortune.bsky.social · Sep 5

Be our guest!
Be our guest!
Tell your fails, confess your mess,
Laugh through audio distress!

If you're a TTRPG podcaster with tales of chaos, heartbreak, or critically failed audio,
Fail & Fortune wants YOU.

DMs are open. Goblins are listening.
#TTRPG #actualplay #FailAndFortune
#castingcall

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Bard Rock Network of Shows @bardrockcafe.com · 14d

New #TTRPG #Castingcall

In Mask and Receive, players will become superheroes in a retro futuristic alternative 1947 using Fate Core by @evilhat.bsky.social

With the world's leading superhero team lost in a recent crisis, a surviving hero recruits and attempts to reform villains to fill the void

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Valiant ‘Love Wins’ Dorian @valiantdorian.bsky.social · 10d

finally I’m back… traveling is so stressful

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stellaluna 🔜 PAX Unplugged @stellaluna.tv · 13d

Seeking performers for a paid 4-episode mini-series of CALL TO POWER, a dark high fantasy game about strife and hope. What came of dust will return to dust.

This casting call closes October 6th.

Apply: forms.gle/GH7cT5Q7Meyp...
Sponsored by @projecthedron.bsky.social 🔥

#TTRPG #Casting

Call To Power: a dark High Fantasy game of Strife and Hope. Seeking performers for a sponsored 4-episode livestreamed mini series of "Call To Power" - to be livestreamed @ twitch.tv/stellaluna on Saturdays October 18, October 25, November 1, November 8 at 3pm Eastern. What came of dust will return to dust. Sponsored by Hedron.

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, hey there @njwebfest.bsky.social! Are you up for a little divine heresy, vicious transformation, and a few rounds of parental grief? ❤️‍🔥

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Cai K 𓄿 𝖈𝖔𝖜𝖇𝖔𝖞 𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖎𝖉.𝖞𝖊𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖜. @estelofimladris.bsky.social · 13d

The Home We Remember asks you to define your player character through poetry and memory.

Like all identiy, these bonds to sounds, smells, etc, are mutable as you explore who you are and the memories that make you, your Home, and your Community.

🫀 tendervicious studios @tendervicious.com · 17d

in partnership w/ @frivolousbear.com, The Home We Remember's Ashcan is OUT NOW!

it's an introspective, tarot-based lyric #TTRPG of magical realism.

today, let's talk about what character advancement looks like in a world where backwards is forwards.

🏠 www.frivolousbearstudios.com/store/p/home...

The Home We Remember (Ashcan Edition) — Frivolous Bear Studios

The Home We Remember is an introspective lyric TTRPG of magical realism. It is a roleplaying game about imperfect memory, identity, and community.

www.frivolousbearstudios.com

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 15d

THE BAR AT THE END OF THE WORLD hosts a variety of galactic outlaws and scoundrels in a well-loved tavern of memories and meals.

Please welcome our guest players for our ARC INTERLUDE — @ryomasa.bsky.social & @radicalzo.bsky.social.

The Hermit and the Hitchhiker draw their cards on October 4th. ❌

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