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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Aug 31

The ENNIE-winning Uncaged Goddesses is in a HUMBLE BUNDLE??? Being advertised next to Persona 5 Royal?? I’m in a daydream and the deal is one too www.humblebundle.com/books/dungeo...

Humble RPG Bundle: Dungeon Master’s Guild Top Content from the D&D Community

Get the latest and greatest campaigns for your Dungeons & Dragons adventures today and help support charity with your purchase!

www.humblebundle.com

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Aug 21

After watching a 10+ hour subtitled foreign drama you should be able to count it toward your Goodreads book goal tbh

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · Apr 18

Don't wait for the Player's Handbook 2! We've got all your species and subclasses updated for 2024 right here!

www.dmsguild.com/product/5192...

#DnD #DnD5e #ttrpg

2024 Revivified, 69 updated subclasses, 42 updated species. No species or subclass left behind!

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Apr 1

I have a solo game in here with gorgeous art! Build a community by making a stew 🥘

Unbound Studios @unboundstudios.bsky.social · Apr 1

The new #UnboundZine is here! Set your table for ✨️one✨️ and grab three unique solo games, including one #Dragonbane scenario.

Unbound Zine is an indie publication where creators get an equal revenue share. Your support helps us directly.

#ttrpg #indiegames

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

Unbound Zine #4: Table For One - Solo Games - Unbound Studios | DriveThruRPG

Table For One? The hardest part about tabletop roleplaying games isn’t learning the mechanics, or getting the perfect dice set for your new character, or even forming an in-character group with wildly...

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Mar 19

If open to relocation UK unis often (including mine) have research and delivery roles in public health and will often sponsor (NHS too). The UK is similarly slowing down on aid investment but nowhere near what happened to USAID. It’s not my area but if you want a few places to start let me know!

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · Mar 18

My partner was laid off from her job of 17 years because it was primarily USAID funded.

So, starting today, I am offering all of my solo titles, a $185 value for $39.95 The bundle sale will continue until she or I find something to replace her salary.

#ttrpg #dnd

www.dmsguild.com/product/5122...

Every Solo Title [BUNDLE] - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

This special bundle product contains the following titles.A Motley Crew: The Velkynvelve Prisoners as PCs for Out of the

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Feb 27

If any mutuals are looking at US>UK immigration and have questions I’m happy to have a conversation (and potentially help you settle in, send job opps, go to flat viewings, etc.).

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Sebastian Yūe 💜🧡 @sebastianyue.bsky.social · Feb 20

As seen in Destructoid and Polygon, SUBCLASSES REVIVIFIED is a Gold best-seller packed with improvements to all your favourite 5e subclasses! Get 69 subclasses updated for D&D (2024) on @dmsguild.com

www.dmsguild.com/pro...

Subclasses Revivified - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Subclasses Revivified - Don't leave your characters behind! Over half of all 5e subclasses didn't make it into the 2024 Player's Handbook, but

www.dmsguild.com

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Feb 10

Realized days after passing my UK driving theory test that it didn’t ask me at all about reflective stud colors and I studied them so intently 🙈

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Feb 9

I admittedly played the whole game just for the Dondoko “mini”game, spent the hours grinding, and have never gone back 🤣 honestly I don’t know how I feel about being good at UFO Catcher now but here we are

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Feb 9

No, completing every single Bucket List objective in Infinite Wealth didn’t have an achievement, an in-game benefit, or any remark whatsoever. Yes, I did have to learn how to play mahjong and spent 50 hours on completionism. But I feel like I proved to some pixels that life is worth living, so there

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Dungeon Masters Guild @dmsguild.com · Feb 1

An Owl and a Bear Had a Little Baby is available now.

Get it here: tinyurl.com/bdd6vftz

A sequel to the Adamantine-bestselling An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby. 32 New and Expanded Parentages and a Whole Host of New Upbringings!

#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpgs

An Owl and a Bear Had a Little Baby at DMsGuild.com

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V.J. Harris | vjhcreations @vjhcreations.bsky.social · Jan 31

IT'S HERE! An Owl and a Bear Had a Little Baby is the 4th installment in the Adamantine Best Selling series An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby! If you or your players ever wanted to play an owl bear, a mouse, or even a zorbo, this new addition lets you do it!

https://buff.ly/42C3b81

Background: slightly faded green bamboo forest with a beam of light in the middle

Forefrount: On the left hand side is a light brown and white owl with small brown spots on the chekst and flecks of brown on the inner white of the left ring and outter brown of the right wing. the owl is looking down at the panda owl bear

In the middle a black and white panda owl bear with bright orange eyes and a beak sitting on its butt and reaching out to the panda on the right side of the image.

On the right hand side a panda bear (black and whiote coloring) looks down at the owl bear reaching out to it.

On the bottom of the page are five read apples scattered around.

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · Jan 31

It's live!

www.dmsguild.com/product/5108...

The fourth book in the An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby series is finally here!

#ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e

In a bamboo forest, an eastern grass owl parent and a giant panda parent hold their owlbear cub on the cover of An Owl and a Bear Had a Little Baby

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · Jan 26

Get ready. @vjhcreations.bsky.social and I have been cooking up something

among bamboo stalks, an owl parent and a giant panda parent look down at their owlbear cub

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Jan 8

This is me begging otherwise rational people to stop titling conference talks, workshops, etc. “Make X Great Again.” It’s not cute, it’s not clever, and it’s curating an audience—is it the audience you want?

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · Dec 3

The Black Friday sale is over, but you can still get $7 off Subclasses Revivified with this special discount link!

www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?d...

#ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e

An armored and caped figure strides away from a fiery background while leading an army and holding a lance on the cover of Subclasses Revivified.

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Dec 3

PlayStation updated their PS5 opening graphic to be nostalgic for their 30th anniversary and PHEW it is. I hadn’t heard that music in years but get in loser we’re playing Spyro

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Dec 2

Definitely a game I wish I could wipe my memory of and play again fresh—hope you enjoy!! The music and the atmosphere are great, as are the game mechanics and characters and basically all of it haha

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Dec 2

It is once again essential to BEG Andrew Hozier Byrne for a Christmas album and I hope you all will join me in this annual, futile endeavor

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · Nov 29

Black Friday sale on the Dungeon Masters Guild! Get 30% off Gold-bestseller Subclasses Revivified and play any subclass you want with the 2024 rules!

www.dmsguild.com/product/4980...

#ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e

Subclasses Revivified - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Don't leave your characters behind! Over half of all 5e subclasses didn't make it into the 2024 Player's Handbook, but

www.dmsguild.com

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Nov 29

As thanksgiving rolls around and the McElroys embark on a sacred annual tradition with Til Death Do Us Blart I must once again reflect that everything I have ever learned about Paul Blart has been against my will and I truly believe they are microdosing a circle of hell

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Nov 22

I wrote the paladin subclasses for this update!!

Polygon @polygon.com · Nov 20

Dungeons & Dragons subclasses sync up with 2024 rules in Subclasses Revivified

Dungeons & Dragons subclasses just got a major facelift to fit D&D 2024

You can still play your favorite subclass, even if it didn’t make it into the new Player’s Handbook

buff.ly

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Sarah Madsen @unfetteredmuse.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hey, @polygon.com wrote an article about the #DnD Subclasses Revivified project I was a part of! Take a look!

www.polygon.com/dnd-dungeons...

Dungeons & Dragons subclasses just got a major facelift to fit D&D 2024

You can still play your favorite subclass, even if it didn’t make it into the new Player’s Handbook

www.polygon.com

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Ashton Duncan @ashtonnduncan.bsky.social · Nov 18

#veilguardspoilers every codex entry and regret feels that moment in the Doctor Who Shakespeare episode where he says “57 academics just punched the air.” Morrigan casually confirms a theory I’ve had since DA2 with a single line of dialogue??? it is indescribably satisfying