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Damon Bradshaw
@damonbradshaw.bsky.social
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I'm your game dad, and you're doing great, kiddo

A (real) dad, teacher, musician, producer, engineer, and game system monkey. I IMPLORE you to play something besides just D&D!
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A vintage Burma-Shave billboard against a blue sky with fluffy white clouds in the desert.
June 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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@danielsolis.bsky.social are you at my work today???
June 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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And I just want to point out the production quality of this box set box: look at the corners--they're rounded. Outstanding.

I wish ALL games came with boxes

#TTRPG #IndieRPGs #TabletopRPGs
The edge of the Land of Eem Box Set box, showing a rounded corner and edge.
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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And a shirt! Resting Litch Face!
Front of a black t-shirt with a skeletal fiend wearing a hood, and the words "RESTING LICH FACE".
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Accessories: the Tray and the map.
The Land of Eem meeples, dice, and adventuring supplies box/tray, with a bag of meeples featuring characters from the Rickety Stitch comics, and a yellow and pink patch of a caterpillar cat. The box/tray is meant to be a dice tray and space for gaming supplies. The Mucklands Map, a board-game board style 6xA5 full-color hex map of the Mucklands. Amazing
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The Core Rulebook.
The Land of Eem Core Rulebook cover, showing the same image as the front of the Box Set box.
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The Box Set box.
Spines of the books in the boxed set: a dark blue Core Rulebook; a maroon Bestiary (Volume One); a green Mucklands Sandbox Campaign Setting book, a light blue Meeples, Dice, and Adventuring Supplies box, and a folded-up map. The reverse of the cover, a painting showing adventurers rushing across a swamp bridge with beasts flying overhead and some sort of sea monster lurking below. The spine of the box set box, yellow title letters reading "Land of Eem" with a party of armed heroes below. The top of the box set box, a trio of heroes: a gnome with a spear and pointy yellow hat, a dog creature in adventure clothes packing a bow and quiver, and a tall frog warrior with a big sword over his shoulder.
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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And whoo boy- Land of Eem. I've been waiting for this one for a while, and am not disappointed.

I am super happy to have backed this crowdfunding project from @landofeem.bsky.social

Check all this stuff out:

#TTRPG #IndieRPGs #TabletopRPGs
The Land of Eem Deluxe Edition Boxed Set cover: a gorgeous painted image of a group of adventurers on a ledge in front of a stone dungeon doorway, with a dragon and some other nasty beasts closing in. The cover has shiny gold trim on a sturdy blue box.
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Tiny Fables, by @josiahmoore.bsky.social. This is a setting/sandbox adventure for Mausritter, which I am yet to play but have faithfully bought all of the merch for.

Just look at all this stuff.

This was crowdfunded and an insta-back.

#TTRPG #IndieRPGs #TabletopRPGs
The Tiny Fables game supplement, a zine-sized booklet with clean, simple, hand-drawn animals surrounded by flowers and trees. Game accessories surround the book, including a stack of maps, a postcard, a bunch of equipment cards, blank character sheets, and a journal, all in the same simple, straightforward pleasing art style.
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Jukebox, the Karaoke Musical Tabletop Roleplaying Game, by Lyla McBeath Fujiwara (be careful saying her neame in a theater) et al.

This was crowdfunded and an insta-back for me.

#TTRPG #IndieRPGs #TabletopRPGs
The cover of Jukebox, The Karaoke Musical Tabletop Roleplaying Game, made to look like a PLAYBILL theatre program complete with the yellow banner across the top, and nine frames of various colorful characters in states of singing below: a person in a suit and bowtie holding a microphone; a cute bespectacled waitress holding a menu; an astronaut with a handheld microphone; a person in a sari with big earrings and other jewelry striking a dancing pose, a dark-skinned woman with big hair and enormous earrings and a feather boa in the center; a pale-skinned mad-scientist type with goggles and a bolo tie; a tuxedo cat holding a conducting baton; a tall bald dark-skinned man holding a volleyball; and a small street-urchin type child with lederhosen and some kind of European hat.
March 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Amazing, thank you @tessfowler.bsky.social !
A detailed drawing of Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek Deep Space Nine holding his baseball and looking contemplative
February 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Some of us must settle for just doing our best
February 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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It's like a little solo hexcrawl!

Or well, it isn't LIKE a little solo hexcrawl, it IS a little solo hexcrawl.

WILL PLAY TOMORROW

#indiegames
January 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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#3 Unreliable Wizard, from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social !

This was an impulse buy, as I had been to my FLGS 3-4 times and hadn't seen anything that I really was looking for, but the art, the theme, the game play, all seems right up my alley.
January 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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It was $9.95, from Cheshire Cat, in Columbia, MO.

I bought it in the winter of 1993, just after the holidays (I think it may have been the same day I saw Mask of the Phantasm with my friend Andy).

#TTRPG #FLGS
January 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I LOVE the MEGS system. This is the only game I had from the DC Heroes Mayfair days (though I went in on the recent Kickstarter for more than I'd like to admit).

Some day, I'll do a deep dive into exactly how I feel about MEGS and how it influenced what kind of roleplaying gamer I am.
The acknowledgments page of the Batman Role-Playing Game published by Mayfair Games Inc in 1989.
January 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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A game from my shelf:

Batman Role-Playing Game, 2nd Edition, 1989.

This was the third game that I had played a significant amount of, and it taught me a lot about how RPGs work.

#TTRPGs #tabletoprpgs #rpgs #Batman #DCComics #CryptozoicGames
Cover of the Batman Role-Playing Game, slightly beat-up, from Mayfair Games Inc. A white price-tag that reads "CHESHIRE CAT" notes that it was $9.95. The back cover of the Batman Role-Playing Game, showing the Joker laughing (HA HA HA HA HA) and a very 1980s Batman looking on disapprovingly.
January 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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And look what I stashed inside! Star Wars stamps from spring of 2007, bought a few weeks after my first kid was born, for $6 something.

If you believe the eBay listings, they're either worth like $5 or maybe up to $1000!

(definitely not $1000)
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I'm not sure how I scored a first printing, four years after it came out, but there it is. Also, peep the price on this: a cool $20. DEFINITELY got my money's worth out of this.

I don't remember for sure, but I probably bought this from Cheshire Cat in Columbia, MO.

#TTRPG #RPGs #StarWars
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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When I got this, in probably 1991, I was SO EXCITED.

I had GMed D&D for my friends, and couldn't wait to play this.

And we played it A LOT, note how beat up and shelf-worn the covers are.

#TTRPG #RPGs #StarWars #WestEndGames #WEG
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Random RPG from my shelf:

(FYI, this is turning out to be not random... This is essentially the chronological order of RPGs that I've played... I'll be able to track them for the first few, but will probably quickly lose track of which is next)

Star Wars 1st Edition, from West End Games.

#TTRPG
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I was on a knights and armor kick after buying Pendragon 6th edition last year, and this one from Gallant Knight was an auto-back.

I haven't gotten to dig in yet, but it looks fantastic.

This delivered in early January.
The back cover of the Siege Perilous book, and the back of the companion tarot deck box. Quotes are "What happiness to reign a lonely king?" by Alfred, Lord tennyson, from Idylls of the King, and "Only fools want to be great," by T.H. White, from The Once and Future King.
January 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#2 Siege Perilous, by @gallantknightgames.com

#TTRPG #IndieGames #SiegePerilous #KingArthur #arthurian #SoloRPGs #journalingRPGs

Siege Perilous is a solo game set in the age of Arthur and uses a GEORGOUS custom tarot deck for resolution.
The front of the Siege Perilous tarot solo roleplaying game from Gallant Knight Games. The subtitle is "In the Age of Arthur." The image shows a misty scene of the Sword in the Stone. Next to it is the box for the Siege Perilous tarot deck.
January 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Blister Critters was a Kickstarter project, and it delivered early January. It's a gorgeous boxed set (I love boxed sets). The game seems to be Redwall meets TMNT meets Gamma World with a healthy dash of Saturday Morning Cartoons and I can get completely behind that. Can't wait to try it out.
The back of the Blister Critters boxed set box. Among other imagery is a mutant cat, shooting laser beams out of its eyes at a hapless rat, who is being zapped so you can see his skeleton. The sub title reads, "Die a Critter or live long enough to see yourself become a Beast"
January 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#1 Blister Critters by @oddgobgames.bsky.social and @stillfleet.bsky.social

#TTRPG #IndieGames #BlisterCritters
Colorful cover of the Blister Critters RPG boxed set on a desk, showing a mutated, blister and spike-covered snake fighting an anthropomorphic mouse wielding a broken knife as a weapon and wearing a bottlecap as a helmet.
January 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM