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Hack Shack Games
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Just your average small tabletop gaming studio, doing the best they can to bring fresh ideas and resources to your table!
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 24d
HALFLIGHT HALLS: Campaign & Setting Starter
Now available as Pay-What-You-Want on DTRPG!

An Off-Beat Campaign Setting, designed to reward clever teamwork, bold heroics, and spectacularly bad ideas.

Compatible with Daggerheart.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Halflight Halls: Campaign & Setting Starter - Hack Shack Games | DriveThruRPG
Halflight Halls Campaign & Setting Starter An Off-Beat Campaign Setting, designed to reward clever teamwork, bold heroics, and spectacularly bad ideas. Inside you'll find: The Halflight Halls camp...
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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 8h
OK. Last time.
A D&D Stirge detaches after draining 10 HP of blood. Therefore HP are a measurable unit of blood (I estimate 200ml per HP).

Characters with high HP might have hundreds of liters contained in their bodies at high pressure. Even light nicks tend to spray anime-style.
It's science.
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 12h
Hey everyone, just a reminder, it's nap time.

Don't forget, you earned it. <3
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DodoBorne 🦤🗡️❤️ @dodoborne.com · 1d
Don't duck around with friendship 🦆

A small clip from the latest episode of Dodoborne: A #Daggerheart Actual Play Podcast featuring some amazing artwork by @paintedlight1.bsky.social

Listen to the rest on Dodoborne.com or wherever you get your podcasts!
#ttrpg #fantasty #art #clip
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 1d
Hope nothing fowls up their friendship...
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 1d
Can't wait to back this, and check it out!
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James J. Haeck @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social · 1d
the DREAD actual play is back!!! Back when I was a wee intern at Geek & Sundry, Ivan's DREAD show was the greatest actual play ever made... And now the maestro is back 👀
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Bex 🎃 @musicgamer460.bsky.social · 1d
www.kickstarter.com/projects/goo...

The Tales of Dread Kickstarter is live!!! This is not a drill!
Tales of Dread: The Cave
An immersive horror actual play featuring props, sets, and an all-star cast of players to tell a terrifying new story.
www.kickstarter.com
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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 1d
Forged in the Dark, you say?
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DriveThruRPG @drivethrurpg.com · 1d
The Ghost In The Shell TTRPG - Quickstart is available now from Mana Project Studio!

Get it here: tinyurl.com/ycyfk8kd

Built on a customized Forged in the Dark system, this game lets you create elite Public Security Section agents and dive into high-stakes missions. #TTRPGs
The Ghost In The Shell TTRPG - Quickstart is available now at DriveThruRPG.com
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Demiplane @demiplane.com · 1d
Together with @roll20.net, we are thrilled to release the FREE #Daggerheart Quickstart Package:

🗡️ Ready-to-play with exclusive maps from @mapdoctor.bsky.social (dynamic lighting + foreground layer!)
🗡️ 50+ tokens, portraits, and landscapes
🗡️ Handouts and more!

Play for free in the reply below! 👇
Daggerheart Play for Free New Maps, Quickstart Adventure on the VTT
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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 2d
.@infinitefreetime.com on MAKING ENEMIES: "The reason I feel so comfortable recommending what by rights ought to be a very niche book to everyone I know who reads is that Keith’s enthusiasm for game design and TTRPGs shines through every page of this book."

Read the review:
#REVIEW: Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, by Keith Ammann
We’ll begin with my absolute favorite thing for book reviews: Disclaimers!
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Shawn Merwin @shawnmerwin.bsky.social · 2d
Excited to see Dungeons of Drakkenheim for Daggerheart being announced. Monty and Kelly are amazing creators, and I love what I'm seeing coming from their collaboration thus far with Mike Underwood. This has a lot of potential to be truly groundbreaking: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dun...
Coming soon: Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart
The ENNIE Award winning adventure redesigned for Daggerheart.
www.kickstarter.com
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 2d
For the curious, another great series on adventure writing and TTRPG publishing is @josephrlewis.bsky.social's youtube. He walks through a lot of both general and specific topics, very useful stuff!
Writing RPG Adventures: What to Keep and What to Cut
YouTube video by Joseph R. Lewis
www.youtube.com
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d
Writhing scene of grotesque heads (ca. 1520) by Daniel Hopfer, a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking.

One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/grotesque-decoration-with-animal-heads/
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 3d
It really is an invaluable overview. I love that they didn't dance around how vague and "it depends" a lot of the choices can be either.

I'm still working towards the day I can afford developmental editors.. That'll be truly glorious. That'll come before offset press for sure.
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DownOnThePharm (Shrultist 🦐) @downonthepharm.bsky.social · 5d
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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 4d
If any Babylon 5 supergeeks want to plunder what looks like a space station full of resources, now's the time.
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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 4d
PART ONE

Twenty years ago, publishing entrepreneur Jaclyn Easton came to me with a risky but innovative idea: b5books.com, a publishing entity built around one show, Babylon 5, its participants and fans. This wouldn’t be what was usually done, aftermarket making-of books --
Babylon 5 Books is Closing Forever
Last chance ever to order B5 Books. Worldwide flat rate shipping for unlimited books is $45; USA is $9. We now offer ebooks and hardcovers.
B5Books.com
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Tabletop Optimist @tabletopoptimist.bsky.social · 4d
People spend more time talking about unimportant things they hate than they do talking about things they love. Social media would be a lot better if people spent time talking about things they love!
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 5d
Makes me wonder, what are the historically authentic eldritch horrors from beyond space and time which warp reality with the merest hint of their extension into our reality?

..Pinkertons? Singing Barbers? Oklahomans, where the wind comes sweeping down the range?..
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The Homebakery 🍰 Fun TTRPG Content @thehomebakery.bsky.social · 7d
Prepare yourself for Halloween with this spooky #DnD one shot 👻

With eldritch mysteries, new monsters, and fun puzzles, this one shot is bound to make your night spooktactular 🎃

So check it out below! 👇
buff.ly/Li3PhaC
A book titled What Lurks Beneath the Library stands next to a lantern in an autumnal scene. Fallen leaves are in front.
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 5d
Ahhh yeahhh all the brutal details on page layout, bleeding in the gutters, and hanging ligatures! #HardcorePublishingDeets

Wait a minute, I think you're saying I don't have to do all the jobs? All I need is good money to pay good people? Whoa.. Time to sell a Kidney.

Really amazing useful talk!!
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Alphastream @alphastream.bsky.social · 5d
How an RPG Book is Made, Part 2!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN0f...

How should a book be made? Find out which steps happen in which order and the pitfalls to avoid! Part 2 covers proofreading, layout, art, PDFs vs offset vs print-on-demand, and more!

#ttrpg #DnD #DrawSteel #Daggerheart
The title of the video is superimposed over a gaming battlemat, with several RPG books opened around the edge, including Forge of Foes, Daggerheart, Acquisitions Incorporated, Shadow of the Weird Wizard, Draw Steel, Alice is Missing, Shadowdark, The Monster Overhaul, and the 2024 D&D Monster Manual.
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Marc Moureau @marcmoureau.bsky.social · 13d
I've had the honor of creating the cover art for "Sacrebleu !", the first french adventure compliation for Shadowdark soon to be published by @arkhaneasylum.bsky.social.
Big thanks to Mathieu and @sendoshi.bsky.social for having me on board, and of course to Kelsey Dionne for such an amazing game !
Cover art in the style of a vintage comic book. A the bottom of a twisted staircase, a bold women clad in armor and wearing a white hooded cloak is holding a torch, a sword in her free hand, guiding her party inside an dark dungeon. She's followed by a goblin wizard holding an orb and a stout bearded warrior weilding a war hammer. On the foreground, a moustached elf is struggling to read a map. In the background an elf archer is about to shoot a weird winged creature emerging from the shadows. All around them, the dungeon is teeming with menacing creatures of all kind. Gargoyles, giant insects, distorted things with tentacles and many eyes. High above, the dungeon entrance looks like a gaping maw. There's a little rabbit scurrying inside its hole in the bottom right corner, reminding of the brand's name "Rabbit hole".
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 6d
This month's issue opens with a short essay about my love for earnest, personal, and vulnerable work.

In a way, art and design has never been smoother, easier, safer, or more transactional than it is now—rpgs included—but what I love most about tabletop...

www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...
The Explorateur: Issue #12
Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
www.explorersdesign.com
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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 7d
Protips, hot & fresh.
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Tabletop Arts Fund @tabletopartsfund.org · 8d
Previous winners have received more than 100 nominations and three dozen awards at festivals on four continents. Now it's your turn! The Tabletop Arts Fund is proud to announce our 2026 Actual Play Grants.

📅 Submissions close October 31, 2025.
👉 Apply now: apply.tabletoparts.fund/ActualPlay2026
Promotional graphic for the Tabletop Arts Fund 2026 Actual Play Grants. At the top center is the Tabletop Arts Fund logo, featuring a stylized book with a red d6 and yellow d10 on its pages, crossed by a pen and paintbrush inside a circle. The Text reads: 2026 Actual Play Grants “Open to any podcast or video actual play with at least three episodes released in 2025. Grants provide entry fees to all festivals in the 2026 Audio Fiction World Cup. Preference for all awards given to first-time festival participants and creators from marginalized backgrounds.” At the bottom, bold text states: Submissions close October 31, 2025 Link: https://apply.tabletoparts.fund/actualplay2026
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The Welsh DM - Wondrous Environments Kickstarter @thewelshdm.bsky.social · 7d
Less than 24 hours to go. The final Legendary backer tier is gone. And #WondrousEnvironments is speeding towards it's final stretch goal

As a sneaky peak, check out the many Regions that can be uncovered in the book below
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 8d
Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2
Poster for Conan the barbarian Poster for Flash Gordon Poster for Dune Poster for Rambo
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