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If I'm not reading manga or a fantasy/sci-fi book, I'm probably playing D&D or walking my puppy!
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ravennowithtea.bsky.social
goodest bois adventuring duo 💕

🌿 #art #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart
fanart illustration of critical role campaign 4 characters wulferic the wolf and pin the fox exploring a sun dappled forest together
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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tylerwalpole.bsky.social
Mighty Nein is so freaking good.
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
raffetaffy.bsky.social
The challenges of Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays…my #d&d and #cosmererpg games keep getting cancelled 😭
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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friede.bsky.social
The first chapter of my book is titled “home game” and what it’s really about is authenticity — and how folks find a lot of ways of talking about what feels authentic without using that word.
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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friede.bsky.social
No one on earth ever de-escalated a situation by saying “calm down” or “it’s not that deep”
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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samriegel.bsky.social
SNEEQ PEEQ! #themightynein www.ign.com/videos/the-m...
The Mighty Nein Exclusive Clip | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 - IGN
The Mighty Nein follows a group of fugitives and outcasts, bound by secrets and scars. But when a powerful arcane relic known as "The Beacon" falls into dangerous hands, they must learn to w...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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galacticjonah.bsky.social
/Destiny brings together the strangest of people.../

Probably my most ambitious group piece yet, just based on pure numbers - likely the only one I'll do for this campaign, oof -- 13 is a lot, folks!!!
(As usual the designs have my own vague spin on them 🫶)

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart
Digital Illustration of all 13 player characters from Critical Role Campaign four. They are all rendered in a sketchy line style and coloured in reds, blues and greens.
October 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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rascal.news
Reshare: The entire field of public health emergency preparedness is built upon the understanding that we cannot avoid bad odds for eternity. The question is how will we respond.

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Preparing for Public Health Disasters With Tabletop Games
What can we learn from a wargame about combating illness?
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October 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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eyeofthenewt.bsky.social
help there is so many of them
#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart
digital drawing of 8 characters from Critical Role Campaign 4. the background is dark and they are in shades of muted green/orange/yellow. Characters left to right: Bolaire, Occtis, Wicander, Azune, Tyrrany, Kattigan, Julien, Teor. same drawign but now monochrome on cream coloured background. the lineart is stylised, expressive and messy and the brush used is thin, scratchy and with one set line thickness.
October 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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blacksalander.bsky.social
Thimble 😭

#Criticalrole #CriticalRoleSpoliers
October 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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vampiresnvino.bsky.social
Tired of sending your money to studios, networks, and streaming giants who cave to fascists? Watch and support TTRPG actual plays, especially those creating stories that move, comfort, and inspire us
September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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mainmandarin.bsky.social
Bro you can’t give up. You were born in a world that has onions AND garlic. You gotta hang in there it's worth it
September 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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crowva.bsky.social
Adventurers of Aramán

|| #art #artsky #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #lineart #dnd #dndart #fanart #crowva ||
Digital Illustration of all 13 characters from critical role's campaign four with the shape of a silver d20 behind them. Created by Crowva
September 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
I think we should all let ourselves have a moment of pride and hope. They brought Kimmel back without forcing him to apologize or donate to Kirk’s wife, which was their stipulation at first.

Collective action, protesting, and boycotts forced their hand.

Celebrate the wins!!
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now."

ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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luiscarazo.bsky.social
It's Hispanic Heritage Month in the US & w/the buzz for CR campaign 4, I'd love to invite you all to join us in Alma on our Tales Unrolled show✨

See what those who are watching have to say about our story that blends pan-Latin American folklore into dungeons and dragons ✨
September 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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friede.bsky.social
I think about this a lot, as I’ve found it to be true.

That said (I love nuance) what has struck me over time:

1. You can’t help if you’re drained
2. Impact of expectations (either from habituation or combo of gender/race/etc)
3. Ensuring right kind of help
4. Some folks have defenses around help!
jayvanbavel.bsky.social Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Sep 3
Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved

A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
September 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
raffetaffy.bsky.social
What are your top 5 #TTRPG settings?

As a fan who learned from Adventure Zone/Critical Role, 5e settings inspired me. But I mostly prefer to play in the world I created with my groups.

1️⃣ Exandria (Critical Role)
2️⃣ Forgotten Realms
3️⃣ Spelljammer
4️⃣ Roshar (Cosmere RPG)
5️⃣ Radiant Citadel
onlyplaywizards.com John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 ➡️OrcaCon @onlyplaywizards.com · Sep 3
What are your Top 5 #TTRPG settings?

In no particular order.

1️⃣ Aberrant
2️⃣ Mutant Chronicles
3️⃣ Ravenloft: Domains of Dread (2nd Ed.)
4️⃣ L5R/7th Sea/Burning Sands were all one
5️⃣ Original World of Darkness
pocgamer.com POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · Sep 3
What are your Top 5 #TTRPG settings?

In no particular order, but matching format!

1️⃣ Original World of Darkness
2️⃣ Poseidon (Blue Planet)
3️⃣ The unnamed default world created in 3/3.5e D&D
4️⃣ 3rd Imperium (Traveller)
5️⃣ Terra Nova (Heavy Gear)

This list probably doesn't surprise too many people.
September 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
raffetaffy.bsky.social
What a tiring but rewardingly nerdy week! Since last Tuesday, I have had the pleasure of playing D&D (x3), Daggerheart, and now the Cosmere RPG. So grateful to have nerdy friends and I’m so ready for a break. Till the next game #ttrpg
September 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
Writing a GM section is hard.

So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go
WHAT DOES BEING A GAMESMASTER INVOLVE? As Gamesmaster, you’ll have a lot of different roles to play. Here are some of them in no particular order; you’ll adopt all, some, more, or none of these during every single session. You don’t have to be all of these things all at once, nor do you have to do all of them yourself - when you’re starting out, as long as players are getting the chance to roll dice and mess around they’ll probably still have fun. As you play more, you’ll find which ones you enjoy and which ones you don’t, and you’ll find your style. FUN ADMINISTRATOR If it wasn’t for you, this game would never happen. You arranged a time and date. You reserved the back room in the pub to play. You helped everyone make their characters. You’re the first person they talk to if they can’t make it to a game, and you’re the final judge as to whether a session goes ahead as planned or must be rescheduled. You’re taking responsibility for all the background details that let the foreground details - the game - work. PETTY GOD This is your world. We just described it in loose terms - it’s coming out of your mouth, and you’re making all the decisions. You can adjust numerical values up and down as you wish. You can wipe cities, countries, concepts off the map entirely if you don’t like them. You alone determine whether things are possible or impossible, and you can dictate how dangerous a given task is with ease. Nothing happens unless you want it to. The player characters are scrubbing about in this world of yours, and you graciously let them do so, because they’re having fun. And so are you; you call the shots, you set the boundaries, you show them the fantastic world you’ve dreamed into being. ORACLE You are the sole focus of interaction that the players have with the game. In one direction, you are the source of all information about the fiction at the table: so if they want to know what colour a non-player character’s eyes are, they have to ask you and you’re beholden to tell them, or tell them how their characters could find out. In the other direction, you are the fuzzy authority that stands between every player and us, the designers of the game, and therefore the interpreter of the rules. All fictional and mechanical action goes through you. A CAST OF THOUSANDS You are everyone else in the world that isn’t a player character. You invent and then adopt their mannerisms, you spin together obvious motivations and secret desires, and you flip between your charges with ease. Sure: many of their voices might sound … TOUR GUIDE We’ve written a guidebook for a world that doesn’t exist, and you’re the tour guide who’s leading slack-jawed holidaymakers around that world. You know everything there is to know about the game world - and if you don’t know, you can make it up, and that’s just as good. You’re relentlessly enthusiastic, you give evocative descriptions, and you clue the players into what’s interesting or important - and you know all the best places to take them, too, so they’ll experience the world as best they can. WET COMPUTER At the core of every roleplaying game is a set of rules that power the experience, and you are the fallible, non-silicate computer on which these rules run. You know the rules, you enforce them (or ignore them, as you see fit), and you remind players of how best to interact with them. Players might use some bits themselves - rolling to hit, for example, or keeping track of their character’s health - but you’re the ultimate authority on what rule to use when. CON ARTIST Players? Bunch of feckless rubes. Look at them, wide-eyed and open-mouthed: they think this is a living, breathing world. They think that you’ve got this all written down, like some kind of Tolkien; they couldn’t be more wrong. You’re just making it up on the fly. There’s nothing behind the curtain, no master plan, no wheels within wheels: just you, regurgitating some half-remembered details about Bloodborne and talking about bones breaking a lot because that makes them wince. They’ll buy anything you sell ‘em. WORKSHOP LEADER You don’t have all the answers, but you know where to find them: inside the players’ heads. You ask them questions like “Who are we meeting here?” “What’s the most dangerous thing that awaits you on your journey?” “Which one of you does this guy hate the most?” and then you listen to the answers and incorporate them into the story. You love it - it saves work, saves time, and means that the players are more involved and engaged than ever. Involved and enga… DRUMMER The drummer sets the pace. In a band, they dictate the song’s tempo. In a regiment, they dictate the marching speed. (In a marching band they do both, presumably.) You’re in charge of saying when things begin and end, how long a scene takes to play out, how long a non-player character waffles on about their problems, how descriptive an average description is, and so on. You can cut away from situations and cut back later, you can put the pressure on players to make a decision, or you can leave them to chat to one another unobstructed as the hours roll by. ABSOLUTE BASTARD You’re going to kill them. You’ve trapped them in your lair. They dared to step up and try to defeat your monsters, overthrow your villains, and now they’re on the back foot. Smash them to fucking bits. Throw ‘em through a window, rip off arms and legs, take grim pleasure when their luck turns against them. No-one gets anywhere by being nice all the time - and the players don’t want you to be nice all the time. They want their characters to get beaten up, humiliated, murdered, hung-drawn-and-quartered. You know that this is a masochistic endeavour and you are happy to indulge them. TORTURED ARTIST You always wanted to be creative, and this is your outlet. You’ve spun a world of torment and tragedy (or light-hearted slapstick, depending on the game) for your players to explore - or crafted a complex story within someone else’s, full of betrayals and comeuppances and juicy details. You’ve taken the time to make something clever and you can’t wait for your friends to admire it; what matters most is getting the artistic intent of your world across to the players so they can react appropriately. OBSESSIVE FAN Oh my god. You love the player characters so much. Like your favourite character in your favourite TV show, you’re fascinated to see what they’ll do next - and you can probably take a good guess at what it’ll be, because you know them so well. You get a bit sad when bad things happen to…
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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seaplaysrpg.bsky.social
horses are dragons are mechs. horse girls are dragon riders are mech pilots. do you understand?
August 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social

SPOILERS for The Wizard, the Witch & the Wild one!
The fully INKED version of The Great Bear.

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youtu.be/SskF6wGIge4
#WBN #WBNfanart #art #portrait #WWWSpoiler #wbnspoiler #www
August 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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estelofimladris.bsky.social
It has been zero days since I've seen a new boardgame inspired by Studio Ghibli that had zero Japanese creatives on it.

This one is clearly inspired by Spirited Away and is HEAVILY depending on kami as it's main story/design.

Anyway, please read Kashi and make this space better.
estelofimladris.bsky.social Cai K 𓄿 𝖈𝖔𝖜𝖇𝖔𝖞 𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖎𝖉.𝖞𝖊𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖜. @estelofimladris.bsky.social · Aug 9
これは貸しです。

Introducing Kashi 貸し, a guide to why "Ghibli-inspired" media without Japanese creatives is harmful. It includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture.

Learn. Share. Change.

kashi-info.carrd.co
August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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jasjuliet.bsky.social
Ame the Witch, her Fox familiar, and the Ink Demons Enzo and Cyril in pursuit of The Wizard Sky.
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#WorldsBeyondNumber
August 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM