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Alex | He/Him | composer, para-librarian, TTRPG designer | Gold ENNIE Award Winner :0
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yochaigal.bsky.social
Between Two Cons is happening!
We'll have a TTE page up very soon.

Save the date:
June 26th-27th, 2026
Norse Hall, Portland, OR
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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cairnrpg.com
Cairn Winter Newsletter is out!
sendy.cairnrpg.com/w/nYwgvSva6K...
Hello everyone! Winter has begun, and I've got a short round-up of new Cairn-things below for you all to check out, but I also wanted to mention a few in-house updates y'all may be interested in.
sendy.cairnrpg.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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soundsofbones.bsky.social
Made a short zine for the #PuzzleDungeonJam: Titansflute, a dungeon that's also a giant flute that characters can slowly return to functionality by solving wind and sound-based puzzles. I've written for #cairn before, but I believe this is the first one to be published. Check it out!
Titansflute by soundsofbones
A Puzzle Dungeon for Cairn 2e.
soundsofbones.itch.io
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
soundsofbones.bsky.social
Made a short zine for the #PuzzleDungeonJam: Titansflute, a dungeon that's also a giant flute that characters can slowly return to functionality by solving wind and sound-based puzzles. I've written for #cairn before, but I believe this is the first one to be published. Check it out!
Titansflute by soundsofbones
A Puzzle Dungeon for Cairn 2e.
soundsofbones.itch.io
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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thirdkingdom.bsky.social
We've still got a couple copies of A Gathering Storm, a Cairn adventure written by @seedlinggames.bsky.social in stock. The town of Sparrowville has been in a constant rainstorm for months, and the residents will have to flee if it can't be stopped. #ttrpg #dnd #osr #indiegames
A Gathering Storm | Sabre Games
New, 24 page saddle-stitched A5 format. A Gathering Storm is a 24 page full colour adventure for Cairn, focused on exploration, mystery and discovery in a strange and supernatural forest and in the to...
www.sabregamesandcards.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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diogooldskull.bsky.social
So this happened…

I am White Wolf’s new Lead Game Designer!

I will figure out how to post the whole text here, but there is a picture with the announcement and the alt text has the full thing!

#TTRPG #RPGLATAM #VtM #WoD #DnD #NotDnD #ShowYourWork
Fake it until you make it as they say. And I’ve been playing the role of a TTRPG game designer for about 12 years! Now the mask has become my very nature. I am going to play the Masquerade game with vampires, for real. After years of working as an independent game designer, like a good Anarch, I joined the Camarilla. I am now the Lead Game Designer at White Wolf, the legendary publisher that made me realize TTRPGs could be about a lot more than killing monsters. I can be one of them, and surprisingly be even more human! The first book I ever read in English was Vampire: The Dark Ages, and now I get to work as a game designer full time for the first time with the World of Darkness? I couldn’t be happier! To live and breathe the universe of Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Hunter, Changeling, Wraith, and all other games every day, and be able to collaborate in shaping its future is a dream come true. These games were formative in my TTRPG industry, in the Brazilian TTRPG community, and are incredibly relevant to this day. Especially these days I would say. And with me I am bringing my game design philosophy of “playing more with less” to help make the game more accessible while honoring the more than 30 years of World of Darkness! I just want everyone to enjoy the game as much as they can, with as little effort as they can afford. Oh, and I am still an Anarch at heart, don’t worry! Me with a Bloodlines 2 tshirt setting in a throne under the Ankh banner! A castle with the ankh banner hanging from a window Me wearing a shadowy cloak
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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thirdkingdom.bsky.social
We've just restocked Procedures to Discover the Path Ahead, a system agnostic world-building tool that randomly generates what lies before you. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiezine Plus, it's a cute A6 size!
Procedures to Discover the Path Ahead | Sabre Games
Create a world that changes the further you are from what is familiar. Use it for solo gaming, GM prep, GM-less games, drawing maps or worldbuilding just for fun. Use it for stories about fighting dra...
www.sabregamesandcards.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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elisewang.bsky.social
Once again, ILL remains the purest representation of scholarly community. I use it so much I often write little notes back and forth with the librarians when I’ve borrowed a lot from their library. It’s the closest you can get to those old penpal schemes and I love it.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Dec 2
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
soundsofbones.bsky.social
My favorite is wishing former coworkers well at their new positions through lil notes on ILL slips.
elisewang.bsky.social Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · Dec 2
Once again, ILL remains the purest representation of scholarly community. I use it so much I often write little notes back and forth with the librarians when I’ve borrowed a lot from their library. It’s the closest you can get to those old penpal schemes and I love it.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Dec 2
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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bookended-islal.bsky.social
March feels like eight years ago, but it was only eight months ago! If you can, go read the story I wrote that's in here!

"Find Me Dumped in the Reeds" has everything--fish, making waiters uncomfortable, lawyers, and a summer job that has become a forever job.
chmmagazine.bsky.social chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 6
The new issue is HERE! Have you gotten a chance to dig in yet? Any favorite stories?
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
soundsofbones.bsky.social
introduced some friends to TTRPGs via a Cairn 2e one shot a few weeks back and I'm still pretty proud of how the maps turned out
A black-and-white tabletop role-playing game map of a library. A black-and-white tabletop role-playing game map of a basement covered in mushrooms.
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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sonybaloneyart.bsky.social
Uncaged Goddesses Stats

Copper bestseller: 50 min
Silver bestseller: 3 hrs
Electrum bestseller: 12 hrs
Gold bestseller: 1 wk
Platinum Bestseller: 2 months
Ennie Silver Award: Best Cover
Ennie Gold Award: Best Adventure
MITHRAL BEST SELLER
ADAMANTINE BESTSELLER

www.dmsguild.com/product/3828...
September 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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seedlinggames.bsky.social
Also I have physical copies on my itch page (US only) as well as in various stores online (not US only)
September 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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seedlinggames.bsky.social
I made an adventure for Knights of the Road (an ItO-like).

It's basically a heist on a train.

seedling.itch.io/the-sierra-e...
The Sierra Express (Ashcan) by seedling
An adventure for Knights of the Road
seedling.itch.io
September 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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seedlinggames.bsky.social
I am yet again looking for public domain images
a drawing of two giant starawberries on a train car
September 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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weirdwonder.bsky.social
Today my new adventure Orestruck is officially released! Return to the Tannic Forest to confront monstrosities, both magical and mundane.

Itch weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck
DrivethruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

@spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/collections/...
Image with black background of a figure holding a torch in a cave that looks like teeth with the Words Orestruck an adventure by Amanda P. out now
September 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
Here we go. Silksong will have a "special announcement" on Thursday at 10:30am ET.

AND coming from me on Thursday, the story behind why Silksong took seven years to make...

Stay tuned! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...
Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement
YouTube video by Team Cherry
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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adammakesttrpg.bsky.social
Big news! I'm making my own tabletop RPG. This is the biggest, boldest idea I've had so far, and I need you to make it real!

I won't launch until I hit 1,000 followers., so visit the KS page and click 'Notify Me On Launch'

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gno...

#ttrpg #TwelveRealms #TwelveRealmsRPG
Coming soon: Twelve Realms RPG
An original fantasy tabletop roleplaying game and a realms-spanning campaign setting
www.kickstarter.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
bluesky absolutely has a growth problem. at this point it's just me, the several thousand sockpuppet accounts i faithfully maintain, and you. and if you're weirded out by that, how about you just take a beat and imagine what an average day is like for me
August 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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jacobgeller.com
When I'm three paragraphs into writing a game industry article for the nyt and I haven't said that video games have come a long way since pac man
July 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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seedlinggames.bsky.social
The adventure is here:

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Exquisite Corpse: An Art Installation by the Exquisite Society - Rage Kage Games | DriveThruRPG
This adventure revolves around a central hub (the Gallery) and a number of MacGuffins (the Angels). The characters flit in and out of the planes (Oeuvres), collecting Angels in order to complete their...
www.drivethrurpg.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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seedlinggames.bsky.social
I actually have some whalefall art but it isn't as professional as some people's whalefall art
A half-eaten dead whale with key points marked - a snail in a fungal forest, a mammoth with a ring, a snail on an elevator with another ring, and the exit
July 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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zoeswriter.bsky.social
I wrote for this project! It’s a terrific book, check it out!
adammakesttrpg.bsky.social AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · Jul 25
What if I told you that you could run a D&D game tonight with only a few minutes of prep? What if I told you that you could do that 36 days in a row?

From a team of 25 accomplished authors. 36 five-room "dungeons" (very few literal dungeons).

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

www.dmsguild.com/product/5308...
Delves and Journeys: 36 Five-Room Dungeons for D&D - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild
When is a dungeon not necessarily a dungeon? When is a room not necessarily a room? In this book, readers will find 36
www.dmsguild.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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bastionland.bsky.social
Ennies voting is open!

vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/

Obeying the rule of threes, Mythic Bastionland is up for:
- Product of the Year
- Interior Art (Alec truly deserves this)
- Layout and Design
July 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM