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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 9d

IT'S ALMOST HERE! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for TTRPGs includes not only a treasury of ideas for creating your own homegrown abominations but also TWENTY original monsters, illustrated by @jencmars.bsky.social.

Preorder now at spyandowl.com/making... to get your copy on Oct. 7!

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies rests on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

A wickedly grinning jack-o-lantern, larger than a man, running around on spider legs. You can tell it's larger than a man, because it's grabbed one with a viny tendril and is stuffing him inside itself, having lifted its own lid with another tendril.

A carriage with darkened windows, speeding through a ghostly mist. Its headlamps are eyelike and glowering, and there's an incriminating bloodstain on the front of it, right where it might impact a person's head.

Some horrible, shapeless thing that looks sort of like a gargantuan nudibranch, plowing through everything in its path, including entire trees. It's such a juggernaut, it's even breaking the frame.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 2d

TODAY'S THE DAY! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, with cover illustration by @kroovv.bsky.social and interior illos by @jencmars.bsky.social, is now on shelves!

Get it at your friendly local game store or through one of these links: spyandowl.com/making...

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 2d

Old repaint of thief from Capcom's D&D Shadow over Mystara. Was initially a doodle on a post-it note.

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 7d

And last but not least, if you want to sponsor this event by either donating for giveaways or matching donations, please DM me or send me an email to [email protected]

Thank you so much for your support! 💚

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 7d

We will be raising money for Raices Texas via tiltify and you can start donating right now!
tilt.fyi/IqGjR3AZw1

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 7d

Y para cerrar con broche de oro...

¡Un orgullo presentar una aventura de Daggerheart con este increíble elenco el día Sábado 11 de Octubre a las 5pm Pacífico!

GM: @largsigh.bsky.social

Jugadores:
@dungeongangster.bsky.social
Héctor Coyote
@chalochokorrol.bsky.social
Alex Flyer

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 7d

Y'ALL KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT DRAW STEEL SO...

Join us on Saturday, October 11th at 2pm Pacific for a Draw Steel one shot with an amazing group!

Director: @ghostofezekiel.bsky.social

Players:
@omnisx.bsky.social
@lorddurok.com
And Myself!

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 7d

HAPPY HISPANIC/LATINE HERITAGE MONTH!

I am so excited for this All-Latines Kids on Brooms game with this incredible cast on Saturday, October 11th at 9am Pacific!

GM: @vocolon.bsky.social

Players:
@levrs23.bsky.social
@ohcatrina.bsky.social
@themandii.bsky.social
@cutestpatoot.itch.io

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 7d

✨ ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

I am so thrilled to announce Games For Raices Pt 3, a ttrpg event raising funds for Raices Texas!

🗓️ Saturday, October 11th starting at 9am Pacific
📺 Twitch.tv/ttrpgifs

Check out the lineup

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Viva La Dirt League @vivaladirtleague.bsky.social · 6d

Oh hey everyone coming from the latest skit... we were trying to be UNPREDICTABLE!

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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 5d

We welcome these new additions to our bestseller list:

Against the Monster
Cats of Catthulhu Quick Start
Menagerie of the Void
Perils & Princesses
Rebel Scum 2e
Thousand Year Old Campfire, or Old Morris Cave

www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Bestse...

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 14d

More ridiculousness today from the 16 lakes and 90+ waterfalls of the Plitvice Lakes National Park.

Some ridiculously pretty waterfalls and lakes.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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CROM @crom-ink.bsky.social · 14d

If you fancy sketching with me on a free online workshop ( 30th Sept) you can register here: www.crom-ink.com/free-lesson-...

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 14d

We’re at some ridiculous place again (Rastoke, on the way to Plitvice).

Small waterfall next to an old bridge into town

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 19d

Free pirate themed TTRPG with a soulslike rule system

Go get it

farirpgs.itch.io/boundless-ti...

Boundless Tides by Fari RPGs

Souls-like pirate RPG

farirpgs.itch.io

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Alphastream @alphastream.bsky.social · 20d

Don’t miss this! See what it takes to create a starter set and just how incredible a project this was! Plus, cake secrets!

Shawn Merwin @shawnmerwin.bsky.social · 21d

My podcasting partner @alphastream.bsky.social and I got talked to @justiceraminarman.bsky.social, Managing Game Designer from Wizards of the Coast for D&D, about his career, creating official D&D products, and the new Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set. #dnd

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

Inside Heroes of the Borderlands: Justice Arman on creating D&D’s new starter set! (MD 258)

YouTube video by Mastering Dungeons

www.youtube.com

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Mike Balles 🔜 GAMEHOLECON🔜 NYCC 🔜 PAXUnplugged @themikeballes.bsky.social · Sep 1

We're on a mission to expand Latine representation in gaming, creating space for all. 🌟 Help us support diverse voices and experiences! Every bit counts. Please share and donate! #LatineLounge #LATAM #TTRPGs

www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Donate to Expand Latine Representation in Gaming, organized by Miguel Angel Ballesteros

Hi, Mike here! Me and Claudia are foreign nationals from Mex… Miguel Angel Ballesteros needs your support for Donate to Expand Latine Representation in Gaming

www.gofundme.com

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Mike Balles 🔜 GAMEHOLECON🔜 NYCC 🔜 PAXUnplugged @themikeballes.bsky.social · 24d

Racism is not an opinion.
Misogyny is not an opinion.
Casteism is not an opinion.
Homophobia is not an opinion.
Transphobia is not an opinion.
Xenophobia is not an opinion.

Its hatred.

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Studio Trinket MX @studiotrinketmx.bsky.social · Aug 12

We are so happy to have shown our first published game, Big Bad Evil Rant at Gen Con.

Thanks to our friends at @axostories.bsky.social and @latinelounge.bsky.social for having BBER at sale in their booth.

Stay tuned for more.

#BeAVillain #GenCon #TTRPG

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Skeletrina 💀 @ohcatrina.bsky.social · 24d

TOMORROW IS THE FIRST DAY OF HISPANIC & LATINO HERITAGE MONTH! CELEBRATE OUR CULTURE AND PROTECT OUR FAMILIES 💜🇨🇱🇨🇴🇵🇪

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Mike Balles 🔜 GAMEHOLECON🔜 NYCC 🔜 PAXUnplugged @themikeballes.bsky.social · 24d

I was trying to get a hole house but some hobbit uncle with a golden ring beat me at the auction. Tough nuts, bud. Appreciate your hole house if you have it.

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Created Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 24d

Check out these cool zines I got in the mail yesterday from @brookletgames.bsky.social!

If you've been Silking your Song lately, then Beetle Knight might interest you greatly

🎲 #OSR #TTRPG

2 zines lying next to one another, alongside a sheet of paper minis. The zine to the left is "Beetle Knight" by Jim Hall ( @brookletgames.bsky.social ), the center zine is "Beetle of the Lonely Banner" by Matthew Morris ( @manarampmatt.bsky.social ), & the paper Bugfolk minis are by Evlyn Moreau ( @evlynmoreau.bsky.social )

3 zines lying next to one another. The zine to the left is "The Elmroot Glimmer" by Jim Hall ( @brookletgames.bsky.social ), with cover art by Artyom Trakhanov ( @vor-bokor.bsky.social ), the center zine is "Eggfall" by Em ( @eelymoon.itch.io ), & the right zine is "Litterfall World Guide", also by Jim Hall

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Mike Balles 🔜 GAMEHOLECON🔜 NYCC 🔜 PAXUnplugged @themikeballes.bsky.social · 24d

Racism is not an opinion.
Misogyny is not an opinion.
Casteism is not an opinion.
Homophobia is not an opinion.
Transphobia is not an opinion.
Xenophobia is not an opinion.

Its hatred.

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Mike Balles 🔜 GAMEHOLECON🔜 NYCC 🔜 PAXUnplugged @themikeballes.bsky.social · 27d

Hi Claudio, would love to support your need with at least 3 bust commissions. Would you like me to contact you directly somewhere in particular? (PM, email or your other?) Would love to help, unexpected medical emergencies suck & insurance triple suck. Lets get some latin fraternity support in here.

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