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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 8h

what if the carnivorous gelly sparked joy in a hypnotic way? ✨

#monstrosilist #ttrpg #bestiary #b&wart

black and white drawing of a pile of carnivorous gelatin, with bones half-digested inside and outside, sporting a pattern of glittering swirls.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 8h

If only Trumpers would connect the dots between "I'm paying more for everything" and "hey, those rich guys are getting richer"

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · 1d

Playing God is now available on Itch!

gnomemadegames.itch.io/playing-god

This solo or multiplayer TTRPG allows you to play as a mighty god!

Read about the game in this interview: gmshoe.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/q...

#ttrpg #mythology

Playing God by GnomeMadeGames

Play a god in this solo or multiplayer TTRPG

gnomemadegames.itch.io

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 4d

Doomspire: Mirrormire. A work-in-progress fragment for a crowdfunding-in-progress game by @soulmuppet.co.uk:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

#ttrpg #cartography #b&wart

a black and white map fragment depicting a vast wetland with sinking towers, a manor, a hamlet and another strange two-shadow tower at its edge

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 5d

It is truly amazing how many people are twelve.
I honestly had no idea.

@veryimportant.lawyer

patrick Cosmos
@veryimportant.lawyer
working on a new unified theory of
american reality i'm calling "everyone is
twelve now"
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer
’ “I'm strong and | want to have like fifty kids
and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve.
“| don't want to eat vegetables | think steak
and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah
homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime
we should just send the army” bless your
heart my twelve year old buddy

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RPG Elise @rpgelise.bsky.social · 6d

⚔️Looking for free #OnePageTTRPGs? Check out my work on @itch.io. Donations help cover the cost of community stock art used in these adventures!⚔️

📚 rpgelise.itch.io

#TTRPG #Adventure #AppxNjam #OnePageDungeon #1prpgjam

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💀 Rue Morgue 💀🗡️❤️‍🔥🔜 Conference on BIPOC Game Studies 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ilananight.bsky.social · 6d

I'm excited to be on the writing team for Twelve Realms! It's an honor to be amidst so many distinguished authors 🖤

AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · 6d

Behold, the writing team of Twelve Realms!

I'm so lucky! I tried to count the accolades/awards they collectively have and I lost track. I'll try another time.

Help us to get to 1K followers so we can make this game and these folks can get to writing!

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

#ttrpg

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 6d

Art vs artist 🗺️

#cartography #ttrpg

isometric a map depicting an underground village made of tunnels and cave rooms, filled with wooden huts, stone statues, pillars and lanterns, all below the roots of a giant tree that protects the entrance in its trunk.

a selfie of me, holding my head, a tired expression. I wear glasses and have a beard. rpg miniature cabinet in the background.

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DC Lasair @dclasair.bsky.social · 6d

Join me on www.twitch.tv/dclasair at 12pm PDT/3pm EDT for Day 2 of my Affiliateversary. I'll be talkin' tech, and #TTRPG.

Blurred balloon and party favor background. DC wearing a hat, making surprise face.
DC Lasair invites you to...
Two Day Afiliateversary
Oct. 2 and 3 at 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT
twitch.tv/dclasair

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Project2501 @project25o1.bsky.social · 7d

Learned there's a Union within KS workforce & they're on STRIKE
Having backed & enjoyed a bunch of projects figured share with some of my favorite mountain movers
@dungeondudes.bsky.social @criticalrole.bsky.social
@lukegygax.bsky.social

Who knew? Now I do
This is a project I like
Solidarity 🌹

Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 10d

Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...

Kickstarter United Seattle Strike Rally
Our union has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Join us! Thursday, 10/2 @ 6

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Jul 31

QRP with your skull art 💀

a compass rose comprised of a triceratops skull with metal blades embedded in it, making one of its horns and the metal things point in the cardinal directions.

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · 9d

Here's how Twelve Realms got started:

1) Fall out of love with previously played TTRPGs
2) Spend a year reading/taking notes on dozens of TTRPG rulebooks
3) Still feel dissatisfied
...
7) Make an original game

www.tiktok.com/@adammakestt...

KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gno...

#ttrpg #fantasy

The cover of Twelve Realms depicts three fantasy adventurers -- a tiefling, an elf, and an orc -- looking over a vast valley with an impossibly huge dragon in the distance and a ringed planet and a tiny moon in the daytime sky

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Alphastream @alphastream.bsky.social · 10d

How an RPG Book is Made!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g8n...

Scott Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social and I walk through how to make an RPG book! We use examples from Scott's career working on amazing books such as Draw Steel, Daggerheart, Forge of Foes, CORE20, D&D, and much more!

#ttrpg #DnD

The covers for Draw Steel, Acquisitions Incorporated, Forge of Foes, Daggerhearts, Shadowdark, 13th Age, and two Ghostfire Gaming adventures are all visible, with the title of the video superimposed.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 10d

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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Worlds 4 All ➡️ PaxU @worlds4all.bsky.social · Jan 3

Hello Bluer Skies 🦋 Worlds 4 All is back in action, and we are leveling up this year with a clearer mission, a variety of services, and even new memberships ✨ Learn more and sign-up for our events at linktr.ee/worlds4all 💙

#worlds4all #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #ttrpg #dnd #creative #storytelling

Worlds 4 All LLC aims to reimagine the experience of playing tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) as an oral storytelling art form. We provide a variety of creative services, working with youth and adult audiences both in-person across Massachusetts and virtually. Our goal is to create safer and more inclusive spaces so that people of all backgrounds and identities can share their unique stories, build community, play, and have fun!

Our services: Adult Games, Youth Games, One-Shots, Mini-Campaigns, Private Events, Creative Workshops, Professional Team-Building. Includes an image of five people sitting around a table laughing while playing a tabletop roleplaying game.

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Alan Tucker is writing all the things. @tuckerauthor.bsky.social · 10d

I just wanted to shout out @roll20.net and @demiplane.com for knocking it out of the park with giveaways for CreatureCon this past weekend!

We had a FANTASTIC time and can't wait to get Incredible Creatures for #Daggerheart out to everyone as soon as possible!

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Richard Green @richgreen01.bsky.social · 10d

New on my #dnd game design blog: Tomb of Annihilation Session 24 – Road to Nangalore feat. new monsters from Monster Vault 2 @KoboldPress

Tomb of Annihilation Session 24 – Road to Nangalore

Here’s the write up from our latest Tomb of Annihilation session, in which the adventurers travelled to Nangalore in search of the black orchid Teacher needs to cast the Dance of the Seven Winds ritual. I tried out a couple of new monsters from Monster Vault 2 in this session – both were great fun to run! Begin here with…

richardgreengames.com

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Pauline Altman @paulinealtman.bsky.social · 12d

Had a blast today playing some Incredible Creatures #Daggerheart content at CreatureCon! Ran a creepy investigation session then narrowly avoided a TPK in a session run by the awesome @worlds4all.bsky.social

Alan Tucker is writing all the things. @tuckerauthor.bsky.social · Aug 4

Over 800 backers already pledged!

If you missed out on the Kickstarter, our Pre-Order store is up on BackerKit:

incredible-creatures-for-daggerheart.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

#Daggerheart #TTRPG

Pre-order Incredible Creatures: Adversaries for Daggerheart on BackerKit

A collection of art-inspired adversaries for the Daggerheart TTRPG! Shipping for physical items will be charged at a later date once we have a firm cost and timeline. Visit the Kickstarter page for m...

incredible-creatures-for-daggerheart.backerkit.com

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Worlds 4 All ➡️ PaxU @worlds4all.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to be running a game at CreatureCon tomorrow night! This Incredible Creatures book looks so cool :)

Alan Tucker is writing all the things. @tuckerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 9

CreatureCon is coming soon!

This is a 100% online convention on Sept 26-28, celebrating all things #Daggerheart

We've got panels, games, and prizes (ty @drivethrurpg.com & @demiplane.com !)

Get tickets here: incredible-creatures-for-daggerheart.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Incredible Creatures presents CreatureCon on September 26-28, 2025. Image of a gray dragon-like creature with leaves and fruit sprouting from its back and tail.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 13d

An almost-end-of-the-month reminder that these 2 September-exclusive posts will expire from the Expedition Tome tier on October 1st. After this date, they will be available only for purchase.

www.patreon.com/posts/posts-...

junction of a set of illustrations from my patreon: six chunks of different minerals and a headless undead entity on stilts jumping around with a knife and a jack-o-lantern.

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Timothy Gutierrez @timothygutierrez.bsky.social · 13d

Looking forward to previewing some new adversaries! #daggerheart

Alan Tucker is writing all the things. @tuckerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 9

CreatureCon is coming soon!

This is a 100% online convention on Sept 26-28, celebrating all things #Daggerheart

We've got panels, games, and prizes (ty @drivethrurpg.com & @demiplane.com !)

Get tickets here: incredible-creatures-for-daggerheart.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

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Michael R. Underwood (Mike) @mikerunderwood.bsky.social · 13d

This weekend! Tonight I am presenting a panel on designing Daggerheart-compatible adversaries, and tomorrow I am running a group through the encounter (and related environment + adversaries) I made for the book. :)

Alan Tucker is writing all the things. @tuckerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 9

CreatureCon is coming soon!

This is a 100% online convention on Sept 26-28, celebrating all things #Daggerheart

We've got panels, games, and prizes (ty @drivethrurpg.com & @demiplane.com !)

Get tickets here: incredible-creatures-for-daggerheart.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

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Alan Tucker is writing all the things. @tuckerauthor.bsky.social · 14d

Starting tomorrow! You can still attend by clicking the link below!

Alan Tucker is writing all the things. @tuckerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 9

CreatureCon is coming soon!

This is a 100% online convention on Sept 26-28, celebrating all things #Daggerheart

We've got panels, games, and prizes (ty @drivethrurpg.com & @demiplane.com !)

Get tickets here: incredible-creatures-for-daggerheart.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

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