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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

Hope nothing fowls up their friendship...

Can't wait to back this, and check it out!

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 👀

Forged in the Dark, you say?

Daggerheart Play for Free New Maps, Quickstart Adventure on the VTT

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! 👇

#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!

.@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:

Coming soon: Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart The ENNIE Award winning adventure redesigned for Daggerheart.

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...

YouTube video by Joseph R. Lewis Writing RPG Adventures: What to Keep and What to Cut

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!

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/

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.

If any Babylon 5 supergeeks want to plunder what looks like a space station full of resources, now's the time.

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!

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?..

A book titled What Lurks Beneath the Library stands next to a lantern in an autumnal scene. Fallen leaves are in front.

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! 👇
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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!!

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".

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 !

The Explorateur: Issue #12 Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

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...

Protips, hot & fresh.

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

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

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

Poster for Conan the barbarian

Poster for Flash Gordon

Poster for Dune

Poster for Rambo

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

Monster of the Week - fused with - Public Access
Daggerheart
D&D5e
Marvel Multiverse

Coming soon: Hope Springs Eternal A supplement for Daggerheart. Five in-depth campaign frames, each complemented by a location (hooks, NPCs, adversaries, environments).

So, have you followed the Hope Springs Eternal kickstarter yet? If you're interested in some very fun & colorful Daggerheart campaign frames that you can use for your Daggerheart TTRPG game, follow us! We're getting updates on our cover art & it looks so good 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...

You can get a pretty basic idea of the costs by looking at the differences between various print-on-demand shops. DTRPG, Ingram Spark, & Amazon all use Lightning Press, which traditionally has been the lowest cost. Higher quality from Mixam, Lulu, Print Ninja, etc. all have big differences. 2/2

Costs and the ratio of acceptable profits are different for every production. US production is considerably more expensive than overseas, even for lower quality materials. Larger companies have a higher burn rate, and often look for ways to earn more per unit as a result. 1/2

Bookbinders of the world unite!

Nobody even once mentioned paper GSM, linen vs coreless, or saddlestitched vs. casebound... >>sniffles<< How's a nerd supposed to nerd out to just an awesome convo on motivations and goals in TTRPG production?

A hobbit leaves his home in the dead of night, he carries a backpack and sets out on a journey. In the background, we see a lively birthday party under a well-lit tree, and a sky full of fireworks.

The Party Tree - happy belated birthday Bilbo!
Watercolour and acryla gouache on paper

One of my Tolkien-inspired works. If you're here because you enjoyed the Smaug I painted for Magic: The Gathering, I have more where that came from!