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Check out Blightfall, my TTRPG about doomed heroes here: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/3ffbc037-ccef-4a3f-90f2-a1772152b00a/landing

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A poster that says
Did you see:
-a tent in the woods?
-someone shoplifting?
-a person sleeping in their car?
NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT
people are struggling don't make it worse

A poster that says Did you see: -a tent in the woods? -someone shoplifting? -a person sleeping in their car? NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT people are struggling don't make it worse

30.10.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7121    πŸ” 3318    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 32
Preview
Outrider Creative

TRICK OR TREAT!
A bunch of community copies of Perils & Princesses, the Candy-Cursed campaign Sweet Revenge, and The Secret of the Night market are up on itch. outrider-creative.itch.io

31.10.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blood blood. Blood blood blood. Blood blood BLOOD BLOOD!

…

blood

01.11.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Corpses are some of the best things you can spew. Check it out, Daggerheart pals!

30.10.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Krystalia bro is bending over backwards to justify the AI so much. What trash.

30.10.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I used to work at a small shop that made little plastic vampires.

There were only 2 of us working there, so I had to make every second count.

28.10.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1527    πŸ” 351    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 14
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The Woods at Blight's Hollow - Folk Horror & Fairy Tales RPG A small town. An infinite forest. A conspiracy of silence. You have a year and a day to solve this mystery.

Damn, this looks so cool. Apparently I beefed it and missed the kickstarter, but I’m going to try and keep my eye out for anymore The Woods at Blights Hollow news. Reading this is a legal contract you just eye-signed saying you will remind me.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sin...

24.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

10 minutes into this con and already infuriated by a rude weirdo with no social sense and an illness. Classic.

24.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recently received Retrograde from the same creator and it's fucking gorgeous. Handmade analog printmaking at its finest.

This is the kind of project that deserves WAAAYYY more support. Linograph illustrations, riso printing, and vampires. What more do you want?

23.10.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing, just backed!

24.10.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why does everyone keep calling it β€œThe Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating β€œThe Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called β€œThe Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called β€œThe Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

22.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 22426    πŸ” 9939    πŸ’¬ 770    πŸ“Œ 702

I once had to go to a food pantry in November, and because it was close to Thanksgiving, the line to get in wrapped around the block. This was back in the early 2000s. Also when people had access to SNAP. Imagine what it will be this year without it.

22.10.2025 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

How dare Sarah be this talented?

22.10.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is the year 2065.

The reign of D&D is over. Cooler TTRPGs are in the zeitgeist. No one has mentioned D&D in hundreds of years (don't do the math please).

My son visits me in the old folks home. He shows me a "cool RPG" he discovered. I see the player's handbook. I have a heart attack. I die.

20.10.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please! I played a game at a con the designer said was cinematic. It turned out to be a DnD clone and I β€œfell asleep in the theater”.

Educate the people!

19.10.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Give β€˜em some love folks!

18.10.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just followed πŸ‘

18.10.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Beautiful white dog with Elder Mythos TTRPG book on a comforter.

Beautiful white dog with Elder Mythos TTRPG book on a comforter.

My dog loves new TTRPGs in the mail. I have no idea if I’ll like Elder Mythos, but it sure is pretty, and the pages are thicc/ck.

18.10.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A dumb grey and neon green robot that always gets in my way at QuikTrip.

A dumb grey and neon green robot that always gets in my way at QuikTrip.

Pringle CC1 about to be Pringle CCDone.

17.10.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will straight up stab the QuikTrip cleaning robot. I have no respect for it.

17.10.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A little over a week til LUGCON and I am very jazzed to play Vast Grimm, Brindlewood Bay, and Daggerheart.

Vast Grimm and Brindlewood Bay because I’m excited to try them.

Daggerheart because I have to know. I just need to experience it myself and learn if it’s good or if it’s actually Daggerfart.

17.10.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate that this happened to you. I hope things get better!

16.10.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, you’ll have 49 copies on the site, and one in a mailer to my address.

16.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blightfall (Doomed Heroes) Disclaimer: I am real life friends with the designer, Matthew Ayers. I stayed in his house for Dragon Con and it was truly legendary. That said, this is one of the games I have played the most this…

Review of my upcoming TTRPG, Blightfall, just came out from a playtester and friend. Obvious warning for bias, but I think he does an excellent job encapsulating the game: secretsundaysampler.com/2025/10/16/b...

16.10.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve noticed in my city’s local TTRPG club, people really want to learn D&D, and also really fear being made fun of for not knowing rules and want a safe environment and someone to guide them.

But they don’t know that I’d happily teach them even cooler games with zero judgment.

15.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Too many TTRPGs launched yesterday, and I am trapped in decision paralysis. Also, is it just the games I’m interested in, or do the Gamefound ones have A LOT of reward choices?

15.10.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Bad Spot’s AP with Jason is SO GOOD. Makes me excited to run this one day. Go download, now!

14.10.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WOAH. Congrats! What a haul.

10.10.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These are all completely valid and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

10.10.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of β€˜The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

09.10.2025 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 28874    πŸ” 9121    πŸ’¬ 340    πŸ“Œ 926

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