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Kickstarter United ends six-week strike with a resounding victory Workers secure a 4-day work week, minimum salary floor, and protection against AI.

Workers with @kickstarterunited.org end their six-week strike victorious, enshrining 4-day work weeks and salary floors while also adding protections against gen AI replacing human labor.

Spoiler Alert: It's because he's racist

Open Source TTRPG Resources Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!

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#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

Well I got inspired! Starting on the 1st October is the Duo Duet #TTRPG game jam!

Pick a partner and make a duet game! Bonus points if you've never worked together before!

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Critical Lit: Tomb of Horrors Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · 07/13/2025 · 3h 4m

Calling all adventurers, storytellers, and gamers: the first episodes of Critical Lit are available for streaming now! Come along with our hosts as they dive into the good, the bad, and the many spike pits of the original Tomb of Horrors D&D adventure module.

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1. First #ttrpg played: D&D 3.5
2. First ever ran: Star Wars d20
3. Played most: GURPS (as a forever GM this is hard to judge)
4. Run most: GURPS
5. Favorite: Mage
6. Most recently played: D&D 5e
7. Most recently run: GURPS

Great resource for folks looking for art for their projects.

The article mistakenly says these images are free for "non commercial" use, but all the marked images are CC0, so can be used commercially without restriction.

Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there;

What is the most impressive feat of magic that has been performed by mortal hands in your setting?

Created a new island in the ocean? Trapped an evil Deity? Tried to steal the power away from the God of Magic?

#TTRPG

Travelers! Fulfill your immortal duty and restore the land with this introductory campaign for the fingerprint-based gothic TTRPG Print Weaver.

Let your weekly hex-crawling adventures begin: bit.ly/45uB5gr

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #scifirpg #independantpublishing #roleplayinggame

Listen to our first LIVE SHOW!

Tune into Talk of the Table on Monday to hear our conversation with @calebzane.bsky.social and @seanireland.bsky.social of @hauntedtable.bsky.social LIVE at The Twenty Sided Store in Brooklyn.

We discuss Triangle Agency, building a publishing company, and the future!

ID:TRPG, the Indonesian TTRPG community Discord server, has a regular sharing session called BroSis--ie: Ngobrol Sistem / System Chat.

Yesterday I had the privilege to ngobrol with them about @bastionland.bsky.social 's Mythic Bastionland (and OSR-style play more generally). I had slides!

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✨TTRPG / D&D Question of the Day✨

What are the different ways in which your TTRPG characters handle problems? If you had to give your character's methods of handling issues a label ("The Subtle Approach"; "Tough Love"; etc.) -- what label would you give it?

#TTRPG #DnD #TTRPGThoughts #TTRPGQoTD

How RPGs Get Disability Wrong You’re often a missed roll away from playing a character that’s freshly disabled.

How RPGs Get Disability Wrong

The OSR dreams of having it all What drives the new in old school? Maybe the same goal that always has.

The OSR dreams of having it all

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personal cover of The Vanilla Game

Needing a break from drawing, and I actually find layout pretty relaxing, so taking Jared Sinclair's excellent free game, and dropping into a printable zine for myself, illustrated by yours truly! @spearwitch.bsky.social
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Evil Hat announces crowdfunding plans for Blades in the Dark expansion An interview with Sean Nittner and John Harper on Deep Cuts and future books.

Evil Hat Announces Crowdfunding Plans For Blades In The Dark Expansion

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Canadian tabletop will not be bullied by Trump regime After economic and political threats from south of the border, Canada’s RPG scene is forging a new path.

At Breakout Con, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social spoke with a handful of Canadian tabletop creators about political fear, economic anxiety, and resilience in the wake of rapid American destabilization.

Print-At-Home Publisher 2 Templates by Bammax Games US Letter and A4 Affinity Publisher 2 templates

A4 templates are now available for trifold, gatefold, and double gatefold! Also, US Letter is updated to add a 25% opacity fold line at the thirds on the page.

Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins to Leave Dungeons & Dragons' Design Team Two guiding forces of D&D are stepping away.

With the faces of the D&D Design Team bowing out - and with news of their departure within a week, something tells me there's about to be a massive shake-up with D&D.
I would not be surprised if we saw a big announcement from WotC in the next 6-12 months.
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Today I retire from Wizards of the Coast after 28 years. With D&D’s 50th anniversary wrapping up and the revised rulebooks doing gangbusters, this is the perfect fairytale ending for me. I can’t wait to enjoy D&D purely as a fan again, knowing the game is in good hands. See you in the Feywild!

Rascal on reddit, all day 19th Feb 2025, reddit.com/r/rpg, ask us anything!

Rascal News is doing an AMA on Reddit! If you'd like to ask us questions or just say nice things, head to: www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

Something special that happens when you realize all the characters are shared and that no one "owns" any part of the story. We all start making choices towards moments that benefit the narrative and the collective fun.

Check out the campaign and consider backing.
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Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders;

How do you handle food in your games?

Do you just...shrug and say "You eat something!" or have you figured out the foods for your cultures?

Also, since Dungeon Meshi fuckin' slaps- what about meat and foodstuffs from monsters?

#TTRPG

Subscriber Goals 1,950 - Current subscribers. This pays four Rascals $1,600/month with just enough left over for a few contributors, a couple conventions, a myriad of administrative costs, general upkeep, and taxes. 2,000 - A nice round number and very achievable goal. Year Two, same as Year One plus insurance. 2,025 - We bring on Ranged Touch’s Cameron Kunzelman to write a monthly column. 2,075 - All Rascals get a $100 raise! Also, we convince Lin to take time off from Hollywood and write for us more regularly! 2,100 - We add another monthly columnist to the roster. (Are you a BIPOC writer? Want to throw your hat in the ring? Reach out: info@rascal.news.) 2,150 - All Rascals get another $100 raise! 2,200 - We send part of the team to Essen Spiel in Germany, establishing our European invasion. 2.225 - You guessed it: one more Benjamin in every Rascal’s pocket! While these targets don’t give us a living wage yet, they do get us closer! It’s a long road and we’re here for the long haul.

Help us reach our goals this month during our first anniversary pledge drive!

Were currently at 1967 paying subscribers, just over 50 new subscribers away from a new monthly column from @ckunzelman.bsky.social

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There is so much going on right now, and independent media is more important than ever

Thank you to everyone who's made Rascal's first year even possible. We've been able to grow and build amidst The Horrors. Please help us get to a living wage and keep doing this type of reporting for our industry

D&D Adds Two New Books to 2025 Slate, Including New Eberron Book: Wizards of the Coast is adding two Dungeons & Dragons books to its 2025 slate, including Eberron: Forge of the Artificer in August and an unnamed mystery book in October. Eberron: Forge of the Artificer will include the… #ttrpg #dnd

Podcast Transcript: Flauros the Demon (Wreck This Deck) with Audrey Stolze — Dice Exploder Don't you hate it when one card in a deck gets a little bent? You ever have someone spill their coffee on your cards while you're playing and wish death upon them? What if I told you there was a game ...

@diceexploder.com just did an episode on Wreck This Deck with Audrey Stolze and I just love it.

Sometimes you do things as a designer and no-one notices them but they are there doing their thing. Sometimes someone does notice and it feels amazing!

Link to game in the thread

How Dimension 20 gets ready for a live show Psych-up music, pre-show rituals, and ‘an old crab’s shell that I think contains the soul of my past uncle’

Ahead of this past weekend's event at Madison Square Garden, @polygon.com reached out to three individuals with knowledge of the @dimension20.bsky.social situation -- specifically healthcare professional Kingston Brown, bookseller Pete Conlan, and New York firefighter/Mr. March Ricky Matsui.

TTRPGs Have More Than One Audience - Fari RPGs TTRPGs are a lot of things. They are a world you can play in. They are a set of rules to know what happens in moments of uncertainty. And, they...

Recently, I came back from a work trip and took the time to write a blog post I'm very proud of about how TTRPGs have to cater to more than one audience and how designers can use layout as a tool to do just that.

If you love article, like and repost!

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The Dimension 20 MSG show was everything I hoped it would be — except for the venue "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."

Rascal @rowanzeoli.bsky.social went to the @dimension20.bsky.social MSG Live show and it was everything she hoped it would be (except for the venue's logistics)