John Walter

Need a quick Halloween one-shot adventure? The Pumpkin King arrives! - October 31 2025 In the spirit of the season (especially when some players might miss a session due to trick or treating) meet the Pumpkin King, For your D&D or Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game!

A gift from the Pumpkin King: a free Halloween oneshot adventure! #ttrpg #dnd5e #tov

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A large Jack-o-lantern with flames coming out of the top.

Happy Halloween!

So you want to write an adventure for Ex Tenebris

A Raspy Raven episode that goes deep into the dark heart of Ex Tenebris from @armadajosh.bsky.social & @beckyannison.bsky.social

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For Roll20 Con, I'm running the Alien RPG scenario "Mission FUBAR." The game does cost $5 per person to play, with all proceeds going to the Trevor Project and both Roll20 and Start Playing Games matching donations.

So you want to write an adventure for Matrons of Mystery?

Check out our talk with @savagespiel.bsky.social as we discuss how to write an adventure for her Brindlewood styled game, Matrons of Mystery. The C word may be used, Cosy that is.

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Until the end of the Cörk Børd Kickstarter (in 48 hours time), all three Core Books — Cthulhu Hack, Sanction and The Dee Sanction — are 25% off on @drivethrurpg.com

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Join Mothership: Moonbase Blues | Science Fiction Horror | One-shot - Discord / Roll20 - Mothership | StartPlaying Games You're a crew of bounty hunters, and you've been searching the system for a midd-level terrorist Jack Aguire, aka "Morrión." You have solid intel that he's on the Azure Horizons Corporation's Azure Ba...

"Moonbase Blues" is a claustrophobic mystery space horror scenario for the Mothership RPG, published by Anodyne Printware.

Players of all experience levels welcome.

Join Alien RPG: Mission FUBAR - Discord / Roll20 - Alien: The Roleplaying Game | StartPlaying Games You’re part of an elite Colonial Marine black op unit. Along with a Weyland-Yutani advisor, you've been sent to an abandoned communications relay station turned into a clandestine bio-weapons lab. You...

"Mission FUBAR" is Colonial Marine focused one-shot for the Alien RPG. I originally wrote and ran it for a "heist gone wrong" season of seven games, each using a different TTRPG system.

This is Alien, so it's survival/space horror.

Players of all experience levels welcome.

Join The Swan's Way ⚔️ A Swords of the Serpentine One-shot - Discord / Roll20 - Swords of the Serpentine | StartPlaying Games One thousand years ago, the goddess Denari raised islands out of the Serpentine River’s swampy delta to give her followers a place to call home. The Great City of Eversink grew, mostly up, upon the ma...

"The Swan's Way" is a Swords of the Serpentine one-shot I wrote. As a TTRPG, SoS focuses on high-action roleplaying and investigation inspired by the stories of Fritz Leiber, Terry Pratchett, Robert E. Howard, and others.

Players of all experience levels welcome.

As part of Roll20 Con 2025 (Sept. 26-28), I'm running three online TTRPG one-shots: "The Swan's Way" (Swords of the Serpentine), "Mission FUBAR" (Alien RPG), and "Moonbase Blues" (Mothership).

Each game is $5, with all proceeds going to the Trevor Project.

Games described in thread.

The name Wobbly Cat Syndrome comes from the fact that when such a cat focuses on something, their head will bobble.

In mild cases of Wobbly Cat Syndrome, as in Meeper’s case, they unstable until they build up muscle strength, and they learn to climb really, really well. When Meeps was young, when she ran her body would be at a 45° angle because she lacked coordination.

Wobbly Cat Syndrome happens in utero, wither from a virus or traumatic injury to the head. It causes a loss of motor function. In severe cases the cat will need assistance to get to food or use the litter box. Regardless of severity, they don’t jump.

The chick was her constant companion when she was little. She’d carry it as she moved thoroughly the house, and she never napped or slept without it. Periodically, she’ll get the chick out of the cat toy basket and they’ll hang out.

Need some cuteness in your day? Here’s the Meeper. Now just about 6 years old, we found her one bitterly cold night when she was about six weeks old. She’s deaf, has a mild case of wobbly cat syndrome, and believes if anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing 211%.

Cörk Børd – Nordic Noir RPG Kickstarter campaign, featuring a dramatic interrogation scene inspired by Nordic crime dramas. A serious-looking woman in a black-and-white patterned sweater holds up a black-and-white photo of a man shielding his face with his hand, while a stern man in a plaid shirt sits with arms crossed beside her. The setting is a dimly lit police interview room with a blurred officer in the background. In the lower left corner, the Cörk Børd logo appears with stylised letters, pushpins, playing cards, and dice, along with campaign details: “Coming to Kickstarter, 2PM, Tuesday 19th August."

The pace has quickened, the storyline is tight, and we have more questions than answers. Better get used to it.

#cörkbord #mörkborg #nordicnoir #ttrpg

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Ten TTRPG Adventures That Changed the World - Quest Portal VTT These ten groundbreaking adventures not only shaped their own systems but also reshaped how we play tabletop role-playing games today. | Ten TTRPG Adventures That Changed the World

This is a very gratifying list to have appeared on, lack of a visible author notwithstanding. Also I somehow hadn't known that Dave Arneson also invented the prewritten adventure but of course he did:

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YouTube video by Just Crunch Games Cörk Børd: a Nordic Noir investigative Role-Playing Game

Inspired by the Nordic Noir of Henning Mankell, Sjöwall & Wahlöö, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø, and the doom-laden atmosphere of Mörk Borg, Cörk Børd is live on Kickstarter now.

Check out the promo video!

#NordicNoir #CörkBord #MörkBorg #RPG

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Actor Kenneth Branagh as detective Kurt Wallander stands in a dark coat on a rocky, windswept coastline, looking pensively into the distance. Overlaid text reads a bleak, sardonic quote about the Cörk Børd Kickstarter, with the game’s colourful logo in the lower left corner.

The truth won’t wait. Neither should you. Sign up for notifications. Cörk Børd @kickstarter.com campaign starts tomorrow, 2 PM BST.

Join the investigation before it slips away.

#cörkbord #mörkborg #nordicnoir #rpg

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Game Designer Kenneth Hite's #1 GMing Tip #rpg #ttrpg #roleplaying #dnd #indiegame

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Curious about Page Turners? Catch the Unconventional GMs crew diving into our upcoming narrative RPG in their latest actual play. Watch the twists, choices, and page-flipping tension unfold. Link below. Let us know your favorite moment. #PageTurners #TTRPG
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Orange-red sunset with silhouettes of pine trees in the near ground and mountains off in the distance.

Back in Maryland after a trip back home in the mountains of western Colorado. Had this lovely sunset on my birthday.

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Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries.

Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology

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I’m aware of what would happen to the value. My dad’s wish was to have the barrel filled with lead.

Other guns we kept (intact), gifted, or sold as per discussions with my father.

Tales from the Raspy Raven A writing competition for Dee Sanction

#TTRPG hiatus begins, filling in the gaps in gaming with some family holidays and RPG writing & blogging.

Speaking of which 👇 Mon 15th Sep, competition deadline.

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#RPGJam #SanctionRPG #TheDeeSanction

CÖRK BØRD isn’t about causing bloodshed. It’s about uncovering who did.

You don’t fight monsters—you chase them through witness statements, cigarette ash, and screaming silence.

The grimness of it all? That stays. You’re still broken. Just quieter about it.

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I played one of the sacrifices. It was a delightfully terrible ending.

Looking at my schedule for the next week,, I see I’ve booked a lot of TTRPGs.

Tonight, I’m running The Dee Sanction. Sunday, I’m running two different sessions of Pendragon. Monday I play in the new Discworld rpg. Tuesday, I run Vaesen.

Wednesday, I rest.

Two gentlemen, bothered ✔️ One globe, spun ✔️ One lute, soiled ✔️ One skull, stretched ✔️ — but no copy of The Dee Sanction: Monad Edition?

Don’t be these fops. Embrace Elizabethan intrigue, supernatural horror, and plague-worthy plots.

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