@darkerhue.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning writer and game designer. Veteran, part-time historian, podcaster, SFWA, and WWA member. Harlem Unbound, Haunted West, Genreless Podcast. Arc Dream Production Director (He/Him) #BlackLivesMatter
Did you know the #BlackCompanyTTRPG Playtest 2 is underway? ⚔️
Want the skinny? Check out the Rascal article, join the playtest, enlist in The Company, and hop into the Discord before filling out the feedback survey. Your input helps shape the game.
Come be part of it! #ArcDream
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Grab this collaborative world-building tool while supplies last and you and your players can take your #ttrpg campaign to the next level together!
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05.03.2026 21:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller in front of a Tardis and Old Foresters 1910 bourbon
Got some incredible news today, so I’m celebrating with a heavy bourbon pour and a little #FilmNoir research for Dead City Blues. 🥃🕶️📚
Today’s a very good day.
Just look at that overcast sky…
05.03.2026 15:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delta Green The Good Life cover in Chris’s lap on an iPad
Today’s waiting room reading is work-related: The Good Life. 📚
I’m between campaigns right now, as I’m getting ready to run a Black Company one, but it’s been ages since I’ve run Delta Green.
A couple of my players have been seriously jonesing for it, so the gears are turning (always)… 👀🎲 #GMLife
Come Join me LIVE NOW on twitch.tv/praxagorathesmophoria as we do some GM plotting and playtest the new character creation for #TheBlackCompanyTTRPG
05.03.2026 01:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
So guess what Im streaming tonight?
Who wants to join me as we playtest the character creation rules for #BlackCompanyttrpg?
Did you know the #BlackCompanyTTRPG Playtest 2 is underway? ⚔️
Want the skinny? Check out the Rascal article, join the playtest, enlist in The Company, and hop into the Discord before filling out the feedback survey. Your input helps shape the game.
Come be part of it! #ArcDream
Today continues to be all about blocking out distractions and getting the work done. I’ve been doing an endless dance with a spreadsheet that I can’t quite get to do everything I need it to do.
04.03.2026 15:28 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CASTING CALL!
Hey folk! In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, we are hosting a special live-streamed AP one-shot!
We are looking to cast AP performers that identify under the transgender umbrella.
If you wish to participate, apps close March 13th!
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Chris Spivey
I have just read a fantastic article in the new @baytalazif.bsky.social issue, a magazine for Cthulhu Mythos Roleplaying Games. It's a deep look at Chris Spivey, @darkerhue.bsky.social , whom I already knew to be an excellent rpg designer, but I did not know the full extent of his range
03.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0Finished the first issues and it was great!
03.03.2026 17:26 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My waiting room reading today is Absolute Martian Manhunter 👽📚 (yes, I’m finally diving in). I’ve heard nothing but great things, so expectations are high.
J’onn has always been one of those characters I want to see used well. Not to mention he’s a powerhouse that rarely gets to shine.
One month to playtest Phase 2: Soldiers & Sorcery. Create your own Black Company veteran, flaws and all. Especially flaws. ("The Itch: You can’t pass up carousing, gambling, or whoring unless you take 1 Stress.") theblackcompanyrpg.com/the-black-co...
01.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 42 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Got caught out in the snow with this rock star!
02.03.2026 19:58 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We're less than $4000 from our $250K stretch goal of unlocking the second adventure in the new "Freedom City Discord" series for Mutants & Masterminds fourth edition! Can we make it to $300K and all stretch goals unlocked by campaign's end this Thursday afternoon? We can with your help!
02.03.2026 12:56 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
2026 Writing: Day 60 ✍️
Daily word count: 4,919
Total word count: 46,208
Dove back into #DeadCityBlues today for a Patreon drop later this month. It’s going well, I’m experimenting with some new tweaks to the #OuroborosSystem & really liking where it’s heading.
What are you all writing right now?
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TODAY!
The final episode of this season of 20 Minute TTRPGs! @drakoniques.itch.io joins @cutestpatoot.itch.io for a deep dive into game design and another spin if the wheel.
www.twitch.tv/EUphoriaAP
I haven’t seen the article yet, but I may need to fix that. What did y’all think? 👀
Harlem Unbound was truly a passion project, 1E taught me so much about how to make a book, and publishing 2E taught me how the industry really works. Different lessons, same fire.
Curious to hear your thoughts.
Tweaking the #BlackCompanyRPG Playtest 2 survey a bit more tonight. ⚔️📝
This section feels especially critical to me as a massive character creation fan. That’s the moment players first step into the world: it sets tone, stakes, and ownership. If that part sings, everything else follows. #ArcDream
Croaker is cool, but Raven is pretty amazing (at the time of reading).
28.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company with a stout-filled Black is Beautiful beer glass with the opened Dark Hollow stout beside it.
Doing some very enjoyable “research” reading with Shadows Linger on this beautiful Saturday. 📚⚔️ Should be wrapping it up and moving into The White Rose next.
Sometimes you just have to pause and say… I love my job. #BooksandBrews #GrimDark
Huge filled Delta Green coffee mug in front of backlit keyboard on a Haunted West mousepad.
Ah, spreadsheets… how I’ve missed you?
Ok, that’s a lie. 😄 But you’re essential, so buckle up, buttercup. I’ve got coffee, a plan, and a mountain of cells waiting to be conquered. 📊☕ Let’s do this.
Haunted West Group portrait by Kurt Komoda
Haunted West Paragons battling tree monsters by Kurt Komoda
Haunted West Paragons battling a vampire by Kurt Komoda
Haunted West Paragons battling aliens aboard a spaceship by Kurt Komoda
Have you met the award-winning Weird Western TTRPG, Haunted West? 🤠👻
If not… partner, what’re you waitin’ for?
🔮 Supernatural horror
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If you want a game that haunts your table long after the dice stop rolling, this is it
Harlem Unbound map on wooden table
Harlem Unbound art
Harlem Unbound Cover art with three gold ennies.
Harlem Unbound art
🎷 Hey Hepcats, have you rolled dice with the multi-ENnie-winning, Diana Jones-nominated #HarlemUnbound yet? No? Why not?! You might’ve missed the groundbreaking indie darling 1E, but don’t sweat it. Bigger, Pulpier, & Expanded Second edition exists! 👀 #CallOfCthulhu #Gumshoe #RPGHorror #TTRPG
06.02.2026 04:20 — 👍 52 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 2Very very soon…
27.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Working on the #BlackCompanyTTRPG by #ArcDream, Playtest 2 survey this morning. ⚔️📝 It should be wrap soon & then finish my full read-through of the packet.
I am so excited for folks to get their hands on character creation and... yes... magic! They are absolutely on fire with this one.🔥✨ #GrimDark
