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Tim Hartin's Oct 10th 2025 old school D&D map with a purplish background.

Tim Hartin's Oct 10th 2025 old school D&D map with a white background.

Tim Hartin's Oct 10th 2025 old school D&D map with a black background.

Here's my Oct 10th 2025 Friday Freebie map.
Map Details: paratime.ca/ff10-10-2025...
Enhanced DriveThru Link: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#FreeD&DMap #TimHartin #ParatimeDesign #OSR #TTRPG #D&D #Dungeons&Dragons #FridayFreebieMap

WHY MEGADUNGEONS? A Campaign Structure for Modern Lives Original image from the Diablo   pitch document , which now feels like an OSR doc from yesteryear Why Megadungeons? Over on the Prismatic ...

Great post with some great links & recs! Also made me pause and think - even outside metroidvanias, there are loads of megadungeon video games. One that VERY strongly comes to mind is the stellar Darkest Dungeon. Which shouldn't be a surprise, based on the name, lol.

When I first started looking into past editions of D&D and specifically the history of the Forgotten Realms (which had never been my *favourite* milieu), I was really surprised to learn the backstory to why TSR bought the Realms.

Looking forward to the video!

If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you.

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game.

It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM

Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

Bad journalism

This was a fantastic piece of writing and a powerful call for the action & solidarity with Two-Spirit (& all Indigenous) people that we NEED to give.

"There is no liberation without Native liberation. There is no queer freedom without Indigenous resurgence. There is no Pride worth marching for if it forgets the people who were here first—and are still being buried first too." Powerful reminders. #Pride #2Spirit #2SLGBTQIA #JonathanJoss

We All Need to Be Talking About the Murder of Jonathan Joss This Pride and Beyond The actor, who was Comanche and White Mountain Apache, was shot in a targeted hate crime while protecting his husband.

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride.

I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

Burnout and Weightlifting The last step in recovery.

The long-awaited follow-up to my article "How The Games Industry Hurts People".

A tale of trauma, healing, and finding your way back.

If you've ever been burned out, crunched, mistreated, mismanaged, or generally ground to a crisp, this one is for you.

Honestly, there is also a lot to recommend to following that sense of urgency. :) I blasted thru the first part of Act 1 on my first playthru, which also totally paid off, down the road! "Failing" or "missing" is just as or more interesting than otherwise in this game!

Book cover. Worn leather cover background. "aNARCHY gOAT" line art of a goat head with an anarchy symbol "THOUGHT PUNKS"

1) There's a one page TTRPG chaos engine called Anarchy Goat. You're a sentient goat with power. Wreak chaos.
2) It now includes the Anarchy Cat hack as a free bonus.

Open license. PWYW. Grab them now!
www.drivethrurpg.com...

#TTRPG #IndieGame #OpenGaming

My local con is young and small, run over a weekend out of a single hotel ballroom. I went for the first time last year, and it was a great time - and really gave me the encouragement to seek out more in-person play, that has led to a weekly home group & a semi-weekly public/FLGS group!

My “why” is because I’m a sucker for anything that requires endurance. It’s because I used to go to the Mystic Seaport Museum as a kid and couldn’t pass up the chance to spend a night in its recreated historic village. It’s because Mystic’s marathon takes place on a tall ship called the Charles W. Morgan, America’s oldest still-floating commercial vessel and the last survivor of a 19th century American whaling fleet. I also went because, for much the same reasons Ishmael says he goes to sea in the book’s opening lines–"whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet"--the marathon sounded like the opposite of the way I spend most of my days camped out in front of my computer, pinned between the despairing onslaught of the news and the relentless pressure of running a business. I wanted to be with strangers I didn’t know from online, with a paper book before me; I wanted ropes and wood and water; I wanted to do something weird and silly and most likely miserable that was about as far from my daily life as I could get.

This weekend I attended the Mystic Seaport's Moby Dick marathon. I spent the night on a tall ship. I talked about Assassin's Creed. I had a panic attack. I healed two decades of queer childhood trauma. I read one of the densest classic books in 25 hours. Gift link: aftermath.site/moby-dick-ma...

A few years ago, I thought about my own childhood Appendix N, the things I read and watched as a kid that formed the foundation of my idea of fantasy.

@prismaticwasteland.com 's next Blog Bandwagon is an invitation to all of us to do the same!

#osr #ttrpg 💙📚🪐

So, yeah, longer thread coming tomorrow after I have slept, because this whole team has been working SO hard to get this out, but Draw Steel introduces Art Description, a new form of image description combining alt text and new standards based on art museum best practices for image description.
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Is there a good news source you'd recommend for non-Brazilians to read about what Brazil is doing? I am (sadly) not familiar enough with South American politics to judge sources myself.

Good stuff.

Dude zoomed out I thought this was hand drawn what do you mean that’s pixel art
Holy fuck

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Donate to Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense, organized by Nicole Lindroos My name is Nicole Lindroos, co-owner of Green Ronin Publishing. Diamond … Nicole Lindroos needs your support for Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense

ICYMI, @greenroninpub.bsky.social is still fundraising for their legal defense fund against Diamond Publishing. The goal is $50K and they're about $13K away from that. Chip in if you can, cause this affects so many publishers!

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100%. What are we at? 44 Canadian citizens known to be detained by ICE? Not to mention the headlines made by a couple specific cases. Our mainstream media reports on it regularly.

I don't have an active passport at the moment, but as a trans person there is no way in nine hells I'm going to the US

My weekly group has been doing this for a while, its great fun! First session I ran for them, the barbarian (an ex-sailor) nat 20'd an investigation and I turn and ask "so, why do you know what the telltale marks of a burning hands spell look like?"

Great character moments!

from what I've heard - and in my own experience of playing exclusively Lite for several years - drift is way WAY less likely!

It was the first Switch I had! Great system, portable and comfortable. I only moved away from it when I decided I really wanted to play TotK on the TV.

New DCC zines and accessories are here from some of your favorite indie creators! ⭐

Between these wacky zines and funky dice trays, there's something for everyone in today's newest releases!

Check them out: goodman-games.com/new-dcc-zine...

This video got buried —but the history in it is too important to lose.

If you’ve ever used a house rule, played a fan-made class, or read a fanzine… you’re standing on the shoulders of these California creators.

Let me know: What’s the first fan-made D&D product you ever used—or even heard of?

One Hundred Thousand Dragon Encounters No, I'm not actually going to describe one hundred thousand encounters with a dragon. How would I even do that? If you want an exhaustively ...

I wrote about all the variables that go into generating a random encounter in the wilderness (with a dragon, in this case). An encounter with a dragon is not *just* an encounter with a dragon, but an encounter with the world the player characters live in!

I was apparently already following you, but I just checked out your website and goddamn, man! Amazing work, I love it.

Humble RPG Bundle: Numenera RPG Collection by Monte Cook Games Get the ultimate tabletop role-playing (TTRPG) bundle for Numenera—an engrossing and addicting adventure through Earth in the distant future.

Numenera by @montecookgames.com is my favourite TTRPG setting of all time. It's unique and creative in all the right ways... and it's on HumbleBundle right now! You can grab a bunch of Numenera books at a stupidly cheap price. DO IT. www.humblebundle.com/books/numene...