Mike Underwood

@mikerunderwood.bsky.social

They/he. 3x Gold ENNIE winner. Trans & non-binary Midwest Princex. Author (Genrenauts, etc). Hugo & Stabby-Award finalist. Game designer (Daggerheart, Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart, Candela Obscura, etc.) patreon.com/michaelrunderwood

Want to see what makes us tick as game designers? How about a preview of Shine Your Last's unique campaign frame mechanics? @mikerunderwood.bsky.social, @andrewbeauman.com, and @krasiph.bsky.social talk narrative lenses, media inspiration, and more on the first episode of Chase the Rabbit! #ttrpg

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Tomorrow (Tuesday, Sep 1st), the first volume of Atlas of Adventure hits DriveThruRPG, itch.io, and Heart of Daggers. This companion series to Menagerie of Mayhem kicks off with 30 new DH-compatible environments across all four tiers of play!

Cover for Atlas of Adventure, a book of Daggerheart-compatible environments. 

Against a white background, an illustration of four heroes crossing a bridge in a perilous environment rendered in shades of pink and black.

Text logo reads "Atlas of Adventure"
Text at the bottom reads "From one of the designers of Daggerheart" "Mike Underwood"

The Daggerheart-compatible Bundle of Holding has sold over 300 bundles so far with two weeks to go! You can get my books Menagerie of Mayhem and Bastion of Hope as part of $150 worth of material to use with the Daggerheart rules for as little as $30: bundleofholding.com/presents/DHC...

Daggerheart Compatible Bundle

Adventurer! This all-new Daggerheart Compatible Bundle presents ebook supplements from many indie game designers that support Daggerheart, the epic tabletop roleplaying game from Darrington Press of b...

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Little TTRPG Design/GM thread: So playtests of LEATHERBOUND showed that players both loved and ignorant of a GMing technique that I thought was quite common & well known. So I’m explicitly describing it in LEATHERBOUND. I’m calling it the “Chain of Obstacles”

Sharang Biswas@sharangbiswas.bsky.social · last wk.

Game writing sprint in Philly with the @plusoneexp.bsky.social folks this weekend! Working on finishing LEATHERBOUND, my kink-forward TTRPG, before the semester gets busy! plusoneexp.com/products/lea...

To make good my promise to @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social I present the quickstart to my heartbreaker TAMASHA! An original setting and system inspired by South Asian Myth, LA hip hop and 2000s anime and cartoons. An action comedy journey to become legendary! artbyrecluse.itch.io/tamasha

Tamasha! Quickstart! by Recluse!

Set in a hopeful apocalypse where junk is better than gold and music stops armies. Are you ready to make some noise?

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Hope Dies Last is launching soon, so your time to get the free Defiant promo card is dwindling! Following the campaign is totally free. If you like the wild cards/burn cards handed out at cons, you're going to love what we're cooking. :)

Infinite Citadel@infinite-citadel.com · last wk.

There's only a few more weeks until HOPE DIES LAST - a triptych of Daggerheart compatible campaign frames - launches as part of @gamefound.bsky.social's RPG Party! Follow the campaign before it goes live and receive a free Defiant Promo Card! ttrpg.fund/hope-dies-last

Gamefound RPG Party. Defiant Promo Card Follower Gift. Free with any pledge. FOLLOW NOW! A mockup of the Daggerheart-compatible "Defiant" card is arranged over a dramatic gray-scale dragon and a muted cyberpunk skyline. 
Hope Dies Last. When you spend your last Hope, all allies within Far gain 3 Hope. If you do, return this card to your GM.

New HEARTBREAKER... FEAR ITSELF: More Fear Moves for #Daggerheart Context dependent fear moves that can be used to leverage your Fear to create tension broken into 5 catagories: - Social - Conditions - Obstacles - Combat - Omens Available both in full color and black and white printer friendly!

The Atlas of Adventure is here! 31 new DH-compatible environments ranging from a Desecrated Graveyard to a Time Loop and a two-phase Planar Incursion. Subscribers at $10 a month and up get the pdf RIGHT NOW. Coming to retail September 1st! www.patreon.com/michaelrunde...

Atlas of Adventure #1 for backers | Michael R. Underwood

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