James Mendez Hodes @ Gen Con

@lulavampiro.bsky.social

Cultural consultant (D&D, Magic, Jackbox, Daggerheart, Eat the Reich) and game designer (Streets of Jade, Avatar Legends, Thousand Arrows). I like religious studies, martial arts, hip hop, and orcs. He/him. jamesmendezhodes.com

woke up from a D&D-themed dream and i guess i must have been a bard because this verse was the only thing about it I remember: step one, you kick down the door step two, knock his ass to the floor step three, run his pockets for drip step four, maybe check who he is?

me any time I have to design any kind of #ttrpg conflict system to do literally anything: So the Tachyon Squadron dogfighting ladder…

Open Hearth Gaming Community@openhearthrpg.bsky.social · last wk.

Tachyon Squadron from @evilhat.bsky.social is on a super sale. It's a dynamite Fate adaptation and great game. I've run a Star Wars version several times and I'm doing a Crimson Skies hack for our upcoming Shared Hearth online con. It's great. Buy it. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2... #ttrpg

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Reload muskets. Rally the troops. Fight to unify Japan. Thousand Arrows is back in print with @evilhat.bsky.social! The TTRPG of samurai warfare and drama, powered by the Apocalypse, returns with revised text and layout. Get Thousand Arrows in PoD and PDF on 21 July! evilhat.com/thousand-arr...

Thousand Arrows launching soon! - Evil Hat Productions

On July 21, 2026 James Mendez Hodes and Evil Hat Productions are re-releasing Thousand Arrows in PDF and POD formats! It is the sixteenth century. All Japan is at war. The gallant cavaliers of eras pa...

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Dawn of the Orcs is back on Backerkit for 10 days, as part of the Ennies Emporium! Play wizards and mad scientists. Build your own orcs. It's a GMless game with just the right mix of strategy and storytelling that everyone who plays it has a good time. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

Dawn of the Orcs - ENNIES EMPORIUM!

Dawn of the Orcs is an Ennie-nominated GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them ...

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Lyme has impeccable taste in fantasy orcs. This game goes deeper than even the "cool orcs" approach I often like: it makes your character literally personally responsible for the way the orcs turn out in the classic "wizard did it" situation, exploring the question of creative responsibility.

Lyme@lymerpg.bsky.social · last mo.

5 hours until the Ennies Emporium backerkit campaign for Ennie-nominated RPG Dawn of the Orcs launches. If you didn't get the game the first time, now's your chance! I'm also offering a couple games that will probably never see physical printing any other time. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

Me not having a wife for Pride month is homophobic [crowd murmuring in agreement] and transphobic also [crowd cheering] maybe even racist [I see I’m kind losing the crowd but I take it one step further anyway] against white women,

Can anyone recommend a book about Joan of Arc that goes into detail about Bishop Pierre Cauchon, who presided over her trial? Please assume I've already searched online and found the common results—I'm interested in personal experience, something you or someone you trust has read.

'He's tiny! It's blue!' Charles Darwin Foundation scientists discover a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres (5,900 feet) down on the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands. No bigger than a golf ball, the blue octopus has stubby little arms with only one row of suckers u.afp.com/SRvN

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