Ran a guest post today from @jonathantweet.bsky.social about Strange Stories by @chrislackey.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4n6mpt5a
Strange Stories Now on Backerkit (Guest Post!)
Here's a guest post from Jonathan Tweet. I'm one of the players who he forbade from looking into this game, so I publish this with less over...
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Proud to be the 28th villager 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Merryshire Detective Club! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
Merryshire Detective Club
You play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...
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A roundup of tabletop games we've played in the past couple months, family & friends. tinyurl.com/5hc99m6z
What We’re Playing: Tabletop H through W
The upper end of the alphabet leans into games played with friends who prefer casual fare. Hot Streak Four hapless lower league baseball ...
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STATEMENT FROM SUZANNE STAFFORD AND CHAOSIUM REGARDING A RECENT AI-GENERATED ARTICLE ABOUT CHAOSIUM FOUNDER GREG STAFFORD 🧵 Chaosium and the Stafford Estate are disappointed in 4 Pillar Games’ recent decision to post an AI-generated “historical archive article”... 1/7
The descriptors *are* fun! Orion Conroy made the first pass on some of the mini-adventure critters and I followed up. It's a creative step that benefits from more than one voice.
Jonathan Tweet@jonathantweet.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis #ttrpg adventure uses the new stat format that @robheinsoo.bsky.social blogged about, with a one-liner for every stat. It's fun to skim through the adventure & read all 18 monsters' one-liners. Here are goblin sorcerer, death-cult neophyte, elemental initiate, and injured gnoll war leader. 2/2
There's a 2nd level freeform mini-adventure now up on the @pelgranepress.bsky.social #13thAge resource pages. It's similar to a freeform demo we made for the first edition, but has more advice and better battle-building math. tinyurl.com/4rfwp52p
13th Age 2e: A Two-Hour Freeform Adventure
If you’re looking for a fun adventure to run as a one-shot at a convention, or for new players, or to jump-start a campaign when you don’...
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We're adding something fun and useful to our #13thAge monster stat blocks. tinyurl.com/mrc59y4m
New for 13th Age: Monster Stat Descriptors
There’s something new in the way we’re presenting monster stats in 13th Age . Jonathan came up with it. I’m calling it the descriptor app...
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Here's the line-up of Arduinian icons we created for the 13th Arduin campaign I've been running for #13Age tinyurl.com/mshs79ry
The Icons of Arduin, Blessed Arduin
On the nights I GM, I’ve been running a wild dungeon-crawl centered 13th Age game that attempts to live up to Hargrave’s eclectic grimoi...
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Sometimes I keep punched out cardboard counter sheets around for a few days, wondering if there is something cool to do with the silhouettes. This week our friend Marcia Bird spotted the SANIBEL sheets on a chair while she was painting watercolors with Lisa.
Eep, less than four hours to go! Even a buck helps (and gets you a Thank You in the flm!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...
Dada Dick: A Dada short film of Moby Dick
All 135 chapters of Moby Dick in Dada-esque moving collage form, featuring rotoscoped found footage, found text, and more.
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This week's find was an unopened envelope from Labcorp lying in the street outside our house. It was addressed to a woman a couple suburbs to the north and had been used as scrap paper for expenses, along with other notes. Normally I'd find a way to mail the envelope. But not this one. You see...
Dear @the-kraken.bsky.social : Before @jonathantweet.bsky.social handed me the gift you'd asked him to pass along, he said he should probably film it, and I said no, no, that's OK. And then he handed me your Found Counters of Dragon Pass and I was Ohhhhpen-mouthed wonderstruck. Could not believe it.
Here's the spot in my campaign notebook that tracked my character's damage. It's a good thing we weren't using J's variant rule from HH: 306 that four Skulls kills you! My usually not-that-messy handwriting disintegrated as Esh took all this damage and finished the fight one hit from death.
Jonathan Tweet@jonathantweet.bsky.social · 3mo agoOh no, it's a dragon! Oh no, it has minions! Oh no, here come three more dragons! In #13thAge, @robheinsoo.bsky.social & I made dragons overpowered, and our GM rubbed our noses in it. These corrupt dragons were nerfed but still tough. Second tough fight at epic level. 1/2
#13thAge artist Lee Moyer has a 364-page graphic novel on pre-order sale at Barnes&Noble. Lee is the *writer* and painter of Trident of Aurelia, and today the code PREORDER25 gets you a 25% discount when the book releases later this year. tinyurl.com/52bhwuzs
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In @robheinsoo.bsky.social's Arduin campaign, we revisited themes from a previous Arduin campaign: a bridge and an unopened box. We fought to bear the box across the bridge against phraints & knoblins. Rob used standees from the Vault of Mini Things (Tinkerhouse). When we finally opened the box, 1/2
The campaign has a couple names. 13th-Arduin pegs the system and the world. Arduin Blessed Arduin puts new spin on Hargrave's bloodier-sounding original, and the original meaning of blessed brings back the blood.
Jonathan Tweet@jonathantweet.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy magic-user in @robheinsoo.bsky.social's Arduin Bloody Arduin campaign is now 3rd level, and I'm upgrading his miniature from the Ral Partha wizard (based on a Frazetta illo) to the Ral Partha enchanter (based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Tim). Still do love me some Ral Partha.
Just ran my first session of @pelgranepress.bsky.social @robheinsoo.bsky.social @jonathantweet.bsky.social 13th Age SECOND EDITION. Absolutely fantastic system, and the upgrades to 2e really add to the excitement in combats - but don't take my word for it, you'll be able to watch it soon!
Final session. After the party's failure to liberate the angels last session, the forces of the rogue prince were in retreat. The party was tasked to guard a shine: a round building (yellow w green top), raised outer walkway (green), stairway & blocked door (black), and barrels for cover (d12s). 1/n
We are launching a Kickstarter for the 4th Edition of Mutants & Masterminds next Tuesday, Feb 3. See this article for more info and follow the link there to sign up to be notified at launch. Please reskeet and tell your friends that M&M 4E is coming! greenronin.com/blog/2025/11...
Mutants & Masterminds Fourth Edition to Launch on Kickstarter February 3rd
The next chapter of superhero roleplaying begins! Streamlined rules and all-new art, Mutants & Masterminds Fourth Edition is ready to rise—sign up to be n
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I was a guest on The Tome Show with @dandillon.bsky.social as we took monster lore and blew it up into an adventure. Who am I kidding? It was an ultroloth and I'd say it blew up a campaign: tinyurl.com/yy2a4tr9
Tome 392 Adventures from Monster Lore | The Tome Show
In this episode Jeff and Tracy sit down with Dan Dillon and Rob Heinsoo to talk about creating adventures based on the lore of monsters. Thanks to our Sponsor: The Tome Show's Awesome Patreon Patrons!...
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A blog on my dad's favorite Estonian sayings and their relevance to European and US politics. tinyurl.com/ykzkdcwf
Sita Rutu Karu Tuleb
That’s one of two Estonian phrases my father taught me in the last few years of his life. He’d been weirdly reinvigorated by the Russian i...
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Pelgrane Press@pelgranepress.bsky.social · 2y agoDiscover the quirky origins of the #EscalationDie in #13thAge! 🎲 What started as a speedy play experiment during a Savage Tide campaign evolved into a crucial game mechanic. As battles rage, the die boosts attack power, ramping up the excitement! 🐉🔥 #RPGmechanics #GamingHistory bit.ly/3whrOJh
Work on the next issue of Escalation is underway: In My Dragon Empire. We dedicate this issue to the ways your Dragon Empire, the default setting for 13th Age, is unique! For more info on what we're looking for check out this post: escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/11/arti... #13thAge
Articles Needed: In My Dragon Empire
Work on Issue 12 is ready to begin, now that we've completed Issue 11. This issue is dedicated to a popular phrase in 13th Age social media ...
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Starting a reaction thread on 13th Age 2E. First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1
Like it says on the tin, this is about 13th Age 2E shipping, and also about the '13th Arduin' game I'm running for fun, and about the updated resource pages on the @pelgranepress.bsky.social website . . . tinyurl.com/ycy93kw5
13th Age 2E Round-up: It’s Shipping!
I got both the deluxe versions of the Heroes’ Handbook and Gamemaster’s Guide and The Art of 13th Age in the mail on Wednesday. I took t...
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Here's an interesting blog post about RPGs other the D&D, what they do, and how different systems support and demand different sorts of play. Thirty years ago, this is what I wanted to see one day: lots of story-oriented RPGs on the shelves. sagaofthejasonite.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...
Beyond D&D: A Complete RPG Guided Tour Through Tabletop Design Philosophies
I’ve created this guided tour for GMs and players who’ve played D&D and want to explore what else tabletop RPGs can do. It features 12 games arranged in a specific sequence, designed to show th…
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Notes on translating a superhero game's terminology into something that works better for GRR Martin's swords and subterfuge stories. tinyurl.com/r3thmw4z
Skill & Strategy in Legendary: Game of Thrones
Despite the subject line, today’s blog is not a strategy guide! Instead, it’s a look at a couple of cards from the about-to-release Legendar...
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A new card game I designed is coming out from Upper Deck in the next couple weeks! tinyurl.com/2vp4yevb
Legendary: Game of Thrones, Releasing Soon as a Cutthroat Card Game
I love the Legendary deck-building game designed by Devin Low! Lisa and I were in the same city as Devin when he made the original edition,...
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