please monterey bay live kelp forest cam save me from my unfathomable rage.
Shawk Games (Syd)
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🏳️🌈 she/her - singlehandedly keeping the cough drop empire in business #ttrpg creative, AP GM, storytelling nerd, and overall enthusiast Check out what I'm up to - https://shawkgames.my.canva.site/
⭐️ ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT ⭐️ I’m extremely pleased to reveal I am the voice of Valerie the Corsair in Path of Exile! Huge thanks to @path-of-exile.bsky.social for selecting me, it is a dream role and I’m so proud to be part of their legacy. Play Curse of the Allflame today for free on console or Mac/PC!
I'm looking to speak with LGBTQ+ WNBA fans about their thoughts, feelings and responses to Sophie Cunningham's comments on trans athletes and the league's response thus far for a story @19thnews.org. My DMs are open and I'm ready to listen! 👂🏀
D&D surely is the lingua franca of Actual Play, just like English is the linguistic lingua franca of Actual Plays. That doesn't mean you can't introduce people to new languages. Just like "actual" languages, the more TTRPGs you "speak", the more colorful your experience in the hobby will be.
It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.
State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
I revamped the Resources and Playing Online sections of the Worm website to highlight all the fan-created options to support online play. If you're spinning up a game of HIS MAJESTY THE WORM online, check it out: www.hismajestytheworm.games#h.pfuql57d5pt9
His Majesty the Worm
His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small moments of daily life inside t...
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Silver for Family Game goes to Dragon Town and the Darkness Below, JP Coovert
As Disability pride Month comes to an end, we're throwing back to one of our favourite ever panels. Our incredible panellists discuss the importance and the joy of seeing disability represented in TTRPGs. Watch now and take some lessons with you beyond July! www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OH...
Panel: Disability Representation in TTRPGs
July is Disability Pride Month and this panel discusses the importance of disability care and representation within the TTRPG community. Supported by Fey Earth and their Hidden Folk of the Feywild…
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Struggling to find art for your One-Page RPG Jam entry? Help is here... in the form of dead people: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... (Part 1 of 2) #ttrpg #publicdomain #art #rpg #onepagerpg
Public domain art resources
Using public domain art in tabletop game design
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Pushing these casting calls one last time before GenCon.
Two Casting Calls A Triangle Agency mini-series by @shinobisukiro.bsky.social Session Zero: 8/10 7pm CDT Session and Call Time: 8/17 to 9/21 6:30pm CDT A Fire Tales one-shot by @firetales.bsky.social Session Zero: 8/22 12:30pm CDT Session and Call time: 8/29 12:30pm CDT linktr.ee/nerdswithdice
I am PERSONALLY haunted by the hockets in Beethoven's No. 6 in F Major in the Pastoral movement. Like a sleeper cell agent as soon as I hear one, I'm muttering 'hocket' in time and key until the piece is over.
Are you an emerging BIPOC author in Canada? You have until August 3 to apply for this. writersunion.ca/bipoc-writer...
BIPOC Writers Connect | The Writers' Union of Canada
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FRESH IN THE SHOP: Exquisite Biome by @seaexcursion.itch.io with art by @sifsweetman.bsky.social A chill, speculative biology solo+ game from the creator of enchanted city-building game i’m sorry did you say street magic. Observe and describe an alien ecosystem and the creatures who live there!
Our Kickstarter stretch goal one-shot is finally up for sale on DriveThruRPG! People have been disappearing around a village that SHOULD be war-torn. Could some exorcizing be in order? It's Pay What You Want #dnd www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
We have 2 more goals raise this up even higher at 600 & 1000 backers. If you believe that Actual Play is an important part of helping support indie RPGs & a valuable form or art, please help spread the word & back at any level to help unlock these goals. If you run APs keep an eye out. 10/x
Every campaign we host has at least one stretch goal designed to support established & emerging actual play creators. At 300 backers we will allocate $500 to supporting channels looking to create Actual Plays of CFB games. That's just 15 backers away. 9/x
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.
you can miss me with your AI generated solo ttrpgs on itch.io, I'm curating our club's picks from actual game writers, not slop-prompt-typers.
I don't give a fuck how much I might agree with your political meme or cartoon, if it's obviously AI generated, you're getting a block
I think this is a deep strength of narrative games generally, and The Beckoning Dream specifically. Collaboration and interpretation are constant companions throughout play. Everyone at the table is inviting & invited, building something together based on what the cards are telling them.
everyone wants to help a little bit 😌
Once again, IPR is making magic at GenCon. Pick up your copy of The Bonsai Diary at booth 449, then check out all the other indie titles pushing the boundaries of our hobby.
Here's the list of 154 games from 92 publishers we're bringing to #Booth449 at #GenCon2026 www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Gen-Co...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LITTLE WOLVES! It’s been an amazing year for our game of folk tales & fae queens, and we couldn’t have done it without our amazing team and everyone’s support. It’s incredible to see this game get so much love!
Little Wolves — Dinoberry Press
IGDN’s 2025 Game of the Year Little Wolves is a tabletop role-playing game of folktales, werewolves, and fae queens in The Enchanted Forest. In it, players craft and wear the masks of young-at-heart shapeshifters exploring a forest filled with magic and mystery. As they complete quests and fa
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me when the grief ttrpg game that's about grief specifically talks about grief :0