That special joy you feel when your partner, unprompted, asks to watch with you that niche YouTube video of your favorite cryptid that you off handedly mentioned while window shopping at a dying mall together 🧡
Charlie "The Common DM"
@thecommondm.bsky.social
Casual ttrpg writer, sad poet, game master, and lover of all things tabletop. 31 year old They/Them ✌️
A short musing today about religion in fantasy worlds, childhood, statues, fish trophies, The Chicago Bulls, pancake breakfasts, and a dog named Scott. Hope you like this break from the usual. www.explorersdesign.com/religious-by...
Religious by Design
Religion in fantasy worlds, games, and walleye trophies.
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop@backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 2d agoHot in your inbox: it's the Monthly Mecha newsletter for August. This month features an interview with @snow117.bsky.social about Screaming Metal: Vector Soul, a real-time mecha rpg about toxic lesbians piloting living machines! Also in the newsletter: a MechxMushroom crowdfunder, an AP, & MOAR.
Crawling down real mine shafts, riding real helicopters over real deserts, and jumping off real roofs into slightly less-real magical portals.... Read the beautiful story of how a group of high school students in Colorado invented their own special kind of game: www.rascal.news/larping-cthu...
Larping Cthulhu-style
How the HP Lovecraft Historical Society dressed up, solved mysteries, and lost their minds having fun
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Be the mushroom you always wanted to be. We are Mushrooms arrived from the printer and will be ready for sale this week. It's a bit of a smaller print run than usual, so watch omnes.exeunt.press for the announcement. It's a chill game. And the book includes a crochet pattern!
@bymattkelly.bsky.social put together a collection of Cairn adventures folks made for the Appendix N Jam: itch.io/c/7779132/ap...
Appx. N Jam 2026 - Cairn Collection - Collection by By Matt Kelly
A collection by By Matt Kelly
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Dice Man — it's just how he rolls... More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590
announcing DIGITAL PET JAM, brought to you by @ophanimkei.com & me! 💫 join us in making games, comics, toys, fansites, & more, all about digital pets! all mediums welcome. this is an unranked jam with no winners or prizes. jam will run from sep 25 - oct 31. seeya there!!!! itch.io/jam/digital-...
You can now convert any Pokemon into an enemy for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland or, most importantly, Into the Oddish #osr #ttrpg #pokemon
Convert Any Pokémon to Into the Oddish Stats — Prismatic Wasteland
Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
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itch.io/jam/osg-lock... HOME STRETCH!
LOCKED IN: a Mech Media Jam
A game jam from 2026-07-01 to 2026-08-01 hosted by On the Shoulders of Giants. COCKPIT OR COFFIN? You never thought it could happen. Your mech, the titanic robot that gives you the power to fight back...
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On the Shoulders of Giants@osgpod.bsky.social · 2w agome looking through your sickening locked in jam wips
One thing I should have said in the video. I have this attitude that defines our community spaces, but I've never really talked about it. It is this: People rise to your level of expectation. If you treat people like intelligent, responsible, introspective adults, they will behave that way.
colors are in, what do you think? GODZILLA VS GIGAN! ink on paper / digital coloring #art #tinykaijudoodle #fanart #toho #godzilla #ゴジラ #kaijune2026 #kaiju #tokusatsu #ガイガン
Spider Samurai: ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴀᴄʜ 🏖️@spidersamurai.bsky.social · 2mo ago#Kaijune day 12 GODZILLA VS GIGAN! #art #tinykaijudoodle #fanart #toho #godzilla #ゴジラ #kaijune2026 #kaiju #tokusatsu #ガイガン
It's done! Much like our diminutive heroine, I've reached the end of this particular quest. Shout out to every dungeon synth artist; I must have listened to most of them while working on this.
"There's The Arch! And there's The Arch! And there's the other Arch! And there's-"
Arno’s Archive@maga-zin.bsky.social · 4w agoAndrey Zakirzyanov- The Tower, ca. 2012 #Art
seven part pact launches in 2 days, here's some sketches by @badbucket.bsky.social showing the process for designing different boards — each of the seven wizards has their own board game with completely different rules (and inspiration from different styles of medieval art)
Vote for her. #1. Now.
Seraphina Garcia Ramirez@seraphimseraphina.bsky.social · 4w agoVoting for the 2026 ENNIE Awards is live! I’m one of the candidates to be a judge next year, and I’m asking for your vote! In this thread I’ll explain what that means, why you should vote for me, and where you can read more of my thoughts on tabletop games. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ 1/
Hey. Wait a minute. This looks familiar 🤔 @prismaticwasteland.com
The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social · last mo.Blue root, from “Erbario”, a wonderful 15th-century herbal from northern Italy. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal Also available as a print in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/blue-root
Kaijune / day 5, GHIDORAH!🔥 coming up next: Invasion of The Astro Monster ✨ #kaijune #kaijune2026 #tinykaijudoodle #kaiju #godzilla #toho #tokusatsu #art #ghidorah #illustration #ゴジラ
Spider Samurai: ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴀᴄʜ 🏖️@spidersamurai.bsky.social · 2mo agoKaijune, day 5, GHIDORAH in progress! Probably gonna finish it tomorrow for Day 6, Invasion of The Astro Monster ✨ #kaijune #kaijune2026 #tinykaijudoodle #kaiju #godzilla #toho #tokusatsu #art #ghidorah #illustration #ゴジラ
I have a lot to say about this cover and it's process, lots of details and Easter eggs for you all! BUT first and foremost, this is a traditional cover! Watercolor, gouache, ink, marker, acrylic paint, and colored pencils 💙 SKREEEEEEEEEEEONGK 🗣️📣
IDWSonicNews ➡️ Road to #100@idwsonicnews.bsky.social · 5mo agoSonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla #1, Cover RI-A by @lightningstar1389.bsky.social #IDWSonic
Can YOU make ANYTHING? More likely than you think. Find out in a few days
holly heckmaybe@heckmaybe.bsky.social · 3mo agohey!!! in 48ish hours i'm hosting another week-long "thing jam".. it's like a game jam except your game can instead be a poem or a photo or a picture or a piece of performance art or anything else! it's non-competitive, open ended and intended as an excuse to have fun! 🤸 itch.io/jam/make-lit...
I've just published the first essay in the design series for Violent Delights: a chess-based RPG about Romeo and Juliet. It's about abstract board games and how we read into them. It also touches on Takuma Okada's Chess: Two Kingdoms.
Essay 1: Chess Supports Roleplay
Reading into chess and other abstract games.
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