(you'd be right! I do enjoy this!)

2027: A submarine set to explore the newly discovered Kalisan trench (55,000 ft) disappears halfway through its descent

Get Ready for Cryptid Cities From Hatchlings Games - Get Ready for Cryptid Cities

A decade after the events of Cryptid Creeks, the now-adult Scouts must reunite to tackle an eldritch threat to their hometown once more. Inspired by Stephen King’s IT, Cryptid Cities launches on @backerkit.com this Halloween!

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Launch art by @/luseals.bsky.social

THATS WHAT IMM SAAYYINNNN!!!

1000% deep ocean! Its the birthplace of aberrations, graveyard to drowned gods, and home to transgressors and the antediluvian!

Its got flesh eating parasites, cognivorous predators, monsters of unfathomable scale, and transubstantial fathoms that blurr the definition of humanity of all who enter!

Cryptid with whiskers on rooftop of clubhouse. Crescent moon and Fairy lights illuminate the scene.

A bunch of projects launching for Kickstarter’s #ZineQuest this month are using Gen-AI. Even if the concept sounds appealing, please support designers with integrity first. If this sounds unreasonable, we shouldn’t be mutuals.

Art by @/willowsquest.co.uk
Logo by @/hinokodo.com

Fantasy in My Backyard - Google Maps World Building Build a hidden world of urban fantasy in real cities using Google Maps. Collaborative worldbuilding to create the relationships, history, and secrets of the game's fantastical factions.

There's also this sick as fuck google maps #ttrpg that just looks conceptually rad as hell????

that also is donating 25% of profits to the America Civil Liberties Foundation?!? Just rad as fuck

there's just a lot of cool shit in this year's Zinetopia!!!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

DedBoi - an investigative solo TTRPG You wake up dead. It’s a lot to take in, but there’s no time for philosophising- you’ll need to travel between Earth, Heaven and Hell to figure out whodunnit, howdunnit, and whydunnit. A game about de...

If you haven't seen it, a really rad lookin solo ttrpg where you wake up dead and begin to uncover everything that looks like a blast

Ive not delved into many solo ttrpgs and Im pretty fuckin stoked to get into this one

#ttrpg

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

If you haven't heard, Backerkit's #ttrpg Zinetopia is happening!!! There's some juicy juicy stuff that ive already backed that you should def check out 👀

www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

👏👏👏

Quill pens, 100%

The fluffiee the feather, the better

A skeleton in robes with a scepter floats on front of black and white stairs. The title Crypt of the Nekrolych appears at the top, and "Villain Frame" appears at the bottom. Below, it indicates it is Daggerheart compatible, and that it is made by TGR Games

#rpg #ttrpg
Do you feel #Daggerheart does not have as many monsters as you may like? Do you need guidance on running the ultimate Big Bad Evil in your campaign?

Be sure to get the Crypt of the Nekrolych VILLAIN FRAME

tgimenezrgm.itch.io/crypt-of-the...

Thank you for dinner. It's been a long time since I've trusted someone else to pick the restaurant. I really appreciate you paying too. It means a lot to me.

I should probably tell you I'm cursed.

Build Urban Fantasy in Real Places with Google Maps From Chase Call and James Quigley - Build Urban Fantasy in Real Places with Google Maps

Fantasy in My Backyard is coming in 8 DAYS!

-Use Google Maps to build world build in real cities
-Create "hidden world" of magical locations and people
-Inspired by Beak, Feather, Bone, i'm sorry did you say street magic, and Ex Novo

Download the Free Preview below! 👇

bit.ly/backyard-teaser-bsky

WYRM by Gila RPGs OSR style fantasy adventure game

WYRM is here!

WYRM is my fantasy adventure game, and my take on the OSR/NSR style of play, with a Gila twist.

Get the core rules, starting adventure, starter sandbox hexcrawl today.

All PWYW.

This is just the start of WYRM.

gilarpgs.itch.io/wyrm

Build Urban Fantasy in Real Places with Google Maps From Chase Call and James Quigley - Build Urban Fantasy in Real Places with Google Maps

Zine Month good game coming. Make real cool fantasy city with friends. Build connections, create cool locations. Pull funny face cards use magic. City world building game very nice.

Bit.ly/backyard-teaser-bsky

dnd monster stat block of the giant isopod with art of a sketched giant isopod laying on its side

little guy alert in the fucked up deep sea world?

ofc I had to make it just a liiitle evil, so they CAN be eaten as a foodsource, however they rather quickly grow fetid, so the little guy must be consumed alive, or boiled alive!!

#dnd #ttrpg

dnd monster stat block of the giant isopod with art of a sketched giant isopod laying on its side

little guy alert in the fucked up deep sea world?

ofc I had to make it just a liiitle evil, so they CAN be eaten as a foodsource, however they rather quickly grow fetid, so the little guy must be consumed alive, or boiled alive!!

#dnd #ttrpg

We’re about 3 weeks from #ZineMonth, so this is the final reminder that I’m offering FREE crowdfunding campaign reviews throughout January. I’m prioritising #ZiMo and #Zinetopia ttrpg designers, so if that’s you, don’t pass this up!

#Kickstarter #BackerKit #indie #zine #ttrpg

2025 New Arrivals at Tabletop Bookshelf

This year we onboarded over 150 new titles, each one hand-picked for our carefully curated collection. We bring you the best pen-and-paper RPG and solo game books you won't find anywhere else!

dnd 5e 2024 monster called the deeplost with art of a pale blue humanoid with taught skin and visible ribs coming from the darkness with three slits for eyes and a vertical mouth that extends to the top of their head with jagged smal teeth and a really long tongue

rules on grafting, harvests, and deep sea madness

continued rules on deep sea madness

iittsss tiimmeeee!!! grad school has been absolutely kicking my ass, but I'm ready to get back into the swing of things!!!

so first off I have a lil' fucked up aberration/undead hybrid known as the Deeplost!

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

dnd 5e 2024 monster called the deeplost with art of a pale blue humanoid with taught skin and visible ribs coming from the darkness with three slits for eyes and a vertical mouth that extends to the top of their head with jagged smal teeth and a really long tongue

rules on grafting, harvests, and deep sea madness

continued rules on deep sea madness

iittsss tiimmeeee!!! grad school has been absolutely kicking my ass, but I'm ready to get back into the swing of things!!!

so first off I have a lil' fucked up aberration/undead hybrid known as the Deeplost!

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

Sleeping blue dragon sheltering cloaked figure with wing

We’ve been waiting to further explore the sign language learning elements found in Inspirisles, and with Dragon Dowsers we finally can!

During downtime, you’ll be able to nurture the hatchlings using sign language, as if communicating in baby sign or Makaton. Can’t wait to show you more! 🐉👋🏽

Fantasy in My Backyard - Editor Open Call

Hello!

I'm looking for an editor, layout designer, and illustrators to help bring my urban fantasy world build rpg, to life for Zine Month 2026. All work pre-crowd funding will be paid with additional work contingent on funding. Feel free to reach out directly if you have any questions

Forms below

I attended one of the #RPG Designer Meet & Greet session at #PAXUnplugged this year and saw some interesting games! #CardGame #TTRPG #TabletopGames #PAXU

Thank you to @brianliberge.bsky.social for the reminder and glad to meet @bizzy-brie.bsky.social & @kyngvee.bsky.social while I was there! 💖

An illustration of a rocketship blasting off in a huge plume of fire and smoke next to a futuristic concrete tower.

After a pause, we are once again accepting pitches for games.
If you've designed a TTRPG (especially one built on PbtA, Forged in the Dark, or Fate) that's near-complete, you can find details about how to pitch us (and the services we provide) here:
evilhat.com/game-submiss...

Yeah! Formatting mostly. How to figure out my indesign doc so it prints for saddlestitch and figuring out how much/if i need bleed if i only have 8.5x11 paper to print on!

Ive made some progress!!

The meme of "my body is a machine that turns 'the passage of time' into 'not writing'." This is a joke about writing and how so much of writing is not writing— or at least, that's what I tell myself when I am avoiding writing, which is a big part of my actual job. I mean writing, not *not* writing. Bosses: do not look at this, especially if you are expecting something from me soon. Obviously, everything is going great. I am not procrastinating by making this meme. I am not deliberately wasting time in every possible way I can think of after already having made breakfast int he most laborious way possible, catching up on email and slack messages, engaging in some discord discourse, and checking every social media feed I have the misfortune to remain entangled with, and I fully intend on starting to write for real the moment I hit the button to send this tweet. Yes, I still call them tweets. It's an act of resistance at this point, calling them tweets. I remember there was some discussion of what to call them, and I have to say I did laugh about "skeets," since the act is comparable in some ways: it feels good in the moment, but results in something useless and gross just moments later... is this too much to get into here? I don't know if the wrongheadedly censorious people who run this platform even check descriptive alt text, come to think of it. Anyway, I should get back to writing, for real, which I will do now. That reminds me, did you catch the discourse the other day about dialogue choices in games? I don't have much to say, really, other than that creative works can be literally whatever you want them to be, so arguing about them isn't as productive as simply making the work you want to see in the world (and which I'll get back to doing in just a moment). If you want to see my approach to dialogue choices, why not play my visual novel, Eliza? If you've made it this far and haven't yet, I suggest you check it out. Okay, back to writing for real now. Definitely.

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Im not sure if Playbooks match with Booklets like you're mentioning here, but a lot of PbtA games tend to have Playbooks instead of character sheets!

I know Masks comes as an immediate example

Im presently making an autobiographical #ttrpg zine, and gyatt damn i feel so out of my depth learning about how to do this printing shit