Level 49 🎂

Strahd may die tonight. But more than likely, it's gonna be the PCs. #OSR

I’m thrilled to be writing an adventure for Dungeoncraft's Deathbringer Kickstarter!

I grabbed the Prof's first release back in 2022. His videos pulled me back to the ❤️ of old school D&D.

If you live for OSR play or Shadowdark, this one’s for you 🤘🏻

kickstarter.deathbringer.com

I’m thrilled to be writing an adventure for Dungeoncraft's Deathbringer Kickstarter!

I grabbed the Prof's first release back in 2022. His videos pulled me back to the ❤️ of old school D&D.

If you live for OSR play or Shadowdark, this one’s for you 🤘🏻

kickstarter.deathbringer.com

The covers of the CORE20 playtest PDFs, with art with Xavier Beaudlet. The “Playtest Player’s Guide” features an adventurer and their white tiger companion looking out at a haunted tower. The “Playtest Magic Grimoire” features an adventurer stepping into a glowing portal in a dark forest. The “Playtest GM Guidelines” features a shadowy archway opening up into a jungle ruin. And the “Playtest Creature Package” features a red dragon awaiting an adventurer standing in the entrance to their cavern lair.

The #CORE20RPG is a new approach to d20 fantasy, built on a foundation of freeform characters with no classes and no levels. It turns the aging “pass/fail” core d20 mechanic into fuel for shared storytelling — and you can play for free right now!

core20rpg.blogspot.com/p/the-core20...

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The artwork of the Sage background in the 2024 Player's Handbook: a cosmic arrangement of magical orreries and other astrological devices

It's a great time to join the D&D Studio! We have two open roles on the D&D Game Design Team as of this week:

Game Design Manager
Game Editor

You can apply to these and other roles within the Wizards Tower here: careers.hasbro.com/careers?quer...

#dnd #WOTCstaff

I'm Dad, so you know, I love puns. 🕶️

Ryan Dancey’s take about replacing game inventors with AI at Alderac aged like milk.

AEG has now parted ways with him.

This is a cottage industry. Put artists and creators first. The moment we replace human creativity with AI, we lose what's special about games.

I couldn’t be happier with the amount of support this has gotten.

Thank you all so much. It really means the world to me

Zweihänder Reforged cover. A group of medieval dark-fantasy characters look at the reader.

Zweihänder Reforged cover: A woman with a blade a weird chin stairs foreward.

MONDAY'S WORDS:

* updated Grim & Perilous Studios company history for the Designers & Dragons: The '10s (added about 1,500w)

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Mark is creative. Mark is awesome. And you should back Mark's latest Kickstarter!

Link below 👇🏻

Congratulations Mark!!!

🚨Update on NOCTURNE GOTHIC HORROR OSR!

This is my "what if Ravenloft x Shadowdark" with a ground-up rebuilt osr system. After 14 long months, we are approaching public playtesting.

Spider00x created the character sheet to fold as a brochure for one-shots & to work as 8.5x11.

Neopets: Return of the Darkest Faerie Submission Neopets Adventure Game GAME DESCRIPTION Unravel the mysteries of Altador in the exciting continuation of the Darkest Faerie. It has been a year since the defeat of the Darkest Faerie, but her armies...

Small world!

When I was the creative director of games at Andrews McMeel, I worked w/ editor Erinn Pascal who had a great relationship with the Neopets team (she wrote their cookbook).

I wrote an original pitch for their team. We pass due to high royalty: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's #PortfolioDay again and I'm urgently looking for remote work in game writing/narrative design‼️

I’ve been an indie dev for 10 years and I have worked with clients in the industry since 2019. I also create the Twine Grimoire and volunteer with IFTF.

🪄 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris

Ken “Whit” Whitman, notorious in tabletop gaming for various get rich schemes and scams, is back trying to promote a Best Tabletop Designers of All Time Facebook page where he ranks creators using generative AI slop entries and art.

Please don’t feed the troll.

It's February, which means it's time for another update on Zweihander Reforged! Read within, some good and sad news to share.

Silver lining: four adventures for you to sink your teeth into. Enjoy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zwe...

Last year, I had the opportunity to play THESE BLOODY SAILS with Will, Zac, and Steven. Here's what happened:

Cronenbergian flamingo body horror x Pirate Borg

I enjoyed it. And you will too ttrpg fam.

Now on KS for #ZineQuest www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

Last year, I had the opportunity to play THESE BLOODY SAILS with Will, Zac, and Steven. Here's what happened:

Cronenbergian flamingo body horror x Pirate Borg

I enjoyed it. And you will too ttrpg fam.

Now on KS for #ZineQuest www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

🏴‍☠️ Do you like Pirate Borg?
🛥️ Do you like shipwrecks?
🦩 Are you into weird flamingo ttrpg horror?

Take to the high seas with These Bloody Sails for #ZineQuest on Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

a cartoon of a man saying now you know and knowing is half the battle . ALT: a cartoon of a man saying now you know and knowing is half the battle .

The complaint against metacurrency is silly, because Experience Points are also a metacurrency.

This is who runs this account

Courts of Rememory: A Supplement to Song of the River Prince A book about the Fey and their Kind throughout the Riverlands

Courts of Rememory is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dic... #indieRPG #TTRPG #RPG #cozyfantasy

Got interviewed in Rascal News! Super appreciate the interest in our project, thanks a lot!

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In my view, DMs should focus on pacing the session and let in-game minutes and turns stay flexible, using time only when it supports momentum and fun.

Poor pacing kills excitement far faster than loose in-world timing, especially because players do not naturally make choices that always push toward the next compelling beat.

The real driver of fun is what happens at the table before the game session ends.

So the “time” a DM should track is the session's length and rhythm.

How long it takes to search a room or the length of a combat turn is basically arbitrary.

The DM can call it 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or an hour and it rarely changes the experience in a meaningful way.

Time tracking in Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs is a waste of time.

The more I think about time tracking in Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop RPGs, the less important it feels.

What actually matters is session pacing. 🧵

Charlie is awesome.

Please give him a follow!