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Christopher Helton @dorkland.itch.io · 11/09/2026

My upcoming game from Osprey Games, Midnight Heroes, is a hybrid of FAE and Fate Condensed. I ran FAE for years in my home games and started integrating material from Condensed when it came out. Dresden Accelerated and the Young Centurions games have been a huge influence.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 08/09/2026

I'm getting an itch to start streaming TTRPGs again. Definitely Fate for the system, but I'd like to visit a collection of ideas. * Star Trek: Maquis—a different take on Voyager. * The Distance—999 years ago your generation ship filled with aliens crashed on a planet without resources for repair.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 26/08/2026

"Is he even in this thing?"

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 24/08/2026

It's been a while since I've talked about the Fate and Blades in the Dark SRD sites. Let's look at some analytics.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 23/08/2026

I'm four long sessions in and the Daggerheart TTRPG is really scratching my itch for D&D-style play. Creating encounters is easy and fun. Playing it at the table is fast and it keeps the energy up. It helps that I'm converting Curse of the Crimson Throne. It lets me focus just on system stuff.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 05/08/2026

Random TTRPG dice mechanic—setting floors & ceilings for a d20 roll. As a Bard, the lowest you can roll on a d20 is equal to your level. If you roll less than your level, count it as having rolled a value equal to your level. There are certain skills that some classes just shouldn't fail outright.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A pair of tabletop game designers have launched an open-source colour identification system called ColorSym, giving publishers a free tool for colourblind-friendly board game creation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Science fantasy & planetary romance span a wide spectrum, from Flash Gordon to She-Ra to Steven Universe and beyond. Umdaar tackles them all by offering a framework of character options, worldbuilding tools, and rules plug-ins so you can play the game YOU want to play. UMDAAR! Available now. PWYW.

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Umdaar: Rebel Broadcast Edition - Evil Hat Productions | Fate | DriveThruRPG

Several thousand years ago, a new order arose! The malevolent Masters unearthed ancient technology and strange weapons. Today these despots rule over the Dread Domains! Only the foolish or the brave d...

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We're happy to present the FREE @roll20.net Quickstart module for UMDAAR! Includes six pregen PCs plus an adventure to jumpstart your larger-than-life adventures! (This is a precursor to a full UMDAAR module that's in-process. Look for it later this fall.) marketplace.roll20.net/browse/modul...

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Umdaar Quickstart - Play on the Roll20 Virtual Tabletop

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 04/06/2026

Play Daggerheart or Pathfinder for a D&D feel. Play Fate, Blades in the Dark, or Brindlewood Bay when you're ready to level up.

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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Reply or quote with your favourite non D&D RPG

I am begging you to please play an RPG that is not Dungeons & Dragons.

I am not telling you to stop playing D&D. I have nothing against D&D, but there are literally thousands of other games from hundreds of other genres that you could also be playing.

Why enjoy one thing when you could enjoy many thing?

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Remy Porter @remyporter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My I suggest you spend 7 minutes of your lunch break watching our film when it premieres in a few minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g88Y...

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Poetic Faceoff

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 01/06/2026

I started a new campaign. One guiding principle I'm using is that all loot has to have flavor. Something that feeds the story of the world. All of the healing and stamina potions the PCs started with were from the poor part of town. That wizard they took out? He had one from a fancy place.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 29/05/2026

When it comes to running an TTRPG campaign, one of the best things you can do as a GM is to instill a feeling of the world being lived-in. Sure, my Daggerheart game could just have simple potions but then I would miss out on a great world-building opportunity. Bonus: Get the players to contribute.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 23/04/2026

The Buffy RPG is what broke the spell of D&D for me, opening up a world of great RPGs.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ok, I can't get this idea out of my head, so its your problem now: Galaxy Quest: The Adventure Continues takes place in an alternate timeline where the US government reverse engineers the segment of the Protector II that crashed at the convention at the end of the series. 1/

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 31/03/2026

On this International Transgender Day of Visibility, and every day, it's worth saying: trans rights are human rights. Nobody should have to struggle to be themselves or to be recognized as themselves. Being truly you is beautiful. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 31/03/2026

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!"

Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now."

The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026

move slow and repair things

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 10/02/2026

I think I want to write a "modern" wizard book that parallels the cultural change of Vatican II in the 60s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...

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Second Vatican Council - Wikipedia

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Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag.com · 27/01/2026

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

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Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag

Read the book online for free.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

NOW - Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... who wouldn't want a robot to... watch over your kids, take care of your pets... we are in the most interesting time in history."

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 12/01/2026

My go to GM toolkit/games for the curious. Microscope Fate Blades in the Dark Storytelling deck 3 sets of large dice A small penguin used as a mini Dad jokes

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 12/01/2026

Kicked the tires on Daggerheart this weekend. The short version: I’m going to run a TTRPG campaign with it. Fate is my ride or die, but I’ve been wanting something with more crunch.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/01/2026

JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 08/01/2026

I expected more from Discord events. Last month our TTRPG group's server of choice, Guilded, closed its doors. While I'm working on a Discord Clone for D&D, it isn't ready yet so that group decided to move to Discord.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 06/01/2026

I'm going to be running a Daggerheart one-shot this weekend to test out the system. Fate is my ride or die, but I cut my teeth on D&D, especially 3.5. Lately I've been wanting something that scratched the itch of the crunch of 3.5 while working with the zero free time that I have.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 04/01/2026

One of the things I've started to love in RPGs as an adult is when they are complete games, adventure and all. To be clear, I'm not talking about prewritten adventures. Those have rails. And rails are not a bad thing! I've enjoyed playing and running many a railroad.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 04/01/2026

The Brindlewood Bay Murder Mavens have prevented the Midwives from birthing an eldritch horror! Our Void Mystery started out as a regular mystery. The Mavens were witnesses at the trial of a previous suspect when that suspect is murdered in the court room!

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 02/01/2026

⚔️ 2025 TTRPG wrapped - Played slightly more than every other week - Ran slightly more games than I played (19 vs 14)

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 02/01/2026

Our Brindlewood Bay campaign is coming to close soon. In fact, tomorrow I run the Void Mystery but that isn't going to be the last session. We've decided that after the Void Mystery, which is the real end of the campaign, we are going to have an Epilogue.

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MisterG (he/him) 🛠 games 🎲 @pg-yyz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Excited to have sold 969 copies of The Ascellan Conspiracy, my first timeline for Fate of Cthulhu #ttrpg by @evilhat.bsky.social. Help me get to 1,000 copies sold on @drivethrurpg.com by the end of 2025! bit.ly/AscellanCons... (Don't have the core rules? They're ALSO on sale!) #ttrpgcommunity

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 28/11/2025

Spending time today working on my Discord Clone for D&D. I'm aiming for a mix of Discord, Fari, and MediaWiki. I'm hoping to alpha test it in December.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Not only are there a metric buttload of great games in here (Monster of the Week! Blades in the Dark! Thirsty Sword Lesbians!) but if you dig down into the Gate section, in the Worlds in Shadow book you’ll find Crimeworld, which is me puking out Heist and Con 101, for #ttrpg use or whatever you want

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 04/11/2025

I'm making a Discord clone for Dungeons and Dragons. Well, every tabletop RPG, actually. This is the second update on that journey. This is all still super alpha, but I'm having fun! youtu.be/QPdfxbKxOvA

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Making a Discord clone for Dungeons and Dragons, part 2—Polls!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 27/10/2025

True for so. many. books.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 27/10/2025

Making a Discord clone for Dungeons and Dragons My TTRPG group's chat service of choice is going away in December, so I'm rolling my own replacement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsfN...

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The fascism will continue until we all stand up.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

this is beautiful. we outnumber them by thousands to one.

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 30/09/2025

When will emojis be permitted on birth certificates? I bet it'll be 20ish years after the first pop star whose name has an emoji. (Prince doesn't count. As always, he was a genius before his time.)

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Some great advice on running Fate here 👍💪👇

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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 30/09/2025

I'm glad a big meeting was called to fix the fat troops problem. 🙄 “Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation and see fat troops,” he said. “...unacceptable to see fat generals & admirals ... leading commands around the country and the world.”

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