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@blackcandlegames.bsky.social
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🩻Tenebrous TTRPGs Hand Crafted by Skeletons |🚫NO AI EVER Currently working on The Dead & The Damned - an apocalyptic survival occult non-historical western #ttrpg built upon Mörk Borg and black coffee. linktr.ee/blackcandlegames

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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Who the fuck it out here consuming Crumbl cookies? How are they still in business? Who says to themselves “Y’know I could really go for the most soulless, mass produced, overpriced, mediocre cookie inside a barren corporate hellscape lit like an operating room.”
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mobile miniature painting station is finished. It has a portable rechargeable LED bar too. Now back to game design. #ttrpg #miniatures
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Printing a case to hold all my paints was one of the best things I’ve don’t tondeclutter a hobby space recently. I’ll post more pics when it is complete.
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Hennie Kriel @officially-hennie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#webcomics #comicsky Andy Babbitz instagram.com/andybabbitz
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arjecu but a vampire @arcanejellycult.itch.io · 08/09/2026
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am sick and mildly delirious and sleep deprived so here I am yelling into the void at 2am. I wish I used this site more. Well, I really wish Twitter was still the same it was like 12 years ago before the Nazis took it. I miss that vibe of connecting with people. Anyway, tried #linocutting today.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There is nothing more ancient and uncaring than a forest. I cannot get this idea out of my head and I don't have room in my life for trying to design a second game but...I am also currently unemployed so...
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hot take Friday: the Michael Graves era of The Misfits was the best one.
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Misfits Punk Skull Logo Reveal
ALT: Misfits Punk Skull Logo Reveal
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As per tradition, WotC has commissioned a no-name developer to produce a low-effort licensed #dnd video game made by the same devs of the last Dark Alliance nostalgia-bait game that was all marketing and zero substance that never got patched and vanished from steam within a year? Hell yeah! #ttrpg
A dogshit doo doo butt slice of the thumbnail for Wizard of the Coast's latest licensed D&D video game and future abortion titled " Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, the World's Most Financially Successful Pile of Vestigial Mechanics and Design-By-Committee Soulless Slop That Was Once a Pretty Gnarly Game Reduced to a Sentient Afterbirth of 'Product' ".
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
End of an era today. I’m offloading a piece of my personal and professional past self that I’ve outgrown by taking most of my D&D books to Half Price Books to sell. This is just a portion of what I’m taking. Here’s to hoping the Mearls autograph doesn’t decrease the value! #dnd #ttrpg
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I refuse to pay Games Workshop $35 for a set of cards for #Killteam that also come as a free PDF. Behold, owning a cheap small black & white laser printer and some highlighters. #Wargaming #Miniatures
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Dead & The Damned is built upon #MorkBorg but is far more than just a reskin with cowpokes and zombies. It has various new and exciting ways for your character to die. Including but not limited to starvation, dehydration, exhaustion, and despair!
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love #DungeonCrawlerCarl not only because I'm a lifelong gamer and I can enjoy all the silly escapism and pop culture references, but also because of things like an anti-capitalist manifesto presented in the form of a rogue AI beginning to gain sapience in the backroom of a male strip club.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ah yes, a scrapped very rough class idea for essentially the “mysterious stranger” western archetype (along with a bad, unrelated doodle). Maybe I’ll revisit in the future. #ttrpg #gamedesign #morkborg
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
24 hours without electricity now after the big storms in the Midwest. I am officially powermaxxing at a McDonalds. It was my son’s idea. He’s reading a Skaven novel and I’m working on TD&TD. Kinda cozy, NGL.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I loathe "what is a RPG?" sections of rules in any #ttrpg, simply because it's a waste of word count. So for TD&TD I've decided to forego it entirely. Does anyone have a link to a great general purpose / neutral resource on this topic? (pls don't link to Critical Role or I'll have an aneurysm 🙏)
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Black Metal band logos more legible than whatever the fuck this is. #dnd #wotc
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Your culture? We own that now." I really thought I liked A24 as a production company for a while but this puts them right into my "get fucked" bin alongside so many other companies.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mitch says hi!
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Hey Bernie: Poolside Scene
ALT: Hey Bernie: Poolside Scene
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
John Blanche was an icon, the 2e #40k box art lived proudly on my shelf for a long time, and kickstarted a lifelong interest in hobby games. The WH community and GW are a complex topic but my heart always has a spot for his art, and his ability to convey the absurd world of 40k so boldly. RIP :(
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Trying to decide on my next major bumper sticker purchase.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Welp...I guess I'm adding "reposting a quote from the pope" to my "weird dystopian bullshit you never in a million years thought you'd do" BINGO card. #NoAI #Anti-AI
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
👏Stop. 👏Supporting.👏 #WotC. Stop buying #dnd products. Stop buying #mtg products. There are SO MANY games that do D&D better than D&D, and have for decades. thisweekinvideogames.com/news/wizards... #gamingindustry #gamesworkers #billionaires #anticonsumer
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Wizards of the Coast Reportedly Sends "Anti-Union" Letters to Unionising Employees
Management has reportedly sent emails and letters to Magic the Gathering: Arena developers warning them about "rigid" union contracts
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just had to explain my @huntshowdown.com custom water bottle to a semi-concerned coworker. It was a gift from a great friend whom I’ve spent thousands of hours in-game with. “Bayou Boys” comes from our dedicated comms channel for Hunt. Reminder - online friendships are just as valid as any other.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
TIL about "hopepunk" and "noblebright" and I really wish we would stop inventing rigid terms for things that could just be thoughtful discourse. Also, adding the word "punk" onto everything ever, is immensely obnoxious. The word holds weight that most are only using as a surface level buzzword.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Happy to be in the first 200 backers! Free League always knocks it out of the park. www.kickstarter.com/projects/119...
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Symbaroum RPG – Revised Core Books & Setting Expansion
Explore a new, thrilling campaign setting for the acclaimed Symbaroum dark fantasy tabletop RPG, guided by three revised core books.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Got this copy of Ra months ago, finally played last night and now I know what all the hype was about. Fantastic game! A bidding / auction game but with lots of dynamic mechanics makes it unpredictable yet still strategic. Loved it, can’t wait to play again. #boardgames #tabletop
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It is not shocking that Wizards doesn't allow you to change your email address tied to your account without a support request, or delete your account. Not shocking, but awfully obnoxious. To be expected for them I suppose. #dnd #mtg
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Posted on my old blog for the first time in about 6 years today. I'm starting over today, the state of the world be damned. We are going to make rad shit and keep moving forward, despite the terrors. #ttrpg #games #dystopia #human #anti-AI #neverAI #morkborg #dnd dreadgazebo.net/pandemic-ove...
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Pandemic Over. Society Crumbling. What Now? Games, of course.
This blog is now over 16 years old, it has been completely ignored for the past 6 years. I suppose 10 years was a good run. It landed me places that allowed me to buy a home, make lifelong friends,…
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
2026 is almost half over and my plan to escape the IT industry has barely gotten off the runway. Fuck.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#GenAI is like knowing a dude who has 1 parlor trick and they won't stop showing it off at every fucking party they go to. The first time you see it, it's momentarily intriguing and every time thereafter it's just boring, unimpressive, exhausting, and fills you with increasing amounts of rage.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
There are few things in this life as cruel as being forced to maintain a LinkedIn profile in order to be legitimately considered for employment. I have worked in tech for my entire adult life and I want out. At the very least I don’t want to work for fragile Gen X men. #jobs #tech #IT #sysadmin
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Playing some of the League of Legends CCG with my son tonight. I genuinely love this game’s mechanics. Quote refreshing after bearing witness to Magic’s power creep and overall absurdity over the past 25 years #LeagueOfLegends #Riftbound #ccg #cardgames #tabletop #mtg
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I went inside a Books A Million for the first time yesterday and saw a 5" tall 3D printed Godzilla statue in a box with a $20 price tag on it and now I don't understand anything anymore.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Make up a fake #JRPG and tell everyone you know that it's the best one out there, but they'll never find a copy because it's too obscure. Me? I'm busy playing Overdrive Saga: Heavenly Tactics. (...Brought to you by being bored at work while working on another name generator for DatD) #ttrpg #dnd
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Time to share a bit of progress for The Dead and the Damned with a snippet from our "Wild Eyed Survivalist" class. Definitely inspired by @huntshowdown.com's "Mountain Man" aesthetic. This magnificent piece was done by @sudzart.bsky.social #morkborg #ttrpg #occult #western #survivalhorror
A black and white A5 size page detailing an RPG class for the Wide Eyed Survivalist. Several abilities are listed such as "Bushwookie" and the art depicts a shirtless man with a thousand yard stare. He wears a badger skin hat and has a satchell slung across his body. He wields a rudimentary axe with a small tassle at the base of the handle. His left arm is bandaged and you can see a rifle that's slung over his back just above his shoulder. He has a long white beard tied neatly at the base with a small bit of fiber and bone.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
You guys remember that time Monte Cook successfully sold people a Kickstarter where he just fucked around and went "ghost hunting"? I sure do. #dnd #ttrpg
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Nature is healing.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Another day, another band I (used to) respect using GenAI slop in their music videos. First Atreyu, now Arch Enemy. It's so lazy and disrespectful to artistry at large. What a fucking bummer. #metal #genAI #AISlop #MusicVideos #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wujj...
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ARCH ENEMY - To The Last Breath (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by Arch Enemy
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Nothing makes me more sad for humanity than YouTube thumbnails, especially so when you're not logged in. Holy shit. In other news, the first final draft of The Dead and the Damned should clock in mid February. It's been too long getting this thing finished but fresh eyes have really revitalized it.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We have entered a new era where some of my favorite musical artist are putting out new songs but then the album art or #music video is loaded with #GenAI slop and it's really killing my soul because both Atreyu and Carpenter Brut have gone this way. New tracks sound great, but I've massive respect.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I used to think that people who lauded #DavidLynch were performative and pretentious. I watched Eraserhead ages ago and hated it, I wrote off consuming any of his other work. Recently a friend convinced me to watch Twin Peaks. I am now tarnished by sadness knowing this man is gone from our world.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The best thing about d66 tables is they don't contain 6-7. #ttrpg #brainrot #parenthood
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Just like actual modern Dungeons & Dragons rules, all of the PCs in #StrangerThings have plot armor thicker than Matt Mercer's collection of leather bracelets. #dnd #ttrpg
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
What if I play RPGs not to have transcendent emotional experiences and I just like to fucking roll dice and beat up skeletons, is that okay? #ttrpg
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Any suggestions for writing tools that work well with game design? I've (unfortunately) written all of my game in @obsidian.md but I'm now finding exporting the files into a single PDF impossible and manual copy/paste into word processor a tedious formatting nightmare. #ttrpg #writing #gamedesign
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I love when you get a notification like "YOUR PACKAGE HAS BEEN SHIPPED!" but then you look and it just says "pending" for 3 days but then you get another notification like "OMG UR PACKAGE IS ALMOST THERE" but you look again and it just means somebody printed the sticker to put on the box.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I saw a vertical video today of some massive 3d Printed character sheet w/ spinning dials and immediately felt old. 3D printing is great, but too many use it to generate banal future-trash. Pen & paper is all you need, not sure why #ttrpg gamers are so obsessed with accessories but I kinda hate it.
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🜃 Black Candle Games 🜃 @blackcandlegames.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
In HS I was aiming to be a journalist, I then shifted to architecture after enjoying learning AutoCAD. I was "good at computers" and was told there was money there, so here I am 17 years deep in IT / Sysadmin work and I couldn't be more miserable professionally. I'm 40, it's too late to start over.
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