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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games

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Hosting #RPGenesis since 2010, check out the latest entries at: 👉 itch.io/jam/rpgenesis2026 Managing the #dndisnotforme feed, pin it if you love TTRPGs 👉 bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cal7gyowel…

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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 1h
"How did you get into TTRPGs?" I hail from a past alternative reality in which hobby game stores were allowed to keep themselves open without exclusively selling old Hasbro shit. Therefore something other than D&D was a popular option. One look at #vtm and I was in. #dndisnotforme
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 10h
brace yourselves
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 02/10/2026
#wod-memes is best memes
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 19/09/2026
We can go hotter 😊 The best prep is done during or after the session, not before. Some games don't event have prep at all. The GM is a player too, just wearing a different coloured hat that comes with the game, or not. "your players"? I don't own any players.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 19/09/2026
What is this "adventuring" thing you speak of? #ttrpg #dndisnotforme
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 19/09/2026
Friendly reminder that play has always preceded labour, not the other way around: youtu.be/jlSxKOQ_dDI
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What if Play made us Human?
YouTube video by Benjamin Rosenberg
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 16/09/2026
As a tabletop game, the thing about any #trrpg is that some a̶s̶s̶e̶m̶b̶l̶y̶ ensemble is required. So it always starts as a toy and then eventually is a puzzle or a game. Hopefully, it delivers as a game, as that's why we paid money for it, right? We bought a tool, not some set of permissions.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 16/09/2026
Mage: the Ascension has become quite a classic. Revised edition was the most punishing for the user, if you're looking for that. But the concept itself has been leveraged by a lot of TTRPGs in general with lots of variations. I would also look at Unknown Armies and Ars Magica.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 06/09/2026
My perennial hot takes: Actual Play has existed way before live performative play became popular and took over its original meaning. The GM is a player too, we all can wear different hats, any #ttrpg has the responsibility of defining them. Also #dndisnotforme, not my default way of thinking.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 05/09/2026
"the GM is always right"
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 05/09/2026
Facebook was the original online forum killer. And now Meta still holds a large generation of players under their platforms.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 05/09/2026
Beast Hunters cwgriffen.itch.io/beast-hunters But like the complete game, I wouldn't split the mechanics from it.
cwgriffen.itch.io
Beast Hunters - Bloodcarved Edition by C.W. Griffen (he/they/any)
A narrative action RPG about hunting monsters to gain tattoos of power
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 05/09/2026
Things we tell GMs are probably things that other players should learn as well. Things we tolerate in other players are probably things we should let GMs also get away with. If that makes your game blow up, never to be played again, that's awesome. Play other things with different people.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 05/09/2026
Don't listen to this guy. What you consume, what you spend your time or attention on... that is something you do, not something you are. You can always do something else.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 29/08/2026
Cool, what's your current favourite?
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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DragonBane Outgunned Fabula Ultima
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 27/08/2026
What's on your huge official list of TTRPGs people should play before any of the D&Ds? #dndisnotforme #ttrpg
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 24/08/2026
Probably a Vampire the Requiem campaign that I hosted and lasted for a couple of years.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 22/08/2026
quick #photography #bloomscrolling break have a great weekend 🌺
Tall spikes of small magenta-purple flowers on slender green stems, growing at the edge of a body of water, with a soft blurred background of golden-brown reeds and pale water reflections.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 21/08/2026
#Cyberpunk games may have underestimated just how much of future law enforcement would be just a spot robot taking a waymo to a scene already surveilled by flock cameras and a dji drone. Work from home is never going away now.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 16/08/2026
Cool shelfie 👀
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 15/08/2026
I think you're good 👍 Maybe look at Inspectres as well.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 15/08/2026
I deliberately train their algorithms by subscribing to channels that don't feature the D&D and by marking those videos with "not interested". I basically can't touch anything even adjacent to it, otherwise there's a torrent of recommendations incoming. #dndisnotforme
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Francita, ✨ graphic designer 🖼️🖌 @byfrancita.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
this will sound crazy but I'm willing to super sprint and do free layout for one (1) ttrpg for the @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social . i can have it done in time for the deadline. interested? dm me. i will reject any game with AI or hateful themes, and prioritize games that are finished right now.
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🌱Elaine Lithgow🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I fucking love giving cold hard cash to cool artist to make illustrations. It’s such human experience. Talking over briefs, developing a style, pitching ideas and watching the WIP evolve. All while helping each other live? Sharing in human creativity is fucking great, gang.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 14/08/2026
I try to avoid dealing, handling or running when I host a #ttrpg One of the reasons why #dndisnotforme I prefer deciding on a game by what they say they do and then play it as close as possible to what I gave them money for. Weird concept, I know.
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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 12/08/2026
#solareclipse #photography
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
And sidestepping the many dimensions of #solottrpg, if a single person holds all the fictional or real content at the table, all of this ain't working boss. If the GM is just putting pretty words together for your entertainment, we have literally lost the plot.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
A shared relationship between real and fictional #ttrpg content is an essential part of these games for me. So many issues arise out of losing this connection. You suffer damage, you heal damage, number go down, number go up. Either "nothing happened" or is "just narrative". Both sides lack oomph.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
A real source of #ttrpg confusion is putting action and perception into the same bag of tests. Everyone should be aware of the difference, even if the game doesn't design for it. Depending on the game, we can play around with drips of information, but what we know isn't the same as what we do.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
#dndisnotforme
A cartoon skull-faced sorcerer with curved horns, a dark purple hood and robe, and clawed golden gloves stands before a stone wall, holding a glowing white orb. Overlaid text reads: "Be weird. Be strange. Be cringe. Be so esoteric that the townsfolk spread horrific legends about all the joy you're allowing yourself to experience."
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
"We call scenarios adventures..." Well, that makes it even more ironic.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
Most #ttrpg scenarios aren't really that good. But among those we also have scenarios that go: "Eight of your friends roped you into hosting a game because nobody else wants to host as well? Say no more, it's bullshit grindhouse time!"
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
Wondering what cool #ttrpg people can do in one week? Check out the entries for our latest #RPGenesis game jam: itch.io/jam/rpgenesi... #gamedesign #indiettrpg #writing
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Submissions to #RPGenesis 2026
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 12/08/2026
What's a scene? Wrong answers only. #ttrpg #dndisnotforme
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 10/08/2026
Having hosted my last game jam four years ago, I had no idea that now we're swimming in random AI submissions from people who have never read what your itch.io jam is about. Anyway, #RPGenesis is back, baby!
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
It's cool, I've already answered on the forum 👍
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
Congratulations on reaching the finish line of your #RPGenesis 2026! Check out our entries and our community at itch.io/jam/rpgenesis2026 Share your #ttrpg with the world and watch it rise in the ranks of itch.io ​Learn all about other entries and share them as well. Thank you for joining.
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#RPGenesis 2026
A game jam from 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-09 hosted by dreamup & Lady Entropy. 🇵🇹🇧🇷 Olá! Clica aqui para ler o anúncio em português Faz do teu RPG uma realidade neste intenso exercício criativo imbuído de espíri...
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
I can feel the range of options this playtest is considering when a lot of stuff can go either way or be dropped for something else. It does happen that different chapters don't seem to be aligned by the exact same intent. I can also see the parts where some D&Disms creep in.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
Am reading the #vtm alpha packs. Heart seems to be in the right place, not sure about the execution. In some ways, the game looks the same 30 years later and in others, it might be new. I can see how it has the potential to cause backlash from just about everyone.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
Am reading it. Most of the drama stuff seems optional. Maybe you can define some side threat that comes along if the points show up for it. Or just save the points to power NPCs. Either way, the role of the Storyteller is still very much the traditional one.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
I expect for every attempt to measure the prevalence of the D&Ds to fall somewhere between 70% and 90%. This is just what I got and I'd be happy to find other sources of data.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
Three quarters of the hobby only plays the most popular #ttrpg, the one with the most people running games that they only need to show up to. dreamup.games/dndrpg/ For them, a game being about anything doesn't matter. Where's the next person running the next campaign? #dndisnotforme
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D&D or tabletop RPGs, which is more niche? And how much so?
Data from the number of active unique users on r/dnd and r/rpg.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 09/08/2026
Before you say "but I never read the book", some person some time read something that is now being passed on to you. And by then they were already thinking of potential characters.
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Gabriel Kerr @gabokerr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Velouria is the bardic dueling TTRPG. Duel your rivals with music and find fame through the kingdom! Get it at gabokerr.itch.io/velouria
alt A bard tuning a lute in neocaravagiste style
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 08/08/2026
Friendly reminder that, depending on some terms I'm not sure about, as a #ttrpg designer you can decide what's the fee that itch.io gets. No other specialised platform does that. You have to go to something like ko-fi.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 08/08/2026
#ttrpg character creation starts when a potential player reads the book and doesn't really end when you start playing.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 08/08/2026
💪 #ttrpg #podcasting
 “Epic Handshake” meme (two muscular arms clasping hands). Left arm labeled “#ttrpg,” right arm labeled “#podcasting,” with the handshake caption reading “making negative money.”
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 08/08/2026
How's your #ttrpg going? I've seen a 8309 word count today.
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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 08/08/2026
PTA mentioned 🤩 Have a fan mail.
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