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nyvinter @nyvinter.se · 01/10/2026

What if kobolds were more like goats? #art #ttrpg

A goat kobold with fingerless gloves drawing up a pentagram.

DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've had the same Altec Lansing speakers on my desk/on my entertainment center since 2005. Due to a fault that makes them cut in and out, i've installed an extra sound bar I had handy. My god, older speakers really do sound lightyears better. I gotta get them fixed.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just one time in my life I want to do a job interview in the gaming space in which the interviewer asks me a single question about - Design (any) - Writing - Narrative Structure - Game Development - Psychology in Gaming And not... how many Instagram followers I have or what hours I can work.

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Sadie is 🎲 Laying It All on the Line 🎲 @oakleafinsignia.games · 29/09/2026

Storytelling is ancient, and there are so many storytelling traditions that we can use techniques from to be better players and performers. Improv and theatre are not the end all be all for ttrpg storytelling.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think a lot of #ttrpg enjoyers think the term "cinematic" means bombastic, heightened, loud, or zany. When the INTENTION of the term for RPGs is: Cinematic - Combines mechanics, narrative, pacing, and unpredictability to stimulate a deep emotional response in players and their characters.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 18/09/2026

IMHO, Black Flag Roleplaying, and by extension, Tale sof the Valiant, are the best developments from the 5e engine and if you're not checking them out, you need to get right with life! #TTRPG #BFRD #TalesoftheValiant

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Most people tell me when they wake up there's a long period of 'coming out of it' like with Anesthesia. Just like coming out of Anesthesia, I am INSTANTLY the most awake i've ever been when I wake up, usually with fairly complicated stuff on my mind. Not restful going from asleep to LIGHT SPEED

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Toothless Hedance Meme

ALT: Toothless Hedance Meme

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ya girl Riana @diyferret.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think dogs have only two base emotions: Love, and Greed.

My little sister, trapped on a recliner because a giant vizla puppy has decided ti lay on both her and the chair.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When you wake up from the sheer anxiety of financial insecurity feeling like someone is standing on your chest with boots on, it's hard to really brush it off and keep on keeping on.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Secondarily - having so many GMs be [so] subtle and [so] guarded/obfuscated with details means that players may habitually look at tiny coincidences or inconsistencies as INTENTIONAL clues or foreshadowing, throwing them WAY off into the weeds. That often causes frustration and confusion.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Be more direct. Your subtle worldbuilding hints and suspicions are fantastic for fiction, but not for play. "Something somewhere is doing something to affect the water -hint- in Olvermire!" is worthless. "A dragon has chased all the fishmen from Whitethorn mountain, they've overrun Olvermire!"

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My dear, sweet, beloved @playoutlier.bsky.social - I'd love to see an accessibility setting for volume control on the celebratory "yay" when a super rare word comes up. As a friend drowning in anxiety and ADHD, it feels like I've been shot every time startles me - I forget to mute. Consider it? <3

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My melancholic heart is getting the better of me as of late. Though I do not romanticize it at all, I fear it comes across that way to people who never felt its weight.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who needs a word slinger? Beuller? Cause I need a job, it's been too damned long.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Try to make time during your #TTRPG sessions to voice how seriously you're taking the game and how much thought you're putting into your (potentially wacky) decisions. GMs are empowered to hear you're thinking beyond your nose, it makes them more trusting that you're respecting the game and them.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Whenever rain falls in Las Vegas, @staffofsage.bsky.social cannot be contained.

A screenshot from discord in which Sage says "mmhmmm. OPEN ALL THE WINDOWS!" with an animated image of a scrungly looking Elmo with its hands raised standing before a wall of fire.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Dog Stars (2026) Nah. A well-shot movie, Josh Brolin and Guy Pierce were great, Jacob Elordi is a mannequin - but Ridley Scott is plagued by terrible masculine leads. Beautiful scenery can't really salvage the break-neck last quarter of the movie nor the glacial slow first quarter. 5/10 ?

A portrait of two men, taken from the movie poster. In the top right, white text reads 'The Dog Stars." The rightmost man is grizzled with a mop of medium length hair and a mustache and goatee. The leftmost man has black curly hair and a stubble-filled face, with the slack jawed open-mouth expression of someone deeply confused. Both have severe, flat eyebrows.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One thing that's kinda cool about making a TTRPG myself is when playtesters tell me "This seems so good, it's borderline broken" I sometimes get to say "That's as intended" and watch their faces narrow suspiciously I legitimately want every feature/choice/decision to feel extremely potent sometimes

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yeah @themonstersknow.com was right, OUTLIER is pretty much what I enjoy about language. People in the TTRPG sphere know a ton of weird, disused, or archaic words - if you like word games like Wordle or Scrabble, give it a try! playoutlier.com

The scorecard for Outlier that lists my words, a grade of the word, and a red bubble explaining if I was the only person or first person to use a word on a given day. My words are: Mournivals (four of a kind), Bulwarking (build defenses), Yeomanaries (plural of yeomanry), Viceroy, Bulwarked (protected by defensive structures), Cutaneously (through the skin), Unproblematic (not giving issue), Corundum (a type of hard rock), Corundums (multiple types of hardened rocks), and Mucosal (the membrane lining organs and cavities). For a total score of 840 points.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I get "it was a fun [book/movie/show/game] to turn my brain off to" a lot. I'm begging, pleading, imploring those people to engage; to tell me the last thing they did that turned their brain ON so I can gauge how bad their torpidity has become. In the media we consume, SOMETHING has to matter.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That common #ttrpg cold take of "adventurers need to have traumatic backstories because why else would they adventure?" does not take into account how many real humans with mellow upbringings: Cave dive Cliff jump Big game hunt Join paramilitary orginizations Street fight Some people just CRAVE it.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I wonder what inspired the new Warlock video game, based on Dungeons and Dragons lore by Wizards of the Coast, to be designed infinitely higher magic than Dungeons and Dragons. No hate, not vitriolic, just legitimately curious. It legitimately feels like 4e gameplay, which I cut my teeth on.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#TTRPG #GMTip of the day: I'd say 90% of the time, you *should* let your party's plan work. Give them 1-2 obstacles, or 1-2 unexpected wrinkles, but if you consistently side-step or undercut the PCs' plans with subversions, you'll completely shred their confidence as players at your table.

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Pinky Brain's Battle Plan Unveiled

ALT: Pinky Brain's Battle Plan Unveiled

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Me whenever anyone anythings.

A medieval piece of art depicting a grumpy looking serf tending a garden.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Parent: Marjory Blake didn't fill her cup. You knew Marjory when you were 4; her daughter was three classes behind you in highschool, was a cheerleader. Why don't you call more? I can't imagine what we did to make you hate us-

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Fuckup streak.broken. under baked a little, but very solid. Also using an 80 year old starter from plum yeast, which is cool.

A golden loaf of bread sitting on parchment paper.

The interior of the loaf, filled with various sized air pockets.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've completely fucked up the last 5-6 loaves of bread i've tried to bake and I need some positive energy today, because i'm about ready to give up.

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Hurmitt @hurmitt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

✨Notice/Update on Commissions!✨ I have a few pieces left for rewards/gifts that I must finish. I’m going to make a new Trello and open commissions in September. (Probably starting with just a couple slots) DM me if you are interested in a waitlist spot 😳🥰 #commission #art #characterart #ttrpgart

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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The power is mercifully, finally back on after 100 hours without it. I'm starting to restock my fridge now that the stores here are also starting to restock. Losing *everything* in my fridge and freezer hurt. My medical issues mean my food options are extremely limited and rather costly.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Just our standard boilerplate freelance contract. Look forward to working with you! :D" Contract: The moment you submit your work, you're dead to us. You own nothing, are credited with nothing, in perpetuity in this and any other reality. We'll alter your design however we WANT - to hell with you

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 11/08/2026

NEW: The Mecha Hack is mecha tabletop roleplaying game armed with lightweight rules and endless customization. Run your dream mecha game quickly and easily with mechanics built upon The Black Hack. From @absolutetabletop.bsky.social

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I had a series of dreams that stressed me the fuck out about a fantasy battler board game and crumbling friendships. I woke up feeling like I was just in a car crash, the cortisol spike was so insane my hands were shaking a little. Don't remember a time I felt rested and recovered, to be honest.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I wonder how many TTRPGs actually focus most of their attention on the early game mechanical development instead of late-game development. Feels weird for many games i've played to be the most "boring" and "simple" for the first third of their content when most games don't surpass that content.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Its a core mechanic in the game I'm making. Spellcasters actively avoid one another for fear of the lasting effect their combined spell use could have on a single location.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tell me about a current event in one of the cities in your #TTRPG In Saltcombe, a noble and famous duelist has been stuck on his ship in isolation for nearly a week due to a plague that recently hit the city.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wrote a line that made me think of a poem, so here... Sing-song voices boil beneath long-packed soil - offering sweet lies and succulent promises for a few spades of extracted earth - That longing hunger makes memory easy to forget - what we had to bury and why it should remain

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Late to the party, but Thunderbolts was actually in my top 5 favorite marvel movies. I loved the lower stakes story overcome by something other than a bigger stick. A little too flippant at times, but overall I did legitimately enjoy it. Some of the visuals were quite inspired.

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Thunderbolts Team in Elevator: Yelena, Bucky, Red Guardian

ALT: Thunderbolts Team in Elevator: Yelena, Bucky, Red Guardian

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Why would they do that? It makes no sense." Because YOU wouldn't do something doesn't mean these non-sensical, amoral, brain-damaged millionaires/billionaires wouldn't. Believe what they SAY, don't infer what they MEAN. Reference: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Power Causes Brain Damage

How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So i started Slay the Spire years late, but I managed to actually 'beat' the spire on my very first run, while playing off and on between design sprints. It was fun, intuitive, and rewarded careful gameplay. Now I'm playing as Spirit (2nd character) and have never had less fun in my entire life.

An image of the overall statistics of my first run. It took 3 hours and 24 minutes, 1 total victory, 0 deaths, with 51 floors climbed, meaning I breezed through the tower on my first attempt.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Emily Wilson, a scholar who has published a version of The Odyssey in Iambic Pentameter, wrote the literal best review I have ever read in my entire life. I has done much to sooth my psyche to read this review and know I wasn't being unduly pedantic about the film's missteps. Made my day.

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What's stuck in my craw about our current climate crisis is: I don't care whose fault it is. The planet's climate has changed endless numbers of times over its 4.5 billion year lifespan. It's how we're REACTING that makes me incensed - no planning, no great works, no public policies, nothing.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Going to be honest, the sheer volume of rejections I've gotten for full-time employment in the TTRPG space is sapping the life from me. 4 third-interview rejections 2 first-interview rejections 21 no-interview rejections 18 no-replies Hard not to internalize it.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 24/07/2026

A thought on Superhero #TTRPG: Most tables will get their best experiences out of games aimed at the Street to Middle levels of power. Past that, things tend to get janky because many superhero TTRPG mechanics struggle with high and epic power levels. Examples of Street to mid level powers... 1/2

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

for you #TTRPG people who may not know, the rule "Show don't tell" means to let your players make their own supposition about a situation based on concrete details. ❌"She's extremely sad." ✅"She's been crying." ✅"She wipes her tear-streaked face." You have to TELL them, just be more indirect.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hm... The Odyssey was good, but I legitimately like Troy (2004) more for the Iliad storyline and The Returned (2024) for the return to Ithaca. The Odyssey (1997) miniseries was also hokey and cheap but had much better writing. The Odyssey (2026) was at its BEST during Odysseus' missing 10 years.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#GMTip - Keep each feature descriptions to 30 words or fewer, if you can. Short, evocative sentences leave room for imagination. "The water's... very dark. Cold, and so very dark." P: "Can we see land?" "Almost, you think. Through this thick, greasy fog, it's... You've lost it."

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Waves Black Abstract Animation

Alt: Black and white abstract animation of ocean waves, gently lapping up the screen.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you're a #ttrpg GM who struggles with players who make increasingly ridiculous joke characters, like "Dicky Ballman" or a librarian who acts like a rabbit... Evaluate how much DOOM and DREAD you put in your game vs LEVITY or HEROISM. The scales demand balance; your players may be doing it.

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A very deserving friend of mine is up for a more or less dream position for their career. Vague, but some good vibes in that direction would be welcome. \o/

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DropTheDie @dropthedie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A+ advice. You can always, always, always make MORE villains, tell more stories. You aren't guaranteed to have another session.

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