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@dungeonmaestro.bsky.social
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He/Him. TTRPGs, Miniatures, Wargaming, Left-wing nerd shit.

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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wake up cutters, a new venture just dropped!
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 04/09/2026
3d6 DTL #Dolmenwood Ep 25, exclusively on Patreon! As new heroes, it falls to the breggles to smooth over some of the bad blood and questionable arrangements that remain in Dreg. A visit to the Spawning Salmon first, and then finally a trip to Chateau Shantywood! #OSR #TTRPG Patreon link below!
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hey friends. I'm helping to run this little convention. If you're local(ish) to me, check it out!
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StrDexCon @strdexcon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hello World! StrDexCon (Strength Dex Con) is Victoria's upcoming tabletop roleplaying game convention, coming February 2027. Follow us for more information or to get involved.
StrDexCon mascot logo on a parchment background
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I ran 'The Seers Sanctum' by @directsun.bsky.social today for a plucky crew of adventurers, using Dragonbane. They solved some puzzles with guile (and luck), got in a tight scrap with a goat demon, and succeeded in getting wealthy with treasure. Highly recommend if you want a clever #osr one shot.
A dungeon tile terrain setup of 'The Seers Sanctum' adventure by directsun, and a stack of game books for Dragonbane.A calico cat lying on a battlemat above the adventure module 'The Seers Sanctum'
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Demi ElGato @demielgato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My new OSE zine: Olig-Vald will be live on ks on August 3rd www.kickstarter.com/projects/365... A micro hexcrawl adventure for OSE characters of level 4 and up. Monsters, dungeons, spells, a detailed town with unique (and uniquely horrible) NPCs and more! #ttrpg #ose #osr #dnd
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Coming soon: Flowers of Fantasy and Fate Issue #1
Olig-Vald, a dangerous micro-hexcrawl for OSE characters of Level 4 and up. 32 letter-sized pages jammed full of gameable material.
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 13/07/2026
3d6 DTL presents their first Official Adventure Scenario, for Old-school Essentials and 4-6 players of 1st-3rd level: THE TOMB OF ARMANSQUAGULAT! Available now for download at DrivethruRPG, Itch, and RPG Trader, this $6 full-cover PDF is fully hyperlinked. Links below! #OSR #TTRPG #OSE #DnD
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Two anuses!
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cover of the unfortunately fictitious magazine Vizier Monthly. Against a red background, a pale man in black sits schemingly, surrounded by headlines
-"they never knew what hit them" Myzithra the Cruel Tells All
-You On Top: The Fierce New Secret to Success
-10 Signs Your Spymaster Is In His Treachery Era (Number 9 Will Shock You!)
-schemes to drive your lord wild
-9 poisons so subtle even you won't know how they died
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 27/06/2026
Played and recorded an unhinged session of @bradkerr.net ‘s Against the Horselord adventure last night in front of a live audience at Between Two Cons! Arson! Unnecessary taxidermy! Patricidal mandolin pluckers! Very sudden trees! #OSE #ActualPlay #TTRPG
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 19/06/2026
3d6 DTL #Dolmenwood Ep 20, exclusively on Patreon! Taru's forgery pays off in unexpected ways, as the malcontented populace of Dreg rise up in arms against the authorities! It's a full-scale riot, and the breggles are in danger of being swept up in it! #OSR #TTRPG Patreon link below!
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A trio of puzzle dungeons from @directsun.bsky.social has arrived! Plus some high quality stickers of @betterlegends.bsky.social's groovy art. Now I have another wizard on my book stand. #nsr #puzzledungeon #zines
Three OSR puzzle dungeon zines, by DirectSun. A Familiar Tower, Aberrant Reflections, and The Seer's Sanctum. Three stickers of SkullBoy's art beside them.
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It's so close I can almost taste it.
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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
*Reposts appreciated” My webstore heycentaur.com is finally up! This took so many months of labour (mostly my partner’s), but it is all ready and running. Physical copies of Kala Mandala are now available, shipping to most of the world.
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Centaur Games
Centaur Games
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is a huge value bundle, for a good cause. A ton of very great #osr / #nsr games and adventures in here.
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Each iteration gets better and better. The Elixirs are going to be crazy fun at the table. The Exotica generator is phenomenal.
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 06/05/2026
We'll be LIVE ON STAGE at #BetweenTwoCons! (It's like our regular show, but we're all in the SAME SPACE. 🤯) Come to Portland! tabletop.events/conventions/... #OSR #NSR #TTRPG #Actualplay
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Proud to be the 5th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Skullboy's Illustrated Guide to Demons! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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Skullboy's Illustrated Guide to Demons
Loud, colorful, and cartoonish art book, showcasing the demonic forces living in their various hells, and the clerics who worship them.
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 05/05/2026
In a 3d6 DTL first, Matt takes the Warden's chair with Cairn 2e! In Amanda P's scenario Orestruck, a catastrophe in the iron mines has piqued the party's interest. Well, the bounty attached to finding survivors sure did, anyway. #OSR #NSR #TTRPG @cairnrpg.com @weirdwonder.bsky.social Links below!
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Frogdreamz @frogdreamz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’m looking for community on bluesky. Anyone open to an #artshare ? Is that how this place works 😂💖 Share your work and I’ll repost Don’t forget to say hi! #fantasy #illustrator #fungi #fantasyart #queerartist
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 02/05/2026
June 2, 2026. For the Oath. For the Glory. 3d6 DTL #MythicBastionland #NSR #OSR #HexCrawl #TTRPG @bastionland.bsky.social
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Wake up babe, new @incunabuli.com lore just dropped! incunabuli.com/lore/beastmen/ #ttrpg #blog
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Beastmen – INCUNABULI – Adventure Gothic
A pair of grouse flushed from the sweetgrass. Two swift cracks split the morning air. A lop-eared hound scrambled down the line of fire, reaching one –
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
@3d6downtheline.com did a TMNT Amuse Bouche last week, and were a team of ninja Squidmen. It was an absolute riot of Saturday morning proportions. Highly recommend if you love hijinks.
Three anthropomorphic squid folk holding various knives and weapons. Captioned "Robert L'eponge", "Billy the Squid" and "Issa Trap"
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 21/04/2026
This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com
I hate predicting what will happen in a story.

I like thinking about what will happen, sure, and I like analyzing how each piece of the story contributes to the greater whole when all is said and done, but if you ask me "Who's gonna be the new King of Westeros?" or "Who's the killer in this season of True Detective?" or even "Will Captain America say 'Avengers Assemble'?" I am simply, deeply, almost obsessively uninterested. I just want to let the story tell me what it's gonna be.

This view, unfortunately, is incompatible with vast swaths of modern fandom, whether we're talking about Star Wars, The White Lotus, or the reason we're here today: The Pitt. Fandom — and I'm using the term very generally here, so if this doesn't describe you, please assume you can go about your business — is obsessed not just with what will happen, but with what should happen, and while there's nothing wrong with playing detective while watching your favorite shows, at a certain point it all gets a bit poisonous.Poisonous for who? Well, I hate to sound like your high-and-mighty Nerd Dad here but A) I kinda am, and B) for you. It's poisonous for you, the person out there trying to get the most out of stories you enjoy in a world that keeps paring movies, TV, books, comics, and more down to the barest algorithmic essentials in favor of ratings and ticket sales rather than narrative. In an age when social media fandom has demonstrably tipped the scales for various creative decisions ranging from Sonic's teeth to the Snyder Cut, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left because we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story. The Pitt is not the first case of this happening, but it is the latest and the loudest, so allow me to make this as simple as I can:

The Story Owes You Nothing.Fiction really is a form of magic. Every book you've ever read, every film you've ever seen, every comic book you've ever slipped from a spinner rack is an exercise in concentrated will imposed by its creators on a creative medium and then, finally, on to you as a reader or viewer. It's not there to be second-guessed. It's there to take you places, draw out emotions, and leave you with a head full of ideas that weren't there before. Like Hunter S. Thompson said: Buy the ticket, take the ride. Let a story happen to you rather than second-guessing every plot point in favor of some imagined version you'd rather have and will never get to see (unless you write fanfic, which is an entirely different can of worms beyond the scope of this essay). Allow yourself the luxury of putting down your accounts book and your checklist and expecting something, and simply be open to anything. Do that, and not only will the stories get better, but you'll understand them better and feel them more.

The story owes you nothing, but if you let it, it will give you everything.
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If you haven't been privvy to the latest Vaarn happenings, this is a good chance to peek behind the mylar curtains and see what Leo is cooking up.
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 07/04/2026
Hapless explorers haven't returned from a recently unearthed wasteland tomb. Time to send in more idio... er, the professionals! Mike takes the reins as Jon, Matt, and Ted uncover the secrets of HELL UNEARTHED, a Shadowdark dungeon by Cameron Maas! #OSR #TTRPG @cameronmaas.bsky.social Links below!
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Jamie is doing a 24 hour Mythic Bastionland marathon to raise money for the Edinburgh Food Project. If you can, please spare him a donation!
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Jamie's fundraiser for Edinburgh Food Project
Help Jamie Adams raise money to support Edinburgh Food Project
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you write adventures of any kind, and you think puzzles are neat, you should check out this panel from GaryCon. It's got @directsun.bsky.social , @josephrlewis.bsky.social , and @bradkerr.net talking about what makes good gameable conundrum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb5u...
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Designing Puzzles for Adventure Games at Gary Con 2026
YouTube video by Direct Sun
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 26/03/2026
Yo so here’s the thing: Fuck JK Rowling. Have some self-respect and don’t watch the cynical money-grab. It directly supports transphobia and hate. Other books and shows exist.
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Adventure Dice -> Winnipeg ComicCon @adventuredice.ca · 08/03/2026
We're back in #Vancouver for @terminalcitycon.ca next weekend! Come find us in the vendor area next to @raincity.games for a new game, a chat, or an extra set of lucky dice between turns...
a pretty pile of dice to one side of a wooden table, leaving space to show the logos for adventure dice, terminal city tabletop convention and the text: we're coming to you vancouver (again!) come find us at TCTV on march 13-15 2026!
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 06/03/2026
3d6 DTL #Dolmenwood Ep 13, exclusively on Patreon! The party commits to securing Ribblemead's safe-keeping, but at what cost? The drunewife Maedred won't leave without exacting her revenge against the faeries, and the goat-folk are sorely tempted by her offering. #OSR #TTRPG Patreon link below!
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
My books from the Down Among the Dead crowdfund arrived today, and they're gorgeous. @limithron.bsky.social has delivered another 100 proof rum soaked chest of gold with these. I've been running a Pirate Borg campaign for almost a year now, it's some of the best RPG I've ever played. #osr #pirate
The "Down Among the Dead" expansion book for Pirate Borg RPG, and next to it the "Cabin Fever" collection of adventures. Above them is a patch that says "Lost Soul" with an image of a pirate skeleton.

#pirateborg
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watt (is making Burial Cloud) @worldsbywatt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It was awesome talking to Chris about a favorite Mothership module of mine, Picket Line Tango on the Ansible Uplink!
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🚨 New Incunabuli lore just dropped! 🚨 This one's really juicy. What if daemons were hive minds of microorganisms from a blood dimension?
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I somehow missed this last week, but check out some of the Mushfolk alumni playing Dungeon Inc. !
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
As of tomorrow, Cairn Press is live! Bring me your modules, your supplements, your hacks - as long as they are Cairn adjacent, I'll take consider it! More soon. cairnpress.ink
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Cairn Press
The official website for the Cairn Press imprint.
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Cloud Empress: Life & Death arrived this weekend. The books are lovely. Having hardcovers of the rules and Land of Cicadas is also a nice upgrade. Thanks @worldsbywatt.bsky.social ! #nsr #mothership #ttrpg
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The Merry Mushmen @themerrymushmen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Now live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/896...
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Dungeon, Inc.
A reverse dungeon TTRPG by the Merry Mushmen
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Grey Wizard - LATE PLEDGES ON KICKSTARTER NOW! @greywizard.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
START - Tutorial adventure site for BREAK!! RPG www.kickstarter.com/projects/bre...
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The Bloggies 2026 submissions are now open! Submit your favorite posts, series, and debut blogs via the official Bloggies page between now and Jan 31st! Please share this around. I'll be making regular Bloggies-themed announcements throughout the month. www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/
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The Bloggies 2026
A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Cairn publishing outfit? So hot!
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I am behind, but just listened to the Ansible Uplink episode with @unenthuser.bsky.social talking about WEG Star Wars and damn it was a good one. Love that system, even if the modules aren't to modern standards. Hyped to have more of those coming later by the sounds of it. #osr #sci-fi #podcast
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7027 - Petitions
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 17/12/2025
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian

Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.

I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/

We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
It's finally my turn. My #Dolmenwood books arrived! I've got my reading sorted out for next week at least. The books are gorgeous, and the cloth map is very stunning.
The Dolmenwood TTRPG books from Necrotic Gnome laid out on top of the cloth hex map.
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Dungeon Maestro @dungeonmaestro.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I love this. Try not to buy anything today, mkay?
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ratti incantati @ratti.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New games just dropped! 📚 📚 @riseupcomus.bsky.social's tarot-driven mega-dungeon, cyberpunk rebellion from @fraggingunicorns.bsky.social, an occult medieval OSR, 2 x @forbiddenpsalm.bsky.social, @evlynmoreau.bsky.social's experimental adventure, and a cool new Tarot deck! 🐀
A pile of books and tarot cards, clockwise: Outcast Silver Raiders Boxed Sets, Gormand's Larder zine, Forbidden Psalm hardcover, and Sample Kill Process softcover, Anónima: Tarot of the Nameless tarot deck, His Majesty the Worm hardcover, and Subversion: Core Rulebook hardcover.
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I review Beneath the Muckfort by @gravy.press, and answer a question from the Mootsack. www.patreon.com/posts/143514...
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Beneath the Muckfort | Between Two Cairns
Get more from Between Two Cairns on Patreon
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 18/11/2025
3d6 DTL Ep 12 of #Mothership Gradient Descent! In the aftermath of the violence aboard the Bell, the crew decides to take some shore leave and help set things back in order. Then, it's a vertiginous space-walk to the vaunted A.C.L.E.R., artifacts in tow. #OSR #TTRPG Links Below!
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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I think any attempt to define modern ttrpg 'cultures of play' is a failure if it doesn't classify "5e/critrole fandom" as its own thing largely disconnected from other ttrpg (or analogue game) play-cultures, and instead largely drawing from fandom and fanfic subcultures.
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