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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone who has shared a Discord channel with me over the last two years knows that I have big opinions about Hollows (the new @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social game by @gshowitt.bsky.social and Chris Taylor). Anyway, let's just make it official with an actual review: gemelli.bearblog.dev/hollows/

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Hollows

This is a story about a game that performs three unique feats of magic, tackling some of the biggest challenges I've seen in the world of roleplaying games. ...

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it starts: Decide to run an online session of Every Second Counts by @olddog.games How it proceeds: Think to self, you know, I made a DMI VTT in Sheets, how different would this be How it turns out: And we need a live timer, and baggage die is handled differently, and hang on, I could ...

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Alex is a phenomenal gamer, GM, and writer. It's barely fair that he's good at all those things, but I am honor bound to help spread his influence all the same.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The amazing QQ Discord mods have arranged a review jam for the month of September! Super excited to offer tips and help give some awards at the end. (August can be for playing stuff you might wanna review, but it's not mandatory)

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I made a game review! Is this how people make game reviews these days? I sure hope so; it's far too late for me to go back and do something else now. gemelli.bearblog.dev/deathmatch-i...

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Deathmatch Island

Deathmatch Island (or DMI) is a game that takes John Harper’s Paragon system, and makes it sing in a way that the original game (Agon) never could. Hype...

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You like HOLLOWS? You want to see HOLLOWS in the flesh? 👀👀👀

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com

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Buried Without Ceremony

My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...

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alex v @alexvalente.fyi · 17/08/2026

this might come as a shock to some, but games, it turns out, are good

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Matthew Ayers @matthewayers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The physical version of Blightfall is now available for purchase! quadaygames.com/products/bli... It includes all of the PDFs, as well as PDFs for the new bonus class, The Palace--which released today!

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Blightfall Corebook - Physical + PDFs

Blightfall is a dark fantasy TTRPG for a GM and 3-5 players. Doomed villagers infected with darkness sacrifice shreds of their humanity for the power to protect their home. A unique system featurin...

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Back in 2023 I first heard the pitch for Hollows, an RPG where you enter the personal hells of other people and destroy the monsters within, knowing that eventually you will end up becoming one of these monsters yourself. Today I finished running players through the personal hell of a PC they knew.

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yeah looks great folks. Print it

Egregious AI sign outside Pulse Bar in London. Food looks unreal and all the people are nightmarish gracklers

BIG arm for darts. One hundred and forty!

Dude about to blast the white ball into the side-cushion by using his shoulder to push a cue beneath his six-fingered hand

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Well, no point in putting this off any longer. Blades '68 VTT public playtesting, let's gooooo! (Please let me know what's broken, what wants changing, and whether you think it works as an option for your group or not!) gemelli23.itch.io/blades-68-un... @olddog.games

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Blades '68 - Unofficial VTT by Gemelli23

A simple VTT in Google Sheets for online gameplay

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This Blades 68 VTT is pretty nearly ready for playtesting! More screens in thread.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 04/08/2026

The ENNIE voters have spoken: MAKING ENEMIES wins Gold for Best Writing! Check out this deep dive into creating TTRPG monsters from the ground up, with system-specific advice for #DnD 5E/5.5E, #Pathfinder 2E, #Shadowdark, #Cypher and #CallOfCthulhu 7E … spyandowl.com/making...

The cover of Making Enemies: A huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen. Another dwarf cowers in fear. Alongside the cover, the words: "THANK YOU! 2026 ENNIE Awards Gold Winner, Best Writing; Nominee, Best Aid/Accessory (Non-Digital)."

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I didn't even get 1/4 of the way through reading Blades 68 before the inevitable started to happen.

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Well, that is the closest I have ever had a tornado touch down to my house after 50+ years living in the Midwest. Do not recommend the experience.

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here's another example of a Google Sheets VTT, this one created for running games of Eat the Reich (a Havoc engine game by @gshowitt.bsky.social). The first and foremost goal here was to keep the design vibes intact, at least to the extent allowed by putting a game in a god damn spreadsheet.

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It occurs to me that I am really, really bad at self-promotion. So, in an attempt to correct this: hello! I've been making indie RPG games for a few months now. And you can find my first published work here: rowanrookanddecard.com/product/ftl-...

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FTL Punk - Rowan, Rook and Decard

Play the outlaw punk festival on Dregulon IV in FTL Punk, a Havoc TTRPG about getting to the show on time despite all odds.

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

First game of Deathmatch Island using the power of Google Sheets was a success! (All credit to the game itself and the players, for sure, but I was glad to see the VTT concept worked fairly well, with some good suggestions from the players.) @olddog.games

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@themonstersknow.com Congrats on the well-deserved Ennie nominations! Making Enemies is a fantastic book and I’m really glad to see it get the recognition.

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Some people keep their spreadsheet brain away from their gamer brain, and I simply do not understand those people.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

it's crazy to have been working on this game for 4 years and to finally have mockups of it

a digital mockup of seven part pact, complete with boards, tokens, dice, and lots and lots of books

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gemelli23.bsky.social @gemelli23.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Having watched a newly streaming movie this week has my brain working overtime to replace “Board of Peace” with “Christmas Adventurers Club” every time it shows up.

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