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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 11/09/2026

a silly meme about the TTRPG I'm making 😛

Geralt of Rivia and Princess Mononoke in bear form are doing the fusion dance to form the Mossy Antler RPG

Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 03/09/2026

I'm making a Low-magic, Narrative, Hardboiled, Fantasy Mystery RPG. Some touchstones include: The Witcher, Princess Mononoke, Priest by Matthew Colville, and various fantasy & detective fiction. If that sounds interesting, you can read more about it here: tinyurl.com/MA-rpg

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Mythworks is making the Myth Work @mythworks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My slug? Blasted.

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CarsonDrewIt @carson-drew-it.com · 11/06/2026

Artist! Quote with your badass woman 🏮

A digital sketch of a woman wearing armour made from human arms and skulls linked together by grasping hands. A portion of her face is cracked and rift with fissures across her face, revealing a fleshy texture beneath her skin. One of her eyes is glazed over and white.
She has four arms, two of them are holding weapons, while another holds aloft a glowing lantern made from an altered human skull with one very large ocular opening to serve as the primary source of light from the lantern.
Her fourth arm is holding the corpse of a large creature over her shoulder. The creature has large teeth, spines along its back, and fins down its sides.
Perched on top of the dead creature is an otter-like companion. Both the woman and the otter are looking off into the distance, the lantern presumably illuminating what they're looking at.

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CarsonDrewIt @carson-drew-it.com · 22/07/2026

Artist! Quote with your gloomy art!

A digital sketch of a large stone monolith. Embedded in it s a skeletal humanoid, its skull is missing its upper half and the sternum is extended down into a point. its forearms and hands are also protruding from the stone.
The stone is also engraved with markings and writing.
At the foot of the stone, a figure is knelt in front of it, one hand placed on the face of the stone.

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 29/06/2026

#DungeonMasters, #GameMasters— What do you think is the biggest cause of mediocre D&D/RPG sessions?

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 25/06/2026

#D&D #DungeonMasters or #TTRPG Game Masters who run mysteries (or want to): What is hard about them? What makes mysteries a struggle for you personally? I’m doing research 🤓🔎

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 24/06/2026

Serious TTRPG designers should be thinking about this stuff!

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 17/06/2026

Tell us about a product YOU'VE recently published on RPG Trader. Drop a link and a one-sentence pitch below. 👇 Let's help people discover some awesome RPG content today. 😀

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

People Make Games just dropped a new documentary in my favourite genre: "Quinns travels to meet a beautiful maniac who's doing mind-bending game design" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...

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The Man Who's Spent a Lifetime Making One, Giant Map

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 13/06/2026

What GM tools are you sorely lacking? Or… what GM help do you wish existed but doesn’t? This is your permission slip to vent 🗣️

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 12/06/2026

Looking to GM a small spooky mystery adventure with moral complexity that'll get your players to think? Pay what you want: rpg-trader.com/products/188... #dnd #d&d #ttrpgs #ttrpg #dungeonmasters

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Veil Broken on RPG Trader

A Forest Mystery Adventure

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 11/06/2026

Do you worldbuild mechanics/systems/ecology/factions first or themes/cool ideas/characters first? Or do you not bother 😆 I'm very silly and started with plate tectonics 🤓 Pictured: my world Ardos

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 09/06/2026

RPG TRADER IS NOW LIVE. FOR REAL. 🔥 Tell your friends, fellow creatives, imaginary dragons and your followers! We’ve already got: ⚔️ 250+ creators 📚 1,500+ RPG products live (and more on the way) 🌍 A marketplace built for indie RPG chaos in the best way 👉 RPG Trader is officially open.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm cautiously optimistic about RPG Trader. If you don't know, it's a new platform for buying and selling rpgs just like DriveThruRPG, Itch, and Lulu. What's making me optimistic? It's rpg-focused. It does away with the 5-star rating system. It has coherent product categories. rpg-trader.com

Rpg trader home page with products in a grid.

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TTRPG Wiki @ttrpgwiki.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

TTRPG Wiki is looking for indie systems to catalog! What you get: a dedicated system page with mechanics, tags, and complexity ratings. An Indie Creator Submitted badge + indie filter so players looking specifically for indie games can find you. Submit via the request form at ttrpgwiki.com #ttrpg

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TTRPG Wiki — Compare Tabletop RPG Systems

Browse and compare 130+ tabletop RPG systems including D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Mörk Borg, Shadowdark, and more. Filter by genre, play style, complexity, and accessibility to find your perfec...

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

When a dragon has just 1 hit point and a maze of obstacles, combat is like an open-ended puzzle. The challenge: the player characters only have 1 hit point too—and the dragon has a lot fewer obstacles. A small playtesting update about death without hit points:

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Dying from the 1 HP Dragon

How does life and death work in this game without hit points?

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 05/06/2026

Five favorite books of all time in no particular order. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Uprooted by Naomi Novik Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman Harry Potter (but fuck terfs)

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Jordan @gm-jordan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I will always find a game designed for a hyper specific thing to be way more interesting than something generic. “In this game you play as space pirates who rob space trains” is way more compelling design than “This is a space game where you can do anything.”

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 30/05/2026

Official public beta announcement and press release for RPG Trader: rpg-trader.com/public-beta Launch date set for 9 June 2026 @ 10am AEST. Almost time to roll!

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RPG Trader public beta

RPG Trader is now in public beta ahead of our full launch on 9 June 2026.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Oh shit oh golly it's the finale of Quinns Quest Season 2 I could have reviewed other, bigger-name fantasy TTRPGs that would have gotten me more traffic. Instead, I chose to review the one that you should actually know about www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5-...

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

Handwritten note taped to a power pole that reads: if you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means NECESSARY. I ain't giving up. I swear.

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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

DriveThruRPG/Dungeon Master's Guild is bad for the industry. They take 30-50%. Discoverability is terrible. You're competing with slop, which turns customers off from third-party in general. You have no way of knowing who bought your products. You can't offer better discounts on other sites. 1/5

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 13/04/2026

TTRPG about me First game: D&D 3.5 (sometime around 2006) Latest game: My own system playtest Longest game: 5e (3 years) Favorite game: Blades or Brindlewood Bay Fav mechanics: FITD resolution, Ironsworn Momentum, Grimwild Thorns Fav setting: Swords of the Serpentine Fav art: Draw Steel

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 10/04/2026

Holy shit this article is so good and fully explained OSR-style play to me 🤯

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 02/04/2026

I'm designing outside of D&D 5e or 5.5e at this point, HOWEVER, I am fiercely editing a really fresh and weird genre mashup for it: Serenity Springs, a 1950's horror setting & adventure. The kickstarter is up, check it out if it strikes your fancy 😊 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gri...

Says "Freaks from Beyond the Hayze: A Serenity Springs Adventure." across the top. The art shows a black and white suburban street with several DnD characters in the mid-ground. The foreground is full of people in 1950's-appropriate clothing looking scared and confused. The characters contrast the foreground people and the rest of the image, as they are red.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/03/2026

But kings and mightiest potentates must die, For that’s the end of human misery.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 29/03/2026

Art by • Spencer Davie

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Pol Niuman @pol-niuman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Egon Schiele (1907)

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 16/03/2026

Art by • Lucas Korte

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Grinning Portal Games @grinningportal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A 1950s suburb isn't gonna have traditional DnD dungeons, so how about a landed Roswell-coded UFO? Notes to my music guy for this part just reads "Theramin ass theramin." Intrigued? Check out the Kickstarter for Serenity Springs, launching March 31 tinyurl.com/3pppxe2h #ttrpg #dnd #5e

A large gridded DnD map all in black and white. Its the interior of a circular UFO. There is one large room in the center that leads out to 8 miscellaneous connected smaller circular rooms around it. In order starting from the top and going clockwise the rooms contain:
- Some navigation equipment
- An engine room
- An armory
- A room full of strange mold that was taken over by a monster
- Cryosleep chambers
- A laboratory
- Storage for captured people
- a space that prints food and spare parts

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 09/03/2026

I'm editing this project and I playtested too! I'm usually a fantasy die-hard but it's been a blast to be in a blend of genres. I keep thinking about A Wrinkle In Time when they go to the neighborhood where everything is a copy and everyone is acting the exact same. Those are the vibes

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You could distill this to "most people will never actually engage with games on their own terms, up to and including actually reading or even playing the game" which is why lots of those people think game design isn't real and also why the success of RPGs is measured largely by your art budget

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 12/02/2026

The trouble with predicting the future is that it's impossible to do. People have been trying since the dawn of humans and no one has succeed yet! Don't trust folks who claim they can tell you what will happen next (even if they are "experts")

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Grant Brees » Mossy Antler @grantbrees.mossyantler.com · 24/01/2026

Slightly diminish a game: Draw Stainless-steel

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11/01/2026

The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players. Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table. Broader implications about community in there, y'all.

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A topic that comes up with my games is that they seem one way on the page, but then “reveal themselves” when played. This is an intentional part of the design! I think games are a more powerful experience if they don’t show what they’re really doing until you spend some time with them at the table.

Brindlewood Bay illustration of three women sitting around a table with a cake on it.

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pbbeta (comms open) @pbbeta.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

remember, always carry unidentified yellow spheres with you when it's cold

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 15/12/2025

Perfect non-Christmas Christmas movie

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Julia Metzger @juliametzgerart.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

✨Mein Sehnen ✨ New piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class, featuring Lúthien Tinúviel from Tolkien's Silmarillion. #art #juliametzgerart

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