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H. Dithmer

@hdithmer.bsky.social
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TTRPG designer, known for Heirs of the Leviathan, and a couple of Danish Larps. I like making games that fundamentally change how people interact, be it laughing, cheering, or crying. I also draw. You can find my games at rakatung.itch.io

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Golgo 1312 @whatroughbeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think a fun way to achieve a kind of immortality would be to summit Everest and then get nude at the very top and die in an attempted self-suck position. Try to get frozen to the spot so they can't get you down and everyone has to deal with you forever. A quick before and after of the concept.
A photo of a smiling man in an orange snowsuit standing at the peak of Mt. Everest, his arms raised in triumph The same photo, but now there is a crude doodle of a figure crouched at the triumphant climber's feet. The figure is dead and frozen and looks like he's trying to suck his own dick, which is fairly shriveled from the intense cold.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Systems and modules and scenarios should make you tell stories you would never tell on your own.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ozzy mandy Ass-king Of kings
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ran a playtest today for my scenario In the Shadow of Us-hindava. Went great, lots of smallish things to change! The players now hate fascism a little bit more.
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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Desert Diviners
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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I got so excited about Atrapos that I commissioned a mosaic and made plans to transform it into a 3D book cover involving two varnished and tile-grout debossing. Look at this fucking thing, my LORD. What on earth could @soulmuppet.co.uk do next?
A mosaic featuring a godly figure holding the ocean and a small sailing ship beneath a storm in the palms of his hands.
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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hurrah for fancy mosaic TTRPG covers! I'll be very entertained if this turns into a trend.
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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe you like to play a TTRPG as a little elf guy (or gal) and you're fed up with your usual green elf and semi spongey real DeviantArt adjacent art for your beautiful little elf guy (or gal) and so now you're thinking about switching up to a frogboi elf guy (or gal)
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looks quite cool
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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I can make all this
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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vampire Wizards? Sure. Why not
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the Shadow of Us-hindava is now on the program for Fastaval 2027 Pitching for Fastaval has become easier for me over the years, after realizing they don't want a sales pitch, but rather a concrete description of the scenario.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Counter-opinion: Unionize literally every profession connected with higher education. Grad students. Adjuncts. Staff. Custodians. Undergrad student workers. Employers exploit any "wiggle room" in the system, so now we give them absolutely none.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is reductivist There is pretty much no reason to assume all, or even most, pre-agricultural societies were like this
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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 13/09/2025
Art by • Michael Whelan
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kids get to have secrets, an identity arc, a hidden world that's just for them, a series of letters just between them and their best friend, a phone conversation no one needs to listen in on, a device that they can eventually configure for themselves, and a sexuality. Because I got to have these.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm looking forward to having time for a big game again, having a baby makes it difficult, but reading this thread made me want to dig into something truly challenging again. One of my greatest gaming experiences was playing one (1) full game of Carthage: The First Punic War.
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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This weekend I had the privilege of grappling with some very big and difficult games with a spotlight on Michael Lorino's Imperial Elegy. As usual, the whole experience got me thinking about big games, what they demand of their players and the rewards to be found in their exploration. 🧵
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Kristian Bach @kristianbach.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This statement lacks exclamation marks and/or WORDS WRITTEN IN CAPITALS.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
D&D was always made to deterritorialize play, and transform it into a commodity If you play D&D, your game is owned by Hasbro
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Been pretty dormant this summer, but I have written a synopsis for a sequel to Ahriman and Zâr, so not that dormant after all. It's called 'In the Shadow of Us-hindava' and delves into the psyche if those who judge, yet long for escape.
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Luke Wildwoods @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Least-lovely creature under the sun. Haunted, hunted, hated, Afraid—like you—of what I may become. the Pariah is one of 4 bonus playbooks from the Shrine playset—a weird outcast; maybe feared, maybe pitied, always unsettling. which 4 rights would you give them? sevencrowsgames.itch.io/dark-ages
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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.
Chick tract saying that D&D is Mid
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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026
I'm sure it was a little uncomfortable for Socrates to eat poison. But the bitterness of hemlock is nothing compared to the bitterness from having to admit you might have benefitted from racial privilege
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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I've got blue art for days Qrt with your blue period
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✯ A Pained Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
▫️-Moth-▫️ #art #oc #watercolor #ink #artsky #ocsky
Traditional ink and watercolor piece of a male elf-like being with moth antennae, fluffy white hair, primitive jewelry and face paint.
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✯ A Pained Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
▫️-Fair One-▫️ #art #artsky #ink #oc
Ink drawing of a being in fanciful dress holding some flowers in one arm.
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Benoît Blary @benoit-blary.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Greek myth! I like to draw it! these are all inspired by those incredible ancient Greek ceramics, but with my colourful neon grot take on it. If you've a mythological project coming up and you want some colourful art for it, email me! ;-D print? www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl... #art #TheOdyssey
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Uzair Rashid (comm open) @uzairrashid.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Benoît Blary @benoit-blary.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It is inconceivable for bits of your character sheet to be in the hands of other players
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Saša Đurđević @azuremeraki.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
sketchbook stuff
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Testing out some of true grit's new stuff, looks stellar
crop of a digital drawing, of a face in profile.
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Benoît Blary @benoit-blary.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Practicing my figures in the morning while the baby sleeps
Bunch of figure drawings of a lady with ink penDrawing of a lady in ink pen. She sits on a box, arms stretched upward.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Dunno why we Europeans have such a phobia for A/C. Would love a bit of that cool air right now. The housing union could never afford to install it though
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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
- more adventures with Procreate’s basic Flat Brush. It’s so useful :)
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TerrificTadpole @terrifictadpole.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Europeans when they talk about air conditioning:
Excerpt from the beginning of Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft

You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; why I shiver more than others upon entering a cold room, and seem nauseated and repelled when the chill of evening creeps through the heat of a mild autumn day. There are those who say I respond to cold as others do to a bad odour, and I am the last to deny the impression. What I will do is to relate the most horrible circumstance I ever encountered, and leave it to you to judge whether or not this forms a suitable explanation of my peculiarity.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. I found it in the glare of mid-afternoon, in the clangour of a metropolis, and in the teeming midst of a shabby and commonplace rooming-house with a prosaic landlady and two stalwart men by my side.
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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Never got around to checking it out earlier, figured this was the time, so I backed it!
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 23/06/2026
I tend to frame it less as “hobbyist” and more as “leisure time and income to take something seriously/carefully but not market-driven” Which is why I think a lot about how TTRPGs and AP would be different under a meaningful social safety net, or UBI.
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Maz @mazistyping.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
maybe it's the heat exhaustion but I decided to create a helpful guide
The WORKING IN TTRPGs Alignment Chart
Work Purist: Work is 35+ hours per week, for enough money to live on
Work Neutral: Work is any amount of time so long as it's financially compensated
Work Rebel: Work is any amount of time for any amount of pay, including none
In TTRPGs Purist: Only game design work is in TTRPGs
In TTRPGs Neutral: Work mostly concerned with TTRPGs is in TTRPGs
In TTRPGs Rebel: Work that contributes to a TTRPG in some way is in TTRPGs

Hardline Traditionalists (Work Purist, In TTRPGs Purist): WOTC designers work in TTRPGS
Work Purist, In TTRPGs Neutral: Gamesquest warehouse staff work in TTRPGS
Work Purist, In TTRPGs Rebel: Postal workers work in TTRPGS
Work Neutral, In TTRPGs Purist: Freelance designers work in TTRPGS
True Neutral (Work Neutral, In TTRPGs Neutral): Pro GMs work in TTRPGS
Work Neutral, In TTRPGs Rebel: Deliveroo drivers work in TTRPGS
Work Rebel, In TTRPGs Purist: Heartbreaker designers work in TTRPGS
Work Rebel, In TTRPGs Neutral: TTRPG players work in TTRPGS
Radical Anarchy (Work Rebel, In TTRPGs Rebel): People who watched the D&D film (2000) work in TTRPGS
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pbbeta (comms open) @pbbeta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The temple-city of Leda
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The Amanda Lee Mystery House @amandalee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
museum sketching (fresnel light)
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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Jiří Trnka (1912-1969), Andersen's Tales, 1962
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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
the realis normies/civilians, final version. ordinary salt of the earth type people
a crowd of people in fantastical outfits; there's a bird too
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Crunch-focused folk want new supplements, to give them more subsystems they can theorycraft on but never use. Storygames folk want new systems, to give them more genres they will turn into girlfailure yuri comedies. OSR folk want new adventures, to give them more rooms they will never dare enter.
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Benoît Blary @benoit-blary.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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