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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We got accepted to the Backerkit Holiday Market! Please follow along because all the followers we.can get are helpful! Also a great way to pick up holiday gift copies of the four games seen here. #ttrpg #indiegames #indiettrpg www.backerkit.com/c/projects/h...

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Four Books to Bring Your Games to the Next Level

Get notified when Four Books to Bring Your Games to the Next Level launches on BackerKit!

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can now get a print copy of Calling Cards, my newest TTRPG, from Indie Press Revolution! www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Callin...

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And yet, nowhere in this article did you provide a link to Floodsmart.gov where people can get a quote for flood insurance. Identifying the problem is great, helping with a step toward a solution is absolutely appropriate for a news outlet.

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Floodsmart | The National Flood Insurance Program

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

The role will close to applications on the 21st of October. To apply, please read the full job posting and follow the link to the application form from there; there's significantly more detail, especially on what we can offer as an employer.

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Writer and Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)

We’re looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join our small in-house team at either a senior or mid level, working specifically on Fallen London.

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Montgomery County MD's library system hosts its own anime & comic con! This year, Designed in the DMV will be there offering indie and zine games to delight everyone. Tomorrow might be the perfect weather to explore the great indoors with us! 📅 Sat, Sep 25 🕚 11-7 📍 MoCo Fairgrounds, Gaithersburg

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Chris | Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

all set up for tomorrow! look at all these artisanal, locally-crafted, independently-designed analog games!

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The support Color Jam is getting has been incredible!

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes spite motivation is good motivation. I was getting very annoyed at a person on a discord last week so today I finally put words to page and have nearly 2500 words on a #Shadowdark supplement. #ttrpg #indiedev hopefully it'll be everything I want it to be 😂

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kickstarter launch day video I did not script this in advance so today's coloring space is nothing special, just I decided the sky outside the Torii is night, with sparkly stars. Anyway go back this game. It's $8 or $12 to make you see coloring in a whole new light! youtube.com/shorts/YeXjo...

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A #ColoringBook #PuzzleGame for everyone, #crowdfunding now!

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It was worse, but I got some good out of the event.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Household might work? It's about little beings (including faeries) in a massive old house. I personally don't like it, but it hits a lot of things you seem to be looking for.

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Alice the Author @alicetheauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

100 Silver Fang Kinfolk by The Literary Mercenary Great warriors and fearsome leaders, the kings and queens of the Garou Nation were respected, as well as feared. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/286… #TTRPG #Gaming #TTRPGCommunity

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've had this conversation multiple times and there isn't a good conclusion. When people want to, yes they will pay a good price for a game. When they don't. They won't. And it leads me to love and hate these bundles.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In case you didn't know @felicia.day is really nice and a wonderful ambassador for games. Met her briefly @granitecon.bsky.social and it was really wonderful! #ttrpg #games

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Traffic was good around me so I assume wrong audience, placement, or me 😂

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wow... This convention has been horrible for me so far. I'm hoping that somehow tomorrow is better. #ttrpg

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We created Designed in the DMV to lift each other up as artists so we can better connect with players. So I'm super grateful to Grint and @gigantic-spider.bsky.social for repping the rest of us this weekend in eastern Maryland. Thank you!

Designed in the DMV booth with branded tablecloth and banner. Setting is indoor college campus

Various games designed by DMV people on display at booth. Top-down shot indoors in college campus

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Travis Legge @travislegge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Getting ready to talk Scarred Lands over at the Pinnacle YouTube on Savage Universe! www.youtube.com/live/V3pmSR0...

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Savage Universe - Scarred Lands

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Physical copies for sale this weekend at Granite State Comicon in Manchester, NH, booth 109! #granitecon #ttrpg #indiegame #indiettrpg

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sounds good, I'm happy to PayPal. If easier you can send an email to jhhighlevelgames@gmail.com and I'll make sure it's taken care of right away. :) Thank you!

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@nanelsonart.bsky.social hey! My daughter bought a Hornet charm/keyring from you at SPX today but the charge never came through my venmo. Can you reach out when you have a second so I can make sure you get our money?

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you for buying a copy! I won't say that sales have been strong so far and I admit to doing a few things just to test them out via Itch's interface.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Doing what I can to get some eyes on our newest game #ttrpg #indiegame #tarot #tarotgame www.rascal.news/calling-card...

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Chris | Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These are some of the cool indie ttrpg's we are gonna have at RisuCon! All by local designers! Featuring @slyrobotgames.bsky.social @stickydoodler.bsky.social @binarystar.games @greenintern.bsky.social @highlevelgames.bsky.social @playsamovar.bsky.social and me!

Photo of the games Tomorrow on Revelation III, The Bonsai Diary, Trespasser, Hostile Architecture, Tiny Mall Wizards, Moon Rings, May I Enter, Emissary, and The Frog Squad

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Live in New England? Want to buy copies of my games from me in the flesh? Come see me September 19th and 20th at Booth 109 in the SNHU Arena @granitecon.bsky.social #ttrpg #conGame #indiegames

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Calling Cards is a rules light indie/story game. You use tarot cards to help create characters who have a conversation. This can either be done solo, duo, or with a small group. I co-wrote this with my spouse #ttrpg #gamedesign #indiegame highlevelgames.itch.io/calling-cards

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Calling Cards: A Conversational Tarot Game by highlevelgames

Tarot based tabletop rpg inspired by The Chronicles of Amber

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Notes and action items. Players need notes about what happened in a game session. Notes and action items are the same in a meeting. Keep good notes. Write out the due outs or action items and then follow up next session/meeting. Don't leave a dangling plot hook unless everyone agrees! #ttrpg

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

4) Bring things back in focus. As a GM, your players will go off on a tangent if you let them. (No, I promise you the door isn't trapped) And this happens in team meetings too. Your role as the meeting facilitator is to know when to call a halt to the tangent and when you should let it unfold.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Share the spotlight. As a follow-up to #1, you as the facilitator should help share the story spotlight. Get that dominant team member to cede airtime. You're all working toward a common goal (like slaying a dragon) so everyone needs to be the hero. A good GM helps balance strong and quiet voices.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Speak Just Enough. GM role is to give context to the world. That's your role in meetings too! Give enough context to let the smart people do their work. Explain the problem and let them cook up crazy fixes. In D&D and other games the players make wild choices and that creativity is great at work!

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1) Everyone should be encouraged to participate. Call on folks and directly ask them what they think. Players in D&D often need to be coached through what is possible and have questions they won't ask until they are brought into the scene. The same is true for team members in most meetings.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Meeting Management: One of the skills I've been complimented on several times over the last few years is my meeting management style. I learned this from decades of being a Game Master for tabletop roleplaying games and the skills are easy to list but less easy to put into practice.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Work Skills I Learned from Tabletop Gaming This is the first in what I expect to be a series of posts about things I learned from #ttrpgs that help me at my job.

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the best things I did last year was join the Designed in the DMV Collective. It's an informal group of game designers based in the DC Metro area. To say I love it is an understatement. The people are awesome and it's helped a lot #ttrpg #gameDesign #localindie #indie www.designedinthedmv.org

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DESIGNED IN THE DMV

Designed In the DMV is an organization of people who make tabletop (physical) games in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area. We include writers, artists, visual designers, dicemakers, GMs, and anyone else...

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 01/09/2026

🎲 #TabletopTuesday Spotlight! 🎲 Let’s boost awesome creators! Share your own #TTRPG project or shout out a creator whose work deserves more love. What makes it special? Drop links and let’s celebrate each other! #TTRPGTuesday #TTRPGCommunity #IndieGames

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So, with Calling Cards the tarot you use are designed to help you tell a story. You look at the card itself, analyze the content inside the card and use it to help create a character for your play partner(s). So its random only in so far as you'll pull a different root character idea each time 3/3

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

than dice as a success randomizer. They feel complicated even though they aren't and they take up more space and have to be handled better. However, as a storytelling tool I think they work well. Cards have meanings attributed to them because of divination and card game history #gamehistory #tarot

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My newest game uses cards. Specifically it uses tarot cards. I've said before I don't like cards as randomizers and that is still true. However, the tarot cards in Calling Cards are storytelling support vehicles, not success and failure randomizers. For me, cards are much slower 1/3 #ttrpg #games

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Art is by my friend Jayne Firstenberg. This is her first commission of any type! #indiegames #indierpgs #ttrpg #ttrpgArt

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Been busy outside of the internet. I'm trying to get this zine complete before Granite State Comiccon #ttrpg #tarotgame #Amber

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 18/08/2026

Our buddies at @rascal.news do great work and need help to continue doing so. Here's the details. www.rascal.news/state-of-the...

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State of the Rascal: August 2026

An earnest appeal and radical honesty.

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thoughtcrimegames @thoughtcrimegames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Grab Community Radio, everyone's favorite improv #ttrpg of a strange, strange place, and the community radio station that supports it on @ipr.bsky.social and Tabletop Bookshelf! IPR: www.indiepressrevolu... TBS: tabletopbookshelf.co...

Cover of Community Radio, Second Edition by Thoughtcrime Games

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Josh Heath @highlevelgames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Game Design Idea Small groups are given a box/bag of LEGO. Then they are given instructions for a random build of at least 100 bricks. Assign people different roles: instruction reader, project manager, builder and have the team work through the difficulties. #teamBuilding #gameDesign

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 24/06/2026

🎉 Our Free RPG Day bundle launches soon! Want to be among the first to grab it? Add it to your wishlist today and we'll let you know the moment it's live. 🎲 See you on Free RPG Day! rpg-trader.com/products/102...

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Free RPG Day 2026 Bundle on RPG Trader

Over $1,000 worth of digital and print content from more than 250 creators all across the RPG Trader community.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 22/06/2026

It's #AskACreator day. Connect with some #TTRPG creators! I'm terrible at picking just one person to tag, so let's ask everyone: What passion is driving your #RPGDesign experiments? What's your latest obsession? (Tag a creator you admire to ask them YOUR burning question!) #TTRPGCommunity

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