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(he/they) Christopher Knapp, design lead at tbmgames.com - TTRPG designer and jokester. The advice is facetious, but everything else you'll have to figure out for yourself. ko-fi.com/nat1advice

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 3h
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Cyndaquilism @cyndaquilism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me petting my Sundaquil plushie and the layout text emulating the news: Breaking News, Is Cyndaquil Important? Experts say yes.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 1h
For sure, but I'm a sucker for long-term attrition 😈
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 1h
It's more or less in line with other CR 1/2's, even by vanilla 5e standards (5e expects 8 damage/round, 5.5 expects 9, plus or minus a couple points); it's averaging a little high for damage with Death Burst, but it compares favorably, especially without dealing half damage on successful saves.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 2h
#DnD advice: "Evil" is such an ambiguous alignment. Who's to say whether it was really an "evil" act to atomize that orphanage?
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Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 16h
Take Your Place Under the Harvest Moons! 🌕🐺 This 50-page D&D sourcebook contains archetypes, creatures, rules options, and a plethora of original lore that PCs and GMs can use to flesh out and spook up their 5e horror games. #dnd Store: undergroundoracle.co... Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com...
Cover of Under The Harvest Moons by Underground Oracle Publishing. It features a spectral ranger sitting under a tree next to her wolf companion, who is howling toward the two moons hanging in the sky. Art by Tasca Skelton.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 21h
#DnD Advice: Names are hard and almost never relevant, so don't waste much thought on them. That's why I'm playing Drew Ed the Druid.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 05/10/2026
When necromancers' profane work is done in the dead of night, away from prying eyes, a reliable way to maintain the guise of a productive member of society each day is critical. If a Crown Skeleton's wailing crow can't wake you up, the explosive alchemist's fire stored in its ribcage certainly will.
Dungeons & Dragons game statistics for a Crown Skeleton
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 05/10/2026
#DnD advice: The tactics from one class should be applicable to just about every other one - the sorcerer hangs back and throws spells at a pretty long range. Maybe your greataxe-wielding barbarian would like to give that a shot for a while.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 05/10/2026
#DnD advice: Spice up your roleplay with props! Your bard who plays haunting dirges on the kazoo will be the life of the party. Or its death, I guess.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 03/10/2026
#DnD advice: If your adventure doesn't look like a Saw movie, can you really be sure your characters are experiencing any growth?
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 02/10/2026
With ridiculously long legs, a Spindle Skeleton is assembled to traverse difficult terrain with ease, often carrying reagents and gear over long distances. When knocked over, this skeleton is able to right itself effortlessly, simply rotating its head and continuing on its path.
Dungeons & Dragons game statistics for a Spindle Skeleton
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 02/10/2026
Keep these anatomically incorrect skeletons coming - the Skeleton Parade marches on!
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 02/10/2026
Even the Legendary Dragon Slayers have to start at level 1 sometime. #DnD #ttrpg
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Your backstory is the one place the GM can't kill you, so go nuts describing your accomplishments before adventuring.

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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 02/10/2026
#DnD advice: Varied combat options are just making you weaker. Do the same thing every turn.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 02/10/2026
Necromancy and parenting rarely mix, so the Hug Skeleton takes a little from each job and does them... "adequately." Assembled from loose bones, this macabre teddy bear is a bodyguard and companion for necromancers' kids, until they're old enough to like cooler skeletons. A parent can dream, right?
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 01/10/2026
Yes indeed. You're gonna like what's in store in like an hour. 😉
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 01/10/2026
THE SKELETON PARADE IS NIGH. KEEP EM COMING.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 01/10/2026
#DnD advice: Under no circumstances should you let your players follow through with a plan if they tell you "here, it'll be easier if I draw a diagram."
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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
another day in the layoff industry
My bad Canva edit of a tweet about feeding game studios to shareholders
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 30/09/2026
Leave it to an Ultra to measure acceptable collateral damage. Thank goodness there weren't any Baltans in the area.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 30/09/2026
#DnD advice: Creative problem solving is never truly appreciated. You'd think my party would thank me for casting a spell that blinded them before we faced a Medusa.
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Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 30/09/2026
Sometimes the family you've been looking for finds you. 🐺👶🐺 Find out what it means to be Wild-Raised, one of the new heritage options available in Creature Companions Expanded. #ToV #dnd www.kickstarter.com/...
Ad card for Creature Companions Expanded from Underground Oracle Publishing. Art by Tithi Luadthong
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 29/09/2026
#DnD advice: Creating likable NPCs in your campaigns is a fool's errand - your players will betray a friendly NPC at any opportunity, and try to befriend the rabid gremlin EVERY SINGLE TIME.
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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I resent how media always shows d&d being played with battle mats, miniatures and dice. Instead, my group uses a blender, tequila and triple sec hahaha. Anyways, no mr officer, I won't be taking that breathalyzer so you might have to try and arrest me
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 29/09/2026
#DnD advice: Don't waste your spell slots now - what if you need them later?
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ringa ringa roses @zyla.top · 28/09/2026
HEY IM BAWKIN HERE
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 28/09/2026
Creatures of Rust Moon – The Sun Crow
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Creatures of Rust Moon – The Sun Crow
A mythical figure from the Rust Moon Territory’s ancient past returns – hope there’s enough mooncake to go around!
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 28/09/2026
Planned obsolescence strikes again... 😞
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 28/09/2026
#DnD advice: Old weapons found in a treasure chest are always junk. Weapons technology has advanced in the centuries since the ancient magic empire fell.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 28/09/2026
#DnD advice: Don't have enough dice? Just roll a d20 for everything. If it's too high a number, just say you got the max roll.
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Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 27/09/2026
Creature Companions Expanded is live and Fully Funded on Kickstarter! This #ToV sourcebook provides new rules and options for any class in your #dnd 5e-Compatible games to adventure with (or as) a creature companion of their very own! www.kickstarter.com/...
Ad card for Creature Companions Expanded by Underground Oracle Publishing. Features art from Kendal Gates.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 27/09/2026
The nature of text on a page has truly changed. This is why you need copilot or something.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Emily | Odds & Ents @oddsandents.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oooh is this what people have been talking about?
A photo from a 1989 issue of the Bon Appetite magazine. The page has the heading “tabletop art” and shows a display of players and sculptural dishware.
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Sea Scøpe @seascope27.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Credit Carp
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 27/09/2026
It's like that scene from Ender's Game
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 26/09/2026
Much to everyone's dismay, I began to refer to them as bread wads when ordering pizza was my responsibility at game night.
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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today's wisdom
A design featuring a beige paper background, a rainbow snapped in two and the phrase "All iPhones are foldable, Bitch" in dark gray
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 26/09/2026
#DnD advice: It is apparently considered poor form to make sad trombone noises when casting shield.
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zaebucca @zaebucca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My #pixelart entry for PSICOZINE, an italian fanzine! 124x180px, 22 colors I originally meant to animate it, but I am pc-less atm. Bronzong is one of my faves - I love bronzes from the Yayoi period in general. Recently, I also developed a huge love for the bronze art of Sangxingdui, Guanghan.
A pixel art of the pokemon Bronzong and Bronzor. The steel/psychic pokemon is embedded in an intricate frame wall, perfectly shaped around him. Two Bronzor are located at its sides. The dark temple is lit by a bright flame contained in a horned urn right below Bronzong. This round brazier is shaped like the headpiece of the legendary pokemon Ting-Lu. The bright flame causes all sorts of reflections and color diffractions: from the warm light to the characteristic shades of oxidated bronze, with purple and cold reflections as well.

Upon further inspection, the rich frame carvings reveal many historiated scenes: below bronzong there's a lunette holds stylized figures of Dialga, Palkia and Giratina. Above the two Bronzor, embedded in the frame, the silhouettes of Uxie, Azelf and Mesprit. On the higher part of the structure, right above Bronzong, the effigy of Arceus, lit by a cold light.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 25/09/2026
Hans has a special article today for the Mid-Autumn Festival!
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Creatures of Rust Moon – The Sun Crow
A mythical figure from the Rust Moon Territory’s ancient past returns – hope there’s enough mooncake to go around!
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 25/09/2026
The heroes weren't expecting the mimic in their own home post-retirement. #DnD #TTRPG
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Tricking your players with a mimic is only funny once!

Make the most of it – save it for a few weeks after the campaign concludes.

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UPDATE: We are now only $40 short of funding! Let's GOOOOOO 💜😤 #dnd #ToV
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 25/09/2026
#DnD advice: Healing your allies will clear all the emotional distress of being in life-or-death adventures every day.
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 24/09/2026
#DnD advice: Clearing a dungeon may seem like the right move, but the wise adventurer knows to leave a few rooms untouched so that it can repopulate for sustainable adventuring.
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Maxi Molina @maximjdev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every time it rolls around it's thank @tomschalk.bsky.social hours. THANKS FOR MAKING THE FUNNIEST THING EVER, TOM
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Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 23/09/2026
#DnD advice: Cure wounds is a terrible spell - nobody wants their allies' wounds salted except for the lizardfolk.
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Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 23/09/2026
Creature Companions Expanded is live on Kickstarter! This #ToV sourcebook provides new rules and options for any class in your #dnd 5e-Compatible games to adventure with a creature companion of their very own! Pledge in the first 48 hours and get a FREE subclasses DLC 👇🐵 www.kickstarter.com/...
Ad card for Creature Companions Expanded by Underground Oracle Publishing. Features art from Theo Martins.
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