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Nights and Knights Games

@nightsandknights.bsky.social
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www.nightsandknights.games Nights & Knights Games is the joint effort of two eccentric nerds living in central Massachusetts. When we’re not designing or playing games, we’re tending our pollinator garden or watching TV with our talkative cat.

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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Announcing our new original dice game, Lose Your Friends! Quick to set up, fast to play. Have fun wagering on dice rolls, splitting the pot evenly, or trying to claim the whole pot for yourself and… losing your friends. #indiegame #bsnm #dicegame #dice www.nightsandknights.games/gamesandprod...
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Lose Your Friends — Nights & Knights
A game of chance and consequences for 3-6 players. Our original game, available nowhere else, is a quick to set up, fast to play dice game using two eight-sided dice per player. Have fun wagering on d...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are now pleased to offer historical board games! We have travel sets for Fox & Geese, Al-qirkat, and Nine Men's Morris. They're great for your next Renn Faire, SCA event, or to add some realism to a TTRPG with the right setting. #boardgame #bsnm #gaming www.nightsandknights.games/gamesandprod...
Cloth boards for the listed historical board games, the cotton drawstring bags they come in, and some sample black and white glass game pieces.
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GM Tip: Players taking too long shopping? Add a Karen. Shoves up to the counter with, "ExCUSE me, but I have been in line for TEN MINUTES!!" Demands they get something from the back (and won't believe they don't work there). The scene will still be long, but now it'll be interesting. #gmtips #ttrpg
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
GM Tip: when giving a list of objects, such as items in a room or a loot drop, br sure to describe at least one as "totally normal"; a totally normal chair, a totally normal dagger, a totally normal bowl of noodles, etc. #gmtips #ttrpg
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spending the storm painting game pieces and boards... 🖌 #boardgame #crafting
Little inch high wooden mushrooms, some painted as amanitas with red caps with white spots, some as ink caps with pointy caps that are pale shading to brown at the peak.
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For Shadowdark RPG fans, a little weekend snack: "Lessons from the Dark" is a free, simple add-on with an alternative to classic XP that swaps abstract points for concrete benefits based on in-game actions and decisions. #bsnm #shadowdark #ttrpg #indiegame www.nightsandknights.games/freedownload...
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Lessons from the Dark — Nights & Knights
This free, lightweight add-on to Shadowdark RPG reimagines the way characters learn, gain experience and level up. It replaces abstract experience points with concrete benefits based on what character...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A spooky game for spooky season 👻 This lightweight, cooperative, rp-optional board game can be 20 minutes or a whole evening of bloody fun. Enter the darkness. Fight to save us. Download here: www.nightsandknights.games/gamesandprod... #indiegame #boardgame #horror #bsnm #supportindiegames
image: an armored man in a cloak holds up a torch in front of a cave; eyes glint in the cave's pitch blackness.

"They crawled out of the world's guts, and every night ate any flesh they could find. They fled from armies, hid from light. We could only beat them by facing them in darkness."
-Lord Wulfgar of His Majesty's 17th Elite Dragoon Brigade

THIS CLAWING DARKNESS
A horror board game from Nights & Knights Games
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Try a new horror game for spooky season? A lightweight, teamwork-focused board game with optional roleplay, This Clawing Darkness can be a gory 20 minutes or an evening of terror. Download here: www.nightsandknights.games/gamesandprod... #bsnm #indiegame #gaming #boardgames #nightmarket
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This Clawing Darkness — Nights & Knights
"They crawled out of the world's guts, and every night ate any flesh they could find. They fled from armies, hid from light. We could only beat them by facing them in darkness." -Lord Wulfgar of His M...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A new player has entered the funnel. @goodmangames.bsky.social should we give him a 4-up sheet? 😆 #dcc #ttrpg #gamenight
An orange cat looks curiously at the camera. Spread out around him is a battlemat with minis, Zocchi dice, and the paper book format of the DCC module Sailors on the Starless Sea.
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not game related, but: A moment of silence for Dolly Parton, our Queen.
Dolly Parton in a completely extra light peacock teal crimped gauze bell-sleeve dress, with text, "It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world."
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you were boarding a generation ship headed for settlement on another planet, and you had a shoebox-sized storage allowance to bring with you into cryosleep, what would you bring? Assuming the ship has seeds, livestock, housing/farming/generator/vehicle equipment on it. #indiegame #scifi #space
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A little sneak peek of our upcoming TTRPG, Settlers of Arud! Here's one of the critters you might find while adventuring on Arud - a Terran bear with symbiotic thachen growths. #ttrpg #indiegame #scifi www.nightsandknights.games/coming-soon
A drawing of a grizzly bear happily sitting around with grayish tendrils of a plantlike organism growing into its skin, accompanied by four-winged insectoid critters hovering close to the tendrils.
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Kibitzing with some PCs in a game I run and was tossing out things for a new #ttrpg setting to contain. The list had a buffet of things, magic, mecha, dungeons, lasers, dragons, etc. Then I realized that I would need to make sure not to just reskin #WH40K ...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
5 seats available in a new Call of Cthulhu game! Set in 1939 New England in the shadow of a rising war, you will face cults, spies, monsters, and unrelenting forces of nature. Can you stay sane long enough to foil their plot? #bsnm #ttrpg #horror #callofcthulhu startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
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Join The Other War | Eldritch Horror in 1939 New England - Roll20 / Discord - Call of Cthulhu | StartPlaying Games
A small town in Maine, 1939. A businessman ends up in jail for murder and fraud when his new partner ends up dead. He reaches out to old friends to clear his name. That's you. Unfortunately, more th...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
TTRPG about me (game designer version) First game: RuneQuest (1983 ed.)(PC) Latest game: Crucible (GM) Longest game: D&D 4th ed (PC) Favorite game: Crucible Favorite mechanics: Frontiers of Arud's concurrent dice-allocated turn-taking Favorite setting: GM's homebrew Favorite artist: Frank Frazetta
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
TTRPG about me (worldbuilder version) First game: AD&D Last game: DCC (GM), ShadowRun 6th Ed (PC) Longest game: D&D 3.5 > Pathfinder (PC) Favourite game: Tri-Stat Favourite setting: Forgotten Realms Favourite writer: currently into NK Jemisin & Katherine Addison
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So you're a new GM and your players want to do some bonkers move that's not exactly in the rules. This is how table legends are born! But right now you have to make a call. Here are 5 easy ways GMs can make on-the-fly rulings, and how each one affects the game's style. #ttrpg #gaming #gming
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Just Make It Up | 5 ways gamemasters can rule on the fly
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Oh yeah, let's do this. Our library is the result of two nerds merging their collections and then inheriting a third. We have The Games. 📚🎲
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New to GMing? Feeling overwhelmed? Novice Game Masters are bombarded with a ton of new information. Here are 10 steps a brand-new GM can follow to make learning it all easier and less stressful. The second installment of our How To GM series. #gaming #ttrpg #gming
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Fix Your Information Overload | New Gamemaster Advice
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
First in our video series on How to GM: advice on how you can get ready for a session of your favorite fantasy tabletop RPG in about 15 minutes. #gaming #GMing #ttrpg
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Get Game-Ready in 15 Minutes | Speedy TTRPG Game Prep
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Seeking adventurers for the Caverns of Thracia! The 1979 classic crawl! Descend into dark caves, face monsters, find treasures, solve an ancient mystery! System: Shadowdark Time: Fridays 1pm EST (flexible until start) Rate: 1st session free, $20 after. #bsnm #ttrpg startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
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Join Caverns of Thracia | a classic dungeon presented in Shadowdark - Foundry VTT - Shadowdark RPG | StartPlaying Games
Bloodthirsty beast-men raid freely across the island of Thracia, stealing and slaying and leaving only nightmares behind. When their cruel work is done, they retreat to the subterranean ruins below th...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Tabletop game seeking PC monsters! Join an epic monster-PC campaign following the rise of a new nation in a cursed land. System: Pathfinder 2nd Ed. Time: Fridays at 7:00 p.m. EST (GMT -4), starts Feb. 13. Session 0 and 1 are free, then $25 each. #bsnm #ttrpg startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
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Join Kingmaker ... but Monsters | a classic from a new perspective - Foundry VTT / Discord - Pathfinder 2e | StartPlaying Games
Fight against invaders while building up a kingdom strong enough to hold the Stolen Lands. What kind of kingdom will it be? Who lives there? Who are its allies? Who's in charge? Only you can answer t...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Tabletop game seeking PCs! "Iron Roads Through Rotting Realms" follows a merchant caravan trekking across the dangerous world of Daarland. System: D&D 5th ed Schedule: bi-weekly Saturdays, 1:00 p.m. EST (GMT -4). First session is free, then $15 each. #bsnm #ttrpg startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
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Join Iron Roads Through Rotting Realms | travel the world in D&D 5e - Foundry VTT - Dungeons & Dragons 5e | StartPlaying Games
"Adventure, danger, hard work and miraculous profit." That's what the old caravan master with all the jewelry guarantees if you sign on with his crew. This campaign follows the epic journey of a merc...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Our horror game is out! A lightweight, teamwork-focused board game with optional roleplay, This Clawing Darkness can be a gory 20 minutes or an evening of terror. Everything you need can be downloaded here: www.nightsandknights.games/gamesandprod... #bsnm #indiegame #gaming #boardgames #nightmarket
image: an armored man in a cloak holds up a torch in front of a cave; eyes glint in the cave's pitch blackness.

"They crawled out of the world's guts, and every night ate any flesh they could find. They fled from armies, hid from light. We could only beat them by facing them in darkness."
-Lord Wulfgar of His Majesty's 17th Elite Dragoon Brigade

A new horror board game from Nights & Knights Games

This Clawing Darkness
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Our new horror game is only $1 on this, the spookiest day! A lightweight, teamwork-focused board game with optional roleplay, This Clawing Darkness can be a gory 15 minutes or an evening of terror. www.nightsandknights.games/gamesandprod... #gaming #boardgames #indiegame #bsnm #nightmarket #horror
image: an armored man in a cloak holds up a torch in front of a cave; eyes glint in the cave's pitch blackness.

"They crawled out of the world's guts, and every night ate any flesh they could find. They fled from armies, hid from light. We could only beat them by facing them in darkness."
-Lord Wulfgar of His Majesty's 17th Elite Dragoon Brigade

A new horror board game from Nights & Knights Games

This Clawing Darkness
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
"They crawled out of the world's guts, and every night ate any flesh they could find. They fled from armies, hid from light. We could only beat them by facing them in darkness." -Lord Wulfgar of His Majesty's 17th Elite Dragoon Brigade #gaming #boardgames #indiegame #bsnm #nightmarket #horror
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Our first release is a free download! Lessons From The Dark is a #Shadowdark supplement offering an alternative to XP. Instead of using abstract numbers, characters' own decisions in-game organically guide their growth. www.nightsandknights.games/freedownload... #indiegames #ttrpg #gaming
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Lessons from the Dark — Nights & Knights
This free, lightweight add-on to Shadowdark RPG reimagines the way characters learn, gain experience and level up. It replaces abstract experience points with concrete benefits based on what character...
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
And our website is live! Check us out at: www.nightsandknights.games #indiegames #ttrpg #gaming
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Worldbuildy shower thoughts: What if Baba Yaga's chicken-legged walking house is a special domesticated breed of mimic? #dnd #worldbuilding #ttrpg #gaming
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Worldbuiding ideas, practice round! I like to watch 90s infomercials to come up with game items. Super absorbent microfiber towels? How about a cloth embroidered with sigils of sympathetic magic and elemental water that can absorb 1d4 liters of water a round for 1d6 rounds?
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Worldbuilding idea, artifact edition: A sentient "intro" grimoire that's full of completely legitimate spells, but one of the first spells is a well-written ritual to summon a very powerful old demon. Its purpose is to find and weed out any stupid/overconfident mages early on. #ttrpg #gaming
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Allie Briggs @alliebriggsart.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Mood. #art
"Being a good artist isn't about having artistic talent. It's about practice and having the willpower of a roach that has been smacked 20 times with a rolled up magazine and yet STILL refuses to die."
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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Ways not to start a campaign: "In the magical realm of New Jersey." "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a newly annointed Paladin must be in want of a nemesis." "Everyone *else* is three kobolds in a trenchcoat." "You can be any alignment as long as it's not lawful." #ttrpg #gamemaster
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Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
In the village fair, they clasped a jeweled necklace around the fattest pig and set her loose. Farmers and hunters gave chase, slipping in mud and tripping over roots. The pig squealed with glee—knowing she was the real winner of the game. #dnd #ttrpg #gaming #mtg
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Phil Foglio @thephilfoglio.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
#indieauthors Most books about How to Write are little more than exhortations to "sit your ass down and just write". This is valuable advice, but sometimes you need/want something a bit more "nuts and bolts". Try "The Elements of Eloquence" by the always entertaining & informative Mark Forsyth
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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Bad TTRPG PC Idea Ex-retail worker, now turned adventurer. No matter how tough the work seems to get, they just don't seem all that bothered, and even seem HAPPY to fight dragons instead of argue with Karens.
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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Real talk, has nobody ever considered that if magic "knows" what 300 gold worth of diamonds is, you basically have a perfect appraisal tool for certain industries? Gone are the days of hyper expensive wedding rings! I can't even cast Revivify with this rock, I know it's worth! #TTRPG
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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The Bay Area is going to do two things to me, and I cannot fight it. 1. Make me a clown. Everyone is a clown. It's all CLOWNS. 2. Make me start a YouTube channel where I just explain game design terms. No frills. No production value. Okay maybe I will use one puppet.
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Gav-o-Lantern 🎃 (he/him) @recordercub.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
My greatest DnD moment: BBEG a thread Clanger: 7’4” tall warforged cleric, constructed of faded pink rosewood and black iron bindings. Me: On a scale of zero to max HP, how sturdy is that lifeboat she’s on? DM: What are you casting? Me: Call Lightning (3d10) DM: 25 to destroy the motor 1/4
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Need more of this happening in TTRPGs.
Screenshot of a Tumblr post from use severepoison which reads:

thief blew a highly trained bubble that floated into my pocket and picked up my wallet then came back to her and i was unable to pop it i just couldnt do fucking anything
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Craig (Third Floor Wars) @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
For the TTRPG designers out there, I just read a game today that tells me something obvious - the designer plays. They run games. Please run other people’s games and your games. A. Lot. It will show up in your work. (Says the guy who designed no games 😆)
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It’s ok to put the phone down.
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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Take this with a grain of salt but in my experience the most vocal online do not mean they are right In ttrpgs the players do not always need to win, though the situations do need to be WINABLE, the distinction being that the win condition may not always be the same as what the players expect
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✨Tom Fenny✨ @tomfenny.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Unconventional #TTRPG #DM tip Make this prop. Use this roll table. Try this trick. Write it like this. RP your NPC like this. Every DM should know this. The Secret to this. I feel like Ive become a worse DM over time listening to all this online "advice" Run YOUR game, people. Not someone else's.
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Nerdy | Bitch Goddess | Righteous Traitor Midnight @nerdysimulation.titterpig.academy · 08/09/2025
We need to get past this idea that TTRPG as a term is a measurement of quality when it is merely a descriptor. It seems many folks justify "playing pretend" in the same way folks justify hobbies by them being productive or enlightening. Fun for fun's sake is reason enough! Be a dinosaur!
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Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com · 08/09/2025
You recently told us your best Car Wars strategy, so now we want to know your favorite way to claim victory in Munchkin! We have a HUGE collection of Munchkin core sets and expansions in our online store, Warehouse 23. bit.ly/w23munchkin #munchkin #stevejacksongames #playmunchkin #playsjgames
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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there; Who, or what, lives deep in the oceans of your setting? #TTRPG
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Kelly McLaughlin @kaiinreallife.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Well… I did it… I just emailed Team Cherry, the creators of Hollow Knight explaining who I am and asking them if they want to chat. Maybe nothing will come of it, but hey. Gotta try, right? I would love to design the Hollow Knight TTRPG. It would be a dream come true.
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ALT: a pixel art of a knight sitting on a bench in a forest
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 07/09/2025
I follow a few #TTRPG feeds and what's wild is the number of accounts clearly using generative AI to make profile pics, images for their posts, images for their blog posts, etc. As it's a feed, I'm generally not following any of these people and I'm scratching my head like, "What the fuck, y'all?"
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Roast @roastey.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Finally redrew Bel’s, my da ttrpg character, icon. Gave him more scars, more bags under the eyes, and some very cute double braids 😊
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