Thursday Night AWBO S5: Chekov’s Flamethrower on R’lyeh

...so we decided that Teo, who plays Rio, would instead play a riverboat captain from Lock using the Standout playbook. #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG

http://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/02/thursday-night-awbo-s5-chekovs-flamethrower-on-rlyeh/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Despite have an extra two weeks without game, I am ill prepared for tonight’s session. Just been too busy with life stuff to prepare. Hopefully I can prep enough to make things interesting.

Stupid cat woke me at 6am so I’m currently sleep deprived however.

I’ll try and sneak a nap after this status meeting.

#TTRPG #GMPrep #OutlawsOfTheNorth

Nach einer viiiiiel zu laaangen Pause ist unsere hausgemachte #DnD -Kampagne wieder angelaufen. 🤠

Allerdings mit TPK in der ersten regulären Spielsitzung nach einer kleinen Session Zero. 😱

Aber lest am besten selbst: 💀

https://www.tanelorn.net/index.php/topic,118203.msg135353852.html#msg135353852

🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️

#pnpde #osr #ttrpg #odnd
#Avalon #ZeitDerWölfe
#SwordsAndWizadry

#TTRPG #gameJam #OSR #appxnjam
Here's the link to the jam:
https://itch.io/jam/appx-n-jam-2026

The Appendix N 2026 Game Jam started today. Each participant is assigned a book title of a fake fantasy novel, and they have to make an adventure based on it.

Mine is "The Toadstone Fens at Last Light", which is a pretty cool one.

#TTRPG #gameJam #OSR #appxnjam

Session 2 is on the playlist.

Crown sees to her faith, her housing, some information and then the next colleague...

Sean and Judd learn about the Deep Cuts Houserules for downtime.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGwzaBJmKyR0

#BladesintheDark #TTRPG

Attention sector DCC:
The ongoing toilet suction issues and exploding issues have now been resolved.

You may now all return to your duties without fear of porcelain perdition.

#ttrpg #paranoia #dcc

Another #Harn book 50% off? Yes, please! Rules for generating villages, households, plus Manors of Harn. https://yumdm.short.gy/HarnManor

Great for #DnD. #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

prepping a Boot Hill game for the next two weeks, specifically the first training scenario "The Gunfight at the OK Corral".

And honestly, I don't think this historical event would have gotten as much exposure if it hadn't taken place in a city with such a marketable name (Tombstone).

#ttrpg #oldwest

Final call to secure the Rider tabletop RPG bundle. Time is running out to get this complete 2d6 Western setting and ruleset before the offer ends completely. #TTRPG https://www.geeknative.com/238998/grab-your-six-shooter-the-rider-rpg-bundle-brings-cepheus-engine-to-the-old-west/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-GNBlogWave1

#Ttrpg Question: What does the #ttrpg hobby mean to you?

Just one of many other leisure activities? Your favorite hobby? More than just a hobby? A creative corner that connects to various other things (crafting, collecting, reading, daydreaming…?)

Bonus question: (How) Did your relationship to #ttrpgs change over the years?

Patrons just received Issue 58 of my #DnD zine, d12 Monthly. And for just $2 per month! https://yumdm.short.gy/YUMDMpatreon

This issue is all about a new way to create a character for #OSE or other old school #DungeonsAndDragons rule set. #TTRPG

I've put together some notes for my entry for the Vaults of Vaarn Summer Jam. I'm creating a decadent, dying arcology:
#TTRPG #VaultsofVaarn
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/06/30/the-dying-arcology-of-ariael-some-notes-for-a-vaults-of-vaarn-setting/

Design the Perfect Tabletop Mystery with the GUMSHOE System #ttrpg #dnd5e #gamemaster

Yet another game jam I shouldn't join, The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Jam, starts in August:

https://itch.io/jam/the-black-hack-10th-anniversary-jam

#TBH10th #TTRPG #OST #BlackHack

#ttrpg folks, quick help please
I'm running a one-shot game tonight and I have nothing planned. It's a gamma-world type setting. I feel like it would be funny to have the players tasked with retrieving ice cream from the ben & jerry's ice cream labs, but I feel like there should be a twist of some kind. Maybe the ice cream tubs don't really contain ice cream? Maybe there's something else going on in there? What would be funny and surprising?

Apart from that, one of my major interests are tabletop role-playing games - another form of oral storytelling which IMO is a worthy successor to the oral storytellers of old.

#ttrpg #dnd #pnpde #pathfinder

Horrifying new monster drop: TARDY THE MAN-PONY
https://randomencounters.tumblr.com/post/820446946879799296/encounter-tardy-the-man-pony

HD 3, AC 13, MV 5 (15"), Morale 5, Kick 2d6, Bite d3 & Save vs Cooties or Wigged Out. 1 in 6 can summon lightning or rainstorms 1/day.

#ttrpg

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Figure of a very nice brown roan horse, with a distressing human man's face instead of the horse head. Box shows "Tardy, the Man Pony" fleeing from a fire & storms?

@Nerdberg A follow up and thoughts about #TwilightSword #ttrpg:

The System is fast, fun to play and easy to explain. The battles are nice, the random monster actions keep the players on their toes.

Also the setting is _CUTE_! It is a nice change from all these grim dark worlds we played in.

It is easy to run (we did not use all the rules) and feels a bit video gameish, (monsters evaporate and drop loot). But the loot tables and monster parts and the cooking is fun too.

I hope we will continue this adventure at one point.

#pnp

I just realised I have 229 paid patrons for my #DnD zine, d12 Monthly. I hadn’t actually looked for a while.
https://yumdm.short.gy/YUMDMpatreon

Thanks to everyone who supports my work - I really appreciate it! #DungeonAndDragons #TTRPG

@dreamup To me a scenario is a wargame setup, a "scene" with terrain & forces. An adventure has a storyline, or several locations, people, & events, not just battle.

TSR's naming for adventure was "module", but almost nobody else used that.
#ttrpg

Once again, @mhd reminded me of an old RPG. If you take GURPs CONAN and you add science, you end up with Masters of the Universe RPG.

Which was already made in the 80s, by FASA, but it was a terrible game, sort of made for kids, sort of a RPG but crossed with a board game and without a referee.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #conan #heman

I wonder if Conan has had the most variations of game systems made for the setting?

I dug into the old 80s TSR Conan box set. The rules for healing are, if you rest, you gain a bunch of points back tied to some ability score.

There is a medicine skill, if someone does a medicine check on you, you heal at double the usual rate.

So, knowing the people I play with, what this would result in, is the group will do one combat, get hurt, and then retreat back to town and heal up.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #conan

"Advice on how to write about indie games" by Michael Brough (creator of 868-Hack, Imbroglio, Zaga-33). I think this is all relevant to #ttrpg writing as well.

https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2026/06/advice-on-how-to-write-about-indie-games.html

"If you're writing on the internet about something new or indie, your post might constitute a substantial fraction of the available literature on the topic. It's not a drop in the ocean. There's a good chance that this will even be the first someone has heard about it."

#gamedesign #videogames #MichaelBrough

I blame @mhd for making me go look for the old old GURPs FANTASY rules I had in the early 90s?

Oh boy, that cover. How did that 80s haircut Richard Marx impersonator get in such a predicament!

I spent time reading through the skills and it is slim pickings and not much help.

And now I had to think of Richard Marx, which is not something I wanted to do tonight.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #gurps

Where are your adventures taking you this weekend?

#ttrpg

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A swashbuckler with a rapier and dagger faces a barbarian with a very large sword.

Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan's AMA is live now on r/rpg!

Stop by to ask about Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition, Merryshire Detective Club, game design, writing, or whatever else you've always wanted to know.

See you there!
#TTRPG #AMA

Link: https://bit.ly/4ePR8sd

By the Infernal Eye of Necrokadnezzar, Umdaar is less than 10 sales away from being a PLATINUM bestseller @drivethrurpg
Pick up this standalone #ttrpg of Swords, Sorcery, and Super-Science and raise your plasma-axe against the dread Masters of Umdaar today!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/568102/umdaar-rebel-broadcast-edition?affiliate_id=24139
(It's Pay What You Want, but you do have to chip in at least a buck to have it considered a "sale" - anything else is just sparkling curiosity.)

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A saturated illustration of a woman with long red hair wearing purple and gold, she wields a glowing rapier as she stands atop a misty, aqua-colored mountain. Overlaid next to her, the cover of Umdaar, where two warriors with plasma axes and cybernetic laser rifles square off against a floating tentacle creature that's shooting some sick-ass eyebeams.