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Adam Hancock (he/they). Adamantine-bestselling #TTRPG creator, and a #demiboy #librarian who's #HardOfHearing and has #ADHD and #anxiety. Also, probably a gnome. Gnome Made Games https://adam-hancock.carrd.co/
Villains by the Hour goes live later today with Episode 3 of our #ttrpg #actualplay in #tvtherpg so come check us out on YouTube or Twitch.
#villainsbythehour
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Black-and-white ink illustration of an ancient stone grave chamber. A skeletal figure with spiked hair lies on a carved stone bier with one arm raised. Broken stones and debris surround the tomb, and a tall latticework structure fills the back wall, casting dense cross-hatched shadows across the chamber. A green badge in the top left corner reads βFunded in 48 hours!β.
Funded in 48 hours β thank you!
Ahuβs First Patrol has reached its Kickstarter goal, and Iβm incredibly grateful for the support.
Stretch goals are now active. If unlocked, the book will gain 10 additional interior illustrations.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
#dnd #gamebook
This Is Your Stop, a Wretched & Alone solo game about public transit, is here!
For the price of an all-day pass in my city, you can ride along and try to reach your stop in time. Ignore passengers. Be nice to the driver. You definitely didn't pass that tree twice.
kobanya.itch.io/this-is-your...
Me: I love talking about TTRPGs.
Them: What's your take on square grids vs hexagonal ones?
Me: Ew, not like that
They assume one particular ending and a more or less straight path to get there. That is not how my table plays adventures.
It's easier for me to get inspiration from somewhere and then make up things as we go along.
Hmm, I guess I don't like the prevailing adventure format too. I love adventure seeds though!
Anything that expands the scope of my imagination really
It's faster to list what I dislike: Min/maxing strategies, gridded combat, lore (esp. pantheons and creation myths) written by TSR/WotC, the early days of D&D, "hey, will you playtest my 'groundbreaking' system that's really just D&D with minor tweaks," class design, dice probability graphs
Me: I love talking about TTRPGs.
Them: What's your take on square grids vs hexagonal ones?
Me: Ew, not like that
a "blue-and-white" pencil sketch of a map of the western shore of Veridius. It has a long shoreline from north to south with the sea at west, with some bays, cliffs and a jagged portion up north, flanked by mountain ranges at east where it connects to the rest of the continent. It has a big swamp in the central area with a large "dead lake", plateaus just east of it. The landscape is dotted with woods and hills, plains and crossed by rivers. Roads in red, with many cities and villages along the way.
πΊοΈ Veridius pencil sketch, βοΈ a map commission for @bettybrownie.bsky.social
#cartography
At the top, an illustration from the cover of Blade's 68 for Blades in the Dark. Various 60s-inspired characters appear in concentric rings of grey, blue, orange, and yellow. This is followed by a manifesto of player advice. HOW TO PLAY HARD AND HAVE FUN IN '68 1. GO IN BOOTS AND ALL. The campaign will be shorter than you think. Make stuff happen now. Don't wait, pull the trigger. 2. DIG THE OTHER CHARACTERS. Dial in on the other player characters, pay attention to their narrative, and get your own character involved. Be their fan, or be their foil. 3. MAKE THE GM SWEAT. Think of the game like a physics toy, and push the levers you have as hard as you can, just to see what happens. Rattle the cage, jump out the window, don't look down. Move so fast the GM can't keep up. 4. SELL THE PUNCHES. Always choose the bigger reaction. Let your character be changed by the world and by other characters. Let them be upset, emotional, irrational. 5. FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT. If your character dies, they can come back as an echo. If they have to retire, you can always make a new character. The crew cannot be stopped. Act first and think later, make bad decisions, let the chips fall where they may. 6. LEARN TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE CONSEQUENCES. Most rolls are going to have consequences. Wouldn't it be boring to succeed all the time? Embrace consequences, and create consequences, then roll them up in a giant ball of chaos and surf on top. Following this manifesto is an illustration in monotone orange, yellow, and black of a muscle car jumping in front of a speeding tractor-trailer. A woman brandishing a pistol leans out the window of the muscle car and fires toward the truck.
Listen, it wouldn't be the radical, swinging 60s if there wasn't a manifesto.
Blades '68.
Get in, buckle up, and lean forward.
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The cover of Noctopolis: An Apocalypse Keys Mystery from Calenmir's RPGs, which is formatted as a comic book newspaper cover. The central image is a group shot of seven superheroes. They include a dark-cloaked figure with a red mask, a Nightcrawler lookalike boosting up a fellow hero using water, a Black woman in powered armor giving the cloaked hero bunny ears, a tan woman with glowing spear & shield wearing hoplite armor, a St. Bernard waving at the camera, a heavyset white guy in street clothes and dazzle paint, and a pink-skinned person in a blue jay onesie. The caption names them as Chiropter, Water Weaver, Hex Wrench, Light Skirmisher, Anymorph, Captain Facepuncher, and Blue Jay, respectively. The snippet of the "article" begins: Noctopolis, NERZ - After robots swarmed the business district, six Project Paragon heroes and one vigilante arrived on scene
The No ICE in Minnesota bundle is available for 1 more week! For $10, get over 1400 #TTRPGs / supplements (including a PDF of Noctopolis, my horror superhero module for Apocalypse Keys), and support immigrants in Minnesota!
The bundle: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
βThe Hidden Halls of Hazakor,β a 5e campaign adventure I wrote to teach young beginner GMs how to run games, got a shout-out on GeekDad after it came out. It generated a ton of sales because it created awareness of the product outside of βregularβ RPG circles, and Iβd take more of that any day.
Honored to contribute to this fantastic book alongside industry veterans. I explored how to craft disabled/neurodivergent villains without tropes or stereotypesβcarefully navigating a complex topic. #TTRPG #DisabilityJustice
black and white dungeon map fragment depicting an old mine entrance on some cliffs next to some trees.
Olden Mine Entrance.
hand-drawn rpg battlemap fragment.
#ttrpg #ttrpgmaps #battlemap
1. Ginny Di's YouTube channel
2. I don't know the TTRPG influencers well enough to answer this question. I listen to BobWorldBuilder and sometimes Ginny Di and Matt Colville and nothing else consistently
A promo image for a medieval style notice board posting - The poster is decorated with a border of leaves in shades of grey. In large cursive letters is a business name 'Silver Linings Bespoke Tailor'. The G's tail flourishes into a thread that passes through the eye of a large needle. The promo states this is a variant for Fantastical Geographic's Liora location - This poster is free to any patreon followers.
The latest #FanGeo release saw the reprise of a familiar #TTRPG poster with a new location - both as a scratch made ad in the magazine & as a poster variant in the exploration pack.
Since it's so similar to the original I'm releasing it free to all Patreon followers: www.patreon.com/posts/silver...
Our household has been loving little but fierce since it was a wee lil thing and now SO EXCITED to see the KS launch! Check it out to share with the Little But Fierce ones in your life!π₯π
CONSUMER is in this, alongside some truly incredible games, supplements and resources!
Go get yourself a great bundle of art, and tell ICE to go fuck themselves all at once!
Your help has meant the world to us so far, and some reached out to give us some jobs we can do.
Let's keep it going! Thank you so much for all your help so far ππ
Thanks so much for saying so!!
A banner that says Little but Fierce: Streamlined 5th Edition for Children of All Ages. Thereβs a preview of the physical book cover and artwork. Thereβs a quote from Sarah Johnson, Education Consultant that says: βIn a sea of electronic alternatives, Little but Fierce stands as an exciting and fun competitor that will delight geeky parents and their children alike.β There are also four photos of the creative team: DC Bradshaw, Catarina EusΓ©bio, Sebastian YΕ«e and Jennifer Kretchmer.
ARE YOU LITTLE BUT FIERCE?
Little but Fierce, the streamlined adaptation of 5th Edition for kids, is now live on Kickstarter! β¨β¨
Support the project to introduce TTRPGs to the next generation:β¨www.kickstarter.com/projects/dcb...β¨β¨
#TTRPG #LittleButFierce
My D&D5e supplement, gothHoblin's Lycanthropy Lineages, is discounted for GM's Day over on DM's Guild!
βββββ Five star rated lineages and feats for both traditional werecreatures and new kinds of lycanthropes such as Swanmays, Mothfolk, even a Water Horse π΄
site.dmsguild.com/product/5167...
Was asked what my favorite mechanic was in Mooncroft Manor (www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...) and I thought I'd talk about it here too!
Specifically: the way this game treats research and discovery as a source of social tension is extremely fun and really drives play.
We're in the final eight hours for GALLOWS CORNER!
Our print files are being finalised tomorrow and delivered on Thursday, so backers will have copies in hand by the summer.
Make sure you get your copy by backing today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...
A promotional graphic for Toe Beans that reads: a 100+ page magical cat cafe for Daggerheart with adventures, tables, items, handouts and a place your party can return to. Final 24 Hours on Kickstarter, with a cartoon cat and a project we love badge.
A promotional graphic for Toe Beans with the project we love badge on kickstarter, a cartoon cat and text that reads: Β£15 β Digital Edition Full PDF + printables Β£30 β Physical CafΓ© Bundle Printed book + digital edition + stickers + art print + cafΓ© menus + novella
Weβre so close to Β£10k! If youβre backed at the digital tier and were considering the physical book, upgrading now genuinely helps us cross that line. The Β£30 CafΓ© Bundle includes the book, digital edition, art prints, and everything unlocked.
Final 24 Hours: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fis...
You can get up to 40% off my D&D supplements for the GM's sale going on now! #dnd #ttrpg
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You can get up to 40% off my D&D supplements for the GM's sale going on now! #dnd #ttrpg
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I just noticed that my first Vaesen mystery The Mists of Stegeborg is currently discounted for GMs Day! π
Check it out here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
(Though anyone who joins the @dicecompany.bsky.social discord can get an even bigger discount π)
Final art.
Back to myhtology. Here's to a month of equine critters as stock art for indie RPGs.
Hop on here: www.patreon.com/posts/stock-...
#mythology #unicorn #monstrosilist #bestiary #bwart #ttrpg
