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Just your average small tabletop gaming studio, doing the best they can to bring fresh ideas and resources to your table!

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · Sep 14

HALFLIGHT HALLS: Campaign & Setting Starter
Now available as Pay-What-You-Want on DTRPG!

An Off-Beat Campaign Setting, designed to reward clever teamwork, bold heroics, and spectacularly bad ideas.

Compatible with Daggerheart.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Halflight Halls: Campaign & Setting Starter - Hack Shack Games | DriveThruRPG

Halflight Halls Campaign & Setting Starter An Off-Beat Campaign Setting, designed to reward clever teamwork, bold heroics, and spectacularly bad ideas. Inside you'll find: The Halflight Halls camp...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 1d

Owlcat Games unveils free educational resource hub for game industry professionals

Owlcat Games wants to help developers thrive in the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering the other day why we don't have a super exciting cyberpunk TTRPG, and then I realised we do, and it's Mothership.

...I just didn't expect them to lock in that crown with this year's Mothership Month, with all the modules set in the same megacity. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

MOTHERSHIP MONTH on BackerKit

Mothership Month returns October 14, 2025 with even more creators, nightmares, and community events. Whether you're an old teamster or a fresh recruit, you're invited to the largest Mothership even...

www.backerkit.com

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 1d

I worked for a while in one of the oldest buildings in Seattle, down in Pioneer Square, that had a freight elevator with one.

It was great, if you didn't pay too much attention to the groaning metal, smell of dead rats, or rusted everything..

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Matt Forbeck @forbeck.com · 1d

Gamers! If you're going to Gamehole Con, you can donate to help out Rob Wieland's wife and daughter by purchasing tickets to our memorial event there. If you can, please do!

The link for those donations is here: www.gameholecon.com/events/event...

In lieu of our annual Baron's Ball, we will be toasting our beloved Admiral with our own tall tales of Rob, our friendships, and his legacy 8pm Friday at Gamehole Con.

Please join us and help support his family at this time through this link:

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 1d

Clive Barker's Blue Lagoon.

Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 1d

Guillermo Del Toro's Forrest Gump.

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 1d

David Cronenberg's Downton Abbey

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 1d

Fate Core.

Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 2d

Been playing a mashed up mix of this with Monster of the Week, for some crunchier lovin' oldskool players for over a year. Been loving it.

Some GREAT systems for shared narrative, like the backstory based "Keys" instead of Luck, the Paint the Scene prompts, and the Questions and Answers mechanics.

Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 2d

Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 2d

All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one pepsi.

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, I gotta work these in somehow..

Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 3d

ttrpg class list

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 3d

Inktober, Day 12 “Tattered”: A wererat king, draped in tattered finery, ruling over a broken kingdom.🐀

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 4d

Another great designer breakdown from @sam-pearson.bsky.social of thoughts behind their approach.

Great points about the tradeoffs between 'tokenized' language, relying on things like defined rule names and keywords, and using natural language instead.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOBc...

How I Designed Warhammer's Warcry Game

YouTube video by SPGD

www.youtube.com

Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 4d

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 4d

Reshare: Even as TSR and D&D’s early periods receive the gold-standard treatment, there’s much more to the hobby than one game and one company. But are those histories actually important? What is at stake if we forget them?

www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

We can’t let the market decide what we remember and forget

Emily Friedman and Evan Torner on why gaming histories matter.

www.rascal.news

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Michael R. Underwood (Mike) @mikerunderwood.bsky.social · 5d

I was an Additional Designer on Daggerheart and I've got a playlist of over 20 videos sharing my thoughts on running & playing the game, plus new creations to use w/the Daggerheart rules. Topics include using Fear outside of combat to creating new adversaries & more.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Daggerheart - YouTube

Daggerheart co-designer Mike Underwood (credit: Additional Designer) shares their thoughts about the game, from design analysis to GMing advice to homebrewin...

www.youtube.com

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Michael R. Underwood (Mike) @mikerunderwood.bsky.social · 4d

There are just four spots left in today's seminar on creating Adversaries and Environments for Daggerheart:

startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

Join Daggerheart GM Seminar: Creating Adversaries & Environments - Zoom - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games

Mike Underwood, Additional Designer on Daggerheart, shares their approach to the philosophy and practice of GMing the game. Each seminar will have 1-2 core topics, plus topics nominated by attendees ...

startplaying.games

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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 5d

A pleasure to step in as the producer for this episode of Public Access over on The Bad Spot.

An absolutely wild time, with some of the most talented people working in TTRPGs.

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 5d

Episode 3 lets gooooooooo

youtu.be/stqkCra0C0s

@jessjewell.bsky.social @masquewren.bsky.social @jasoncordova.bsky.social @samsighs.bsky.social

Darkness On The Edge Of Town | Public Access: Part 3 | RPG Actual play

YouTube video by The Bad Spot

youtu.be

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 5d

My art packs are 10%OFF for a few days:

👉 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

👉 salvaterra.itch.io

#bsnm #stockart #ttrpg

a collage with several black and white item drawings like books, chests, maps, scrolls, treasures, idols etc.

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Bee @beeba17.bsky.social · 5d

Hey all! Me and my friends #DnD show #TheCrookedMoon
is up on Youtube! It has gotten crazy traction in the last 24 hours and I would love to have more people watch the VOD and tune in to our folk horror adventure! :DD
If you do decide to watch let me know what you think!
youtu.be/nroI2AvvZfc?...

The Crooked Moon - Ep.1 - All Aboard the Ghostlight Express

YouTube video by SleepySheepy

youtu.be

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Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober, Day 9, "Heavy": This is the heaviest character I could think of. It is a revisit to one of the first color prints I offered way back in 1993 at my first Gen Con Art Show, on the heels of the release of the AD&D "Monstrous Manual". 🎨

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Spenser Starke @spenserstarke.bsky.social · 6d

In case you haven't seen it yet, @dngnclub.itch.io released an AWESOME new horror game called "How's My Driving?" that uses some of the Daggerheart mechanics in a fun, new way! Go grab a copy!! dngnclub.itch.io/hows-my-driv...

HOW'S MY DRIVING? by DNGNCLUB

A Road Trip Gone Wrong for 2-6 players

dngnclub.itch.io

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 6d

OK. Last time.
A D&D Stirge detaches after draining 10 HP of blood. Therefore HP are a measurable unit of blood (I estimate 200ml per HP).

Characters with high HP might have hundreds of liters contained in their bodies at high pressure. Even light nicks tend to spray anime-style.
It's science.

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 6d

Hey everyone, just a reminder, it's nap time.

Don't forget, you earned it. <3

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DodoBorne 🦤🗡️❤️ @dodoborne.com · 8d

Don't duck around with friendship 🦆

A small clip from the latest episode of Dodoborne: A #Daggerheart Actual Play Podcast featuring some amazing artwork by @paintedlight1.bsky.social

Listen to the rest on Dodoborne.com or wherever you get your podcasts!
#ttrpg #fantasty #art #clip

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Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 7d

Hope nothing fowls up their friendship...

Hack Shack Games @hackshackgames.bsky.social · 7d

Can't wait to back this, and check it out!