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Nights and Knights Games

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https://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 · Aug 2

Nights & Knights Games is a new independent gaming studio working on a number of projects. TTRPGs across multiple genres and game systems, here is what we've got upcoming. Many irons in the fire, some still biding their time.

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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 3d

Serious 9 vibes, if you remember that movie.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

In honor of the spookiest season, Nights & Knights Games is releasing its first game! This Clawing Darkness is a lightweight, teamwork-focused horror boardgame with optional roleplay elements. Just $1, only today! Happy Halloween!
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This Clawing Darkness — Nights & Knights

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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 3d

"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 · 3d

Getting some good 90s Maxis vibes over here.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 22d

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

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 · 22d

Big 60s pulp sci-fi energy!

(in a good way)

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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 22d

Okay but I can see one of those fancy gyms offering Bananas Loco/Mixed Ladders as a smoothie flavor.

Unfortunately. 😅

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · 22d

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 · Oct 4

Worldbuildy shower thoughts: What if Baba Yaga's chicken-legged walking house is a special domesticated breed of mimic?
#dnd #worldbuilding #ttrpg #gaming

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Oct 1

That's a lotta caffeine.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Oct 1

As always, the best way to get good at any creative endeavour is just to do it. You might feel silly and your first works probably won't be masterpieces, but just starting is half the work right there. ☺️
#ttrpg #gaming #gamedesign #worldbuilding

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Oct 1

Sounds odd and silly, but it's actually worked pretty well for me! And doing this kind of thing is like doing stretches for creating. You can make a notebook of cool and crazy gadgets/artifacts and then have a selection to grab when you need one for your setting.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Oct 1

Terracotta statues that you smear with chia seed goop to grow 'fur/hair' on them! How about an emergency microterraforming lumpy gel that you spread on a solid surface and just add water to produce some kinda fungus-and-plant hybrid growth that you can eat for complete (if tasteless) nutrition?

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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Oct 1

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 · Sep 30

The difference between cold-calling and networking.

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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

If it's good enough for Edgar Allen Poe, Tales from the Crypt-Keeper, Robert W. Chambers, and Chuck Jones, it's good enough for me! It's a classic for a reason.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

Also good. 😄

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

Show me on the dolly where the pah-wraith touched you.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

The second, even better if it's not a mask at all.

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Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

This is how you get cryptids, you know. Like, new ones.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

It is always better to do a thing, to even try to make a thing, than to just sit and dream without doing. I'm convinced this is one of those big secrets or life or whatever.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

Well, the whole point of experiencing or doing art is to feel some feelings or make others feel feelings, even all the way back when we were smearing charcoal on cave walls.

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

Has he considered a nice bouquet, or perhaps a well-written sonnet?

Nights and Knights Games @nightsandknights.bsky.social · Sep 30

And technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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