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Leon Barillaro
@barilleon.com
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Trans type Eeveelution. ENNIE & IGDN-nominated Game & Narrative Designer. M.S. in CompSci. Game Designer on Dungeons & Dragons.

"Bear-uh-LAIR-oh." they/them. #WotCStaff

opinions are my own

https://barilleon.com
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Leon Barillaro @barilleon.com · 12d
Check it out it’s a Wizard holding a Wizard in the Wizards office
Leon Barillaro holding a d&d character sheet in front of Mitzi, the WotC office dragon.
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Los Angeles: I have about 200 11x13.5 ez open mailers from Uline just sitting in cardboard boxes. If you can come pick them up they’re yours for free. good for shipping zines probably?
January 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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A wizard’s familiar lives up to her name
Chance the beagle standing on a bed with a plush pink d20 in her mouth. She has it so the 20 side is facing the camera.
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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harperferry.bsky.social
Dropping an updated version of The Sentient Severed Arm just in time for the Indiecade Awards. You can still play the b&w prototype for free, but now you can also pay a little more to get the beautiful new updated version in full color.

nullandvoidgames.itch.io/the-sentient...
The Sentient Severed Arm by nullandvoidgames
An investigative live action roleplaying game for 2 or more players
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January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Two little girls with English accents at the coffee shop, wearing Huntrix t-shirts and holding scooters.

Them: What is that cup?
Me: It’s a Pokemon. Do you know Pokemon?
Them: No.
Me: Oh okay, so it’s like a monster—
Them (indignant): We know Pokemon. That’s like Pikachu.
January 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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geneljumalon.bsky.social
Mob Pyscho 100 - Be a good person.
January 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Hey you! Are you a TTRPG writer staring at discourse on bluesky??? Would you rather be writing for a game? I want to pay you (at $0.20/word) to write for a zine month project!

I'm seeking folks interested in folk stories and examining power structures in storytelling!
How I Heard It Guest Writer Application
First Pancake Studios is seeking guest writers for our upcoming TTRPG How I Heard it (Free Ashcan Available Here). How I Heard it is a GM-less storytelling game played around a campfire. Players take ...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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POSITM - the purpose of a system is to matter
January 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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I've gotten a lot of questions over the last two weeks about how I got my job. I actually wrote a post almost a year ago about how I became a prolific freelancer. This will take you 95% of the way down my path. The other 5% is being in the right place at the right time:
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How I Got into the TTRPG Freelance Industry - Barilleon's Web Zone
How TTRPG freelancer Leon Barillaro got gigs writing for tabletop game companies. Advice for those who'd like to begin their careers.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Big top & another Bigtop

#tadc #bigtopburger
January 16, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Everyone talking about the big end of act 1 moment in E33 kept me anticipating it. No one spoiled it, but I’m fluent enough in JRPG to have predicted it. That scene was…fine. I don’t think I felt anything watching it. But having played a bit of Act 2, I think that is the point.

(Spoilers in thread)
January 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Was no one going to tell me Empress Elizabeth of Russia held weekly masquerades so she could dress as a king and force her entire court to crossdress or was I just supposed to find that out reading a biography of the Chevalière d’Eon by myself
January 16, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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This is from the Vonnegut museum, and apt as ever.
“Beware of Artists” they mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous. An actual poster issued by Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Now that I’m a wizard I have my dad calling me up to ask things like “what is a homunculus, and is it good or evil?”
January 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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New Unearthed Arcana playtest introducing four new subclasses:

🥋Warrior of Mystic Arts (Monk)
🛡️Oath of the Spellguard (Paladin)
🃏Magic Stealer (Rogue)
👻Vestige Patron (Warlock)

Link to full blog post and survey below.
Highlights in 🧵1/6
A dwarf Paladin empowers her weapon with Divine Smite, unleashing holy wrath on fiendish mezzoloths. Art by Bryan Sola, as seen in the Player's Handbook.
January 15, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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He really is doing all of it.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
January 15, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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Playing Expedition 33 finally and we’re doing the French voice acting and I like Esquie a lot and a big part of that is he talks slow enough for me to understand
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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Legitimately don’t think I am mentally strong enough to return to Animal Crossing. You guys have fun though
January 15, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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I would really like to know what my rep @tedlieu.bsky.social saw in this bill that was worth voting for.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d
What does this bill do?

✅Creates a new slush fund for Secretary of State Marco Rubio
✅Pushes a Big Tech agenda in trade policy
✅Cuts the IRS enforcement budget in order to encourage billionaire tax evasion
✅Advances Trump's imperialist foreign policy
✅Cuts funding to the United Nations
January 15, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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This was my favorite game I played at GDC last year. I’m REALLY excited for February now!!
aerialknight.com Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 3d
My action skydiving racing FPS Aerial_Knight’s DropShot drops Feb 17 on PS5, Xbox, and PC.

You play as a guy bitten by a radioactive dragon, taking down mercs, dragons, tanks, and cows… all while trying not to mess up your fro.

Give it a Wishlist it means a lot 🙂

youtu.be/Hl0ylC9SYuw?...
Aerial_Knight's DropShot - Release Date Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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January 14, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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This next game is coming at you fast. Don't forget to tell your friends. its the only way I can grow and do bigger things!
January 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Howdy #PortfolioDay !

I'm Arlo, I'm a 2D artist and I'm open to and looking for full time work!

I'm interested in illustration and vis dev work in TTRPGS, animation and games (card, video or board).

arlohawthorne.myportfolio.com
[email protected]
Illustration of an adventuring dnd party cheerfully grouped up with their arms around each other's shoulders. There is a half orc, a wood elf, an air genasi, an assimar and a warforge. They are set in a snowy landscape. A character reference for Quinten. He's a red haired wood elf who is a little scruffy from (now cured) lycanthropy. He wears a long red duster coat that ends in blue with a yellow triangle trim, the coat has a black fur shawl on its shoulders. He has on a red bandana with a moon phase motif, the accent colors match the coat. He's in a grey vest and tan pants with dark brown and black suede chaps over them with brass accents. He has black gloves and boots. There are two versions of him (the same drawing) but one has a black cowboy hat on. Character reference for Ozvar and some of his items. The character is an anthropomorphic goat who was made to look baphomet-like (but masculine). His fur color is a greyish lilac with lighter more pinkish parts on his nose and chest and ears where the fur thins. He has a black tuft of hair that covers an eye. He wears a vest with a leather color that opens to a deep v, the fabric is dark navy and has light blue pinstripes, the sleeves are short and puffed out and have slashes in them with a wine colored fabric underneath, the sleeves end with gold cuffs shaped like crowns. The vest has gold spikes on the shoulders and a leather belt around the waist. Under the vest, around his waist is a tattered bit of fabric with an almost plaid like design on it, it's a dark muted wine color. He head tight fitting leather pants that have lacing up the entire front of each leg. His items are a keytaur that takes inspiration from a pipe organ in a church, it's got a dark reddish purple almost black base with two rows of ivory keys. From the handle there is a brass section where for brass pipe organ pipes come out and curve around the length of the instrument. The head of the neck of the keytaur emulates a Gothic window arch. There is a long sword that has a crown morning in gold as a hand guard and as a pomel. The hilt wrapping is the same wine color as the character has, the blade itself is silver. Lastly there is a deck of tarot cards and a crystal ball. He's a college of spirits bard! A children's book style illustration of Oz as a we lil kid in the abyss, finding his keytaur. The illustration is of a cavernous scene that is in greens and blues and a small anthropomorphic goat with greyish lilac fur peeks over from a rock formation to spy a pipe organ looking keytaur that is being basked in red light. The character looks very happy with his discovery. The words on the page read; "And there it was, the myths were true! His dreams were one step closer to breaking into"
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property Shelf filled with goggles and whistles
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Thought I was maybe getting sick but no I was overheating coming back to nearly 80 degree weather after a week in Seattle
January 13, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. https://bit.ly/49xT9Xl
January 13, 2026 at 4:31 PM