Dimitri, Dr. Givaca
@dgivaca.bsky.social
Passionate about analogic games, mostly TTRPGs | Hobbies: Game Design/History/Mythology | Studying Geology | (he/him)
Talking about TTRPGs and design at https://theludonarrativegivaca.wordpress.com/
Making random games at https://dimitri-drgivaca.itch.io
Talking about TTRPGs and design at https://theludonarrativegivaca.wordpress.com/
Making random games at https://dimitri-drgivaca.itch.io
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Dimitri, Dr. Givaca
@dgivaca.bsky.social
· Nov 16
The LudoNarrative Givaca
A givaca's ruminations on RPGs. story-telling and assorted stuff it tries to munch together
theludonarrativegivaca.wordpress.com
High time for a new intro post!
Hi, I'm Dimitri, an avid roleplayer, sometimes blog writer, sometimes game designer, from Portugal! 🎲🪶
Mostly post about my interests: TTRPGs, fiction, geology (which I'm currently studying!), and highlight others' games. 📚⛰️
Love pictures of animals and landscapes.
Hi, I'm Dimitri, an avid roleplayer, sometimes blog writer, sometimes game designer, from Portugal! 🎲🪶
Mostly post about my interests: TTRPGs, fiction, geology (which I'm currently studying!), and highlight others' games. 📚⛰️
Love pictures of animals and landscapes.
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Nominations are open for the Thinky Awards. We thought we'd mention this as we released a few thinky games this year @blueprincegame.bsky.social , @blakemanorgame.bsky.social, Post Trauma & @kathyrain2.bsky.social that would be perfect for nominating, just saying...
Thinky Awards · Thinky Games
We're celebrating the very best thinky games of the past year in the latest Thinky Awards.
thinkygames.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Nominations are open for the Thinky Awards. We thought we'd mention this as we released a few thinky games this year @blueprincegame.bsky.social , @blakemanorgame.bsky.social, Post Trauma & @kathyrain2.bsky.social that would be perfect for nominating, just saying...
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You're into RPGs.
You've maybe played one this year, or ten, or... sixty-two?
What if you told us about them?
Like, in a blog post, or on here. Tell us what you played, maybe for how long. You could say if you liked them and why. You could even hand out awards.
Welcome to The #Endies2025.
You've maybe played one this year, or ten, or... sixty-two?
What if you told us about them?
Like, in a blog post, or on here. Tell us what you played, maybe for how long. You could say if you liked them and why. You could even hand out awards.
Welcome to The #Endies2025.
The Endie Awards
#Endies2025
ladytabletop.wordpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
You're into RPGs.
You've maybe played one this year, or ten, or... sixty-two?
What if you told us about them?
Like, in a blog post, or on here. Tell us what you played, maybe for how long. You could say if you liked them and why. You could even hand out awards.
Welcome to The #Endies2025.
You've maybe played one this year, or ten, or... sixty-two?
What if you told us about them?
Like, in a blog post, or on here. Tell us what you played, maybe for how long. You could say if you liked them and why. You could even hand out awards.
Welcome to The #Endies2025.
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Time for the post #Dragonmeet thread! 🙌
My first con as an OFFICIAL Hatchlings number, and what a wonderful time it was 🙌 saw so many friends, and lots of people asked me about it, which was lovely 💛
My first con as an OFFICIAL Hatchlings number, and what a wonderful time it was 🙌 saw so many friends, and lots of people asked me about it, which was lovely 💛
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Time for the post #Dragonmeet thread! 🙌
My first con as an OFFICIAL Hatchlings number, and what a wonderful time it was 🙌 saw so many friends, and lots of people asked me about it, which was lovely 💛
My first con as an OFFICIAL Hatchlings number, and what a wonderful time it was 🙌 saw so many friends, and lots of people asked me about it, which was lovely 💛
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Wrote a more informal article on Patreon on how all artworks in all mediums are in a constant state of metamorphosis, but that TTRPGs have the privilege of being generally perceived as collective constructions - and how that perception can reshape ideas of ownership.
www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpgs...
www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpgs...
TTRPGs And The Metamorphosis of Art | Araukana
Get more from Araukana on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Wrote a more informal article on Patreon on how all artworks in all mediums are in a constant state of metamorphosis, but that TTRPGs have the privilege of being generally perceived as collective constructions - and how that perception can reshape ideas of ownership.
www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpgs...
www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpgs...
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IT'S RAWCEMBERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!⏰
Get a load of giveaways, game launches, demos and MORE on the lead up to Christmas.
Now that's how you kick off December!❤️
🔗https://store.steampowered.com/developer/rawfury/sale/rawcember26
🔗https://youtu.be/Wd_-yb0EIvE
Get a load of giveaways, game launches, demos and MORE on the lead up to Christmas.
Now that's how you kick off December!❤️
🔗https://store.steampowered.com/developer/rawfury/sale/rawcember26
🔗https://youtu.be/Wd_-yb0EIvE
Rawcember 2025 | STARTS NOW!
YouTube video by Raw Fury
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
IT'S RAWCEMBERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!⏰
Get a load of giveaways, game launches, demos and MORE on the lead up to Christmas.
Now that's how you kick off December!❤️
🔗https://store.steampowered.com/developer/rawfury/sale/rawcember26
🔗https://youtu.be/Wd_-yb0EIvE
Get a load of giveaways, game launches, demos and MORE on the lead up to Christmas.
Now that's how you kick off December!❤️
🔗https://store.steampowered.com/developer/rawfury/sale/rawcember26
🔗https://youtu.be/Wd_-yb0EIvE
Christmas cookies baking season has begun, still trying to get used to the fact that this isn't a family activity anymore, but I had fun nonetheless and am proud of the end result!
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Christmas cookies baking season has begun, still trying to get used to the fact that this isn't a family activity anymore, but I had fun nonetheless and am proud of the end result!
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Good morning! It's December, which means it's time for my annual advent calendar!
The Mouth Of Winter is 25 chapters of grimdark fantasy, releasing daily through Christmas. Mercenaries break an ancient covenant. A monster wakes up. Nobody's having a good time.
loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 ❄️
The Mouth Of Winter is 25 chapters of grimdark fantasy, releasing daily through Christmas. Mercenaries break an ancient covenant. A monster wakes up. Nobody's having a good time.
loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 ❄️
The Mouth Of Winter by Chris Bissette
A serialised dark fantasy novella
loottheroom.itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Good morning! It's December, which means it's time for my annual advent calendar!
The Mouth Of Winter is 25 chapters of grimdark fantasy, releasing daily through Christmas. Mercenaries break an ancient covenant. A monster wakes up. Nobody's having a good time.
loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 ❄️
The Mouth Of Winter is 25 chapters of grimdark fantasy, releasing daily through Christmas. Mercenaries break an ancient covenant. A monster wakes up. Nobody's having a good time.
loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 ❄️
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ANNOUNCEMENT: THREE SAILS STUDIOS TO PUBLISH 'CITY OF ESPERS - A STREET-LEVEL PSYCHICS TTRPG', THE NEW GAME BY NATHAN BLADE (@theneoncaster.bsky.social)
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
Press Release: Three Sails Studios to publish ‘City of Espers’, new TTRPG from Nathan Blades. — Three Sails Studios
December 1st, 2025. Manchester: Three Sails Studios are happy to announce that they are publishing City of Espers - A Street-Level Psychics RPG, the next TTRPG from established designer, streamer, and...
www.threesailsstudios.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
ANNOUNCEMENT: THREE SAILS STUDIOS TO PUBLISH 'CITY OF ESPERS - A STREET-LEVEL PSYCHICS TTRPG', THE NEW GAME BY NATHAN BLADE (@theneoncaster.bsky.social)
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe...
(PLEASE REPOST) 🧵
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The Guess The TTRPG challenge I brought to PAX Unplugged is now available online! Can you identify one hundred tabletop RPGs featured on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social?
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Guess The TTRPG challenge I brought to PAX Unplugged is now available online! Can you identify one hundred tabletop RPGs featured on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social?
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
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Hey! Doing a rare sale on Paper Apps this weekend. Use the code “SCREENFREEHOLIDAYS” for 20% off orders of $20+
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hey! Doing a rare sale on Paper Apps this weekend. Use the code “SCREENFREEHOLIDAYS” for 20% off orders of $20+
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Support indie tabletop and grab a BUNCH of solo games for yourself.
Fort Pleasant, Hunters Of The Glade, Squish!, Ranger Mech Squad, Caught In The Rain, and more!
itch.io/b/3361/sprin...
Fort Pleasant, Hunters Of The Glade, Squish!, Ranger Mech Squad, Caught In The Rain, and more!
itch.io/b/3361/sprin...
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Support indie tabletop and grab a BUNCH of solo games for yourself.
Fort Pleasant, Hunters Of The Glade, Squish!, Ranger Mech Squad, Caught In The Rain, and more!
itch.io/b/3361/sprin...
Fort Pleasant, Hunters Of The Glade, Squish!, Ranger Mech Squad, Caught In The Rain, and more!
itch.io/b/3361/sprin...
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One-player one-shot of @capacle.bsky.social 's Midnight Melodies! A few days late but the holiday and scheduling issues make for it hard to find time to edit.
Hope you enjoy as Death-resistant jazz pianist Riley Hawkins investigates the unauthorized death academic counselor Bradley Keats!
Hope you enjoy as Death-resistant jazz pianist Riley Hawkins investigates the unauthorized death academic counselor Bradley Keats!
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
One-player one-shot of @capacle.bsky.social 's Midnight Melodies! A few days late but the holiday and scheduling issues make for it hard to find time to edit.
Hope you enjoy as Death-resistant jazz pianist Riley Hawkins investigates the unauthorized death academic counselor Bradley Keats!
Hope you enjoy as Death-resistant jazz pianist Riley Hawkins investigates the unauthorized death academic counselor Bradley Keats!
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XCOM meets Shadowrun in this tactical game of defending your planet from invading aliens and ensuring your boss gets all the credit. Includes a 10-game campaign you're meant to lose, basebuilding, and more!
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Cyberr...
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Cyberr...
Cyberrats :: Game Books :: IPR
Indie Press Revolution (IPR) is a direct sales network of quality independent publishers, dedicated to bringing you the best of small press tabletop roleplaying and storytelling games.
www.indiepressrevolution.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
XCOM meets Shadowrun in this tactical game of defending your planet from invading aliens and ensuring your boss gets all the credit. Includes a 10-game campaign you're meant to lose, basebuilding, and more!
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Cyberr...
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Cyberr...
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Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition is a blackjack driven storygame of doomed travelers on a perilous journey home, pitting your hand and hearts against Fate, inspired by The Odyssey. ehronlime.itch.io/ithaca-in-th...
Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition by ehronlime
A blackjack-driven storygame about doomed travelers on a perilous journey home.
ehronlime.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition is a blackjack driven storygame of doomed travelers on a perilous journey home, pitting your hand and hearts against Fate, inspired by The Odyssey. ehronlime.itch.io/ithaca-in-th...
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songbirds is a gorey, weird, sexy dungeon crawler where you guide spirits to the afterlife with violence <3
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
Songbirds - The Complete PDF by snow
An eldritch fantasy game.
snowttrpg.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
songbirds is a gorey, weird, sexy dungeon crawler where you guide spirits to the afterlife with violence <3
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
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I recently released Dragon Slayers!
It's got everything you want in your fantasy TTRPG, but each class plays with their own unique ruleset in combat.
Barbarians with growing dice pools, bards playing yahtzee, and wizards combining dice of various magic schools!
gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers
It's got everything you want in your fantasy TTRPG, but each class plays with their own unique ruleset in combat.
Barbarians with growing dice pools, bards playing yahtzee, and wizards combining dice of various magic schools!
gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I recently released Dragon Slayers!
It's got everything you want in your fantasy TTRPG, but each class plays with their own unique ruleset in combat.
Barbarians with growing dice pools, bards playing yahtzee, and wizards combining dice of various magic schools!
gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers
It's got everything you want in your fantasy TTRPG, but each class plays with their own unique ruleset in combat.
Barbarians with growing dice pools, bards playing yahtzee, and wizards combining dice of various magic schools!
gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers
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Harvest is a "beautiful cursed woodcut of a game" and Rascal writer Thomas Manuel's game of the year. GMless diceless period folk horror, it revolves around a golden paradise off Britain's coast preserved by generational ritual sacrifice, and which you'll choose: die for the island, or kill for it.
Harvest by gamesfromthewildwood
A bloody folk gothic RPG of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Harvest is a "beautiful cursed woodcut of a game" and Rascal writer Thomas Manuel's game of the year. GMless diceless period folk horror, it revolves around a golden paradise off Britain's coast preserved by generational ritual sacrifice, and which you'll choose: die for the island, or kill for it.
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Finally, our Rascal Year One zines are available in the UK and you can grab signed copies at the Peregrine Coast Press booth at Dragonmeet!
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Finally, our Rascal Year One zines are available in the UK and you can grab signed copies at the Peregrine Coast Press booth at Dragonmeet!
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Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
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Wondering what to get from me during this Itch Creator Day sale? Check out this new solo journaling game about cooking:
What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course is now available in PDF! You can get both the English and Japanese language versions now at ehronlime.itch.io/what-should-.... It's a solo journaling game about managing your pantry and cooking a week of meals for your loved ones.
What Should We Have Tomorrow? Full Course by ehronlime
A solo journaling game about managing your pantry and cooking a week of meals for your loved one(s).
ehronlime.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wondering what to get from me during this Itch Creator Day sale? Check out this new solo journaling game about cooking:
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Hinterlight: A gmless gothic worldbuilding ritual & #TTRPG for 3-5 players is LIVE over on Kickstarter!
Pledge now at ttrpg.link/hinterlight to support @robbiaburns.bsky.social & the G//C crew.
We have invited a member of the wretched fae to maintain a megathread here with all details:
1/X
Pledge now at ttrpg.link/hinterlight to support @robbiaburns.bsky.social & the G//C crew.
We have invited a member of the wretched fae to maintain a megathread here with all details:
1/X
Hinterlight
A gothic worldbuilding ritual & roleplaying game that sews seeds of adventure as you tell the tale of your demise!
ttrpg.link
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Hinterlight: A gmless gothic worldbuilding ritual & #TTRPG for 3-5 players is LIVE over on Kickstarter!
Pledge now at ttrpg.link/hinterlight to support @robbiaburns.bsky.social & the G//C crew.
We have invited a member of the wretched fae to maintain a megathread here with all details:
1/X
Pledge now at ttrpg.link/hinterlight to support @robbiaburns.bsky.social & the G//C crew.
We have invited a member of the wretched fae to maintain a megathread here with all details:
1/X
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Thian & Zarvin has been RELEASED!
An episodic dark sci-fi buddy comedy about two neurodivergent dorks who are caught up in the middle of a criminal investigation in a dystopian future.
Read the first issue: tnz.webcomic.ws/comics/2/#co...
#TnZ #comics #comic #bd #bandedessinee #webcomic #comicoop
An episodic dark sci-fi buddy comedy about two neurodivergent dorks who are caught up in the middle of a criminal investigation in a dystopian future.
Read the first issue: tnz.webcomic.ws/comics/2/#co...
#TnZ #comics #comic #bd #bandedessinee #webcomic #comicoop
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thian & Zarvin has been RELEASED!
An episodic dark sci-fi buddy comedy about two neurodivergent dorks who are caught up in the middle of a criminal investigation in a dystopian future.
Read the first issue: tnz.webcomic.ws/comics/2/#co...
#TnZ #comics #comic #bd #bandedessinee #webcomic #comicoop
An episodic dark sci-fi buddy comedy about two neurodivergent dorks who are caught up in the middle of a criminal investigation in a dystopian future.
Read the first issue: tnz.webcomic.ws/comics/2/#co...
#TnZ #comics #comic #bd #bandedessinee #webcomic #comicoop
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Hey.
Hey.
Go back my game.
Hey.
Go back my game.
Gravity: A Roleplaying Game
A one-shot TTRPG about powerful people in a bad situation.
www.kickstarter.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hey.
Hey.
Go back my game.
Hey.
Go back my game.