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Ignem Mittere in Cerebrum TTRPG Game Designer and Writer patreon.com/flamingbraingames WIP: Adirondark: The Weird Wilderness Beyond the Blue Line A turn of the twentieth century wilderness horror game!

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · Feb 24

#SelfPromoSunday

Check out our small (but growing!) selection of TTRPG things for sale and join our Patreon to help support us in our designing and publishing endeavors!

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 32m

This looks amazing and frankly, I'm trying to figure out how you offered some much stuff in just 24 pages!

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 37m

Following for similar wisdom

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 2h

Inspired by the Fred Armisen album:

The sound of eye-rolling when a player has all 18's for stats

The sigh when players cancel

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure if the above completely connects with what you offered, but I agree that Bronze Age interests me — just not enough to start a full campaign. Would the classic Sword and Sorcery scratch the same itch? Not sure.

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

I always thought I'd like my game world to have Eras or Eons. The Era of Beats is Stone Age and mega fauna, the Era of Giants is Bronze Age, etc.

This might allow for PCs to jump to an era for a different feel/genre or let players play out campaigns that help shape the future eras.

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Spooky Saba 🏳️‍🌈 @ace-of-dragons.bsky.social · 1d

are you an artist who takes TTRPG character commissions? would you like to be in a starter pack?

let me know below! 🫶🏻 I'm hoping to put this together in the next few days~ 🩷

#DnD #SupportArtists

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

A long forgotten sun temple high on a mesa in the middle of the jungle, a challenging ascent, giant bees, desiccated undead sun worshipers, an immortal princess, and the Guru in Amber...

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#TabletopTuesday

The Ancient Apiary of Mauri Mandiri - Flaming Brain Games | DriveThruRPG

The Ancient Apiary of Mauri Mandiri was created for the Knave 2e Game Jam in 2024. It should be easy to convert for most OSR games, and some simple tweaks make it usable for all d20 games. It is a mod...

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a quaint little goblin hamlet? And what if the hatching of giant cicada blood nymphs is about to happen?

Silkroots might be right up your alley...

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Silkroots, Goblin Hamlet by Flaming Brain Games

Grubherding is usually peaceful. Except every thirteen years...

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

Vulture capitalism, power-hungry, irresponsible capitalism...

Adirondark takes place during the Gilded Age. When robber barons are trying to get all the timber, coal, and resources for themselves. Going deeper and deeper into the Great Forest of NY puts people into contact with these Powers...

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

The other Powers might be considered supernatural. But The Dark is better described as anti-natural. Those Oddities bring insanity and corruption beyond anything you can imagine.

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

The Powers always exact a price from us mortals. The Green might give us power but it would rather we become fertilizer for plants. The Red is blood and animals, so we may become more savage. The Gray is stone, earth, weather.. it is inorganic.

But The Dark? That is the antithesis of Nature.

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

I always loved Dark Sun's take on magic defiling the world. Pretty much to break the natural order, you... break the natural order.

In my wilderness survival horror game there are Oddities. These items usually give some sort of trade-off. There is always a price.

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Billy @callmebilly.bsky.social · 2d

Public Access has become one of my all-time favorite TTRPGs. Not just because of the tight gameplay, weaponized-nostalgia, or horror; but because of the incredible community over at The Gauntlet I've found myself a part of for the last 3 years.

Get. This. Game. You will not regret it.

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!

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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...

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 1d

I still know my best friends' phone numbers

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

*stares in 90s kid*

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 2d

This was a superpower.

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 2d

Some great maps here!

Ways Unseen @ways-unseen.bsky.social · 5d

Dis is not a drill! My Kickstarter - probably the best way to get your hands on some lovingly hand-crafted cave maps - is live!

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Ways Unseen Subterranean Map Pack

A selection of varied hand-drawn cave maps for table-top gaming

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 2d

Considering self-publishing TTRPG adventures as 12 or 16 page zines.

Cover (with information on insides)
One page intro
Double-page spreads for each encounter
Some tables for randomized inspiration

#TTRPGDesign
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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 2d

First character:
Gnome warlock
High Cha and Int, low Str

Artisan background: jeweler (gem cutter) or cook (comfort food), then woodcarver (making pipes), tinker, leatherworker.

Uses his pipe as an arcane focus and has an unseen servant.

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 3d

Making some 2025 D&D characters for vibes, plus a chance to get to know the system (I played Pathfinder 1E for more than a decade).

Posting here and hopefully it inspires you to create something interesting as well!

#TTRPG
#D&D
#DungeonsandDragons
#CharacterCreation

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 3d

A great idea! And what better way to create the dishes and comfort foods of your characters than with our 4d12 Menu generator! It's more of a random table to farm thing...

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#TTRPGFood

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 3d

For me, after years of playing D&D, it was Battlelords of the 23rd Century.

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 3d

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 3d

Added bonus, if y'all meet in person: cook comfort food for everyone, and if possible, try and make what your characters are having.

Stew, bread, and cheese are one of my favorites.

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Sol's Roles (He/They) {Accepting New Clients} @solsroles.bsky.social · 3d

That project that "failed"? Someone out there needed exactly that thing and found it meaningful, even if the numbers don't show it. Impact isn't always measurable in downloads or engagement. Sometimes it's just one person saying "this helped."

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SlyFlourish.com @slyflourish.com · 3d

RPG tip from the archive: You can always steal NPC ideas from your favorite book, movie, or TV characters.

#dnd #ttrpg

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Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 3d

I've always imagined putting my stuff together in little zines but have yet to get to the spreadsheet cost analysis phase. I'm interested to hear your ideas re: the various zines you get.

Matt Whelehan // Flaming Brain Games @flamingbraingames.bsky.social · 3d

The Green is the power of plants and fungi... what might happen when The Green grows too powerful?