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𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔

@daniel-qualls.bsky.social

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- Associate Professor, GenXer, Veteran.
- CfB TTRPG enthusiast
- Drachenfest US
- Creator of Ghosts of El Paso, the Isle Beyond the Mists, and White Mountain Rescue ttrpgs
- I forget what eight was for.

https://the-brothers-slack.mystrikingly.com/

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𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 @daniel-qualls.bsky.social · Sep 21

White Mountain Rescue is a ttrpg where the players are a Search & Rescue team working in the White Mountain National Forest. As the game progresses, the characters become aware that something supernatural and malicious is afoot in the wilderness.

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White Mountain Rescue by Daniel Qualls

A Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG about Search & Rescue Supernatural Horror.

picaroon-jack.itch.io

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Somebody wake up Hicks

@jonmarkhicks.bsky.social

Apparently this is a Factory Entertainment 1:18 3.75" scale Colonial Viper with a Boomer action figure that's coming out soon. I mean, what a great looking ship. The MkII is my favourite starfighter, I love it more than the X-wing.

I said what I said.

February 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM

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redwyrm

@redwyrm.bsky.social

In case no one has asked you recently, the wyrmling wanted me to pose this question…

“What is your favorite dinosaur?”

February 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM

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Mike 🥞 Rieman

@twopancakes.com

A new solo game by @carrion-comfort.com and @plusoneexp.bsky.social, 86. Had a bunch of prompts that was fun to find hand drawn looking images for the card backs:

A card back for the game 86. #9, Diamond suit with a drawing of a skull in a crown in the center.

Fuck ICE.

February 6, 2026 at 7:53 PM

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑

@rustysellsword.com

Ken “Whit” Whitman, notorious in tabletop gaming for various get rich schemes and scams, is back trying to promote a Best Tabletop Designers of All Time Facebook page where he ranks creators using generative AI slop entries and art.

Please don’t feed the troll.

February 6, 2026 at 7:53 PM

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images

@jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social

'Pinnacle of Light' (2025) -- a Barren Snowy Campground on the Outskirts of Town Provides Solace & Beauty In the Midst of a Forest, Thomas Point Beach, Brunswick, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

an image of impressively straight trunks of pine trees stretching as far as the eye can see, in the distance the sun peeks through the clouds casting long shadows that radiate outwards

February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM

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Jason Morningstar

@jmstar.bsky.social

Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it

February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM

𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔

@daniel-qualls.bsky.social

Share a preacher, nun, or priest.

February 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM

𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔

@daniel-qualls.bsky.social

5 jobs I've had...

1. Archeologist
2. Army Officer
3. High School Teacher
4. Express Courier
5. Curriculum Coordinator

Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 9d

5 jobs I've had...

1. Camera salesman
2. Bill collector
3. Soda jerk
4. Hazmat removal technician
5. Inventory control

WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 9d

5 jobs I’ve had,

Opticians assistant (paid me £3 an hour)
Woolworths till girl
Payday loans call centre (awful, don’t get a payday loan)
Shower technical support call centre (plumbers asking to speak to a man)
Publishers call centre (the entire company got bought and I got made redundant)

January 31, 2026 at 12:02 AM

𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔

@daniel-qualls.bsky.social

1. Archaeological Theory & Methods
2. Fencing
3. Archery
4. Archaeology Lab & Research
5. Intermediate Spanish

I had plans.

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 9d

1. Crime Fiction in Film & Literature
2. Blaxploitation
3. Art of the Weimar Republic
4. Hammer Horror
5. The Counterculture of Design

It was a weird degree.

Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 9d

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

1. Protein folding
2. Bacterial genetics
3. Statistics for biologists
4. Medical virology
5. Parasitology

January 31, 2026 at 12:00 AM

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him)

@signalstation.bsky.social

Limited Time Offer!

Anyone who purchases a copy of RIVALS: a zine for Ghosts of El Paso this weekend will also receive— at no additional charge!— free bullets for a single reload during their next RPG session of GoEP!

Let us fill your fictional six-shooter!

signalstation.itch.io/rivals-a-gho...

Rivals: A Ghosts of El Paso Zine by Michael Van Vleet

12 Brand-New Rivals for The Kid!

signalstation.itch.io

January 30, 2026 at 7:39 PM

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Wes Franks + The Blue Fairy 4eva

@carrion-comfort.com

Due to the #WinterStorm I lost work shifts and my hours are reduced until the ice and snow clears.

I no longer run games through StartPlaying, but I'll drop some links below to check out my wares.

(DEAD-PILLED drops on DTRPG soon & I have another title coming February 2026)

January 27, 2026 at 5:31 PM

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him)

@signalstation.bsky.social

Do you play The Between: Ghosts of El Paso? Does your table have a Kid? Do they need more rivals to shoot at?

@picaroon-jack.bsky.social and I have got you covered.

Rivals is a small zine w/ 12 rivals ready to thrown down and, likely, die in the dirt.

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Rivals: A Ghosts of El Paso Zine by Michael Van Vleet

12 Brand-New Rivals for The Kid!

signalstation.itch.io

January 26, 2026 at 10:13 PM

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him)

@signalstation.bsky.social

The client's sketch | The artist's rendering

my rough and @rapidpunches.itch.io's cover for Rivals

A 4x6 card on which someone— okay, it was me— has scrawled terrible rough figures. Let's see, there's something cowboy shaped on the left side. You can tell from the way-too-small cowboy hat, the hand holding... a stick? Vaguely gun-shaped. A belt with ovals that could be bullets or could be fish oil pills. Let's assume it's bullets. This cowboy's arm is too short... doesn't even extend past their hips.

The word RIVALS is splashed across the middle of the sketch. I nailed that part.

There's an arch and a crude stick figure keeling over, arms thrown up. The arch is meant to represent a setting sun. The crude sticker figure is "some guy who got shot in a dual."

January 26, 2026 at 6:34 PM

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Picaroon Jack

@picaroon-jack.bsky.social

Rivals: A Ghosts of El Paso Zine is out. @signalstation.bsky.social and I have developed some materials for the Kid Playbook for the Ghosts of El Paso TTRPG.

Cover and Artwork by @rapidpunches.itch.io
signalstation.itch.io/rivals-a-gho...

January 26, 2026 at 12:08 AM

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Matt Risby

@thebadspot.bsky.social

OK people. Let's go.

@jessjewell.bsky.social @masquewren.bsky.social @jasoncordova.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social

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Welcome to Degoya County, NM | Public Access: Part 1 | RPG Actual Play

YouTube video by The Bad Spot

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September 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM

𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔

@daniel-qualls.bsky.social

Share your favourite Black and White Movie 🍿

September 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM

𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔

@daniel-qualls.bsky.social

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Cultural Resource Management
2. Social Studies Teaching Methods
3. My time in the US Army

Charlie Etheridge-Nunn @skyshark.itch.io · Sep 25

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. X-Men
2. Indie TTRPGs
3. Lost and bad attempts at recapturing the magic of Lost

Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · Sep 25

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Single season ‘90s TV shows
2. Hamlet through the ages as an avatar for emotional repression and later the healing process of mental health.
3. The secret life of Jack Traven aka Johnny Utah aka John fucking Wick

September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM

𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔

@daniel-qualls.bsky.social

My friend Maggie died back in December and I'm thinking about her tonight. 💔

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrU4...

60 Seconds with Maggie Louie, Live From Memphis

YouTube video by Live From Memphis

www.youtube.com

September 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM

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Scribbles (Sam)

@sammiiscribbles.bsky.social

The first episode is in the BAG of the Roots of Old Kaldhur!! It was full of goat sounds, wizard highs, skeletal protrusions, and flaming wedding proposals. Had an absolute blast and maybe next episode Valen can shake off the crab moss psychedelics?

Also teeth count as an equipment.

Sammiiscribbles is wearing masculine makeup and looking slightly down at the camera. A long scar starts above their eyebrow and drags down their eye and down their cheek, just below the eye the scar branches off and cuts across their nose.

A thick fur wrap rests on their shoulders. The vibe of the image is almost medieval.

A gold famed selfie of sammiiscribbles smiling brightly with teeth while looking straight at the camera. They are wearing large circular wire glasses and a green rubbed turtle neck.

Beneath the image in a capital font it reads 8:30 EST ON TUESDAYS TWITCH.tv/HIGHSHELFCOLLECTIVE. Immediately to the right are black and white dice rolled as a 2 on the white, then 5, 1 , 3 on the black following the dice leading to a white dice with stylized antlers.

Above the dice in a cursive font it says sammiiscribbles as Valen.

Above the aforementioned text box is another text that reads: Roots of Old Kaldurh, a Trophy Gold Actual Play.

An actual play poster. The top section of the poster looks like lightly crumpled parchment paper. In a an all caps font it reads “ROOTS OF” then directly beneath in a stylized cursive it reads “Old Kaldurh.” Beneath in the same caps font it reads: A Trophy Gold Actual Play.

The next section of the poster shows the six cast members, left to right the names beneath the images read Chaotic, Switchel, John
Next row down:Casper, Sam, and Doc

Then beneath the last row it says 830 EST Tuesdays.
Twitch.tv/highshelfcollective

September 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM

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High Shelf Collective

@highshelfcltv.bsky.social

😲"Wow, that was very anti-teeth of you.." All fun & game over on #Twitch right now with the premiere of our NEW #TrophyGold series, 'Road to Old Kalduhr'! Taunting the GM during combat has NEVER gone wrong... right? 👀 #ttrpg #trophygold

We're still LIVE - jump in: www.twitch.tv/highshelfcol...

September 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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Chaotic

@chaoticblade5.bsky.social

Trophy Gold(trophyrpg.com) made by @jesseross.com and published by the @gauntletrpg.bsky.social ran by me at 8:30 PM EST today!

September 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him)

@signalstation.bsky.social

For spooky season, my 1-shot Weird West game is on sale for $4 in either English or French. This year, let your players ride to their doom trying to capture a bank robber whose luck seems impossible... as if the Devil rode with them!

itch.io/s/160633/the...