Sam Tillis
@stillisgaming.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood professional Game Master. https://startplaying.games/gm/stillis-gaming
Several years later, this middle school history textbook cover of the Silmarillion is still the cleverest thing I ever created and I'm willing to fight anyone who says otherwise.
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Several years later, this middle school history textbook cover of the Silmarillion is still the cleverest thing I ever created and I'm willing to fight anyone who says otherwise.
Always a joy to see your words in my inbox. (Here's a picture of a cat, since you're right: a picture of a cat has almost never made anyone's day worse)
October 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Always a joy to see your words in my inbox. (Here's a picture of a cat, since you're right: a picture of a cat has almost never made anyone's day worse)
September 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hey! Check out this nifty GM-less story game that I have an editing credit on. (And, roundaboutly, made a very good friend once by running on international waters.)
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Emissa...
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Emissa...
September 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hey! Check out this nifty GM-less story game that I have an editing credit on. (And, roundaboutly, made a very good friend once by running on international waters.)
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Emissa...
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Emissa...
Paying it forward. First trans/non-binary person who wants a cat menu but couldn't afford to donate atm gets mine.
September 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Paying it forward. First trans/non-binary person who wants a cat menu but couldn't afford to donate atm gets mine.
Me, preparing a D&D session for a game that hasn't met in months and months...
September 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Me, preparing a D&D session for a game that hasn't met in months and months...
oops i'm gonna do another of these livestream things.
monday 9/1, 9/15, 9/22 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/questsandchaos
monday 9/1, 9/15, 9/22 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/questsandchaos
September 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
oops i'm gonna do another of these livestream things.
monday 9/1, 9/15, 9/22 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/questsandchaos
monday 9/1, 9/15, 9/22 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/questsandchaos
I've said this before and will say this again: 90% of being a professional Game Master is spending entire mornings on four different communications platforms trying to hammer out gaming schedules.
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I've said this before and will say this again: 90% of being a professional Game Master is spending entire mornings on four different communications platforms trying to hammer out gaming schedules.
Get you a D&D group who reacts like *this* to your GM shenanigans.
August 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Get you a D&D group who reacts like *this* to your GM shenanigans.
I went to a Sports Game.
Local Team lost 0-8. It was, as the song accurately predicted, "a shame."
Photographic evidence of my displeasure.
Local Team lost 0-8. It was, as the song accurately predicted, "a shame."
Photographic evidence of my displeasure.
August 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I went to a Sports Game.
Local Team lost 0-8. It was, as the song accurately predicted, "a shame."
Photographic evidence of my displeasure.
Local Team lost 0-8. It was, as the song accurately predicted, "a shame."
Photographic evidence of my displeasure.
Oops dressed up to GM a game.
(ft. unpressed Hook the Cat)
(ft. unpressed Hook the Cat)
July 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Oops dressed up to GM a game.
(ft. unpressed Hook the Cat)
(ft. unpressed Hook the Cat)
What a time to be a professional DM.
July 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
What a time to be a professional DM.
The Alameda County Fair: classy as ever.
July 6, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The Alameda County Fair: classy as ever.
Millions of galaxies.
June 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Millions of galaxies.
@zarlez.com offhand gave me the idea for a Wishbone RPG and I'm **obsessed** with trying to figure out what that would look like.
June 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
@zarlez.com offhand gave me the idea for a Wishbone RPG and I'm **obsessed** with trying to figure out what that would look like.
A pensive cat gazes out the window, towards The Future.
June 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A pensive cat gazes out the window, towards The Future.
"It'll be nice to have a good, simple mission with absolutely no complications!" -My players, in 2.5 hrs, probably.
This is the sort of game you can watch. Do that here: www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
This is the sort of game you can watch. Do that here: www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
May 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"It'll be nice to have a good, simple mission with absolutely no complications!" -My players, in 2.5 hrs, probably.
This is the sort of game you can watch. Do that here: www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
This is the sort of game you can watch. Do that here: www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
Watch me make other humans play a cyberpunk game for my own sinister amusement (7pm, Wednesday):
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
April 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Watch me make other humans play a cyberpunk game for my own sinister amusement (7pm, Wednesday):
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
I am going to be RATHER OBNOXIOUS about the fact I'm running a LIVESTREAMED RPG and that you should watch it LIVE or AT YOUR CONVENIENCE if you are INTO THAT SORT OF THING.
It's cyberpunk San Francisco. See how many local references I can make per session. Weds 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
It's cyberpunk San Francisco. See how many local references I can make per session. Weds 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I am going to be RATHER OBNOXIOUS about the fact I'm running a LIVESTREAMED RPG and that you should watch it LIVE or AT YOUR CONVENIENCE if you are INTO THAT SORT OF THING.
It's cyberpunk San Francisco. See how many local references I can make per session. Weds 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
It's cyberpunk San Francisco. See how many local references I can make per session. Weds 7pm PST.
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
Today's the day! Join us live on Twitch for an evening of cyberpunk RPG... fun? horror?... let's say "catharsis and badassery." Start time is 7pm PST!
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
April 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Today's the day! Join us live on Twitch for an evening of cyberpunk RPG... fun? horror?... let's say "catharsis and badassery." Start time is 7pm PST!
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
(I used the procedure from the RPG 'His Majesty the Worm', whereby you create a city by drawing and arranging tarot cards. The players gave me a culture steeped in human sacrifice & cannibalism. Good, clean fun.)
www.hismajestytheworm.games
www.hismajestytheworm.games
March 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
(I used the procedure from the RPG 'His Majesty the Worm', whereby you create a city by drawing and arranging tarot cards. The players gave me a culture steeped in human sacrifice & cannibalism. Good, clean fun.)
www.hismajestytheworm.games
www.hismajestytheworm.games
Unironically love running D&D games professionally for 10 yr olds.
March 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Unironically love running D&D games professionally for 10 yr olds.
This is without a doubt the strangest, most delightful RPG book I've picked up in a while. "What if Spelljammer/ Planescape, but **really weird**?"
Highly recommended if you can find it: it's not yet sold out on @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social; I got my copy at @gamesofberkeley.bsky.social.
Highly recommended if you can find it: it's not yet sold out on @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social; I got my copy at @gamesofberkeley.bsky.social.
February 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is without a doubt the strangest, most delightful RPG book I've picked up in a while. "What if Spelljammer/ Planescape, but **really weird**?"
Highly recommended if you can find it: it's not yet sold out on @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social; I got my copy at @gamesofberkeley.bsky.social.
Highly recommended if you can find it: it's not yet sold out on @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social; I got my copy at @gamesofberkeley.bsky.social.