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❤️ heartofthedeernicorn.com 🦌 Maker & Distributor of Fine Games 🌧️ in downtown Olympia since 2015 🌧️
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Class is in session at the Zard College, where some Minions are learning how to use the unique Cast skill. This lets them Draw a Spell card and use it immediately! ✨

Here’s how to set up the Tradition Decks for your new copy of City of Winter, available on our website! ❄️

The Freeple Scrapyard is rough Realm where some of the Minions seems to like to Boss others around...! This unique skill lets them make a Minion in the Realm with them perform their skills ☝️

The finishing touches ✨

The Noblin Forest is a neighborly place where some Minions have the unique Friendship skill! This skill let them move any Minion to their Realm to hang out (or help you score) 💚

Bad Baby Lich Lords is really enjoyable. It's fast, the competitive aspect still feels nice + light, & it has great artwork! (Sidenote: The amount of times I tried to do something in one realm, despite having played my card in a different realm🤦🏼‍♀️😂) @rosscowman.bsky.social @deernicorn.bsky.social

An Altogether Different River is beautiful and moving game

Join us for the Bad Baby Lich Lords Release Party at the Mystic in downtown Olympia on Friday February 28th at 6pm! Learn to play Bad Baby Lich Lords and enjoy some snacks and good company with us!

Our artisans set the stage for your next game of Bad Baby Lich Lords with these official playmats!

Join the caravan and see where it takes you 👣

Apocalypse World is back in stock! Grab a physical copy of this foundational and phenomenal game on our website

Are you up to exploring the Great Library and becoming a Librarian?

Ryuutama 🐉 is perfect for experienced and beginner roleplayers alike

The Librarian’s Apprentice is a solo journaling game for the bookworm inside everyone 📖

BFF! is an roleplaying game about tween friendship 💖

Wanna know how we pack up a fresh copy City of Winter ❄️ ? #ttrpgs

Embark on your own journey with your friends in Ryuutama 🐉

Auspex 🔮 is a beautiful game of worldbuilding and divination

Check out Star Crossed Love Letters 💌 to get more out of this adorable game

Need a good sci-fi game? Check these game out on our website!

Which of these settings would you want to play in? Check out Spectres of Brocken 🤖 #ttrpg

Do you have a completed A Mending map you want to show off? We want to see them and feature them in a blog post on our website! Leave us a picture of your completed map and tell us a bit about your time with A Mending—a favorite prompt, the story you made, anything that made the game special for you

Take a look how we make these new fancy maps for A Mending 🪡 by hand 🤲 in our workshop

For my friendship TTRPGs in February highlights, I'm going next to BFF! by @deernicorn.bsky.social! This boardgame x TTRPG combo is about having an awesome time with your besties as you get up to shenigans to across the city! Check it out here! www.ttrpgkids.com/2024/01/11/r...

So satisfying to watch ☺️

Stoked that ours is the first library, IN THE WORLD, to own and check out a copy of Bad Baby Lich Lords, the new game from @rosscowman.bsky.social and @deernicorn.bsky.social . This game is adorable and I'm psyched to play it.

My print copy of Bad Baby Lich Lords arrived! Pretty wild to have a game I worked on exist in physical reality rather than a digital storefront.

Want to get lost amongst walls of books? Check out The Librarian’s Apprentice 📖 #ttrpg #booktok

BFF! is the ultimate mood-booster 💗 #ttrpg

Do you have a completed A Mending map you want to show off? We want to see them and feature them in a blog post on our website! Leave us a picture of your completed map and tell us a bit about your time with A Mending—a favorite prompt, the story you made, anything that made the game special for you

Have you incorporated these beasts into the story of your game? 💕🪡

Use your grant money wisely in Outliers 🧪 , a solo journaling game available on our website

Oh I forgot to share this: We're making a "Best of Year One" zine and I'm running point. We're working with a publisher who is paying us a generous 50% royalty so this is a great way to support.

Oh hey, you can now get An Altogether Different River and Spectres of Brocken through @deernicorn.bsky.social! heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/an-a... heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/spec...

A very exciting little package came in the mail today! ✨

A teaser page for Going For Broke, my fast-paced sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to make rent, is live on Backerkit: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I've set up an itch page for Buried Without Ceremony (including some community copies of each title)! If you're part of the itch community and love anything I've made, I'd love it if you left a comment or review. buriedwithoutceremony.itch.io

myself (along with most trans women in ttrpgs) wouldn't be here without avery's decades of brilliant design, compassionate support, and hard fucking work. now's the time to show your support!!

Mum Chums, my slice of life #ttRPG about the people who care for kids, is now live on Kickstarter. If you like your gaming with a strong emotional core, back it today!

i made a tabletop RPG about puppets. naturally, this required making a puppet. it took 3 years for a tiny game, but i learned forbidden knowledge. it turns out everyone has a wretched little puppet voice inside them. also, muppets are really hard to make (but i did it anyway). live now, 🔗 in 🧵.

Bad Baby Lich Lords is here and she's perfect. It costs $30 which is only .18 for every version of the game we playtested over 3 years. heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/bad-...

I've had a ton of fun playing this with my 6yo board-gamey kid. It's a really great length and good level of complexity for both of us to genuinely have fun

Make meaningful bonds and then watch them break in Spectres of Brocken 🤖

The biggest request I've gotten for A Mending has been extra copies of maps! And fancier maps! So we made them! Hand screenprinted, thicker canvas, bigger than ever, beautifully serged.

These beautiful new fancy maps are a limited-edition collaboration between @shing.bsky.social and Heart of the Deernicorn ❤️

Explore a town through different perspectives in An Altogether Different River 🏘️

Auspex 🔮 is a solo game made perfect for tarot lovers

Going to do another run of A Mending by @shing.bsky.social today as part of my solo TTRPG catch up. Years ago, I bought it as a gift and played a game with the giftee (my half on paper). I managed to get a second fabric map, so it’s time to go my own journey! #ttrpg

This gorgeous limited-edition map for A Mending is printed and sewn by hand in our workshop. Have you picked one up yet? #ttrpg #ttrpgs

Love this little troublemaker 💚 Have you picked up the official Bad Baby Lich Lords shirt yet? #boardgames #cardgames