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itsdanphipps.bsky.social

Ttrpg making guy with a flowchart brain. I make lists of things. Half of Gem Room Games. He/him.

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HELLWHALERS: Book of Leviathan is coming to BackerKit on June 10th! Sail across hell’s oceans. Gamble with souls. Hunt a demon whale. New material for the original #ttrpg of nautical and Christian-religious horror. Follow along and let’s haul this beast up from the deep. ttrpg.link/BoL

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

submitted 21 hours ago • 104 comments

You learn a lot making the absolute best, stupidest game you can make and I highly recommend it.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I am excited for this, this looks like a game I would enjoy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why don't more adventures have an elevator fight? Love to have a bunch of goons jump onto the elevator I'm riding in waves.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Flyer. 1/4

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

Hey gang, it's official: NO-TELL MOTEL has been nominated for Best Solo TTRPG in the @critawards.bsky.social! This is a votin' scenario, so if you're so inclined, drop a vote for your boy (and all other worthy titles) here: bannerless.games/crits

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Fuck it, it's 2025 We're re-reading Achewood, who is with me

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

DRAGON REACTOR Fucking furious at how good this name is. Hooting and hollering at the juxtaposition of evocative concepts.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Round 1 of using the Cairn 2e warden's guide to build out a setting. Feeling good about the 6 factions and map, especially for doing everything in pen. Procedures felt really good with a "roll or choose" approach. Layered well over my own premise. Up next: fleshing out factions and roads.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Is there a generally accepted skirmish wargame that it's really fun to write campaigns and scenarios for? Does wargames have a Mothership?

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Anybody else working on a game with a design goal of "this needs to feel right with the shittiest production values I can find"?

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Working on a blog post about how to use RPG gods as spy fiction and it turns out mutually assured destruction is a pretty easy hook when you have 5-6 people that can summon volcanos and floods on command

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Fun system designer pro tip: did you know that writing adventures means you get to do even more systems design for your system? When you're doing game level system design you can't make a system local to a single building but when you're doing adventure level system design it's no holds barred!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Show me your tanks and other armored vehicles

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

Emailing my boss an itch code for subway runners as a make good for not having the PowerPoint ready on time

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Every once in a while you should make a game with the explicit design goal of seeing what you can get away with.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments