Yesterday I was talking to a kid in a coffee shop about new D&D books he was flipping through. I told him about Advanced D&D, which we played in the 80s & which this kid had heard of through ye olde mists of tyme. And then he stumped me: He asked if Githyanki had been featured in the original Monster Manual. I don't know! I cried.

But now a friend reminds me that Githyanki were THE COVER of the original FIEND FOLIO. And who made them? @cstross did.

WHOA DUDE

#ttrpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiend_Folio

Blog - conceding that I was wrong.
Reflecting on why it took so long for me to pick up some of the setting edition for the current version of the #TravellerRPG.

#ttrpg#Traveller

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2025/01/traveller-conceding-that-i-was-wrong.html

#TTRPG are definitely a cultural force now.

My kids just introduced me to "Diggy Diggy Hole".

Which has been a Thing for at least a decade.

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, paraphrasing J.R.R. Tolkien
TTRPG Community #ttrpg #fantasy
Don't stop creating.

#ttrpg #uk folks - any recommendations for a crafty RPG supply shop in the UK? Anyone on here? Trying to avoid ordering through Amazon. Looking for exceedingly cool dice sets, tray/towers, and other paraphernalia for imminent holiday ritual presents.

I cannot emphasize this enough: Oral folk storytelling is a _direct ancestor_ of modern tabletop role-playing. Which is one of the reasons I adore these tales so much.

#ttrpg #folklore

"Sanduguan" is set in an alternate history where the Spanish colonization in the Philippines brought an affliction that brings the dead back to life.

Vanda Saguina, a plant native to the Philippines, can delay the curse and becames a luxury few can afford.

https://sweetcyanide.itch.io/sanduguan

#TTRPG#RPG#GlobalSouth #RPGSEA#RPGSouthEastAsia

Hey everyone!
Sharing something I just released.
Stirring the Hornet's Nest at Het Thamsya.

A one-shot TTRPG adventure module about rescuing a meditating monk from a temple of automatons and wasp monsters.

This is my first time writing an adventure (with lots of help from awesome people), so I’m doing a launch sale. $1 till the end of the month.

DTRPG: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/474724/stirring-the-hornet-s-nest-at-het-thamsya

Itch.io: https://heycentaur.itch.io/hetthamsya

#ttrpg #osr

I have a request for the #ttrpg and #socialJustice folks.

Strap in; I don't usually do threads. But I need help from the angriest, un-White-est, un-eurocentric-ist corners, un-bound-by-gender-norm-ist corners of this place, the folks who play joyfully with their allies and kids because it's not a luxury, it's what we fight for.

(Sealions will be blocked instantly.)

My family---my children---love role playing games, and I have used collusive narratives with some rules, lots of world building, and dice since they were very small. But now that they are old enough to go looking on the internet, to read the rulebooks... we have a serious representation problem.

I guess it's (roughly) comparable to the systematic oppression in the #Fedi, though I really, really don't want to trivialise-by-comparison the appalling violence that Black heroes here are struggling to name and dismantle.

But when we look at the popular play-along videos or the books or whatever - we *are* the exotic at best, the horrors at worst. Everyone in those videos are the people who describe us as "the interesting family", the people who sabotaged our autism support groups with their instinctive racism, gender norms (and layer upon layer of other -isms).

1/n