Andrew B.

Andrew B.

@swordcompass.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Creator, player, and GM in the TTRPG space. Creating stories of adventure through adventures with story. Freelance credits with Ghostfire Gaming, Wizards of the Coast, Visionary, and others. SwordCompass.carrd.co Also: board games, sports, travel

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First 5 RPGs Played? 1. Star Wars (Saga) 2. D&D 5e 3. Starfinder 4. Numenera 5. Star Trek Adventures * (#5 gets really fuzzy as i started trying a lot of stuff in around same time.)

Alphastream@alphastream.bsky.social

First 5 RPGs played? 1) D&D (Moldvay, AD&D) 2) Shadowrun (1E, 2E) (Gap of like 10-12 years) 3-5) Deadlands, then probably Hong Kong Action Theater and Werewolf the Apocalypse, all in like 2 months with a Philly gaming club that blew my mind!

Gamehole Saturday! I'm at the Ghostfire Gaming booth this afternoon (starting now!) Come say hi if we haven't run into each other (and you'd like to)!

GameholeCon Friday was amazing! Played two great games, first trying out Night's Black Agents for the first time, then fulfilling a long-time dream to play Cypher with Monte Cook himself! Both games had awesome groups that clicked right away. Then hung out with great folks late into the night!

Gamehole - day 2ish? Ran a fun session of my Wardens of the Eastern Marches adventure to kick off the day, then played some Ptolus! Also got some great sushi at Red, hung out playing cards, and watching the ballgame.

Sitting outside on a warm Autumn day. My fave coffee spot turned out to be open despite the holiday. Nothing to do today but minor edits on some work, then pack for Gamehole.

It's almost gamehole time just one more day of twiddling thumbs at home before I set off. Can't wait to play games and catch up with friends.

1/3 On the occasion of Anne Carson winning the nobel prize for literature, I pulled her book off the shelf and opened it to where I left a bookmark 20-some years ago when I first read it. I easily found the passage that captured me back then:

2/3 "It is an open secret among pilgrims and other theoreticians of this traveling life that you become addicted to the horizon. There is a momentum of walking, hunger, roads, empty bowl of thoughts that is more luxurious—more civil than any city.

3/3 Even the earliest Pilgrim’s Guide, published in A.D. 1130, contains remarks touching the dilemma of the pilgrim who reaches his destination and cannot bear to stop." - Plainwater

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Calling for Indigenous Artists for Between Earth & Sky: the Roleplaying Game! Help us illustrate the Meridian, setting of Native author Rebecca Roanhorse’s bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Black Sun trilogy! Seems like you’d be a good fit? Apply here → www.montecookgames.c...

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And another one of my creations is out in the wild!

Brotherwise Games@brotherwisegames.bsky.social

Mistborn Scenarios is now available on DriveThruRPG 🗡️🪙 Adventures for each tier, 1-3, in each Era, allowing GMs and players to experience both low level and higher level play in each setting! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/586034/cosmere-rpg-mistborn-scenarios

Among the many many cool thingses in October's D&D Beyond Drops, is another encounter I worked on, this time it's the Scene Prep for the "Ooze There" map. These are like drop-in mini-adventures, all fully inside Maps. www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2252-d...

dndbeyond.comD&D Beyond’s October Drop: Shadowfell Secrets!October's Drop takes you into the Shadowfell:four new monsters, four maps, the Sorrow Knight Fighter subclass, three Shadowfell feats, and the Tarokka L...

David's an excellent adventure designer, layout artist, and cartographer. Check out his new dnd adventure!

David Barrentine@world-of-oranth.bsky.social

We are Live! Check out the next World of Oranth Kickstarter. Share with your tabletop loving friends and help us bring this adventure to life! #ttrpg #kickstarter #ttrpgcommunity #WorldofOranth #BigIdeaGaming champ.ly/0oOnXwk7

Bite-Sized Gaming - back before it was acquired WoGD - gave me a couple of my early writing opportunities. I'm so sad to see a name I think of so fondly be associated with that guy and all this douchebaggery and AI slop. why do people....grrr.

Rascal News@rascal.news

Years-late RPG adventure project embraces AI, is forced to refund angry backers www.rascal.news/years-late-r...

Went to local board game night yesterday and had a great time playing Gallieo Galilei! I've been meaning to get out and do more public play, and board games seem an easier fit than ttrpgs right now.

I'm excited to be playing Deadfall! This is my first sizeable D&D campaign in while. Can't wait to see what the wizards (red and coasty) have cooked up. I'll be playing my Changeling (mostly) Artificer.

d20play@d20play.bsky.social

Thursday

Lol

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net

"With this bountiful amount of time, we hope you choose to hydrate, eat, address your rapidly declining mental, emotional, and physical health, repair all relationships with the loved ones you’ve neglected, and progress through any other stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs." buff.ly/k2hhGaM

Random thought: I wonder if people whose dating profile shows them lounging on a boat are aiming to imply that they're looking for a someone with a boat or imply that they own a boat.

You will be assimilated! Wait, wrong borg with ships. Ehm..."Get boarded harder than a #1 comic book issue?" "Prepare to master your harbour?" Anyhoo, none of those stupid jokes made it into this product. I hope. So sign up.

On vacation, but swung by the FLGS - as one does. This time it's Heroes Beacon in Saint John. They have a great ttrpg selection, and I grabbed a copy of Arcana Unleashed.

Look, if someone's going to create "agents" to accost me, i'd like to be able to create assassins to hunt down and kill those agents. Wait, are we living in the matrix now?

On today's episode of "Small Wins" - Freedom Domain designed and tweeted out by D&D team, not the white house.

Dungeons & Dragons@dndbeyond.com

Return to the Underdark with these subclass and species options from the latest Unearthed Arcana playtest: 🦅Freedom Domain (Cleric) 🌿Circle of Spores (Druid) ☢Faerzress Sorcery (Sorcerer) 🔅Deep Imaskari 🕷Drider 🦑Illithidkin 🐟Kuo-toa 🍄Myconid Link to blog post below. 🧵1/10

Zero Company, I barely knew ya. Great times and very Star Warsy moments in the last few missions too. If you're also done, and want more tactical goodness, check out: Top Pick: Cyber Knights (probably best in genre) Midnight Suns Lamplighters League Mutant Year Zero Jagged Alliance 3 Showgunners