TTRPG designed to look like the brochure for a senior citizen retirement home

Green Oaks:

Green Oaks is a beautiful structure surrounded by nature, where those who have reached the winter of their lives can indulge in a variety of recreational activities, cultivate new friendships, and rely upon the expertise of nursing personnel of the highest order.

There are rumors that great treasures are hidden away in the basement of Green Oaks, but some believe the entire structure to be nothing less than an alien base for conducting experiments on Seniors.

Luckily for them, all of the establishment’s residents have a peculiar past, which may very well be the key to surviving what transpires within the walls of Green Oaks. 

Thanks to the innovative ArterioscleroSys system it has never been easier to play the role of a Senior. 

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Good essay about roleplaying effectively as a "loner" character, and appreciating Han Solo's behavior in A New Hope

Why Han Solo Was An Amazing TTRPG Player And TTRPG Players Of Han Solo Characters Mostly Aren’t:

The fundamental mistake that a wannabe Han Solo player makes is thinking that it’s other players’ job to convince them they should play – when it’s in fact, by choosing to play an awkward character, it’s your job to work out why you remain in the game and go along with what’s happening.

Evil RPG dungeon design

as a jrpg fan, my primary interests in video games are raising and lowering sewer gates, such as to manipulate the water level

— headfallsoff (@headfallsoff.com) March 11, 2026 at 8:03 AM

i gave my ttrpg players a water temple once and penciled in the waterline above the inked map. there was no mechanism through which to change the water level. drove them insane, as i recall

— Icewind Dale Gribble (@phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 8:08 AM

there were like ten different levers and pressure plates in the dungeon lmao

— Icewind Dale Gribble (@phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 8:13 AM

you should be in jail

— headfallsoff (@headfallsoff.com) March 11, 2026 at 8:15 AM

These custom potions for RPG play are fun

@forbidden_forest_apoth The fourth bottle in my new TTRPG class collection: Rogue #potions #potion #dice #dnd #asmr ♬ original sound - Forbidden Forest Apothecary 🌲

@forbidden_forest_apoth Making my Bottled Lightning decorative potion bottle! #potion #potions #fantasy #art #asmr ♬ original sound - Forbidden Forest Apothecary 🌲

@forbidden_forest_apoth Decorative and dice potions up now in my shop! #potions #potion #dice #dnd #asmr ♬ original sound - Forbidden Forest Apothecary 🌲

Free WH40K Sororitas-themed TTRPG

I enjoyed the writing on this. And speaking of WH40K:

To get the vibe of 40k imagine this guy is aiming at an orphan guilty of wrong!think while travelling on a spaceship achieving ftl by taking a detour through hell.

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— lastpositivist.bsky.social (@lastpositivist.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM

Some great art in the quickstart guide for the Fomoria TTRPG

It's been so long since I drew this. The first concept for Fomoria's intro. Just sketches and loose ideas. It has certainly evolved a lot since then. Follow Fomoria's Kickstarter and grab the free quickstart + adventure 👉 fomoria.com #fomoria #ttrpg

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— Tania Herrero (@thebreadwyrm.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM

Final illustration here.

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— Tania Herrero (@thebreadwyrm.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM

When the Darkness comes, cabals rise and fall. But they do it together. fomoria.com #fomoria #ttrpg

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— Tania Herrero (@thebreadwyrm.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 7:09 AM

Free (substantial) quickstart here, Kickstarter preview here, and review here.

An official TTRPG for New York government employees' biennial ethics training?

11 page-download for "Escape from the Dinkins Building," including maps and characters.

Tim Hutchings posted a free condensed version of his 1200-page RPG Apollo 47

I posted about it back in 2022. He created a condensed version for sale, and posted free versions of the condeensed version as well as another game he created called Lovecraft Rules.

Good write-up of a Conan RPG campaign by Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol

From their newish blog, evaluating the Conan RPG rules, discussing the clever ways their GM manipulated the campaign, and offering general suggestions on how to review a TTRPG:

It’s not a straight hit-points-to-death system. If you go over a threshold in a single blow, you do an injury. If someone would go beneath zero, it’s an injury. There’s probably some more in there – but it’s number of injuries which lead to death. Oh – and to finish off my one-man-blender, this is where I spend a momentum to add an extra injury whenever I do an injury. So when I’m at all cooking, I’m doing 3 injuries whenever I attack, which kills most people.

What I’m saying, I really did feel like Conan.

(And speaking of TTRPGS, the massive TTRPG Humble Bundle is still available.) (Warhammer, Cyberpunk, G.I. Joe, etc, etc)

Kieron Gillen created an AI-cursed expansion for the Die RPG

The inspiration:

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

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— cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM

Free rules supplement for incorporating the wheel in a game:

I have been bombarded by people saying that this should be the next DIE RPG expansion for our Emotion Knight class. You're welcome. Full 4-page PDF on the site. I'll include the images in the next post in this thread. #ttrpg #dierpg

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— Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Kieron Gillen posted a pay what you want game zine

My new game zine! HOW DO ALIENS DO "IT"? is a game about confused teenage aliens trying to work out what their information-scarce society isn't telling them. It's playful, but approaches big themes lightly. It's pay what you like, but do pay nowt. #ttrpg kierongillen.itch.io/how-do-alien...

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— Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM

And if you missed it, a pay what you want quickstart for the Die RPG.

A quickstart for the Die RPG based on the graphic novel by Gillen and Hans is a pay what you want download

Includes a new scenario.

The DIE RPG Quickstart is the fastest way into your own warped fantasy world. It includes: 

Complete (but simple) rules

DIE’s question-driven character creation process

The Dreams We Had As Children, a scenario by DIE creator Kieron Gillen

Advice on how to get the most out of playing and running the DIE RPG

Full-colour, illustrated character sheets for each of the game’s Paragon classes – the Dictator, the Emotion Knight, the Fool, the Neo, the Godbinder, and the enigmatic Master

FYI I'm participating in a RPG prison break run by Alfred Valley on Bluesky if you'd like to follow along

Lord help me, I've had an idea To coincide with Zine Month in February I want to run the #VALLEY100 – a 100 person gauntlet that will take place entirely on Bluesky over 10 days. Each player will be given a character and simple instructions, and can win prizes depending on how far they get.

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— Alfred Valley (@alfredvalley.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM

My assigned character and character portrait (I got to name her) if you'd like to follow along and support when the opportunity arises (starting on February 4, I believe):

Mabel Capper, a stable hand with a convincing goblin mask, who was arrested for murder. SWEET SPOT: 35–48 LUCK: 3 ALIGNMENT: Odd STARTING LOCATION: 5 #VALLEY100

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— jstruan (@jstruan.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM

The Cyberpunk RPG publisher posts lots of free supplements

You can find many of them here. The most recent is Shadow Scar Character Creation.

Here are the best free game nominees in the 2024 Ennies tabletop roleplaying gaming awards

All the nominees in the many categories are here (I loved the Replay podcast), and here's links to the nominees in the free category:

Heckin’ Good Doggos – Someone’s Last Day at the Track

Level 1 The Free RPG Day Indie RPG Anthology 2023

Losing Face

Mazes Zero Prep Introduction to Fantasy Roleplaying

Rivers of London: The Domestic 

Some good April Fool's Jokes, including this genuine free RPG supplement, and a SHFiguarts figure I believe is real

This is real, by the way. I keep seeing people go "If this was real..." when the PDF is for download right there.

Releasing new content is more fun for us than just a little prank!#cyberpunkred https://t.co/vhOA0txCJ5

— R. Talsorian Games (@RTalsorianGames) April 2, 2024

Introducing the Amtrak Emotional Baggage car.

Tag a friend who needs a lift—we can handle it. pic.twitter.com/dWydQmIuh0

— Amtrak (@Amtrak) April 1, 2024

This is the best April Fools I made that I also stole from somewhere.

Put a this in the office bathroom. There was ketchup inside. Curiosity got everyone. They could only blame themselves. pic.twitter.com/Hd0A1k8yiX

— Sos 🔜 GDC (@Sosowski) April 1, 2024

Want to remind @Criterion that they posted this April Fools Blu-ray cover in 2012 and it was one of the best covers they've ever come up with and they should do it for real. pic.twitter.com/irAulx7ewl

— Soham (@SohamGadre) April 1, 2024

#STARWARS EP1『#ファントムメナス』より、#ジャージャービンクス が登場！

「S.H.Figuarts ジャー・ジャー・ビンクス（STAR WARS: The Phantom Menace）」
4月26日詳細公開予定！

お楽しみに👀#t_shf pic.twitter.com/jmh7H6wXqh

— 魂ネイションズ公式 (@t_features) April 2, 2024

The "Replay" podcast is a terrific playthrough of the RPG "Die"

Die seems so absurdly demanding of creativity from its players, but this is a wonderful, funny playthrough (I have two episodes left). Even the "Prelude" where they design their characters is entertaining.

I agonized over which 2 minutes of @deadghostpro's "Replay" would make the right trailer for @lawebfest2024.

The magical girl transformations? The first Paragon fight? Toebeans?

All good options, but in the end — this is us. pic.twitter.com/4GeifbnNxS

— Aram (@AramVartian) March 19, 2024

Good podcast series about people playing the RPG "Die"

Such a seemingly intimidating game that demands a lot of character creation effort, but these players are skilled, and the pods are edited to cut down on empty space. (I've only listened to ther first 1.5 episodes.)

The Writer's Guild had a special RPG-themed picket

Oh hey look, @daphnemwrites made a super helpful graphic with our whole schedule in one place!! So for you TL;DR people who don't like threads, here's what we're planning! pic.twitter.com/zF6yc6I6qc

— Lindsey Allen (@linzraeallen) August 29, 2023

Here's a write-up and photo gallery.

On day 121 of our strike we got our biggest crowd ever at Universal and this picket raised over $5k for the Entertainment Community Fund. I’m so proud. https://t.co/yw1jh17Pid

— Erin Conley (@Erinsk8) September 1, 2023

The game-breaking joys of playing Baldur's Gate 3 as a barrelmancer

RPS:

As the name suggests, it's all about doing mildly game-breaking things with barrels, crates and other heavy containers, by taking advantage of high strength, the Throw command, and the fact that Larian RPG characters can somehow fit items as big as they are into their inventories

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Imagine, if you will, living in a world where barrel-shaped neutron stars appear out of thin air to smash all your mates to atoms.