@chrishopper
TTRPG accessibility consultant, layout, and writer. Layout lead for MCDM's Draw Steel, Accessibility and Layout with Brotherwise, Underground Oracle, and more. Edtech and Farming in Austin's backyard. DMs open or more at linktr.ee/chrishopper
I will say; I do see folks in this space learning from MCDM. I think they're mostly new folks who can watch something like the Community video, and learn from it.
I got a ton of messages from folks saying the Community video changed how they did things, but they're all people just getting started.
I mean, look at this CV. They choose to charge affordable rates, but with this level of expertise and experience…please pay this person what they deserve if you have the resources to do so.
Cosmere Roleplaying Game logo with "Origins Awards Finalist" badge beneath it. Shardbearer character art over stormy background
We are delighted to announced that the Cosmere Roleplaying Game is an Origins Awards Finalist in two categories: Best Roleplaying Game and Best Miniatures!
We are absolutely honored to be nominated. Thank you to our incredible RPG team behind this awesome game.
Did you miss The Gauntlet’s Public Access RPG is PWYW at DriveThruRPG? - @gauntletrpg.bsky.social @drivethrurpg.com #PublicAccess #TTRPGs thegaminggang.com/game-news/th...
Man.
The world fucking is on fire.
So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.
Live whats left of your only life.
If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.
Fuck the haters.
Tabletop Bookshelf is opening a physical location!!!
If you are near Milwaukee, check this out on March 21!
A spread of tabletop games on an event table with some astoundingly unpleasant carpet in the background
Day 1 of #SXSWedu games meetup room complete! We played some early age favorites and thumbed through what we love about each.
Middle school tomorrow with @ttrpgkids.com!
Wait, we sell novels? We do now! With our expanded space, we've curated a fiction collection built specifically for the tabletop community with the same sense of adventure, world-building, and storytelling you bring to the table.
tabletopbookshelf.com/collections/...
This is the most reassuring statement I’ve seen re: D&D and AI, mostly bc Chris Cocks is exalting it the rest of the piece: “There are some brands that the audience, the creators, just don’t want it, so we don’t even have it in our pipelines for our video games or for Magic: The Gathering, or D&D.”
I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone experiencing what honestly looks like the apocalypse is going to regard it as a form of liberation or that anyone responsible for it actually cares about how Iranians regard it at all.
Completely forgot to mention that I will be giving a whole ass workshop at GDC on Transformational Game Design and running my game Nightmare High, which was made especially to introduce teens into tabletop role-playing. ✨ You'll see me mostly running around with @bananachangames.bsky.social.
Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!
What is #LittleButFierce? Check out our shiny new trailer!
youtu.be/Ut585D7HZxw
#dnd #ttrpg
Only 48 HOURS to back IT'S COMPLICATED on BackerKit!
More news (and a new video) tomorrow! (Is that a siege engine on the horizon?!?)
Back into the #DelianTomb we go!
One thought I often have is that the gig economy emerging alongside the rapid escalation of economic inequality is actually the slow reemergence of the servant class in public life.
ooooooh I'm stealing this one!
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
SXSW EDU Tabletop Gaming Meet Up Series! 4pm @ Courtyard Marriott Try out games for a different EDU focus each night! March 9 Pre-K to 2nd Grade March 10 Middle Grades March 11 High School & Young Adults Sign up through SXSW EDU
@sxswedu.com starts tomorrow!
Make sure to sign up ahead of time if you want to join in on the awesome game nights @chrishopper.bsky.social and I are hosting!
https://www.ttrpgkids.com/2026/02/17/ttrpgkids-sxsw-edu-2026
An 80s synthwave background with, neon purple, pink, and purple grid as far as the horizon and a blazing golden sunrise with hot pink stripes. Header reads 'Happy International Women's Day' TTRPGirls logo bottom left, a neon blue striped triangle behind the words ttrp in blocky blue and pink font, and girls in white cursive. EUphoria's logo bottom left, a round yellow frame with navy blue background, and a large shooting star made up of yellow d4s streaking from right to left, a yellow tail trailing behind.
Happy International Women's Day!
Today is an especially good day to celebrate the women and femmes in your life. Buy them a coffee, send them flowers, promote their projects, just drop them a note to tell them how much they mean to you.
Uplift women, fight the patriarchy, today and every day.
Happy Days Lights Saving Times, everybody!
youtu.be/i1Z3Zrz6cek?...
Women sharing tea beside campfire. The right character has green cloak and wide-brimmed hat. The left had a green tunic and vibrant orange hair.
Happy International Women’s Day! Hatchlings Games is run by majority women, with the amazing @kessabrae.bsky.social and @loremistress93.bsky.social at the helm. We’ll continue to create ttrpgs that inspire women and femme players and the next generation of publishers.
3 card illustrations fanned out. Cards are in art nouveau stained glass style in green shades. Fantastical Geographical wax seal logo separates blank spaces for image and text fields.
Item card design I did for @fangeo.bsky.social 🃏✨
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
🎯
I always enjoy Levi's perspectives and resources on game design, and this is no exception.
A mockup of the Blades '69 book where the 69 has been crossed out and replaced with 69 in bright purple. Below that, the bio for April Kit Walsh which reads: April Kit Walsh writes games about feelings, vulnerability, and caring for one another, including Thirsty Sword Lesbians and End of the Line. She used to be a swordfighting ballerina, but claims those days are behind her; she has absolutely no idea who that masked heroine with the sword and the tutu might be. When not writing RPGs, April is a civil liberties attorney working to protect the rights of criminal defendants, activists, journalists, and everyone else impacted by the technologies of control or empowerment. Next to the bio, the description for the $420k stretch goal: Blades '69: The Sexual Revolution The 1960s were a time when the counterculture challenged establishment norms around sex, love, family, and a person's right to choose what happens to their own body. How does this conflict manifest in Doskvol? How does the Consensus exercise control through these dimensions of human experience, and what struggles and delightful deviancies does your group want to explore? Blades '69 is a combination of a worldbuilding exercise and safety tool to help you bring themes of both real-world and fantastical sexual liberation to your game.
yeah yeah we saw all you sly posters going "Blades '68? ...just ONE off."
Well we're not COWARDS. Challenge accepted!
At $420k we'll commission April Kit Walsh (designer of Thirsty Sword Lesbians) to write up... Blades '69
Time to put your money where your mouth is.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
