Leon Barillaro

@barilleon.com

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Trans type Eeveelution. Game Designer on Dungeons & Dragons. Mostly use this account for shitposting + fandom stuff. "Bear-uh-LAIR-oh." they/them. #WotCStaff opinions are my own https://barilleon.com

A paint by number illustration of a strange looking winged demon with lots of warm colors.
Stage is set for the Streetlight Manifesto shoe.
A photo of Chance the small beagle seated right next to the gigantic ajax edition box of Draw Steel.
A chalk drawing presumably done by a child. The image is of Vegeta and written next to him are the words: “his name is Vegeta look him up he is so cool.” Most importantly, the artist could not fit “vegeta” on one line. So the last a in his name sits beneath the t, like “veget break a”
MOTHER 2 for the game boy advance playing on a gameboy micro
Charlie from It’s Always Sunny on Philadelphia with a terrified, upset expression as he sits on Santa’s lap, moments before asking “did you fuck my mom?”
Game designers are communicators. The games that we make communicate ideas and feelings to our audience of players. Games are highly conceptual, built of logic, num-ber, space, and language. These are conveyed in image, sound, touch, and the other modalities of our senses. Games convey meaning in many complex and sophisticated ways, and this is part of what makes game design such a fascinating artistic practice. Of course, as well as communicating with our players, the people who make games have to communicate with each other. And if the process of communicating with our players is complex and sophisticated, it stands to reason that the way developers communicate with each other will be too, creating both problems and opportunities.
A roll of washi tape featuring Qifrey and Olruggio
Leon in sunglasses with a pink bandana around their neck, waving a pride flag with a D&D ampersand on it.
Leon posing in a nonbinary flag cape in front of the rear end of the Wizards Pride Bus
A sign for a bar called “Triangle Spirits”
Many people are out near the stadium, gathered to celebrate the usa-australia football match.
A family of geese with some awkward adolescent children
The head of a harbour seal poking out of the water, his eyes narrowed. Behind him a group of people are seated on the bleachers completely ignoring him.
Football coach taking his headphones off in disgust
Tumblr post TotallyFubar: My girlfriend is on a cruise so while she’s gone I’m gonna cut the sleeves off all my shirts. NightStarGalaxy: why? TotallyFubar: She’s pretty much 85% of my impulse control.
Blight asking "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
Leon in a brand-new black sweatshirt. The text above the heart reads “Dungeons & Dragons Team”
Martin Scorsese with his hands up. The text reads “absolute slop”
Piccolo dbz
Leon standing in front of the window of a bubble tea store. There is a cardboard cutout of some idol I don’t know the name of, making half a heart with his hands. Leon is making the other half of the heart but their hand is nowhere near the cutout’s hand. It’s embarrassing really. They don’t know, which is why they have that blissfully ignorant smile on their face.
Chance the dog naps on Leon, who is contorted like a pretzel on the chair. The angle of this photo, which presents Chance in the foreground at the bottom, makes the scene look as chaotic as it feels to be contorted into a Beagle Bed.
Two turtles sit on a log jutting out of the lake.
Coach Mourinho takes off his headphones in disgust
Literally a crab doing the gainax pose: sitting on top of a rock with its arms crossed, two anemones shooting out from the rock below it
Anthropomorphic Japan: The Frogs, A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab, Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications by Nam Pyo Suh,The Godfather by Mario Puzo, and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
A bookmark advertising the Ballard Book Crawl, an event run by five participating bookstores this weekend.
Chance the dog taking a bone from my hand
Chance the beagle in her dog bed. Light filters in from the left, and she looks at the camera judgmentally, half her face encased in shadow.
A screenshot from Avataro Sentai: Donbrothers, a super sentai show. They are all in their color-coded costumes. The image features Kiji brother (a tall and slim CGI-produced ranger with pointy shoulder pads and a pheasant-like point on his head), Oni Sister (a yellow ranger with spiked shoulder pads), Don Momotaro (the red ranger, the leader, with an upside-down peach on his forehead), Don Doragoku (a gold ranger with a dragon motif), Inu Brother (a black CGI-ranger who is one third the size of the others), and Saru Brother (a blue monkey themed ranger with gigantic wooly arms)
Leon posing with an open spiral-bound notebook. The page is labeled “Rhyhorn” and there are tally marks for something labeled “atk.” I was counting to 252. Do you know what I was doing here??
An armchair with a green and brown leaflike pattern.
A face out of frame holds an iMac computer. Leon can be seen in the monitor reflection, saluting.
Leon in a wizard hat posing with the red and yellow knight
Chance the beagle sits in a ratty old dog bed that she refuses to let me throw out. She is in the sunshine, on a wooden patio. She smiles up at my hand, blurry in the foreground, full of treats.
john_boyega posts "IM READY! frigging large popcorn! Hot dog! Damn slurpy dammit! Don't talk to me when I sit down to watch this! Don't touch me ! Don't breathe in my direction ! This is it!"
The stage area is lit by two heavy spotlights. It features two speakers, a mic, an electric guitar, a big drum, and the light up stage. Behind the platform are two pillars of the neon wall, and a purple curtain between them.
A round pie of spaghetti held together by egg and cheese.
Chance the beagle looks up at the camera with the saddest expression on her face
Chance the beagle looking into the camera judgmentally.
A screenshot from Pokemon Red version where the main character stands in the burnt lab on Cinnabar Island reading a diary. The diary says, “Feb. 6 Mew gave birth.”
A collection of post-it notes featuring characters from Monsters Inc. there’s Sully and Mike, Boo, Randall (named Randy on his sticky), and the guy with the sock on him whose name is apparently George.
Baby Leon (maybe 5 years old) sitting at a computer setup from the late 90s, keyboard in their lap, staring at a screen that shows an email program.
Photo of the stew in question- glass noodles, a yellowish broth, with pork belly and green onion
Chance the beagle nestled in between two blankets. It looks like she’s in a cave.
Scroll through my feed. Four people in a row reposted the same post from Grim that features a grackle and says in fiery text “you just got grackled”
Chance the beagle standing on a bed with a plush pink d20 in her mouth. She has it so the 20 side is facing the camera.
Leon Barillaro holding a d&d character sheet in front of Mitzi, the WotC office dragon.
View of Lake Washington. It is overcast and there are no boats on the lake. Everything is basically in grayscale except for a single pop of blue sky in the distance, and the single pop of blue sky reflected in the water.
Doom of the Dragon Grafter. A level 9-10 adventure for Draw Steel from Leon Barillaro with Scott Bullock and cover tile design from Luna P.
A big sign that says “coming soon in 2026: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria Los Angels.” It has key art of the four turtles chasing after a cheesy pepperoni slice.
Leon napping on a couch. Chance the beagle is bundled up in a blanket and snuggled on top of them.
Leon on the couch with Chance the dog snuggled up on top of them.
To Slime a monster, use the Slime Rules in the Slime Appendix.
Happy Festivus! To celebrate the holiday season, a charitable donation has been made to the Human Fund: money for people.
Picture of chance the beagle nestled in my lap between two different blankets.
A copy of Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts, the Red Ledger, and the map and sticker set. Pay no attention to the box of honey nut cheerios in the background.
Chance the beagle snuggled up in bed
A bowl of kraft mac and cheese except a large portion of the mac has been replaced with ditalini. Also there’s little vienna sausages cut up in there. Please do not judge me this has been my comfort meal since I was 3 years old.