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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social Black at the Table ๐คฌ
Catch me on www.madjayzero.com
#ttrpg #indiedev
CowboyPunkColt @cowboypunkcolt.bsky.social They/He - Eng/Fr - Comics/Animation - Queer af
Artist & Animator For Hire
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Trekiros | Game Changer @trekiros.bsky.social Some French idiot who's into fighting games, D&D, game design, manga, and IT.
ENnie award winning project lead & designer.
He/Him
https://www.youtube.com/@trekiros
Ian Mauldin @maudlingames.com ๐ฆ Shrimp and Crits podcast
โ๏ธ ttrpg design
๐ธ Musician
๐จโ๐ฆฒ he/him
maudlingames.carrd.co
RPG Trader @rpgtrader.bsky.social A modern tabletop RPG marketplace built for the next generation of creators and players. TTRPGs from digital to print, made simple. No AI allowed.
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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social He/him. Muso, soundie, general nerd. Based in Palmerston North NZ.
Day job is @mpr.nz
Find all my other things (music, writing, get me to make you sound good) at https://hugh.go.haume.nz
Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social #DataScientist, #accountant, #TTRPG, #Improv. Loves cooking, I'm "Private chef" doing #GlutenFree for my lovely coeliac. Fairly left wing and thinks Nazis are rancid little pricks. Personal views here.
Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social ๐ท Narrative Designer, comics, games แ( แ )แ ATOMIC ROBO โข ARISE, YE SKELETON KING โข TROUBLESHOOTER โข LAST SENTINEL โข STARHAWK. http://atomic-robo.com โข https://skeletonking.rip/ โข http://troubleshooterbooks.com/ โข https://tesladyne.itch.io โข ๐ซAI โข He/Him
Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science
Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere.
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#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
Ben Riggs @benriggs.bsky.social Friend to mortal, beast, and undead alike, Ben Riggs is a writer, teacher, and podcaster. Author of Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons and co-mastermind of the Plot Points podcast.
Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social Author. Game Master. Audio Book addict
I also make YouTube videos about TTRPGs
Gold ENNIE Award winner (x3)
Silver ENNIE Award winner for Best Streaming Content
https://www.youtube.com/@SSkorkowsky
Agented by Amy Brewer at Metamorphosis Literary Agency
Ruby K @thisisrubyok.bsky.social Freelance writer, streamer, performer, musician, storyteller, and all-round goober.
Find me among the interwebs - https://linktr.ee/thisisrubyok
anais๐ค @anaisrmorgan.bsky.social Renegade Game Studios Staff // Infinite Sided Dice Cast // she/they
Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social Not writing nearly as much about RPGs or Agile as I would like to be.
Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social For the past half-century, our award-winning roleplaying games, board games, and fiction are praised as being some of the most engaging and innovative of all time.
Thieves of Time @thievesoftimegames.bsky.social We're Thieves of Time. We publish games, especially tabletop roleplaying games, and books about games. We're best known for Cthulhu Dark and Cosmic Dark (so far).
five monkeys @fivemonkeys.bsky.social an inferior voltron
D'Arcangel Productions @darcangelprod.bsky.social Retired goth/industrial dj & producer, now a writer of stuff for TTRPGs (among other things). He/Him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Fascists not welcome.
Itch: https://darcangel-productions.itch.io/
DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/27858/d-arcangel-productions
J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at Carnegie Mellon. Indie game designer -- Indie RPG Award (2006), IndieCade Night Games (2015), Ennie Judge's Spotlight (2026). Comments my own.
Marek Golonka @play-to-care.bsky.social Game designer, game design teacher; theater, history, & scrapbooking geek.
Writes for Monster of the Week and Call of Cthulhu. Most games available on DriveThru: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?keyword=Marek%20Golonka&page=1&sortBy=newest
Riwhi @takataapui.bsky.social He/him/ia. Mฤori and Queer TTRPG designer from Aotearoa. Takatฤpui, tangata ira tฤne, lesbian. Ngฤi Tahu me Te ฤtiawa. find my games at takataapui.itch.io
Committee member of KiwiRPG
Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social Game Designer โ Writer โ Consultant
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar is a headshot of a white person w. shaved head, pink hair tuft, round glasses, and surreal collage background (no AI)
Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social @ktwelves on the other socials
improvforgamers.com
karentwelves.com
If you use AI, don't follow me.
๐จ๐ฆ CCUTTRPG @ccuttrpg.ca Our Mission: Amplify each other's voices through collaboration, resource sharing, and promotion.
Notre Mission: Amplifier les voix des uns et des autres par la collaboration, le partage de ressources et la promotion.
www.ccuttrpg.ca
Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social Portfolio and contacts at aavoigt.com
TTRPG Videos: https://youtube.com/@aavoigt
Co-host: https://www.youtube.com/@mortifiedpod
Games: http://aaronsxl.itch.io
He/him
MisterG (he/him) ๐ games ๐ฒ @pg-yyz.bsky.social Award-winning #ttrpgs designer
2025 Canada Roles Silver Award - Visual Design
2025 Crit Awards Finalist Best GMLess TTRPG
https://SpotlessDice.Games
* Ringmaster (DftQ)
* Rise of Tsathoggua
* Ascellan Conspiracy
Pro GM: startplaying.games/gm/pg_yyz
Waikato Role-Playing Guild @waikatorpg.co.nz Welcome to the place to find fellow tabletop roleplayers in the Waikato, NZ/Aotearoa!
https://linktr.ee/waikatoroleplayingguild
Lauren @wolfsbanettrpg.bsky.social Writer, Storyteller, and TTRPG nerd. I play Kira and Anna on the Monsterโs Playbook, an AP Monster of the Week podcast.
AJ Fidalgo @ajfidalgo.com he/him. indie audio drama voice actor. non-union, no rep. middle-aged hubby & dad. โ๏ธ๐ฆ. probably no one important really. ๐บ๐ธ๐ต๐น NJ/Phila
opinions mine. interaction !== endorsement.
ajfidalgo.com
discord.gg/gM4FwhpPa9
PFP by @juanochoa.bsky.social
No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com Proudly independent board game reviewers.
https://youtube.com/nopunincluded
Playing Bridge on the sidewalk
Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social 
Graham Walmsley ๐ฒ @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social I design games, especially tabletop roleplaying games (Cthulhu Dark, Cosmic Dark). I also write books on storytelling (Play Unsafe) and drift into interactive fiction (39 Steps) and LARP (Will That Be All).
And I love theatre, art and history.
J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social Pakeha, Martian, Reviewer, (He/Him) Aotearoa! Award winning game designer(Sorry Travis): //www.youtube.com/c/3MinuteBoardGames
Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social We are an innovative tabletop gaming publisher. We make Fiasco, Star Crossed, Ghost Court, The Warren, Night Witches, Desperation, Zhenya's Wonder Tales, and Nine Space Games!
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
Conan McKegg @conanmckegg.bsky.social Film-maker, queer advocate, cat lover, gamer, and weirdo. I work for Wฤtฤ FX. Opinions my own.- D @drbunnyhops.bsky.social @drbunnyhops.bsky.social
Cris Viana โจ @crislv.bsky.social She/her/๐ง๐ทโญ๏ธ Graphic Designer: layout and typography.
3 cats, lots of coffee and tea, and more TTRPGs books than time to play <3
Lead Graphic Designer at Evil Hat.
https://www.crisvianastudio.com/
Follow Quimera TTRPG: https://quimerarpg.substack.com/
Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social Nihil veritas erubescit, #StandwithUkraine, pro-raisin, pro-mayonnaise, pro-democracy, I write books you want to read.
site: www.harryjconnolly.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/HarryConnolly
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ป๐ @deadlyfredly.bsky.social President of Evil Hat (I publish Fate, Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, &c). Liberal in politics, reposting, & use of the block button. Be advised, I limit parasociality when I can. Permanently in AMA mode (so ask).
Joe Wozzaa #toitลซtiriti @joewoz.bsky.social ๐จ๐ผโ๐ซ Primary School Kaiako Teacher in Aotearoa
๐จโ๐งโ๐ฆ Dad and Hubby
๐ฒ Love table top roleplaying games
โฝ Footy
๐ Graphic Novels
Imaginary Empire Games @imaginary-empire.bsky.social Critically acclaimed tabletop roleplaying games from Aotearoa, New Zealand.
www.imaginaryempiregames.com
Marcus Bone (Unbound Publishing) @unboundbook.bsky.social A New Zealand based gamer, I love writing, editing and publishing material of all types of Tabletop Roleplaying Games.
Come visit me @ www.unboundbook.org, www.stormbringerrpg.com & www.darkconspiracytherpg.com
sean @smurphygames.bsky.social stupid stupid idiot and wise sage.
itch: smurphy-games.itch.io
Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social They/he. Ttrpg designer, streamer, writer. Disabled, Pฤkehฤ, Aotearoa.
Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social TTRPG designer, kiwi, she/her. All works have no genAI.
You can find my games on:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/21159/Kelly-Whyte
https://kellymakesgames.itch.io/
DMs open for reviewers, podcast invites, etc.
Liam TTT @boganova.bsky.social Ngai Tamaterangi guy navigating my way through life. Work on TTRPGs a bit. Proud owner of a Gold Ennie. WWW.Toatabletop.com
Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social Game Designer. Classicist, (Ancient) Historian, Historical Games Studier. Pฤkehฤ. He/him/his.
@TheSprawl_RPG, @ardensludere, @peregrinekiwi@dice.camp & Twitter.
Redgate and Wolf ๐บ @redgateandwolf.com ๐ฒ ๐ฒ Monster of the Week Actual Play TTRPG Podcast
A sassy thief and a Scottish werewolf, hunt monsters, roll dice and cause chaos.
Sometimes there's a guest! Warning: little bit NSFW ๐ค
https://redgateandwolf.com
Vex (known hater) @hexavexagon.bsky.social Game designer, dancer, and menace. The living epitome of "bangers only".
If you don't know me from my games, you should actually check them out. Some of them are good. Some of them are intentionally bad.
๐ฎ Hexavexagon.itch.io
๐บ Twitch.tv/hexavexagon
The Storyteller Squad @storysquadcast.bsky.social Join us in Autumn Falls as our heroic adventurers explore a world of magic & monsters in our MotW actual play podcast! Listen on your favorite podcast app โจ๐๐
thestorytellersquad.com
Dungeon Mister Ty @dungeonmisterty.bsky.social Founder of @adventureslang. Game designer, writer/editor. Creator of Nuovarden. Let's game!
Adventure Slang Productions @adventureslang.bsky.social Creators of Nuovarden - the earthpunk TTRPG, using our own Fortunes d4 System. Available now!
Mr Ray (They/he) @mrray.bsky.social TTRPG creator, podcaster, Keeper for $2 Creature Feature. Find my stuff at https://mr-ray.itch.io/ 
Miah @miahdeas.bsky.social Cooking, cats, ttrpgs and The Monsterโs Playbook. Itโs a lifestyle and a choice.
https://monstersplaybook.com
Tim Denee @olddog.games Game designer, graphic designer and illustrator from Aotearoa. Blades '68, Deathmatch Island, Odyssey Aquatica.
๐ http://olddog.games
๐ซ olddoggames.substack.com
HyveMynd @hyvemynd.bsky.social Philly migrant | Corporate drone / struggling TTRPG creator | Monsterhearts fan | Netrunner player | pixel art lover | ๐ณ๏ธโโง rights | fuck AI ๐ซ
Shawn Tomkin @shawntomkin.bsky.social Creator of the Ironsworn family of TTRPGs. Contributor to other cool games. Banner art by Joshua Meehan.
Games & Downloads: tomkinpress.com
Discord: discord.gg/8bRuZwK
DriveThruRPG: tomkinpress.com/drivethrurpg
Itch: tomkinpress.com/itch
The Monster's Playbook @monstersplaybook.bsky.social An actual-play Monster of the Week podcast that's full of danger, emotionally speaking. Learn more: direct.me/monstersplaybook
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Alex MJ ๐ฒ๐ @mixuppixels.bsky.social He/Him | From Aotearoa by way of Singapore | Tangata Tiriti
๐ง Host of Wait, Roll That Again, a TTRPG Design Podcast!
๐ฆ๐น Living in Vienna, Austria
๐ฒ Ennie Winning (!?) Game Desinger
โฌ๏ธ GAME DESIGN PODCAST
https://mixuppixels.com
Shrimp and Crits @shrimpandcrits.com Your Favorite Southern Fried Actual Play Comedy TTRPG Podcast. Releasing Bi-weekly on Mondays! ๐ค
Season 2: Dania | Ironsworn
Season 1: Gullacochica! | Monster of the Week
https://shrimpandcrits.carrd.co/
$2 Creature Feature @2dollarcreature.bsky.social A Monster of the Week actual-play podcast with AltHaven. S1: Fun Fair. S2: Jupiter Hollow. S3: ATLAS. S4: Wish. https://discord.gg/xFDbSsbMf
MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social Mother of the Apocalypse, founded #PbtA. ALA & Morgan Ellis award winner. Museum curator. Material culture, leftist politics, kindness & appropriate levels of vengeful fury. She/her,โช๏ธ,๐, breast cancer survivor. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley
Milo Rossi @miniminuteman.bsky.social Archaeologist โข Environmental Scientist โข Googledebunker
2.2M YouTube
2M TikTok
Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social Programmer, analog game designer, progressive politics, no progressivism without LGBTQIA+ rights. We're gonna win. I will continue to shamelessly split infinitives. he/him
Allen Varney @bundleofholding.com Writer and game designer (PARANOIA XP, Mongoose Publishing 2004). I operate the Bundle of Holding (bundleofholding.com). allenvarney(at)Gmail.
lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social D. Vincent Baker, longtime indie ttrpg creator. Co-creator of Apocalypse World, Under Hollow Hills, and many more. Disarm, defund, abolish. He/him. https://lumpley.games
Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social Turning Passion into Great Games! Publisher of Fate, Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and other games. www.evilhat.com
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
KiwiRPG @kiwirpg.bsky.social We make games, we play games. Through #KiwiRPG you will discover a new constellation of world-class TTRPGs and actual play shows from Aotearoa New Zealand. https://www.kiwirpg.com/
SeroRPG @serorpg.com โก She/Her/They/sero ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐๐ค๐๐ค ๐ณ๐ฟ
Links to everything โ https://serorpg.com
Solo RPG List (Admin) https://solorpglist.com โค Columnist for Tabletop Sentinel โก TTRPG Actual Play Streamer ๊ค Monster of the Week Mystery Maker โ Redgate and Wolf podcast (on hiatus)
Thrythlind (He/Him/They) - Basic necessities shouldn't bankrupt @thrythlind.bsky.social TTRPG. Ace/Aro. Co-Author "Hunter's Journal" and "Slayer's Survival Kit" Fanfic. Self-Publishing. Caption Agent for the Hearing Impaired. He/Him/They/Them
Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social Scotland-based #ttrpg developer and publisher of #BEOWULF Age of Heroes, #astaterpg second edition, #Maskwitches, Silver Road, Jon Hodgson Backdrop books, #ColdCity, Hot War, #FiveEvil and more
https://handiwork.games
Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com Actor and tabletop RPG nerd, the order depends upon the week. I handle marketing for Evil Hat Productions. Currently playing a long game to get cast as Ned Flanders in the live action Simpsons movie.
www.tomlommel.com
Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
rrdgames.com
Sophie Lagacรฉ @evilanemone.bsky.social She/her. Engineer, tabletop gamer, avid reader; woke social justice DEI treehugger. Digital Content Manager for Evil Hat Productions.
I block bots, spammers, phishers, and trolls.
Neil Gow @omnihedron.co.uk All the good TTRPG stuff on here
Read my gaming musings: omnihedron.co.uk
Check out Liminal RPG pages: liminal.omnihedron.co.uk and patreon.com/omnihedron
Conventions at the Garrison? Garrison.omniheron.co.uk
Big Bad Con @bigbadcon.bsky.social 
Hayley G - Good Society 2E on Kickstarter now! @storybrewersroleplaying.com We make offbeat tabletop rpgs!
Co-creator of #GoodSocietyrpg & #FightWithSpirit
20% bad jokes, 80% feelings. She / They.
https://linktr.ee/storybrewers
James Mendez Hodes @lulavampiro.bsky.social Cultural consultant (D&D, Magic, Jackbox, Daggerheart, Crooked Moon) and game designer (Streets of Jade, Avatar Legends, Thousand Arrows). I like religious studies, martial arts, hip hop, and orcs. He/him. jamesmendezhodes.com
Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social Tall man, weird little telly boy
Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Writing, TTRPG design with Handiwork Games and Taleturn, taking action, discussing NZ political nonsense. Usually walking the dogs. #FiveEvil is out!
(mr_orgue at the bird site)
JuanOchoa @juanochoa.eurosky.social Illustrator in South America. Anarchist. Butlerian.
Portfolio at https://www.juanochoa.co
he/him
No fash, AI, crypto, ppl without a bio in profile.
Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social ๐ Owner: heartofthedeernicorn.com
๐ Designer: #fallofmagic โค๏ธ #bffrpg โ๏ธ #cityofwinter ๐ #lichlords
๐ฃ President: Tabletop Game Alliance of Washington State
๐ท: Barham Lashley w/ Emma Juncosa
Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com โค๏ธ heartofthedeernicorn.com ๐ฆ
โค๏ธ https://linktr.ee/deernicorn
Maker & Distributor of Fine Games
๐ง๏ธ in downtown Olympia since 2015 ๐ง๏ธ
#ttrpg #boardgames #rpg #beggartok
Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.