Brian Flaherty
brianflaherty.bsky.social
Brian Flaherty
@brianflaherty.bsky.social
🎲 Co-owner of Many Sided Media
Award-winning Sound Designer
My First Dungeon, Bitcherton, Talk of the Table
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10 games I want to make in 2026

-Will We Hang For This?
-Vulturism
-The reluctant demon and the lonely ice fisherman
-Project ECCO Sequel
-Volatile (w/ @brianflaherty.bsky.social)
-Rom Com Drama Bomb Boxed Edition
-untitled fantasy photography game
-Square the Circle

And two others probably
10 Games I want to make/finish in 2026. And yes, feel free to ask questions!

- Blood Begets Blood
- Little Wanderer
- The Ruined Land
- Legendary Pro Wrestling
- Get In The Robot, Kid
- Mästare
- You’ll Never Know Me, I’ll Never Know You
- The Last Guardian
- Witch’s Brew
- Deified
10 games I want to MAKE in 2026

- RatCatchers
- SkateSword
- Advanced DNGN + DRGN
- Fight Knights: World Tour
- Recon:Recon
- SmorgasBorg
- Defective Detectives
- Punkass Supers
- Broken Fixer
- The Puppets Variety Hour with Hermit the Crab

And yes I WILL be taking questions at this time...
December 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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TOMORROW! A brand new Talk of the Table with Jasmin Malave of @twentysidedtavern.bsky.social!
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Time Storm is coming...
Coming 1/7/26 from @manysidedmedia.bsky.social

Agent 0707’s story continues

Your experience of this story may be inhibited by your linear perspective on time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Time is kind to no one.
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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50 presaves! As promised please enjoy the full beauty of @helenacore.bsky.social's cover art for RISE, WIZARDS!

@captainkrail.bsky.social's Rise, Wizards! is such a blast and this piece captures the vibes of play perfectly
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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📬 In this Issue of the Many Sided Newsletter 📬

@moreblueberries.bsky.social talks with @vidityavoleti.bsky.social about bringing his latest post-fantasy worldbuilding game A Land Once Magic to life

Plus recommendations, discount codes, and news from around the Many Sided Network
Watching Your TTRPG Come to Life
An Interview with Viditya Voleti about A Land Once Magic
manysidednewsletter.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Is that a VIDEO PODCAST?!

Check out the first VIDEO EPISODE of our Patreon-exclusive show Under the Table

Brian & Elliot break down a fantastic PAX Unplugged: how much money was made, what booth secrets worked, and what went into making this our best con ever.

www.patreon.com/posts/145629...
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Coming Zine Month 2026

Rise, Wizards! by @captainkrail.bsky.social is a dice-stacking, map-making game of wizard hubris

All's Fair by @superdillin.bsky.social is a duet game about wanting each other so bad you save the world about it

Thrilled to be running a two game campaign this zine month!
Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair
From moreblueberries - Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair
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December 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Wow. This rules.

Go support @itsquinns.bsky.social for basically nothing and get a CRAZY amount of presents (including a bunch of great episodes of Play to Find Out sound designed by me!)
Hey all!

I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.

Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️

www.patreon.com/qquest
Get more from Quinns Quest on Patreon
Covering tabletop roleplaying games
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December 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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They're Gritty. They're Pretty. They're Princesses.

My First Dungeon proudly presents...
PERILS & PRINCESSES: SWEET REVENGE

Sponsored by @outridercreative.bsky.social & @tabletopbookshelf.com

Premiering January 1st, 2026.
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This holiday season, give your favorite creators the perfect gift: attention. A 5-star rating, a product review on Exalted, or even a share on Reddit.

www.explorersdesign.com/critmas-2025/
Critmas Gift Guide 2025
The 3 gifts every game designer wants (and a holiday party idea).
www.explorersdesign.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Are you ready to get gritty and pretty?!
The next game we’ll be playing on My First Dungeon is…

Perils & Princesses by @outridercreative.bsky.social

Adventure: Sweet Revenge by @dhowl37.bsky.social

GM: @brianflaherty.bsky.social

Cast: @danielleradford.bsky.social @shenuque.bsky.social @bobigail.bsky.social Bridgett Jeffries
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Which of these games do you want us to play next on My First Dungeon?

Daggerheart @darringtonpress.bsky.social
Perils & Princesses @outridercreative.bsky.social
Shadowdark
Land of Eem @landofeem.bsky.social
Brindlewood Bay @gauntletrpg.bsky.social
Mythic Bastionland @bastionland.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Looking for a gift for a tabletop gamer?

Never Fear!

The Many Sided Media Gift Guide is here!

Check out some great game recommendations from around the Many Sided Network

manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/the-2025-m...
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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We're announcing our next season of My First Dungeon in FIVE DAYS!

And it's going to be our biggest season yet!

Any guesses on which game we'll be playing?
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Last year I played The Wildsea and wanted my character to sing sea shanties—excuse me, TREE shanties.

Then @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social blew me away with a demo of an original shanty and we ended up writing a whole album of songs for this wild world.

I'm incredibly proud of what we made :)
Whispers for the Wildsea is available today!

A year and a half ago, I joined the @manysidedmedia.bsky.social Actual Play of Wildsea, and once I read the term "Tree Shanties" in the book, it was all over for me.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Ahoy cursed sailors! Today marks the end of our season of Hellwhalers!

Join us as the cast discusses the story we told, our thoughts on the system, and how much we want to play more Sik Bo.

Special thanks to our sponsor @plusoneexp.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Hellwhalers | Season Talkback
Podcast Episode · My First Dungeon · 12/04/2025 · 45m
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December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Our album of Wildsea Tree Shanties by @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social and @brianflaherty.bsky.social drops on Bandcamp and streaming services THIS FRIDAY!!

(This Friday is also BandCamp Friday which means 100% of sales go directly to the artists)

jstrautman.bandcamp.com/album/whispe...
Whispers for the Wildsea, by j.
7 track album
jstrautman.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Can I sing?

Kind of!

Can I co-write a KILLER tree shanty?

You bet your ass I can!

Pre-save our album of re-mastered tree shanties from our season of The Wildsea and add a bit of new music to the Verdant Expanse 🍃
Here, Wildsailor.

Take these Tree Shanties with you as you embark on your journey to sail the Wildsea.

🌳🍃🍂🌳🍃🍂🌳🍃🍂🌳🍃🍂🌳🍃🍂🌳🍃🍂

All the tree shanties I wrote with @brianflaherty.bsky.social are going up on streaming services THIS FRIDAY! You can preorder now 💛 links below!
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
High praise from the designer of Hellwhalers!

Listen to our full actual play of Hellwhalers on My First Dungeon
Just finished ep2 of @manysidedmedia.bsky.social doing My First Dungeon's play of HELLWHALERS.

Holy fuuuuuuuuck. So much tension. So much scheming. And @shenuque.bsky.social's read of the ending was so powerful alongside that brilliant sound design. Thank you all so much for doing the whalegame!
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This episode is SPOT ON!

Box games and smaller TTRPGs that are incredibly easy to start playing are one of the few ways into this hobby that isn't "let's start with D&D and then maybe play another game in 2-3 years"
New Quinns Quest review is a boxed RPG special! 📦✨

I dunno folks, I think running RPGs out of 400 page hardback books might be dumb and bad
Quinns Quest Reviews: The Boxed RPG Special!
YouTube video by Quinns Quest
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November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Since it started, @startplaying.bsky.social has made over $50,000,000 for the pro GMs that run games on the platform.

THAT'S NUTS!

Lots of specific data in the interview about player habits and what is the best way to get new players to try games other than D&D
Over $50 million for GMs (w/ @startplaying.bsky.social )

In this episode we discuss how StartPlaying is allowing GMs to make a living in TTRPGs, how the platform can help expand the hobby and introduce new games, and the power of community created through play.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Come say hi to @moreblueberries.bsky.social and @brianflaherty.bsky.social at booth 3850!

Join our pin quest to earn a free MZM pin and see us at a number of cool panels and shows throughout the weekend!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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When we walked in, having managed to have no preparatory conversation in two days, I said “do you trust me?”

So here’s @itsquinns.bsky.social in a trust fall, recorded (with thanks to @brianflaherty.bsky.social for some quick cleanup on this audio)
Communities, Criticism: a Conversation with Quinns | Dr. Em Friedman
Get more from Dr. Em Friedman on Patreon
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November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
DIE is one of my all time favorite comics and I was OVER THE MOON when I heard there was a sequel series!
We sat down with @kierongillen.bsky.social to talk about his new series DIE: Loaded and how the release of DIE RPG has influenced this new comic series.

manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/kieron-gil...
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Come to booth 3850 to join MZM’S PIN QUEST!!

Visit all 6 participating publishers to earn a free MZM pin

@rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
@mythworks.bsky.social
@soulmuppet.co.uk
@plusoneexp.bsky.social
@possumcreekgames.com
@hauntedtable.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM