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@abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com

You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

July 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

Ideas for people looking to join the isekai TTPRG wave:
- players can only take terrible gimmick RPG classes and have to figure out what combo of upgrades makes them good actually
- you’re all monsters in a dungeon that the overpowered hero has been grinding nonstop
- slow life farming sim (horny)

December 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM

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Grant Howitt

@gshowitt.bsky.social

Thanks for your help! Here’s what I’ve found:
- Girl Underground
- This World Keeps Summoning Heroes
- Many classes, few systems

And:
- DIE is not an Isekai
- DCCarl is not an Isekai
- Any TTRPG could be an Isekai, why bother
- All TTRPGs are obviously Isekai already and I am a stultifying buffoon

Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 25d

What Isekai TTRPGs are there? I'm trying to work out why this isn't a more popular genre.

So far we've worked out:

- DIE: the RPG, I suppose
- That one class from BREAK!!
- The Dungeoncrawler Carl TTRPG, I think, but it's not out yet

December 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

Great opportunity to invest early in wildly high concept RPG themed sci-fi but also in retail hell moments like this

At least 50% of that turnover was the break room door. Our manager Jerry agreed to trial a gadget that was supposed to improve staff morale, so now there was a high-tech scanner mounted over the frame. If it didn't detect a nice big smile, it wouldn't open.

Bzzt! "Come on, show us that customer smile!" it chirped as I approached.

Jerry had sent the staff a selfie of the kind of smile the door wanted to see. Several people quit immediately. Those that didn't saved it to their phone and held it up to the camera, like I was doing.

November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL

@freyjavalentine.bsky.social

I read it, it whips

Ettin (latest fad) @ettin.itch.io · Nov 6

Releasing my second experiment in branching into fiction in a little over a week. This one is "what if the Hard Wired Island guy got into litRPG". My third project is also normal

The cover of a book called Zettamall, featuring two people - a guy with a crowbar and a metal arm with a mouth in it, and a shorter woman with a glowing spear and headphones with eyeballs in them - preparing to fight a bunch of goblin-like creatures in working-class uniforms and a cybernetic wolf with a wheel for a leg inside a dark shopping mall

November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

Six sessions into running this Adventure Path and I’m having a great time! We’ve done gladiatoral combat, feasting contests, fought off a sea serpent, and acted out the final moments of a hero’s life with their ghost to send them to the afterlife. Great sword and sandals vibes.

Paizo @paizo.com · Jul 24

Can you overcome the failings of the myth-speaking rites and grant magic and guidance to the people of Iblydos? Become a mythic hero and take on legendary beasts in the first installment of the Pathfinder Myth-Speaker Adventure Path, The Acropolis Pyre!

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The Pathfinder Myth-Speaker Adventure Path: The Acropolis Pyre book stands vertically in front of a folder flip-mat. In front of the book is a set of Pathfinder exclusive dice from Botch Dice.

November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM

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Deval 『CEO of Girl Kissing』🔞

@deval.gay

OOPS I FORGOR TO POST THE TEXT VERSION OF THE REVIEW.

Anyway Here's This World Summons Too Many Heroes, by @duffo.bsky.social The Text version!

#TTRPG #Review

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October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM

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Vaxatious Litigant 💉

@exposingnv.bsky.social

Court overturns QLD ban on gender affirming care for transgender patients

October 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM

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Ettin (latest fad)

@ettin.itch.io

If you're running an RPG campaign, a great thing to do is to maintain some kind of journal of characters the PCs meet but also to give them star rankings like they were gacha game characters

October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM

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Deval 『CEO of Girl Kissing』🔞

@deval.gay

OwO a new System Check just dropped!? That's right! This week we're diving into This World Summons Too Many Heroes! by: @duffo.bsky.social

If you're a fan of anime nonsense, this might just be a game for you!

youtu.be/UY8cFMkwS84

#TTRPG #Youtube #review

This World Summons too Many Heroes | A TTRPG Review

YouTube video by Deval in the Details

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October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs

@opensketchbook.bsky.social

SURPRISE!

I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.

It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?

Anyway enjoy!!!

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Oath of Moment

【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...

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October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

"If you’re amused by the concept of several hapless doofuses from 21st century Earth bumbling around in a medieval fantasy world with cheat powers, this might be the diversion you didn’t know you were looking for."

Thanks to Chris Casey for the review!

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RPG Review: This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!: Definitive Edition | This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!

This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!: Definitive Edition (TWSTMH from now on, because I value my fingers) is a 2025 Kickstarter-funded compendium of the 2023 second edition of a 2021 RPG by Nick “Duff...

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October 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

SomethingAwful’s FATAL & Friends forum thread has a pretty good write-up on This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! right now, including my new favourite summary of the archetypes in the game:

It’s Heroing Time!
And then he heroed all over those guys

To build your very own isekai hero, start by choosing an Archetype.
The Bystander: Whoops! You weren’t even supposed to be here today, but you were standing too close to someone else being summoned or were hit by Truck-Kun and got sucked into another world by accident.
The Demon Lord: Evil cultists summoned you here to rule the world, but you didn’t care for their vibe and you look terrible in black leather, so you dipped.
The Hero: You were brought to Ceria to defeat an ancient evil. You blew through that quest easily, of course, so now you’re just looking for something interesting to occupy your time.
The Myth: You’re never alone; there’s the spirit of a great Cerian hero or magic beast in your body. Once per adventure you can flip them in so they can wipe up the bad guys for you.
The Noble: You occupy the body of a previously existing high mucky-muck, who by all accounts was kind of a snot. Now you have to navigate their life and maybe make things better for the people around you.
The Reader: Ceria was the subject of your favorite book or video game in your past life, and you know more about it than even the people who live here.
The Reincarnated: Only your spirit arrived, without a body. Unfortunately the summoning spell doesn’t do “making a human body” very well, and you now have the form of something completely different.
Tragedeigh The Tragedy: You were summoned by someone very bad, who used you for very bad purposes. You managed to escape but now you have terrible scars and trust issues.
Each Archetype includes a choice between two special background-style benefits. For instance, the Noble can choose either Disowned Heir (get better starting equipment) or Villainess (any attempt to bully people always uses your best Attribute).

October 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM

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Ettin (latest fad)

@ettin.itch.io

Less than a day to go on this. We're already funded so this is basically a victory lap now, but here's your last chance to get a fun story for cheap:

CRINGE WIZARD: A TTRPG Isekai Light Novel

A light novel about a guy forced to live through the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran when he was a teenager.

www.kickstarter.com

October 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

Fun fact - these notes from Chiaki pretty much directly led to the Goddesses and Season of the Sage expansions. SotS especially answers these questions about Muto while bringing back that “yearning for home” theme to reflect that he’s an old-gen 00s hero in contrast to the modern player protags

Chiaki Hirai - I feel like the whole “other churches” thing could be a bit more fleshed out, like you did on “where you can find scrolls”? Maybe a few quick examples on former churches that may have fallen out of favor, or even other gods or goddesses that think Launrith sucks.

Chiaki Hirai - And this also piques my interest in Muto, is he just really irresponsible? What drove him to think it’s cool to summon a bunch of people from other worlds in like he was done, to sow so many opportunities for chaos?

Older isekai stories used to focus on the fact it kinda sucks you get isekai’d. Part of the journey was about finding a way back. Some modern ones have this emphasis too, even if the stories these days might emphasize more on setting up maid cafes, registering at adventure guilds and saving princesses.

October 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM

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Brakka Quilltusk

@brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social

Y'all, I'm so excited for this book! Like, I was already looking forward to playing it some time, but now I learn one of the sample PCs is a fellow trans woman?! 😍

I NEED TO PLAY! LET'S FUCKING GO!💖🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍🌈
#TTRPGs #ttrpgcommunity #isekai #LGBTQIA2 #fantasy #ThisWorldSummonsTooManyHeroes #Vtuber

The image has the header, "SAMPLE PCS," with the character in particular bearing the title of "Megan the Finder." She is depicted as a brunette woman with a bob haircut, wearing hoop earings, circular glasses, a denim jacket, a floral blouse, & a pair of black pants. She's carrying a stack of 14 books. The text reads as follows:

Class: Mage
Archetype: The Reader (Star Stream).
Attributes: Might 2, Mastery 3, Mischief 2.
Abilities: Mana Bolt, Grimoire User, Dual Cast.
Weapon: The Finder's Index (Tome, Force).
Gift: Catalogue Search - if you know the name of a book, you can detect where the nearest copy is.

Megan had two big things to adjust to after being reincarnated into Ceria - being in a woman's body and having magic spellcasting powers. She's found tha both things suit her fine, and has even made a career for herself in the mage world tracking down rare texts and grimoires for clients by using her Gift. She's in the process of making a personal library for herself, keeping the more unusual and dangerous books somewhere she can look after them personally.

October 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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★ Satra ★

@satrathai.bsky.social

Look!
The cuties! >w<

Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · Oct 10

Here are some of the new example characters in the game, with art from @satrathai.bsky.social! Carla is a necromancer trying to create a better world through undead labour, while Chiyo guards an ancient magical cherry blossom forest and calls on its magic to help her fight.

Double spread of a TTRPG ruleset with two characters - Carla Frei, a dark haired necromancer with a witch hat and a green tome, and Chiyo, a silver haired girl with sakura blossoms through her hair.

October 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

Some isekai heroes from today’s PAX TTRPG sessions:
- a healer with white girl dreads who realigns chakras so bad it hurts
- a snake with rune fangs
- a mum who learned karate from VHS tapes
- a Sword in the Stone that has not been pulled out and just gets carried around half inside of a boulder

October 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

The Definitive Edition of isekai fantasy TTRPG This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! is now available! Play with ridiculous powers in a world where heroes have become way too common and are causing chaos in the fantasy world of Ceria.
duffhounds.itch.io/this-world-s...

This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! Definitive Edition by Nick Duff

The ultimate version of the isekai fantasy TTRPG

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October 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky

@mrfinnmccool.bsky.social

Fund this, NOW!

October 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM

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paxaus.bsky.social

@paxaus.bsky.social

It is here! The PAX Aus World map is now available! Check it out now on our website, or interact with it live in the PAX Aus App
aus.paxsite.com/en-us/expo-h...

September 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM

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Fabula Ultima TTJRPG Celebration Edition + Bestiary Vol. I

The ENNIE-winning JRPG-inspired tabletop role-playing game levels up with hardback and collector's editions, and the new Bestiary Vol.I

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September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

The pre-PAX update is here, with new art and the latest digital version of the game going public next week!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/160...

Update 17: October Update · This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!

Hi all,PAX Aus in Melbourne is only two weeks away - I'll be part of the PAX Aus at the Table team running sessions of This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th at the foll...

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October 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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Ettin (latest fad)

@ettin.itch.io

My next campaign is live! CRINGE WIZARD is an isekai light novel about a guy who gets reborn in the bad TTRPG campaign he ran as a teenager, and it can be yours for only Ten God-Blessed American Dollars: