James J. Haeck
@jamesjhaeck.bsky.social
ENnie Award-winning game designer. Freelance Writer & Editor for: Wizards of the Coast, Critical Role, Darrington Press, MCDM, Ghostfire Gaming.
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James J. Haeck
@jamesjhaeck.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Let's take a look at my latest from Ghostfire Gaming, Grim Hollow: The Valikan Clans! @shawnmerwin.bsky.social led Raider's Guide to Valikan, a setting guide and player options book and I led Saga of the Seasons, a sprawling dark fantasy adventure!
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let's see those mf masks on at paxu
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
let's see those mf masks on at paxu
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YOU MUST check out ChainxLink and the rest of ethan's incredible work.
Exploit tools of tyranny to support your rebellions and invoke ancient rites to escape this megadungeon with your closest rivals!
Chain×Link: A semi-cooperative dungeon-defying RPG
Buy it now!
glyphtide.games/chainxlink/
Chain×Link: A semi-cooperative dungeon-defying RPG
Buy it now!
glyphtide.games/chainxlink/
Chain×Link | Glyphtide Games
A semi-cooperative dungeon-defying roleplaying game
glyphtide.games
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
YOU MUST check out ChainxLink and the rest of ethan's incredible work.
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🍂🍂Live a life of cake and teatime by the slow part of the river, where simple plans spiral into delightful chaos. RiverBank RPG is created by Hugo & Nebula Award Winner Kij Johnson and art by Kathleen Jennings. A cozy world is waiting for you! Get it here: bit.ly/497VOZs
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
🍂🍂Live a life of cake and teatime by the slow part of the river, where simple plans spiral into delightful chaos. RiverBank RPG is created by Hugo & Nebula Award Winner Kij Johnson and art by Kathleen Jennings. A cozy world is waiting for you! Get it here: bit.ly/497VOZs
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An offering to the lorecast - Sir Frodrick the Knight and his loyal bard John Frogerty
@thebenbyrne.bsky.social @dailydael.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social @shawnmerwin.bsky.social
@thebenbyrne.bsky.social @dailydael.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social @shawnmerwin.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
An offering to the lorecast - Sir Frodrick the Knight and his loyal bard John Frogerty
@thebenbyrne.bsky.social @dailydael.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social @shawnmerwin.bsky.social
@thebenbyrne.bsky.social @dailydael.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social @shawnmerwin.bsky.social
Your favorite RPG freelancers and many indie devs are, in America at last, allowed to have this job because of the ACA. Your games will get worse if it's killed. The brain drain will be immense.
I was freelancing before the ACA. It was harrowing. It’s saved so many lives.
After being laid off I rely solely on ACA marketplace plans to help cover my medications and some of my doctors.
If I can't afford my medication, I will die.
This is not an exaggeration.
If I can't afford my medication, I will die.
This is not an exaggeration.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Your favorite RPG freelancers and many indie devs are, in America at last, allowed to have this job because of the ACA. Your games will get worse if it's killed. The brain drain will be immense.
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Ambition is on its FINAL THREE DAYS of crowdfunding.
WE'VE REACHED FOR HEAVEN FROM UNDERNEATH
STRIVED FOR WHATS BEYOND IT
and with the last Fable funded, the Shape of Ambition is in focus. LETS SEE HOW FAR WE FLY BEYOND IT.
ttrpg.link/ambition
WE'VE REACHED FOR HEAVEN FROM UNDERNEATH
STRIVED FOR WHATS BEYOND IT
and with the last Fable funded, the Shape of Ambition is in focus. LETS SEE HOW FAR WE FLY BEYOND IT.
ttrpg.link/ambition
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ambition is on its FINAL THREE DAYS of crowdfunding.
WE'VE REACHED FOR HEAVEN FROM UNDERNEATH
STRIVED FOR WHATS BEYOND IT
and with the last Fable funded, the Shape of Ambition is in focus. LETS SEE HOW FAR WE FLY BEYOND IT.
ttrpg.link/ambition
WE'VE REACHED FOR HEAVEN FROM UNDERNEATH
STRIVED FOR WHATS BEYOND IT
and with the last Fable funded, the Shape of Ambition is in focus. LETS SEE HOW FAR WE FLY BEYOND IT.
ttrpg.link/ambition
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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The California-based TTRPG convention Big Bad Con, which focuses on indie and marginalized creators, confirmed today that it has decided not to host a physical convention in 2026 due to the current political climate but is still determining its plans going forward.
@bigbadcon.bsky.social
@bigbadcon.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The California-based TTRPG convention Big Bad Con, which focuses on indie and marginalized creators, confirmed today that it has decided not to host a physical convention in 2026 due to the current political climate but is still determining its plans going forward.
@bigbadcon.bsky.social
@bigbadcon.bsky.social
The word "myriad" can be used as both a noun (synonymous with "lot of") and an adjective (synonymous with "many"). Personally, I strongly prefer the sleeker, stylish adjective form. "Her reasons were myriad." versus "She had a myriad of reasons."
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The word "myriad" can be used as both a noun (synonymous with "lot of") and an adjective (synonymous with "many"). Personally, I strongly prefer the sleeker, stylish adjective form. "Her reasons were myriad." versus "She had a myriad of reasons."
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The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.
Home - Long COVID Treatment Trial
Be part of groundbreaking Long COVID research from Scripps Research. We endeavor to conduct a portfolio of Long COVID clinical trials.
longcovid.scripps.edu
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.
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[man reading news]: not a fan of this worldbuilding, not very clearly explained, 2/5
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 AM
[man reading news]: not a fan of this worldbuilding, not very clearly explained, 2/5
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See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.
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🚨LIVE now!
Daggerheart: The Forbidden Forest!
▶️ twitch.tv/phoenixiwaki
Giveaways: @demiplane.com & @phoenixdice.bsky.social
With @thecandacemarie.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social Kayla Janelle @lauren-urban.com & @yaboibig.bsky.social!
Frame: @yocean14.bsky.social
Daggerheart: The Forbidden Forest!
▶️ twitch.tv/phoenixiwaki
Giveaways: @demiplane.com & @phoenixdice.bsky.social
With @thecandacemarie.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social Kayla Janelle @lauren-urban.com & @yaboibig.bsky.social!
Frame: @yocean14.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨LIVE now!
Daggerheart: The Forbidden Forest!
▶️ twitch.tv/phoenixiwaki
Giveaways: @demiplane.com & @phoenixdice.bsky.social
With @thecandacemarie.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social Kayla Janelle @lauren-urban.com & @yaboibig.bsky.social!
Frame: @yocean14.bsky.social
Daggerheart: The Forbidden Forest!
▶️ twitch.tv/phoenixiwaki
Giveaways: @demiplane.com & @phoenixdice.bsky.social
With @thecandacemarie.bsky.social @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social Kayla Janelle @lauren-urban.com & @yaboibig.bsky.social!
Frame: @yocean14.bsky.social
the alt art covers for the new Forgotten Realms books are so sick!! what!!
October 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
the alt art covers for the new Forgotten Realms books are so sick!! what!!
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Yeah, this is full-hog Radio Rwanda / Der Sturmer tier stuff.
Gives you an idea of whom they're going to end up hiring.
Gives you an idea of whom they're going to end up hiring.
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Yeah, this is full-hog Radio Rwanda / Der Sturmer tier stuff.
Gives you an idea of whom they're going to end up hiring.
Gives you an idea of whom they're going to end up hiring.
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
My heart continues to go out to my game dev kin in video games 😭 wishing you all a very quick new job offer and huge sympathy as AI-obsessed leadership continues to gut our industry
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My heart continues to go out to my game dev kin in video games 😭 wishing you all a very quick new job offer and huge sympathy as AI-obsessed leadership continues to gut our industry
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The implication of a lot of Trump admin action is that the US can never be good at green tech so it has to lock the world into its rent driven fossil resource economy. A really bleak view of American potential.
Trump has never been supportive of green technologies, but in his second term he has made a concerted effort to wreck climate policies. The world now has a carbon bully, as one expert put it.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Trump Pressures the World Into Burning More Oil and Gas
As COP30 nears, the US’s pressure to keep fossil fuels relevant may empower petrostates, potentially giving them more leverage at the UN talks.
www.bloomberg.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The implication of a lot of Trump admin action is that the US can never be good at green tech so it has to lock the world into its rent driven fossil resource economy. A really bleak view of American potential.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
it's a Halloween episode of the Eldritch Lorecast!
twitch.tv/ghostfire_official
twitch.tv/ghostfire_official
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
it's a Halloween episode of the Eldritch Lorecast!
twitch.tv/ghostfire_official
twitch.tv/ghostfire_official
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If folks I know are organizing charity actual plays this coming month to support food banks/hunger-oriented mutual aid, I would love to talk about running a one-shot of Daggerheart for you.
October 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
If folks I know are organizing charity actual plays this coming month to support food banks/hunger-oriented mutual aid, I would love to talk about running a one-shot of Daggerheart for you.
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On our @whatatimepod.bsky.social recording today we talked about a Wise Old Tree and you KNOW this classic came up
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
On our @whatatimepod.bsky.social recording today we talked about a Wise Old Tree and you KNOW this classic came up