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Loremaster Bernard
@loremasterbernard.bsky.social
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Whether digital or tabletop, I enjoy a good game. And lore! It's in the name.
Start Playing Games profile: https://startplaying.games/gm/loremasterbernard
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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Jul 22
Learn how to play @daggerheartrpg.bsky.social in my game on @startplaying.bsky.social ! Try out one of six pre-made characters with differing ancestries and classes. Adventure in a strange forest which is home to bandits, hybrid creatures, and odd magic.

Link: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
Join Daggerheart Quickstart Adventure - Learn to Play! - Discord / Demiplane - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games
This is an intro game using the Daggerheart quick-start adventure: "The Sablewood Messengers." If you're looking to learn the rules then this game is for you. We'll go over all of the base mechanics w...
startplaying.games
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
🎃Happy Halloween🎃, and also to the one-year release since #DragonAge #TheVeilguard. Lot of emotions surrounding this game, but mostly I'm glad that it got the chance to exist despite everything the devs went through. I hope they're all doing alright and go on to create even more amazing things. 💜🐺🗡️
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
1) Dorian (the voice acting made him feel so real)
2) Corypheus ("I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was EMPTY!")
3) I've actually only read Tevinter Nights and some of the comics, but I would have to say either Audric from "Down Among the Dead Men" or Francesca Invidus from "Blue Wraith".
rhithewitch.bsky.social Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 22d
Being a Dragon Age fan is so fun because your favourite characters will be
1. your favourite love interest
2. someone who is in direct opposition to person 1
3. someone who appeared in a book and then was basically never mentioned again
October 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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opalapparition.bsky.social
Careful guys the Derpwolf is tryna take down the Veil again

#DragonAgeTheVeilgoob #Gooby #RooksCoffer #DragonAge @dragonagegames.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Mainly tripped up on DA2 stuff. Which... yeah, that feels accurate. One day I'll go back and play both it and Origins all the way through.
October 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Just finished the last session of a three-year long #5e #DnD campaign that I ran on @startplaying.bsky.social . I've got a lot of thoughts about it I want to talk about, here and maybe elsewhere, but right now I just want to say it was a good and satisfying conclusion, and thank you to my players. 💚
October 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
1) Star Wars Expanded Universe (Non-Disney canon!)
2) Dragon Age (honestly mostly because of @ghildirthalen.bsky.social )
3) TTRPGs
ghildirthalen.bsky.social Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · Sep 26
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1.) Dragon Age (lmao)
2.) Sailor Moon
3.) Probably Animal Crossing?

The first two I could easily do 6 hours, so I'm struggling with a 3rd.
juliabarceloss.bsky.social julia barcelos 💜 in my satosugu era @juliabarceloss.bsky.social · Sep 26
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1.) Dragon Age
2.) The Witcher
3.) Epic
September 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
To the people who complain that nobody wants to work? How can we work if you are GIVING THE JOBS TO COMPUTERS?
gigerpunk.bsky.social GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · Sep 18
Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.
September 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🚨Plushie alert! Our pals at Final Boss Bundle are ready to send this adorable Siege Turtle Plushie on a tiny adventure - yours for just $15 until Sept 26! Don’t let it wander off 🐢

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September 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
I've got a new #Daggerheart campaign starting on @startplaying.bsky.social , and we're starting with a Session Zero where you help to create the setting of the game as well as your character!

Check it out: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

#ttrpg #rpg #startplayinggames #sessionzero
Join Daggerheart Homebrew Campaign - Help Make the World! - Discord / Demiplane - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games
This one-shot is all about setting up a Daggerheart campaign and discussing what the players want from it. Together we will figure out what kind of campaign it will be, what the setting is like, impor...
startplaying.games
September 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Is it perfect? No, but no game is! And it's still a good Dragon Age game, especially considering what the developers went through. Hopefully, we'll get more one day. Thank you to the #DragonAgeTheVeilguard devs!
#dragonage #veilguard #bioware
megwyn.bsky.social 🥀Megwyn Rose🥀 @megwyn.bsky.social · Sep 4
Wow it's almost like it's actually an objectively well made game and is actually fun with amazing characters and good story telling! 😅😭 #DragonAgeTheVeilguard #DAV
September 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
Writing a GM section is hard.

So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go
WHAT DOES BEING A GAMESMASTER INVOLVE? As Gamesmaster, you’ll have a lot of different roles to play. Here are some of them in no particular order; you’ll adopt all, some, more, or none of these during every single session. You don’t have to be all of these things all at once, nor do you have to do all of them yourself - when you’re starting out, as long as players are getting the chance to roll dice and mess around they’ll probably still have fun. As you play more, you’ll find which ones you enjoy and which ones you don’t, and you’ll find your style. FUN ADMINISTRATOR If it wasn’t for you, this game would never happen. You arranged a time and date. You reserved the back room in the pub to play. You helped everyone make their characters. You’re the first person they talk to if they can’t make it to a game, and you’re the final judge as to whether a session goes ahead as planned or must be rescheduled. You’re taking responsibility for all the background details that let the foreground details - the game - work. PETTY GOD This is your world. We just described it in loose terms - it’s coming out of your mouth, and you’re making all the decisions. You can adjust numerical values up and down as you wish. You can wipe cities, countries, concepts off the map entirely if you don’t like them. You alone determine whether things are possible or impossible, and you can dictate how dangerous a given task is with ease. Nothing happens unless you want it to. The player characters are scrubbing about in this world of yours, and you graciously let them do so, because they’re having fun. And so are you; you call the shots, you set the boundaries, you show them the fantastic world you’ve dreamed into being. ORACLE You are the sole focus of interaction that the players have with the game. In one direction, you are the source of all information about the fiction at the table: so if they want to know what colour a non-player character’s eyes are, they have to ask you and you’re beholden to tell them, or tell them how their characters could find out. In the other direction, you are the fuzzy authority that stands between every player and us, the designers of the game, and therefore the interpreter of the rules. All fictional and mechanical action goes through you. A CAST OF THOUSANDS You are everyone else in the world that isn’t a player character. You invent and then adopt their mannerisms, you spin together obvious motivations and secret desires, and you flip between your charges with ease. Sure: many of their voices might sound … TOUR GUIDE We’ve written a guidebook for a world that doesn’t exist, and you’re the tour guide who’s leading slack-jawed holidaymakers around that world. You know everything there is to know about the game world - and if you don’t know, you can make it up, and that’s just as good. You’re relentlessly enthusiastic, you give evocative descriptions, and you clue the players into what’s interesting or important - and you know all the best places to take them, too, so they’ll experience the world as best they can. WET COMPUTER At the core of every roleplaying game is a set of rules that power the experience, and you are the fallible, non-silicate computer on which these rules run. You know the rules, you enforce them (or ignore them, as you see fit), and you remind players of how best to interact with them. Players might use some bits themselves - rolling to hit, for example, or keeping track of their character’s health - but you’re the ultimate authority on what rule to use when. CON ARTIST Players? Bunch of feckless rubes. Look at them, wide-eyed and open-mouthed: they think this is a living, breathing world. They think that you’ve got this all written down, like some kind of Tolkien; they couldn’t be more wrong. You’re just making it up on the fly. There’s nothing behind the curtain, no master plan, no wheels within wheels: just you, regurgitating some half-remembered details about Bloodborne and talking about bones breaking a lot because that makes them wince. They’ll buy anything you sell ‘em. WORKSHOP LEADER You don’t have all the answers, but you know where to find them: inside the players’ heads. You ask them questions like “Who are we meeting here?” “What’s the most dangerous thing that awaits you on your journey?” “Which one of you does this guy hate the most?” and then you listen to the answers and incorporate them into the story. You love it - it saves work, saves time, and means that the players are more involved and engaged than ever. Involved and enga… DRUMMER The drummer sets the pace. In a band, they dictate the song’s tempo. In a regiment, they dictate the marching speed. (In a marching band they do both, presumably.) You’re in charge of saying when things begin and end, how long a scene takes to play out, how long a non-player character waffles on about their problems, how descriptive an average description is, and so on. You can cut away from situations and cut back later, you can put the pressure on players to make a decision, or you can leave them to chat to one another unobstructed as the hours roll by. ABSOLUTE BASTARD You’re going to kill them. You’ve trapped them in your lair. They dared to step up and try to defeat your monsters, overthrow your villains, and now they’re on the back foot. Smash them to fucking bits. Throw ‘em through a window, rip off arms and legs, take grim pleasure when their luck turns against them. No-one gets anywhere by being nice all the time - and the players don’t want you to be nice all the time. They want their characters to get beaten up, humiliated, murdered, hung-drawn-and-quartered. You know that this is a masochistic endeavour and you are happy to indulge them. TORTURED ARTIST You always wanted to be creative, and this is your outlet. You’ve spun a world of torment and tragedy (or light-hearted slapstick, depending on the game) for your players to explore - or crafted a complex story within someone else’s, full of betrayals and comeuppances and juicy details. You’ve taken the time to make something clever and you can’t wait for your friends to admire it; what matters most is getting the artistic intent of your world across to the players so they can react appropriately. OBSESSIVE FAN Oh my god. You love the player characters so much. Like your favourite character in your favourite TV show, you’re fascinated to see what they’ll do next - and you can probably take a good guess at what it’ll be, because you know them so well. You get a bit sad when bad things happen to…
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
My first Rook, a human mage LoF named Rohan, did a lot of ice magic specifically because he wanted to be able to create walls, stairs, and even life-boats during missions around the coats of Rivain.
dreadredqueen.bsky.social DreadRedQueen (🎨Commissions Open🎨) @dreadredqueen.bsky.social · Aug 26
Altara can cook but not anything elaborate, over the years Lucanis taught her how to cook and it became a thing they enjoyed doing together, she especially enjoys baking.

Can you Rook cook?

#rfotd #rookfacts #dragonageveilgaurd #altaraderiva #antivancrow
August 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
I just watched the video where this was announced and I felt like I was LOSING MY MIND. 🤯
brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · Aug 2
Hey Gang! I could not be more thrilled to step behind the screen for Campaign 4 of Critical Role, and cannot wait to share all the amazing things me and this incredible team have been cooking up for you! 🐲⚔️🔮
August 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
🗡️💚Want to learn to play #Daggerheart? I'm running the official starter adventure on @startplaying.bsky.social and I've got one seat left! But don't worry, I'll be running it again not long after it finishes. Still, if you'd like to join now, click the link!

#ttrpg #rpg #prodm #progm #daggerheartrpg
August 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
My Daggerheart starter game on @startplaying.bsky.social has 2 seats left! Learn how to play this hit TTRPG and adventure in the mysterious Sablewood. Also, feel free to message me on SPG if you have any questions!

#daggerheart #sablewood #startplayinggames #darringtonpress #ttrpg #rpg #progm
July 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Sadly, we didn't get to see this concept used in DAV, but this confirms that those grey pools could still be active in the Deep Roads. And without Ghilan'nain to control them... what new horrors might they unleash? DA5?

#dragonage #dragonagetheory #fantheory #dragonagetheveilguard #veilguard #DAV
July 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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sievish.bsky.social
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canthealz.com Cody R. @canthealz.com · Jul 27
Well said!!
July 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
This @daggerheartrpg.bsky.social starter game on @startplaying.bsky.social still has 3 seats left! Learn how to play this hit #TTRPG and adventure in the mysterious Sablewood. Also, feel free to message me on SPG if you have any questions!

#daggerheart #sablewood #startplayinggames #darringtonpress
July 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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lynsneakers.bsky.social
Sorry for the repost, but I was making a lot of edits to make it look nicer!

I made a simplified document to replace the #DragonAge Keep. It removes a lot of bloat and condenses the choice selection.

To make your own world states, go to File > Make a Copy.
Enjoy!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
July 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Not going to lie, I might actually start properly playing mesmer and guardian with this expansion. My main will always be ranger, though... and Galeshot is looking pretty nice, not going to lie.

#guildwars2 #visionsofeternity #gw2voe
guildwars2.com Guild Wars 2 @guildwars2.com · Jul 23
After much speculation , the time for illumination is now! Check our news update for more about the mesmer, ranger, and guardian elite specializations, and stay tuned for closer looks at more in the coming weeks: www.guildwars2.com/news/elite-s...
July 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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loustica-lucia.bsky.social
Anyone feels like working on their Dragon Age Keep? And wanted DATV to have it's own section too? I got you!👀

I shared this template before, but I just made it for Google Sheets too, & both are now available for free on my Ko-fi!

Notion: ko-fi.com/s/3ff01861f3
Google Sheets: ko-fi.com/s/4863f86c71
July 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Learn how to play @daggerheartrpg.bsky.social in my game on @startplaying.bsky.social ! Try out one of six pre-made characters with differing ancestries and classes. Adventure in a strange forest which is home to bandits, hybrid creatures, and odd magic.

Link: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
Join Daggerheart Quickstart Adventure - Learn to Play! - Discord / Demiplane - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games
This is an intro game using the Daggerheart quick-start adventure: "The Sablewood Messengers." If you're looking to learn the rules then this game is for you. We'll go over all of the base mechanics w...
startplaying.games
July 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Okay, if I've done this right, then.... three archers of different skill-sets with even more differing personalities.... @ghildirthalen.bsky.social, this feels like a heist crew.

#dragonage
July 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
loremasterbernard.bsky.social
Here's my guess for the next @guildwars2.com elite specializations! A few are probably almost guaranteed, but I think a couple of my choices might raise eyebrows. Regardless, I'm really looking forward to what we're going to see tomorrow!

#guildwars2 #tyria #arenanet
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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kalaelizabeth.bsky.social
Got tagged in the BioWare server because Veilguard won a Gayming Award and I click the video and it's BW's GM thanking all the Dragon Age devs for their hard work and I'm gonna flip a fucking table. You wanna thank all the devs you fired??? The devs you thanks by laying them off??? Tone deaf idk man
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July 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM