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Marcello, the Valiant DM
@mdvaliant573.bsky.social
He/Him; 🇺🇸🇹🇭🇵🇷; TTRPG freelancer designer/editor; 11 years sober; DM/GM/Judge/Narrator/What-ever; Retired veteran; (p)Mental Health Practitioner/Addictions Counselor (NE); Ally; ISFJ; mdvthevdm.carrd.co mdvthevdm@gmail.com
Reached out to an old supervisor to ask if she’d supervise my contact hours for independent mental health practicioner licensure. She asked what insurances I wanted to get certified under. I said, “None, I want to help folks pro bono or sliding scale.” Her response? “Why does that not surprise me?”
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Consequence of late-afternoon nap=up at 3AM thinking about flying castles, alien geode-like artifacts, ogre armies and Neapolitan ice cream sandwiches, in no particular order.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
@rpgelise.bsky.social was one of the first creative leads to give me an opportunity to share my imagination with the ttrpg community. Let’s lift her up on her design anniversary! #ttrpg #dnd #FeyWild
🦋 It's my #TTRPG game design anniversary which means it is time for a giveaway! Like, follow, and share for your chance to win one free Through the Veil Feywild bundle (D&D5e)!🦋

#DND #DND5e #Feywild
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Alas, Legends of Greyhawk: Highfolk has passed. The BMG Weekend in Highfolk event is over. DMs cared enough about our work to provide feedback to our leads. Positive vibes all around. Done. Next opportunity? #Freelancer #dnd
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November 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
If you missed it, you could still catch it!
Our Author panel starts in a few moments! 6pm EST! Follow the link to tune in! www.twitch.tv/baldman_games
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
These three are the nighttime reading line-up tonight.
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Join us tomorrow as we chat about Legends of Greyhawk: Highfolk and answer questions from attendees!
A change up regarding this #WeekendinHighfolk Author Panel event! Come one, come all, and tune in! No badge required! 🌲🌳🌲#LoG 🌳🌲🌳

@janine.bsky.social @swordcompass.bsky.social @mdvaliant573.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Reposted by Marcello, the Valiant DM
I have the honor of being Lead Designer on the Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart Campaign Guide project!

For those curious about our approach, I did a stream walking through the free beta campaign frame we have on the KS page: youtu.be/yNfa7AWRK6g?...
Bringing Drakkenheim to Daggerheart! (Beta campaign frame overview)
YouTube video by Mike Underwood
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November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The Crooked Moon RPG has so many interesting feats.My fav was Death Defier. Big fan of those Dark Bargains.!
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
CW: Food. One of the World’s Most Okayest DMs also has proficiency in long-range meal preparation. There is enough sauce, veggies and pasta to get me through the next few days of dinner and allows me to focus on getting the rest of my Q4 ttrpg project drafts done.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Reposted by Marcello, the Valiant DM
D&D fans, I’m told Cynda Callaway has passed away. Cynda was the production expert who worked with various printers and manufacturers to get D&D books and boxes on shelves, on time, through the 5E era and beyond. She was a genuine unsung hero and all of us fans owe her a lot. RIP. #dnd
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Looks like the only elements of the newest version of Cormyr that survived the new Forgotten Realms books were The War Wizards and The Purple Dragons, but that’s it. There is a queen, but nothing else. Sad😔.
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Back from a con to watch my 🏈 team lose, but then read a bit from Walking Dead Universe and the Ukotoa rulegook-I won both at a con prize drawing!!!
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
KeeCon 2025 Last Day! Ran two events for some teens and first time D&Ders!
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I can’t 🐻it! I had to share this Sharkenbear and Hellpug from Monsters of Sol’an! #dnd
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In the nighttime reading, I’ve began to revisit the story of Thauglor the Black 400 years before DR, in the history of the greatest kingdom in The Forgotten Realms, home of The Purple Dragon Knights, The War Wizards, Vangerdahast, Alaundo the Seer and King Azoun IV, The. Purple.Dragon. Cormyr.
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Ditto.
Microsoft Authenticator is the 10th level of hell. That is all.
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Halloween night at Kee-Con 2025 ends appropriately for one of The World’s Most Okayest DMs; re-reading a Dragon Delves adventure for tomorrow and watching Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror Marathon, so… #Dnd #ttrpg
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM