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Game designer, independent publisher and graphic artist. I make World Wide Wrestling 💪 Imp of the Perverse 😈 Annalise 🥀 and more good games for interesting people.
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ndpdesign is the home of game designer, independent publisher and graphic artist Nathan D. Paoletta. Find the World Wide Wrestling RPG as well as many other good games for interesting people!
www.ndpdesign.com
Here’s a thread to talk a little more about my games! I’ve been making and self-publishing ttrpgs since 2004. My design approach is to use rules that matter to drive play that satisfies the promise of the game. You can find all of these at www.ndpdesign.com
The Pool was foundational for the whole branch of game design that got me into making my own games!
A lot of you know the games I've made, but there are surely many who don't. I wrote one in 2001 called The Pool that I almost never talk about, but I'm very proud of it. I'll tell you about it now, for giggles.
It's a "rules lite" game. It's a GM game. It is universal, generic, or non-setting. 1/5
It's a "rules lite" game. It's a GM game. It is universal, generic, or non-setting. 1/5
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The Pool was foundational for the whole branch of game design that got me into making my own games!
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Only 9 sales to go to hit that 500 goal! This includes sales through all direct outlets:
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
December 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Only 9 sales to go to hit that 500 goal! This includes sales through all direct outlets:
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
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If you’re in the market for a low effort New Year’s resolution, can I suggest “removing ‘content’ and ‘content creator’ from your vocabulary”? The artists and entertainers you’re referring to deserve better, even and especially if you’re using it to refer to yourself and your work
December 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you’re in the market for a low effort New Year’s resolution, can I suggest “removing ‘content’ and ‘content creator’ from your vocabulary”? The artists and entertainers you’re referring to deserve better, even and especially if you’re using it to refer to yourself and your work
Only 9 sales to go to hit that 500 goal! This includes sales through all direct outlets:
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
December 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Only 9 sales to go to hit that 500 goal! This includes sales through all direct outlets:
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
my website www.ndpdesign.com/store/p/worl...
itch ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
drivethru www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
payhip payhip.com/b/2PFSa
Thanks!
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🚨 ALERT: New Copyright Laws Going Into Effect January 1st, 2026 🚨
Starting in the new year, if you play a #ttrpg on a streaming service or write about folks streaming #ttrpgs and you fail provide links to those games for your audience, you will be legally considered an absolute poopy-butt.
Starting in the new year, if you play a #ttrpg on a streaming service or write about folks streaming #ttrpgs and you fail provide links to those games for your audience, you will be legally considered an absolute poopy-butt.
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry "things published in 1930 will enter the public domain in 6 days."
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
Gaming Like It's 1930
A game jam from 2026-01-01 to 2026-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & Copia Gaming. A new year means new material entering the public domain! Starting January 1st 2026, works from 1930 are free to use and ...
itch.io
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry "things published in 1930 will enter the public domain in 6 days."
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
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For every direct sale of the World Wide Wrestling PDF, I add a free community copy to itch. So far we've added 487 since starting this last year.
I'd love to get that to 500 by years end! Regular sales add +1 community copy, tips and bundles add +2.
ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
I'd love to get that to 500 by years end! Regular sales add +1 community copy, tips and bundles add +2.
ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
For every direct sale of the World Wide Wrestling PDF, I add a free community copy to itch. So far we've added 487 since starting this last year.
I'd love to get that to 500 by years end! Regular sales add +1 community copy, tips and bundles add +2.
ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
I'd love to get that to 500 by years end! Regular sales add +1 community copy, tips and bundles add +2.
ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
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Reminder for your holiday travel and/or something to share with your Garner-loving relatives.
Just in time for (American) Thanksgiving, @epidiah.bsky.social and I are back with a new episode of Two Hundred a Day!
James Garner is Marlowe. We have a lot of trouble not just calling him Jim.
twohundredaday.fireside.fm/148
James Garner is Marlowe. We have a lot of trouble not just calling him Jim.
twohundredaday.fireside.fm/148
Marlowe (1969 Movie)
We're back! We watch the 1969 movie Marlowe, starring James Garner as well as Rockford Files alums-to-be Rita Moreno and William Daniels as well as Carroll O'Connor and Bruce Lee. An adaptation of the...
twohundredaday.fireside.fm
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Reminder for your holiday travel and/or something to share with your Garner-loving relatives.
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Merry Christmas paisans
December 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Merry Christmas paisans
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And I heard him exclaim as he rode down the street, "A merry Thursday to everyone and to everyone a good meat!"
I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.
December 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And I heard him exclaim as he rode down the street, "A merry Thursday to everyone and to everyone a good meat!"
merry christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
merry christmas!
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merry christmas I added a bunch of community copies to my paid games on itch, there's like a TON available on the One Night Last Chance games especially now because they're a little older and I'm bad at promoting them but they're really fun itch.io/c/4718324/on...
One Night, Last Chance - Collection by Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock
A collection by Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock
itch.io
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
merry christmas I added a bunch of community copies to my paid games on itch, there's like a TON available on the One Night Last Chance games especially now because they're a little older and I'm bad at promoting them but they're really fun itch.io/c/4718324/on...
10 games? Must be nice, I’ll get 1 done if I’m lucky.
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
10 games? Must be nice, I’ll get 1 done if I’m lucky.
big ups to fellow Story Games Boston alumn and long-time “your favorite designers favorite designer” getting some well-deserved recognition!
Tacklebox is kinda blowing up at the moment, thanks to Quinn's Quest (~1500 copies & counting). Just in case anyone's interested, I would also be open to co-publishing some of my other games (Geiger Counter, Planarch Codex, Restless, Tomb Priestesses, Lofty Beacons, Metrofinal, Last Kings, etc).
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
big ups to fellow Story Games Boston alumn and long-time “your favorite designers favorite designer” getting some well-deserved recognition!
Show me how your 2025 went
December 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Show me how your 2025 went
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There it is!
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There it is!
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Cover art by the very talented @teeketch.art
Design work by @ndpdesign.com
Logo work by @rubri-san.bsky.social
Design work by @ndpdesign.com
Logo work by @rubri-san.bsky.social
Heading into 2026 I'm picking up steam on promoting my upcoming Zinequest campaign for MAPS & MISHAPS! A GM-less one-shot RPG where you build a world, create characters, & go on an adventure in 1 session!
Can't wait to share it with you. Give the page a follow!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bar...
Can't wait to share it with you. Give the page a follow!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bar...
Coming soon: Maps & Mishaps: The Misadventure Roleplaying Game!
Build a world, or choose your favorite setting, and go on the GM-less misadventure of a lifetime!
www.kickstarter.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Cover art by the very talented @teeketch.art
Design work by @ndpdesign.com
Logo work by @rubri-san.bsky.social
Design work by @ndpdesign.com
Logo work by @rubri-san.bsky.social
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Folks!!!
Remember all that stuff I said about commissioning art cards for use as eidolons in Swords Without Master? bsky.app/profile/epid...
Here's a little sneak preview!
Remember all that stuff I said about commissioning art cards for use as eidolons in Swords Without Master? bsky.app/profile/epid...
Here's a little sneak preview!
December 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Folks!!!
Remember all that stuff I said about commissioning art cards for use as eidolons in Swords Without Master? bsky.app/profile/epid...
Here's a little sneak preview!
Remember all that stuff I said about commissioning art cards for use as eidolons in Swords Without Master? bsky.app/profile/epid...
Here's a little sneak preview!
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Hi if you haven't checked this out, WWWRPG is some of the best rip-roaring entertainment I've had in a long time, and it's a revolutionary blend of pre-planning and improvisation.
Had the awesome (derogatory) experience of an unexpected medical bill from something last April coming in a few days before Christmas, so uh sales right now both help me AND add community copies!
For every direct sale of the World Wide Wrestling PDF, I add a free community copy to itch. So far we've added 487 since starting this last year.
I'd love to get that to 500 by years end! Regular sales add +1 community copy, tips and bundles add +2.
ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
I'd love to get that to 500 by years end! Regular sales add +1 community copy, tips and bundles add +2.
ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...
December 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hi if you haven't checked this out, WWWRPG is some of the best rip-roaring entertainment I've had in a long time, and it's a revolutionary blend of pre-planning and improvisation.
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Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions.
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions.
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
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It’s Tabletop Tuesday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and it’s time for another FIASCO! playset! This time, everything that can go wrong will go wrong in the flashy nightclubs and seedy back rooms of Golden Age Hollywood in…”Stuck in the System”!
Stuck in the System - IMMORTAL SCIENCE
It’s 1939, and the Golden Age of Hollywood has reached its zenith. Though the Great Depression is still raging, the movie business is rolling in dough, and money is everywhere...
immortalscience.pika.page
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It’s Tabletop Tuesday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and it’s time for another FIASCO! playset! This time, everything that can go wrong will go wrong in the flashy nightclubs and seedy back rooms of Golden Age Hollywood in…”Stuck in the System”!
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I have a lot to do before The Thing This Is For but uh, the 1969 James Garner Marlowe may have the hardest detective still of all time.
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have a lot to do before The Thing This Is For but uh, the 1969 James Garner Marlowe may have the hardest detective still of all time.
Reminder for your holiday travel and/or something to share with your Garner-loving relatives.
Just in time for (American) Thanksgiving, @epidiah.bsky.social and I are back with a new episode of Two Hundred a Day!
James Garner is Marlowe. We have a lot of trouble not just calling him Jim.
twohundredaday.fireside.fm/148
James Garner is Marlowe. We have a lot of trouble not just calling him Jim.
twohundredaday.fireside.fm/148
Marlowe (1969 Movie)
We're back! We watch the 1969 movie Marlowe, starring James Garner as well as Rockford Files alums-to-be Rita Moreno and William Daniels as well as Carroll O'Connor and Bruce Lee. An adaptation of the...
twohundredaday.fireside.fm
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Reminder for your holiday travel and/or something to share with your Garner-loving relatives.
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Advent of Swords, Day 6:
I've probably miscounted in there, somewhere, but it matters not!
Here's a thing, by design, you can write an entire Swords scenario on a notecard.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
I've probably miscounted in there, somewhere, but it matters not!
Here's a thing, by design, you can write an entire Swords scenario on a notecard.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Advent of Swords, Day 6:
I've probably miscounted in there, somewhere, but it matters not!
Here's a thing, by design, you can write an entire Swords scenario on a notecard.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
I've probably miscounted in there, somewhere, but it matters not!
Here's a thing, by design, you can write an entire Swords scenario on a notecard.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...