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wranglerofchaos.bsky.social
Jaclyn Lewis
@wranglerofchaos.bsky.social
(they/she) 📖 writer, game master, and youth facilitator

Rolling with the Youth available now at IPR!

All the things: https://lnk.bio/jaclynlewis
I had the honor to contribute to this awesome collection of system-agnostic one-shots alongside talented creators like @chrishopper.bsky.social and @timothyferguson.bsky.social. @shewstone.bsky.social poured so much work and thought into this tome - check it out!
101 Tales of Magic and Mystery
TTRPG adventure plots of mystery, magic, and intrigue, grounded in the history and folklore of Renaissance England.
www.kickstarter.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Gamehole Con folks! Steph will be doing these awesome events and joined by me and @KatTheDungeonMom.bsky.social for Tabletop Gaming With Kids Sunday at 8! (We'll be running on excitement and caffeine, but we'll be there)
Game Hole Con kicks off soon! If you'll be there, check out my schedule and stop by to say hi!

https://www.ttrpgkids.com/2025/09/25/ttrpgkids-gamehole-con-2025-event-schedule/

October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Check out Rolling With the Youth by @wranglerofchaos.bsky.social

Create an inclusive gaming space for youth players, based on the writer's own XP!

Find it on IPR:
https://loom.ly/zb4ys0E

And find a review on TTRPGkids:
https://loom.ly/LhhhBQU
September 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A first-time TTRPG player told me that they wished they'd known the hook along with the genre and setting before creating a character. (I usually save the hook for an opening-scene demo where they learn about the game and world.) Do y'all have thoughts on pros and cons of before- vs in-game hooks?
September 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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THIS makes me REALLY happy!!

Check out Jaclyn's blog post about playing D&D with their toddler!

This is a great account of how playing TTRPGs with young kids works, and I am also thrilled that TTRPGkids had some influence and for the StoryGuider shoutout. Thank you Jaclyn for writing this!
Clickbait title aside, I've been looking forward to playing TTRPGs with my little one since I was pregnant. @ttrpgkids.com showed me this was possible, and I've relied greatly on their insights. You can read about my experience (and their games) here: www.youngdragonslayers.com/d-and-d-vide...
How I Played D&D With My Toddler
For players of all ages, there are a ton of benefits to Dungeons & Dragons (and games like it). But this is even more true for young players, who are in a prime stage to learn social emotional l...
www.youngdragonslayers.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Clickbait title aside, I've been looking forward to playing TTRPGs with my little one since I was pregnant. @ttrpgkids.com showed me this was possible, and I've relied greatly on their insights. You can read about my experience (and their games) here: www.youngdragonslayers.com/d-and-d-vide...
How I Played D&D With My Toddler
For players of all ages, there are a ton of benefits to Dungeons & Dragons (and games like it). But this is even more true for young players, who are in a prime stage to learn social emotional l...
www.youngdragonslayers.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Something that just blows my mind is how you can just talk to your FLGS or LBS and just... get your indie game on their tables and shelves, and into the hands of eager players!

And when you do it as a collective, you can build a community around your art!
1/2
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I got to run one of these for Tiny Dragon (their first TTRPG - more details on how it went later this week)! Built for the needs and interests of young children, these games are perfect for introducing TTRPGs, building SEL skills, and creating bonding time with family and friends.
StoryGuider is LIVE on Backerkit!

Help this project hire a team of artists to illustrate these 36 choose-your-adventure style coloring book stories while getting some cool rewards (and an early bird bonus if you back now)!

Check it out here, and please help share!
https://loom.ly/Rvk53EM
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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@wranglerofchaos.bsky.social just released the best review Book of Extinction has ever had. If you want to know what this book is and why I made it, give this a read! www.youngdragonslayers.com/d-and-d-vide...
Use DND To Teach Biology and Conservationism With This Monster Manual
Teachers, parents, and others are wondering how to teach biology in a fun way. The game of Dungeons & Dragons has already been used to teach social emotional learning, sign language, history, and ...
www.youngdragonslayers.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
After interviewing @LucasZellers.bsky.social for this article, I was filled with evangelical zeal. Thoughtful engagement with 5e! Scientific inquiry and accuracy! Conservationist principles built into the design! I dearly hope I did the Book of Extinction justice:
Use DND To Teach Biology and Conservationism With This Monster Manual 
Teachers, parents, and others are wondering how to teach biology in a fun way. The game of Dungeons & Dragons has already been used to teach social emotional learning, sign language, history, and more. Why not use D&D to teach biology and conservation? Mage Hand Press, creator of custom D&D content, teamed up with the Center for Biological Diversity, scientific advocate of endangered species, to create a totally unique monster manual. In this book, you won’t find orcs, goblins, or kobolds. Instead, each “monster” is inspired by a real-world extinct animal. The Book of Extinction has two versions for each entry. One is the actual creature from our world: its history, biology, and the circumstances leading to its extinction. The other is a creature with lore, magic, and abilities that are inspired by the real-world creature but more suited to the world of D&D. As a team of educators, parents, therapists, and youth workers bringing D&D to young players, we’re always looking out for awesome D&D resources for teachers, and we fell in love with this one immediately. We got to chat with Lucas Zellers, the lead writer for the Book of Extinction, about his journey from D&D player to honorary conservationist.
www.youngdragonslayers.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Which is, as many have pointed out, IN THE DESIGN of every genAI that I've seen
This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved
August 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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これは貸しです。

Introducing Kashi 貸し, a guide to why "Ghibli-inspired" media without Japanese creatives is harmful. It includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture.

Learn. Share. Change.

kashi-info.carrd.co
August 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Despite the overwhelmingly supportive response to my anger at Obojima, it seems some folks still really don't understand.

I'm going to say this as plainly as possible:

You can enjoy Japanese culture, but you cannot make it your own.

Japan gives freely of so much of its culture, but it's a loan. 🧵
August 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications!

I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece.

Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants
August 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Indiana is a hostile place to trans people and every single one of you I saw at GenCon are the bravest and most beautiful people in the world and I'm glad we were out there visible and bold in the face of this cruel and heartless world. Each of you were a walking balm of gold out there.
August 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I also got to drop off a copy of Rolling with the Youth for the @TabletopGaymers.bsky.social giveaway. It got bundled with A Constructs Nature and won by a lovely science teacher excited to bring games into their classroom!
August 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Even though it's been a few years, I always stop by @ipr.bsky.social and snag a picture of Rolling with the Youth in the wild. Between that, Tiny Tome 2, and Making A TTRPG for Your Kid, I've technically contributed to 3 books at the booth! Two of them were just one page, but I say it counts 😆
August 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Got to run the Queer Coven RPG by @9thLevelGames.bsky.social for @TabletopGaymers.bsky.social at Gen Con! It only got better between the playtests and the full release. It's witchy, it's adorable, and it's unapologetically queer: celebrating found family, self-discovery, and fighting the trolls. 🪄
August 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Gen Con booked my Queer Worlds session in the same slot as Designing Equitable Games. Jesse, the other presenter, laughed it off and proposed we just...merge our seminars! The result was a wild (and surprisingly coherent) shared presentation on inclusion. I'll be telling this story for a long time!
August 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
It was amazing to watch @faireyes80.bsky.social and her co-presenter KILL IT at their Trade Day presentation...and even cooler to sit down and play a one-shot soley using assistive tech to communicate! (I also got a shout-out in their resources list 😎)
August 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The timescale is truly a testament to Andrew's dedication and care in creating this project and looking out for Shewstone's freelancers. The book will contain 9 of my adventure frames, including my favorite story prompt I've ever written: a weasel-basilisk war with humans caught in the crossfire!
I thought our upcoming #TTRPG supplement, 101 Adventure Frames in Enchanted England, would be easy to write, but I turned it into a three-year project. Now we really are in the home stretch and the @kickstarter.com is coming! I am enormously proud of the team's work.
August 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Convention pics from the @ipr.bsky.social booth today!

Games and books by:
@almostbedtime.bsky.social
@pandiongames.com
@lysander03.bsky.social
@wranglerofchaos.bsky.social
@planesailinggames.com
TTRPGkids
And many others!!
July 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Here's the list of 184 products from 108 of our member publishers we'll have in #Booth449 at #GenCon2025, including a link to download
a 36 page PDF or ePub with short descriptions of all of them, in case you wanted a little travel reading.
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Gen-Co...
July 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Here's a thread of some neat things I'll be running at #GenCon!
July 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM