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Aaron A. Reed
@aaronareed.bsky.social
Maker of books, games, games about books, and books about games. Social media content syndicated to multiple platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronareed
Roguelike Celebration is happening today and my awesome friend Johnathan is giving this inspiring talk (gonna be a great time). www.roguelike.club
October 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🎃🍁🍂AUTUMN SALE!🍂🍁🎃 All my books and games are on sale for one week only to celebrate the impending arrival of cooler days and pumpkin lattes.
RPGs: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
50 Years of Text Games: if50.textories.com
Subcutanean: subcutanean.textories.com
Cool swag: aaronareed.net/store/
September 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#Downcrawl2E Adventure Zine #2 is here (and ON SALE for launch week)! Explore a new underworld region clinging to an endless roof over bottomless void, in the legendary place Where The Rock Stops. #ttrpg #hexcrawl #DriveThruRPG
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

and SPEAKING OF SALES... (1/2)
September 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
About to fulfill a long-time dream by hiking the John Muir Trail through the Sierra Nevada. If you need me, I'll be back in August. 😎🌲🏔️
July 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Played "500 Year Old Vampire" by @timhutchings.bsky.social at #KublaCon with a truly glorious arts and crafts spread provided by our GM, best letter writing and vision boarding game about being a sad vampire and sad vampire historian ever
May 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
About to run the first ever playtest of a new game, such early days I didn't even want to put a version number on it. Always a bit terrifying but it's great to stop dreaming a new dream alone and start doing it together...
May 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Oozing tendrils squirming through every corner of the Deep, Deep Down, and only you can stop them. "The Hypogean Solution" is an Adventure Zine for the #Downcrawl2E #TTRPG that lets you ride an undersea railroad, make strange new friends, and meet a slime god.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
May 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Got a review of #Downcrawl2E #ttrpg (thanks!) that thought the cover art was too garish (aww) so I made this minimalist version totally not inspired by #Traveller as a joke. Honestly it kinda works!

(The actual cover: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... )
April 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Sorry for all the #Downcrawl related posts lately, but: I've got a web store up to sell remaining leftover bonus items from the crowdfunding campaign! If you wanted some sweet metal map coins, dice, the Delver's Guide, or other swag, grab it before it's gone! aaronareed.net/store/
April 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
After a long journey (appropriate), 🚨 Downcrawl 2E #TTRPG & the Downcrawl Decks are now live for sale in print & digital!! 🚨

* Build a weird, wondrous underworld, alone or together
* Journey System for dangerous travels
* Optional rules for solo or GM-less play

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
April 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Migrating the TTRPG collection onto a new shelf that was supposed to have more room but I may have a problem
March 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Found in old files: flier made by my local movie theater in spring 1999, after they learned hundreds of #StarWars geeks had started setting up tents in the parking lot across the street, the day before advance tickets to Phantom Menace went on sale.

OCR'd version: pastebin.com/SR7GqtJq
March 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Downcrawl bonus items all packed and ready to ship!! I spend all my remaining Tack to help them navigate successfully to their destinations...
March 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Downcrawl packing party this weekend... one down, ~799 more to go.
(yes I've got friends helping... amazing friends)
March 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It's definitely not hyperbole to say most big projects actually do require blood, sweat, and tears. Downcrawl drew first blood tonight as I was unpackaging Tack coins from the manufacturer's hard-edged plastic sleeves (to repackage them in cozier linen bags). Only 1400 more coins to go...
March 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
If 12-year-old Aaron with his red box D&D Basic set knew that one day he'd commission a few hundred dice for his very own TTRPG, the velocity of his head exploding might have exceeded the sound barrier. These lovely handmade d6s for #Downcrawl courtesy Dice Extractions: www.etsy.com/shop/DiceExt...
February 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Just put in a print order for 720 #Downcrawl Delver's Guides, 400 Adventure Zines, and a great many Index Bookmarks and blank Folk & Volume cards. Expecting 650 pounds of #TTRPG supplements on my doorstep in three or four weeks 😎🎲
February 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reading Sister Alice by Robert Reed (2003) which posits (essentially) LLMs as speakers for the dead civilizations that leave them behind. This makes me feel some things
January 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM