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Hammer of the Gods
@hammpod.bsky.social
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Rayne (They/Them)
TTRPG actual play podcaster/streamer, TTRPG writer, massive Queer NB, volunteer with Trans Empowerment Project, and writer for Even Footing Games
https://linktr.ee/Hammpod

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Later than intended, but we're live with episode two of our Chicago By Night chronicle!
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Night shot of the Chicago skyline with headshots of the cast and text that reads, "Vampire: The Masquerade - Songs of Second City, A Chicago By Night Chronicle"
August 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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More sweet sweet #VampiretheMasquerade coming at ya today! Come watch as we head back to Chi Town with a new coterie 😈 #WorldofDarkness #TwitchStreamer #TwitchActualPlay
Vampire: The Masquerade, Songs of Second City; a Chicago By Night Chronicle; August 9th, 3pm EST, twitch.tv/hammpod
August 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Tonight! We're playing #MonsteroftheWeek with a cast full of enbies for #Non-BinaryAwarenessWeek (a game I've been trying to play for at least 2 years and it keeps not happening for various reasons) and @beeghosty.bsky.social is back in the driver's seat!

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Monster of the Week one-shot promo with headshots of the cast and text that reads, "July 16th, 7pm EST, twitch.tv/hammpod"
July 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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A very happy belated #NonBinaryPeoplesDay and happy #Non-BinaryAwarenessWeek to my fellow gender rebels who don't fit into the "two gender" concept, I see y'all and I love you! 💜🤍💛🩷
Non-Binary Pride flag bracelet and Bi Pride flag bracelet on Rayne's wrist
July 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#TTRPGCommunity Our coterie heads back to Athens to try and rescue Lamis, the unliving goddess, and Childer of Set himself... who would wish to harm one so powerful, and can our Kindred help her, or will they meet the True Death trying? Find out tonight at 630pm CST! www.twitch.tv/hammpod
Vampire: The Masquerade - Transylvania Chronicles with headshots of the cast
July 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I will never knowingly use ai "art" in anything I make, and I do my best to check whether specific images or the original artist uses ai in their work, but I'm human and might miss something, or an artist may not disclose that info and as ai becomes more and more prevalent its hard to avoid at times
Blanked out user: "You should probably disclose that you used ai art here." Rayne: If I had used ai to make any portion of this you would be correct, but I did not. I will never knowingly use ai "art" in any of my work." Blanked out user: "These are pretty blatant hallmarks of ai. If this is from a stock website, maybe be more careful."
July 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Gettin' ready to go live with @beeghosty.bsky.social in the GM seat for some Girl By Moonlight!
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Girl By Moonlight with Lee in charge of the show!
May 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Hi folx it's been a minute but I'm excited to share that tonight we're kicking off an exciting #VampiretheMasquerade miniseries on twitch! Come join myself, Sean of @helpactionneeded.bsky.social @spunkytaylor.bsky.social @beeghosty.bsky.social and @elliotabletop.bsky.social for some 1920s era fun!
Headshots of the cast of the new Vampire: The Masquerade miniseries over newspaper, with a background that features the Chicago theater, and text that reads, "Vampire The Masquerade, Moonshine Nights, April 30th, 7pm EST, twitch.tv/hammpod"
April 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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This little goth enby necromancer absolute fucking loves their car
Sol Giovanni, a Non-Binary Kindred with dark hair, other than two lime green strands, heavy makeup, facial piercings, fishnets, flannel, and a crow skull standing in the ruins of an abandoned building Front end of a black 1959 Cadillac hearse in a cemetery Side view of a black 1959 hearse showing the tail fins in all their glory
February 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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I couldn't have imagined we'd ever be able to raise anywhere near this much, but now that the Bundle has closed, I just want to say thank you again from the bottom of my heart to @rowanzeoli.bsky.social for your article, between that and it helping us get featured on itch, we owe you SO MUCH! 💚💚💚
Screenshot of the results of the Best of 2024 TTRPG bundle ($24,341.27 was the final amount raised with 1,821 contributors!)
February 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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##TTRPGCommunity We're back tonight with more #BrindlewoodBay with a different group of #MurderMavens and things are gonna get real spoopy! 👽 With: @divawithahandgun.bsky.social @cosplaybyrd.bsky.social and @spectralcraft.bsky.social
Text reads, "Brindlewood Bay, February 2nd, 8pm EST, twitch.tv/hammpod" with pictures of the cast over a UFO beaming light down between them.
February 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Woke up to @kellywhyte.bsky.social informing us that the bundle is featured on itch now too, talk about stuff I NEVER thought would happen in a million years! 🤯🤯🤯
Text reads, "Featured bundle: best of 2024 TTRPG bundle for TEP"
January 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The operatives of F.A.N.G. are back at it, this time they're on a mission to stop the Soviet nuclear program, and take out crusty old Stallin in the process! #EattheReich #actualplay #TTRPGCommunity #vampires
A sepia toned explosion with text that reads, "Eat the Reich - Operation Kremlin Kerfuffle, January 26th, 430pm CST (1030pm GMT) twitch.tv/hammpod" with pictures of the cast
January 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Lets go, Trans netrunners 😎
Text post that reads, "Being trans os the most cyberpunk thing anyone can be tbh"
January 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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This week has been kinda awful, but I am SO fucking excited to get to play VtM this weekend! Incredibly thankful for the wonderful storytellers @laughinglarkgames.bsky.social and @extrilltheking.bsky.social for letting me play the most awful, gross, weird little gremlin enbies 🥰🥰🥰
Salem "Sol" Giovanni, the Hecata necromancer with dark hair that has two strands of bright green that hang down and dresses in dark, grungy clothes, and spends most of their time with ghosts, or reanimated people, or at least parts of them Glory, the Setite (we played Revised for this game) with bright pink hair, and a semi permanent scowl on their face. Glory wears large, gold rimmed, circular glasses, has multiple ear piercings, and dresses in dark or green clothes, usually with some kind of flannel and a choker (our game is set in 1995, gotta embrace the vibe)
January 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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My #TTRPG #2024Recap! It's entirely possible I've missed things on here, but I did my best to keep up with it as I went along and holy fuck I did a LOT this year!
Rayne's 2024 TTRPG recap, there is a headshot of Rayne and their name and pronouns (they/them), and under that is a graph showing that they rank their roleplaying skills as mid, voices as low, organization even lower, but improv is high (because of the chaos). Profile: Rayne is a Queer, Non-Binary Trans nerd who has 25+ years of experience with TTRPGs, writes for Even Footing Games, has started volunteering with the Trans Empowerment Project, has 3+ years of streaming XP, has run the Hammer of the Gods podcast for over 4 years, and has started writing their own games! List of games played: Adventure Skeletons, Alien, Babies & Broadswords, Brindlewood Bay, Call of Cthulhu, Cracker Barrel Has Fallen, Crushes + Cryptids, Cryptid Apothecary, Daggerheart, Distorted Domains, Drags From Mars, D&D, Eat the Reich, GlamSlutButch, Good Soup, Girl By Moonlight, Ikigai, ink, Kids on Bikes, Kids on Brooms, Liminal Horror, Masks: A New Generation, Midnighters, MonsterHearts 2, Monty Python, Mork Borg, Mutant Beach Babies, Orbital Blues, Our Flag Means Kiss, Star Wars (FFG), Substratum Protocol, Together Among the Stars, Trans Vampire Cowboys, Trash Bandits, Vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, You Awaken in a Strange Place Contact info: @hammpod on most socials, hammpod@outlook.com, Rayne.grimme@transempowerment.org, rayne_hammerofthegods on discord List of channels they've appeared on: Role D5, New Age Geeks, ADHaDventures, Even Footing Games, Trans Empowerment Project, Fablemancers, Link's Tome of Adventure, Vaktare, and Help Action Needed Rayney Day Games 2024 recap! The Rayney Day Games logo (a pink skull that appears to be melting, with the name in highly stylized text) is in the top left. Creator skills: A graph shows Rayne's ranking of their own skills as a TTRPG creator with writing being mid, time management being nearly non-existent, and ability to come up with new game ideas being extremely high. Profile: Rayne started writing with Even Footing Games (keep an eye out for the Bathfinder expansion that is nearly finished!) and in 2023 wrote a solo/gmless hack of Babies and Broadswords, then went silent... until late 2024 when the TTRPG Collective kicked their game making into high gear. Games written in 2024: All Dogs Are Good, Beach Baby Mutant Summer, Cats vs Cthulhu, Crushes + Cryptids/2Crush 2Cryptid, HRT Heist, Le Klepto, Liminal Space (Holiday Terror and Election Terror), Midnight InstituteX (Rogue Agent Edition aka the solo version) Contact info: Hammpod@outlook.com Rayne.Grimme@transempowerment.org linktr.ee/hammpod Working on: Bubblegum Nightmare; Crushes + Cryptids expansion; Le Klepto - expanded edition; Fin, Fang, Fear; Midnight InstituteX: The Full Version
January 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Got the same as @oakleafinsignia.games so I guess I'm in good company at least!
Screenshot of the Merriam-Webster random word to describe your 2025, and I got avant-garde.
January 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Starting the new year off with some #VampiretheMasquerade 😈 Join us tonight as we kick off the first session of the #TransylvaniaChronicles with some lovely folks playing monstrous, bloodthirsty Kindred! #VtM #V5 #TwitchActualPlay #Hammpod #HammeroftheGods
Text reads, "Vampire: The Masquerade - Transylvania Chronicles, January 1st, 7pm EST, twitch.tv/hammpod" with headshots or other images to represent the cast.
January 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Trying to accept that I may have to have a slightly different version for print because I don't know that it would be realistic to be able to do print on demand and have black backing/paper and white text. What do y'all think #TTRPGCommunity, do you like the dark background better, or the light one?
Text reads, "Introduction: Tabletop Roleplaying Games should be for everyone - unless you’re a bigot, fascist, or otherwise intolerant of others' existence (read up on the paradox of intolerance before you come at me claiming double standards). Oftentimes shapechangers, Werecreatures, and other monstrous beings are portrayed as exactly that - monsters - inhumane, unrelatable, destructive, and something to be feared. Our protagonists are able to utilize that fear to do good things though, to wield their fearsome powers to help break the stranglehold that those who seek to oppress have on the world. To make them the ones who are afraid. To help make the world more equitable and safe, by whatever means necessary. This game is at its heart a roleplaying game - meaning the players at the table will work together to tell a story through the parts they play, both as protagonists, and storyteller. This is not a game where there is a winner and a loser, the storyteller is not there to try to “beat” you, or at least they shouldn’t be, and the only way to “win” is by having fun and telling stories with your friends." On the second page it reads, "Genre and Tone: Fin, Fang, Fear is designed with horror in mind.. As creatures who live with two different identities and who are likely to be ostracized at best, and hunted and killed at worst, it is likely that this game and the shapechangers within will resonate with Queer folx out there, and as a Queer person myself I know a bit about how that feels. Your table is able to set your own expectations and tone though, if you want to play a more silly game, ala What We Do In The Shadows, but with Werewolves instead of Vampires, do it! If you want to have a more serious and scary game where the horrors of the world are on full display and the players are fighting tooth and nail for survival, do that!" and there is an image below the text of two people standing, holding miniatures. Text reads, "In the course of a game, each player will have the ability to play multiple roles - the storyteller might take on the role of the omniscient narrator giving the details of the scene, they might also at times take on the role of playing a character in the story who helps to advance the plot or otherwise give the protagonists someone to react to in the world (a Non-Player Character, or Storyteller Player Character), or even giving details as if they are describing what a camera operator might see if they were in the world and give the other players information that their characters might not be aware of that helps to set the tone for the game. The other players obviously take on the roles of the protagonists, often speaking as if they are the characters they’re portraying and referring to other people in character, or they may at times want to speak “over the table” meaning that they break character to ask a question about a rule, use a safety tool, or whatever else may come up - either way, both are examples of roles that all players have the opportunity to participate in - and some players may prefer to narrate their character’s actions as if they are an observer and not the character themselves, which is perfectly fine too! What you need to play: -At least two, but preferably between 4-6 players; a storyteller, and 1-5 protagonists -At least two 6-sided dice, if not more -Access to the playbooks and game materials -A way to take notes (be it pen and paper, word doc, or other form of tracking info) -A space that is safe, welcoming, and accom-modating for all players, including the storyteller, your safety is equally important!" and there is an image of two people playing a TTRPG, one who has a prosthetic hook, and the other has crutches.
December 30, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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I've shared some of this already/shared with some of the discord communities I'm in, but goddamn #TTRPGCommunity I am proud as fuck of the work I've done on this game! (Especially seeing how a week ago it was mostly just concept and now I've got a huge chunk of it written)
The front and back covers for an upcoming game with an image of a slavering wolf on one side, and a shark ferociously biting on the other with text that reads, "Fin, Fang, Fear - A Game of Primal Terror, by Rayney Day Games," with the Forged in the Dark logo to indicate that this game uses that system, and further text that reads, "We're always lurking... Always Watching" The table of contents for Fin, Fang, Fear (exceeds character limits for alt text) An image on the left of a skull with a rune laden knife piercing its jaw from below with bandages covering the eye sockets, candles on top of the skull dripping was, and several moons with eerie eye-like flames for the candles, and a variety of smaller details. On the right there is text that reads, "Chronicle Settings: Owls of Mist and Dream - a mystical journey through the surreal. Touchstones: Suspiria (1977), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and Fantastic Planet (1973). Blood in the Water - a tale of hope and environmentalism. Touchstones: Nausicaä (1984), FernGully (1992), and Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006). Knowing the Night - a dark and desperate gothic horror story. Touchstones: The Company of Wolves (1985), The Awakening (2011), and Black Sunday (1960).
December 28, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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If y'all haven't checked out Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, you're seriously missing out! The description of being a show about a teen with superpowers mixed with Chinese Mythology and Texas culture caught my interest, but Ali Wong as Jentry is so good, and Bowen Yang is the cutest little jiāngshī!
Promo for Jentry Chau vs the Underworld with Jentry front and center with fire coming from her hands and various spirits and monsters in the flames, and the supporting cast leaned against lockers in the background.
December 20, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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##TTRPGCommunity Brindlewood Bay is expecting a white Christmas, but they're getting a red one because there has been a murder most foul, and it's up to our Murder Mavens to solve it! With: @theleonamaple.bsky.social @linkstomeec.bsky.social @casperdanbghost.bsky.social @characterswithoutstories.com
Text reads, "Brindlewood Bay, December 19th, 8pm EST, twitch.tv/hammpod" with pictures of the cast on Christmas ornaments.
December 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Come join us for some winter holiday horror in #HuntertheReckoning tonight! Our high tech Hunters are on the prowl, searching for a serial killer in suburban Detroit and things may not be exactly what they appear to be... #WorldofDarkness #TTRPGCommunity
Text reads, "Hunter: The Reckoning, Slay Bells Jinglin', December 14th, 6pm EST, twitch.tv/hammpod" with pictures of the cast, and a faint image of Krampus in the background.
December 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Wow, there sure are a lot of new folx following, so I guess I'll reintroduce myself 😅 I'm Rayne, I'm the Queer, Trans Non-Binary nerd behind the Hammer of the Gods podcast - a TTRPG actual play. I also write TTRPGs, volunteer for @transempowerment.org, and am a mental health professional by day!
December 4, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Another project down!
hammpod.itch.io/liminal-spac...
Concentric circles with faint snowflakes over them and text that reads, "Liminal Space Holiday Horror"
December 1, 2024 at 11:04 PM