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Karl He/Him
@kiwikarl.bsky.social
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I like, ufos, cryptids, unexplained phenomenon, stories of strange encounters, Daggerheart, D&D, fantasy, video games, meditation, remote viewing and whatever is shiny.
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xitter-refugee.bsky.social
There is only the Now. 🙏🏽
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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darrencullen.bsky.social
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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tyrafiresong.bsky.social
This is all looking so good. I can't wait to finish and published.
Art done by @akklonia.bsky.social
#daggerheart #wip #noAi #supportrealartists
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Anyone interested in making the trip to Cadaver Cove is more then welcome to drive.google.com/drive/folder...

#daggerheart #ttrpg
Cadaver Cove - Google Drive
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October 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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dodoborne.com
There it is, again, that (familiar) feeling.

A brand new episode of DodoBorne: A Daggerheart Actual Play Podcast is available now on Dodoborne.com, or wherever you get your podcasts!
#Daggerheart #ttrpg #actualplay
2.8 A Familiar Feeling
 We're back in the mansion! Our heroes were clearly unprepared for high...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Breaking into a store, then morgue stealing a corpse, cart and uncooperative horse for a hell ride out of town. Classic wolves in the woods followed by some light mountain climbing, avalanche avoidance and victoriously riding eagle corpses down the mountain to Cadaver cove.

#daggerheart #ttrpg
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Full table for tomorrows one shot Cadaver Cove, where the PCs are reanimated who's necromancer has been killed by adventurers. They need to escape and find there way to the premium destination for those enjoying their unlife.

#ttrpg #daggerheart
October 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
🏁🐡🚁🐡🚁🏁🐡🚁🏁🐡🚁🏁 Huffle SZN is in full swing! Where do all these checkered pufferfish go in Autumn? What are they up to?? #checkeredpuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #huffle #huffleofpuffers #school #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Byeee!! @xbox.com #gamepass #cancelgamepass

$34 plus tax is not value for how much I play on Gamepass, over the last 6-7 years game pass has been good value, not any more.
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Finished the Kabanri of the Iron Fortress 4 session arc tonight, PCs clearing the research facility. Ufo took the Katari to Jupiter to do orange cat things. The scientist made more half infected, the warlock recruited more to their growing cult.

Good times
October 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Lol promoted song was a track about an artist leaving the platform.
Spotify recommendation of a new song by Tiki Taane called "Bye bye spotify" about how he is leaving the platform.
September 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
Writing a GM section is hard.

So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go
WHAT DOES BEING A GAMESMASTER INVOLVE? As Gamesmaster, you’ll have a lot of different roles to play. Here are some of them in no particular order; you’ll adopt all, some, more, or none of these during every single session. You don’t have to be all of these things all at once, nor do you have to do all of them yourself - when you’re starting out, as long as players are getting the chance to roll dice and mess around they’ll probably still have fun. As you play more, you’ll find which ones you enjoy and which ones you don’t, and you’ll find your style. FUN ADMINISTRATOR If it wasn’t for you, this game would never happen. You arranged a time and date. You reserved the back room in the pub to play. You helped everyone make their characters. You’re the first person they talk to if they can’t make it to a game, and you’re the final judge as to whether a session goes ahead as planned or must be rescheduled. You’re taking responsibility for all the background details that let the foreground details - the game - work. PETTY GOD This is your world. We just described it in loose terms - it’s coming out of your mouth, and you’re making all the decisions. You can adjust numerical values up and down as you wish. You can wipe cities, countries, concepts off the map entirely if you don’t like them. You alone determine whether things are possible or impossible, and you can dictate how dangerous a given task is with ease. Nothing happens unless you want it to. The player characters are scrubbing about in this world of yours, and you graciously let them do so, because they’re having fun. And so are you; you call the shots, you set the boundaries, you show them the fantastic world you’ve dreamed into being. ORACLE You are the sole focus of interaction that the players have with the game. In one direction, you are the source of all information about the fiction at the table: so if they want to know what colour a non-player character’s eyes are, they have to ask you and you’re beholden to tell them, or tell them how their characters could find out. In the other direction, you are the fuzzy authority that stands between every player and us, the designers of the game, and therefore the interpreter of the rules. All fictional and mechanical action goes through you. A CAST OF THOUSANDS You are everyone else in the world that isn’t a player character. You invent and then adopt their mannerisms, you spin together obvious motivations and secret desires, and you flip between your charges with ease. Sure: many of their voices might sound … TOUR GUIDE We’ve written a guidebook for a world that doesn’t exist, and you’re the tour guide who’s leading slack-jawed holidaymakers around that world. You know everything there is to know about the game world - and if you don’t know, you can make it up, and that’s just as good. You’re relentlessly enthusiastic, you give evocative descriptions, and you clue the players into what’s interesting or important - and you know all the best places to take them, too, so they’ll experience the world as best they can. WET COMPUTER At the core of every roleplaying game is a set of rules that power the experience, and you are the fallible, non-silicate computer on which these rules run. You know the rules, you enforce them (or ignore them, as you see fit), and you remind players of how best to interact with them. Players might use some bits themselves - rolling to hit, for example, or keeping track of their character’s health - but you’re the ultimate authority on what rule to use when. CON ARTIST Players? Bunch of feckless rubes. Look at them, wide-eyed and open-mouthed: they think this is a living, breathing world. They think that you’ve got this all written down, like some kind of Tolkien; they couldn’t be more wrong. You’re just making it up on the fly. There’s nothing behind the curtain, no master plan, no wheels within wheels: just you, regurgitating some half-remembered details about Bloodborne and talking about bones breaking a lot because that makes them wince. They’ll buy anything you sell ‘em. WORKSHOP LEADER You don’t have all the answers, but you know where to find them: inside the players’ heads. You ask them questions like “Who are we meeting here?” “What’s the most dangerous thing that awaits you on your journey?” “Which one of you does this guy hate the most?” and then you listen to the answers and incorporate them into the story. You love it - it saves work, saves time, and means that the players are more involved and engaged than ever. Involved and enga… DRUMMER The drummer sets the pace. In a band, they dictate the song’s tempo. In a regiment, they dictate the marching speed. (In a marching band they do both, presumably.) You’re in charge of saying when things begin and end, how long a scene takes to play out, how long a non-player character waffles on about their problems, how descriptive an average description is, and so on. You can cut away from situations and cut back later, you can put the pressure on players to make a decision, or you can leave them to chat to one another unobstructed as the hours roll by. ABSOLUTE BASTARD You’re going to kill them. You’ve trapped them in your lair. They dared to step up and try to defeat your monsters, overthrow your villains, and now they’re on the back foot. Smash them to fucking bits. Throw ‘em through a window, rip off arms and legs, take grim pleasure when their luck turns against them. No-one gets anywhere by being nice all the time - and the players don’t want you to be nice all the time. They want their characters to get beaten up, humiliated, murdered, hung-drawn-and-quartered. You know that this is a masochistic endeavour and you are happy to indulge them. TORTURED ARTIST You always wanted to be creative, and this is your outlet. You’ve spun a world of torment and tragedy (or light-hearted slapstick, depending on the game) for your players to explore - or crafted a complex story within someone else’s, full of betrayals and comeuppances and juicy details. You’ve taken the time to make something clever and you can’t wait for your friends to admire it; what matters most is getting the artistic intent of your world across to the players so they can react appropriately. OBSESSIVE FAN Oh my god. You love the player characters so much. Like your favourite character in your favourite TV show, you’re fascinated to see what they’ll do next - and you can probably take a good guess at what it’ll be, because you know them so well. You get a bit sad when bad things happen to…
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
A question for the #Daggerheart and #ttrpg community.

What your stance on rolls the player cannot make?

For example I have my players meeting a crime boss, this will be akin to a bounty hunter walking up to Al Capone, they have zero chance of persuading him to do anything.

Does this feel okay?
September 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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dodoborne.com
Our theme song turns 1 today! 🥳🎂

To celebrate, we made a Dodoborne theme lyric video featuring YOUR amazing fanart!

Thank you to everyone who listened and felt inspired to create something for us. It’s meant so much. 🦤💜
#dodoborne #daggerheart #ttrpg #actualplay #podcast #fanart
Dodoborne: A Daggerheart Actual Play Theme Song Lyric Video
YouTube video by DodoBorne: A Daggerheart Actual Play Podcast
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September 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
In tonight #Daggerheart session.

Players get more used to the narrative way of going things then the mechanical way of doing things.

Sneak into a town to collect parts, avoid my stealthy sneaky guys, get to the maguffin draw away the infected and rolled a 25 group agility roll and speed away.
September 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Ditching a 985 day streak on @duolingoverde.bsky.social because the AI screws up basic grammer, make voices that are incomprehensible, makes questions that it's impossible to get the correct answer because the words aren't there to select.

Icon, a crying, morbidly depressed owl, no-one wants that.
September 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Interested in what my players face off against in #Daggerheart ?

Some are reskinned core book mobs others are a little more customised.

Feedback welcome!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Adversaries
Adversaries from Steel Road arc these are themed around infected and biological mutations. Not Deer “Cleverly disguised as animals these infected prowl the woods feeding on those who are looking to e...
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September 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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joymakesmonsters.bsky.social
We're really close to adding ANOTHER 5 locations!

There's already a mix of more than 50 locations and adversaries for #Daggerheart players and gm's - if we hit our next stretch goal, I'll display an all new piece of art!

#ttrpg #kickstarter @kickstarter.com
Wondrous Environments
Discover extraordinary landscapes & fantastical regions from across the planes. 50+ Daggerheart Compatible Environments and Adversaries
www.kickstarter.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
@caldy.bsky.social
Killer so of Dungeon Court
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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spenserstarke.bsky.social
Wooo!! Heist was designed by the incredible @nerdypapergames.bsky.social! Hope you have a great time with it 🙌
September 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
Tonights #Daggerheart session which was suppose to be a simple break in swap some documments and leave. Was sidetracked when they decided to investigate some other people scoping the same building.

They tried to get the law to deal with it but the young officer tried to arrest the criminal himself
September 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
So Darrington Press releases new environments and adversaries the morning of the day my tier 2 party is about to break into a building as part of a heist!

Thank you to @therowanhall.bsky.social and @spenserstarke.bsky.social you get day one playtesting on the heist environment!
September 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
kiwikarl.bsky.social
By the 9 today's a good day, listening to Dodoborne 🦤 while prepping for tonight's session.
dodoborne.com DodoBorne 🦤🗡️❤️ @dodoborne.com · Sep 9
Thank the 9 Gods! It's finally Dodo Day! 🦤🤘

A brand new episode of DodoBorne: A Daggerheart Actual Play Podcast is available now on Dodoborne.com or wherever you get your podcasts!
#Daggerheart #ttrpg #actualplay
2.6 Aftermidnight Delight
The second character to say the word Dodoborne! Clearly Father Charles...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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thewelshdm.bsky.social
The Wondrous Environments Kickstarter is live! 🌄

Are you ready to venture into the exciting, fantastical unknown?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
Wondrous Environments
Discover extraordinary landscapes & fantastical regions from across the planes. 50+ Daggerheart Compatible Environments and Adversaries
www.kickstarter.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM