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Michael R. Underwood (Mike)
@mikerunderwood.bsky.social
4.2K followers 1.3K following 1.1K posts
They/he. Trans & non-binary Midwest Princex.
Author (Annihilation Aria, Genrenauts, etc). Hugo & Stabby-Award finalist.
Game designer (Daggerheart, Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart, Candela Obscura, etc.)
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Announcing: the Menagerie of Mayhem, a a series of short adversary books for use with the Daggerheart rules, from one of the game's designers and the Lead Designer of the Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart Campaign Guide.

Volume 1 coming to Patrons in December! www.patreon.com/posts/introd...
A fungus person wielding magic. Text reads "Menagerie of Mayhem" and "From one of the designers of Daggerheart - Mike Underwood" Art by Tania Herrero, additional art and cover design by Andrew Bauman.
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This afternoon I'll be reinterpreting some Drakkenheim adversaries into Daggerheart live on-stream at 1pm over on Twitch.tv/turbotango. I hope you'll join me!
Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart Campaign Guide promotional graphic. Against a haunted city background, a mutated humanoid with a distended mouth, protruding bone spikes, and tentacles. Logos for the Dungeon Dudes, Ghostfire Gaming, and Darrington Press. Text at bottom center, in white bold caps: "Making Monsters"
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I'm also proud to share that I'm now a member of the Twitch Tabletop Creator Club! I'm getting a chance to connect with many other video creators in the ttrpg space and especially other folks focused on Daggerheart.
Twitch Creator Club: Tabletop logo. Against a teal background, blue twenty-sided dice with various symbols and numbers on the sides. At center, in Twtich's iconic purple, text reading "Twitch creator clubs" and "tabletop"
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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This afternoon I'll be streaming a walk-through of the Dungeons of Drakkenheim beta campaign frame for Daggerheart and talking a bit about the project in general.

1pm EDT at twitch.tv/turbotango, then at youtube.com/@mikeunderwood tomorrow morning.
Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart Campaign Guide promotional graphic. Against a white border, a black box with cut corners. A robed priest-like figure with a purple sash, tentatles, and mutated face has arms raised as if preaching. At the left, the name of the project, the Daggerheart dagger and magical fire logo, then the logos of the Dungeon Dudes, Ghostfire Gaming, and Darrington Press. Text, in glowing white caps, at bottom: "Campaign Frame Overview"
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Happy Halloween to #Daggerheart fans and @itsnicodegallo.bsky.social specifically:

www.daggerheart.com/thevoid/
Graphic from Darrington Press' The Void for Daggerheart: An elf in red armor, holding a longsword and with blood swirling around their form. Behind them, a Blood Hunter character sheet and subclass cards. At bottom, a purple tab with the text "Download the Blood Hunter 1.5"
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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This afternoon I am continuing my series on designing Adventures for Daggerheart (re-scheduled from last week)! I'll be taking the kernel of an idea and building it out into a rough outline live with chat, talking about developing concepts & story structure.

Twitch.tv/turbotango at 1pm EDT
Promotional graphic for a stream. Against a blue sky background, a long, blonde-haired figure with a staff sits on a horse, looking into the distance at a settlement built around a mountain with flying masses above it. At top-left, the Daggerheart Community Gaming Content alchemy bottle logo. At top right, the number 2 in white. Text: At top center, in glowing gold caps, "Designing Adventures" At bottom center, in glowing blue caps "in Daggerheart"
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I'll be streaming some real prep for a Daggerheart game I run today at 1pm EDT to share how I approach the process of GM prep for the game.

Twitch.tv/turbotango
Promotional graphic for a stream. A background of polyhedral dice in various colors and patterns. Text - in glowing yellow bold caps, "Streaming my actual prep for Daggerheart" In glowing purple caps "Twitch.tv/turbotango" And again in glowing yellow caps "Wed Oct 15 - 1pm EDT"
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This afternoon I'll be streaming with my evolving thoughts about designing an adventure for use with Daggerheart, including a preview of a Witherwild module I am working on to be published down the road.

Twitch.tv/turbotango at 1pm EDT, on YouTube tomorrow morning.
Promotional graphic for a Twitch stream. Image: A giant mutli-armed creature with glowing blue-green lines running around joints and glowing eyes looms over a figure with a staff and a cloak. The Darrington Press Community Gaming License logo (a potion bottle with blue flames) at top left. Text - in golden glowing yellow caps at top center says "How to Design Adventures" Text - in glowing blue caps at bottom center says "For Daggerheart"
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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During the Creature Con panel where I talked about designing adversaries, I created a rough draft of an adversary inspired by the piece "Shrouded Beast" by Tania Herrero, and decided to make an entire group with this theme.

Available for all paid patrons now! www.patreon.com/posts/140292...
"Shrouded Beast", a black and white art piece by Tania Herrero. A skeletal canine creature covered in shadow, with spiky spines along their back.
October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Today at 1pm EDT, I'll be streaming with my tips and tricks for designing and using social adversaries in Daggerheart!

twitch.tv/turbotango
Promotional graphic for a twitch stream. A light-skinned figure with horizontally-pointed ears and flowers in their hair against a mottled white background. The figure wears makeup, has light blond hair, and has flowers in their hair. At the top left, the Darrington Press Daggerheart Community Gaming License logo - an alchemical bottle with blue flame. Text: at top center, in glowing gold caps "How to make and use social adversaries" at bottom center, in glowing blue caps "In Daggerheart"
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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This afternoon I'll be sharing my thoughts about Countdowns in Daggerheart and how to use them to enhance your game!

Watch live today 1pm EDT at twitch.tv/turbotango or in VoD on YouTube tomorrow morning.
Promotional graphic for a stream. A yellow-haired figure with a staff and a blue cloak riding a grey horse. They're looking into the distance at a city built at the base of a mountain with floating sections up in the sky. At the top left, the alchemical bottle of the Daggerheart Community Gaming License. Text at the top middle, in glowing yellow caps: How to Use Countdowns Text at the bottom middle, in blue glowing caps: In Daggerheart
September 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Today at 1pm EDT, I will be streaming my thoughts on and tips for Shared Worldbuilding in Session Zero, especially but only for Daggerheart.

Folks that join live will help me build out a map as an example of some of these ideas!

Twitch.tv/turbotango
Promo graphic. Image: assorted multicolored dice against a snakeskin surface. Text at middle top in yellow glowing caps: Shared Worldbuilding in Session Zero Text at middle bottom in purple glowing caps: Twitch.tv/turbotango Text at bottom in glowing yellow caps: Wed Sep 17 - 1pm EDT
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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At 1pm EDT today I will be streaming my second Sharing Spotlight feature, talking about the very cool Apocalypse Keys rpg by Rae Nedjadi and published by Evil Hat.

Twitch.tv/turbotango
Promo graphic - against a black background, three stage spotlights highlight a logo for the Apocalypse Keys rpg. Text - in white caps at top center "Sharing Spotlight"
September 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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!!!!
Gif from the ABC Family series Middleman. The titular Middleman stands with an open umbrella, then Wendy Watson stands up into frame wearing a snorkle.
September 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This week's stream will discuss using Travel-focused Environments. Overland travel, chases, and more!

Wednesday at 1pm EDT on Twitch.tv/turbotango. VoD available at youtube.com/@mikeunderwood the next day.
Promo graphic for a stream. Background image is a jungle with a waterfall and an overgrown castle. At the top left, the alchemical bottle logo of the Daggerheart Community Gaming License. Text (in glowing gold caps, at top center): Using Travel-Focused Environments. Text (in glowing blue caps, at bottom center): In Daggerheart
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Victory!
Picture of a curved tv showing the Steam deck interface. The game Silksong is downloading, a progress bar showing at the bottom.
September 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I will be streaming my tips for running an unforgettable Daggerheart one-shot in just over an hour (1pm EFT). Join me for the chat at twitch.tv/turbotango!

VoD on YouTube tomorrow morning.
Promo graphic for Twitch stream. Background: a blonde figure with a staff riding a horse, headed across a green plain toward a city with floating rocks above it. In the top left corner, the alchemical bottle logo of the Darrington Press Community Gaming License. Text (at top center, in glowing yellow caps) "How to run an unforgettable one-shot" (Bottom center, in glowing blue caps) "In Daggerheart"
September 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The day of the Hater's Spirit Bomb
A scene from Dragonball Z. Dozens of people at a field, their arms raised and gathering energy for a spirit bomb.
August 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This Wednesday at 1pm EDT, I'll be streaming as I create new Daggerheart-compatible adversaries to use with the Witherwild campaign fame. Mutated wildlife, desperate Wickling renegades, Havenite agents, and more!

Live at twitch.tv/turbotango and then in VoD on youtube.com/@mikeunderwood
Promotional graphic for a stream. A green hooded figure with a spear stands in front of a giant wolf with glowing eyes. Behind them is a ruined cityscape. At the top left, the Community Content logo for the Darrington Press Community Gaming License material. Text - in glowing gold caps at the top center "Let's Make New Witherwild Adversaries" In glowing blue caps at the bottom center - "In Daggerheart"
August 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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It's really happening, Marty. We definitely won't get the rug pulled out from under us again. I'll just sit on this nice bench and consider my badges and everything will be fine.
The knight from Hollow Knight sits on a bench, but they have a red clown nose and a multicolored clown wig.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Tomorrow at 1pm EDT at twitch.tv/turbotango I'm going to share some in-progress Daggerheart-compatible classes I've been working on and talk about how I approach building new classes and subclasses for use with the Daggerheart rules.
Promotional graphic for a twitch.tv/turbotango stream. Background: a masculine white figure with short dark hair wearing european plate armor holds a sword over their shoulder. At the top left, the Daggerheart Community Gaming License content logo - a potion bottle with blue flames. Text - at top center, in glowing gold caps: "Making new classes" at bottom center, in glowing dim blue caps: "For Daggerheart"
August 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Here's a little teaser of a subclass card for The Adept, a class combining Arcana and Bone:
A custom Daggerheart-compatible subclass card for the Adept class. Art shows a figure in a dress with long hair, face shadowed. Three green orbs of light surround them, and they float in a ruined void. Domain symbols at the top in purple in grey showing Arcana and Bone domains. Text: Class label - Adept Subclass name - Boundless Foundation Spellcast Trait: Agility Features Limitless: Once per rest, you may spend 2 Hope to replace your Hope die with a d20 for a single roll. Freedom of Movement: While you have a card *imbued*, you gain advantage on Agility rolls in dangerous situations to move beyond Close distance as part of an action or when moving is your entire action.
August 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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This afternoon I'll be crafting new Daggerheart-compatible adversaries live on stream! Join me as I talk through my process, talk about the guidance included in the Homebrew Kit, and more!

3pm EDT today at twitch.tv/turbotango, YouTube later today/tomorrow.
Promotional graphic for a stream. A green hooded figure with a spear stands in front of a giant wolf with glowing eyes. Behind them is a ruined cityscape. At the top left, the Community Content logo for the Darrington Press Community Gaming License material. Text - in glowing gold caps at the top center "Let's Make New Adversaries" In glowing blue caps at the bottom center - "In Daggerheart"
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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As I settle back in and set engines to Full Steam Ahead, it's extremely fitting that this is the Wild card I got at the GenCon DH showcase:

That's right, We *Are* Just Getting Started. :D
The author holds up a Daggerheart wild card with the title "We're Just Getting Started" against a colorful patterned carpet background.
August 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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GenCon day 3. Let's go!
Mike in an elevator with mirrored walls, wearing a mask, glasses, and red/pink t-shirt and collared shirt and a crossbody messenger bag.
August 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM