Russell D.
@spce-mnky.bsky.social
Russell GMs TTRPGs that (currently) include Blades in the Dark, Root, and other lesser-played RPGs. The Pendragon RPG from Chaosium is his current primary passion in this space.
I really can't stop gushing over this Pendragon campaign. We started just over a year ago, 26 sessions, 19 years in-game time. PCs are starting to age and children are growing older. I'm feeling a substantial sense of the passage of time. This timeline view is helps put the whole picture together.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I really can't stop gushing over this Pendragon campaign. We started just over a year ago, 26 sessions, 19 years in-game time. PCs are starting to age and children are growing older. I'm feeling a substantial sense of the passage of time. This timeline view is helps put the whole picture together.
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Chaosium's David Larkins says, "For the following three Sundays, I’m on Tickingtimebob Gaming's YouTube channel to participate (as a player!) in a special #Pendragon livestream for charity. I’ll be playing a hulking Irish monk, so honestly not much different from real life..."
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October 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Chaosium's David Larkins says, "For the following three Sundays, I’m on Tickingtimebob Gaming's YouTube channel to participate (as a player!) in a special #Pendragon livestream for charity. I’ll be playing a hulking Irish monk, so honestly not much different from real life..."
Our #Chaosium #PendragonRPG campaign board continues to grow. On to session #21 this evening!
October 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Our #Chaosium #PendragonRPG campaign board continues to grow. On to session #21 this evening!
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Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Coming soon: Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
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August 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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In the heart of Logres, an enchanted wood festers and grows.
Many who venture beneath its nighted boughs are never heard from again...
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is a collection of scenarios for roleplaying in King Arthur's Britain!
Many who venture beneath its nighted boughs are never heard from again...
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is a collection of scenarios for roleplaying in King Arthur's Britain!
August 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In the heart of Logres, an enchanted wood festers and grows.
Many who venture beneath its nighted boughs are never heard from again...
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is a collection of scenarios for roleplaying in King Arthur's Britain!
Many who venture beneath its nighted boughs are never heard from again...
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is a collection of scenarios for roleplaying in King Arthur's Britain!
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A map produced for the new 6th edition of Greg Stafford's Pendragon roleplaying game has been nominated for Best Cartography in the 2025 #ENNIES Awards. All up Chaosium creators have received nine nominations across six categories in this year's awards.
ENNIES 2025 Spotlight – our Pendragon Map is nominated for Best Cartography
A map produced for the new 6th edition of Greg Stafford's Pendragon roleplaying game has been nominated for Best Cartography in the 2025 ENNIES Awards. All up Chaosium creators have received nine nomi...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A map produced for the new 6th edition of Greg Stafford's Pendragon roleplaying game has been nominated for Best Cartography in the 2025 #ENNIES Awards. All up Chaosium creators have received nine nominations across six categories in this year's awards.
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June 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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We're counting down the minutes for Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts!
Reserve your print copy and download the full text of the book as soon as you back.
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Reserve your print copy and download the full text of the book as soon as you back.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
June 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We're counting down the minutes for Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts!
Reserve your print copy and download the full text of the book as soon as you back.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Reserve your print copy and download the full text of the book as soon as you back.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Learning #AGON as GM and new players. Who will be best? We get to find out in the comfort of Gamers Guild North Phoenix restaurant. @gamersguildaz.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Learning #AGON as GM and new players. Who will be best? We get to find out in the comfort of Gamers Guild North Phoenix restaurant. @gamersguildaz.bsky.social
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From our friends Pine Box Entertainment will soon come an officially licensed self-contained knightly card game set in the chivalrous world of Pendragon.
Coming soon to Kickstarter – sign up to be notified on launch!
Coming soon to Kickstarter – sign up to be notified on launch!
Coming soon: Pendragon Glory of the Round Table
a knightly Tabletop Game set in the chivalrous world of Greg Stafford's Pendragon role-playing game.
www.kickstarter.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
From our friends Pine Box Entertainment will soon come an officially licensed self-contained knightly card game set in the chivalrous world of Pendragon.
Coming soon to Kickstarter – sign up to be notified on launch!
Coming soon to Kickstarter – sign up to be notified on launch!
My #DeathmatchIsland playlist
Everybody's Gotta Live (Love)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Beatles)
The Distance (Cake)
Enjoy the Ride (Morcheeba)
Sheep Go to Heaven (Cake)
We Live and Die (Morcheeba)
Who Can You Trust (Morcheeba)
The Sea (Morcheeba)
I Need Some Sleep (Eels)
Your Lucky Day in Hell (Eels)
Everybody's Gotta Live (Love)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Beatles)
The Distance (Cake)
Enjoy the Ride (Morcheeba)
Sheep Go to Heaven (Cake)
We Live and Die (Morcheeba)
Who Can You Trust (Morcheeba)
The Sea (Morcheeba)
I Need Some Sleep (Eels)
Your Lucky Day in Hell (Eels)
March 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My #DeathmatchIsland playlist
Everybody's Gotta Live (Love)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Beatles)
The Distance (Cake)
Enjoy the Ride (Morcheeba)
Sheep Go to Heaven (Cake)
We Live and Die (Morcheeba)
Who Can You Trust (Morcheeba)
The Sea (Morcheeba)
I Need Some Sleep (Eels)
Your Lucky Day in Hell (Eels)
Everybody's Gotta Live (Love)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Beatles)
The Distance (Cake)
Enjoy the Ride (Morcheeba)
Sheep Go to Heaven (Cake)
We Live and Die (Morcheeba)
Who Can You Trust (Morcheeba)
The Sea (Morcheeba)
I Need Some Sleep (Eels)
Your Lucky Day in Hell (Eels)
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Role-playing games are scavenger media, in which available materials -- whatever's at hand: stuff you've read, stuff you've experienced, stuff you're anxious about, stuff you wish would happen -- are then transformed into an emergent narrative via active engagement by one or more players.
March 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Role-playing games are scavenger media, in which available materials -- whatever's at hand: stuff you've read, stuff you've experienced, stuff you're anxious about, stuff you wish would happen -- are then transformed into an emergent narrative via active engagement by one or more players.
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Play to Find Out, the Quinns Quest Actual Play show, is now LIVE!
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5hteYTS...
Pocket Casts: pca.st/g3lsknpc
Castbox: castbox.fm/vh/6532883
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g8H...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5hteYTS...
Pocket Casts: pca.st/g3lsknpc
Castbox: castbox.fm/vh/6532883
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g8H...
Play to Find Out
Games Podcast · Series · Play to Find Out is an actual play podcast that brings notorious old games from the 80s and 90s back to the table.
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March 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Play to Find Out, the Quinns Quest Actual Play show, is now LIVE!
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5hteYTS...
Pocket Casts: pca.st/g3lsknpc
Castbox: castbox.fm/vh/6532883
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g8H...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5hteYTS...
Pocket Casts: pca.st/g3lsknpc
Castbox: castbox.fm/vh/6532883
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g8H...
The Pendragon Gamemaster's Handbook dropped today (PDF only, book coming soon) and it included a set of cards in PDF for the feast mechanic. I already have ours printed up and ready for the big feast in the Grey Knight. Report coming Sunday on how it goes! @chaosium.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The Pendragon Gamemaster's Handbook dropped today (PDF only, book coming soon) and it included a set of cards in PDF for the feast mechanic. I already have ours printed up and ready for the big feast in the Grey Knight. Report coming Sunday on how it goes! @chaosium.bsky.social
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Here's the full wrap-around of the cover of the Pendragon GM's Handbook, one of a set I did for the new edition of what is in my opinion one of the greatest RPGs ever written. It shows Lancelot receiving his shield from Viviane, Lady of the Lake (underneath the surface of the lake, no less!).
March 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Here's the full wrap-around of the cover of the Pendragon GM's Handbook, one of a set I did for the new edition of what is in my opinion one of the greatest RPGs ever written. It shows Lancelot receiving his shield from Viviane, Lady of the Lake (underneath the surface of the lake, no less!).
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Assemble, knights of Arthur!
Due to global shipping delays, The Pendragon: Gamemaster's Handbook will not be available next week.
Instead, for the first time you will be able to preorder the book at chaosium.com from March 26th!
Due to global shipping delays, The Pendragon: Gamemaster's Handbook will not be available next week.
Instead, for the first time you will be able to preorder the book at chaosium.com from March 26th!
March 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Assemble, knights of Arthur!
Due to global shipping delays, The Pendragon: Gamemaster's Handbook will not be available next week.
Instead, for the first time you will be able to preorder the book at chaosium.com from March 26th!
Due to global shipping delays, The Pendragon: Gamemaster's Handbook will not be available next week.
Instead, for the first time you will be able to preorder the book at chaosium.com from March 26th!
I created and printed these cards somewhere around 2010 and never got to use them. Just recently rediscovered and sleeved, I'm feeling like it's time to break out Three Sixteen: Carnage Amongst the Stars again. Who's in the Phoenix area and up for some anti-war space marine roleplaying?
March 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I created and printed these cards somewhere around 2010 and never got to use them. Just recently rediscovered and sleeved, I'm feeling like it's time to break out Three Sixteen: Carnage Amongst the Stars again. Who's in the Phoenix area and up for some anti-war space marine roleplaying?
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Ready the horses and prepare your swords! The Pendragon: Gamemaster Handbook releases on March 26th!
March 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ready the horses and prepare your swords! The Pendragon: Gamemaster Handbook releases on March 26th!
Today the club rallied against the undead as The Legion in @evilhat.bsky.social's #BandofBlades. Raise the Tantari banner as we flee East towards Sky dagger Keep! Half of our group is recent explorers from D&D and everyone is having a grand time
March 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Today the club rallied against the undead as The Legion in @evilhat.bsky.social's #BandofBlades. Raise the Tantari banner as we flee East towards Sky dagger Keep! Half of our group is recent explorers from D&D and everyone is having a grand time
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"What are you trying to do?" is *so* important.
Also: I see pointless, zero-stakes rolls in APs all the time. Roll with intention and an obvious *downside*. Makes every game better.
Also: I see pointless, zero-stakes rolls in APs all the time. Roll with intention and an obvious *downside*. Makes every game better.
100%
I'll add that declaring your character's intended result of that action is equally important. If the GM knows what the player is hoping to accomplish, it's far more probable to happen and also not cause confusion of intent.
I'll add that declaring your character's intended result of that action is equally important. If the GM knows what the player is hoping to accomplish, it's far more probable to happen and also not cause confusion of intent.
D&D Tip: Declare your character's actions, not the mechanics.
March 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"What are you trying to do?" is *so* important.
Also: I see pointless, zero-stakes rolls in APs all the time. Roll with intention and an obvious *downside*. Makes every game better.
Also: I see pointless, zero-stakes rolls in APs all the time. Roll with intention and an obvious *downside*. Makes every game better.
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"Your players will throw wrenches into your plans, and Deathmatch Island gives them that power. Embrace it."
Nice set of tips for Deathmatch Island here from @shenuque.bsky.social
Nice set of tips for Deathmatch Island here from @shenuque.bsky.social
In this issue of The Many Sided Newsletter...
@shenuque.bsky.social shares his GM tips for running Deathmatch Island by @olddog.games from @evilhat.bsky.social
manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/gm-tips-fo...
@shenuque.bsky.social shares his GM tips for running Deathmatch Island by @olddog.games from @evilhat.bsky.social
manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/gm-tips-fo...
GM Tips for Deathmatch Island
Let chaos reign!
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March 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Your players will throw wrenches into your plans, and Deathmatch Island gives them that power. Embrace it."
Nice set of tips for Deathmatch Island here from @shenuque.bsky.social
Nice set of tips for Deathmatch Island here from @shenuque.bsky.social
Today's table for #Pendragon 6E. Our newest prop, a 60-inch tall print of the *amazing* map of mythical Britain by the talented
@francescabaerald.bsky.social
. We saw the Questing Beast, an angry King Pellinore, a relieved Nineve, and the tail end of the wedding of Arthur and Guenevere.
@francescabaerald.bsky.social
. We saw the Questing Beast, an angry King Pellinore, a relieved Nineve, and the tail end of the wedding of Arthur and Guenevere.
March 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Today's table for #Pendragon 6E. Our newest prop, a 60-inch tall print of the *amazing* map of mythical Britain by the talented
@francescabaerald.bsky.social
. We saw the Questing Beast, an angry King Pellinore, a relieved Nineve, and the tail end of the wedding of Arthur and Guenevere.
@francescabaerald.bsky.social
. We saw the Questing Beast, an angry King Pellinore, a relieved Nineve, and the tail end of the wedding of Arthur and Guenevere.
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Our Pendragon: Gamemaster's Handbook AMA is coming soon!
Submit your burning questions here!
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Submit your burning questions here!
buff.ly/4h4Akgd
February 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Our Pendragon: Gamemaster's Handbook AMA is coming soon!
Submit your burning questions here!
buff.ly/4h4Akgd
Submit your burning questions here!
buff.ly/4h4Akgd
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Join us In Dreaming Avalon?
February 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Join us In Dreaming Avalon?
I have two of players playing Pagan knights in our #Pendragon 6E campaign. What are some good sources of information about Arthurian Paganism to share with the them? I've pulled excerpts from Pendragon 5.2 and Knights Adventurous. Looking for within the TTRPG, RPGs in general, and other sources!
February 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I have two of players playing Pagan knights in our #Pendragon 6E campaign. What are some good sources of information about Arthurian Paganism to share with the them? I've pulled excerpts from Pendragon 5.2 and Knights Adventurous. Looking for within the TTRPG, RPGs in general, and other sources!