T.W.Wombat (aka Jim White)
@twwombat.bsky.social
Editor of #TTRPGs (Comms Open). #Lore24 Loreling. Dime-store philosopher. Childish father. Impromptu planner. Teetotaler. We contain multitudes. #Fellport. Will GM for food. He/they.
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We've got 10 days to go, and about $2500 left to fund! Not a giant amount of money in the grand TTRPG crowdfunding scheme, so I think we can do it!
Help us out! If fellow creators are looking for some cross-promotion or something let me know, I'm finding the limits of my own reach here.
Help us out! If fellow creators are looking for some cross-promotion or something let me know, I'm finding the limits of my own reach here.
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We've got 10 days to go, and about $2500 left to fund! Not a giant amount of money in the grand TTRPG crowdfunding scheme, so I think we can do it!
Help us out! If fellow creators are looking for some cross-promotion or something let me know, I'm finding the limits of my own reach here.
Help us out! If fellow creators are looking for some cross-promotion or something let me know, I'm finding the limits of my own reach here.
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This means that like what should be the same scene of LARPS, Forum Roleplaying, Parlor Games, Murder Mysteries, Escape Rooms, Board Games, etc all don't really have the crossover they realistically should
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This means that like what should be the same scene of LARPS, Forum Roleplaying, Parlor Games, Murder Mysteries, Escape Rooms, Board Games, etc all don't really have the crossover they realistically should
I went to bed an hour early last night and got an hour less sleep.
Apparently math has abandoned logic.
Apparently math has abandoned logic.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I went to bed an hour early last night and got an hour less sleep.
Apparently math has abandoned logic.
Apparently math has abandoned logic.
If you're heading to #PAXU and haven't done Games On Demand, do yourself a favor and go play something cool.
An amazing list of awesome games. Games on Demand has 31 tables this year in rooms 107 & 106. Our games do start every hour, beginning at 10 AM and sitting the last game two hours before the end of show (so either 10 PM or 4 PM on Sunday). We are running 2, 3, 4, & 5 hour games this year.
We'll be in #Booth3701 at #PaxUnplugged2025 this weekend in Philadelphia.
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you're heading to #PAXU and haven't done Games On Demand, do yourself a favor and go play something cool.
We take a journey into an unemployment nightmare in this snippet of cyberpunk fiction where waking up is worse. Not entirely autobiographical, but still therapeutic.
#TTRPGPromptober
#TTRPGPromptober
Dreams/Nightmares (Promptober 2025 #27)
Everlight City He last worked at the job he loved seven months and ten days ago. Fat, dumb, and happy pushing research data around the insti...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We take a journey into an unemployment nightmare in this snippet of cyberpunk fiction where waking up is worse. Not entirely autobiographical, but still therapeutic.
#TTRPGPromptober
#TTRPGPromptober
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@benriggs.bsky.social brings together @johnharper.bsky.social, @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social to talk gaming while we wait for Apocalypse World Burned Over to go live...
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"Games Will Prevail": A conversation with Meguey Baker, Vincent Baker & John Harper- Ep 77
YouTube video by Reading D&D Aloud
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November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
@benriggs.bsky.social brings together @johnharper.bsky.social, @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social to talk gaming while we wait for Apocalypse World Burned Over to go live...
youtu.be/Aoa7ehvou9U?...
youtu.be/Aoa7ehvou9U?...
It is still, in fact, on sale.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It is still, in fact, on sale.
Finally getting back to Promptober. Today, a little fictional transcript of a video showing 1.5 seconds of a stowaway in the Espresso Addiction's cargo hold. 5 to go after this!
#TTRPGPromptober
#TTRPGPromptober
Found Footage (Promptober 2025 #26)
FT Espresso Addiction Text transcript and video analysis of the free trader Espresso Addiction's video log, flagged by Captain Vivek "V" Val...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Finally getting back to Promptober. Today, a little fictional transcript of a video showing 1.5 seconds of a stowaway in the Espresso Addiction's cargo hold. 5 to go after this!
#TTRPGPromptober
#TTRPGPromptober
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Final 9 hours. Twilight Sun is almost at the threshold.
A strange, tragic RPG about what we carry and what we believe.
If it speaks to you, now’s the time. gamefound.com/en/projects/...
A strange, tragic RPG about what we carry and what we believe.
If it speaks to you, now’s the time. gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Twilight Sun by Fibz - Gamefound
The Twilight Sun does not rise or set, it simply is. A mechanical behemoth staring down at creation in place of a long-forgotten God.
Beneath its eerie glow, heritages are constantly tested. Constant...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Final 9 hours. Twilight Sun is almost at the threshold.
A strange, tragic RPG about what we carry and what we believe.
If it speaks to you, now’s the time. gamefound.com/en/projects/...
A strange, tragic RPG about what we carry and what we believe.
If it speaks to you, now’s the time. gamefound.com/en/projects/...
The northern lights are out tonight here in Central MA.
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The northern lights are out tonight here in Central MA.
I needed this today.
Keep making. Keep posting. Keep inspiring people you may never meet.
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Keep making. Keep posting. Keep inspiring people you may never meet.
youtube.com/shorts/vg1yY...
💡Your ideas matter — keep creating ✨
YouTube video by Elizabeth Markevitch
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November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I needed this today.
Keep making. Keep posting. Keep inspiring people you may never meet.
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Keep making. Keep posting. Keep inspiring people you may never meet.
youtube.com/shorts/vg1yY...
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I've set up the pre-launch page for the Bree-YARC core rules. It's not launching until spring 2026, but I wanted to get an early jump on promotion. I'm commissioning a number of short adventures that will create a starter pack to go with it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #osr #ttrpg #dnd
Coming soon: Bree-YARC Core Rules
A careful blend of new and old tabletop role-playing
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've set up the pre-launch page for the Bree-YARC core rules. It's not launching until spring 2026, but I wanted to get an early jump on promotion. I'm commissioning a number of short adventures that will create a starter pack to go with it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #osr #ttrpg #dnd
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Alright, it's time...
This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.
Light on rules, bound to the dark.
100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available!
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.
Light on rules, bound to the dark.
100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available!
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Alright, it's time...
This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.
Light on rules, bound to the dark.
100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available!
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
This is Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.
Light on rules, bound to the dark.
100 playtesters battle tested this game and it's finally available!
farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
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Good morning #ttrpg folks! Thank you for the amazing launch for #AW3rd! Y’all have pushed us so far over the stretch goal for the digital e-zine of additional materials we’re going to have to think about what might come next. It’s a lovely day! Let’s see where this thing can go!
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I had a thought about adding skills to the base Daggerheart system in the shower this morning. I thought I'd jot the idea down before it left my head.
I think that's one hurdle overcome for Daggerstar system development.
#TTRPG
I think that's one hurdle overcome for Daggerstar system development.
#TTRPG
Daggerheart Passive Rolls
NOTE: Stream of consciousness game development log follows. I mentioned this before, but I'm slowly stewing a hack to Daggerheart to give T...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I had a thought about adding skills to the base Daggerheart system in the shower this morning. I thought I'd jot the idea down before it left my head.
I think that's one hurdle overcome for Daggerstar system development.
#TTRPG
I think that's one hurdle overcome for Daggerstar system development.
#TTRPG
CW: American Politics
Just because Americans believe it can't possibly happen here doesn't mean that it's not happening right here right now, in real time.
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Just because Americans believe it can't possibly happen here doesn't mean that it's not happening right here right now, in real time.
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At least 2 historians agree: this is it. We’re in the coup.
YouTube video by Anti-Social Studies
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November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
CW: American Politics
Just because Americans believe it can't possibly happen here doesn't mean that it's not happening right here right now, in real time.
youtube.com/shorts/IpA3l...
Just because Americans believe it can't possibly happen here doesn't mean that it's not happening right here right now, in real time.
youtube.com/shorts/IpA3l...
I finished reading this last week, but this quote sticks in my brain.
"The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.
But there are no adults. We own this mess."
- Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny, page 121.
"The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.
But there are no adults. We own this mess."
- Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny, page 121.
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I finished reading this last week, but this quote sticks in my brain.
"The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.
But there are no adults. We own this mess."
- Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny, page 121.
"The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.
But there are no adults. We own this mess."
- Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny, page 121.
In a cooperative hobby like ours, let us raise each other up, pierce Obscurity's sorcerous mists, and push back the Juggernaut of Indifference.
We talk. We share. We play. We take breaks, but we never stop creating.
#TTRPGs
We talk. We share. We play. We take breaks, but we never stop creating.
#TTRPGs
It would, in many ways, probably be easier if the world actually disliked their stuff. That at least gives something to push against.
But we are all primarily battling obscurity and indifference. They are our competition, not one another.
But we are all primarily battling obscurity and indifference. They are our competition, not one another.
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In a cooperative hobby like ours, let us raise each other up, pierce Obscurity's sorcerous mists, and push back the Juggernaut of Indifference.
We talk. We share. We play. We take breaks, but we never stop creating.
#TTRPGs
We talk. We share. We play. We take breaks, but we never stop creating.
#TTRPGs
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On some level, every RPG design is an argument for how things could be better. Few things motivate design like seeing another game and being inspired by what it could be, but is not.
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On some level, every RPG design is an argument for how things could be better. Few things motivate design like seeing another game and being inspired by what it could be, but is not.
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
So you make this beautiful argument with your soul, and the overwhelming response is *always* to keep playing D&D
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It was a perfect fall day on campus too, which made the experience even better.
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It was a perfect fall day on campus too, which made the experience even better.
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NEW BLOG BANDWAGON
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas
Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas — Prismatic Wasteland
A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you n...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Well. There goes my plans for the rest of the year, probably.
Major surgery in the next few days. Months to recover.
This has not been a great time.
#mutualaid #ttrpg
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Major surgery in the next few days. Months to recover.
This has not been a great time.
#mutualaid #ttrpg
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Become a supporter of Of Gods and Gamemasters today!
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November 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Well. There goes my plans for the rest of the year, probably.
Major surgery in the next few days. Months to recover.
This has not been a great time.
#mutualaid #ttrpg
ko-fi.com/ofgodsandgam...
Major surgery in the next few days. Months to recover.
This has not been a great time.
#mutualaid #ttrpg
ko-fi.com/ofgodsandgam...
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Platform Decay, the eighth entry in the Murderbot Diaries series by @marthawells.com , will arrive on May 5, 2026. 🔥
And if you haven't seen it, the first season of the TV adaptation, available since this summer on AppleTV, is very fresh.
And if you haven't seen it, the first season of the TV adaptation, available since this summer on AppleTV, is very fresh.
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Platform Decay, the eighth entry in the Murderbot Diaries series by @marthawells.com , will arrive on May 5, 2026. 🔥
And if you haven't seen it, the first season of the TV adaptation, available since this summer on AppleTV, is very fresh.
And if you haven't seen it, the first season of the TV adaptation, available since this summer on AppleTV, is very fresh.
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Hey folks, my wife was laid off unexpectedly. We depend on her income with my own.
We are crunching numbers, but it's grim.
Not sure how we'll make it through November, let alone think about December.
You can help here, but we understand everyone is struggling too. <3
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We are crunching numbers, but it's grim.
Not sure how we'll make it through November, let alone think about December.
You can help here, but we understand everyone is struggling too. <3
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Buy gnomedic a Coffee
Become a supporter of gnomedic today!
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October 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey folks, my wife was laid off unexpectedly. We depend on her income with my own.
We are crunching numbers, but it's grim.
Not sure how we'll make it through November, let alone think about December.
You can help here, but we understand everyone is struggling too. <3
ko-fi.com/gnomedic/goa...
We are crunching numbers, but it's grim.
Not sure how we'll make it through November, let alone think about December.
You can help here, but we understand everyone is struggling too. <3
ko-fi.com/gnomedic/goa...
It's 11PM, so time for an 11th hour mea culpa that I'm not going to finish #TTRPGPromptober by Friday. The post turned into a State of the Wombat post, so give it a read if that interests you.
Promptober's On Hold
Current Mental State I have 6 prompts left to go for the month, and 2 days to get them done. I'm knee deep in an editing gig, I'm driving my...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It's 11PM, so time for an 11th hour mea culpa that I'm not going to finish #TTRPGPromptober by Friday. The post turned into a State of the Wombat post, so give it a read if that interests you.