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📌Wanted: Folks to chat with for newsletter article. Does playing #ttrpg during the cold, dark wintertime help you?

DM or email kj [at] watchwellgames [dot] com if you’d like to share a positive story of how playing tabletop RPGs help folks like you (and me!) get through this season. Thanks! 😊
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Looking for timeless system-agnostic adventures to run for your players?

We've just released our first #ttrpg adventure-filled zine, The Quintessential Curios!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

We’re offering a special introductory 40% discount valid now until 10 pm CST Sun., Dec. 7th.
I promotional image featuring the front cover of a zine called The Quintessential Curios #1 - a Watch Well Games creators coalition zine. A mockup of a book with the pages open to the start of an adventure called The Megaliths of London by Warren Davidson is featured. A few highlights listed about the zine: -Multiple DTRPG bestselling contributors -200+ pages - Six system-agnostic adventures - Custom maps and bespoke artwork - Easy navigation includes hyperlinks and bookmarks for your comfort - Ample margins for note-taking - A5 size
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Sharing our space for #SelfPromoSaturday time for all #ttrpg - whether #indierpg or small publishers 💖

Mingle with others & celebrate our hobby🎲

🎊 Show us art, writing, previews, or something else
🚀 Boost projects you're excited about and/or supporting
✅ SFW only
🙅‍♀️ NO AI/NFT/Crypto
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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FINAL sneak peek! 👀 Schlau of Light in Darkness Gaming created this trippy map for @dusky-creative.bsky.social's system-agnostic adventure "The Black Bell" - one of six featured in The Quintessential Curios, a Watch Well Games creators coalition #ttrpg zine coming MONDAY!
Text read: FINAL sneak peek! Cartography by Light in Darkness Gaming. The Quintessential Curios: #1 A Watch Well Games creators coalition zine. Coming Monday, November 24th! A map of an underground area below a castle. The halls twist and turn in various directions. Some paths lead to dead ends. Others lead to key locations for the adventure.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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🗺️ Sneak peek #10 🗺️ What lurks about in the halls of a great museum? Find out when you play @randomflashbang.bsky.social's adventure. He wrote, illustrated & created maps for this scenario, one that'll be exclusively featured in The Quintessential Curios, our *very* soon-to-be-released #ttrpg zine.
Text reads: "Sneak peek from 'DROP-IN LOCATION #01 - A Regional Museum' by Joe Fox. Coming VERY soon!" Image is of an black and white illustration for a map. The top-down view shows the layout to the upper floor of a national history museum.
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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🗺️ Sneak peek #9 🗺️ Cartography here by @zelliotthatton.bsky.social for his adventure "Battle for the Chronoscape" - one of six system-agnostic adventures selected to be featured in The Quintessential Curios, our *very* soon-to-be-released #ttrpg zine.
Text reads: "Sneak peek from 'Battle for the Chronoscape' by Zachary Elliott-Hatton. Coming VERY soon!" Image of a town map with small icons laid out in isometric format. This black and white line art map is from our upcoming indie tabletop RPG The Quintessential Curios.
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Chatting with my good buddy and fellow reviewer at Watch Well Games @wazza70.bsky.social on a special newsletter segment. We'd like to hear from YOU: What non-D&D #ttRPGs from ye olden days would you like us to retro-review?

We've got a list started. Help us add to it 🤠
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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🌠 Sharing our space for #selfpromoSaturday: human-made #indie #ttrpg creators welcome here 🌠
Text reads: "#selfpromoSaturday Show us what you got, indie tabletop RPG creators! Whether it's still in beta/playtest, freshly dropped, or a classic, we're sharing space here to celebrate human-made games."
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🕵️‍♀️ Today's curious question. Let us know how you play as a character in your favorite #ttrpg.
Text reads: "Curious question: Do you bring real life parts of who you are into the tabletop RPG characters you play? Or do you use RPGs as a way to explore what you can't/don't do IRL? For me, I've a character who's great at gardening, something I still haven't figured out IRL." A green background with a hedgehog for a watermark. In the upper left corner, the red, purple, and green Montgomery clan tartan. In the bottom right corner, a set of seven polyhedral dice.
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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⚔️ Sneak peek #8 ⚔️ System-agnostic adventure "Battle for the Chronoscape" from our creators coalition, writer & artist @zelliotthatton.bsky.social, will be featured in our upcoming indie #ttrpg zine The Quintessential Curios. All in good time (as in next month!)🕰️
Text reads "Special sneak peak from 'Battle for the Chronoscape' by Zachary Elliott-Hatton. 'I will bring the Mechanomancer's Castle to you,' he states, offering very little explanation of exactly what moving an entire castle entails. 'You may be familiar with the ruins. What's less well known is how they came to be. They are the remains of a town that does not yet exist. As a time-traveller myself, I cannot set foot inside without... consequences. But I will take you as far as I am able.' Coming soon! A Watch Well Games creators coalition zine."
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Original artwork by yours truly. Cheers.
Hand-drawn art of a well-fed vulture sitting atop a broken obelisk. Around the fallen statue are broken off fragments remains of the monument and discreetly placed bones. Sparse bits of tall, thin weeds have grown up around the area.
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Janky art by yours truly. Cheers.
Hand-drawn artwork of a mountain range, with sharp tops. In the foreground, a ground dotted with nail-like grass and sharp rocks. Thin, sparse trees sway about nearby.
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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💫 Sneak peek #7 💫 writer @dusky-creative.bsky.social, artist @zelliotthatton.bsky.social & cartographer Schlau (patreon.com/LiDGaming) bring an exciting time-shifting adventure with this dandy (read: terrible) eyeball just...staring at you in our upcoming indie #ttrpg zine. Keep an eye out for it 😉
Text reads: Special sneak peek from 'The Black Bell' by CJ Weigel. 'An armored figure leans heavily against the altar, clutching their side as if in pain and staring into the Catacombs. They only have time for a couple of short breaths before something reaches out from the water and drags them into the depths. Your vision of the entity is blurred, and you can only see one terrible violet eye, staring directly at you as it retreats into the water.' Coming soon! A Watch Well Games creators coalition zine." The front cover of the zine is black, with a miserable-looking skeleton sitting in a slouchy posture, chin in hand, as he sulks. At his feet are a variety of life-ending elixirs and potions and a book.
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Questions for the #ttrpg community. We're curious to know your answer(s). Name the #ttrpgs sitting on your shelves waiting to be finally played (or enjoyed once again!). Perhaps we have some of them on our lists too.
Text reads: "What tabletop RPGs are on your shelf waiting to be played? What's keeping you from playing them?" Visuals are as follows. Top left corner: the Montgomery clan tartan. Bottom right corner: A set of seven polyhedral dice. The background is a soft green with the outline of a hedgehog facing forward.
October 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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🪨 Sneak peek #6 🪨 writer @wazza70.bsky.social and cartographer Schlau (www.patreon.com/LiDGaming) bring an action-packed system-agnostic adventure involving Stonehenge in our upcoming indie #ttrpg zine The Quintessential Curios. Lucky you will get this map and loads more when you pick up your copy.
A top-down view of Stonehenge with all stones in order and neatly arranged to make a completed circle with a pattern of additional stones placed in its center.
October 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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😱 Sneak peek #5 😱 Why is the planet barren? What is this black mist? How does the small green dot hold back the mist? What will happen to the SS Odysseus crew? Oh writer @johnthehedge.bsky.social you fill us with many questions! Thankfully, The Quintessential Curios is coming soon. #ttrpg
A black and white line art drawing of an older male wearing a fisherman's hat and a collared, button-up shirt. His face is gaunt with wrinkles around his pointed nose and chin His black, piercing eyes look off into the distance, as he is posed at a three-quarters view facing the left.
October 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A "would you rather" styled question we're curious to know how you'd all answer. Bonus points if you give examples of #ttRPGs so we can check them out.
Main text says, Which would you rather play and why? a diceless tabletop RPG or a GMless tabletop RPG. In the upper left corner, the red, green, and purple tartan for Montgomery clan. In the bottom right corner, a set of seven polyhedral dice. In the backdrop, the faint image of a hedgehog.
September 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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While we're 🤠giddy🤠 over here about our upcoming indie #ttrpg zine w/adventures, art & maps by @zelliotthatton.bsky.social @wazza70.bsky.social @dusky-creative.bsky.social @randomflashbang.bsky.social @johnthehedge.bsky.social & others - we wanna hear from YOU #selfpromosaturday!

🚫No AI |✔️SFW only
A meme where in the first panel an excited customer talks at great length about their upcoming indie tabletop roleplaying game zine. In the second panel, an employee at a popular fast-food chain flatly replies, "Sir, this is a Wendy's."
September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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😲 Sneak peek #4 😲 What’s this - a choose-your-own-adventure?! Why yes it is! Enjoy all its possibilities when you grab up our zine, The Quintessential Curios, coming soon. “Time Knight” was written by our faithful game reviewer @wazza70.bsky.social & Kublai Kohen. Art by @zelliotthatton.bsky.social.
A young lad and soon-to-be king names Arthur struggles to pull a large two-edge sword from a massive stone.
September 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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🤫 Sneak peek #3 🤫 Our indie #ttrpg zine, The Quintessential Curios, is packed with system-agnostic adventures awaiting your perusal. One you'll discover is "The Chronoscape" by the multi-talented @zelliotthatton.bsky.social. Our founder K.J. awarded the adventure "most tasty title." Nom nom nom🏅
A castle sits on a hilltop in the backdrop of a cloaked figure with a spear and a shield posed ready to fight a skeleton warrior armed with a loaded crossbow.
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Howdy #selfpromosaturday! What are you working on?

🎲Show us your #ttrpg & #indiegames projects! 💪Boost your fellow creators! (🚫No AI)

❤️Like | 🔄Retweet | 💬Interact
September 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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👁️ Sneak peek #2 👁️ "Drop-In Location - A Regional Museum" with @randomflashbang.bsky.social doing all the writing, art, and maps himself. Grab a pamphlet and take a tour! The Quintessential Curios - an indie-created #ttrpg zine - will be here soon.
A bird's eye view of a floor of a museum, featuring a statue, a reception desk, many skeletal displays of various creatures, and shelves of ancient relics behind glass. A winding staircase in the corner of the room leads to a floor above and a floor below.
September 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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✨ Sneak peek time ✨ "The Black Bell" by @dusky-creative.bsky.social with maps by Schalu of LiD Gaming (www.patreon.com/c/lidgaming/...) will be featured in our upcoming #ttrpg zine The Quintessential Curios.
A white tower stands tall. Within its walls, a spiraling staircase leads upward to a black bell. Text next to the tower reads: "Mists enshroud the temple grounds, piling behind the rubble of an ancient fence. Thorny groundcover, trampled by carts and boots, chokes the yard. Looming over the Courtyard, is the Bell Tower, it black bell hanging in contrast with the whitewashed bricks of the temple. The banded double doors to the temple are shut fast against the creeping fog."
September 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Sometimes you meet some quintessentially interesting folk, and create something amazing together. At Watch Well Games we want to make that alacritous collaborative magic so much more common.

The Quintessential Curios vol. 1. Coming Soon.
September 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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WWG is a community of creators, and we want you to meet them all!

Next up is Founding member Schlau from Light in Darkness gaming! He is our map guy, writer and helps out with managing everything in the background.
Light in Darkness gaming. 4 maps drawn by the lovely Schlau in different styles.
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM