Found this old #dungeonsanddragons “Barfday” “card” hastily sketched out by @chrisprynoski on graph paper in my 1st Ed Player’s Handbook – this is why I play fantasy games about wizards & bugbears with my friends instead of going out into the real world! @HobosMurder @Wizards_DnD pic.twitter.com/fM1gO8kjxN

— George Krstic (@GeorgeKrstic) September 19, 2018

You ever meet a bugbear in the real world? No! And that tells you all you need to know about it.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) September 19, 2018

Some more members of the Xanathar's crew for D&D's Dragon Heist. #dnd #waterdeep #dragonheist pic.twitter.com/UIz0DzLS53

— Chris Rahn (@ChrisRahnArt) September 11, 2018

I've been in tabletop game dev for 20 years now. Please listen closely as I teach you the most important lesson I've learned.

IF YOU MAKE CUSTOM DICE WITH A LOGO YOU GET ONE FACE WITH A LOGO AND THAT FACE IS ALWAYS YOUR DIE'S HIGHEST VALUE.

Thank you.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) August 31, 2018

Also the first time you produce a custom d4 you will screw it up. The numbers will not line up correctly. You will need to redo it. It's OK. Everyone makes that mistake.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) August 31, 2018

Modrons don’t celebrate birthdays unless they were born in March. #wotcstaff https://t.co/FVMFTgDz9P

— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) September 7, 2018

Hey TRPG designers, do you use gameplay loops as part of your design work? I’ve had a lot of free time this week so I took a stab at building one for the Gamma World project I’ve been tinkering with for a while. pic.twitter.com/VvDQa9P6SJ

— Mike Mearls, but Spooky (@mikemearls) September 29, 2018

A good summary of the concept here: https://t.co/6wmD3Nufcz

— Mike Mearls, but Spooky (@mikemearls) September 29, 2018

I’ve seen them used primarily in mobile games, especially as part of building out monetization, but I found that for GW it was a useful exercise to find points to make the game something other than postapocalyptic D&D.

— Mike Mearls, but Spooky (@mikemearls) September 29, 2018

It pushed me to consider a few things through a different design lens. For instance, I think GW wants to be a LOT more variable than D&D – wildly unpredictable difficulty, and rewards that are equally unhinged from any sort of expected loot progression.

— Mike Mearls, but Spooky (@mikemearls) September 29, 2018

To put it another way – there’s no attempt to scale things to the characters. But that also goes for rewards, in that a low-level character might find powered armor and a laser rifle.

— Mike Mearls, but Spooky (@mikemearls) September 29, 2018

Where in this loop are the snacks? The snacks are the paper on which the loop rests, so pervasive as to be invisible.

— Mike Mearls, but Spooky (@mikemearls) September 29, 2018

Can’t mention Gamma World without getting me hyped! Do you plan on running it with 5e, or something entirely different? I’ve used the 5e rules as a foundation

— Mike Mearls, but Spooky (@mikemearls) September 29, 2018

Today's D&D session summarized.
Me: The Cloakwood is an Underdark forest that burst through the surface of the world.
Players: Let's visit it!
<60 minutes later>
Players: We are never going to the Cloakwood ever again.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) September 14, 2018

Krogark has an irrational fear of all mists now.

— 🎄🏕Adam Lee🎄🏔 (@adamofadventure) September 14, 2018

It’s not irrational if the mist and the monsters in it tried to kill him. https://t.co/PSRVKRstfk

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) September 14, 2018

No, unfortunate parallel names for FR and Nentir Vale

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) September 14, 2018

New spin on the FR’s Cloakwood or your own design sharing the name? Nentir Vale homebrew

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) September 14, 2018

I wanna know what happened in cloakwood… Any chance the #HawfDwagon could visit lol Yes! Let’s do it!

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) September 14, 2018