There's no 🌽 🏈 in this 🏈 🏆 so I'll be ❄️🩰.

I've joked about playing many off-label things in Pasión de las Pasiones and I was ready to do it again for Neopets. But I can't stand behind that one. I don't think it would work well at all.

Bluesky has decided that I am interested in posts where sport fans say without any context beyond their display names "This game sucks" and "What's even the point of this game?" This combined with an otherwise ttrpg feed makes it look like people with names like PackersFanDad hating on Mörk Borg.

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

Updating some old work on Pommel Ball to hopefully test a minimal 3v3 build this weekend. If that works, I'll probably try to make it web play test ready over the next week. I'm smoothing out the pieces that are time consuming.

Enough time has gone by since I made a layout that I need to relearn how to use affinity. Keeping things basic and trying to find a card template I can slap a csv into is probably my play.

Gonna go to a second hand Lego store because my daughter has gotten extremely interested in very specifically Lego gears and there isn't a Lego 3-in-1 Just A Ton Of Gears set.

My Kingdom for a System Doesn't Matter thread that doesn't include "of course we all understand system matters" after a couple dozen tweets.

Due to Baby Sleep, I've been playing more retro videogames and that's been very nice. I'm very interested in finding where board games can play out (and sometimes intentionally slow down) some of the moments that feel great on the screen without losing excitement.

Outlook for the new year ...

🌽 🏈 season is over so it's time for me to start thinking about Pommel Ball again.

Oh shit! It's jam time. itch.io/jam/makemoves

I feel extraordinarily blessed that when I ego search Pasión de las Pasiones i see people looking forward to, playing, and enjoying it. I feel sincerely even more blessed when I get to see Pasión de las Pasiones used as an example of off-genre play (ex: you wouldn't play a dungeon crawl in PdlP)

Slowly coming to a place that I'm catching up with people but just want to say from the bottom of my heart 🌽 🏈.

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Clear my schedule on October 1st. I'm going to be reading about terrible frogs. #mörktober

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A couple of weeks ago I almost hyped that the playable version of Pommel Ball would be available on Nebraska's first football game of the season. Glad I didn't because that's tomorrow and I'm not even close.

Wonder what ttrpg discussion is today! 👀 🫩 😩 Pass.

Happy birthday to my two favorite Jeffs! Past Jeff (@jeffstormer.gobirds.online) GM of the absolute gem of a podcast Party of One. Happy birthday! AND Future Jeff (@jeffstormer.gobirds.online) host of the absolute gem of a podcast Party of One. Happy birthday!

im publishing prince of hounds with @plusoneexp.bsky.social in the fall!

You know those cutouts that you use to measure range in wargames? I'm pretty sure I've come up with one for turning that has reignited Deadly Kobold Racing.

I've been exploring Homebrew video games (modern indie games for existing consoles) and there's SO much cool stuff going on. I wish a bit that I were better at video content so that I could share some of the awesome stuff going on.

Okay. Tonight is Pommel Ball Kits, possibly default teams too. Then the dreaded play materials layout. I'm considering just hand drawing the character sheets and scanning them.

One thing I'm pretty pumped about in Pommel Ball is Formations which are basically ritual-stype spells that cast by getting your team into a specific shape on the field. That's thrown off by how much pushing and movement is inherent to the game.

Getting the rules for Pommel Ball written down, we've got the four Core positions 🏈 Ranger 🛡️ Guard 🎽 Flanker 🗡️ Skirmisher www.notion.so/bleongambett... Those four form the basics with kits (weapon choice or magic ability) rounding out basic players

1 Like = 1 Ability Card that you can give one of your Pommel Ball players during game. www.notion.so/bleongambett... #onelikedesign

I've seen like 5 posts from people I don't know saying Draw Steel has the 4e vibes that all the 4e sickos crave. Is this true? Can I get a verification from one of my favorite 4e sickos?

Instead of using little serotonin boosts from likes to power fake Internet points, power a piece of design you need a bunch of little morsels of (AND WRITE THEM DOWN IN YOUR ACTUAL DRAFT) One like = 1 hex or playbook move or magic item or player ability or NPC or location.

Hey Protean City Comics, are you gonna do an Ultimate Universe or what?

1 like = oh hell no I've learned my damn lesson my ttrpg takes are tepid and quiet and messaged to a buddy

Barkeep on the Borderlands is one of my favorite books to leaf through. Highly recommend!

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Clicking the button in just over an hour.

I'm trying really hard to picture Joel McHale behind me snapping "simplify" while I write the Pommel Ball Print and Play Quick Start, but then I don't get to make things super gamey.

I keep thinking "if only there was a way to have a portable device bigger than a phone with a legitimate keyboard that I can run design software on" and looking up old kindle fire based solutions before realizing I'm describing a laptop.

Also! If you have little ones OR just love baller pop songs, catch me on Dora as Pablo, member of “The Bunny Boyz” Ya know, the super famous bunny boy band? Season 3 ep15 (There may be even more Dora to come!)

🦇 PbtA Adjacent Romantasy: Have new core rules I like a lot, but can't find playbook notes 🏑 Pommel Ball (fantasy sports board game): Reworked my rework of my rework. Hoping to test a card based rogue-litey version soon 🐲 Roguelike Arena Dungeon Crawl: VERY happy with core. Needs cards and testing.

I'm currently at the "trying to remember which app, program, or physical notebook I wrote something down in a year ago" stage of development.

Thrilled to have Pasión de las Pasiones honored in the #Effies by @aaronmfking.bsky.social on Read the F*cking Manual! One of the very best ttrpg podcasts around and the other winners are absolute killer games that I'm humbled to be in company with.

Working on a kind of Punxsutawney Phil plus cicada style of social media that my appearance is brief and only traditionally meaningful, and also confounding in pattern.

The TTRPG path to enlightenment

A NEW episode of Select and Start is out NOW! Award-winning podcaster, game designer, and author Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online comes on to talk about how Marvel vs. Capcom 2 changed his life! Listen now wherever you like to cast your pods: select-and-start.pinecast.co/episode/7b68...

A friend gifted me a copy of of Pasion de las Pasiones, the acclaimed telenovela ttrpg by @blg.bsky.social, and so far this is one of the best PbtA texts I've seen. Well-written, absolutely charming to read, and the information formatting supports new readers and players. HIGHLY recommend!

Kelsier, addressing potential members of the Skaa Rebellion:

Do I know anyone who has printed those small heavy cardboard board game tokens? My kid has started designing a game and I'm wondering if my library's cricket printer could do something like that. I need like... Thick enough cardboard to flick on a board.

Put Goldballs in Marvel Rivals you cowards

Helena Real (she/her) delivers neck-tingling drama with "Lazos de Sangre", a playset for Pasión de las Pasiones (by @blg.bsky.social). Stay on top of Helena's work at @helenareal.bsky.social!

It's about... Vampires! Pure queer telenovela drama with bloodsucking monsters 😁🩸🧛 Coming soon!

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