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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!

your outie abides by each MC principle and agenda equally

I'm about to become a dad, so uhhh buy some games so I have diaper money gilarpgs.itch.io

My first every Kickstarter launched tomorrow????? Wild shit Check it out at TTRPG.link/LP so that maybe you can be the first backer or something

Cooper Dejean, an Eagles cornerback, has 12 times more rushing yards than Kansas City at the half. For the uninterested in football, cornerback is a defensive position. #GoBirds

Frankly, I think it's a pretty clear choice this Super Bowl. There's THREE former Nebraska Cornhuskers on the Eagles. Go 🌽Birds. (Cam Jurgens, Nick Gates, and Ochaun Mathis)

❤️❤️❤️ Cat Quest: friendly-ghost.itch.io/cat-quest Ultimate Battle Warriors: friendly-ghost.itch.io/ultimate-bat... And just dropped my fave of all, Scary Cave: itch.io/blog/876654/...

I super don't want to do Zine Quest but I've got a couple of zines I kind of want to hand write, scan, and drop online. Candidates include... -Bottle Episode -Pommel Ball Mini -Between Sessions Faction Building Deckbuilder

Hey remember when it was December and people were posting their ttrpg/board game wrappeds and you went, "oh nice cool I should do that for next year" well THERE'S STILL TIME! CHECK YOUR CAMERA ROLL AND TEXTS FOR HELP! THIS IS LAST CHANCE TO ONLY NEED TO REMEMBER A MONTH OF INFO!

@binarystar.games said "A secret third crawl" in response to point crawls and hexcrawls and now I'm just repeating to myself "Bowl Crawl" for Pommel Ball.

My kid has gotten very into microzines, so maybe I'll set aside a co-working session and put out Pommel Ball For NES as a microzine ahead of the Superbowl.

I've been pretty offline lately due to holidays, normal life events, a changing relationship to social media, and my dog having a health scare (seems to be doing better now!) but I appreciate in little snippets and miss a lot of the TTRPG space! Keep making awesome things!

The Young Heroes of Halcyon is the biggest continuous game I've ever even heard of and it is truly wild to have even tangential connection to them. Thank you to @rascalnews.bsky.social for publishing about this amazingly cool table! YHH, I hope to be able to get back in a game with you soon!

Well @blg.bsky.social continues to be a bad (good) influence. Time to active LOOT25, new loot every day.

If you need help finding that new independent tabletop role-playing game, I have good news for you: We've spotlighted more independent role-playing games on Party of One over the past nine years than any actual play in the history of the medium (343 and counting).

I recently saw a video actually explaining what Dice Throne is and dang that is a lot of what I've wanted to play and make for the past couple years.