Lilancholy is a guidebook to the fae disguising a horrible, childhood trauma. It has short fiction, poetic spells to cast, and a mess of games to play when you run into a fairy and don't want your name stolen~ Help me print it through backerkit this Saturday! Link below <3

It's not real. It's not real. It's not real.

I made a fucked up little poster for Lilancholy. Help me get it printed <3

Lilancholy has launched! Help me bring my weird, lyrical, traumatic collection of spells, poetry, and games to play when a fae corners you, to paperback form! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I wrote a little about lilancholy over on my patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/rememb... help it fund by giving me money today!! <3

I looked hot at the show last night~

Just woke up to see we're nearly 75% funded which is such a huge relief. I always feel very scared when doing any sort of crowdfunding because you have to come face to face with the question: am i still relevant? or, as the kids say, am I washed? good to know im still kicking. thank you all <3

my gf is soooooo hot wowza

I absolutely adored the first print of Lilancholy. Excited to see this!

Lilancholy is something special, I really enjoyed reading through the first edition. Highly recommend checking this out, especially if you love eerie fae.

I stand by Snow being one of the best writers in the ttrpg scene and her work is something always invokes something deep within me!

I'm excited to finally read it!

For the evening crowd~

I'm going to be off the internet today. Tomorrow is one of my partners birthday and today I'm relaxing. I've got a lot of great stuff in the pipeline, but today I just exhale.

Lilancholy has launched! Help me bring my weird, lyrical, traumatic collection of spells, poetry, and games to play when a fae corners you, to paperback form! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Hello folks. My indie RPG column is expanding. I will now be writing about forthcoming games. First issue this will happen in goes out 26th December. If you have an RPG project coming out, Kickstarter launching, or ending, within a month or so after that date, get in touch.

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LILANCHOLY LAUNCHES TOMORROW!!

I wrote about clocks, or how consideration is a mechanic in games that goes under appreciated. What else is a game but the time spent playing it and why isn't that time considered as valuable as other aspects of games? www.patreon.com/posts/in-def...

LILANCHOLY LAUNCHES TOMORROW!!

I wrote about clocks, or how consideration is a mechanic in games that goes under appreciated. What else is a game but the time spent playing it and why isn't that time considered as valuable as other aspects of games? www.patreon.com/posts/in-def...

LILANCHOLY LAUNCHES ON SATURDAY!!

This is a new introduction thread for myself. I'm Clayton Notestine ("note-styne"). I'm a learner, reviewer, and design writer in tabletop rpgs. I make tools and resources. This thread is my current list of favorite articles and projects on Explorers Design.

economy ttrpg but its yugioh.

It's not real. It's not real. It's not real.

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About once a week someone online hits me with a passive aggressive “wow I am SURPRISED to see you repost/fave/share a person I broke up with/don’t like etc”. Friends. I remind you that I don’t know you or your personal burn book.

I was really hyped to make a mini-doc about the making of Songbirds, or really any game of mine, but the fear of making stuff *about* making stuff has completely stopped me. I watch a lot of youtube and nothing drives me more wild than "game dev" youtube.

here's the ugly fucking sculpt I made for this. its just playdoh. if anyone else is in to sculpting please hmu. I want to talk about it with people!

Detransition Baby by Torey Peters was the first time I saw myself in a book, all the parts of me I hated or struggled with, and learned to care for them. You spend your whole life being unable to see yourself in media because you're trans, that when you finally do read trans lit it explodes in you.

Where Breaking Bad is actually an incel power fantasy, The Chair Company is a look at a decent man slipping into darkness, or, "breaking bad" as you might say.

Lilancholy is a guidebook to the fae disguising a horrible, childhood trauma. It has short fiction, poetic spells to cast, and a mess of games to play when you run into a fairy and don't want your name stolen~ Help me print it through backerkit this Saturday! Link below <3

pussy like a dungeon crawler. pussy with an engaging gameplay loop

I've been enjoying sculpting. I'm using playdoh, which is cheap and low stakes, but It's really nice to work with my hands. I want to learn more cause im just winging it rn, and the depth of sculpting seems infinite. rn im making a cockpit for my mech game and its taking me forever.

I made a fucked up little poster for Lilancholy. Help me get it printed <3

Tabletop roleplaying games are so special and unique because they ask you to consider The Body. They live internally, somewhere inside your brain. And in that space of your brain, all things weight the same: fiction and reality, diegetic and non-diegetic, how you feel and how you want to feel.

Return to Lilancholy. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Please help Dare this month, she needs it. She’s an incredible part of the ttrpg AP scene and what does it say about this space if we can barely survive in it? Help trans femmes in ttrpgs. Help black trans femmes in ttrpgs especially. ko-fi.com/dare2dream

In Censor Bar, agents at the Censor Bureau sign Pacts with otherworldly powers to hunt monsters. What are you willing to give?

Posted a list of game theory stuff on my patreon that includes ttrpgs, video games, and even architecture: www.patreon.com/posts/143186...

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The tl;dr is simple: a certain asshole in the Kremlin can't learn when to quit, and that translates into power outages for everyone involved. As such, we're holding a sale to help Val cover the costs of a UPS - so that he can, if anything, stay online in the meantime: itch.io/s/166115/bri...

Biggest influences on my recent game design: 1. Knocked Loose 2. The White Album 3. Frank Ocean

New Censor Bar playtest just dropped. Go follow the live, weekly development over on my patreon as a free member, and consider donating a dollar or two to the artist conservation fund <3 I'm looking for some extra time in my schedule to start running playtests after I complete the pacts~

Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.

Tomorrow on my patreon: an updated doc that adds the structure for building missions and...wait, that's it? Fuck, that's all I worked on this week? Ermmmm

Dodge - roll d20 to dodge. If damage would mark Stress, gain a (relevant injury). 1. Headshot (concussion, trauma, confused, unconscious). 2. Senses (blind, deaf, lost finger, etc.). 3-6. Limb (broken bone, lost arm, etc.). 7-11. Torso. Normal damage. 12-19. Dodged!. No damage 20. ADRENALINE!

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

I can do the same for the dodge mechanic, mixing the injury system and dodging into one thing...

What if for combat, there's a band of success? Like, when you attack, roll d20: 1. Fumble, move to the back of the initiative order. 2-5. Miss. No damage. 6-9. Graze. 1 damage. 10-15. Torso. Normal damage. 16-18. Limb. Normal damage + disarms. 19. Headshot. 2x damage. 20. Unique weapon quirk??