The final week before the public beta launch of #CrossguardRPG ! www.patreon.com/posts/rampin...

For those who haven't seen the latest video, I'm starting up a Patreon where I'll be posting dev logs and charting the development of Crossguard. I'll also be posting a lot of miscellaneous unfiltered thoughts.

Little bit of an update about when you can play #crossguardrpg ! youtu.be/CIKTkjj8oKM

the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a good watch if you just wanna sit back and watch a bunch of nazis getting killed for 2 hours

Now it's the other side's turn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbak...

What are the "powers" you consider essential for dark fantasy TTRPGs, if any?

I'm a little late due to Crossguard stuff, but I finally got Metroid Prime 4 installed to play over the holidays. I'm sure it can't be that bad.

Part 2 of Battle Royale in Crossguard RPG, live in a minute www.youtube.com/live/uSjzNrQ...

Reposting this here as well for anyone interested in publishing games or making a professional-looking pdf. Great stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHwV...

19:15 GMT (just under 3 hours from now). This'll answer some questions. #crossguardrpg #ttrpg www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfix...

So the next Crossguard community sesh will be Battle Royale. I mean, "Ichidake Island". There's no limit to the number of participants, and you are not required to be online during the stream. Just make a character, assign your stats and you're good to go. #crossguardrpg

As we come up to the busy holidays, the next Crossguard one-shot will be something very different from the last. There will be no limit to the number of participants, nor any requirement to be online as it streams. #crossguardrpg

There are loads of things I love about Daggerheart. Just not as many as I hate.

I didn't wanna make this review. But I'm sure the comments are gonna be chill, right? #daggerheart #ttrpgs www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXe0...

one thing that kind of annoys me about a lot of newer TTRPGs is that they assume the players know the rules. in a lot of modern games, a character's cool moves require the player to have an understanding of the ruleset as complete as the referee - which can be a hard sell to potential players!

I'll be demoing Crossguard at The Gamers' Emporium - Swansea tomorrow! This will be the first time I've publicly demoed the game so I'm really nervous and excited! Hope to see some of you there! #ttrpg #indiegame

As an autistic person, it's always disappointing when you're trying to talk earnestly with someone, only to discover that they have hierarchical brainrot.

Best asymmetric games? Chaotic medium. War of the Ring - when you have 4 hours Star Wars Rebellion - not the best game ever made but dammit, I still love it Left 4 Dead Versus mode

I have an insane paranoia that when I playtest, every person will be like "oh is that a slightly unfinished rule? Terrible game." #ttrpg

Listen, I'll mute people left and right for being unnecessarily hostile, weird or talking about things I specifically avoid (US politics). I'm neurotic as fuck, gotta protect your own brain ...

Neat way of thinking about it. I try to do both: you get both the legos and the action figure. You can build it yourself, or play the action figure. Or you can take an action figure and take off a few pieces and bolt a few new ones on

Positive feedback loops are such a simple but insidious way to turn normal people into parodies of themselves. You made another reductive, attention-grabbing take? Good little doggy, have some engagement.

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Guides are good because sometimes you're playing TotK and you spend 15 minutes trying to figure out the 'clever' 'correct' way of using physics alone to snooker the ball upwards into the target because there MUST be a way.

Unless you're a professional gamer, your primary 'win' condition is - be a fun person to play with. Most people don't WANT to play hyper-sweaty games

youtube.com/shorts/0Xe7Y... Be like Mario.

The artist's struggle of "in the process of finishing one idea, I come up with two more"

Quote of the day courtesy of Garoad (aka Michael Kelly), one of my favourite videogame composers: "Whatever your passion or dream might be, if you’re feeling discouraged, understand that that’s part of the process and it’s necessary for growth." 1/2

At first it was exciting to watch the system grow and grow and grow, adding 'content'. Right now it's exciting to watch word count shrink, as I reword and clarify things. #ttrpg

Tepid take: If you make something innately evil, people are GONNA WANNA break that rule. That's just how humans are. Piccolo in DBZ is supposed to be 100% pure evil, he's literally the evil part of a dude that was cast aside. So of course he gets a redemption arc.

Being a solo creator is great, because you're like "hey fuck marketers and intrusive producers, I'ma make what I want." It makes the development process a real joy. .... Leaving the very small problem of how to actually sell your product, when you hate marketing and marketers.

With it being a fresh new year, I'm looking to get out of my cave and start GMing more games. Primarily of my own system, Crossguard.

Hope everyone had a great christmas and got all the books! I swung a copy of the Radiant Citadel so I can cannibalise that shit for adventures, always a fan of compilation books. I've been taking time off but now it's back to working on Crossguard. #ttrpg

Everyone has that one character they never forget. You know the one. We don't have favourites ... except that one. #ttrpg

Statting up Bionis and Mechonis to see if the size scaling system holds up #ttrpg

Exploration and social don't need extensive rules structure. Rules exist for adjudication. Social and exploration do not have a set structure like "hitting a guy" or "saving against a spell". (1/3) #ttrpg #dnd

Edgy - but within algorithmically-approved guidelines, painstakingly-handcrafted-to-echo-chamber-norms - is not edgy. It's vicariously humiliating.

Not everything is art. Unless you're on really good drugs

There are more creative ways of fudging than fudging dice. Fudge the outcome. You wake up as a ghoul, but somehow with free will. You get knocked out. These aren't even particularly original, but I feel like they're truer to the spirit of the sandbox.

I do wonder how much anxiety is caused by the notion that you can no longer disagree - even in part - lest you be thrown from the pack altogether. Even on a smaller, more personal level, I've noticed this. Is it generational?

Sven out here explaining what's absolutely obvious to everyone who wasn't attending the game awards www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6td...

I can't help but want to visit "Okkam's Forever Maze" whenever I read the name. Like am I supposed to be terrified, or is there a sweet ball pit and an arcade

The other social media algorithm hell-site is so bad. All the people there are bad. This social media algorithm hell-site? Very good, the best one. Everyone here is MUCH cooler.

One of the high points of my Cyberpunk experience was taking every possible drug I could find. As a very systems-focused designer, I have a habit of occasionally diminishing the importance of fluff and flavour content. But that stuff can be the biggest draw of an RPG. #ttrpg

I've been sitting here at the TWW3 lord select screen for like an hour I've consumed myself into analysis paralysis. Fuck

Sure, sex is great... but have you ever had your players ask you about the lore of your world?

I sort of love when anime can, through metaphor/exaggeration, turn sports into insane hyberbolic contests where people are saying shit like "I'M GOING TO DRAG YOU TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN" Just a normal boxing match where you drown your opponent

As often as I've been told "just TRY rolling stats! It'll be fun!" you can't convince me to like it any more than you can convince me that ketchup goes on hot dogs. You do you, but I DETEST rolling stats. #ttrpg

Is a certain amount of ego necessary to create great things? www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7po...

I'm quite pleased with how unhinged the thumbnail for my next video came out. It's a 13-minute rant about ego, so it's appropriate.