example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

UPCOMING GAME ANNOUNCEMENT Violent Delights is a chess-based rpg about Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. It depicts the masquerade scene in which our lovers first meet. The chess board represents the Capulet’s great chamber, and the players act as a cast of characters who correspond to chess pieces. 👇

#charactercreationjam Day 06: Heart: The City Beneath Starling is a man blessed by debt. His Forced calling is a ruse: he wants to be in the Heart and is using his masters (and the debt they've put him in) as much as they're using him. Heart's art, and its vibes in general really, are phenomenal.

#charactercreationjam Day 05: Masks: A New Generation I made the Albatross, a hero sent through time to prevent a dark and terrible future. Masks' playbooks are so fun and there was a few that really jumped out at me. It's a bummer my regular groups aren't into teen superhero drama.

Postponing Day 5 of the character creation jam because it's Masks and thus requires a whole group discussion and a bunch of my friends are still catching up, lol. Gonna force them to make characters at our meetup tonight though.

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#charactercreationjam Day 04: #Mothership This is Zar Schop, a teamster mid-existential crisis. Like FIST, the random rolls led to unique character traits I may not have chosen myself but added interesting wrinkles to the character while still leaving me room for my own choices. I wanna play it!

#charactercreationjam Day 03: FIST: Ultra Edition I made two because FIST is supposed to be incredibly lethal. Character creation is really short and sweet. Rolling for everything makes fun, evocative mercenaries while giving you enough distance to be okay if/when they meet an untimely demise.

#charactercreationjam Day 02: #Leverage: The Roleplaying Game The book captures the show's feel so well. The mechanics sound super fun with a neat push/pull between the Fixer and Crew with Plot Points. I love that you're meant to finish creating characters in-game. I really want to play this.

#charactercreationjam Day 01: Draw Steel I've been playing tons of #drawsteel lately, especially in the Community Brewery discord, so I've got 12+ characters under my belt already. For this, I made a revenant with my own WIP class the Dealer, which uses a real deck of cards for its mechanics!

As of today, the #charactercreationjam on itch has begun, so over the next 31 days, I'm going to be making 31 #ttrpg characters from 31 different games! Me and some game design friends came up with this list and I'm going to try my best to stick with it, documenting my progress here on Bluesky.