I didn't know that writing and editing a 200+ page Trad TTRPG was going to be hard. Why didn't anybody tell me???

I saw that article about how video game music isnt weird anymore and yeah, you just dont hear shit like this in fantasy games anymore m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ7r...

WARDEN is a truly a wondrous fantasy game, because in it you can Work A Vocation, gain Savings and purchase an apartment. All this without it eating your entire livelihood. Yay...

If u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky

As WARDEN enters final stages of production, I've already started work on a new TTRPG (and probably will start new games all around again, I'm just like that). This one has the explicit purpose facilitating and escalating duels so that previous lovers fight in the rain atop a burning building.

commission work for @ghost-spark.itch.io , thanks again

I do not post much. That is because I don't like posting. I don't want to post to be relevant in this world. I want to make games, make art and make myself heard that way. But posting seems to be the requirement for anyone to see it. Especially in TTRPGs.

Version 0.3 of the WARDEN Playtest from @ghost-spark.itch.io is out and I made a piece of art for it of the merchant Yiska from one of the example settings in the back! It's a really cool genre-agnostic TTRPG with solid combat and character building rules and is free to check out right now

if your combat system is ponderous and dull, your ttrpg is TRAD if your combat system is fast-paced and dull, your ttrpg is OSR if your combat system is fast-paced and inscrutable, your ttrpg is a STORYGAME

repost this if anti-trans people are not welcome and unsafe with you

"What exactly is the difference between sci-fi and fantasy anyways?"

Thinking of making the most radical left game ever and just marketing it as "apolitical" so chuds will scramble their eggs over it. But then again, doing a hit piece like that is rarely an actually good idea. Just feeling a little spiteful ig

Knowledge is power…

I feel like I need to tap the sign cause I keep seeing people trying to "dunk" on hateful peeps on my feed. This ISN'T TWITTER. Please don't make it into it.

I extremely selflishly want people to link hatred of trans people with being a creepy little weirdo fascist man who actively ruins democracy and I want people to double down in the other direction as a response forever

Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.

What a great day to have reading comprehension.

I feel a great need to make a ttrpg character who wears an escoffion, you know, those two-horned things fine medieval ladies wore, sometimes with veils. Kinda similar to hennin, the conical hats "fairytale princesses" have on their head.

Okay so. I managed to get my #TTRPG Backerkit out, it's there, and it's already gotten pledges. Obviously, still a long road ahead. But I'm just wondering what the hell am I gonna do now? Seek people who might want to talk about it? Do interviews? With whom? I'm still so new to this LOL

I'm doing a Backerkit campaign now! It's a pretty cool d20 game, not probably what you expect! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g...

I took part into the 36-word TTRPG game jam and came up with "The Zombies are at the door". ghost-spark.itch.io/the-zombies-... Like, it's such a simple premise, but what I love about it is that I've basically "restarted" the game I've been having today like a dozen times.

Monday Night RAW + Blade & Sorcery. Just when you thought wrestling couldn't get more hands-on! Say goodbye to your knees and surroundings, it's showtime!

Race type icons

I started randomly replaying original FFVII (I have a CRT screen now so it's quite nice), and MAN. Painted backgrounds are truly next level, and so is the original's industrial aesthetic, especially in the reactors. Remake totally missed the mark on that aesthetic IMO! Too clean, too blue!

You don't have to copy my method, but I highly recommend figuring out a way to minimize the effort you put into your notes. Focus on the stuff that actually matters, the bones of the session that you might have trouble improvising. It'll lead to better sessions & less mental taxation.

I now have two word files that I can open up when I'm writing either an "Adventure" session (your typical session) or a "Downtime" session. The templates just remove a unnecessary step of my note writing process. I can open a template, fill in the info I need, & just save a new file.

For awhile I've been working on ways to minimize the effort I put into my notes for my various TTRPG sessions, focusing on just the most necessary information & making easier for me to get them worked out ahead of time. I took another step towards that: pre-saved session templates.

The wildest part is that almost all TTRPGs are good, and while very few are great, you have to struggle to find one that is not at least okay. It is wild how then, asking people to learn and play a game for a few hours before dismantling is taboo.

I'm getting myself taken for a spin, as I realize that with the new Protean Dice thing I'm planning, you could easily make a TTRPG with a theme of "inevitable destiny" by assigning a symbol that furthers said Destiny. Absolutely thrilling as a concept. I'm thinking like multiple stages to each.

Zak Smith and his cronies are trying to claw their way back into communities. Do not let them. He has posted these instructions to his followers. Do not assume good faith for the next few weeks. pastebin.com/QJNhcN3F?fbc...

A piece of advice I just gave today was "while there are many kinds of value and fulfillment in 'just finish a game', ultimately, if you aren't being paid to make a game that you aren't finding joy in, you should find a game which you ARE and work on that instead".

I sometimes worry cis people are assuming we're exaggerating when we say Kiwifarms is site designed to get trans people to kill themselves. This is literally KF's stated goal. There is already a body count. They keep score.

Finished things teach you the craft. Mostly, it teaches you how to finish things, the single most important skill in this industry.

Okay, my meeting with my boss has been postponed by three hours, which is not enough time to start a new work task but too much time to sit around twiddling my thumbs. So I'm making a thread of What Your TTRPG Product's Title Font Says About You: Featuring Only Fonts I Already Own.

The amount that being any kind of artist has turned into being a full time sales person of your own personality, begging people to pay you anything at all for the work they love, sucks so bad

WARDEN is going to be launching on Backerkit somewhere next month! It's a d20 #TTRPG based on Pathwarden (and thus PF2e) that takes influences from all around, from OSR, Genesys, PbtA and more. I have also linked the completely playable playtest version of the game on the teaser page.

Ursula LeGuin's daily schedule is deeply inspirational

What We Can Learn From D&D’s Sexist History

This is a thread of things you can do with Protean Dice (made for TTRPG). For explanation, Mint and Yellow dice have same symbols (Circle and Plus) and Red and Purple dice have the same symbols (Triangle and Minus). These are open tools, so anyone can design with them however they want.

I don't think "designing for fun" is a realistic, sustainable or even a desirable goal. You design for the sickos like yourself who know it will be fun and then get it in front of those sickos, then polish up

I would like to be referred to as 'stone feral' going forward, actually.

Okay so I've been noodling on a new way to write settings and adventures for TTRPGs, but I kinda want to hear if something like it exists. Basically, I'm mostly thinking about integrating characters and their own motivations on both setting-adventure level, and making that my focus. 🧵

Further on this; Diversify. Spread yourself around as many outlets, third party storefronts, retail outlets, small book sellers, etc etc. wherever they'll have you. Exclusivity clauses are rare, and non-exclusive compromises are often like 10% of your income. Well worth the security and coverage.

You'll never beat DnD...or Gygax, or WotC, or whoever comes next. The reason you'll never beat them is because RUNNING AGAINST THEM isn't the point. If you aren't breaking your own heart for the joy of it, for the experience of it, then it's already all over. Any above your own joy is icing.

I wonder if dice are even good at result mechanics or we've been brainwashed by click clack sparkly gemstone math rocks

We're on a clown ride timeline, then? I am thankfully not affected much (my sales past 30 days have been quiet) but MAN this sucks for thousands of other devs. Hopefully these news will have some silver lining in the long run.

Lmao Gary Gygax

Okay question to #ttrpg devs here: How do you write setting material / adventure modules / campaign stuff? I just feel super stuck with my own efforts, and I feel like the lack of these things is the primary reason why Pathwarden didn't pop off more than it already did.

“Likes are useless” wrong. They let me know someone saw my art and thought “I would like to put a little heart of approval here”