Inspired by a post from @guanborg.bsky.social, here’s a thread of indie video games that should have ttrpg adaptations:

Fantasynamegenerators is great. There’s a ton of resources in there for free. The author of the website also makes a regular contribution to a foundation for planting trees based on the bandwidth. It’s what we’re told AI will do but released way earlier with none of the environmental damage.

Weapon degradation good Runbacks good Corpse runs good Sometimes, for a game to make you feel good, it also has to make you feel bad.

All combat systems are balanced. What changes is what they’re balanced *for*.

Adam West Batman dealing with the Riddler:

Yep, that’s a Wolverine game I guess. Looking forward to pressing circle when an enemy approaches with a red attack and triangle when they approach with a yellow attack. Can’t wait to kill a guy real good by pressing L1+R1 after earning enough points.

Being ADHD means my brain has weird priorities. For example, it’s decided that figuring out my next turn in my Pathfinder game a week from now is more important than sleep. Heck, even once I figured it out, my brain’s still like, “Are you sure? Better to over this like ten more times.”

Cleave update: been cooking with the Rogue this morning. Really excited about these moves.

Playing Mina the Hollower "Oh this train area is pretty dark, and my torch just went out, but I think I remember this layout. I'm sure I can manage my way in the dark for a bit." Yacht Club Games: 🙂🙂🙂

Hey, I asked this question! I’m a bit embarrassed that I misread the Avowed connection, but considering it got another video on armor, still worth it.

happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art

Cleave campaign playtest hit its six session today, which happens to be the session that Apocalypse World is supposed to get really good, and while Cleave still has a long way to go, I am feeling very good about how things are coming together. Few thoughts on the game so far: (1/6)

Family put on The Pitt, so I’m spending a lot of time looking at my phone, the ceiling, the wall, basically anywhere but the screen.

One trick I'm taking from Apocalypse World: Burned Over is the use of, "Talk to your MC/GM about this" in move results. I think the default in move results is a particular player takes charge and says what happens, but framing it as a conversation allows the move to capture way more nuance.

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

This is true, but worth noting that even this framing is intentionally dishonest. If the Republicans wanted the government run like a business, the IRS would be the biggest branch by far.

Mina the Hollower's release is reminding me of when my wife saw me playing a pixel art game and asked, "Why do all the games you play look so bad?"

I remember when Airtags first started out and several women I follow immediately sussed them out as a danger before it even occurred to me.

I spoke to two members of United Wizards of the Coast-CWA about new and baffling anti-union efforts from WotC management, including an embarrassing "debate" format that nobody enjoyed. Workers also extended sympathy to Arena supervisors who are caught in the propaganda machine with little recourse.

It's not really that hard to say "sex is a spectrum, people who fall outside of the binary model aren't 'abnormalities', some people change sex who gives a fuck" and get on with it, but that would require an actual commitment to opposing conservatives on this front.

Mina the Hollower releases in like 50 minutes and I have to go to bed… like a chump.

I don't have enough experience with it to really know if it's "good" or "bad," but seeing a PBTA game with a bunch of fiddly mechanical bits attached to it really turns me off. I don't want a token I can spend on a clock. I want a move that fucks up the fiction in an immediately obvious way.

seeing Mina The Hollower compared to Öoo is a reminder that folks should play the latter. 2-4 hours long, dense with “omg” moments. It teaches you everything you need to know through the level design instead of an explicit tutorial. brilliant game

Everyone loves Phil, the grocery bag guy who carries grocery bags. *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you that Phil is racist

Ended up downloading Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 tonight. And man, some games you have such good memories of, and then you go and play them again and realize how janky, awkward, and clumsy they are from a modern perspective. … Not this one, though. It still kicks ass.

While the joke is the joke, the reality is this is actually what it looks like in the PbtAs I dislike immensely, because they drop the two important parts to the Move concept: 1) specificity of outcomes 2) ecosystem of Moves; they feed into each other.

I hope my previous comments haven't made it sound like I'm opposed to PBTA criticism. I find a lot of the criticism I see bizarre and unhelpful, but there's real room for criticism in this space. For instance, I think most GM/MC sections are just doing too much. (1/8)

Split/Party once again showing the most interesting TTRPG crit analysis out there.

What makes talking about TTRPGs difficult is that rules have different levels of importance across games. Two games can technically have the same rule, but the impact can be totally different because of where it’s positioned and how much support it gets.

On my last big thread about PBTA design, I saw someone subposting about me and saying that I’m too dismissive of other playstyles. And, I’ll be honest, that stung a bit. I do truly try to take other perspectives seriously. I make an effort not to dismiss them even if I critique them.

Cleave 1.6 update out now! This update includes more information on running the game and starting your campaign. This advice is critical to understanding what sets Cleave apart. If you're interested in running Cleave, this is a great update to check out. thedevteam.itch.io/cleave-rpg

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My visual style for Cleave is a bit all over the place but I couldn't resist throwing up this recent drawing from @perplexingruins.bsky.social in there.

ill say it here again, the thing about Quinns is the man is an A+ reviewer. He has particular taste - a reviewer should have taste! It's the whole point of a review! The problem is he's the one guy in town operating at that production level. It's like if the whole of movie reviews was just Ebert lol

I know I see autism everywhere, but how is there so much talk around Mixtape and none of it is about how Stacey practically screams undiagnosed autism? Besides the fact that her whole thing is filtering everything through her hyper interest, that Most of All scene is basically autism 101.

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Good apology while also making it clear that the issue is Stripe and, further up, the institutions Stripe has to answer to. We really do have to keep bothering Stripe and making noise about it if anything is to change

So I didn’t have the chance to upload to the shop yesterday. Sometimes today. a cool chance to get an original piece 👍

I got to introduce my wife to Lord of the Rings and that was an incredible high.

I've only been playing Mixtape for like 30 minutes and I'm already being so autistic about it.

I'm privileged to hang out with trans and nonbinary kids all the time. Every single one of them is the coolest young person I know. Sometimes I think that this is why the man and the squares hate them, they make them realize that they'll just never be as cool, ever.

Pallegina is already a super-gender character but the thought of her going around as, “Harold,” is immensely funny to me.

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I don’t have a lot of acclaim in the TTRPG world or anything, but I’m really happy that I have this little corner where I can make a long, in-depth thread about a heady topic and still get a lot of response from it.

There’s a lot of reasons people don’t like PBTA that I find very silly, but one that does make sense to me is the lack of a unified resolution mechanic. At the time it was written, AW was rejecting the idea that a game was just a single dice resolution mechanic and some other stuff. (1/19)

Thinking of how to simplify some moves in Cleave. Probably going to at least experiment with replacing sense character/sense situation/speak lore with this and see how it does. Going to miss having specific questions but I think this will help tighten up gameplay considerably.

What’s wild to me is that the CEO is just wrong. If you want a feat that your D&D Beyond tier doesn’t have access to, your DM can just say you have it. Your D&D Beyond subscription doesn’t control *what happens in your imagination*.

We’ve officially moved our campaign to BackerKit! Video games are less popular there than tabletop, so we really need y’all’s support! #Monsterhearts You can follow the pre-launch at the link below: