> get into hobby > enjoy hobby > try to connect with others in hobby > moderate success > begin to realise that my feelings on hobby are broadly out of step with majority group consensus > "guys I don't think my heart's in this anymore" > look for new hobby > 20 goto 10

Real sicko hours

Good thread.

Salted Heard concepts - it's my own project!

i accidentally wrote the perfect eight words in an outline

Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland

Shhh it's late night theory-posting time!

Absolutely stellar advice from a pal who, in his sage wisdom, isn't on bsky. pressthebeast.bearblog.dev/the-osr-is-t...

Play this at my funeral as they put my body into the furnace.

Garfield would be s-tier if it was just the one where Jon drinks dog cum

Just realised last night I've so far not included any proper inventory or encumbrance rules in Decree. I am a proper professional game designer, please take me seriously I beg you.

So I am reliably informed it's Kiss A Ginger Day, which means you all gotta play Kissing Comrades with me hahaha just joking... unless...? 😏😏😏...

Salted Heart concept sketch - from last year

There is simply no universal truth in RPG design. There are just too many variation factors. Design approaches, play environments (online, pbp, in person, etc), roleplaying cultures, group dynamics, GMing traditions, etc etc etc…

I love that I stumbled my way into a corner of TTRPGs that's very DIY-focused, and one that while having some strongly-held opinions tends to not get too bogged down with theory. I find a lot of very well-argued theory vanishes in a puff of smoke when you actually get around a table with friends.

Reminder that playing games is supposed to be fun and not an obligation. If GMing is starting to feel like a burden, just tell your players! If they're not dicks, then they'll understand! Let somebody else take a turn at organising.

Old school eldar, based on those illustrations on early Rogue Trader. Love how freakish they looked, flamboyant daredevil space pirates wearing biomechanical bone armor

Compounded Edom. It used to be a city.

they returned with ideas of the impossible and new methods for calculating infinity

but, like what if games can be more than just finely-tuned machines? what if "good design" wasn't a tight jacket of restrictions and edicts about incentives meant to only produce the most pleasant and perfectly-flowing outcomes and experiences?

Okay, "GURPS saved my marriage" is the the peak of r/rpg posts. It doesn't get any more Reddit than that.

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

Again, the US president, his government officials, and supporters, are all lying to you about what happened here. This video clearly demonstrates the vehicle was not driving towards the ICE agent.

Me fastidiously examining the rules quality of ur micro ttrpg

Transphobia-to-far-right pipeline go brrr

ICE are lying pigs. The moderate position is junking the entire agency and prosecuting everyone in their command structure for war crimes. The morally correct position involves twenty-yard scaffolds.

Backed hard. Ran a 'modern horror' one-shot some years back, and the feedback I got was the scariest part was when I described what the party saw when one of them angled their phone-camera around a corner.

Finally, real gaming

Jarrett Crader is absolutely one of the unsung heroes of the indie TTRPG space. That's the post.

Originally had a plan to release a big hexcrawl full of points of interest for Decree but in retrospect that was stupidly ambitious. Currently divvying up the locations to make into 2-3 smaller, more focused adventures that tell different stories.

War Head - Rider of the F.0.R Horsemen - from my HELL-BENT project Pencils and colour!

Lil sketch before bed! Drew up this ostrich-ridin' frog who goes by the name of Monk! I'm currently playing as him in my solo RPG actual play series of Flying Ostriches & Floating Castles on YouTube!

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

(logging into my burner account to scowl at the people who blocked me) heh. i see the deranged behavior of my obsessive haters continues apace...

New year, new marines? Time will tell! Enjoy some of my old marines in the meantime

Missed a couple minor things in the How To Play section on the last upload that could have left a pretty bad impression. Now updated!

Love processes, deeply suspicious of theory. The action is the thing, even if it's just practice swings. Read more (non-rpg) books + run more (rpg) games = get more good.

some shit just doesn't fuckin change huh

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

amogus

The EU doffing its hat to fascists yet again.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

"Grok says" Fuck off and do your job.

HP is when I drink a cup of coffee and then chug several cans of Relentless throughout the day in a futile attempt to stay awake after a terrible night's sleep. Oh wait no, that's Heart Palpitations, wrong HP Same divine punishment though I guess

Check it out! - looked very fun, also has some new art of mine in there

A Dungeon Game is very good, and it's online tools are second to none.

haters tryna douse my flaming sword