Anybody else struggle with staying motivated after having an "off" session? I always spend at least a few weeks in the dumps when that happens. Rationally, I know we can't expect to be on our A-Game all the time, but I can't help but blame myself anyway.

Bluesky's back? Wonderful! Did you all know I released a supplement to NULL_SPACE? What's that, you didn't because I suck at marketing and barely posted about it? Well, NULL_SPACE Supplement #1: Violence is here. I wrote a piece about it: binarystar.games/posts/origin...

Listen, all I'm saying is that as a Storyteller, no one can stop you from adding an Asylum franchise to your chronicle's city. There's even an excellent loresheet for it! Running a Camarilla chronicle? It's a hostile expansion. Anarch? The Voerman can be allies or foes. Do it. Provoke society.

Been thinking about this, and I might need to write some new coterie types (or rather, pack types) to go with these rules. Some of the vanilla coterie types are a good fit, but it'd be nice to have some explicitly Sabbat stuff to pick from.

Word on the grapevine is that Bungie is planning a PvE mode for Marathon, so I gotta ask, why didn't they implement that at launch? The game has been bleeding players like crazy, and this could've done wonders for retention. Such a bad business decision.

I did not choose the Tzimisce life, it chose me.

My social media cycle consists of being REALLY active for a week or two, posting a lot of stuff I've been working on, interacting with some of my favourite moots, and then vanishing for over a month (sometimes more). How do y'all manage to post consistently all the time???

So, this is an excellent thread overall (and deserves to be read in its entirety), but my personal experience with this particular issue has been the exact opposite. The anatomy of a well designed Move is quite deceptive, as it may look more complicated to use at first, but it really isn't. 1/3

Holy shit, this film was a banger. It's a bloody visual feast, and the soundtrack kicks so much ass! Can't recommend this enough to my fellow vampire fans. Bliss feels like a lost piece of the 80s while somehow being one of the freshest films in the genre. So good.

I know this has been done to death already, but I decided to write some rules for playing Sabbat characters with Vampire: The Masquerade's 5th edition rules. This is *not* a throwback to the Revised/V20 Sabbat, though; I find V5's Sabbat much more coherent, so that's what I went with.

I made a few new Predator Types for V5, but I think the first three ended up way too dark even for Vampire: The Masquerade. The first one in particular made *me* uncomfortable, tbh. Reader discretion is advised due to the sensitive topics depicted here.

I know Paradox hasn't done any favours for the World of Darkness, but I'll be damned if Hasbro doesn't make them look like benevolent corporate daddies.

Wrote a spicy loresheet for playing Abominations (aka Garou-Kindred hybrids) in V5. It's not meant to be balanced or anything, but I hope it's not THAT broken. Now, will this ever see the light of day on my table? Probably not, as my players are too risk-averse, but I had to write it down anyway.

So, there's a bloodcurdling, horrifying piece about feeding vitae to your children in the original printing of the Anarch V5 book. It's disturbing, messed up and perfect for a horror game. So guess what? It was censored on later printings and replaced with a fan service-y bit. Censorship SUCKS.

I wrote about developing dungeons for sandbox play, whether you're stealing from existing source material or making something of your own. Not as comprehensive as the thousands of bits of advice on the topic throughout recorded history, but hopefully a good place for someone to start. #D&D #OSR

Man, Pentex ain't got nothing on real life. ANVISA, a Brazilian regulatory organ that oversees sanitary control for almost every product, recently warned us about a bacterial contamination of a big brand of detergents and ordered a recall. Right wingers are showering with it in protest. /1

GET IT NOW #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

I've been a little under the weather these last few days, and one of the things that always cheers me up is diving into my saved memes folder. This was my favourite find today. It's a shame the Banu Haqim, the Ministry, the Hecata, the Lasombra and the Ravnos are missing, but I love it anyway.

So, I made my own Elric of Melnibonè inspired Sword & Sorcery #TTRPG IT'S FREE IN ENGLISH 🇬🇧 Y EN ESPAÑOL 🇪🇸 #Lodelrol

V5. Hell, WoD5 in general. It's a gigantic improvement on all previous non-CofD editions, but there are SO many little issues that, when put together, amount to really big issues. This includes layout, mistreatment of writers (looking at ya, W5), awful corpo speak and some game design decisions. 1/2

fuck internal validation, all my homies hate internal validation, it is EXTERNAL VALIDATION TIME whenever I'M in the fuckin house

As I was organising my WoD books, I stopped to flip through the Book of the Wyrm 2e, and this snippet caught me by surprise. It's half content warning and half proto-safety guideline, with some 90s edge bleeding through. Here's W5's first foray on the same subject, for comparison.

Adventure Time always gets me in the mood for some Mutant: Year Zero. Simon & Marcy in particular serves so much MYZ, it could literally be used as an introduction to the game's themes and vibes for newcomers.

Something delightful about emulating the 5e house style for this lil project:

Bluesky CENSORED me yesterday by just fucking up and not working, but here is a new blog post where I propose a procedural method for generating hexcrawl terrain, inspired by both Mausritter and the original DMG #osr #ttrpg

So, I know a lot of quintessential OSR/NSR titles are missing from that shelf, but that's only because many of those are prohibitively hard to acquire here in Brazil. Ideally, this would include: - Electric/Mystic Bastionland - HMTW - The Electrum Archive - TBH - Vaults of Vaarn - Songbirds - OSE

When I started reorganizing my shelves, I could've *sworn* there was no way I could fit all of the TTRPG books I still regularly use in a single shelf, but here we are. The rest are still sorted by collections (though they're mostly cWoD books), but hot damn. This is gonna be so much easier to use!

After reading and digesting the post, I have three main thoughts: - On a surface level, this feels like a more grounded, direct and actionable version of FATE Aspects, A+ - Not sure how this will play moment-to-moment, but it's great for prepping situations - Holy shit, this is SO customizable!

Recently, I wrote a module for FIST which centered around betrayals and a Prisoner's Dilemma. How DO you set up a 'fair' betrayal as a Game Master? I'm not sure yet - but I do have thoughts! dicegoblin.blog/betrayals-in...

I haven't been all that active in the TTRPG space lately, but a new Ty blog post is ALWAYS a great reason to come out of my cave. Can't wait to dig into it; will update this skeet later with my thoughts!

⚡ NEW BLOG POST! I'm back talking about adventure design, this time laying out a mental model for 'energy' inside of an adventure. It's a simple and effective way to categorize elements inside of the scenario and look for stagnation and chaos. Check it out! ⚡ www.mindstormpress.com/energy-coin-...

After a bit of experimenting, I came to the conclusion that I'd really like some illustrations for the Frame Classes. I'm gonna try my hand at making silhouettes, but just in case this doesn't work, do y'all know of any CC BY mech art, or even some mech-related art packs for sale?

In The Castle Automatic, rival adventuring guilds can provide rumors, serve as temporary allies, or oppose the players' progress! (With some art from @victor-el-dm.eurosky.social's Patreon!)

Toucan’t Blog: Allomancy For Beginners #MistAndMetals #RollForBad

I'm still trying to figure out how I'm gonna handle Kriegwalkers' Frame Class spreads without illustrations, but in the meantime, here's a look at the Pilot Profiles and Krieger creation rules. I hope I'm not missing any major archetype here, lmao.

Welp, gonna have to cancel my first game night in over a month. It's raining cats and dogs.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Sometimes I remember that there are people I've been mutuals with since 2009-2010, and it's incredible that they're still around and, more importantly, that we've followed each other on all the platforms we've been on. Even though we don't talk much, or at all, it feels good.

I've always preferred my dice rolls/resolution rules to be active instead of reactive. If a character tries to do something they may fail at and failure can make things worse for them, sure, roll some dice. But if they fuck up *in the fiction*, dice rolls shouldn't be a get-out-of-jail-free card.

I've started something I've been dreaming of: a play-by-post DANGER CLOSE campaign, drop-in/drop-out, open to anyone, on Discord. I post missions, people post their logs, and when the time limit expires, the war evolves. Helldivers, but play-by-post. Join in! discord.gg/zB9PhT3chT

So, I know I've been MIA for a while (needed lots of bed rest after surgery), but here's a look at the intro for Kriegwalkers and a quick layout test!

Kinda wish more OSR games would experiment with 3d6 for task resolution instead of using the d20. Don't get me wrong, I get that d20s are iconic as fuck, but they're soooo swingy. Bell curves are much more satisfying in play.

Just found out about IGPX, and I'm shocked that an anime with such a cool concept managed to slip under my radar for so long. It apparently had a few runs on American Toonami (AND a PS2 game), but it was never aired here in Brazil. The mech races are SO fun!

An attempt was made. I might need to reduce the blur on the mech's silhouette (based on a model by Michael Schiffer I found at Unsplash), but this turned out way better than expected. PS2 covers were the biggest inspiration here.

I know I should be resting, but I *really* wanna work on that damn mecha game. Sigh. A week of bed rest down, three to go...

After much deliberation (as in, a little over 30 minutes), I landed on two possible titles: KRIEGWALKERS and HAWK-R (Heavy Armored Walker/Krieger Riders). Which do y'all prefer?

I was a playtester for this! It is a very good classical style train adventure.

Has anyone made a mecha hack of World of Dungeons before? Because I think I just wrote one. No idea what I'm gonna do for the title, and this is probably not gonna have a cover (can't draw mechs for shit), but I think the layout's in the bag, as is the character sheet.

People really weren't kidding about GQuuuuuuX's identity crisis. It feels like someone dumped three great concepts for different Gundam series in a blender and called it a day.

The Absolute Trinity only clicked for me when I realised Darkseid stacked *every* possible odd against them AND took away their cornerstones, yet they still rose to the challenge. They're rougher and edgier than their Prime counterparts, but their hope and idealism are still as heroic as ever.