Tomorrow 2pm EST: Mystery in the Night Market. Rival families blame each other for sabotage. You must navigate the social maze, earn trust, and unmask the real culprit in this Lv1 DnD5e One-Shot mystery. 🔗 startplaying.games/adventure/cm... #DnD5e #TTRPGcommunity #learntoplay

So let’s try this again. Show me your Witch Academia style art. Show me arcane fashion and Magica Modernism. Show me Hex Girls. Spell Boys. @evilrobotgames.bsky.social and I have a project in the hopper. We are not commissioning at this time. But we will be. That’s really all I can say about it.

This is SO COOL. Back when I was starting in the biz, the style guides and insider documents were _fascinating_ but by the time I was working, WEG was no longer doing Star Wars.

Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions. Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail. Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos. Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.

So I guess you make private calls from one, but to be anonymous you'd want unmarked kiosks in the back of convenience stores that aren't advertised.

Cool water fountain at this playground.

Hey, if you're looking for something creative to support after canceling some subscriptions, and you'd like to help me feed my cats (who sometimes show up in my videos) while I'm still out of a day job, why not subscribe to my Patreon? I write good stuff, I promise. www.patreon.com/c/JMilliganA...

anko

It's Thursday! Are YOU thirsty for a sci-fi tabletop RPG set in a more hopeful future with richly imagined alien life and cultures? The rebels won, the Empire fall 100 years ago, but now the work is far from done—this is the story of how they win or lose the peace: This is ChangedStars #TTRPG

I just realized I'm going to need playtesters who aren't me for the @evilrobotgames.bsky.social house mecha system here in a bit and whoof. We're gonna need a Discord and stuff, aren't we? Wheeeeeee.

Camy Artwork did a new piece, steampunk mechanic, has himself a big wrench when asking the rusty bolt politely ain't cutting it.

That time I painted a lion fish wyvern ❤️ For @evilrobotgames.bsky.social

Pax Athena Press

Thomas sent me updates over the weekend, we've got big robots.

Thomas sent me updates over the weekend, we've got Kaiju!

Friday Follow-up to the Monday Morning Missive. Signing up for my Patreon means you get free stuff like books and previews of @evilrobotgames.bsky.social products before the public sees them. Plus you get to help feed my cats. It's a win-win, really.

Following another Free RPG Day, I'm proud to kick off the second annual #PaidRPGDay! Today, I'm offering my games at a price you can pay to have them! Take a look and consider supporting your favorite indie publisher today, whoever they may be. Shop (with money) now: bannerlessgames.itch.io

That Faux King Guy

LOLZ kitty timeline cleanse!

The finished piece from Thomas, @chronopunk.bsky.social gives me grief over not enough missiles, but I don't think 70s robots got there like Macross swarms.

New wotk from @jacobblackmon.bsky.social wearing our influences on our sleeve this week.

Giant robot vs kaiju, from a new to us artist Thomas Peterson

After wiping out a huge part of the party's magic with a mages disjunction, the players suggested I might never do that again. The rogue lost 100k worth of items. 20 years later an AP I was running called for it, luckily someone counterspelled it.

Give them THE toys every kid wants. Mighty Thor Starter Kit, giant belt, ogre Gauntlets and hammer of thunderbolts. Everyone made a case why their character could use it. The clerics take when not casting could throw it for 4d6. The front liner got it in the end to swing twice per round.

One thing, I've run as a ruthless capitalist treasure keeper with share including item picks as a player, and run as GM over positively socialist player treasure distribution and never say anything as GM when treasure distribution evolves out of the character personalities organically.

Scifi still scarcity society with communism as an RPG, players appear on a game show to compete against other adventurers for new equipment as they level. If you need it more than the other guy, prove it.

I believe players used to roll off for treasure, when an item came up that more than one player wanted. I believe we did this at the table before MMOs created a similar rollover mechanic.

How do you split treasure in your games, everything equal shares as a portion of the total, do magic class items count against share? Does everyone pick an item and sell the rest and split the proceeds? Does the party fund pay for healing before the split?

Some wind down stuff for fun. Recently played DOOM TDA, inspired me to do some hefty sci fi gun stuff, type you would see in a good ol old school FPS. P.S. 'Gun people', i know its stupid and wouldn't work, i dont care, its for fun, chill out.

And to make those inferior goods, forcing longer hours and commutes instead of work from home on a self-determined schedule. The stockingers could produce their whole contracted weekly commitment in about 35 hours a week, often in 3 12 hour days. The owners wanted 6 12 hour days a week.

While we're at it, have some Starfinder 2e Alien Core previews!!! Whale! Whale! Whale! Whale! Whale!

@mattsmaps.bsky.social is working on crew quarters for me, I've asked for one of the round tops to be a dejarik table, anything else you think blue crew would get up to?

Games UX Research Tip: Perception is both bottom up (driven by stimuli in the world) and top down (driven by player cognition) The upshot of this, when combined with the scanning nature of vision, what players see can be more about what they expect to see than what is actually shown to them

🚨 EXCITING NEWS KLAXON 🚨 My first book THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON, based on my London Borough maps series and co-written with the amazing @mattfromlondon.bsky.social, is published by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social in October! 🥳 🛒 UK customers can preorder from: www.batsfordbooks.com/book/the-bor... 1/5 🧵⬇️

Heist one shot co-op card game, you start the crew is just about to pull off the big score You pull a card for the bank, casino, museum for venue You pull a card money, gems, artifact for the score Then you use disguise, distraction, subterfuge to get away from the guards

Today is the last day of my partner's job, eliminated because of the cuts to USAID. If you want to help my family weather taking a massive cut to household income, I'm offering a special bundle price of 80% off all my solo titles. www.dmsguild.com/product/5122... #ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e

You have 400 hungry passengers and you need to feed all of them in two dining room services, you can make meals in our galley or go cry in the walkin. WIP image by @mattsmaps.bsky.social

@mattsmaps.bsky.social hit me up this week with a work in progress, does anyone remember flushing credsticks out of the trash compactor for Raithe, or D3 asking about missing Dianoga eggs?

Rick's family could use some help, some publishers got together and contributed to this bundle to do just that. Please help if you can, like, share, and all the rest if you can't. @drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Sighs...

This is The Last Supper now.

NEW PEOPLE MAKE GAMES VIDEO! 😅 I've having a big week In London there's a $4,000,000 immersive starship simulator. If anyone would like to see what I'd be like as a sci-fi captain, as of today that is now (tragically) on the record www.youtube.com/watch?v=UROM...

Wrote something new about stories GMs can steal from to run Exodus evilrobotgames.com/ttrpg-and-me...

Nice to see Shield Maidens get a shout out.

I love finishing a TTRPG project and thinking, "Wow, this is the best thing I have ever made!" and then doing it again and again with each successive release. Keep making stuff; you're improving more than you know.

I have the opposite reaction: "Wow, you sure suck at this, uh? Let's make another one that sucks a little less." It keeps me grounded, at least. I don't know. It somehow works.

I frequently don't think it's the best I've ever made - because sometimes, I try something different, and it doesn't quite work as well as I hoped. But what I always do, is learn something from doing it, and that makes whatever I try making next that much more likely to be better than previous stuff

For Lego SW Vacation fans, @mattsmaps.bsky.social just sent me a WIP preview of the Sun Room, the climate simulator suns may be virtual but the burn is real....

I received the printer proofs for three of the recent maps we put out, and they look good. They're on sale now @drivethrurpg.com Links to all our recent sci-fi maps are below the description. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

After the new proofs arrived, we've got three more POD maps available. Links to the other maps below the description. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...