AAAAA I am so damn broke and need to restock on a lot of toiletries and other supplies please help #transcrowdfund paypal.me/mollymetroid

Bit the bullet and set up a gofundme for ongoing issues to try and keep the phone on while I continue to look for work. www.gofundme.com/f/help-phill...

Bit the bullet and set up a gofundme for ongoing issues to try and keep the phone on while I continue to look for work. www.gofundme.com/f/help-phill...

Upside of making a fake TV show to be the fake licensed media property for a game inspired a bunch of early 00's licensed TTRPGs: I get to make up my own chapter quotes from the imaginary source material. Downside: I have to make up my chapter quotes from the imaginary source material.

Name 3 characters after the second most famous love triangle in Arthurian myth, no one notices. Have an antagonist based on the Invisible knight? Not one word. But you name one guy Jake Elwood...

Hey a friend of mine's tablet that they rely on for work to afford her medication is falling apart. www.gofundme.com/f/help-repla...

Making up fake episode summaries of an imaginary TV show to provide support for writing an RPG inspired by early 2000s licensed genre show tie-ins. This is fine. I will remember to include a disclaimer this time so I don't get confuse people into trying to watch the fake show, unlike last time.

and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

So I self-published a short novel- Stealing Fire, some chapters of which were originally posted on my Patreon a few years back. It's up for 4.99 or free on Kindle unlimited. It's an urban fantasy heist story told from multiple perspectives: You can check it out here: www.amazon.com/author/phill...

Okay, so yeah, this is happening apparently. The bit has been committed.

Step 1: Consider making a retroclone of a system that was mostly used for licensed settings. Step 2: Go "what if I made up a fake TV show and stated the retroclone in question is the official licensed game for it?" Step 3: Be reminded that this wouldn't even be the 3rd fake TV show I've done.

My favorite TTRPG classes: 1. Ectortionist 2. Crossroads Jack 3. Faetale 4. Thirteenth Story Guy 5. Literally just the Shadow.

Managed to get an AC and get it installed, thanks to everyone who helped. Naturally, as soon as I did this the weather is turning and it's barely going to hit 60 the next few days. I will probably continue to need ongoing help until I find work but the immediate problem is over for now.

Hate asking for help again so soon after last time but it's been confirmed that I'm not getting unemployment, and to make that even more fun, my AC is busted. I need around 150 bucks for a replacement before summer hits in earnest. unseenlibrarian.itch.io www.paypal.com/paypalme/Uns...

Hate asking for help again so soon after last time but it's been confirmed that I'm not getting unemployment, and to make that even more fun, my AC is busted. I need around 150 bucks for a replacement before summer hits in earnest. unseenlibrarian.itch.io www.paypal.com/paypalme/Uns...

As the Sword World RPG moves closer to getting an official translation I will continue to mourn that I didn't think of the backstory of "Swords predate humanity, realized they had no one around to actually use swords, had to invent humans in order to be wielded." because it's amazing, honestly.

Completed and submitted my entry for FIST: JAM Ops VI: Grounds, the supplement for taking a game about playing paranormal mercenaries and running a coffee shop that hides a secret base. itch.io/jam/fist-jam...

Completed and submitted my entry for FIST: JAM Ops VI: Grounds, the supplement for taking a game about playing paranormal mercenaries and running a coffee shop that hides a secret base. itch.io/jam/fist-jam...

So it's official that my unemployment is being denied, which means I'm kinda screwed while I toss resumes into the void. This link may be relevant again soon.

I love working on FIST supplements because where else am I going to list impostor syndrome as someone's starting equipment.

Fist game jam project is in the works. Welcome to being undercover FIST Agents at "Golden Coffee", also known as Coffee Au. Adding a section for building quick skill challenges for things like "You were forced into a sales competition with Polyphemus Cold Brew down the street."

Was reminded again today that at one point in the early 2000s I took a TTRPG designed for cinematic action movie roleplaying and tried to use it to run White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming, then called the result Feng Sidhe. This is possibly my second-biggest RPG crime.

Thanks to everyone who helped out, phone bill is cleared for the month and I can only hope that next month they have my unemployment sorted out. For now I have breathing room to keep job hunting/writing more rpgs to throw on itch.

Fuck. My unemployment is being delayed while we go back and forth with my former employer and I just found out my phone bill is going up to $350+. I don't have that much because I had to use my last paycheck to pay the previous bill so that's...great.

Fuck. My unemployment is being delayed while we go back and forth with my former employer and I just found out my phone bill is going up to $350+. I don't have that much because I had to use my last paycheck to pay the previous bill so that's...great.

Think I've figured out what I'm doing for the "Things that could happen in the real world" FIST Jam starting this week, and it's...a coffee shop AU, about being the staff of a front company that conceals the entrance to a FIST base. FIST: Grounds.

Just uploaded: Dungeon Times, an RPG of fantasy reporting. It's PWYW, but just saying, I could use a new AC before summer hits. unseenlibrarian.itch.io/dungeon-times

Unfortunately for everyone, game design is happening.

Working on a new microgame because the concept popped into my head and I have to write it to get it out of there now.

A sudden horrible realization that I need to do basic vehicle rules because this game is set in LA in the 40s/50s and in a genre where car chases happen, fuck me.

As I'm currently not working, I figure it's time to plug www.patreon.com/c/unseenphil/ Join now for a bunch of short fiction and my ongoing work on Hollywood Underhills, a fantasy noir RPG set in an alternate post-war Hollywood where magic means elves are trying to be in the movies.

Every time I see someone using "Heartstaker" as a term for "Someone trying to make their own WOD" in the wild I get a little thrill like I got away with something I shouldn't have.

People jumping straight to 40k memes about the current anti-pope noises makes me sad when there are other superior sci-fi Catholic options. 40K doesn't even have Space Prester John. Or a hagiography of the folk saint patron of cyborgs that traces her back to her roots as a corporate mascot.

Sometimes I think about trying to go back and complete my long form review/readalong of the Mike Stackpole written RPG, Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes, but then I hit this picture and just stare at it for a while instead. And I think "What more is there to say, this picture says it all."

So I lost my job, and so thus I'm cutting prices- all my non PWYW products are up for a bundle. itch.io/s/183622/low...

Finally finished with the main rules chapter of Hollywood Underhills, now featuring the possibility to experience toads. (This naturally has a higher level version where it's permanent until treated)

Still half convinced that I shouldn't be able my character's skills in trpgs, because I was just allowed to name a Daggerheart experience "Vaguely concerned that he's the sane one in the party" and that's both super-specific and yet, and based on play experience, likely to be actually useful.

Only two days to go on the Second Gig KS, and we're close to unlocking a stretch goal for a full hardcover print run! If you'd be interested in retrofuture cyberpunk TTRPG action please check us out and spread the word! (We've also got my past games available as add-ons if you'd be into that!)

Imagine being the type of wizard who turns into a flock of corvids to dramatically leave a scene but the only one you can manage is blue jays so all the other portentous flock of corvid wizards make fun of you for not being able to pull off crows or ravens.

Was once accused of turning into an owl to terrorize a church youth group through a series of coincidences where I'd leave the area and an owl would attack them.

Ever so often the evil ghost on my shoulder whispers "You should do a podcast where you run a one-shot tabletop game where everyone has to use different rules for playing highlanders from a late 90s-era OWOD fansite" Sometimes I'm tempted to listen, but then I have a lie down and think better of it.

Holy fucking shit it's new Hard Wired Island go fund it

I think anyone who knows both me and the series could have probably guessed this one was coming.

Sometimes as I write something set in a historical period where phones aren't everywhere I find myself thinking "God, it'd be so much easier if these characters had a discord or a group chat than trying to justify how they all got into a room to talk." Which is probably more about me than the era.

Have decided that going forward I will feign confusion whenever anyone describes Warlocks in D&D-only terms, insisting that a Warlock is just a secret agent with a laser pistol and an epileptic robot horse, what's this about a patron, you mean the government agency that sent them in?

Happy WKRP Turkey Drop Day, everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiSk...

Getting my Fallout examples going for Hollywood Underhills. Next up, Cash Stress, which will include both "You had to pawn your gun" and "You pawned your gun and someone bought it to use in a crime" as moderate upgrade of that.

Since it's that time of year, if you've ever wanted a light system for being trapped on a space station that's been bought by a legally distinct Spirit Halloween and having to do crimes to get away, well, see the itch link below.

Looking at my copy of Mutants in the Now/Next and realizing that you can work from vampire bats as your base animal -and- be a human born mutant and finally, an RPG where you can begin to Morb. Not sure if this is an endorsement or not actually, come to think about it.