missed some updates for handouts.tomg.cool over the festive period, but coming soon - stacks of books! #ttrpg #rpg #handouts #handoutbuilder

design problem solved: you want a #fitd "post-score extra bullshit" table in a setting where "heat" and "try to avoid lots of exposure" AREN'T things? make the players confirm a plan and punish them when they dont stick to it lmao #ttrpg #rpg #bitd #fitd

Another piece I wrote several years ago now; "6K'ish words from a vampire's diary - An actual-play of Thousand Year Old Vampire" tomg.cool/blog/2021-05... Must come back to this game, I loved it the few times I've spent an afternoon with it. #ttrpg #rpg #tyov #soloplay #actualplay

Finally took the time to migrate all my longer written bits off medium, they're all at tomg.cool/blog/ now! Guess I'll post about them a bit; if you're new to d&D you should read tomg.cool/blog/2018-08... and it's follow ups and also tomg.cool/blog/2019-02... #dnd #dnd5e #beginner #rpg #ttrpg

here's my blog post about how people who use generative ai are deeply estranged from themselves and reality itself, their souls drifting rudderless in open water, asphyxiating www.joewintergreen.com/i-think-the-...

oh yea er #rpg #ttrpg #handouts #rpghandouts er fuckin #rpgtool

october update for my rpg handout builder tool! tmcgry.itch.io/tomg-rpg-han... will post the update here too as a thread🧵 as always, if you just wanna see whats new, the tool is available for free no login, etc. at handouts.tomg.cool

experimenting with a new look for the handout builder, some floating panels and bubbles. think it maybe makes it a little less "muddled" than having everything inside 1 big form #rpg #handoutbuilder #ttrpg

its the height of spooky season soon so play one of my spooky rpgs with your mates while getting tanked tmcgry.itch.io/john-is-a-li... everyone is john but frankenstein tmcgry.itch.io/sexy-hairdre... its in the name tmcgry.itch.io/werewolf-pro... its also in the name #rpg #spooky #scary #ttrpg

progress slowed down on handouts.tomg.cool a little (primarily cus I've been caught up with my new #forbiddenlands game lfg) but bunch of cool stuff landed over the last few weeks like... #rpg #handout #builder #generator

i wanted my #votann little floaty boys to _actually_ float (ish), so I snipped them off their "bases", then used said bases to anchor some study wire (stolen from a spiral notepad lmao) to their hollow innards. #warhammer #kitbashing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlPa... #kitbash #warhammer #spacedwarves

My second submission to the @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social, based on Honey Heist by @gshowitt.bsky.social and Micro Mysteries! by @tombola.bsky.social 👻 In Finished Business, you're already dead...kind of. You're half-human, half-ghost and biding your time. featherforge-games.itch.io/finished-bus...

stupid idea posting this at 1am lmao crystal ball rpg handout! free and easy to use! no login/signup required! come get it while its hot! #rpg #handouts #vtt #ttrpg

heres a fun one i thought of while walking the dog earlier... 🔮 CRYSTALL BALL 🔮 use any image, real "bulge" effect, some minor lighting effects. will add some more stands, tweak things etc. soon! <3 live now at handouts.tomg.cool/crystal-ball ! #ttrpg #rpg #handouts #vtt #HandoutBuilder

oh my god it doesn't happen when you're on windows just fucking shoot me

oh fucking OF COURSE chrome doesn't apply displacement maps correctly fuck meeeeee ma. well, yah'll just gonna have to live with it (firefox top, chrome bottom, notice that towards the centre of the image chrome is a little "wobbly")

ok im really proud of this and it was a real f**k to do **"star-wars style" sci-fi hologram builder that works with ANY transparent PNG** just plug you image in, drop your background in, and customise any options you like #rpg #ttrpg #handout #starwars live now on handouts.tomg.cool

dno why this took me so long - proper backgrounds are now in place on handouts.tomg.cool flat colours, gradients, and custom images. will maybe have a go curating a bunch of images for people to pick from to save them some time #rpg #handouts #ttrpg #vtt

ok this one needs a little more time to cook (more styling options needed) but... 🗺️ maps! 🗺️ with legends and pins! maybe not SUPER useful (all maps have labels lets be honest) but this seems like if you need it in a pinch, it'll be MEGA useful #rpg #handouts #ttrpg #vtt

the hardest part of doing props like this, real objects with superimposed text, is that all the good stock photo sites are now chocka with ai slop 😢

keen observers will notice the screen BULGES properly, like a real CRT! that was an absolute fucking nightmare to get working properly! you're welcome! all worth it tho - i can now spam my players discord gc with in-universe ominous screen readings :D #rpg #ttrpg #handouts handouts.tomg.cool

latest in my #ttrpg #handouts builder: 🖥️CRT SCREENS!🖥️ making cool screen handouts for #mothership just became a 5 second job live now at handouts.tomg.cool ! no login, no payment, etc. improvements to come soon! (think; easier to change paddings and spaces, etcs.) ⚡

ok i was supposed to do more paper types but i had an idea and couldnt stop and im so happy with it; wooden sign stuff! all rendered totally in DOM in the browser perfect to tease some locations to your players ⚔️ coming soon to handouts.tomg.cool #handouts #vtt #rpg #ttrpg #webdev

game design thoughts: writing tactics role playing games is hard. if i were writing a wargame, it would be easier. i'll post a little thread here

there is literally nothing stopping you from making a #ttrpg #handout like this and dropping it in your #rpg group chat without any context or warning

handouts.tomg.cool is coming along - no new content, but spent all last night refactoring my prototype code to not be awful. Bit more to do then I reckon I'm in a good place to start slamming in some more templates for #rpg handouts! #ttrpg #vtt #handout #builder

im so good at using social media that i took the effort to record a video clip of the thing then forgot to include a link 💀 handouts.tomg.cool

oh i never posted about my #ttrpg #handout #builder on here; - its free - it works totally in browser - theres a bunch of templates (im adding more soon) - exporting is just "take a screenshot" hopefully you get some use out of it! im gonna continue to expand in future 😁

someday soon i'll finish one whole project again. but until then; (the name is wip lmao) #callofcthulhu #rpg #ttrpg

using my patented Modaliser3000:tm:, calling `alert()` has been made redundant and reduced to a thing that only children and buffoons do

ehhhh its not _not_ a game. solidjs is pretty fuckin nifty, too

if you commit to only using emojis and flat colours for your game you'll get all your art for FREE! and it also gets to look like SHIT as a FREE BONUS‼️‼️

a couple of years ago i did a quick christmas themed hack of EVERYONE IS JOHN called SEVERAL ELVES IN ONE RED COAT and im very proud of the name #rpg #ttrpg #christmas #onepagerpg

real ttrpg writers have their browser pull up relatedwords.org on open

its coming tooogeeeettheeeerrr shoutout to John Harper for dropping DEEPCUTS and revitalising my own interest in my own project 😅 #rpg #ttrpg #fitd

💚 Elphaba, Wicked 💚 #makeup #wicked #wickedthemusical #wickedmovie

today's barnabus update: tiny QOL around resizing and locking/not locking aspect ratio. before, aspect ratio was always locked. now its toggle'able via holding Ctrl/Cmd #rpg #ttrpg #webdev #vtt

spent a while this evening writing actual human words for the next big ttrpg project, but managed to squeeze in a bit of Barnabus work; qol stuff around "sticky tokens" #rpg #ttrpg #vtt #webdev

chipping away at rpg writers block, one sentence at a time

with Barnabus i'm obsessing over performance - heres a clip in action where im moving and duplicating 2500 individual picture objects performance will vary based on machine (i'm a mac m1 which i realise is pretty top end) but i'm very happy with it so far! #rpg #ttrpg #vtt

alright then, heres the first clip of my WIP #ttrpg VTT - Barnabus! (named after my dog) completely web based, aiming for a tool that has the ease-of-use of a "whiteboarding" tool, like Miro or Google Jamboard, but with RPG goodness baked in. more to come! #rpg #vtt

gonna use bluesky to post about my rpg and code work, so play my ttrpg WEIRD WEIRD WEST! 🤠 its a pbta game i made a few years ago and i expected it to go absolutely no where. instead it sold a bunch of copies! also all the player facing rules are free! tmcgry.itch.io/weird-weird-...