I’m a sucker for adventures where the “monster” isn’t automatically the villain. The Cleric and the Wyrmling leans into that: danger is real, but so is the possibility of something gentler. 🌱🐉 #DnD #StoryDriven site.dmsguild.com/product/4298...

First time I'm seeing a final review score and actually agree with it immediately because I've already played it myself :-)

“INT. KITCHEN – NIGHT. One person, a deck of cards, and way too many feelings about real and your own fictional movies.” Roll credits on your day with a mini festival session of Reel To Real. 🍷📓 #AtHomeFestival #SoloRPG #Journaling arvelcrynyd.itch.io/reel-to-real

My games haven't really gotten much reviews yet or have been downloaded a lot, but occasionally something's posted. This one was from a customer of my D&D adventure "Final Contact", available on DM's Guild www.dmsguild.com/en/product/3...

New toy: a conch that turns problems into were-problems. Great at crowd control; terrible at PR. Use responsibly. 🎺🐺 #TTRPG #MagicItems #DMFuel Lycan Lockdown & Lunar Lunacy is PWYW at DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

New to the #SoloRPG List: Reel to Real from @arvelcrynyd.bsky.social Create your own mini movie festival and talk about the movies you love and how you experienced them. CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...

New to the #SoloRPG List: The Dream Date by @arvelcrynyd.bsky.social The Dream Date is a GM-less two-person romantic comedy journaling TTRPG that dives into the first few weeks of a new romance. #Romcom #TTRPG CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...

Wave Echo Outlet is canon now. Yes, there’s loot. Yes, the queue is deadly. ⛏️🛒 #LostMine #TTRPG www.dmsguild.com/en/product/4...

Game mechanics research…

Recently I had my first comment for R2R... and it brings me joy that they liked it. At the moment, it's only been downloaded ~ 100 times but still, if I created a good time for only one of them that's already worth all the effort that I've put into this product. arvelcrynyd.itch.io/reel-to-real

Make it a weekly ritual: shuffle themes, log new discoveries, spot patterns in what you like. Over time, your notebook becomes a personal film school—no tuition, all heart. 📚💡 #ReelToReal #SoloRPG #CreativePractice arvelcrynyd.itch.io/reel-to-real

Our date had ✨chemistry✨ until the ♠️ complication said “hold my drink.” The dice ship us… do we ship us? “The Dream Date” is a cozy, GM-less rom-com journaling game for two. Bring snacks, shuffle cards, roll dreams vs nightmares. 💘🎲 #TTRPG #RomComRPG #IndieTTRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

I've released two journaling games in the last 6 months but what I've been lacking is user interaction and feedback... Do you like what you see or would you recommend changes? For example for this game, a game about movies and the love for movies: arvelcrynyd.itch.io/reel-to-real

Hi, my name is Kai and I'm usually doing software development in image processing and computer vision on my day job and create game experiences and stories at night. Here's the current list of offerings, that I have released so far. #TTRPG #ShortStories #D&D

Forget monsters. Your party just walked into the Arcane Licensing Office. Take a number. Fill out Form E. Wait 3–5 business days. 🧌 Bureaucracy is the real boss battle. Blog: arvelsarchives.com/2025/09/28/s... #TTRPGWorldbuilding #StoryWithinStories #FantasyBureaucracy

I'm talking about some of my inspirations and influences of my Flash Fiction Story "ThrAIve", how I tried to use the format of a software change log as a story template and my hope for technocrats *NOT* to use my story as a template for something sinister. arvelsarchives.com/2025/09/27/s...

BER. Stuttgart 21. January 6th. Our systems don’t just support stories—they are stories. What if your fantasy city had its own controversial megaproject or failed oath? New blog: Systems as Storytelling. 📖 arvelsarchives.com/2025/09/21/s... #TTRPG #FantasyPolitics #StorySeed

Lights. Camera. Mishaps. You can find it on DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... or on itch.io : arvelcrynyd.itch.io/reel-to-real And if you want to have a smaller look at how this game was conceived, have a look at the blog entry below.

After releasing my newest solo journaling #TTRPG it yesterday, I had a small braindump about the creation of Reel To Real: arvelsarchives.com/2025/09/20/r...

Reel to Real is here 🎬 A storytelling RPG about running your own chaotic film festival. 📽️ Curate 3 films ⚡ Survive mishaps 🎤 Face the audience Solo or group play · 60–90 min · PWYW Now on itch.io + DriveThruRPG. Oh... and it's PWYW... #TTRPG #IndieRPG #FilmFestival #JournalingGame

Die US-Regierung leugnet, dass sie Faschisten sind. Aber sie erklären laut, dass Antifaschisten ihre Feinde sind. Von daher …

Last week saw the release of my first Flash Fiction in the collection book „In a Flash Vol. 3“. Now I got the opportunity to hold that book as a physical product in my hand.

Wondering what @gaghyogi49.bsky.social thinks about this addition to Datalore youtu.be/yWxQBAFcwpg?...

RIP

Don’t tell your players what happened 200 years ago. Let them live it. Show, don't tell! Run a one-shot where they are the lost civilization. Inspired by "The Inner Light" (TNG). 🧵 More ideas in the blog: 📖 arvelsarchives.com/2025/09/14/s... #DnD #TTRPGTools #TimeTravelSession

What’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to you at the cinema? (Heckler? Fire alarm? Popcorn spill? Tell me your chaos story.)

Hopefully, next week will see the release of my 2nd TTRPG named Reel To Real. It's a fun solo journaling game about movies and the love for movies. In order to show you something you can create while playing the game, I've written an example story along the rules of the book.

Lights. Camera. Mishaps. Your festival is about to begin. Reel to Real premieres this September. 📽️ A storytelling RPG about running your own film festival — and surviving it. #TTRPG #SoloRPG #StorytellingGame #FilmFestival #LightsCameraMishaps

A lost diary. Cryptic notes. A warning: Only the penitent man will pass. You’ve seen it in Indy 3. Why not use it in your TTRPG? This month’s blog is all about framing devices & layered storytelling. 📖 Read more: arvelsarchives.com/2025/09/07/s... #TTRPG #DMtips #StoryWithinAStory

Excited to announce that Reel to Real is launching soon! A solo and group journaling RPG where you build your own film festival with nothing but cards, dice, and your imagination.

Available now @DriveThruFic: IN A FLASH VOL III, a collection of flash fiction written by our global author community. Support emerging voices by picking up a print or digital copy. Published by @storytellingco.bsky.social www.drivethrufiction.com/product/5312... (May contain one of my stories 😀)

Available now @DriveThruFic: COLLECTIVE VERSES VOL V, a collection of poetry by our global author community. Support emerging voices by picking up a print or digital copy. Published by @storytellingco.bsky.social . www.drivethrufiction.com/product/5312...

“The first dragons have been killed and the players are somewhere between Level 3 or 5… What should you do now?” 🎲 New blog post: Beyond the Beginner’s Map arvelsarchives.com/2025/08/31/s...

You were the monster. Now you’re back to save the town. They remember. You do too. But so does the moon. 🌕 🎭 Final Contact — a tragic 5e one-shot about guilt, lycanthropy, and fragile trust. #DnD #TTRPG #OneShot #Lycanthropy www.dmsguild.com/product/3386...

Remember when OpenAI had to revert back their 4o model at some point due to sycophancy? And then there's this crap...

🐉 Just finished Lost Mine of Phandelver or Dragon of Icespire Peak? 🎯 The Cleric and the Wyrmling slots right into Phandalin’s world – and sets the stage for your next big arc. 🛐 Morality, mystery & a chained wyrmling await. #DnD5e #Phandelver #TTRPGBridgeModule www.dmsguild.com/product/4298...

Did I hear that correctly? Trump wants to rename the Defense Ministry into War Ministry because they want to go back to winning again and they have to think more about offensive things again instead of just defense... what?

So... I guess my first release candidate for Reel to Real is finished... anyone who likes solo journaling ttrpg's wanna test?

What’s the craziest player decision that derailed your prep? Mine: One card draw from the Deck of Many Things → instant derail into Descent into Avernus. 😅 ⬇️ Drop your chaos stories! arvelsarchives.com/2025/08/24/s...

Recently I had the pleasure of seeing Jaws on the big screen. And it's remarkable how timeless this movie is even though the world has changed so much since the 70s. Horror, Thriller, Action, Survival, there are only a few movies that would take that many genres and make it an amazing experience.

About my new game... what began with a simple TTRPG research led to playing Void 1680 AM, reconnecting old ideas... and then inspiring to write a new solo journaling game... arvelsarchives.com/2025/08/23/a...

Strange New Worlds Season 3 - The Arvel Crynyd Review Hegemony, Pt. II: The first Cliffhanger ending since 2004's Zero Hour. It's basically Independence Day in space, compared with body horror and slight nods to the OG Cliffhanger The Best of Both Worlds. But what annoyed me the most...

I've been trying to change my daily routines a bit and had been prompting myself in the last few weeks with Daily tasks. Recently I've been gathering some speed with some of my creative ideas that I have (and there are some things coming soon...) and today's prompt had me thinking of a review system

Magic tests. Night curfews. Confined visitors. What if your town treated lycanthropy like a pandemic? Lycan Lockdown is a dark & timely D&D supplement for uneasy times. And it's PWYW :-) #TTRPG #DnD #Worldbuilding #Lycanthropy 🐺 www.dmsguild.com/product/4360...

Me before my first D&D session: “I’ve prepared every possible outcome!” My players: “Can we ride the owlbear?” 🐻 New blog for #TTRPG beginners: arvelsarchives.com/2025/08/17/s...

After a productive day, I can now announce that I had been working on a new solo journaling #ttrpg in the last few weeks, and I have now reached a first milestone where I have finished my first draft. And to celebrate this, I'm also announcing the preliminary name: Reel to Real, a game about movies.

🎲 Two players. Three dates. One question: Is this a dream come true - or a beautiful disaster? The Dream Date is a GM-less, two-player RPG about romance, risk, and emotional what-ifs. 💔✨ Now on DriveThruRPG. #TTRPG #IndieRPG #SoloJournaling #RomComRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/de/product/5...

Who built what and why? From Ludwig V’s Thick Tower (7 m walls, 1533) to Elector Friedrich V’s ceremonial English Wing—each addition marks power & taste. Map your NPCs through stones and statues. arvelsarchives.com/2025/07/06/t...

So… what maybe also (should have) happened at some point on the D… and if you‘ll give me some BS about no Holo emitters in Ten Forward isn‘t considering of using mobile holo projectors…

An empty fortress doesn’t stay empty. Once Hambach Castle was burned down in 1552, nature reclaimed it—until humans re-used the rubble, staged political festivals, or sought shelter. In your world, why was it abandoned, and who occupies it now? #TTRPG #Ruins arvelsarchives.com/2025/07/20/t...