While I'm not usually one for making New Year's resolutions, one of the things I want to get better at in the new year is putting myself in front of the camera and talking about games and game design. While I was at college, I would try and host/record a movie news and reviews show online, but...

Having reached a satisfactory place in lore development and writing for the Faun ancestry yesterday (yes, I was tinkering on this throughout the holidays), today I started work on the lore for goblins. Oh boy. This is *a whole lot* to sort through on the classical mythology side of things.

My TTRPG Shelves, now featuring Draw Steel!

The Draw Steel Ajax Edition is far and away the coolest RPG book set I’ve got. This is going to get displayed *prominently* on my shelves for all to see! MCDM spared no expense!

"The weres' shapes are not their true flesh, but a reflection of their inner selves. As a reflection, it makes them vulnerable to other reflections--the natural reflection from silver's glimmer, the moon reflecting the light of the sun." #RPGLore

One of the unique personal things I’ve included in my in-development #TTRPG, #Underkeeper is an ability score directly tied to a character’s ‘temporal immanence’. (I’m a nerd who *really* loves his time travel stories) That portion of the game has always been a bit more scaled-down, so…

I finally received my tracking information for my Draw Steel Ajax Edition box! It left Cook and Becker’s warehouse(?) in the Netherlands yesterday, and is currently in Belgium! Yes, I will be updating this thread as it makes its way to me. Yes, I’m *that* excited.

Yay… it’s the 99% bad option (Netflix), instead of the 100% bad option (Paramount & Ellison). Wish antitrust laws could be enforced, and *clear, unabashed, anti-competitive monopolies* would be broken up. Shame that doing the right thing doesn’t make the line go up. deadline.com/2025/12/netf...

Over the last couple of hours, I made the critical game design decisions of figuring out which emojis best represent the chapters in the #Underkeeper RPG. I promise this is serious work.

Made some alfredo pasta for dinner tonight. I think it might be the best alfredo I’ve ever had (and I’ve had *a lot*). Here is a link to my recipe if you want to give it a try yourself! www.reddit.com/r/recipes/s/...

@houndsonggames.bsky.social Has there been any news on shipping for the physical rewards for the Relict RPG Kickstarter? I'm just curious since I haven't heard anything on that front in a while. My address got locked for shipping back in September, and I was charged for it, but nothing's shown up.

Homemade enchiladas for dinner tonight!

One of the things I’ve learned/noticed from writing my own TTRPG has been how much I just kinda took things for granted in my worldbuilding. Tieflings? Doppelgängers? Fauns? Yeah, they exist. What’s their evolutionary history? Why did *they specifically* come into the natural history of the world?

Finally got my code to work to generate the percent chances of rolling a Target Number of 6s on Xd6 rolls for a #TTRPG I'm working on! It only took 8 spreadsheets of calculations and finding a geneticist's code for counting pattern instances within a string hidden within the Google Support Forums!

Making some italian subs for my girlfriend and I tonight! Just absolutely love how they’re looking right now

#Underkeeper: Playtest Packet 2 is coming up; game is still in writing & editing. The Scarlet Masque: Early design and writing

I can only imagine this is a common sight for all my fellow #TTRPG designers and fantasy worldbuilders - all the custom words and language you use ending up throwing every error in the book at you… and the pure bliss of simply turning them all off. #GameDesign #DnD #Underkeeper

I like coming up with Elven names. #Underkeeper

Hey, #TTRPG folks! Is there a good methodology or system for writing ancestry descriptions? I am working on getting several of these put together, and each one just seems to drag on and take forever. Thank you so much in advance! #DnD #RPG #GameDev #DungeonsandDragons #Underkeeper #Writing

Why is #Underkeeper Playtest Packet 2 taking so long? It's been over a year! Yeah... - the game was completely overhauled from a d20 fantasy game to a custom 2d12 system. - the layout is getting a massive upgrade - packet 2 is going to have a lot more material than packet 1. Here's a small taste

3,193 words of D&D statblocks written so far today, in preparation for my campaign finale starting next Sunday! We’ve got statblocks for Mordenkainen, Leomund, and two for Kas! Now I just need to get Drawmij, the party’s ally Clerics, and VECNA pulled together!

Last night in D&D we entered my campaign’s endgame. The players and their allies arrived outside Vecna’s tower, ready to wipe him off the face of the world. Little do they know, he has some nasty tricks up his sleeve!

Oh man… I wasn’t the biggest fan of Nocturne S1 (like 6/10ish), but I’m still totally down to give it another shot and this looks freaking awesome. m.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

So, I took a bit of a social media hiatus, and am getting started microblogging again, over *here*, rather than *the other place*. So, a quick introduction! My name is Andrew Welsh, I’m an indie game designer at @loretooth.bsky.social and general fan of movies, TTRPGs, and 3D printing.

Dune: Chapter 2 fan event early screening in IMAX let’s gooooo! #Dune #Dune2 #DuneMovie #DunePart2 #DunePartTwo youtu.be/AqPPG64nL8I?...

Since it got an Oscar Best Animated Feature nomination, it seems like Netflix put “Nimona” up on YouTube for free! It’s a genuinely sweet story, pretty entertaining all-around, and worth checking out if you’re down for zany sci-fantasy antics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CF...

Took apart my old laptop today. The hinge broke several times over its lifespan, and ended up causing the display to break and die… it really wasn’t fixable by me then (before I got my current computer). I’m putting it back together for better transcodes as my new media server.

Just watched the Northman tonight, second time overall. Really cool movie, but man, the theater is/was the place to see it. I remember seeing this movie in theaters, and it was just a whole different experience; everyone communally hanging on every worn breath and sword strike.

Here it is! Here is the first official playtest package for the fantasy RPG I’ve been writing since January. I’m so excited to finally put my writing in front of other players, game masters, and designers for review. Thank you so much for your interest - I can’t wait to hear what you all think!

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Putting out a whole bunch of applications for Game Design work today. Wish me luck! 🤞🤞

Ray knocks it out of the park with this thread. Aspiring 5e writers and editors, take note.

I promised myself a movie night when I got all my Dragonbane work done. Jordan Peele’s NOPE is an absolute masterpiece. Not my first time coming to this realization, just deserves restating. Back to writing!

It might have taken me way longer than I anticipated, but, if you’re interested in Free League’s Dragonbane RPG, I made this video talking through it’s basic mechanics and rolling up a character! youtu.be/xBpkxSHKOZQ?...

I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse. I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.

This sounds like fun! Andrew Lore: • I’ve represented my schools in competitive writing, book reading, and robotics. • In scouts (I did get my Eagle), my first campout as the troop’s “Senior Patrol Leader” was for a 2-week cross-country train trip at age 15. Couple more, but injury-related below.

It’s incredibly funny to me how when I was younger I always HATED these folders that had the three-hole prongs in the middle… and now I actively seek them out and use them for all of my gamedev documents, and really just basically everything else too.

Self-referential first tweet, albeit (thankfully) not Twitter.