Hey, other GMs... How often do you do flashbacks with your players? Because I feel like I do a lot of flashback work in some of my games, and I have no idea if that's normal. #ttrpg

Well, the curse of scheduling has killed my Lancer game. Looks like the shrapnel has coalesced into a knock off Jackie Chan Adventures game I've wanted to run for years... We're using #CortexPrime, which should be fun. #ttrpg

An unexpected shoutout to Tony Lower-Basch, developer of the #CapesRPG. Capes is one of those games that lives forever in me, despite few opportunities to actually play it. Twenty years old and it's still unique, innovative, and very fun. If you're into GMless games, it's worth your time. #ttrpg

It is useful, from time to time, to learn which of your players are going to say 'ew' when the spider lady has 'mouth parts'... and which very much don't... #ThirstySwordLesbians

All right, it's time to reveal who won the Bannerless Tabletop RPG Grant for September 2025! I got *240* applicants, and paring that down to 10 was rough going. There is truly a wildly diverse, crazy-cool body of work going on ALL around us. Here are 10 of my favorites!

I should just give up describing things properly. If I describe things poorly enough, then I too can turn a giraffe into a monster so enticing people throw their lives away chasing it... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Even after all these years I sometimes see someone playing WoW and think to myself, ‘this Warcraft 3 mod is wild…’

Game with a ‘Divine’ elemental damage. It is never stated, but the more lines you read between the more clearly it is just electricity.

Oh, right, but when it comes to romance suddenly *not* having intrusive thoughts is the problem…

Video game idea: A roguelike that is insanely easy to break and make victory trivial... but is also intentionally designed to be real easy to crash once broken. The challenge is not winning, but threading the needle of winning without crashing.

Struggling to wrap my head round #Exalted You’re a mortal explicitly empowered to overthrow gods. There is a corrupt, dysfunctional, and at best negligent celestial bureaucracy… … but you’re telling me the game isn’t about revolting against Heaven? It just loses me, is what I’m saying. #ttrpg

I swear, whenever I introduce a GMC who I note as secretly being some antagonistic power in disguise, my players always end up making them a friend, romantic interest, or apprentice, even when I'm not trying to have that happen. Every. Time. #ttrpg

Looking at a sample character I for a Star Wars #CortexPrime game and am pleased with this Talent Talent: Health Nut Trigger: When you spend time exercising and working out your physique. Effect: Step Down a die in the Dark Pool and move it over to an Exhaustion Complication on yourself.

And, week is up! #7: The Mink Coat Blood, murder, style! #ttrpg #TheOutfitRPG theoutfitrpg.blogspot.com/2025/08/7-mi...

Pet Peeve: Many fictional works present classic Knights and Knaves puzzles by having the knight and knave recite the puzzle. Often with each stating one of the rules: "One of us only tells truths" "One of us only tells lies" But the fact that they said that changes the results! #KnightsandKnaves

I am realizing that I don't want a Star Wars sequel/prequel/spin off/series/book/whatever. What I want is art inspired by Star Wars in the same way Star Wars was itself inspired by Flash Gordon. ... then a bit of film history informed me that film is, in fact, Alien...

Just before midnight... #6: The Tie-Dye Shirt #ttrpg #TheOutfitRPG theoutfitrpg.blogspot.com/2025/08/6-ti...

#5: The Leotard It's interesting how clothing designed for physical performance comes into tension with me putting Function and Pizazz as oppositional... here's one solution... #ttrp #TheOutfitRPG theoutfitrpg.blogspot.com/2025/08/5-le...

Much as I hate #D&D alignment, I have to admit that it's a heck of a trick a trick that the Good/Evil spectrum is entirely words that are both adjectives and nouns, so that Chaotic Evil feels like a complete adjective+noun, and so does Chaotic Evil Sheep. #ttrpg

#4: The Studded Jacket. Because, goddamnit, I need more Clash in my #ttrpg! #TheOutfitRPG theoutfitrpg.blogspot.com/2025/08/4-st...

#TTRPGIdea: Scion game where the PCs are not, in fact, the children of gods, titanspawn, nor in any other way magical, but are nevertheless trying to scam their way past denizens, demigods, and titans by pretending to be divine.

And, before midnight this time: #3: Cargo Pants Yeah... keeping the clothes relevant! I actually like how simple this one is, while still creating an interesting game choice. #theOutfitRPG #ttrpg theoutfitrpg.blogspot.com/2025/08/3-ca...

I wish it was physically possible to throw out books. Got all these books out of storage, just sitting around in boxes, covering up my basement, and no where to put them or way to get rid of them. If only...

#2 Arm Warmers... for real this time! Also, Leg Warmers, because why not? I kind of like how these turned out. #TheOutfitRPG theoutfitrpg.blogspot.com/2025/08/2-ar...

I now have a blog about design in the Outfit! Mostly because I need to get round character limits to talk about #TheOutfitRPG! So... link... theoutfitrpg.blogspot.com/2025/08/welc...

Walking up a gravel drive in heels so wobbly the deer are gonna mistake me for a fawn and raise me as their own…

#2 arm warmers… Shit, actual thing is going to be up after midnight. Great start, Liz!

Well... that was a mess... I may need to set up a Blog to lay this out more coherently...

Weeks start on Sunday, so here we go... #1: The Baseball Cap. The baseball hat is seen everywhere, across multiple settings, and serves a wide variety of uses. Partly, it is a practical device to block the Sun. But, mostly... it bears logos, symbols, words, and colors that convey affiliation.

I am working on a #ttrpg called The Outfit ( #TheOutfitRPG ) It's focused on over the top fashion criminals, in a world that is basically a queer James Bond film that fetishizes the clothing more than the tools. I think this concept, and my rules, have legs. Now to get it walking...

Italian word for young boy becomes English pejorative for unintelligent woman is modified to create a pejorative for unintelligent man is reclaimed to be a positive description of an unintelligent man is modified to create a positive description of an unintelligent woman (continued...)

My friend working on a #ttrpg: "I'm not really sure if the new attack system is really balanced, but it's really reduced the handling cost, so maybe I could..." Me working on RPG design: "I need more Hairstyles with Trend. What the Hell is the actual name of the short back and sides?" #ttrpgdesign

Look, a giant spider is maybe as big as you are... if you're lucky. A spider giant, on the other hand, is taller than a house and has spiders from all sizes crawling out of its every orifice. #thisishowyouteachenglish #ttrpg

I'll admit I was surprised to learn 'concubine' is both gender neutral and reciprocal.

The PCs are all concubines of the same powerful man... who has just been killed. It's now up to them to avenge their concubine against his killer... his wife! #ttrpg #CampaignIdea

I know I am arriving at this hill long after the battle is over and the corpses are little more than bleached bones, but... Ms.≠Miss And the former is pronounced 'Miz', stars damn it. I can admit that 'Ms' has failed as a title, but can we not dress 'Miss' up in its corpse to parade her victory?

I do love #ThirstySwordLesbians, but I have never seen another game that makes players afraid to earn XP... #ttrpg #TSL

While the maximalist design of #WeaponsOfTheGods isn't my usual style, I do find the number of pages devoted to society and beliefs refreshing. That these things are treated as though they matter, are worth investing Destiny into, and provide neat bonuses really helps sell PCs as people in the world

I would have more respect for #DnD if HP was treated consistently. "Well, you've just been hit for 32 damage... so, the monster rips you in half and swallows your legs." "Oh no! What penalties do I get for that?" "You still have 6hp, you're fine." (With love to my friend who actually ran this)

#HouseRule #BetweenClouds If you get help from an NPC in their area of competence, you get a +1, just like if a PC helped you. But, if you fail, Consequences will befall that NPC in addition to the problems already headed your way. This is, effectively, identical to getting help from a PC. #ttrpg

Ah.. can you hear it now? The gallop of the spiders...

"Favorite Cryptid?" "Mothman." "Favorite dinosaur?" "Sandhill Crane." "Well, I can't fault your consistency."

So, when the PCs all get to be a 'special thing' in setting... and then they invite an NPC to come pal around with them and get potentially exposed to the source of their specialness... Do you give it to the NPC and raise their compotency, or just let them be the Lois Lane? #ttrpg #BetweenClouds

Idea for later: I've always liked the 'Good Form' rules from Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies... I'm toying with the notion of deepening it as a mechanic. Currently thinking of something where players (or possibly the group) gets rewarded for evoking different emotions... #ttrpg #ttrpgdesignideas

There is something quite relieving when someone reads your game rules, and correctly explains it back to you. Though, I'm worried about the time and focus it took someone who is such a veteran gamer... Editing for clarity is going to be necessary... #ttrpg #theoutfitrpg

So, apparently the secret to learning about something is to decide to run/write a game about it, research for that project, and then forget to actually run/write the game...

Jacques Heim: I have created a new bathing suit! The Atome! Because, like its namesake, there is nothing smaller! Lois Réard: Sir, do I have a bomb to drop on you... #HistoryJokes #Fashion

Hm... a player made the correct decision and told a representative of Zeus on earth to fuck off... ... by rejecting offered hospitality... So, now I need to figure out a Xenia curse worthy of punishing moral accuracy... #ttrpg #scion

Previous knowledge of bicycle infantry did not prepare me for the Wikipedia entry "Electric bicycle" to include a subsection "Use in Warfare"... #wikipedia #electricbike #bicycleinfantry

Having run a lot of #ThirstySwordLesbians over the years, I've begun to contemplate a game that instead of Strings uses a Sexual Tension meter between any two given characters. Thinking is you build it up with certain Moves and parties can spend it to power effects. #ttrpg