About to play a sad character in a charity stream for Doctor's Without Borders on www.twitch.tv/titterpigaca... in the next few minutes! Join us!

So, I think I want to do more coworking streams as I refine and develop my game more. I will be doing so on tiktok until I unlock the OBS camera to cross-stream it (need to do 3 streams for 30+ mins on tiktok to unlock that.) Should be boring. But helps with accoubtability.

I'm running a one-shot for Doctors Without Borders on @pennylescroche.transtapir.games 's Titterpig Academy Twitch channel Jan 26th at 8 PM eastern time! We are playtesting my WIP game That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG. The posting is up on Penny's discord and we have 2(ish) seats.

If you are working on a TTRPG project, have a friend like @pennylescroche.transtapir.games with you. Because they sometimes remind you not to compromise on your design ideas because it's important to the entire theme.

Remember, if you are reading and looking up articles in Spanish the search will be un golpe de estado, not coup d'état. Related, what in the pumpkin spice french fried McFuck just happened and who the hell authorized that stupidity?

It only took me... what... 8 months to decide I needed a secondary system for my ttrpg that did the math with dice instead of excel tables and maths. It is supposed to emulate a videogame, but I can do that with dice too. So, That TIGR gets a spreadsheetless version as my next pet project.

Crunchyroll Wrapped says I was part the 8% of folks who loved Fantasy and Isekai. As I am writing a TTRPG in both of those genres, I am calling this research, and saying that this is a perfectly normal percentile.

Alright. I need to do 1 more pass over all 600 character abilities and then I can see about refining some of the other rules and mechanics. It's a complicated system but the game should play quick and easy once I get it going.

Having a time arguing with my brain that while my TTRPG is technically playable and technically able to be run by other people than myself, it doubts that anyone ever would want to. Anyway, hope that I can end the year and get the brain gremlins to take a break.

I am maybe 1 good day's work to redo my techniques and spells lists for That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG. Then I just need to figure out how I am converting that 1) to cards, and 2) to vlookup tables with dropdown search functions. ... No, no, I AM aware I'm a huge nerd.

Ever wake up at 4 AM and decide to rewrite a mechanic in your TTRPG? No? Just me? ... So anyway, character Mana no longer resets the same as physical resources like Technique points during rests unless they occur near a ley-line, divine site, etc. But, most cities and towns have one.

Always fun to re-add my pins to my cap after having to remove them to travel. Some habits stick with you. More than half my life ago, I decided to go off to college with a cap covered in buttons and pins as my faily wear. It was a great conversation starter.

Finding website templates on your site that must have been there for 6 months or more is a special level of humbling. At least this isn't my day job, eh?

If being 40 is reconnecting with old friends and pursuing my passions? Then hell yeah, bring it on.

I have a new goal in life. Publish a tabletop game and have someone like it enough to have it be something they regularly run. Then be a player in a system I wrote. So I can actually experience something I made the way I want others to. That'd be pretty damn fun.

Alright. 2026 Goal time. I ran 2 playtests of tTIGR in 2025. I also designed the entire thing in 2025. I need to run more tests. I need to make the game run fully online for that. And I want to run at least 10 one-shots and 1 or more multi-session game. Let's kick the tires on this game.

I have done the math. There will be a grand total of at least 1650 skills and spells in That Time I Tot Reincarnated the TTRPG, broken down into skill trees of 15 skills each. The good news is I've written 600 of them so far. ... I can't do anything by halves, eh?

Our nearly 20 year old cat walks past 2 food bowls to comr into our room to be fed in an entirely separate bowl. and have it slid in front of her. Because she is a princess. She will also sit silently and stare at us until we see her and feed her.

I wish the ttrpg space took intellectual content from femme creators as seriously as y'all do ideas from cis white men in the space.

I had the realization last night that i have only played a handful of games this year, and ran only Fabula Ultima, and two tests of a game I designed. I think my 2026 goal is to try and have more private game with friends and doing different systems. Doesn't need to be more than 1-shots.

Dispatch very well may be one of the closest things I have experienced to a perfect game. Storytelling was excellent, strategy was always essential, decisions mattered, and the acting was simply phenomenal.

6 dozen cookies is enough, right. Half of it white chocolate, cranberry, and macadamia, the other half, sans macadamia?

tTIGR plan for now: 1) Work on refining the accessibility of the system with a toolkit and cards. 2) Run a recorded micro-campaign with players who want to be recorded for a mini series. 3) Edit that into a 16 episode podcast. 4) Plan to use the show to advertise the game. Thoughts folks?

Oh no, what will happen when the AP learns about Tobacco? Shocking news for them. 🫢😱 It's already in every state. And is significantly more addictive *and* harmful.

Tonight at 6:30 Central time I'm going to stream High Above Them All, a solo journaling game by @callmemeadow.bsky.social Depending on how long that runs, I will probably play Dreamcore on stream afterwards Twitch.tv/OakleafInsignia

I have owned ball python for almost 4 years now. This is the first time have heard him audibly use the bathroom. It was louder and grosser than you'd expect, and frankly, hilarious. Like the last bit of a ketchup bottle being squeezed, watery bits included.

I've rephrased this a dozen times, deleted reply and quote posts and unposted comments. So I will sum it up: There is no harm in supporting new and progressive primary challengers for every single election moving forward. If they want to keep their jobs make them fight like hell against new ideas.

Nothing like filming a tiktok 3 times only to find out I put my license plate in it and well, guess I can try and drive out to the land and do it all over again next week...

Discussing why salt is an edible rock, while Sugar may be a crystal but is not a rock, my spouse remarked that it is a complex carbohydrate. Which, I remarked, Diamond could be considered as one because it is a carbon structure. Although, not digestible. Does that make Diamonds zero calorie snacks?

If I'm not clear enough on the topic: No one in a nation that wastes 30% of its produced food should be hungry. No one should be unhoused in a nation that has more empty houses than unhoused people. Dragons nesting on hoards are the bad guys in tabletop games, not an ideal to strive to become.

"Look up how long casette tapes are, it could be a good way to market podcasts!" -My spouse while driving. They're not wrong. It's a common enough medium podcasts are portrayed in. But now I need to see how to move files digitally to a tape recorder.

As someone who got to playtest this in development, has a physical copy, and is a huge fan of the author? Get one of the free copies if you like telling stories of mischevious fey with friends. It is spectacular.

I accidentally made nearly a gallon of butternut squash soup. ... I intended to make the soup, I did not correctly estimate the end volume of the materials I began with.

Laundromats in Portland have coffee and scones. This is a new and peak level of comfort that I could not possibly have imagined.

I need to work on my That TIGR elevator pitch for people not already in the hobby or anime. "It's like if Jumanji sucked everyone into a super nintendo high fantasy game?" Does that work?

It's cool, cats, I wasn't gonna sleep in anyway. Let me go ahead and just get up 4 hours early and feed you. Oh. The food bowls are still full. And your water fountain is fine. Cool cool cool. So just waking me for funsies then? Noted.

I need to either run or play in a longer form TTRPG group with people who like to be messy and dramatic.

Hello everyone! Zoup here! This is the permanent home of what was FOMOCon (the online ttRPG convention that took place during GenCon 2025). We're rebranding as Convention Zero in celebration of the core of any ttRPG campaign, Session Zero!

And a huge shout out to @bairdlytrying.games for Last Words Are Never Enough — a small but devastating we used in the final moments of this show.

Thank you so much, Sydney Web Fest, for naming Small Gods Scatter BEST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST 2025! @emilygreymoore.bsky.social, @ddungeondiving.bsky.social, and @oakleafinsignia.games burned the HOUSE DOWN in our story of love and loss.

Self imposed deadlines and timelines are best done with Accoubtability Buddies. So, to that end, I had best put up some stream dates for playtests of That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG, huh? Bully me in the replies if I don't commit to some in the next week or two.

Might get back to design work and revisions for That Time I Got Reincarnated the TTRPG in an attempted prep to do a 5-15 session test of the mechanics. Should be a fun time if I get the right test group.

Was going to co-op stream FFT on my PC with Sadie except we ran into a problem. Audio. Can't share 1 headset comfortably, and we can't figure out how to make a computer recognize two at a time (Windows 11) So, after an hour of failing to find an answer, I am at an impasse. Does anyone know how?

So, Final Fantasy Tactics used to hold the record for most hours I ever sank into a game. At something like 5 playthroughs and 300+ hours. Satisfactory may have unseated it, but with the remake... Do I stream a playthrough without letting myself level-grind ad infinitum?

Ended up having a good time at Spa-Con today. Got to get back into working on my TTRPG that is looking more and more like a video game design day by day. We'll see what it turns into, but it's certainly fun.

A fun thing about taking an afternoon to design added elements of your Isekai themed TTRPG is you can start adding in the weird stuff that is going to make the game narratively interesting on a new level. Corrpution Events have been added to the Global Code.

If you folks want to playtest a new game that's book just got to the editor? It's great!

I'm dusting off my StartPlaying profile and will be running a short Daggerheart campaign coming up soon, for 3-5 players (probably on Thursday nights, but if you're interested and would like to request a different day, let me know!) ✨✨✨

"The croak of the lemur-turd" -Toad was what the hybrid critter for a daggerheart session. But, @oakleafinsignia.games had a bit of a word-swap.