A very hot take: fantasy heartbreakers are actually fine. Any time a human being sets out to make a game they learn something more about games and about themselves. Drawing badly, singing off-key, dancing like a fool - these are still some of the human experiences that make life richer.

Metatopia begins tonight! Best four days of the year.

hey check this out lymetime.itch.io/we-have-that...

Spellbook are wonderful folks and this game is worth a look. We've needed a solid d100 cyberpunk game for a while!

i'm sure it's fine 🐻👻

CALLING NEW/SMALL TTRPG DESIGNERS: send us your games so we can sell them for you at PAX Unplugged! #ttrpg

#UnderTheAutumnStrangely things

Clearly I need to put out an alternate cover for Dawn of the Orcs.

1/ Since @erika.chappel has released something really neat about Space Marines (not the general concept, specifically the Adeptus Astartes copyrighted by our good friends at Games Workshop) I’ll take the moment to throw out my own thoughts on the Beaky Boys.

Hey so if you just followed me from the Over/Under pack and you like Mothership, check out this game I wrote. It's basically a lot of stuff you can steal as alternate rules for Mothership (or CoC, or DG, or any other d100 horror game): lymetime.itch.io/fear-and-panic

50% of the time I want to quit my day job to start an RPG publishing house, the other 50% I just want to throw an unformatted text at someone else and say, "you get this on a shelf somewhere".

The perfect game doesn't exi... Haven't finished reading it, but I'm very pleasantly impressed by what I've read to date!

The Mothership Cataphracts game on Prospero's Dream is pretty fun so far.

Contemplating how the most influential award show for Evil Hat was the Indie RPG Awards held in the early 00s, before Evil Hat existed as a company. @rdonoghue.bsky.social and I won one for an earlier incarnation of Fate, “best free game”. It was a narrower population that knew about it, but enough…

Help! Someone in one of my 100 discord servers suggested a game jam making wildly discordant game hacks, and I have a great idea, but I can't find which server it was.

New Developer Showcase #actualplay episode! Today we are joined by @lymerpg.bsky.social to play his game "Dawn of the Orcs", a fantasy worldbuilding TTRPG! Join our council of weird sages as we construct perfect tools of war... www.youtube.com/watch?v=elOu...

Time to build a local RPG design scene again!

A couple times, I've been asked by people at public events if you need to know any particular math to design an RPG. Here's a blog post I hope will be helpful: brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/basic-math-f...

There's a certain narrative that shows up repeatedly in genre movies and the YA fiction I remember. It's not the (thoroughly debunked) Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey. I'm wondering if anyone here can help me find a name. There are basically four parts: (1/3)

Belatedly, the September update for TERMINUS! We apologise for the delay caused to this service. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

The hardest part about sharing your work isn't the technical stuff it's trusting that your community wants to see you succeed. They do. The TTRPG space is built on people supporting each other's creative journeys. Join that tradition.

I confused Troika with Risus for the longest time. Glad I got that sorted out!

Me writing a wizard text book every time I add a new wizard name only for the text book author to insert an academic slight against them then I add a bolded glossary term that is also a mechanic for the rpg and the named wizard discovered it but the author is still being petty: teehee *feet kicking*

Same here, always happy to swap games and cut out a payment processor.

Just to see what would happen, I ran Sailors on the Starless Sea (DCC dungeon crawl) with Fear and Panic (d100 horror system). It worked out surprisingly well. Lots of ominous/scary stuff to roll for Fear. I just made the big combats single-roll fights. Easy enough to houserule magic on the fly.

I love talking games but I've found I usually don't like it when people say mean things about any particular game or style of play or way of thinking about games (w/ a couple obvious exceptions). Your new thing is really cool! But everything has some spark and method to it.

Here's another part of my semi-autobiographical post on expressionist game design that I like. I found this way of thinking about acting very challenging at first, as an intuitive "work myself up in order to cry" kind of performer. But real craft in art is about developing care and consistency.

Monday the 22nd at 7pm CST, Himeutsugi, an RPG designer, writer, and VTuber, will be playing Dawn of the Orcs solo on their stream. Their stream is here: www.twitch.tv/himeutsugi More about Hime here: himebirb.nekoweb.org#about

Come get creative with what a horror adventure looks like at the Non-Investigative Horror game jam! Running for three months to overlap spooky season but give people time to write. itch.io/jam/non-inve...

Physical copies of Fear and Panic are now available at IPR! Get yer' digest-sized 44-page complete d100 horror RPG with an innovative fear system and super-streamlined combat right here! www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Fear-a...

Just a fun little one-room dungeon for the Onegeon jam: lymetime.itch.io/the-ambush-r...

Not going to post a personal Appendix N because it would be the most embarrassingly basic list. It would be, "Yoo, anyone else read Shakespeare, Lovecraft, and Jack Vance? What about music, anyone like heavy metal?"

I had some fun thinking about what a d100 manifesto might look like. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/the-d100-man...

Here's the lineup (which you can also see posted at www.designedinthedmv.org/indie-tablet... ! I'm going to be on the Designed in the DMV panel at 2PM and vending from 3PM to closing. Come and say hi! (And come play a local game or two as well while you're at it!)

Making a wargame that uses pennies as unit markers would simultaneously be the most accessible game possible in the US and frustratingly inaccessible in the rest of the world. Decisions, decisions.

What would a d100 manifesto look like? I've got these ideas: -Fast resolution -Mechanics can be an artistically unique way to describe characters -Scalable complexity -We have always been storytellers first -It's okay for the answer to be on your character sheet

Third Kingdom has some wild stuff on its shelves.

I think the most fun part of running horror RPGs is when the PCs talk to the kinds of characters who very matter of factly say obviously untrue things.

Ran a horror game last night and a player asked to use her "knives" skill to carve her way up an embankment of writhing flesh. Finding answers on your character sheet CAN lead to some incredible scenes at the table.

Getting ready to run Crush Depth Apparition tomorrow. Very excited but I could really use a meaty blog post that breaks down all the historical references.

"Surface Tension" is a 1950s short story by James Blish, and it would make a killer setting for a modern RPG. Microscopic, aquatic humans who live in tidal pools, crossing the inhospitable dry land between pools in wooden "spaceships", fighting vicious rotifers, and fleeing terrifying crabs.

PIEROGI-CORE!

I have improved the flag of St George

An excellent thread about how Bonsai Diary got made:

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