I need to build a TTRPG setting that adequately captures my feelings on the princelings of capital, and their attempt to hijack the future.

Like those poor buggers piloting the Optimus bots.

I've got to give that a look! I loved a lot of what Lancer was putting down, but felt that the setting wasn't quite what I was looking for in mecha combat.

Exoscience, though. Now we're talking!

Presciently, though, wasn't that a live person filling in where machines couldn't emulate human voices yet?

100%! I don't know that anything can be entirely system-neutral for example, and it's a push and pull to see how much OSR crunch is in one section, or Bladesey downtime in another.

Would that I could make a game with no words in it at all, though. Just let the players figure it out from the art.

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I'm late to the party, I see, but you are describing my entire approach to game design. I don't even know what the game is going to be until the little guys I'm drawing tell me.

I don't know Far Field, but I would love to hear more!

Designing Lore Blocks An alternative to stat blocks designed for The 1 HP Dragon.

It's true that I'm trying to get the game out of the way from the art-to-worldbuilding material. In this one, we're using the Lore Blocks, as explained by @explorersdesign.bsky.social here:

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A variety of colorful icons for Planetfall, showing icons for maps, tech, animals, plants, and a UNCOLSEC logo.

Thank you! I don't really need it to have boot-up fritz in most other spreads, but I did spend some time working up semiotics for the UN-Colonial Sector's U/I.

There's room for more, I'm sure.

the human made icon

I want to be a better steward for the Human Made icon. If you have any ideas on how I can get the word out for it more please let me know. Do you think game retailers would be interested in stickers they could pass out? folks interested in pins? What can I do to support you using this icon? a zine?

Hold tight, I'm making it as fast as I can!

I'll try to live up to the hype! There's still a lot of moving pieces to get in place before this one's ready.

That's the idea! Just enough mechanics to be able to hang your hat on, and convert to your home table with a minimum of effort.

Sharp eye! I was planning on calling this one "Planetfall", but that title seems to have been taken by a Modiphius wargame. I may still do it with a colon-something-something, but am also shopping around for other names.

Hell yes.

comic cover: "WAKE, volumes 4 & 5"

comic panel from "Aquablue"

I'm delighted to hear that, I've been trying to get the linework and not quite flat colors of that style for a while!

I came up those translations, and love that style.

Thank you! Now I've just got to finish the, ah, rules.

Thank you!

Thank you! I've had the intro spread (and a preceeding comic showing the lifepod's arrival) in my head for awhile, so I figured I'd best just draw it already to hype me for the rest of the work!

photo, the aliens meme guy

In short, for the next four months, every spare minute for me not spent parenting or drawing commissions:

line drawings of items

line drawing of a wormy friend

line drawing of a crab quetzacoatl

The goal is 25 discoveries per biome, plus new items to make, and survivors to meet.

color illustration of the "grasslands" biome

This one's going to be d20 friendly, again. With a series of biomes rolled out over time. Your castaways explore the moon of Rill, learn about the creatures therein, and if they die? A new lifepod crashes down with a new survivor.

Very Scavenger's Reign, but also a Subnautica, a Crusoe.

Color illustration: two spacers sit atop a lifepod, half-buried in an alien beach. In the background, a flight of bird things erupt from a coral jungle. Beyond that, an enormous starfish creature walks by, a mangrove forests on its back. The text indicates that this is the intro to a database, intended to help the reader survive on the moon of Rill.

GREETINGS USER. PRELIMINARY SCANS INDICATE THAT YOU HAVE ARRIVED ON THE SURFACE OF RILL, THE PRIMARY MOON OF LUYTEN-b, VIA LIFEPOD. THIS DATABASE’S FUNCTIONS ARE TO GATHER INFORMATION ON YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND TO KEEP YOU ALIVE.

LET’S BEGIN.

(a system-neutral campaign setting, coming this summer!)

We've just crossed 450 Backers on Kickstarter.

Thanks for all the support and love everyone ❤️

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New Game Showcase: Breathless Frightmare Edition Join Kenzie Tartaglione as she dives into the mechanics of the new edition of Breathless! We aren't playing the game this time around but giving a quick run-down of what this game has to offer, so you...

This time on New Game Showcase, @ktartaglione.bsky.social gives a brief run through of the mechanics of Breathless Frightmare Edition to show you how you can play this zombie apocalypse game!

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oh dang here we go

I've been wondering about this myself, but it's not as if the NFT/crypto/pick-your-scam business has failed to provide an answer for costs exceeding revenue, you just disappear with the money, and reappear a year or two later under a different name.

Done. Sorry to have not checked my notifications there in awhile!