I love how the plot was completely to driven by which two characters got to fight each other that week.
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I don't think I've actually finished watching the last season! May have to do that tonight.
It was so ridiculous in the best way.
Suddenly thinking about Into The Badlands.
That was a fun show, checked off all my boxes.
The buzz has been buzzing! We are excited to announce that @navaarsnp.bsky.social's Soothwardens is coming to Kickstarter next month to fund the full version of the game!
It launches on Navaar's birthday, so follow now to be a day 1 backer!
What is Soothwardens?
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ttrpg.link/soothwardens
Remember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form!
Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie)
www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...
A spike of downloads for Six Arrows to Sunset has me revisiting the game. What a fun project.
Six Arrows to Sunset.
Bluff to survive in this sun-slaying myth game for one player and six GMs.
glyphtide.itch.io/six-arrows-t...
RPG Zine Club 2027 Story Games Pitch form is open!
We are looking for small games with rich narrative choices using systems like Belonging Outside Belonging, PBTA, CFB, or other more bespoke mechanics.
Solo, duet, GMful, or GMed #TTRPGs are welcome.
Games from diverse voices are desired.
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I had the pleasure of chatting with Momo from @heartofthedeernicorn.com about designing What Should We Have Tomorrow? and Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition, and teased the premise of Infinite Seas Under the Same Stars. Check out the full interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XA...
You can get copies of What Should We Have Tomorrow? and Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition, along with my other games Spectres of Brocken and An Altogether Different River at the @heartofthedeernicorn.com webstore at heartofthedeernicorn.com/product-cate...
Great article about @navaarsnp.bsky.social 's Neighborhood Robot in the latest Skeleton Code Machine from @exeunt.press : www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/neighborho...
finished the beta version Fantasy in My Backyard's full text so I've updated the preview rules
If you missed the campaign and want a urban fantasy worldbuilding game, check it out below. It's fully playable and hopefully gets you interested in the full version!
quigjam.itch.io/fantasy-in-m...
But which one to finish first? 😭
What Dust Remains has a free excerpt so you can check out why it's beloved.
It is one of my favorite games to have designed—and one of the gut-wretchingly punchiest ones.
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
The art of game design: the spark of creation, to find play between the confines of rules and the expression of agency, to marry the beauty of systems and aesthetic expression,
The discipline of game design: fucking finish the thing
A great summary of the games that inspired PREQUEL!
further to this: thanks to a gap between projects, i can take on a pro-bono project now!
if you're a marginalised creator with a small project that you'd otherwise be unable to afford to get edited, hit me up. i'll do my normal line/copy editing passes to really polish it for you, at no charge.
I can't wait to see what people do with this system. Its so cool.
He really does! It was fun to give him free reign on the look!
All thanks to @andrewbeauman.com!
ChainxLink is a really solid game and y'all should get your grubby little fingers in there and make some cool stuffs
Thanks, Quinn!
I'm running a game jam for my semi-cooperative, dungeon-defying RPG, Chain×Link!
Expand the world, write adventures, create character options, or design your very own game!
Join here:
Exploit tools of tyranny to support your rebellions. Invoke ancient rites to escape this megadungeon with your closest rivals!
Chain×Link, a semi-cooperating dungeon-defying RPG.
Learn more: glyphtide.games/chainxlink/
Get it here: plusoneexp.com/products/cha...
Plane leaves in an hour? Hmmm...which of many ttrpg books should I take with me so I can finally read it?
I've been re-reading a lot of books on urbanism lately. It's going to be hard not making this profile all about urban design.
www.explorersdesign.com/5-urban-desi...
You are a lawyer that specializes in the execution of the wills of eccentric millionaires.
Host elaborate challenges to determine the principal beneficiary of your murdered Client’s estate while discovering the identity of the killer!
Get it here: buff.ly/udkJsVw
FETCH MY BLADE is a solo journaling game where you play as the dog of a retired legendary master of the sword, tasked with a quest of your own: retrieve your master’s fabled weapon in time for their final duel.
Learn More: buff.ly/0nins3j
Buy Digital: buff.ly/0EgFpb4
Buy Physical: buff.ly/RWw8iw1
World build as your boss fight.
PREQUEL. A Tactical Storytelling Game of Heroic Sacrifice.
Get it here:
My copy of Last Train to Bremen, by @seaexcursion.itch.io and published by @possumcreekgames.com has arrived!
It's been amazing watching this game progress from playtest to boxed set!