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We're just one day away from the start of a brand new #TTRPG actual play mini-campaign!
When? Wed (5/28) at 7 PM Central
What? @therisingtithes's "The Nine Lives of Mrs. Bouvier" (Cats! The Conspurracy)
Who? @TrishEM @JenniferBrozek @Stephen_GM and me!
It'll be purrtastic!
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"Medieval Fantasy Tables" is a tool for solo (or coop) tabletop roleplaying games, though it can also serve as a general GM tool. 2 pages full of tables to generate different elements for medieval fantasy adventures, such as creatures, places, spells, etc.
🇨🇦Introduction Appendix 4: Because apparently I cannot have enough projects to work on, here's another. This one is a tabletop roleplaying game called SpaceCraft. It's a "universal" or setting agnostic rpg system with a bias towards science fiction. For example, you can run a fantasy game fine with it, you just have to ignore the rules about space travel, and robots, and computers, and nanotech, etc.
"So why not put those things into a separate book, like GURPS?" Mostly because I don't want to. I know that'll hurt the marketability, but I don't have high hopes for this game making any money anyway. I'll probably have to end up releasing it for free, which honestly would be my preference anyway, if I wasn't so damn poor, so I at least gotta give it a shot. Unless things change for me dramatically before I finish it. Who knows? I'll probably try an alternate way of setting it up just to see how it looks and decide for sure then.
So why make this system at all? Basically it's a story much like the one behind my novel (see Intro Appendix 3): I've done plenty of house-rules over the years, but never my own system. So one day, as a mere intellectual exercise to pass some time, I started thinking about what a game would look like if I designed it from scratch. And just like with my novel, it was like breaking a dam of ideas that just wouldn't quit. I've since fallen in love with what I have and deeply desire to at least see it finished, even if no one else ends up liking it.
So what's so good about it? Well, as the years go by and my experience with both playing and running games grew, I started increasingly making house rules for the games I played. It was a sort of exponential progression, only little bits here and there at first, filling in gaps that the rules didn't cover, but later progressed to improving some of the more egregious problems in the games. I started to notice that I was good at it, and even more that I liked it. It was like my brain is somehow optimized for turning abstract aspects of life into playable game mechanics.
But this isn't supposed to be about me. My point is that game mechanics have progressed over the years, and while there is a great deal of subjectivity in the community concerning them, there are some things that are just objectively better (or worse) than others. As I started getting more comfortable with modifying the games I played, I also became less tolerant of what I considered "bad rules". So basically this game is my attempt to make the best game possible, from a game mechanics point of view. Yes, that does make the game somewhat "rules heavy", but I've kept that complaint in mind from the beginning, and have taken several steps to help alleviate any such problems.
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Running all year long! The *third* Forever Open Source game jam. Come contribute not just games (though we love games!) but SRDs, art, music, settings, anything that helps people create or play TTRPGs! Explore a world of open gaming:
https://itch.io/jam/forever-open-source-2025
Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!
My bike’s stuck at “session zero” until I gear up (epilepsy + drivers rolling critical fails).
Fund milestones to unlock #TTRPG games + my safe mobility. So close to being road ready!
🗡️ Join the Campaign: https://fundrazr.com/revneedsabike
🎒 Adventuring Gear: https://throne.com/revcasey/collections/revs-mobility
#MutualAid #Mobility #Disabled #Disability #Safety #MutualAidRequest
Are you a Black, Asian, Indigenous, or any other person of colour, and a writer, #TTRPG creative, and on World Anvil? Drop a comment and a link to your world below! #WiP #SummerCamp2025
Mine's here:
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-chronicles-of-tanit-pocgamer
If Anarchy Goat or Motif or any #TTRPG stuff I made sparks some joy, YOU can directly keep it coming by chipping in to make sure I have a computer:
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Gifts, note "computer":
PayPal: https://paypal.me/tpipc
Credit/Debit: https://bit.ly/payrev
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/revcasey
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RPG tip from the archive: Avoid damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't choices too often. Offer choices with a clear gain.
I've tried getting a community of people together to critique Age of Aquarius, I've tried sending it to individuals looking for feedback, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to just throw Age of Aquarius out there chapter by chapter and invite public comment on it.
If you are interested in critiquing (and perhaps playtesting) a radical anti-capitalist contemporary RPG based on the Apocalypse Engine, please follow my account and bookmark this thread. I'm going to put the introduction up right away.
Elevator pitch: it's a few years in the future, and magic is returning to the world. Billionaires are turning into dragons, and ordinary people are awakening into legend-born -- developing spontaneous magical abilities, bizarre new physical forms, and alien neurodivergent thought processes. In a world that has been sent spinning on its axis, your characters must cope with radical change, face the responsibility that comes with sudden power, build community and solidarity, and decide what kind of future they want to fight for.
You may post your comments here, or you may email me privately at xauriel@xaurielzwaan.ca. Also please email me if you want comment permission on the document. Be aware, assholes will be blocked with prejudice; I'm pretty tough but please be kind.
RPG tip from the archive: Think through the eyes of your villains. There's a time to fight and a time to run.
A little while back I released a set of 2D modular dungeon tiles...
(here's the video tutorial: https://youtu.be/3hrVeTVgVNg )
...and I also talked about using them for generating random dungeon layouts over on the blog:
https://www.crookedstaff.co.uk/2023/03/random-dungeons-soloco-op-dungeon.html
Well, I'm finally getting back to that :)
#ttrpg #dnd #sologaming #solorpg
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RPG tip from the archive: Build opportunities for each character to shine. Give them a chance to be the best in a scene.
The Foundation has been the success story of the summer sale! Bringing that #SCP action to the tabletop with the Breathless System, it's 20% right now! #TTRPG #SCPFoundation
RPG tip: Offer choices with story and gameplay clues so players can make informed decisions.
What kind of maniac launches their website on a Friday?!
Hi, hello there, it's me. I'm that kind of maniac. How you doin'.
Today, I'm excited to launch the place where I'll be putting my energy where my mouth is, the website where I'll show (AND tell) you what I've learned.
It is my great honor to invite you to check out www.Get-Frosty.com
This is just a sample of what I've got cooking; there's more to come. Stay, and I cannot stress this enough, tuned.
I've been complaining about this map for months, but now that it's done, I can share with you the rather impressive (if I do say so myself) timelapse of the illustration process. I'm really rather proud of how this one came out!
(the video's too big for anyplace but YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwp1AMKGvxs
(Reshares vastly appreciated, btw!)
#fantasyArt #fantasy #ttrpg #ttrpgs #WickedWhiskers #KeystoneFantasyRoleplaying #Cortex #CortexPrime #dwarves #cartography #map #illustration