Dylan Grinder | Erstwild is in open alpha now!!

@anarisis.dylangrinder.com

Game designer, artist, & all-around nerd. Co-Lead on Plotweaver: Erstwild. Author of Become: Artificial Investigation & Spoken Magic/Legends. Explaining design & narrative through play at twitch.tv/anarisis — She/He — 📧 contact@dylangrinder.com

The Erstwild open alpha is here! You can read it! You can play it! I urge you to do both because I am immensely proud of what we've made even at this early stage— and it really is a fully playable game at this point!

Kienna is making Erstwild (in open alpha now!!)@kiennas.bsky.social · 5h ago

Erstwild open alpha is live ✨right now✨ So very proud of what I, @anarisis.dylangrinder.com, and the rest of the @plotweaver.bsky.social team has pulled together, and I can't wait to see what folks do in our setting 💖 Join the playtest here: discord.gg/jgqZWwcmHm

A spiritfolk (a person with an inky void-like body and a mask for a head) crouches in front of a trio of people approaching an ancient mural. Text reads, "Erstwild Open Alpha"

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

We are so excited for Erstwild Open Alpha, starting on August 5th! Join the Discord server for updates! discord.gg/jgqZWwcmHm

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Dylan Grinder | Erstwild is in open alpha now!!@anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 6d ago

Super excited that @kiennas.bsky.social and I can now share the title of the game we're making with the @plotweaver.bsky.social team: Erstwild! It's coming along super well, and we hit open alpha in just under a week so you'll get to see even more very soon!

I got Covid for the *first time* a few weeks ago and let me tell you, please fucking test before you go to an event. Don't be that asshole. And if you are positive stay the fuck home. Some performers and event folks can't mask. The least we can do is test, the best we can do is mask. ✨

BigolasClitoras ✨📕📘📗✨@burstofhope.itch.io · 6d ago

There's always a non-negligible number of folks that go from SDCC to GenCon. I hate to break it to you, but COVID is still a thing, conventions are still super spreaders, and you should still test and wear masks if you care about community at all!

Had to take Onion to the emergency vet this morning. The docs say he's doing okay, fingers crossed it's nothing serious! I feel bad asking for help, but the vet bill is over $900. If you're able to help out at all I'd greatly appreciate it 🩷🧅 Paypal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com, Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim

Onion the cat hugging my hand with his giant mitts

I find the "rules are toys" framing of TTRPG design useful for several reasons: 1. The idea that system matters is reducible to recognising that toys have affordances; while there's no "wrong" way to play with a toy, no amount of open-mindedness will readily fit a bicycle through a basketball hoop.