Brandon Leon-Gambetta
@blg.bsky.social
Tabletop games designer of Pasión de las Pasiones, RADCrawl, Deadly Kobold Racing, and Chase the H0ll0w. @bleongambetta on Twitter
I've joked about playing many off-label things in Pasión de las Pasiones and I was ready to do it again for Neopets. But I can't stand behind that one. I don't think it would work well at all.
Bluesky has decided that I am interested in posts where sport fans say without any context beyond their display names "This game sucks" and "What's even the point of this game?" This combined with an otherwise ttrpg feed makes it look like people with names like PackersFanDad hating on Mörk Borg.
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 9mo agoAs tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
Updating some old work on Pommel Ball to hopefully test a minimal 3v3 build this weekend. If that works, I'll probably try to make it web play test ready over the next week. I'm smoothing out the pieces that are time consuming.
Enough time has gone by since I made a layout that I need to relearn how to use affinity. Keeping things basic and trying to find a card template I can slap a csv into is probably my play.
Gonna go to a second hand Lego store because my daughter has gotten extremely interested in very specifically Lego gears and there isn't a Lego 3-in-1 Just A Ton Of Gears set.
My Kingdom for a System Doesn't Matter thread that doesn't include "of course we all understand system matters" after a couple dozen tweets.
Due to Baby Sleep, I've been playing more retro videogames and that's been very nice. I'm very interested in finding where board games can play out (and sometimes intentionally slow down) some of the moments that feel great on the screen without losing excitement.
🌽 🏈 season is over so it's time for me to start thinking about Pommel Ball again.
I feel extraordinarily blessed that when I ego search Pasión de las Pasiones i see people looking forward to, playing, and enjoying it. I feel sincerely even more blessed when I get to see Pasión de las Pasiones used as an example of off-genre play (ex: you wouldn't play a dungeon crawl in PdlP)
Slowly coming to a place that I'm catching up with people but just want to say from the bottom of my heart 🌽 🏈.
Clear my schedule on October 1st. I'm going to be reading about terrible frogs. #mörktober
Exeunt Press 💀🎲@exeunt.press · last yr.Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst… #MÖRKTOBER APPROACHES!!! This year’s prompt preview is live! Which one is your favorite? omnes.exeunt.press/p/morktober-... #ttrpg #mörkborg
A couple of weeks ago I almost hyped that the playable version of Pommel Ball would be available on Nebraska's first football game of the season. Glad I didn't because that's tomorrow and I'm not even close.
Happy birthday to my two favorite Jeffs! Past Jeff (@jeffstormer.gobirds.online) GM of the absolute gem of a podcast Party of One. Happy birthday! AND Future Jeff (@jeffstormer.gobirds.online) host of the absolute gem of a podcast Party of One. Happy birthday!
im publishing prince of hounds with @plusoneexp.bsky.social in the fall!
Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep@rrookstudio.bsky.social · last yr.New @plusoneexp.bsky.social games dropping at @flamecon.bsky.social at Table PR28. First up, with @jdragsky.bsky.social, who'll be on site signing books on Saturday! plusoneexp.com/products/pri... #FlameCon
You know those cutouts that you use to measure range in wargames? I'm pretty sure I've come up with one for turning that has reignited Deadly Kobold Racing.
I've been exploring Homebrew video games (modern indie games for existing consoles) and there's SO much cool stuff going on. I wish a bit that I were better at video content so that I could share some of the awesome stuff going on.
Okay. Tonight is Pommel Ball Kits, possibly default teams too. Then the dreaded play materials layout. I'm considering just hand drawing the character sheets and scanning them.
One thing I'm pretty pumped about in Pommel Ball is Formations which are basically ritual-stype spells that cast by getting your team into a specific shape on the field. That's thrown off by how much pushing and movement is inherent to the game.
Getting the rules for Pommel Ball written down, we've got the four Core positions 🏈 Ranger 🛡️ Guard 🎽 Flanker 🗡️ Skirmisher www.notion.so/bleongambett... Those four form the basics with kits (weapon choice or magic ability) rounding out basic players
1 Like = 1 Ability Card that you can give one of your Pommel Ball players during game. www.notion.so/bleongambett... #onelikedesign
Brandon Leon-Gambetta@blg.bsky.social · last yr.Instead of using little serotonin boosts from likes to power fake Internet points, power a piece of design you need a bunch of little morsels of (AND WRITE THEM DOWN IN YOUR ACTUAL DRAFT) One like = 1 hex or playbook move or magic item or player ability or NPC or location.
I've seen like 5 posts from people I don't know saying Draw Steel has the 4e vibes that all the 4e sickos crave. Is this true? Can I get a verification from one of my favorite 4e sickos?
Instead of using little serotonin boosts from likes to power fake Internet points, power a piece of design you need a bunch of little morsels of (AND WRITE THEM DOWN IN YOUR ACTUAL DRAFT) One like = 1 hex or playbook move or magic item or player ability or NPC or location.
Hey Protean City Comics, are you gonna do an Ultimate Universe or what?
Magpie Games@magpiegames.bsky.social · last yr.It’s time for you to dig out your cape and mask from the back of your closet. Halcyon needs you! Masks: A New Generation is the award-winning PbtA game of young superheroes, now getting a refreshed and improved new edition! magpiegames.com/pages/masks-...
