Caroline Hobbs
@chobbs.bsky.social
Award winning game designer - Downfall, Fedora Noir, One Missed Call. My cat is very handsome. She/her https://lessthanthreegames.com/
Some of my most treasured game experiences have been with Microscope. I'm very excited for the new edition!
Ben Robbins@lamemage.com · last mo.I'm making it official: Microscope second edition is in the works. Crowdfunding in October. I swear on this stack of game books arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/52...
I feel like I'm getting more and more analog in my writing process. I've started printing game drafts for revisions and am quite enjoying it!
The cycle continues: draft rules, "this will be great!", playtest, "this is terrible!", draft rules, "this will be great!" etc forever and ever 😂😭 (This time's different though! It will be great!)
Our This Means War game last night was hot hot hot! Spotlight rounds are a ton of fun - we all do scenes about one character, using simple secondary characters to great effect. Marc's patriotic professor mixed university politics with war politics and totally disillusion'ed his star pupil.
We've been playing This Means War for a couple weeks now, and having a blast! (Not like a 'ha-ha' blast, but like a 'this is very dramatic and suspenseful and also I'm devastated that my farm boy character was killed' blast) You should check it out!
Ben Robbins@lamemage.com · 3mo agoLet slip the dogs of war, et cetera The public playtest of This Means War is ready for you to download and play #GMless arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/51...
Yeah! I had a lot of fun making a world while thinking about how cool The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are!
Ben Robbins@lamemage.com · 3mo agoStarted playing our first session of Emissary last night and had a lot of fun doing dual world-building #GMless, of course samovargames.itch.io/emissary
One Missed Call is a two-player game that my partner @thehintguy.bsky.social and I wrote together when we first started dating. It's about loved ones separated by space, and it's one of the few games that makes me cry every time I play it!
One Missed Call by lessthanthreegames
a story game for 2 about loved ones separated by space
lessthanthreegames.itch.io
"It is quietly devastating" I couldn't ask for a better tagline for One Missed Call! 😂 ❤️ Thank @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social you for the sweet and thoughtful review!
Craig (Third Floor Wars)@thirdfloorwars.bsky.social · 3mo agoLooking for a great 2-player #TTRPG? Here is my short review of One Missed Call by @chobbs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/zLlBa...
Unboxing challenge: I'm looking for more GMless games that you can play together without any reading in advance. Games you can just pick up and follow the instructions cold Show me what you got!
Children are great because they can help you see things in a whole new way. Like how my 7yo just told me he thought Lord of the Rings is probably about Bilbo trying to get a bunch of rings.
After it had been sitting in our 'to play' pile for 13 years, we finally played Happy Birthday Robot! It was just waiting for us to have a kid, and for that kid to be ready to have the restraint to only make one butt joke 😊
My 7yo picked up a Downfall book and had a whole stream of consciousness about the title and the cover image. "Downfall. Woah, why is it in the sky? That seems like a bad idea. Pieces of it are falling off. Oh falling dowwwn. Down Fallllll. That is Not Safe. Why is it falling? Have you read it?" 😂
I've been enjoying writing by hand lately - a short story, a blog post, planning documents. And so I was really excited to see this Kickstarter cultivating analog play from two local writers I know and super respect. Jenn and Sarah have the deep thoughts about writing and play! Very hype!
The Joyful Practice Handbook
analog play for dark times
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In our Downfall game last night we had the joy of getting to call for a consequence in the very first scene. Sure, the Hero can get that promotion she's been chasing, but oh no looks like Ms. Giant Wrench is getting leapfrogged out of engineering directly into a management job.
I hope I'll see lots of folks at Go Play NW this year! It's my favorite con - small and covid-conscious, with a wide variety of games run by kind and interesting people <3 Buying your ticket now helps ensure the event can happen, so please register if you plan to come! goplaynw.org/membership-d...
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I just finished reading Watership Down last night. Holy smokes! What a great book! And now all I want to do is play rabbits in every game ☀️🐇🔪
Come hang out with me in Seattle. GoPlay NW continues to offer a top-shelf curated selection of players and facilitators. Big Bad Con vibes, mixed with Seattle cool. Bring paperweights, Beacon Hill is windy as fuck. goplaynw.org/membership-d...
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I did a little write-up of a playtest we had a few weeks ago of @thehintguy.bsky.social's current project - Pottery Shards! This one is getting close to being done! Now I just need to figure out what the best archaeology themed emojis are...
What We Played: Pottery Shards
Playtesting continues for Marc’s latest project, the archaeology game currently titled Pottery Shards!
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doooods, hear me out: Polaris, but the Mistake is AI… (cuz yeah, people all over society pull their scooby doo masks off and push that slop)
Marc and I are trying to get more into the habit of doing play write-ups like in the olden days of the Story Games Seattle Meetup, if for no other reason than it's fun to look back on them years later. Here's one @thehintguy.bsky.social did for a playtest of my current project - Entanglement!
What We Played: Welcome to Sentai High! (Entanglement playtest) - <3 Blog
“Now if you’ll excuse me… I have to go do a group project.” - Val, Tiger, and Riyuji’s consistent excuse for ditching Venetia over and over.
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Pffff tidying up the table I picked up the In This World papers from a game @thehintguy.bsky.social played with his friends yesterday wtf this is so great lol. @lamemage.com Look what your games make people do 😂
I came out of my cave and did an interview with the lovely folks on the Read, Play, Game podcast about a month ago. Listen to our delightful conversation about Fedora Noir, gm-less games, and what I'm working on next! <3
Fedora Noir - Interview (feat. Caroline Hobbs) | Read, Play, Game
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We just started playing this in our Sunday night group! We really enjoyed set up and have the most adorable lil tavern! 😊
Heart of the Deernicorn@heartofthedeernicorn.com · 6mo agoIn Stewpot, a cozy game by Takuma Okada, you and your friends open your own fantasy tavern. Level up the tavern through fun mini games. Get a copy yourself through our website, link is in our bio. #ttrpg #indiegame #cozygames #stewpot
Having a second grader in my family means I'm on the bleeding edge of culture. Please enjoy this new take on an old fave:
My parents apparently saved my 1998 Furby, and we have now unleashed it upon our kid to his great delight. I had completely forgotten that according to the tag, Furby can SEE INTO THE FUTURE, so I blame it for all of this *gestures wildly*.
I finally did a writeup for one of the Downfall games I played last year! We did something *weird* and explored two different cultures in the same broad setting, with the same Flaw. River hobbits and dirty horses warriors! One ended in disapproving gossip and the other in a bloodbath - such stakes!
<3 Games Blog: River Hobbits & Dirty Horses
One of the things I enjoy most about longer-form Downfall games is the ability to let things simmer, explore relationships outside of the Hero, and get into the heart of what different voices in the s...
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Yesterday was a really productive day for the Less Than Three Games team! We both ran playtests for our works-in-progress and got some very valuable insights 🥳 Plus we made some sexy vampires (in my game) and some bog monsters (in Marc's game)!
Every now and then I see someone asking for recommendations of a GMless game to play. Well a bunch of us made a list, complete with explanations of why we thought each game was great, so you can decide for yourself. Don't see your favorite? Add it! www.reddit.com/r/gmless/com...
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