Wednesday's class was about tabletop role-playing games and it was just great. We played Desperation and Zhenya's Wonder Tales by @jmstar.bsky.social as well as Making History by Jonathan Proctor and @cmichpress.bsky.social. 1 /
Jason Morningstar
@jmstar.bsky.social
Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Dreamed I met a woman named Citronella Caramelhoof, I think she was a witch
Catch me on November 1 at Sarah Lawrence, talking about memoir, BRCA, and writing at the Institute for Genomics.
The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
Microscope (2nd Edition)
The award-winning game of epic fractal histories
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It's so good! I was *gasping* at some of the cards I drew. Shock, excitement, indignation, horror at the fragile bonds I was about to callously tear asunder without recourse...
Bully Pulpit Games@bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 4d agoCards from #Aldsworth1811, the #DesperationRPG hack by @tenpenjenn.com. @jmstar.bsky.social recently played it and can report that it is very good. If you are a fan of the core game or all things Regency, this hack is for you! #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming jennmartin.itch.io/aldsworth-1811
If you haven't submitted to @goldencobra.bsky.social , I really encourage you to use it as a creative prompt and just do it. Don't think about winning, don't try to do something "good'. Just write a LARP you'd want to play. www.goldencobra.org
Golden Cobra Challenge
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Playing DESPERATION by @jmstar.bsky.social in my @nyugamecenter.bsky.social class! A generous donation from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social!
Are we doing hot TTRPG takes? Here's mine: If a game isn't working for you, get up and leave. You can be graceful about it but don't stick around. If someone at your table gets up and leaves, thank them, because they are improving everyone's experience.
And now for a look beyond the CLGS curtain -- we were playtesting one of the expansion decks for The Blue Way (we're thinking of calling it "Death to Tyrants") in class today! #thebluewaygame #jasonmorningstar #samuelarayaart #playtesting
One of @jmstar.bsky.social's favorite (and one of his favorite films generally) is Věra Chytilová's 1978 comedy Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště (English: Prefab Story; or How A Housing Estate is Born). He always wanted to capture the feeling of these stories in a game and here is The Apartment!
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There's a sub-genre of Socialist comedy film that gently pokes fun at what was, perniciously, a miserable post-war housing crisis that never
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Late in the game, melancholy music plays and only five people remain alive. Twenty-five Transparent Ones are dancing in ecstasy in the darkness just off camera.
The campaign for Lonely Timbers is chugging along nicely so I thought I would talk about the game's origins. This game was originally born from the GameChef competition back in 2017 where we were encouraged to design games around the themes of borders, both literal and metaphorical.
Happy Stanislav Petrov day, here's a 20-minute Stanislav Petrov larp I made for Ringling College many years ago: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/11uas...
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A very moving experience.
Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia@czamboni.bsky.social · 2w agoIt was absolutely incredible to see two masters of their craft at work with a large group and in the proper setting. Expect more pictures soon - this was pure magic! ✨ Thanks to @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social for being wonderful human beings and inspiring creators.
That's the alternative cover for #NineSpaceGames...
Indie Game Reading Club@indiegamereadingclub.com · 2w agoIt's crazy they let these kinds of typos into the wild. (@bullypulpithq.bsky.social 's Nine Space Games is very cool, highest recommendation, a must-have for fans of The Culture and/or make-believe arguments.)
Elsewhere @indiegamereadingclub.com's Paul Beakley called my new game "Ten Space Arguments" and, OK, fair
@lizziestark.bsky.social and I ran Nina Runa Essendrop and Simon Steen Hansen's larp Hvid Død for 30 students at Wesleyan tonight and it went great. What a beautiful game. They made such a mess in the brand new black box theater. Thanks to @czamboni.bsky.social for bringing us!
So happy to be here! Everyone had been lovely.
Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia@czamboni.bsky.social · 3w agoLast night's event at @backagaincafe.bsky.social was delightful - we playtested new Desperation sets and chatted with @jmstar.bsky.social ! We continue today with the talk at 12 pm at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social . Thanks all!
Did you see that @jmstar.bsky.social rewrote the last chapter of #NineSpaceGames into a general "How to Make a One-Hour Larp"? Check it out and consider writing your own game for #TheGoldenCobraChallenge! #larp #gaming #RPGs www.patreon.com/bullypulpitg...
Create a Larp for the Golden Cobra! | Bully Pulpit Games
Have you heard about the Golden Cobra Challenge? It's a friendly game design contest for freeform larp with different themes and special rul
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Dang these games are good, all ten of 'em!
Heart of the Deernicorn@heartofthedeernicorn.com · 3w agoIf you want to have a dramatic role playing experience in about an hour or less, then you should pick up Nine Space Games by Jason Morningstar, available now on our website! #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #ttrpgcommunity #larp #roleplayinggames
Here is a fun crossover experience for fans of #FiascoRPG and #ArsMagica! FREE Fiasco playsets that provide a seamless blend of both games with all the tables and set-up instructions needed to play! #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming www.atlas-games.com/fiasco
Ars Magica Fiasco
Free Fiasco playsets in Ars Magica's Mythic Europe setting.
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A friend suggested the "how to make a one-hour larp" chapter from Nine Space Games might be inspirational and a good format for folks to try out for the Golden Cobras, so I updated it and added a neutral worked example. I hope it inspires you! bpglink.com/freeform
Marchosias Rising, laid out, 44 pages of stuff! Instructions, character sheets, black mass components, love letters, chiffonier table tents, it's a lot. We took a page from Crescendo Giocoso and offer basic and deluxe suggestions for all the bits.
Just to be up front: I haven't played The Watch before. But I want to! The game that inspired it—Night Witches—is one of the best I've ever played and I really want to see how Ash took its parts and made it into a genderful space game about war. If that sounds cool to you too, consider pledging:
Mars Watch | PBTA space military + survival horror
An almost tenth-anniversary second edition of award-winning RPG The Watch by Ash Kreider, with a new setting and playbook
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80% funded, with only 7 days to go! girls, gays, and theys destroying patriarchy and white supremacy in space!
Ash the Stampede@ashthestampede.bsky.social · last mo.Mars Watch is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Re-skinned 2nd edition of The Watch - an award-winning TTRPG about women and NB people literally destroying patriarchy. 📚 Revised rules, incl. new playbook 🚀 New setting & art ✨ Future genders 🔪 Destroy space capitalism Back now: www.kickstarter.com/...
The book of Isaiah goes pretty hard. When we needed some extra verbiage for our larp's black mass, slightly changing the POV worked well.
