I know spam emails about this podcast claiming we have good SEO are full of shit when they tell me we're ranked #1 for "cherent ideas". Excuse me? Have you listened to us? You sure?

The Rockies are Tall, the Appalachians are Deep, no I will not be explaining myself.

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · last mo.

I was literally JUST doing a talk about this with @mcmanlypants.bsky.social an hour ago! The thing is that the Rockies are so much bigger than you that they don’t notice if you exist. But the Appalachians are so much older than you that if they notice you, bad shit’s about to go down.

This is @gamewoven.bsky.social

David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kink scene rescheduled because halfway through me explaining the scenario my dom asked a clarifying question that uncovered a howling logical inconsistency and we ended up spending the next three hours workshopping the worldbuilding.

This is Gamewoven, by the way.

Podcast fans I can't tell you how much having even one ravenous discord poster is a Boon for morale. So get in that discord and be a freak for your favorite niche AP.

The problem is that we see discussion of game design as a medium shut down by this trivial observation. When people want to discuss game-structures and are shut down by somebody pointing out that play-events can be anything, the result is that we ignore game-structures as a topic.

Oddly enough, this post is about Gamewoven.

R. Sera@talonbornestudio.bsky.social · last mo.

Birds: Sacred Horses: Profane

Ran our first real combat in @oneshotrpg.bsky.social's Cosmic Century Knights last night for the podcast. During the break we landed on this pull quote "Demands to be played cinematically. Every time I need a rule for something I find it, then it gets out of the way."

When we went about designing our "pantheon" for the podcast, which is entirely worldbuilding games, we wanted it to be messy and contradictory. So each of us broke off and ran our own game with total creative freedom and we came together afterward to figure it out post-hoc.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · last mo.

A short musing today about religion in fantasy worlds, childhood, statues, fish trophies, The Chicago Bulls, pancake breakfasts, and a dog named Scott. Hope you like this break from the usual. www.explorersdesign.com/religious-by...

The challenge that pretty much every secular designer has not overcome is that religion is rarely, and only temporarily, top-down. It is maintained, cultivated, and shaped by its believers.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · last mo.

A short musing today about religion in fantasy worlds, childhood, statues, fish trophies, The Chicago Bulls, pancake breakfasts, and a dog named Scott. Hope you like this break from the usual. www.explorersdesign.com/religious-by...

That's us! We've got gods from other continents who overlap via trade, gods who decided to leave their planet and seek refuge in ours, born godlings with specific domains. Old gods of the earth and younger gods in their own realm, constantly in flux and both undermining and balancing each other out

Rise Up Comus@riseupcomus.bsky.social · last mo.

One way to make your fantasy pantheon feel weirder and more resonant with mythology is to make them more LOCAL. Gods cannot hear you if you're not at their specific shrine. Not all gods are known to you. Their blessings must be discovered. Not all gods are for you. Their worship is proscribed.

The people have spoken! #BookJeffStormerOnDropoutYouCowards

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@planetx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You'd be such a great guest on Adventuring Academy.

Me to my dog: oh do you have a ball? Should we tell everyone? Should we call Kobe?

Iconic moment From @gamewoven.bsky.social, Hearts of Magic.

FUCK @gamewoven.bsky.social is so good. Hey, you! YEAH YOU. Especially my old RQG friends. Go listen to this actual play. Did you like RQG? You're gonna like this show. Don't know what RQG is? Too bad, go listen to this show anyway or I'm gonna come to your house and fight you.

Man Darkest Dungeon really is the Dark Souls of video games

Crafting mechanics are an important part of the structure of a game designed for long-term play. They don't have to be good, or even balanced, they need to be a thing in the back of the book that fills you with wonder at the realization you can snap the entire engine over your knee like a twig*

Writing a solar-powered setting to be "the opposite of cyberpunk" has led me to the most important conclusion: replace goofy cyberpunk slang with off-the-wall blue collar slang for everything. Oh you've got a 3-phase energy rifle? We call that a "Big Richard" round here.

The Fell Knights in @gamewoven.bsky.social’s game of Cosmic Century Knights:

stovey@doorhook.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey bro I noticed you unlocked your Ultimate like 30 levels before the rest of us. Be safe out there don't take any big risks okay?

scope creep game jam

A meditative, slightly melancholy improvisation that kind of explores new space. I really liked how this turned out today. I thought maybe it was too sad, but I think that's all of us these days. Enjoy and take care. #originalmusic #classical #piano #improvisation #musiciansky #musicsky #meditation

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When I type 80% of a reply and discard it, that's me hitting the blue button.

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this would fix the website

Fastest way to turn me off from an AP is if there's like 5 seconds of hemming and hawing between roll, number, and outcome every single time.

a man says well of course i know them in front of a mountain

Alt: a man says well of course i know them in front of a mountain

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Aram@aramvartian.com · 5mo ago

Thank your local TTRPG podcast editor who keeps shortening the spaces between when you roll your dice and when you announce the total.

favorite moment from last night's Cosmic Century Knights Zad: I've done 11 damage and he's already wounded so if I go high on control I don't need much impact, sorry about metagaming so much. Me: it's a shonen anime game, if you were a shonen protagonist that would be your inner monologue

Haha man we just ran the first character vignette for Cosmic Century Knights and it is quite sad

Maybe I missed a phase in the bullet points conversation, but why have I only seen examples like this involving room descriptions? Where is the side-by-side on how say a mechanical structure like combat or spellcasting works in prose vs bulleted?

sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen@samsorensen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

new blogpost! this one's a defense of regular sentences and paragraphs in an RPG world awash with boldings, bullet points, and bolded bullet points. check it out: samsorensen.blot.im/apologia-for...

Making a custom potion in Fantasy No 1 requires roughly 20 steps, like 6 tables, a tarot deck, a bunch of dice, and an alchemical circle. But it works.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this