nothing feels better than being struck with inspiration that lasts more than a day
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they/them Accursed storyteller https://startplaying.games/gm/ilinxkeene ilinxkeene.wixsite.com/blog
just finished Honeybee by Craig Silvey last night. such a sweet and hopeful ending to an absolute trainwreck of emotions #booksky
I'm reading an absolutely fascinating blog post that collects many different kinds of Initiative in RPGs. It's really eye opening. It shows just how hard it is to find a good answer to "who goes first" when a fight breaks out. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/06/ever...
EVERY Initiative Method??
Not really. But maybe, with your help, we actually can. Let's give this a shot. Every now and then I've seen a blog post attempting to cover...
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just backed this! can't wait to bring some of Aotearoa to my games
Kelly Whyte@kellywhyte.bsky.social · last yr.Last 48 hours of our kickstarter, get in while you can! Not only do you get a bunch of NZ wildlife as playable species in print and pdf, you get it for 25% off the retail price and bundled with the Roll20 version. Go for it now folks!
Hey there, I'm running games at @startplaying.bsky.social! Come join me in a fully improvised campaign with an easy to learn #indiettrpg. Anyone is welcome, and your first session is free! startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
Play Indie TTRPG Online | Beyond the Faer Woods | Beginner & 🏳️🌈 friendly | PerilousRPG
The peaceful life of your underground home town was never going to last, but you and your closest friends have done your best to keep it that way. As young heroes, you have protected your community fr...
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Been working on bringing the most horrible creature in New Zealand into D&D; the namu (sandfly) swarm. If you want to unleash thousands of biting, irritating, bloodthirsty insects on your players... well shame on you frankly, and shame on us for helping you do it. Back LotLWC vol 2 today!
Lineages of the Long White Cloud, Volume 2
A 5e supplement based on Aotearoa New Zealand's wildlife
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once you embrace being the #ttrpg Forever DM, the problem with being the Forever DM is finding people who actually want to play whatever wildass game you've got stuck in your craw this time
There are few better feelings as a GM than a Player, days after a session, asking for an aside to pose a Lore question and them opening it up with "Have I lost it? Or is this right?" and they proceed to be entirely correct about the theory. I love my Lore Hound Players! #TTRPG #D&D #DnD
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
Alt: A man in a slightly blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers, pictures, pins, and red yarn on it. This is commonly referred to as a "Conspiracy board" and often points to a singular conclusion supported by the evidence on the board, often with many logical holes and leaps required to fully comprehend and with several logical prescriptions or descriptions the viewer must agree with to agree with the conclusion presented.
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Faction Action – Burning the Candle towards both ends goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/f... I quite like the idea that only certain parts of the random encounter table become progressively unlocked after some action has already taken place. #osr #RandomEncounterTables #BurnTables
Faction Action – Burning the Candle towards both ends
CC image – click to see source (in theory the above is the opposite of my idea :O|) In a similar vein to my “Random Encounter Tables – When the Boss Monster comes out swinging” blog post, I l…
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This game could be whatever you make it: A wholesome quest for community and friendship? A heroic defence against an invading army? Am escape from cryptids through spooky woods? All of the above? Join Beyond the Faer Woods and decide for yourself what kind of world awaits you! #indiettrpg
ilinx@ilinxkeene.bsky.social · last yr.Hey there, I'm running games at @startplaying.bsky.social! Come join me in a fully improvised campaign with an easy to learn #indiettrpg. Anyone is welcome, and your first session is free! startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist. Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
Hey there, I'm running games at @startplaying.bsky.social! Come join me in a fully improvised campaign with an easy to learn #indiettrpg. Anyone is welcome, and your first session is free! startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
Play Indie TTRPG Online | Beyond the Faer Woods | Beginner & 🏳️🌈 friendly | PerilousRPG
The peaceful life of your underground home town was never going to last, but you and your closest friends have done your best to keep it that way. As young heroes, you have protected your community fr...
startplaying.games
was prepping for this week’s #dnd session today, and once again everyone’s problems are caused by wizard hubris… :)
hmhm, I think it might be time to make art about conversion therapy and the time child-me killed the lesbian inside me #tittyrpgjam
Titanomachy RPG (they/them) | Super Saiyan Hayley Williams@titanomachyrpg.com · 2y agogovt says i don’t exist. i’m gonna make it real hard to get away with that. if I have to, I will leave a crater in the earth 🏳️⚧️ join the jam. all types of art accepted itch.io/jam/tittyrpg
#tittyrpgjam got me debating if the gm is inherently a dom or sub or if they can switch, and can i mechanise that… (lmk if you have thoughts)
ok fine! i've joined #tittyrpg despite my backlog of projects to finish. but i've had this urge all year that my art needs to be more punk, so i couldn't pass this up
Titanomachy RPG (they/them) | Super Saiyan Hayley Williams@titanomachyrpg.com · 2y agoget your #tinyworldjam and #36WordRPGJam entries in before the deadlines today! then hop on over to the #tittyrpg art jam, which starts tomorrow! **95 people have joined, let’s make it 100 #Indiegames itch.io/jam/tittyrpg
This is fun. The more ways there are to slay dragons, the better. Or befriend/seduce them depending on who you ask. However you choose to hit the dragon, there are options.
Sandro AD 🎲🎲🎲@sandroad.moe · 2y agoBlog Post Time! Here I defend horrific HP bloating as Actually A Good Thing Sometimes™️ ~ Enter the 2500 HP Dragon: www.failforward.moe/2025/01/2500...
Bad games are the best games because they create game designers. If 5e were perfect, there would be only one game. Instead, 5e sucks so there are 10,000 tiny indie games that suck less and that’s beautiful
There should be a game jam for games with rules written in the most diegetic ways possible. I'm talking resolution mechanics as prophecies. Rules for death as in-game cultural traditions. Combat mechanics as snippets of kingdom army training manuals.
This blog is done! Check it out - Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning. I'm very proud of it. www.eclipse.gay/blog/faggot-...
Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning — Darling Demon Eclipse
How do I express this to you, the faggot game designer who is most likely to read a blog about TTRPGs with such an aggressive name? You have to do it now, and loudly, and into the future. You have to ...
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Doll King Eclipse@eclipse.gay · 2y agoSometimes you say something that demands a blog's worth of explanation
These posts have good takeaways. One thing I think about game design is that we don't talk about design itself, at a core level, often enough; we might talk about specific mechanics or tech, but not about what you actually do. I have some blogs about it. aryxymaraki.blogspot.com/2024/01/this...
Ten Rules of RPG Design
This was originally posted elsewhere but is being reposted here to pretend that content exists. You're welcome. This is an essay ab out ten...
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Titanomachy RPG (they/them) | Super Saiyan Hayley Williams@titanomachyrpg.com · 2y agohey all, back when a bunch of us migrated to tumblr, I did a short three part series on how I personally learned #ttrpg design, with the aim of helping people unsure of how to increase their design knowledge/skill set. if that sounds like you, check this out! (& share/repost/reskeet/etc!)
hey all, back when a bunch of us migrated to tumblr, I did a short three part series on how I personally learned #ttrpg design, with the aim of helping people unsure of how to increase their design knowledge/skill set. if that sounds like you, check this out! (& share/repost/reskeet/etc!)
how i learned ttrpg design
Posts on titanrpg tagged as how i learned ttrpg design
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My first essay of the year is on @noroadhome.itch.io's "Stewpot!" I think the game is pretty directly in conversation with D&D, and I talk about how it turns the tables on adventuring tropes, inverting the power dynamic between heroes and NPCs.
Stewpot: The Antithesis of D&D
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
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spent yesterday getting a tour of what’s new in my dad’s Minecraft world. he’s done really cool worldbuilding and doesn’t even know it, so i’m dropping everything and turning it into a campaign setting
Introducing the Designing Dungeons Course: a free, 14 step, hands-on tutorial that walks you through the process of creating a 30-room dungeon from scratch. I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games
Couldn't go to bed until I released my lukewarm take on ranked skill lists. Embrace freeform skill systems...you're already doing it anyway.
Beyond Ranked Skill Lists - Ethan Yen
I’ve been stewing on skill systems in tabletop roleplaying games and how the gameplay experience is enhanced or diminished based on various implementations of skill systems. In particular, the use of ...
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i’m not usually a big holiday person, but something shifted in the air these past few days and everything is just a bit better now??? i spent my christmas scribbling notes for a deck building ttrpg. if this energy carries through the new year, i may share some of my ideas for it here… 👀
One of the best things I ever did for myself was stop comparing my life trajectory to people who have support systems. I won’t say I never had help, but I’m just now truly understanding the difference between “assistance” and “support”.