Tombola
@tombola.bsky.social
🤓 tomg.cool all my stuff 🧙♂️ tmcgry.itch.io rpgs n tabletop stuff 📜 handouts.tomg.cool rpg handouts 🎬 gerty.tomg.cool video editor 🎲 opr.tomg.cool OPR wargming thing 🌐 flagshaggr.tomg.cool flag game 🤖 fcgui.netlify.app generate rpg things
We're in official spooky season, so its customary for me to remind everyone of my FRANKENSTEIN themed EVERYONE IS JOHN hack I (drunkenly) put together a few years ago. "It's quite good!" - a friend "haha its alright, yea" - another friend #onepagerpg #rpg #everyoneisjohn #frankenstein #halloween
Feral Lands v0.5.14 playtesting continues! I think I'm on maybe the 7th or 8th entire overhaul of the combat, but the last 2 have actually been pretty engaging! The player were doing too well, so I think I'm nudging towards balancing territory. Onwards! #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign
playtesting for Feral Lands still simmering along on the front left burner, think I'm kiiiinda hitting a point of "no dead turns" which i really wanted. got a fun little pbta'ish structure going for all the moves #rpgdesign #rpg #ttrpg
BarnabusVTT coming along so well that I'm now running my own The One Ring 2E game in it. fully locked in to the idea that its "Miro but for RPGs and you host it yourself" gonna have a proper public release in the next few months once i've got all the wrinkles out
Radagast the Brown as a patron for The One Ring 2E! #lotr #theonering #rpg wanted to have a crack. Just started my first campaign, it's a very ad-hoc schedule West Marches situation and really fancied a framing of the players fucking around in Mirkwood so Radagast seemed a natural choice!
with basically 0 marketing (a handful of Reddit posts do count I guess hah) I just cracked £1k on my games on itch! 4 years of having games up, that's a lovely bit of beer money haha
fames are working nicely as a nice way to group content #ttrpg #webapps #vtt #rpg
Tombola@tombola.bsky.social · 2mo agonearly 2 years ago i prototyped my own #rpg #vtt - well, im back. I've re-thought some core rendering bits and re-architected others (tl;dr it uses @svelte.dev under the hood now) and i'm pretty damn happy with the performance! tl;dr thus far it blows other VTTs out of the water #ttrpg #webdev
nearly 2 years ago i prototyped my own #rpg #vtt - well, im back. I've re-thought some core rendering bits and re-architected others (tl;dr it uses @svelte.dev under the hood now) and i'm pretty damn happy with the performance! tl;dr thus far it blows other VTTs out of the water #ttrpg #webdev
my free video editor that has a fraction of the features of canva/capcut/etc. but isn't actively morally evil now has a home on itch tmcgry.itch.io/gerty-video-... so you have a place to demand features and such
Gerty Video Editor by Tom G
A simple free video editor
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maybe i've cracked the trick to doing combat tactics system: trick the players into playing a pbta-based spatial mini game i've ran some playtests for myself and we're at 3.5/5 fun and it works. more fine tuning! coming v. soon to FERAL LANDS! 🎲⚔️ tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign
todays play testing: The Vampire, The Guardsman and The Detective fight off a zombie swarm - what if multiple people could be in the same tile at the same time - had a fun idea for armour - more dice = more fun - realised im taking inspo from warhammer #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign
Tombola@tombola.bsky.social · 2mo agoRan 3 more combat scenarios last night for myself, came to the conclusion the combat system is functional but A) doesn't hit the design goal I wanted B) is maybe like 2/5 fun Back to the blank void of the drawing room.
big dawg out here accidentally making incredible Blades in the Dark / Darkest Dungeon artwork
Rodriguez@pissb0y.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Dagger a Dagger please fetch me a Dagger 🗡️ (Gerard Way bloodied and vanilla editions)
A Dagger a Dagger please fetch me a Dagger 🗡️ (Gerard Way bloodied and vanilla editions)
I am, incredibly, now on RPG Trader! #rpg #ttrpg #rpgtrader Will get the rest of my stuff up there when I have a min. For now, you have a new place to get hold of WEIRD WEIRD WEST
Tombola on RPG Trader
Hello, I'm Tom (he/him). Sometimes I write RPGs. Sometimes I build RPGrelated webapps and tools. Sometimes it's just random nerd shit and not even related to RPGs at all. Who knows. If you're as into ...
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Ran 3 more combat scenarios last night for myself, came to the conclusion the combat system is functional but A) doesn't hit the design goal I wanted B) is maybe like 2/5 fun Back to the blank void of the drawing room.
Tombola@tombola.bsky.social · 2mo agoran my own little one man playtest tonight. lovely stuff! everything is broken and combat felt weird and stale! but _it worked_, and now i can make it feel not weird and stale before anyone else has to suffer it!
Can't stand working on something and my brain is all "WHAT IF [NOUN] WHO ARE [VERB] IN [NOUN]" without warning, god damn self inflicted memetic flashbangs
Ghoula RPGs@gilarpgs.bsky.social · 2mo agoBrain: Here's that new game idea you ordered. Me: I didn't orde- Brain: Here's another one.
ran my own little one man playtest tonight. lovely stuff! everything is broken and combat felt weird and stale! but _it worked_, and now i can make it feel not weird and stale before anyone else has to suffer it!
Tombola@tombola.bsky.social · 2mo agotmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands/... I'm absolutely cooking with Feral Lands ATM, feels good. Bottom left burner full send, you get it You should have a look! It's like forbidden lands but tooled up a bit! Plus a new chaotic combat system! #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign #forbiddenlands
tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands/... I'm absolutely cooking with Feral Lands ATM, feels good. Bottom left burner full send, you get it You should have a look! It's like forbidden lands but tooled up a bit! Plus a new chaotic combat system! #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign #forbiddenlands
Feral Lands v0.59
Wassup big dogs, another update here tidied up hp and ar, how it gets its initial values and "bloodied" and stuff replaced "leverage" with "vice", this needs expanding but you get the idea renamed an....
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im writing Feral Lands to prove to all my friends who think that i only like super rules-lite #pbta stuff that i actually do think rules are good and cool "well could a forged in the dark fanboy do this" - me in real life #rpg #bitd #ttrpg #roleplayinggames
i was toying with having the intro splash for Feral Lands be an in speech, but sorta liking this almost "no nonense, why do we pretend games are grandiose" tightrope i've landed on tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands
I just know theres a certain kind of player whos gonna be irreperably angry by failing a check cus their character ran out of rations; thats who this game is for tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands #rpg #ttrpg #roleplayinggame #gamedesign
Feral Lands v0.55 - Feral Lands tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands/... my interests knock around my brain like a pinball machine, been back on making my perfect "reluctant swords-for-hire" #rpg #ttrpg #gamedesign #tabletoprpgs
Feral Lands v0.55
OK, new document with the proper game name. Loads of stuff has changed! Almost too much to mention i think, but off the top of my head core premise is now you're basically losers that are forced to be...
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(please forgive the fact that I'm intolerably bad at recording myself) tl;dr my video editor has a name now, & got some more features and is sort of slowly-but-surely becoming a real thing tl;dr++ what it lacks in features, it makes up for in not being dogshit #webdev #programming #videoeditors
Gerty v1 - Product Demo
YouTube video by Tom Gray
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i mainly do RPG and code stuff here on blue sky but I've been toying with and posting guitar stuff on tiktok. It's fun! [ Garth voice ] I like to play #guitar #guitarplaying #bluesguitar
what the f**k is happening lol this isn't even a released game, its just some ashcan release WIP pdfs #rpg #ttrpg #itchio
Tombola@tombola.bsky.social · 3mo agoso i got a crazy bump in views on my itch.io specifically for Weird Weird West over the weekend, want to learn more... they're all from google? what the _fuck_ does that mean? what do i possibly gleam from this??? #rpg #itchio #ttrpg #weirdweirdwest #tabletop
wanting to get into a rhythm of posting guitar videos online, so wanted a little editor to make them snazzy... but every video editor out there is super paywalled, or full of ai dogshit, or watermarked, or blah blah blah. they're all rubbish basically. so, in classic me fashion, im making my own
