Sam Long

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

I genuinely think that designers especially should play at many games and as many kinds of games as possible. Steal from everything.

Art is better when the artist is well rounded.

If your brain works anything like mine does, it’s because eventually this new fantasy game will be important enough to you where you will start to work on WYRM (etc) as a form of procrastination

I honestly believe that if I grew up in a religion that acknowledged “god is an asshole sometimes” I don’t think I would have lost my faith

“God is good” was the foundation of Christianity for me, and the second I read Exodus 11:5 where god indiscriminately killed children, I lost my faith

I was trying to write a fantasy novel, and in doing research for my world’s fake religion, I realized that all of my core beliefs were based on conversations about morality that I had with my friends, and not actual religious text

I’m so sorry, my third one:

If you don’t like the game part of games, you’re allowed to just tell stories.

You’re allowed to play pretend.

If what you like is only the pretend part, just do that.

Regardless of which direction you choose, I’m excited to see your game!

I almost want it to be a diesel punk mech game. Giant robots with rolling clouds of black smoke spewing out before every punch

Anywho, the idea is yours if you want it! I don’t have any plans on making a mech game

But what if it wasn’t a joke from the prop department? #Ted

I’ve seen someone who lives paycheck-to-paycheck give away their last dollar, to someone who needs it more than them, so many times that it’s literally unremarkable

This is an act of kindness that the rich definitionally cannot do, yet is a cultural norm among most struggling communities

I’ve always thought “Carbon Footprint” would be a dope name for a mech game. The cover would be a giant robot footprint with maybe a half crushed car for scale

I think I was getting confused because on PC and Mac they have the ability to combine all three affinity programs in one suite. Kept seeing the ability to use vector and pixel with both programs

I’m guessing that’s not the case on iPad

With both #AffinityPhoto2 and #AffinityDesigner2 being free for the iPad now, what’s the biggest difference between the two?

CATMAIL #2 Look what the cat dragged in. Monthly project updates, plus curated blog posts and oddments worth your time.

New month, new newsletter. Talking about why I didn't blog this month haha

Also including a ton of links to posts I found interesting!

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Tried out some new art styles 🎨

Cold War [card game] a redesign of the classic card game

Toucan’t Blog: Cold War [card game]

Pokédex character sheet in color

Pokédex character sheet in black and white

And because I want people to play this game, not just admire it as the strange outsider art that it may be, there is a truly astonishing Pokédex-inspired character sheet from @prosaiko.bsky.social

my social media feed consisting of journalists and TTRPG creators:

here's the secret:
NFTs were a front for crypto!
in order to trade NFTs you had to convert/invest/give your money to cryptos!!
The entire thing was just so people would invest and inflate that coin's value for other coin holders up the pyramid.

cryptos are such a classic pyramid scheme lol

photo of a sketchbook page featuring some doodles of a more realistic nidoking. What this is not a photo of is that blokees nidoking figure who really thought this was about him. The ego on this guy is out of control.

Lil bro thought I was taking a photo of him 😂

Example 2:

[50 🟢] Literally Any Action: DC = 5
[🟢⚪️ 30] Ram: DC = 3

Similar card, except this Oddish has the move “Ram” that can deal 2 DMG counters

“Literally Any Action” could be informed by the image on the card: Oddish has tiny legs and no arms, therefore it probably can’t climb up a cliff wall without a specific move

Or

“Literally Any Action” could be informed by outside game knowledge of its learnset of specific moves:

Example:

Every DMG counter = +1 DC
5 DMG counters = Death

D20 roll over DC
[50 🟢] Literally Any Action: DC = 5
[🟢 10] a “Trip Over” Action: DC = 1

Dots deal Damage:
1 ⚪️ = 1 DMG counter
If Attacks, both deal 1 DMG counter
🟢 = grass type damage

Weakness: x2 fire type damage
1 🔴 = 2 DMG counters

Need something to play while you wait for your Into The Oddish pre-order?

Want to replicate the single-player gameboy experience of traveling a route for the first time, with NO players guide?

Then might I suggest my FREE game, Inventory Monsters: Solo Boost’er Crawl

#SoloTTRPG #TTRPG #Pokemon

this genX loser walked on VH1 so genZ chuds could irl stream on kick

Settlement-Oriented Sandboxes My guide to minimal, settlement first sandbox preparation.

New blog post!

In it, I talk about a settlement first way of building a sandbox, with the intention of visiting the same communities over and over. Check it out!

www.mindstormpress.com/settlement-o...

Into the Oddish is Heistfunding Now — Prismatic Wasteland Pre-Order a Pokémon tabletop roleplaying game parody of Into the Odd with Vileplume Mountain, a funhouse dungeon adventure.

Catch ‘Em All while you can! In commemoration of the 30th anniversary, I’m heistfunding a Poképocalyptic game based on Into the Odd. I call it INTO THE ODDISH!
You can pre-order it now (until ???)
#ttrpg #pokemon #osr

What are some of the best resources to design a TTRPG city?