@chrispwolf
Nice to meet you! I made a roleplaying game called Offworlders. Now I am working on one called Night Tripper. They are both space adventure games. https://www.night-tripper.fun I pour sake for a living. https://www.sakewolf.com/
This video did more for my mental health than a good walk. This is the shit I have been missing in gaming. Do yourself a favor and give it a watch. So much artistry and creativity.
Concept illustration of a gray jumpsuit with yellow panels
courtesy of the lovely and talented Pete Rouse, concept art from our upcoming away team adventure game STARNET π«
All Cops Are Bones
If you are reading bluesky and you are high on marijuana right now I need you to know that the skeleton police are headed your way and they already know what you did.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
The New York Times trying to get people to say that AI writes better than Cormac McCarthy is such a repulsive act of literary evil itβs impossible to comprehend.
We should care if things have meaning. Or if theyβre good or bad.
You gotta use fuck(python) actually
RuleZero What Is OSR? System Matters Manifesto Roots in Wargaming What we canlearn from boardgames Hostility to game design House of Leavesof ttrpgs Rules-X X-puk X meets Y Ghibli/Dark Souls
made a list of ttrpg topics/takes that earn you a wedgie
Distinctly remember being about 8 years old and staring at βgenitals of the universeβ
My parents had a couple little books of B. Kliban cartoons that I found on a shelf way, WAY too young. One of many reasons why I am this way. Kliban the GOAT.
You used to log onto the internet and find out it was peanut butter jelly time. Not any more.
Finally engaged the Baetyl at Bethesda Susa through pure cheese and phase-shifting through walls. Who even needs to win fights?
Freakin thread
The child was eating breakfast this morning, seated at the kitchen table, when I heard her calmly repeating all 14 principles of Thinking Adventures.
You gotta explain designer intent to a crying child now
Thatβs okay, system matters isnβt real and canβt hurt us here
Oh bro your system tightly supports a specific playstyle? Oh sick bro it enables players to tell a particular kind of story? Thatβs cool bro. Does it have ι?
move slow and repair things
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Just found the like three paragraphs of a Caves of Qud x Troika zine I started writing in 2019 and never picked back up. Someone should really do Caves of Qud x Troika.
Love the grimdark perfectly maintained golf course grass look of the 90s
If you were to play your ttrpg with a little kid, and said βwhat kind of character do you want to be?β And they said βI want to be Batman!β How easy would it be to stat up Batman in your system before the kid loses interest?
Just some new classes and equipment I reckon
restaurant manager: hey so, sorry to bother you, but is that a service animal? it's just, we have a policy-
jabba the hutt: je wonna wonga, bazda wahota shonga
salacious b crumb: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
restaurant manager: ah. ok. cool
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
Who up sketching the bittern at Minsmere