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A tentative cover for KRIEGWALKERS, depicting a mech silhouette in front of an orange sky, surrounded by two mech hangars

An attempt was made. I might need to reduce the blur on the mech's silhouette (based on a model by Michael Schiffer I found at Unsplash), but this turned out way better than expected. PS2 covers were the biggest inspiration here.

I know I should be resting, but I *really* wanna work on that damn mecha game. Sigh. A week of bed rest down, three to go...

Diesel punk is a perfect fit for the concept! I'm tempted to take you up on that offer, but my current mecha game is probably too setting-agnostic to do it justice.

That's friggin' great, especially if the game touches on the subject of climate change and how the war machine contributes to it. Love it!

After much deliberation (as in, a little over 30 minutes), I landed on two possible titles: KRIEGWALKERS and HAWK-R (Heavy Armored Walker/Krieger Riders). Which do y'all prefer?

I was a playtester for this! It is a very good classical style train adventure.

Has anyone made a mecha hack of World of Dungeons before? Because I think I just wrote one. No idea what I'm gonna do for the title, and this is probably not gonna have a cover (can't draw mechs for shit), but I think the layout's in the bag, as is the character sheet.

Didn't know this was getting a second season!! So hyped! The manga is an all-timer, and season one was so much fun.

There's for sure a great 50-episode show hidden in there, one that would actually pull off all the concepts they mashed together. Wish we'd gotten that instead of a 12-episode trainwreck.

I never would've guessed this had ANY relation to Final Fantasy if not for the title. Hell, even the logo looks like a knock-off brand. Wild stuff.

People really weren't kidding about GQuuuuuuX's identity crisis. It feels like someone dumped three great concepts for different Gundam series in a blender and called it a day.

The Absolute Trinity only clicked for me when I realised Darkseid stacked *every* possible odd against them AND took away their cornerstones, yet they still rose to the challenge. They're rougher and edgier than their Prime counterparts, but their hope and idealism are still as heroic as ever.

Too much realism can be harmful, tbh, and I think your take on this strikes a good balance between fostering imprudence (as in, the players don't have to worry about noise at all) and punishing the party for making any noise at all.

Yeah, keeping it situational might be more realistic/immersive than just rolling random encounters every time the party engaged in combat. Reaction rolls for nearby denizens would definitely help with this, and perhaps even circumvent the encounter roll entirely, at least for fully prepped dungeons.

Combat is noisy, and echoes can travel pretty far inside cramped or cavernous dungeons. Do y'all usually make additional encounter rolls when a fight goes on for more than a few rounds? Personally, I like the realism this brings, but it makes combat even more of a fail state.

A meme with two astronauts looking at a planet, with one of them saying "it's called 5.5e now" and the other pointing a gun at them and saying "always has been".

How nice of Wizards of the Coast to finally "allow" us to call it 5.5e.

The silver lining of getting a few days of bed rest is that I finally got an opportunity to enjoy some comfort movies. Yesterday's pick was Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and I'm thinking of following that up with Edge of Tomorrow or Mad Max: Fury Road.

I'm in waaaay too much pain to write, but I can't help but beat myself up for being unproductive, lmao.

Feels good to be back home after a few days in the hospital. I had an unexpected (but thankfully minor) surgery. I'm still in pain, and I don't know what I would've done without my partner, but hey, I'm home.

Love the Marathon lore, love the vibes, love the art direction and love the atmosphere... but the gameplay is SO not for me. I'd love a PvE-only solo mode, though.

I feel like the lighter a game is, the more space it should dedicate to advising the readers (GM and players alike) on how to actually use its rules. Rules light + advice heavy is a perfect combo, and it's also the reason why I love Electric Bastionland so much.

A page with the GM principles for Drakönis

A page describing what classic fantasy means for Drakönis

And that's a wrap on the intro spreads! I'm half tempted to make a quick overview of what play looks like, but it might either be too much, or just too early.

Anyway, I'd love to know what y'all think of the GM vows and the game's themes and motifs. Next up: character creation!

We're on the verge of implementing such measures here in Brazil, and I fear it's too late to fight back. It's a big election year for us, and this is probably going to be one of the biggest talking points for every candidate. We had a HUGE scandal involving online exploitation of minors last year.

I think Cairn and Into the Odd pretty much pioneered this format of kicking off the book with an overview of player principles, and I kinda ran with it for all my games, lmao. This is *probably* the most detailed one I've written yet, though, and I'm so happy the ritualistic delivery landed for ya!

Thank you!! I wanted to go for a Souls-y vibe, as that sort of language and iconography fits well with the take on classic fantasy I envisioned for Drakönis, so I'm happy it comes off as *good* pretentious, rather than just pretentious.

Yeah, the indent has to go. It's the sort of thing that works when the text is heavy on multiple paragraphs in succession, or when the first paragraph has a dropcap, but this isn't the case.

As for your comments on the text itself, thank you so much!!

The next spread goes into the GM's Draconic Oath, and it also tries to define what "classic fantasy" means for Drakönis, but I haven't finished it yet.

Part 1 of the Introductory spread for the TTRPG Drakönis

Part 2 of the Introductory spread for the TTRPG Drakönis

NGL, I'm a bit apprehensive about how this reads. It makes sense to me, but I'm worried it just sounds like a vapid (or even worse, pretentious) word salad for everyone else.

Cairn probably did this better, but hey, I tried, lmao

Depending on the rules employed, hexes can definitely turn into abstractions! Some games put in a lot of work into respecting the feasible distances for a group of adventurers, turning every possible detail into a modifier, but I think those are the exception.

Concessions are probably my least favourite part of those rules, so I totally get ya. It's great in theory, but players usually *hate* conceding, even when it's in their best interests. V5 even tells you to REWARD them for it, to no avail.

I'd love to see more of those one-roll designs, by the way!