Luke Boniecki

Great thread

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For someone (like me) still holding on to some concepts from The Forge in the 00s, that's a very refreshing take

RuneQuest and the world of Glorantha have had many highs and lows. After flying high in the 1970s, it looked like the 1980s might be even better thanks to a business deal. But in some ways, the game would never recover.

The Explorateur: Issue #2 Monthly discoveries for tabletop roleplaying game designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

Explorateur #2 is live and in your inbox. It's a curation of links for #ttrpg designers. November was packed with sharp writing, ideas, and theory, so it was hard to leave anything out.

I'll share some of the highlights here on BlueSky...

www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

For ages I've been trying to come up with a bulk transport/trading rules. I did try to build on Traveller/Mercator rules, and on UVG and I'm still unhappy with the results

What's a general idea for that city Hex Flowers?
I do love Hex Flowers for things that I expect to change gradually, so I'm wondering what you are cooking up :D

I think my disagreement stems from the idea that it’s not a single playstyle anymore. I’m not sure it ever was, because there have always been different understandings of its core tenets, pillars, or principles. But those interpretations were definitely much closer to each other than they are now

I might need to start a blog just to explain that one thing :D

To clarify: When I hear or see OSR, I more and more often don’t know what someone means. I usually figure it out from context, but not always. If it’s someone I know and follow (game materials, blogs, or podcasts), it’s clear. But from a random person on Reddit, socials, or a convention? Much harder

I got into OSR shortly after one of the releases of Swords & Wizardry (I think around 2008), and the space has changed a lot since then—especially post-G+. To me, the term has lost much of its meaning (if it was ever more than marketing) as an umbrella for everything it now tries to encompass

Oh, cool. I never thought about it, but it’s really handy to have a term for grouping games like Liminal Horror, Cthulhu Hack, and Cthulhu Dark (which I don’t think anyone would even call NSR, but DIY CoC fits)

A great post, worth reading for anyone who missed it, just like I did - even though I don’t really agree with the conclusion

Na szczęście to zin, więc łatwa robota!

It's a very beautiful book!

I rarely go for limited covers because I usually prefer the standard ones. But I did choose a limited cover for Into the Cess & Citadel. It’s really eye-catching!

Is the cover brighter than the previous print, or is it just the lighting?

Chyba z EF z paroma innymi rzeczami, których nie mogłem dostać gdzie indziej

To setting i zbiór narzędzi inspirowany m.in. podhalańskim folklorem i ogólnie legendami polskich gór.
Autorem jest @coorac.bsky.social

Two books on the table: Ave Nox - A system-neutral mega dungeon of forgotten history and folly, and Wind Wraith - a generative wavecrawl setting toolkit

Two RPG books on the Table: Cryptid Creeks and Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow

Two books on the table: polish one Hen! Za Corny Groń - Przewodnik Awanturniczy, and Wonderland - A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting

One book and two zines on the table: Beyond the Pale in the middle, The Dream Shrine on the left, and Fabien's Atelier on the right

I didn’t have time lately to look through the stuff I’ve go, but here are some new(ish) #TTRPG releases that arrived for me in the last few weeks.

Not sure when I’ll have time to read them, though!

How Jennell Jacquays rocked the dungeon design world, continued from part 1. In part 1 we talked about some major premade dungeons that predate Thracia and what each added to the craft. Let's now move to how Thracia both combined and completely evolved these concepts.

Great thread on early dungeon design

A 25% tarif? That will increase the price of approximately 85% of all TTRPGs, and that's accounting for people switching to US printers.

The Wizard of Oz had the ideal D&D party composition:
• character whose entire personality is having a pet (human ranger)
• character that makes more sense in another setting (warforged fighter)
• a furry (tabaxi bard)
• character who wanted to play as a monster (scarecrow)

A new 100+ page WIP version of DURF Expanded is now up on my Patreon!

This version includes:
- New art
- Reworked travel procedure and magic
- Rules for converting other OSR creatures

www.patreon.com/emielboven

A screenshot of my portfolio website showing a section titled "Freelance Writing & Game Design". A single row of text beneath this shows that I've been working on two forthcoming adventures for the Discworld roldplaying game.

I can't talk about exactly what these are yet but I've had the okay to say that I'm working on them, so I guess I get to add another dream gig to my portfolio now

I'm a strong proponent of CC BY-SA, but I guess CC BY is still fine. I don't like NC licenses.

I would love to be added here!

Did you consider doing it digital only?

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