I had a great time chatting with @coffeeallnight.itch.io about horror movies and their influences on our games. Check out our VOD if you're a horror fan as well!
#horror #zimo #cryptids #horrormovies #ttrpg
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From now until the end of the year, bring evil home for the holidays with the Black Winter Sale.
The Winter Door is 50% off, and everything else is PWYW.
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Join us TONIGHT for a special charity stream!!!
The Masquerade Ball You’re invited! Well, er, not really. But you’re going anyway! It’s time to infiltrate the event of the season. Rumor has it, someone at this ball knows the location of a very powerful mech. Find it, steal it, own it. But first, you’re gonna need a costume. Use the Heist rules (Briny Bastards page 120) for this mission. The obstacles here are social: getting past guards, eavesdropping at opportune moments, slipping off to restricted areas, and bypassing security systems without ever being detected. The target is The Princess, a non-biolinked mech that can learn from any schematics. It already knows 2 armaments and 2 munitions from any mech types, which you can acquire now for free (as long as they are unlocked). Since it isn’t biolinked, any Operative(s) can pilot this mech. Once they have the mech, the Operatives have to decide how to leave: noisily in their new mech, or through a more subtle approach. Most of the guests aren’t geared for a fight, but the Space Force is patrolling. The Masquerade Ball has the Dismounted tag.
A screenplay. EXT. ROOFTOP — NIGHT. The first rays of sunrise creep over the horizon. Empty bottles, cigarette stubs, and other trash reveals the aftermath of a long night. JESSICA and SÉBASTIEN lie among the detritus, almost clinging to one another. SÉBASTIEN Okay, what about you, though? This is normal for you? JESSICA Which part? SÉBASTIEN All of it. The sneaking out, the beer, the sigrets. JESSICA (laughing) Cigarettes. SÉBASTIEN Yes, all of this. JESSICA I wouldn't say normal, exactly, no. She takes his hand in his. Suddenly, a bright light flares out the camera. Our pair shields their eyes as a FLYING SAUCER streaks across the sky, landing with a large fireball in a nearby forest. (in red rink, a handwritten note underlines FIREBALL and adds "We can do this ONCE, but we'll need two bottle episodes to balance the budget. — producer Gary) JESSICA Is that...? SÉBASTIEN Not one of mine. It looked Kimagi, maybe. JESSICA We should check it out. SÉBASTIEN We should. Neither of them move. JESSICA Or, we could stay here a bit longer. SÉBASTIEN I don't think the saucer's going anywhere. He leans in for a kiss. JESSICA Wait. We can't be the only ones who saw that.
Sharing a screenshot from two #wip #ttrpg games I'm working on. Left is Cyberrats in Space (now with mechs!), right is Home x Dark.
History is the history of Rangers because I am a history nerd! Read all about it here!
We are experiencing a huge end of campaign push for Wandering Blades! We're now less than $1.5K away from our $35K stretch goal!
We have added a new $40K stretch goal: a Wandering Blades mini series on the @oneshotnetwork.bsky.social with an Asian cast! Let's go!!!!
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One of my #ttrpgs got a passing mention on Reddit; this always generates a huge surge of new views.
From an average of 2 new views a day to between 50-100 new ones.
Pro: Reddit is huge.
Drawback: also cheap, not a single sale in those surges.
#SelfPromoSaturday
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I think there is a more pertinent question:
"How is damage/stress/injury fictionally represented in the game?"
Does taking damage from a goblin stabbing you represent the wearing down of your stamina/luck? Or is it just being stabbed in your meaty bits?
A cover for the album "Our Love" by Caribou: the album title is repeated in a small point, simple sans serif so as to form a pattern on a white background covering the whole cover. A rainbow gradient goes over it. Two hands reaching for each other from the top left and bottom right corner appear through the typographic pattern. The artist's name appears in all caps, orange sans serif in the top right corner, covering some of the pattern.
A mockup of the previous cover art in a CD case with a mockup of the CD below: the same text pattern as the cover appears on the CD, without the hands.
A mockup of the last spread of the booklet as well as its back cover: the spread shows the lyrics for each song as well as the credits, with a similar gradient going over the whole spread. The back cover shows a smaller version of the text pattern from the cover, centered in a square.
O-week of the Alphabet Superset: "Our Love" by Caribou 💘
Inspired by old jazz album covers, I wanted to make a cover based on strong typography. The hands were supposed to be an abstract graphic element but blending them in the text pattern felt abstract enough.
#graphicdesign #albumart #coverart
If I know any cool cutting edge indie darlings I bet they would love to support queer community and excellence in TTRPG and Actual Play
Help us make Rainbow Roll Fest happen this Pride!
I am the volunteer coordinator, come work with me to out on a show!
Wow! This is the most comprehensive review of the Wandering Blades quickstart I've read to-date! I'm glad you enjoyed my contribution to the OSR space, @cannibalhalfling.bsky.social!
The Wandering Blades campaign ends in less than 10 hours! Yesterday, we smashed through our 4th stretch goal and crossed the 1,000 BACKER MARK! How awesome is that?!
We're now less than $4K away from our next stretch goal! At $40K, we will commission a @oneshotnetwork.bsky.social mini series !
The Asians Represent Podcast returns to Twitch for a special AAPI Heritage Month charity stream TOMORROW! @valorliana.bsky.social @dmsteve.bsky.social @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social @br00taldan.bsky.social @knitnack.bsky.social
I simplified the Story Thread connection procedure after a playtest, but I'm now pretty happy to release this as an ashcan. Here you go - Infinite Seas Under The Same Stars is a storygame of souls fatefully linked over multiple realities and lifetimes. Get it from ehronlime.itch.io/infinite-sea...
Let's go!!!!! We're just about $2.5K away from our next Wandering Blades stretch goal!!! Can we reach it by end of day so @oneshotnetwork.bsky.social can produce an all Asian Wandering Blades mini series?!
Buy my games, now on ko-fi where the money will go directly to giving me chicken sandwiches.
What if instead of talking about our shit on here, we did it in the comments of our own blogs, itch pages, etc. ?
I think I'm gonna try that. I'm really not feeling this space anyways.
The folks here, who I like, I know where your stuff drops. I'll look to engage there.
A thoughtful reflection on the broken social media that we can’t just escape.
In the words from the first commenter mentioned in this blog:
“Do better OSR”.
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Not a TTRPG, but the board game Roll Into Town is basically this. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36...
Bummed at the treatment Yochai received over here. Good reminder that Bluesky, like Twitter, is not the kind of 'social media' that does it for me. This is a self-promo app and not somewhere suited for making actual connections/friendships. If you wanna chat to me, dm me here or find me on discord.
Yochai is one of the best, most community-oriented persons in OSR-and-adjacent spaces. He'll do his work elsewhere. His departure isn't a loss to him, but to TTRPGs here on Bluesky.
You fucking idiots.
PS: go sign up for the Between Two Cairns patron:
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#ttrpg projects coming from me in 2025.
Ouroboros: souls like solo game, equal parts world building and tactical combat.
Hope Ultra: FitD psychics building up their community and fighting the fash.
Hell Breakers: rogue agents with dark powers battling evil w/ a fresh new combat system.
I have lots of school this year, a decent amount of work and I really want to let my hobbies suck up plenty of my time and thoughts. It would be nice to get a game done this year, but... if not it's all good. I also want to give writing fiction another crack.
Slow living and no/low-buying is something we started in 2024 and want to continue in 2025. Also trying to ween off meat and move my body more. As far as game design... ah, I'll get to it.
Jean Verne is another creator I enjoy checking out (can say this about all the Good Sleep Collective, really). In this post he shares some of his projects from 2024.
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I seldom have time to commit to jams and that leads to me rushing something out that I'm not thrilled with. If I had the time, I'd love to make something for Cloud Empress, though.
This post has some great templates which would make that easier.
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