I've been trying to figure out a simpatico way to solo than this: https://dice.camp/@SymbolicCity/110334035691987112 and really struggling to figure out a better way to generate locations while balancing the desire to get results that are both flexible and specific out of as few rolls as possible with a single size of dice. I think the answer may be to not roll at all, so now I'm exploring playing card-based resolution. #tabletopDesign #soloTTRPG

Trying out something new on substack. With Art Wash I want to share great public domain and creative commons images that you can use in your TTRPG books and zines. Free to subscribe. Pay for full archive/ability to request art.

https://artwash.substack.com/

#TTRPG #TTRPGs #IndieDev #TabletopDesign #ZiMo

Question for fellow #TTRPG writers/designers. What tools do you use most often when designing your games? Do you start straight away in something like Affinity Publisher, or do you write out the text elsewhere (Google docs/word/something else)? Is all of your work purely virtual, or do you do some work by hand before translating it to software? Really curious how others are creating, and what a new designer like myself can improve on!

#TTRPGDev #tabletopDesign

@SymbolicCity I think these are some great ideas! I have one concern: tabletop can (and usually primarily) refer to board games rather than RPGs, so I’m worried hashtags like #tabletopDesign might become confusing. Also, less important but personally I’d prefer to have the edition in the hashtag. For example, I’m not at all interested in #DnD5e, but I am interested in #DnD as a general concept (and the things that would go with it like art and worldbuilding)

#ttrpg #tabletopDesign #wip Dungeonplans & Cats. Furious creative drive on day off. Working on one-scene-dungeon idea. Got the #pet seal of approval. #CatsOfMastodon

I'm writing the player section of my game on the assumption that most players will never read it. (I certainly don't expect players to read the rulebooks of the games I run.) So why have a player section at all? Because I think it helps the game runner to see things through the lens of a player before they run a session, even if opportunities to play before they run it aren't forthcoming. #tabletopDesign #gameRunning #TTRPG

Cascade SRD is a set of bare-bones rules for designers who want to make fiction first #TTRPGs, with a relatively high degree of control over the granularity and frequency of narrative prompts.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MpeCyz9PwHOgmM9mx2YMak485V8lZ8NdZYWX_pyLQ3I/edit?usp=sharing

This is a first draft: feedback welcome! Will eventually go in the Sad Press SRD Collection: https://sadpress.itch.io/sad-press-srd-collection

#tabletopDesign #tabletop #TTRPG

I decided to write up a quickstart guide for the game I'm writing, and now I'm restructuring the entire text around that outline. Twice, in fact, since it's now the structure for the player and referee sections. #tabletopDesign #TTRPG

Back to working on these picklist, last day before work. At a café, got the lappy, feeling good. First up: the Ega, Beast people with features that parallel earth animals (yes, furries, but space alien furries) I've done my prep so I have their basic cultural forms sketched out. They trend towards 3 forms of layered cultures: Houses, Troupes and Commons, or Halls, although there are other groups, cultures, civilizations etc, these are most frequently encountered.
#ttrpg #tabletopDesign

#introduction Hi, I‘m Heye and I‘m new here. I‘m a player of #ttrpgs and mostly here for the hobby. I’d love to exchange perspectives on #ttrpg, #gameRunning and #tabletopDesign and to admire your creativity. Mostly interested in #osr, #nsr, #indiettrpg related stuff the horror genre. Also interested in archaeology, the outdoors, everything #EastFrisa, jogging. Politics: unredeemable leftie. Music: #Postpunk 🦇, #metal🤘, #Synthwave. My „helmet“ for running #dcc gives me commanding presence!

Attacking is really the only time in Into the Odd-type games where you roll to accomplish something rather than avoid a personal risk. What would it look like to make combat rolls into saves? Targets, rather than attackers, would have to make the roll. Weapons could have a static damage value, and HP could be a dice pool you draw from one die at a time. Roll high to avoid more damage, then discard that die until you rest. Might be hard to balance, though.
#IntoTheOdd #tabletopDesign

Here's my flavourful quick-play #ttrpg rules. BlackHack mutation. All on only two sides of paper ➳ https://bit.ly/3X5OwN6 #tabletopDesign

In lieu of an #introduction, here's a TTRPG Generator I created in #Twine:

https://sadpress.itch.io/rpg-generator-alpha

I trust this gives you sufficient insight into my general character and temperament.

#introductions #TTRPG #tabletop #tabletopDesign #TTRPGs #indiedev

#tabletopDesign #ttrpg el juego Lex Arcana tiene algunas cosas interesantes que no había visto antes. Lo único que no me gusta es que tiene poca profundidad estratégica. Las decisiones son mínimas ya que a penas solo decides si quieres más riesgo/recompensa o menos riesgo/recompensa. Pero al final son probabilidades que cambian poco el resltado

I talked a little over at That Other Place about how the biggest #tabletopDesign challenge I've been dealing with in the crime game I'm working on is money. (Which probably seems like a solved problem — what #TTRPG doesn't have money, right? One day, closer to publication, I'll talk about my reasons for wanting to do things differently.) It's going to need a lot of fine-tuning, but I think I've come up with a solution…

#RPGDesign #TabletopDesign

Around to testing a crunchy combat system that uses playing cards to represent relative positions on the field.

I wrote these rules many months ago, and testing them for the first time I kept forgetting my own rules.

Not sure if that's as I'm having to do both the GM & Player's work, the fact I wrote them so long ago, or if I really have underestimated how crunchy this.

Thinking of hashtags that could make #TTRPG talk easier to navigate, e.g.:

#sessionReport for what's happening at your table.
#gameRunning for how you GM, DM, referee, whatever.

When combining with other words, I suspect "tabletop" may be easier on screen readers than "TTRPG." So…

#tabletopDesign for talking about making in general.
#tabletopWIP to show what you're working on specifically.
#tabletopSolo for games you play on your own.
#tabletopReading for looking at texts.

Thoughts?