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I'm mostly busy making vidyagames, as you might see on my Itch, so I don't really have much time to do any TTRPG-related work and/or thinking, but here's some: While working on my game, I recently had an epiphany: reward for beating a challenge should never boost your ability to beat similar...

If you’ve talked to me for more than fifteen seconds, you probably know that I’m quite firmly in a storytelling camp. I love Apocalypse World. I love Fate. I love MUJIK IS DEAD. But the thing is, I kinda don’t give a crap about stories. I love cool, gripping scenes. Pretty much all the...

I don't really have anything interesting to show (yet), so let's procrastinate meaningful TTRPG developments together. "Tabletop Role-playing Games" doesn't exactly represent the reality where many games there's no table, physical or virtual: PbtA games are often played using only Discord and a...

I'll probably won't say anything new (similar ideas were voiced by Mo and Vincent Baker two decades ago), but I'm still gonna say something nonetheless. I have a thing for being showered in praise, y'know? First, housekeeping: If you are under 18, first, what are you doing here? Forums are for...

Alternative title: "Well, it makes sense" makes no sense This is a continuation of my musings on "disconnected mechanics" in another thread, but you don't have to dig that stuff up. Maybe I'm talking about completely obvious things, but the last few months I feel like my whole paradigm is...

I think it's a useful framework to think, talk, and analyse games, so I don't see why not share it with westerners. You know the drill already, I hope: not prescriptive, rpgs are complex, all that jazz. And, yes, labels like "old" and "new" suck, as, say, Dogs in the Vineyard is almost twenty...

So, yeah, the question is exactly what it says on the tin: what exactly the rules should be doing to be considered working? Since I always have an opinion on everything, I'll start. The system works when it prevents bad stuff from happening and allows the table to focus on the good stuff...

Here in the East, we celebrate Christmas on January 7th, but anyway. Merry Christmas! Y'all are great fellas, and I sincerely hope you'll find something cool under your tree. Just don't get too drunk, okay? Feel free to post cheesy images with Santa here.

Not that long ago I’ve participated in an interesting discussion with plenty of smart people here on enworld, and after some time I realized that couple of the things I said there were actually pretty smart. So I decided to write this. Your intelligentsia folks would call it “un essai”, but I...

So... I've discovered an interesting thing that honestly makes a lot of sense. The character has only one free object interaction per turn, and spends it on drawing the first arrow/bolt, so they can't draw another one. Results: /ss/ + XE is nerfed from being utterly broken into a ok build...

So, there's a brilliant game called Умер Мужик (MUJIK IS DEAD) by Silverhoof games, with very simple yet effective mechanics that just works -- it without fail spits out a tragic story of a man, who's life is getting ruined by toxic masculinity. It's great, go read it. Then play it. It would...

A friend of mine has baited me into making my ideal D&D and I don't refuse a challenge. Also, I'm eager to jump at every opportunity to procrastinate instead of working on Swords under the Sun, the last 20% of polishing is a damn scary thing. I doubt it will turn into something serious...

I got my shot of the vaccine, so soon I'll be ready for getting the other kind of shots, so I made this little silly thing.

itch.io link (will come live at March the 30th) The Men prospered in the incandescence of the Sun above, as Her light kept horrendous Beasts, spawns of the Dark at bay. But at one point in time, so long ago that even the oldest of immortal elves don’t remember it, things have changed. The Sun...

Smart people in marketing always say that one should start to promote their work as soon as the production starts, sooo... Here's some stuff from my take on Monster Manual. The basic idea is to make monsters a bit more varied, with roles akin to those in Strike! D&D 4E and Fate Adversary...

Since I've started using fixed DC (10- fail, 11-17 partial success, 18+ full success), I was playing around with various ways to shift the numbers to generate more partial successes on average, while still allowing +0 characters to achieve full success. The most radical solution I had in my list...

I was so frustrated with the fact, that DMs Guild can't even show sales in dynamics, so I've deciced to make such tool with my own bare hands. Here's how it looks for my Coldblood - Survival guide to frozen wasteland of Icewind Dale Right now process is a bit cumbersome (you need to manually...

Okay, my publisher subscription have finally come through (God, I hate paypal). So, here's my last D&D related work: Coldblood - Survival guide to frozen wasteland of Icewind Dale This supplement is both easy to learn and to implement to your game of Rime of the Frostmaiden. It brings up the...

Since everyone is stuck at home anyway and are using Foundry or R20 or whatever for online play, I though of a real-time RPG while I was in the shower this morning. It's something close to ArmA 3 Zeus mode: the players are playing a third-person action game and the GM is basically playing an...

So, I'm working on a D20 hack right now, inspired by Dark Souls. Previously, I've been contributing to Unofficial Elder Scrolls RPG, which surprisingly plays almost like Dark Souls -- with stamina management (a.k.a. don't get greedy) and dodge rolls. So, I'm kinda porting that game to D20. The...