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I got a lot when I launched my Kickstarter. I assume that they're a grift - their messages were mostly written like spam - but I'd be interested to hear if some are legit.

Do you want characters to have deep ties to their world? Backstory that directly affects their mechanical traits? A little weird fantasy flavour? Steps to a Hero lets you create incredible characters using a uniquely tailored lifepath generation system. Lifepaths tell the story of a...

The rarest ingredient or material component in the world: abyssal truffles. Bring your dire pig.

My personal preference is for mechanical complexity to 'buy' verisimilitude. If you're going to have a dice roll, it's because whatever element is being produced really ought to be random; if you're going to have two dice rolls, it's because it wouldn't make any sense to combine them; and so on...

I think some DMs conveniently overlooked the rules because they're a bit of a hassle to manage with only a moderate payoff: there's some fiddly initial setup and then you have another intelligent entity around to track.

I really need to go back and finish reading a bunch of books I opened last year, particularly Dan Snow's 'Battle Castles' and Patricia Crone's 'Pre-Industrial Societies'.

The potion is kind of fascinating, considered as a TTRPG item. I suspect if you looked over the whole comic series there's actually a lot of in-universe information about it.

Acacia trees notably can tell when they are being damaged (eaten by giraffes) and react by sending a signal of ethylene gas. Acacias which detect this gas pump unpleasant-tasting tannins into their leaves as a deterrent.

Pain tolerance would be a big combat application.

This year I'm writing a life path system for alternative 5e character generation, revisiting an old project involving variant creature ancestries, and compiling years of treasure notes and ideas. All three projects are larger than anything I've done before, and I'm hoping to get them all...

I'm definitely shuffling some shelved projects back closer to the top of the stack!

With 24 hours left of the funding period, I'm very satisfied with how this experimental project has gone. I've posted an update here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/a-fistful-of-curiosities-game-masters-resource

I notice that it is perpetual and irrevocable, where irrevocable is defined as As far as I can see, there's nothing in there preventing the offer of license being withdrawn at any time, which combined with the assertion that they're deauthorising 1.0a, seems to imply that they'd be able to...

I posted an update giving an advance peek at some of the draft content. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/a-fistful-of-curiosities-game-masters-resource/posts/3709685 Again, thank you to everyone who has backed!

We passed our low funding goal, so this resource will be finished and released. Big thanks to everyone who's backed!

Paizo's site is overloaded; I don't suppose anyone got a screencap or mirror?

The lawyers commenting in this thread haven't seemed so sure, because while OGL 1.0a does specify one criterion for termination, it doesn't include any statement that that's the only criterion.

The new Periapt Games project, A Fistful of Curiosities, is now live on Kickstarter! It's a collection of ten small, self-contained location-based fantasy mysteries. This toolkit is geared toward game masters running fantasy role-playing games with pen-and-paper or at a virtual tabletop. By...