Kettle and Clock

Just found out my estranged aunt passed away. For the first time I am learning things about her- turns out she was a nerd too.

If anyone played online #D&D with a person called Starlight, who was based in the #Wellington region, I’d love to hear from you.

I was really excited, when it came out and again recently, to play #pathofexile2 but so many builds feel so underpowered. Is this a thing or do I just suck? Or, more constructively, is there any general build advice people can give me?

I feel like this misconstrues what constitutes a game mechanic.

"Roll 2d6" isn't a game mechanic, it's a player action. It's a single act that has been divorced from its context, and in a particular context, for a particular purpose, 2d6 can be better or worse than 1d12.

Catching up on the last few #worlds matches that I missed last week before Sunday. Let's see if #AL can overcome the titan that is #T1

Dragon Slayers by Gila RPGs Dragons! Quests! Adventure! Fantasy TTRPG with asymmetrical classes.

D&D is dead.

Long live Dragon Slayers.

gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers

I've been hearing that the new Digimon is better than both of them

Hey y'all, now that the game is made and printed and available, what do I do?

I feel like every iota of creative juice has gone towards getting this out the door, and now that its done, do I dust off my hands and look for something new or start looking for ways to extend / expand it?

Thankyou Melbourne for a fantastic #PAXAUS I am speechless at the response that Autostede received, and can't wait until next time! For now though, I need to lay down for a bit...

This is an autostede

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I cleared as much as I could but as it has been locked there's a lot I can't change

Has anyone had any experience with resolving issues in Meta Business? I had my ad account hacked several years ago, managed to recover it, secure it and am still trying to re-gain the ability to post ads on fb/insta. looking now, my support ticket is two years old with no resolution

I don't know if this is the correct stance, but I'm proud to call it an Illuminated game, and I am super grateful to Spencer Campbell for being the giant whose shoulders I could stand on to create something that, I think at least, is incredible. Thankyou. 6/6

So I added in the Illuminated by LUMEN graphic. I didn't hesitate and I don't regret it. It has evolved and morphed from its roots but those roots exist. The fact that it no longer looks like anything like Light actually doesn't bother me. I think it's a feature, not a bug. 5/?

I was suddenly hit with a flood of memories about discussions about people quoting their influences and the benefits of transparency when it came to the genetic history of games. Not only that but I feel LUMEN, like PbtA, is more of a vibe than a strict mechanical framework. A stance on design 4/?

At some point I had unconsciously decided that this game had evolved beyond being a LUMEN game. After seeing Spencer discussing game design and remembering the deep dives I was doing with earlier versions of the game, I pulled out the LUMEN SRD. 3/?

This is until I went to put together the final version to send to the printer. I went back over the digital file to make sure there were no glaring errors, and of course I have been over this file a thousand times so I didn't find anything. But I had seen a post from @gilarpgs.bsky.social 2/?

For quite a while now I have discussed at the table that Autostede is based on a game that was inspired by Destiny, which is why some parts are explicitly video gamey, and I have always gotten a good reaction, but for some reason I stopped calling it a game that was Illuminated by LUMEN 1/?

Trump-Epstein 'friendship' statue removed from National Mall one day after it appeared A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28.

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

Yeah, but at the same time, it's already Wednesday

I never understood why mecha appealed to me so much as a genre until my psychologist explained that the mind-body connection breaking down is not an experience that neurotypicals generally go through.

Did this on accident this week, reached out to a potential new distribution channel and turns out I went to the same university. 5 minute business call turned into hours of chatting. Why did we stop doing this?

If you are interested in the messy space between TTRPGs and board games, you should be following @adambell.games. He's doing really fascinating work. Can't wait to get my copy of Uneasy Lies the Head.

I've covered his games twice on SCM.

Links below. 👇

To All Artists:

Repost that art. Milk that piece more, it took a lot to draw. Post close up shots, color edits, speedpaintings, the background lore. Be annoying about it.

It took too much effort!

It’s time to start filling up my dance card again with TTRPG shenanigans!
If you’re looking for a guest to join your actual play cast, or someone to wax lyrical about storytelling, AP production of TTRPG fan community building, I’d love to have a chat!
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This is something I really honed in on in Neon Badlands. I had previously solidified the drop table as an effective mechanic but adding the social and selfish tags to dice results allowed players to gesture at their board and extrapolate some wild roleplay

I have been enlightened to a group that I had not considered in my initial marketing forays for my game Autostede: Neon Badlands. Hey #warhammer40k fans, is this something you'd be into?

I love the speed at which I started to receive offers to make a web app after I registered a domain. Best App! Cheapest Price! Fastest Development!

... I just wanted to be able to host files and send out neat little urls

makes me wonder if the correct solution is to go all the way back to webrings.

Everyone runs their own site but we all link to everyone else's sites. I wonder how long it would take before it became impossible to manage

I saw an email today that it had been approved and was now available for purchase.

I went to check it out, mostly to make sure I hadn't messed up anything.

I've already made 2 sales...

Apparently there are people who buy TTRPGs on drivethruRPG