Graham Walmsley

Hotel complaints from literature: "Yes hello. I stayed at your hotel last night and the room was fine, but when I woke up, I was disappointed to find I was a giant cockroach. Obviously this happened in your hotel and I'm also worried about your hygiene standards."

I still love that this is 250000% funded. It's a solo journalling game: have a look.

Oh, that's really great, Paul. I like the angles.

Up early, so I've edited two Cosmic Dark scenarios. Two to go. They are really good.

Did you know I have a Kickstarter launching soon?

Asher's Ridge is a paranormal drama #ttrpg for 1-4 players. Zero prep. No GM. Just your friends, letter tiles, and playing cards. 📺👽👻

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This is great! Horror scenarios as haunted houses.

Maybe? I'm basically saying that, if you're going to do success/failure roll, you should just have the same "Difficulty level" for every roll. It's like, say, Apocalypse World, which doesn't feel any need to make some rolls harder than others.

Yes - I'm suggesting variable difficulty shouldn't be a thing. Things that are more difficult are often more interesting narratively, so I don't want a system that rewards me for doing dull effective things ("I stab the guy") but not for exciting things ("I swing on the chandelier and jump him").

Did you know that, if you give sixteen people a deadline, then they send you stuff by that deadline? Anyway I've got seven Cosmic Dark scenarios to read this weekend.

And I think there were difficulty numbers too? They're an anachronism, they're vestigial, they're not needed. I feel designers use them unthinkingly but they're not needed.

I did think the system relied too much on "If the GM judges...", which is such a safety blanket of game design. It's totally unnecessary and can usually be replaced with "If everyone thinks...".

I mean, yeah, but by that logic, you would never adapt it at all.

I mean, of course I agree that mechanics drive the story. I think this has a nice balance of driving the story and giving people who know the story a way to play it out. (Like, it doesn't trip up by having difficulty numbers, ranged combat etc)

I played the Discworld RPG quickstart and honestly? It was well-done, with thoughtful mechanics. Lots of freeform traits. We had fun.

Yes, licences often don't have great mechanics. But I thought this was really nicely done, with freeform traits and a little idea that "If it's completely impossible but it has to happen you're more likely to succeed". We had fun.

Yeah, the quickstart. I thought the mechanics were good.

I've played it and thought it was pretty good.

I need a "this thread is closed" T-shirt. This is such a niche reference but it'll hit home hard for some people.

@juddthelibrarian.bsky.social , you can do this, right?

The new cover of The Burn standalone edition, showing a group of The Wee Folk sitting on a branch.

We are producing a new stand alone edition of The Burn! No longer will you need a separate rulebook to play.

We will have print copies at Tabletop Scotland, and we'll update everyone's existing PDFs with the new edition as soon as it's locked in.

Grab the current pdf: tinyurl.com/TheBurnPDF

Pre-order Cosmic Dark on BackerKit Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

Cthulhu Dark and Stealing Cthulhu have been out of print forever, so I'm reprinting them, as part of this campaign. You can get them here: scroll down a bit to find them. (You don't have to get Cosmic Dark, although I'd like you to obviously.)

Could you repost this? Ta. #ttrpg #kickstarter

I'm fascinated by this. If you really enjoy panels, would you mind telling me what you like about them?

I feel like $5 is some kind of "get an occasional paid blog" and $10 is Script Club.

Patron as an early release platform works nicely: I think the Gauntlet have done it and I did it for Cosmic Dark.

Determined to make "bleat" a thing but I'm also aware people might not understand it.

Pre-order Cosmic Dark on BackerKit Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

If you want a hardback copy of Cthulhu Dark or Stealing Cthulhu, you can get one here. (It's the Cosmic Dark crowdfunder but you can just get the books you want.)

They've been out of print forever, so get them while you can. (Oh and please rebleat).

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This is really fascinating!

Are you even taller now?

When I played the Dziobak games, which let you be a wizard or live in a manor, I always thought they let you tell good stories while being uplifting and fun.

(My next larp is called "The Cinnamon Bakery")

You mean you're bored with the "let's explore the darkness of humanity" larps? I was just thinking about that.