Jason Morningstar

I routinely get them mixed up

That second guy without the red shirt is extremely barf-y to me

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"The Sickle Hour is a short tabletop game that returns to a theme I've explored before - the interesting stuff that occurs when fairyland brushes with the mundane world in mundane ways." - @jmstar.bsky.social, inspired by reading about twins.

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Got a good view of Fiasco by @jmstar.bsky.social from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social Student certainly sold the class on this game, in terms of interest, with several coming to my office hours to check it out.

This game does a really interesting thing - there's a sort of Heisenbergian element where both twins potentially have cool elf superpowers right up to the moment when one of them actually *uses* them - and then the other doesn't, and never will. At the table, there's a dreadful player-level tension!

I like that game a lot, what did you change?

The ENnies shouldn't do it, either. There are all kinds of ways to clear some shelf space that don't involve a clear ethical lapse.

The couter protecting her elbows have lil' hearts on them

This is the Korean language version of my game, The Skeletons.

스켈레톤 The Skeletons - TRPG Team Goindol | DriveThruRPG “세월은 마른 잎처럼 휘날린다.온 세상은 어둠 뿐이다. 온 세상은 침묵 뿐이다.그대는 석관 앞에 굳게 서서, 생각하지도 호흡하지도 않는다.그대의 이름을 기억할 수 없음에도, 여전히 그대는 주어진 명령대로 서 있다.그대의 살이 썩어 뼈에서 떨어져 나와도 여전히 그대는 서 있다.어느 날, 빛이, 움직임이 보인다.그대는 사나운 도끼를 손에 쥐고 방패를 들어 올린...

한국어 버전도 이용 가능합니다. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

It kills me, because YOUR game about clowns isn't going to be anything like the seven existing clown games I could rattle off. Knowing about prior art can be useful when you are ready for it, but until you are it is just demoralizing pedantry.

You are seeking the 1981 Erin Moran and Lisa Whelchel vehicle "Twirl".

You know, Camp Nerdly, the annual low-key nerd camp I helped found campnerdly.org

We've used these as badges at Camp Nerdly.

Also some of it is Liechtenauer being poetic and deliberately obtuse, so who knows!

That's OK, I will get it vetted by a native speaker before I get too deep into it. Some of it is a mash of High Middle and Google translate.

A snippet of a character sheet showing off extramural skills yu can learn: Gambling, astronomy, horse trading, drinking, peacocking, dancing, arithmetic, fornicating, black magic, begging, terrorizing, grave digging, geometry, poetry, blasphemy, music, Middle High German, robbery, poaching, and long walks.

Pretty happy with this list of skills you can pick up in my game set during the Hundred Years' War.

Great, let me know how it goes. Maybe do an actual play video we can all enjoy.

It was a different time

No accompanying design document. No nothing, just ... two card backs and a game title.

Two card mockups for a game I don't remember. Both have 19th century art. One is labeled PLATFORM JENNY and the other is labeled STICKS AND SWORDS.

I had a year-long interruption and now, going back through my design files, I'm uncovering gems I don't recall at all. Here's a game titled "Metropolitan" and this is it, this is all you get. Of course it was going to be card based.

Kid Detectives by This Is Victor A game of hijinks, friendship, and pinning clues to a cork board.

I just released a new game!

Have you ever wanted to solve mysteries like Harriet the Spy or Nancy Drew? Kid Detectives is about kids solving mysteries in the sleepy town of Ida Falls. Meanwhile, a deeper conspiracy lurks. The adults are up to No Good and it's up to you to uncover their secrets!

I miss game night

(The final version has a really great layout by @julienlegault.bsky.social)

Four character relationship map demonstrating opposed/incongruent motivations, in a compact one page package.

Here's one from my upcoming collection, Nine Space Games. With four characters it is easy to have separate motivations where that makes sense (Cricket Pine/Noris). Also gets a paragraph explaining the situation. Each of these characters has their own page of info about themselves and the others.

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Yes, that's a great approach. I'd pair these with written information as well.

A relationship map that looks sort of like a color wheel; there are four main groups that each overlap. So "Satanists" overlap with "Dirtbags" and the overlap is "violent". Nine characters fall within this three by three grid.

Here's a nine-person relationship map that gets rid of direct lines of affinity and replaces them with amorphous but evocative groupings. Everything you need to know about Bunny Karpinski is laid out - they have connections to the Satanists and the dirtbags and are a violent motorcycle gang boss.

I think there's a difference between a growing, evolving r-map that responds to changing circumstances and what I'm doing in my examples, which is establishing a baseline that - given the nature of the games these are for - is unlikely to change much. So they can be pretty tight.

I agree. I'd pair this with character information cards or sheets.