Gowanusaurus rex

Nat 20 lol

Stone of a peach, it's a 2d20 random table. With an 18 and 12, I rolled "piss-sucker".

What did you roll?

Twat-Goblin

Devlog #6: Mea culpa (Test Version 1.5) Whoops! I've just uploaded Test Version 1.5, which has a couple of proofreading fixes, some updated art, fixes the remaining placeholder page references (no more

Quick update!

Spooky Bundle! by Gowanusaurus Rex A bundle by Gowanusaurus Rex, $5.00 for I cast you out!, AMONTILLADO

Spooky bundle for Halloween! Two tabletop horror games, half price each. Does that count as BOGO?

Maybe BOO!-GO... eh? Ehhh?

Talking to a guy who's trying to convince me the only way to make barter work in a game is to assign objective numerical values to objects.

Image text reads: Do you teach board games? We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere. The survey takes about ten minutes to complete. To find out more, please use the QR code, visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778) There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

One day we will be able to have nice things here, too

Well, it's about time that I find someone to give money in exchange for the production of a cool logo for an upcoming project.

Hoping this is worded enough to not summon bots and spam. But if this is something you do, reach out with rates and samples!

Having a lot of fun with this.

(I decided she was, like, 43? So I rounded down and stopped after 3 rolls.)

(Third roll: 4) She has a house. The enemy is gone and the Amity can't contact her. She found someone with no battlescars but whose hands were calloused from helping turn a new planet into a home. There are kids, too, whose parents are buried. On quiet days its like they forget. She doesn't, though.

(Second roll: 5) All she had left in her was fight, after that, and when the school principal finally admitted this and the recruiter in his bright green uniform finally relented, she joined up. She cut her hair short, let the scar glint in the shatterbeams' glow. It's mentioned on her wanted poster

(First roll: 5) She was 7 when they razed the town. She made it out in the back of an Amity skimmer when recovery crews moved in to pick up abandoned ordinance. She has a scar above her ear where the shatterbeam grazed her before putting a hole in her father. She covers it with her hair.

Living wage? What of the laughing wage. How much is the loving wage. Tell me that

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

About 1 hour left!

I'm a big fan of collecting really unusual names to use in things later. Depending on the setting and the game's tone, there's lots of really fascinating options just from Wikipedia rabbit holes.

I read and reviewed SPINE on my blog! You can check out the review here: theresattrpgforthat.tumblr.com/post/7965200...

And it's helping! This isn't the only way I'm raising funds for this goal, and while I'm not exactly on track to meet the goal set on the bundle by today, what I've already made covers an important gap.

There's 14 more hours on this deal, and I made two whole sales last night (including one very generous additional donation). Check out the sale!

Memorizing this

Wow! Someone just paid almost double what I'm asking for the bundle. How generous!

Congratulations!

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability.

Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't.

You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius.

Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill.

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An enormously complicated diagram, the child of several pie-charts that have undergone a process of nuclear fission, largely illegible. A caption at the bottom reads 'Figure 19. The Game Design Process'

When people I don't like ask me about the process of game design, I send them this diagram from Richard Duke's 1974 book Gaming: the Future’s Language

This looks awesome and it's free. I love the concept and I can't wait to try. Thanks @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social

Go check it out!

Special thanks to @comemartin.bsky.social for the original spark, to @twwombat.bsky.social for his game HISTORIA OBSCURA and its very cool and inspiring game mechanics, to @manonamora.bsky.social @red-autumn.itch.io and Lapin Lunaire Games for the #BringOutYourGhosts Jam, and #ContinueYourGame Jam

Mysterious Ways by Gowanusaurus Rex The New Pope needs miracles to make the Old Pope a saint. It's your job to convince him.

New Game Launch! It's your job, along with 3-9 friends, to convince the New Pope of the Old Pope's miracles, and help make the Old Pope a Saint. Grab 3 d6, a notebook, and bunch of counters (beads? coins?) and get to praying.