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poochi robot dogs from the 90s in blue, pink and purple

yesterday was session 0 for hardwired island. my char is a lotto winner who started a radio show covering grand cross station’s urban legends. he also has a poo-chi

the damned lucky experience tracker in the style of a coffee shop loyalty card

in tuesday’s d&d, we persuaded a pair of tiefling siblings at loggerheads to hash it out and reconcile. we played as the NPCs in therapy who could only talk when holding a tortoise skull. the GM also made loyalty cards to handle xp!

been talking loads abt making games but i’ve also been playing hard!

mon was victorian london in the between. v fond of the unscene as both a narrative and pacing mechanic. my char ended the night in a gambling den with a newfound good luck charm, a bible with its noah and the ark pages ripped out

stay tuned!

started working on something new tonight! it’s a mausritter roll and write, i think it’d be fun attempting to capture the game’s flavour in another form

not really. i might have focused too much on making them cohesive with different elements of the location and traded off individuality. something to improve on next time!

booklet cover with the title 'caged in the cliffs of mount carrion'

inside the booklet. has room descriptions and accompanying images

lastly, i printed the module, read it through once more for typos and decided that it was good enough to submit!! learnt a ton and had fun along the way. particularly glad to have experienced another form of making!

drawings of spectral sheep, cauldron, venus flytrap, skeleton with duster and a woman wearing a wide-brim hat

after that, i drew some pics to replace the placeholders. still got ways to go in terms of illustration skills but it works

then, i opened affinity publisher for the first time and laid the content out based on LOTG’s style. had to watch yt tutorials to learn publisher basics but the ease of editing and bulk changes when the doc is properly formatted made that time investment worthwhile

at this point, i had enough material to complete a full draft in markdown. this is the doc i used to ask for feedback in discord servers, would rec the NSR cauldron! also read and tried to incorporate lessons from classic articles like diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2019/10/land... along the way

room description arranged around drawing of map

next, i moved to @kinopio.club so i could rearrange my ideas on a canvas and better visualize everything that's going on at once kinopio.club/caged-in-the...

workbook page about dungeon theme -- DUNGEON THEME： Vulture farm DUNGEON BACKGROUND Mountain vultures have nested in the protected nooks of the ［name］ mountain cliffs for centuries. A few years ago， a witch trapped all the vultures in the region. She peddles a precious potion, of which a mountain vulture's egg is a crucial ingredient. （A pair lays ~2 eggs a year）. STRUCTURES： LIGHTING： SIGHTS： SOUNDS： SMELL AND TASTE： COMMON MONSTERS Black cat, skeleton, carrion crawler （baby vulture？） Mountainous Dark, though there are torches here and there Rats darting around Bleats, wings flapping, brewing Rot NPC：： NC 2： NPC3： Shepherd: Wool ofthe sheep goes to the vulture's nest. Witch threatens them otherwise Birdwatcher: On the lookout for vultures for the witch Vulkin: Mountain folk to whom the vultures are sacred. Attempts to free the vultures have been foiled by the carrion collectors. NPC+： NPCy： Carrion collector: Tasked with bringing fresh kills for the vulture Witchlet （Apprentice）： Doing her own thing DUNGEON LORD： Witch

workbook page on the map, with sketch of a map

i then looked up dungeon design resources and found @riseupcomus.bsky.social’s designing dungeons. i used chapters 2-4 to brainstorm, refine and sketch the map

Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans' Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests Researchers recovered more than 200 human artifacts from historical nests in southern Spain

ideas come from everywhere. my first seed was vultures, from reading abt how their nests preserve anthropogenic material! i knew i wanted to theme my entry around them

DURF character sheets

i joined the jam bc i’m fond of DURF! i discovered it when my bf who isn’t into ttrpgs but humours me was up for a dungeon. i found @emielboven.itch.io's lair of the gobbler, read DURF’s rules and was ready to go within ~30 min. we had a blast so I wanted to do an adventure of a similar scope

Caged in the Cliffs of Mount Carrion by batbehaviour A one-shot adventure module for DURF

my DURF jam submission! the giant vultures that used to loom over mount carrion have all vanished overnight. the birdwatchers’ guild has entrusted you with restoring things to what they once were.

it’s my first adventure so i wanna talk a lil more abt the process

i had a good meal at little brickhouse and enjoyed the range of comics and graphic novels at page 45!

screenshot of 52 realm’s kickstarter page — ROGUE Sabotage your opponent's plans and use speed to get the upper hand THE FOX DOES NOT BOW TO THE PIG' CHOOSE A HERO- Each player chooses a hero character. Character's have unique abilities and playstyles. PREPARE ATTACKS Play cards in sets and runs to launch powerful attacks.

jimbo’s game screenshot from don’t starve together

cover of chuck tingle’s lucky day

poker cards encounters in the last 12 hours: catching up with postmark games’ 52 duels announcement, playing Jimbo’s game in don’t starve together and forgetting to prepare for winter and starting chuck tingle’s lucky day

DURF adventure booklet flipped open, with some edits scribbled

got a layout now and working on some art today. hardest part about the last mile is fighting the urge to start new projects

@kinopio.club!

making things is such a great forcing function for learning things. so far, i’ve looked up:
- vulture facts
- how to pamphlet module
- what makes good traps
- how to key a room
- what kind of spiders live in caves
- halftone brushes to match DURF’s style
- how to affinity publisher

The ELEMENTS of Pop-Up A Pop-UP BOOK FOR ASPIRING PAPER ENGINEERS BY DAVID A. CARTER AND JAMES DIAZ

opened card with a pop up goblin wearing a santa hat and a 3d box

this book and duncan birmingham’s youtube channel are endlessly fascinating, been applying their lessons to christmas (sorry!) card prototypes

working on this project piqued my interest in pop up mechanics and i’ve been learning more abt the craft

logo on wanton packaging that says hand made by energetic persons

bowl of soup with wanton and a plate of noddles with charsiew and veg

wanton mee for lunch

screenshot of wip notes in kinopio

working on a one-shot adventure for DURF. it’s got giant vultures, humanoid bulldogs birdwatching, witches, a birthday party and more

stamps of mascots in singapore

you play as one of these mascots

a smrt inspired dungeon would actually be so neat

Just saw this described as a "messed up London commute through a psychedelic dungeon". I'm sold.

Originally exclusive to KS backers, with a limited sale on itch...

Everyone involved in the creation of our interactive horror-ero anthology, 𝑺𝑳𝑨𝑲𝑬 𝑯𝑶𝑼𝑺𝑬, has decided to bring it back online!

It's free, now and forever! Happy Halloween!

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made it!! this year's shortbox haul

screenshot of ttrpg games: forbidden lands monster of the week vaesen household wildsea beakwood bay mausritter wilderfeast HOME durf shadowdark masks death game warhammer: wraith & glory draw steel d&d5e triangle agency raptor ruckus ryne a complicated profession public access mothership

today marks one year since i first played a ttrpg! safe to say that i’m kinda obsessed. here’s a list of all the games that i’ve played in that time