Sam Sy is Suffering the Witch

The Axe Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg

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*force feminizes you*

Not to be full of myself but I honest to god think Suffer the Witch may be the best thing I've ever written. Basic rules bit into a two page spread, nice one-topic per column layout, and there's still room for a little doodle of a witch and for Brother Error to have some commentary.

The Throned Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg

The Marked Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg

The Tempest Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg

A spread of a TTRPG made using public-domain art. On the right page it has an image of a woman with messy black hair, in a blue dress, standing in front of a cauldron. The text reads: "The Cauldron Witch: One day you were cooking and, by some unknown recipe, your cauldron awoke and spoke, promising power. Now it won't shut up, you have a headache, a ladle, and a demanding pot always with you." On the right, inset, it reads: "Gains Spell Dice By: Feeding

I may be already be working on this. Very rules light, OSR-esque when you're doing something outside of magic. You were a peasant, you aren't good at most things. But when you do magic, which might get you killed, you use one of 24 randomly rolled witches, all with bonkers, OP abilities. Like this:

Pitch: Medieval setting, things suck, superstitions, the church, nobility control everything. Yesterday animals started talking, you grew wings, something else bizarre happened. Congrats, you're a witch, strange magic talks to you, tells you to save the world. Good Luck! #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch

Pitch: Medieval setting, things suck, superstitions, the church, nobility control everything. Yesterday animals started talking, you grew wings, something else bizarre happened. Congrats, you're a witch, strange magic talks to you, tells you to save the world. Good Luck! #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch

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hi im literally also doin mecha, thinkin something about rebelling from a overbearing and kinda dommy HQ, can I message you???

Outside us Nothing: Fully written, playtested, layout about at 50%, art depending.

Outside us Nothing setting and campaign supplement: 2%

More tentative layout! #outsideusnothing 's own hellish devil. To create a character you choose an alien then a background and a ship's roll to create your Freetraveler. Layout and writing by me, art by @arachnophonia.bsky.social

Click-bait bit: In this #ttrpg a devil is just another alien.

I wanted terre to feel weird and fun (note the vampirism) enough that they'd fit in with the other aliens who can be, like, sentient swarms of mice or masses of tentacles. Fun and weird to play but also sort of the setting's new kids on the block. Thank you!

Out of curiosity, what part of the presentation do you find interesting?

Let's we go! #outsideusnothing 's own first alien, which you then combine with a background and a ship's roll to create your character. Everything is still we go. Layout and writing by me, art by @arachnophonia.bsky.social . Attention-grabbing bit: In this #ttrpg you can be a vampire in space!

Bein into rpg design will have you saying bonkers shit like "does this font effectively represent a giant monster living in the walls as a PC?" or "why shouldn't I have an exclamation mark after Space Wizard?" I love it. #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign #outsideusnothing

I'll skip over variable difficulty, and the ability to expend extra dice on roles. For now I'll be focusing on the moves and playsheets. In Outside us Nothing each character is created by selecting a type of alien, a background, and a ship role, with each selection adding to your arsenal of moves.

In #outsideusnothing players manage their characters with a dicepool that began as a #nodicenomasters system before it fairly quickly diverged. Vulnerable actions, focused on roleplaying or relying on your ship mates, award dice which be rolled later to fuel far more heroic and psychedic moves.

Hmmm how best to tickle the sensibilities of the #ttrpgcommunity with #outsideusnothing bits? Something about the (I think, humbly) genuinely new dice mechanics? Tables of the many different locations you can visit? Or just contextless playsheets with trivia about how you can be an angel in space?

So, in my RPG, players gain dice by roleplaying or choosing to make themselves vulnerable, then rolling the dice later to attempt cool things. Which is similar to No Dice No Master's token system. Just also with dice, and difficulty, and a bit of betting. Is it NDNM or just inspired by it? Thoughts?

This isn't one of my more formal, "hey, look at my RPG system plz" posts, but if a giant cancerous mass of organs that used to be an office worker and is now confined to a spaceship keeping a buglady warm by wrapping her in a giant beating heart sounds fun to you maybe check out Outside us Nothing

You can tell Isle of Hex (SOON™️) is gonna be cheery, can't ya?

I would probably use a mix of the two. One column for introductory stuff at the start or at the start of chapters, or more traditional writing in general, and two columns for rules. Not sure why, just feels right

So like, at what point in #ttrpgdesign does a #ttrpg change from "running on Caltrop Core" or "Forged in the Dark" or whatever and instead become INSPIRED by other systems and games? What's the difference between running on a system and taking inspiration from it EXACTLY?

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Adapting to a new website makes me feel like a boomer asking my grandchild how to send the jpegs. Anyway, despite the learning curve and even after a long day laboring in the American burger mines, we stay silly.

A screenshot of an RPG table in black and white, with a box around it, and seven numbered points within. The text reads: "1. Consensus: In all matters that concern everyone, you must agree before anything is done. 2. Absolutely Freedom: You may do anything if it does not hurt anyone and may leave at any time. 3. Everyone eats or no one eats. 4. If a fellow Freetraveler needs help, you help them. 5. No roles except those chosen, or those earned: Anyone can choose to be anything, if capable. 6. Contracts must be completed: You cannot risk rumors spreading that Freetravelers are not reliable. 7 The Cant: Freetravelers hail from ten thousand cultures. The Cant unites you. An adopted instantly spotted speech pattern. Everyone knows you, and you are always outsiders just passing through."

Let's talk Freetravelers, ie, the player characters in #outsideusnothing . In the rules light anarchist science-fantasy #ttrpg players agree to be bound by seven behaviors that guide Freetraveling, keeping them flying through a strange, beautiful, and indifferent universe.