Caroline Hobbs

Bwa ha ha ha!!!

Feminist gothic horror house drafting tabletop rpg called Bluebeard's Prince

Do ittttt

Flyer for Indie Games on Demand at Gencon 2025 showing that it is available starting every two hours from 10-8 for most of the con. Come to the Westin Grand Ballroom #3 just across the skybridge from the convention center to play games. 2 hour games require 1 generic ticket 4 hour games require 2 generic tickets.

Indie Games on Demand is alive and well at #GenCon. Want to play an interesting #TTRPG? No need to plan, just show up at Westin Grand Ballroom 3 with a generic ticket and join our boarding process.

Also visit our friends:
@ipr.bsky.social @pelgranepress.bsky.social @igdn-official.bsky.social

Work continues on my current project, a versatile archaeology world-building game currently titled “More to Explore”. Got an awesome session in at Go Play NW and now it’s back to the workbench for tinkering! 🔧 ⚙️ #trrpg #gamedesign

I represented Groundtable (GMless) all the way: Follow, The Final Girl, In This World, Kingdom, and my newest project More To Explore.

It was fun and easy! We should play it next time you're down here!

I played Going for Broke, Microscope: Chronicle, The Final Girl, Inheritance, and Kingdom! Every game was awesome!

If you went to Go Play NW, I want to hear what you played!

I had such a lovely @goplaynw.bsky.social this weekend! Huge thanks to the organizers for cultivating a welcoming space and for all the behind-the-scenes work that lets us enjoy the magic of playing games with friends, old and new ❤️

An Illusion of a Mountain I had never watched Bob Ross's Joy of Painting series until that magnificent twitch run back in 2015. The thing that really stuck with me (other than the fact that Bob Ross was a saint now but had cle...

Bob Ross x game design theory:

We don't make worlds together, we make illusions of worlds

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Incredible - my sincerest congratulations!

It was such a fun game to work on! We keep having great one-shots with it. Go check out the original immediately.

Fedora Noir, Un gioco di ruolo su un detective e il suo cappello, di Stinson and Hobbs.

Very exciting mail day! It's the Italian edition of Fedora Noir! Yay yay yay! Thank you so much @nessundovelab.bsky.social - it looks so fantastic!

#IGM25 sponsor Less Than Three Games is @chobbs.bsky.social and @thehintguy.bsky.social who design creative and collaborative story-driven games. Physical copies their games Downfall, Epitaph, and Fedora Noir can be won by registering for IGM at the link in our bio.
Thanks lessthanthreegames.com !

A Satisfying Game You can make a game that is very easy to learn and play if you ask the players to do very little. But here's my theory: the more a game lets you contribute -- the more it asks of you -- the more rewa...

Here’s my theory: the more a game lets you contribute — the more it asks of you — the more rewarding play can be.

But also, satisfaction is not the same as fun

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An Altogether Different River is a beautiful game about returning home

Aw hell yeah! I sure hope nothing bad happens to your character! 🌟⚔️❄️

oh my god Marc going in for the kill

Someone asked me if Epitaph is a good game. I said sure, if that's how you want to live your life.

Someone asked me if An Altogether Different River is a good game. I told them it used to be.

*every time* my father-in-law comes over to babysit for us, he uses this to clean our kitchen sink 😂 It really does work well

That's very cool and also very surreal to hear a professional news voice over our extremely niche hobby 😂 Congrats!

Anyway, we drew white-red twice, and the Tree Devil escaped (what was left of) us!

Sometimes we get too excited about being weird and creative! In Follow especially, it's often better to let settings and situations be simple or straightforward so you can focus on your characters.

Continuing our surprisingly busy week of story gaming, we had a new friend over last night to play Follow! We played the Dragon quest and had a good time, but boy oh boy do we love making things hard for ourselves by re-skinning things.

Oh but genres are on completely different shelves, obviously.

Depends on the bookshelf. Mostly by color! I'm a monster!

In This World A small game of big ideas

As always, In This World rules. Super easy to facilitate and perfect for a chill, creative night with new friends❤️ www.lamemage.com/inthisworld/

Choo choo 🚄 *in this world* trains have personalities and choose who's allowed to board! We also made a bug trains world (They eat you! It's fine!), a reality TV musical-chairs train world, and a spiritual train world, where you go where you're meant to be 🌈