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Sceletus revisited Back in October I posted this ... It was the "soft launch" of Sceletus.  In the time since then, the little game that Erin and I designed ha...

In which I consider expanding a game that seems to be doing well...

Notebook 5a - Circa 2021 This notebook was filled with illustrations for the "Familiar" game I've been working on... I did it during one of the Inktober runs one yea...

Revealing some more sketches and artworks...
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Ahh...might need to change things on the blog. I usually only ever look at it on a desktop or laptop.

2 Million Views I knew it was coming soon, and it's like that thing where you watch the odometer of the car ticking over.. ...then...    ...I missed the mom...

We've passed 2 million...
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Indie game designers (like myself) have been saying this for decades... but the publicity of things like "Critical Role" hasn't helped the cause.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

How to Run a Game I started running games in the late 1980s. Does that make me an expert? Maybe. I've met a lot of Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, Storytellers...

I enjoyed writing this series on how to run TTRPGs, and in the two years since then I've seen so many people ask the same questions I answered in this sequence.
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Notebook 4 - Circa 2020 I'm pretty sure it was 2018 when I started working with alcohol markers, and like my last notebook, this one is the starting concepts for a ...

Another dig through an old notebook....this time not as old as some of the others...
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Notebook 3 - Circa 2001 In the late 1990s, I had a few friends who were writing up their own comics, and I was helping out with some layouts and some illustration...

Less a notebook, and more of a sketchbook that was being used to form ideas for a comic that never eventuated...
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Well, we know it wasn't a Democrat, otherwise they would have left the name unredacted.

...and...???

I didn't expect to find that... I recently discovered gifcities.org , while building the new neocities website for vulpinoid studios (if you're interested, look here ). I'v...

It's cool to see when work from 30 year ago is still filed somewhere...
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I just discovered gifcities.org and figured that I'd see if I could find an old gift I created back in the 90s. It claims to be a pretty comprehensive archive of gif files from the entire history of the internet... and BAM!! thre it is. (The scaled up version of this looks terrible).

I shared the video that Catie posted in her thread with a friend of his that I follow on Instagram, who was looking for any and all footage of @nurdrocks.bsky.social's capture. She let me know that he has been located, is with family, and receiving medical care.

Absolutely... I found a few notebooks a couple of weeks ago, and figured that stuff like this needs to be shared. These notebooks have prompted my ideas for decades, but maybe some ideas might prompt someone else too.

Notebook 2a - Circa late 1990s This is one of my oldest surviving notebooks, and it's so packed with ideas that I'll split the overview into 2 parts... It begins with an ...

I'm going through some of my old RPG design notebooks on my blog... these are really bringing back some memories.
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That's true... the "FUBAR Director's Cut" which is the preferred version of that system was modified based on a whole lot of playtesting. The SNAFU SRD being finished now is a modification and refinement on that (but has gotten a bit crunchier in the process).

A meticulously planning DM/GM would account for this...otherwise they weren't meticulous enough.

This is great!

Vulpinoid Studios

I'm working on re-establushing a website presence for Vulpinoid Studios... this version seems to work best on desktop computer screens rather than phones...so I'mwondering how most people access sites these days...
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Notebook 1 - Circa 2001 It was my finding of this notebook that prompted this series of posts.   When I found it again during my art studio clean up at the end of 2...

First part of a retrospective look at my game design. Through the lens of the notebooks I've used over the decades. (Also whatever other interesting stuff I find in those notebooks)
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Get these now... the ones I've got are great. I'll be budgeting for the rest shortly...

Awesome!

I'm a teacher, and I explicitly ran campaigns of different TTRPG systems for a term each... we got through about ten different systems, and I got the kids designing a game of their own at one stage too. We had about 30 students in the club at its peak.

I've been screaming this into the void, via my blog, for over a decade...

How many blog posts have I dedicated to this idea over the past 15 years??? Too many.

This is awesome... mind if I point people in your direction for miniatures for a couple of games I'm working on?