Kevin Petker - Combat Philosopher - ☝️✌️🖐️

How are payments processed/transferred that won't run afoul of the current snags?

the itch / Drivethru alternative will be an iterative process. Especially when it comes to marketplace laws.

But, I think I have the foundation in place to make a “hub for creators”

Website, blog, digital sales, subscription, donations, forms, newsletter, links.

how does that sound to y’all?

Boston Children's Hospital says it won't be bullied into abandoning trans youth - LGBTQ Nation The hospital has faced bomb threats, hate campaigns, and threats to funding over the years but has never wavered in supporting gender-affirming care.

"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.”

Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...

One of my proudest moments as a nascent GM years ago was when for Halloween I told my players I'd run a Call of Cthulhu one shot for them and not to bring character sheets. Then when they arrived I handed them character sheets of themselves, said "your equipment is what you brought with you." 🧵

Groups should decide to play shorter, fixed length campaigns, say six sessions, when starting a new game and then assess whether the group wants to continue or play something else for a while.

This lets people play other games without the "but I want to play our real game" pressure.

Not sure I even have any unhinged #ttrpg opinions...

If anyone likes this, I'll try to dredge some up.

19. Magic should never be "a science"; there should always be some measure of uncertainty or unreliability when using magic, it should be a form of artistic expression by the caster and, for my taste, even have a will/desire of its own.

18. Leveling up is the least interesting form of character growth/change.

17. Every adult GM should try to play a #ttrpg with some kids, especially brave ones not as the GM.

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16. (Yeah, I'm really digging here.)

People should be playing more of, and telling me about them playing, my games.

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15. Your character is not you and vice versa.

14. #Ttrpg culture and design really needs to address and structure things such that that the social roles needed to successfully schedule a game (host, scheduler, etc) should not map to the roles taken by players playing the game.

13. The GM is a position of service, not of power; keeping that in mind on both sides of "the screen" would solve a lot of issues.

Claws & Affect by K. Petker Cats versus the Supernatural

Since I just sold a copy (YAY!), I'm going to #SelfPromoSaturday what I think is my best named game:

Claws & Affect - Cats versus the Supernatural.

And "affect" is used correctly!

#ttrpgs #cats #IndieGames

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11. Players who rely solely on "Actor Stance" to play their characters are lazy moochers who want everyone else to do more work to facilitate play than they do.

Here's one of my #unhinged takes for #SelfPromoSaturday!

FIGHT ME!

#ttrpgs

Here's one of my #unhinged takes for #SelfPromoSaturday!

FIGHT ME!

#ttrpgs

12. It's fine to rewind from a disappointing outcome in play; it's not cheating to decide to "re-do" something if the PLAYERS are disappointed in how things went.

We should be playing to have fun, not bound to "what the dice say".

19. Magic should never be "a science"; there should always be some measure of uncertainty or unreliability when using magic, it should be a form of artistic expression by the caster and, for my taste, even have a will/desire of its own.

The PvP aversion in an interesting point; I agree with you that there is the potential for a lot of interesting interactions and results for supported and structured PvP.

Again it's about separating the player and the character; what is fun for the player doesn't have to be "fun" for the character.

10. All rules in a #ttrpg are Safety Tools: they give you a framework and guideline to what is or isn't acceptable in play.

They are all structures and guidelines on how to navigate a social encounter comfortably.

9. Immersion in #ttrpg play is simply being so comfortable with the rules of the game you're playing that you don't register that you're engaging with them.

Is your warrior really counting squares on a grid to see if they can get to the demon or are you just so used to that it seems natural?

So, really, that tends to be both a design failure and a lack of trust/structure to encourage players to play to theme.

Those can be tough nuts to crack so "turn into an NPC" is the easiest, though least satisfying, design answer to that.

I think the "take away the corrupted PC" is mainly because corrupted characters tend to be more "powerful" than regular characters and it's easy to power game, "Well Jeff, now that you're a vampire, bite all of us so we can all have vampire powers!" which is usually against the theme of the game.

I like what Bluebeard's Bride does when a character is "shattered", that is, fully corrupted:

The character may be lost, but the player becomes an advisor to the GM on how to make things WORSE for the surviving characters.

Mind-control and other losses of agency for a character in a game are fine, AS LONG AS the game does not deprive the PLAYER of said character of agency; I'm not sure there are many games that make this distinction, but it's an important one.

(I made a #PbtA move for it a while ago.)

"Session 0" should really be "Session 1"; it should be recognized as the true start of the game/campaign, rather than something that is not directly part of it or that isn't important.

And in response to the above, every GM should look at the game they are playing with others and conceptualize it as "our game", a thing built, shared, and enjoyed by all participants.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

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Neglected too much healthcare to save money. Made it to doctors. I can squeeze the test today! But med fix will be ~210 short. Keep me stable for work + #TTRPG nonsense, pls.

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