John Hedge

Some of my friends made the cookbook based on the #ttrpg I wrote. I don't even know what to say, I'm touched, proud, honoured, and a little confused.

All ttrpg settings should be accompanied by a cookbook. It adds flavour.🌶️

Ok, let’s replace everything with a coin toss.

Do it lasers and feelings style. Only 1 stat.

Clearly RPGs should only ever be trapped in the wild or stolen in some hijinks.

55) As a serial hijinks indulger, I should stop casting stone in my glass house.

54) The story games wouldn’t need to be so heavy handed with their rulesets if players weren’t so quick to indulge in hijinks.

53) Story games trying to tell different kinds of stories are good, actually.

I apologise for my 50 post rant about people named Oisin yesterday.
It was…. About a different Oisin.

52) Bluesky is a pretty terrible place for ttrpg discourse. But no one under 40 is willing to use a forum anymore, so we’re stuck with it.

51) There are 4 hobbies:
- Playing ttrpgs
- Buying ttrpgs
- Designing ttrpgs
- Arguing online about ttrpgs

50) Third-party and fan content is such a healthy part of a TTRPG community. If people are making content for your game, then they’re enjoying your game.

49) Every GM should try sitting down at a table full of their friends and running something when they are woefully underprepared. It teaches you a ton about what sort of prep you do and don't need to do.
(Warning: It may also give you nightmares)

48) If you are running a mostly improved game, and the players come up with a theory that's WAY cooler than the thing you had, there's nothing to stop you from just seizing that idea and running with it.

47) If an action isn't going to succeed regardless of the result, warn players before they roll the die.

46) If you can't think of a fun consequence for a failed roll, consider not calling for a roll.

45) People looking to play ‘historically accurate’ games are mostly looking to say racist & sexist shit without consequences.

44) I love horror games, but Kult? That thing scares me

43) The X card is good, actually. And its existence at your table communicates your values, meaning that you probably won’t have to use the x card.

42) The problem with building so much of the indie ttrpg scene around kickstarter is that shovelware is really easy to sell on kickstarter.

41) If you replaced every dice roll in your game with a coin toss, then it would make rolling obscure skills way easier

40) I'm constantly surprised we don't think about Game Theory more when talking about decision making in ttrpgs.

39) If your theoretical model of ttrpgs is looking at the rules of the game, how players interact with the rules, and isn't talking about how humans interact socially, you should probably be studying board games.

38) When I was younger and we played mostly dnd, both myself and a few of my friends would 'cheat' the game by faking dice rolls.
Since moving away from dnd, I haven't had the urge to do it once. I'm pretty sure some of them still do it. I think it's to do with the play cultures we are in.

37) Another bit of play theory is that it lets us explore who we are by trying on different identities in a safe environment.
You might start to spot a pattern with ttrpgs here.

36) An important part of play theory involves kids accomplishing their desires through playing pretend (riding a broom instead of a horse).
Which is to say we're all just kids playing pretend and I love that about ttrpgs.

35) My other much loved ttrpg discourse thing is when someone explains to you how they’re going to ‘fix 5e’ and make millions.

34) My favourite kind of ttrpg discourse is when someone pulls out the no true Scotsman fallacy and suddenly we have to argue over who is and isn’t a real game designer.

33) The point of making weird little indie ttrpgs isn't to play them. The point of making weird little indie ttrpgs is to make weird little indie ttrpgs.

32) Critical Roll is really really slow and I don't get why it's so popular. (Is it the character voices? It might be the character voices)

Yep. Agree.