Quinn murphy

Quinn murphy

@gamefiend.bsky.social

#TTRPG game designer. Have written for WotC, Paizo, and many more. Founder of Thoughtcrime Games. https://thoughtcrimegames.net

5,146 Followers 697 Following 6,439 Posts Joined Oct 2023
10 hours ago

Its about damn time!

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12 hours ago
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The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars.

#Sinners #Oscars2026

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18 hours ago
An ad for the DNGN ARCHIVE 72 hr flash sale with the text "every game ive ever made for $40 on a manila file folder with Polaroids of the covers of the 19 games offered scattered behind it.

Still a little short on travel funds for BREAKOUT CON, so for the next 72 hours you can grab everything I've ever made for $40!

Repost & shares are appreciated!

Grab it here: bit.ly/4sRrGbj

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17 hours ago
Black and white page decor illustrations with a werewolf theme

Did somebody say awoooo?🐺🌔
New freebie is now available in the library for your werewolf antic related paw-jects.
Free for personal & commercial use.
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16 hours ago

Anyways, I will push this out to Patreons and folks on the discord shortly, and then I'll post if for general consumption on itch this week.

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16 hours ago

And yes, part of my hope is to incentivize some sicko to sacrifice a unit to the "totally not ultra-evil" possessed forest.

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16 hours ago

I didn't put anything on there directly, so I thought it was cool that there were ads on Tumblr.

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16 hours ago
Text from the first scenario, In Search of the Eldritch:
Battle Stories

Silent Galaxy scenarios are called "Battle Stories" because they provide prompts for worldbuilding and storytelling before, after and sometimes during a mission. In addition to whatever the mission objectives are, you and your opponent will be asked to collaborate together to build the greater context in which this battle takes place. This context should make the battle itself feel more interesting, exciting and vivid.

Battle Story: In Search of the Eldritch
Introduction

You have heard tales that there are ruins where one can find talismans and documents that allow one to access immense magical power. After a long search, your group has found the site, but unfortunately, so has another group. Insistent on taking the secrets for yourself, you prepare to battle and claim as many of the secrets for yourself as you can.

Prologue

Answer these questions with your opponent:

Have our factions met before? Is this a first encounter?

Why does my faction want these secrets? Does your faction know why we want them?

What do each of our factions expect the secrets to be?

Battle Length

4 turns A map of the battlefield for the scenario, with some extra text on objectives:

Objectives

You gain VPs in this scenario by searching the ruins for secrets or communing with spirits in forest for information. The faction with the most VP at the end of turn 4 has captured the most secrets and wins the scenario.

Controlling the Ruins. The faction with the most Hold within 3" of a Ruins gains 1 VP during the objective phase.

Search the Ruins. Within 1" of each ruins, a unit may make an Interact action to Search the Ruins. Each Search gives 1 VP. Each ruin can be Searched a maximum of 3 times a turn. Commune with the Spirits. Any unit within the forest can Commune with the Spirits as a bonus action. The unit takes 1d6 hits and gains half that in VP (rounding up). If the unit is Battleshocked by this damage, the forest takes its soul as a gift and rewards the faction of that unit. Remove the unit immediately. The rest of the units in the faction get +1 Power for the rest of the battle.

Battle Moments

During Battle, these are prompts to respond to:

The first person to score a VP by searching the ruins: Are the secrets what we expected? What are they instead?

The first faction to score VP by communing with spirits: What is the most disturbing things the spirits tell you?

Epilogue

After the battle, answer these prompts with your opponent:

For the winner of the battle: Is the power you sought what you needed? Why or why not?

For the loser of the battle: Where you able to get some useful information or are you forced to look elsewhere? What are the consequences of not suceeding here?

If you lost a unit to the forest: The spirits of the forest aren't finished with you. What further sacrifices do they demand next?

OK, I finally got the basic rules with the first three lists and the first "Battle Story" ( the name I am going with atm for scenarios) for Silent Galaxy!

NGL, I love the narrative prompts sprinkled in before, during and after the game. Need to playtest though!

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16 hours ago

Thanks so much! I will check it out.

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16 hours ago

Whaaaat? Where?

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19 hours ago

naw it's not skirmish. It's 30+ models a side.

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21 hours ago

A loooong time ago. Might consider it. Thanks for the reminder!

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21 hours ago

How would rate the interface compared to TTS?

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21 hours ago

Is there any other platform for digital online wargames than tabletop simulator? I cannot express adequately how irritating i find it to use, but I am starting to fear it is my only choice to do online playtesting for Silent Galaxy.

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21 hours ago

Haha what if I listened to the 2 year/100 episode anniversary special again and cried about how two years later this is one of the greatest things to ever happen to me

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1 day ago

I think its hilarious how chodes like that always assume they are the most invested in the gaming hobby, when nothing could be further from the truth.

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1 day ago
A large gaming table with miniatures scattered all over it. A display cabinet with yet more minis jammed in there.

I have been reorganizing my minis and uhm.... I have a lot. This is barely a third, I have more in my basement and attic lol

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1 day ago
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Trending and New Arrival wall sneak peek 👀

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1 day ago

I'm sorry they said what now?

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1 day ago

This bundle is not only a super good bundle, but supporting it will help us help Black indie game devs with marketing support, event support, and ultimately dev funds.

But I will suggest you adjust the default amount to better support charity.

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1 day ago

Listen, I know everything is either cozy or grimdark these days, and that this is commercially a dead end. But sometimes the most important thing to do creatively is forget 100% about an audience and scratch your own itch.

Sometimes the only thing to do is build a game for one.

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1 day ago

I did not really intend to go deeper into this, but I haven't been able to do other writing without getting these ideas out and writing on them so....

Brain: you are not putting this on me.

Me: I didnt say anything.

Brain: are you trying to rat me out right now?

Me: 😙🎵

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1 day ago

This morning, forex, I had the notion for this wargame campaign: "End of Enmity". Two players stat as hated rivals (actually prompts for worldbuilding to construct rivalry during and after games) who find common cause and come together to fight their true enemy. Competitive -> Co-op.

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1 day ago

What appeals to me most about protopian worldbuilding is that we get to not only talk about problems, we can be in the business of offering solutions, possible paths forward.

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1 day ago

"You want a ....'peaceful' wargame?"

No, I want a wargame set in a place where peace exists in some places, and where peace is possible, a protopian wargame setting versus on that is implicitly dystopia and fascist.

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1 day ago

I realize I am in my Warhammer 40k deconstructionist era with Silent Galaxy; the setting is about ppl who fled a similar but legally distinct grimdark dimension for a chance to start again and to hopefully make a universe not centered around endless conflict....

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Watch our very own Jess Pendley as a member of the cast of TO THE END OF REASON, an Invisible Sun actual play from Dungeon Scrawlers!

Catch it Mondays live at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST on www.twitch.tv/dungeo...

Or watch the VODs as they drop on their YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@Dun...

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2 days ago

I *teach role-playing at a university* as do many of my colleagues.

None of this is new; role-playing & simulation have deep ties to higher ed, pre-dating D&D.

However, we teach it as a folk art that belongs to *everyone.* It activates collaborative creative impulses that are quite useful.

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2 days ago

Burn baby burn

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2 days ago

GO WEBSITE TEAM GO!!!!!!

Lookit what they made ! Isn’t it pretty

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