Nikita Lapkov

Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas — Prismatic Wasteland A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you n...

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas

Making Starter Package Table My upcoming RPG, Oswor, is based on Into the Odd (ItO) system by Chris McDowall. ItO gives out equipment during character creation using a Starter Package table. This table takes in character's HP tog...

Sharing the process I used to come up with a Starter Package Table for my #IntoTheOdd hack

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So evocative... Beautiful

TTRPG writers need a union x) How on earth am I going to price my RPG if TRESPASSER (with all its art!) is free, TEETH: False Kingdom (70 pages!) is free and Maze Rats is at $4.99

$15 for an RPG with little to no illustrations and $25 for an RPG with lots of illustrations should be minimum for PDF

Had a good chuckle reading this 10 year old (!) post

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Grace of the Emperor For the last couple of months, I have been working on a new campaign setting for an upcoming home game. Accumulating the lore piece by piece, concept by concept, I grew quite attached to this little w...

Blessed be the day of the Emperor's Landing. Blessed be the 300 years of his fair rule. Blessed be the Radiant Empire.

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Appreciate it! You definitely have more experience in categorising RPGs than me 😅 A robust tag system — applicable to more than one game, yet still specific enough — will be paramount. Maybe you have some thoughts on that?

Solo RPG list looks fantastic! Almost exactly the way I imagined the website when writing the post. I agree that joining efforts would be great

Getting eyes on the website is a very real problem though, as we do already have lots of other amazing TTRPG websites

I was very surprised that there was no information about what is to happen with V2 in the announcement. Usually companies at least tell how long the “old” version will receive updates

I already reached out to support about this, but no answer yet

Re business model: in IT, most venture-backed companies have “burn money and look cool” phase. It’s there to get people excited and use your product. It’s usually followed by “okay, now that we have more people, let’s get rich”

I choose to believe that it won’t be the case with affinity though 🤞

@chimerahearts.com just learned that this is one of the problems you folks tackle in chimerahearts.com/supply-and-d...

Curious to hear your thoughts!

"Magical Industrial Revolution" by Skerples is pretty good

Scarcity in TTRPG Marketing I hate scarcity. It drives people to make decisions based on short-term outcomes and is a major source of anxiety in the modern world. It is also often artificial — if the system was different, people...

Thoughts on scarcity in #ttrpg marketing and how recommendations could be a solution

Very interested to hear your thoughts on this, folks. This topic was firmly stuck in my mind for the last month...

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I'm attending #Dragonmeet this year in London, let me know if you want to catch up!

Signed up, looking forward to it!

I was thinking lots about accessibility as well. I want this to support custom fonts tuned for readability, various contrast settings and such. PDFs just ignore this aspect completely

Love what you did with “Humanity, Blessed”! I like that there are still pages there — anchors layout well

This sounds fantastic! Do you accept player sign ups?

The actual play scene is disgustingly risk adverse and it shows in ways of almost a desert of trans women in the scene, a lack of darkly serious actual plays that deal with more serious real life themes and systems of violence and power, and cliques that perpetuate the status quo.

Sick, thank you!

69!

I desperately need more mini games in TTRPGs. Love this!

This is the way.

Game Design by Abstraction How to design by focusing on essentiality in roleplaying games—a fun design exercise.

I love that no matter how abstract (pun intended) the theme, Mr Notestine always has concrete, actionable advice

Digital TTRPGs A while ago I was nerd–sniped by Dice Goblin's post, shortly followed by Dungeon Merlin's post. Both talk about the bane of my existence: PDFs. Reading PDFs from a desktop computer is pain. If you ha...

@dicegoblin.blog @jonasmerlin.bsky.social Hi! I was absolutely nerd–sniped by your articles about reading TTRPGs digitally

Wrote down some of my ideas here, curious to hear what you think!

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Power of the Wind A breeze stirred the long stalks of grass. The wind slowly crossed the vast plains of Engein, setting every small thing in motion. A bird glided on its currents and slowly descended onto the roof of a...

Vignette introducing one of the playable ancestries in my upcoming #ttrpg — Oswor

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Just finished #BattlestarGalactica (2004). What an awesome show

The characters and the production are so good. Also, the fact that Tricia Helfer also starred in C&C 3: Kane’s Wrath was a surprising connection

Thank you! Will try this at my table next session :)

Stop Hiding the Apes in Your RPG How to show the cool and important parts of your game without muddling the work, burying the lede, and creating more noise.

"Make your cool thing the main thing. Don't undersell it, demote it, or delay it"

A simple advice, but looking at my first draft, I definitely needed to hear it 😅

Multi-purpose Maps Need a map for your game tonight, but run out of time/spoons?

Multi-purpose point-crawls. Might be handy for your game this evening

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Chompus is friendly and adorable and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.