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Minifigure by Vorpal Coil A game of tiny ambitions

You already play most TTRPGs with colorful plastic bricks, so why not build with them, too? Minifigure celebrates the tactile nature of the medium, picking the right dice out of the bin and stacking them to win.

PWYW, try it today!

Floating spire tethered to the city below is intensely my sort of thing.

I appreciate how Skulk About takes circumstances into account and creates a useful procedure for sneaking without making you magically invisible.

The achievements part of option 2 catches my eye - perhaps combine that with a core limitation like "only d6s". Potentially could be wrapped up into a single sheet that tracks your progress across games, but the more experimental aspect of Option 4 might be difficult to coordinate people into using.

I want in on this project if/when it happens, it sounds like a fun community experiment.

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I'm so glad I'm not the only one asking this question.

Welcome back, Measurements Table. I've missed you.

I love the M&M measurement table so much. I know in practice it can be a little unwieldy but... a consistent binary logarithm comparing all relevant values is such a perfect, beautiful edifice.

I'm not even worried about balance, I just don't care for having to patch-fix with substitutions: they're abilities that don't really do anything but shuffle numbers around slightly.

"What stat do you use for hitting things" is an ancient and largely insoluble problem because so many traits factor in to the activity. You're always going to get a variation of "but I want to use Dex for my melee attacks!" no matter how you slice it.

I have found that people have less issue when you reframe things as skills, as kind of irrational as that is. The Pasion de las Pasiones way of handling the issue is clever, and suits the far less competence-oriented premise of the game.

Oh sure, that's basically what I'm saying. I want to just have tags of being good/bad at a given specific action/defense, but I've found that players sometimes find them harder to keep track of because it's sort of like having 20 little mini-stats.

I'm speaking from direct experience of running games without root ability scores. It is not always easy, people often get confused.

Stats are a trap! They feel so good when you think you have a good set, but there are always so many edge cases, it's inescapable. I want to just not have them, but then you lack an easy shorthand for referring to what modifiers to use...

TTRPG with singing as the primary resolution mechanic. Actions are mapped to short melodic phrases of differing complexity/range determined by how difficult the action is. Hit that high note to hit that orc.

Entirely novel idea I doubt I would ever have thought of on my own. I immediately want to run it in reverse to generate play sessions.

Unfortunately a subscription could be a point of concern for someone just starting out, who doesn't necessarily feel a certainty of making money from their work and risks a net drain on their finances at the end of the year.

Good thing I'm the latest model.

I flip the tortoise onto its feet again.

A long-haired woman in a monochrome floral dress and a black jacket sits in a wooden chair. She looks at the camera with an aloof expression while the light streams in onto her through the window.

Someone said I looked like I was from Blade Runner.

Bringing in museum/art gallery standards for image description is a welcome elevation of the TTRPG medium and a win for accessibility. Respect to the Draw Steel team.

Fighting to protect territory is unpleasant and exhausting anyways, I'd much rather work together with peers.

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

I think that's an extremely accurate read of her character.

Really coming at me with a psychic attack today, I see.

Goals.

A porcelain-armored android with gold accents summons a black hole in its hand. Behind it, in the sky, miniature singularities implode bipedal mechs.

Gravity Weapon

We talk so much about GM best practices, we should expect more from players as well, and reward them for it.