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System agnostic illustrations only adventure
A new digital zine from me. This one an art only adventure.
Also I am featured on this project:
A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat
May the 4th Be With You!
Things are a bit slow on the design side, mostly due to real life stuff, which is typical for me. However, we did make some exciting progres
New issue where I talked about project updates and a campaign report about a Mausritter campaign I've wrapped up last month.
I very much don't like doing this, but I need help
So, I'm very much in the negatives of the negatives money wise, so much so that the bank won't even let me get more in debt even if I tried to. I owe around 100USD in present and future overdraft fees to the bank (if you're not brasilian, that's like 1/3 of the monthly minimum wage) and that's how much help I need, and if I don’t get this solved now, it sill snowball and screw me over more every month, basically.
And I need help getting out of that, but since I hate hate hate asking for help without giving anything back, I won't post a paypal link or something like that. What I can ask is that if you want to help me monetarily, check out my itch page at danolibel.itch.io and maybe buy one of my games? I'd love for you to do so. If you want to help me and can't monetarily, maybe reblog this? And send my page to your friends, that would be really helpful. Please help a trans girl get out of her debt hole 🙏🏻
Dani Belonia - itch.io
(Also, like, minor thing but, if anyone has advice on how to make an itch page look better, I'd appreciate it LOL)
Interesting
December 2024 TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective
Some interesting summary stats:
166 campaigns
35 Backerkit
1 Crowdfundr
130 Kickstarter
$4,113,487.12 raised
$1,898,104.11 on Backerkit
$1,912.00 on Crowdfundr
$2,213,471.01 on Kickstarter
Types of campaigns
14 accessories
65 adventures
1 advice
7 campaign settings
1 reprint
60 supplements
18 systems
49 distinct systems used (11 original)
73 campaigns (43.98%) used D&D 5E and raised $917,977.49 (22.32% of all money raised in December)
37 campaigns used AI in some form (22,29% of total) and raised $145,101.71 (3.53% of all money raised in December)
28 of these were D&D 5E campaigns, accounting for 38.36% of all 5E crowdfunding campaigns
Full info here
i just cant be bothered to get angry about dnd 5e anymore. i see all these posts examining how it sucks ass and im like damn. ive been playing better games for so long i dont even think i can analyze how it sucks ass anymore
i think im truly at the point where my passion and relationship with TTRPGs has nothing to do with dnd, it is entirely founded in and related to other games, and i never think about dnd at any point except when other people feel the need to talk through their issues with it. its a beautiful place and i strongly recommend you join me
I'm with you!
Are you more likely to reblog a poll if you voted yes on it?
Are you more likely to reblog a poll if you voted yes on it?
Yes
No
Rascal News is well worth your money:
Well it's been a month. I waited and watched and thought ah you know if the lowest sub was less than $5 then maybe just maybe. But I did want to support because Rascal is setting a course for the direction TTRPGs as an arts industry can be steered in, whether I personally am on board or not (though my funds would certainly help).
Like I said, it's been a month, and they've now implemented pay-per-article if there's something you want to see or you can't justify $5 – which is a pretty smart move considering "paywall tho" is the thought terminating refrain in the twitter replies and one of Rascal's stated intents is to do more Real Important Journalism in an industry rife with corporate exploitation and abuses of power, which is the sort of news that needs both funding and low access to entry.
It's also worth saying that their articles are a good read.
"While there are still some crunchier elements to the final product (exemplifying what AP scholar Dr. Emily Friedman refers to as the medium’s “ambitious middle”), the subtle production details and the highly intentional performances in GUDIYA are a beacon of what is artistically possible for video-born actual plays."
Using Magpie Games’ Bluebeard’s Bride, this award-winning actual play is the closest I’ve seen to an AP art film (so far)
"GUDIYA (the Hindi word for doll) overwhelmingly plays into the horror of not only its source material, but the horror of being both a woman and South Asian in the highly gendered and xenophobic world of the English Empire."
I've now signed up at $50 for the year, or £3.29 each month which is Really Quite Good, so for your consideration I wanted to share the article that made me commit (above) plus a couple of choice picks for tumblr:
For some buckaroos, TTRPGs peaked at AD&D and that’s a unique, wonderful way I had to know more about.
Love’s blade cuts both wielder and target.
A game jam from 2024-09-09 to 2024-09-16 hosted by imsobadatnicknames. Geomorphs are my favorite dungeon creation tool. They are fun to draw
As dungeon geomorphs are my absolute favorite mapmaking tool for TTRPGs, I decided to dip my toes into hosting a small game jam to celebrate this dungeon-making technique.
(If you don't know what geomorphs are or how they're used, check out this post)
The goal of this jam (which will run from September 9th to September 16th) is to create a full dungeon for any tabletop roleplaying game in a week using geomorphs as a mapmaking tool.
For more details you can check out the game page, and if you decide to join i hope to see youc reate some awesome stuff :)
Player Roles I've been tweaking and implementing the concept of player roles so I can delegate some of the workload among the players and h
First post in awhile!
Have you played KNAVE ?
By Ben Milton/Questing Beast
KNAVE is a rules toolkit for running old school fantasy RPGs without classes. It leans into the OSR style of play, with no classes and level-less spells.
Have you played ?
Yes I have played it
No but I've read it
No but I've heard of it
Never heard of it
Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we've been featuring their efforts to make their vast collect
They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”
88,000 new free images just dropped, to use however you like.
Let's Make A TTRPG Shopping List
So the DnD 2024 core set's price has been announced. $240, or $179.79 with a discount, for the core books + PDFs.
This isn't a sleight on anyone who wants to spend that. If you really like DnD specifically, you really like DnD specifically. But I come from the era where if you liked TTRPGs you liked a bunch of different systems---one of which was usually DnD, and the rest of which were super varied---and I want to demonstrate what $240 can buy when the bulk of that pricetag isn't going to propping up Hasbro.
Some ground rules first:
-I won't be picking used books
-I won't be using discounts
-I'll be sticking to bigger indie titles
-I'll be picking physical books
-This list will be price accurate as of 6/18/24, thus if you are from the future the prices in your time-realm may be different
So, what can we get for $240?
Mork Borg (https://www.boardingschoolgames.com/products/mork-borg) - 26.55, atmospheric and class based, TONS of third party content, spells feel scary and choices feel perilous
Ryuutama (https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Ryuutama-Print-PDF.html) - $40, cozy and class based, very easy to learn, cottagecore antics like dressing for the weather and cooking a big bowl of soup play a big role in how strong you are at the start of combat
Mausritter (https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/mausritter-boxed-set) - $55, halfway between the two games above, Stuart Little as a mighty ranger, the closest we've gotten yet to a Redwall TTRPG, spells and swords and little acorn hats
Fabula Ultima (https://studio2publishing.com/collections/fabula-ultima) - $29.90, a big GM-friendly toolbox of a game for crafting your own Final Fantasy style world and adventures, there's more moving parts so it's trickier to learn than the others, but it puts a lot of work into having game elements that you can build on, think of it like Minecraft
Mothership (https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mothership-rpg) - $59, hard-fi space pulp, often horror but there's a ton of third party content that veers towards action as well, if you want to see your characters get in dangerous situations and claw their way back out this is the pick
Blades In The Dark (https://evilhat.com/product/blades-in-the-dark/) - $30, cinematic dark urban fantasy heist sim, lots of mechanics designed to remind the GM that your characters are competent professionals, lots of mechanics designed to help the GM spiral long term consequences out of your short term decisions, Thief + Dishonored
This brings us to a grand total of six core systems (plus some extra stuff like the goodies in the Mausritter box) for $240.45. And if we want to cut back to that discounted price of $179.79, it's as simple as dropping Mothership or Mausritter.
Now, these systems aren't DnD! This is important! But they're also not exclusive. I run 5e on Saturdays and Geist on Sundays. Folks I've played DnD with I've also played Fate Of The Norns, Coyote And Crow, Shadowrun, Blades In The Dark, Mork Borg, Vampire, To Serve Her Wintry Hunger, and a bunch of other systems with. Most non-DnD books are *really* good at oneshots and mini campaigns. A lot of them (like Mork Borg and Mausritter) have free PDFs. Shop around and see if anything catches your eye.
It's all one hobby, and the scene as a whole is healthier when Hasbro has to work for its chunk of the pie.
(If I goofed anywhere or if you have your own $240 TTRPG list, feel free to reply with it.)
Irish folklore inspired adventure for Into the Wyrd and Wild or any OSR game.
This pamphlet adventure is an adaptation of the Irish folklore about the deity Aine, also known as the Fairy Queen, and Olom. Their relationship is extremely toxic and the fallout of this conflict will change the woods forever.
Designed for use with Into the Wyrd and Wild by Charles Ferguson-Avery, but can be adapted for any OSR game with modification.
Content warning: the folklore does have sexual violence, but the game can be interpreted differently to exclude this type of content.
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