#bloodfall

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Over the past several months @robotgirlbutt and I have been developing a sword & sorcery ttrpg intended for open table play. It is today with great excitement that I get to announce that we are finished with our alpha testing and are opening up the table to anyone interested. If you don't know what an Open Table is I suggest giving Justin Alexander's Open Table Manifesto a once over.

So what is the Bloodfall TTRPG? It's a sword & sorcery ttrpg (think Elric, Conan, or Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser) that's loosely based on the Cepheus Engine/Mongoose 1st Edition Traveller and our love of 1974 D&D. It is also mostly a dungeoncrawler but has a lot of room to grow out from that featuring heavily hexcrawling, social encounter procedures, and a fully integrated war game. This bit is probably the most important part of what Bloodfall is, a re-unity between tabletop roleplaying and war gaming.

The main campaign takes place in and around the Free City of Kyrath and its sprawling undercity megadungeon but we're working on adding a lot more regional wilderness locations in the near future. So if you're interested in a comprehensive sword & sorcery tabletop roleplaying system designed by a team of queer writers you can DM me for the server that we're running the table out of.

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Bloodfall Campaign System Production Outline

I haven’t had the opportunity to post in quite a while but work on the Bloodfall Campaign System has been proceeding at quite a steady pace. As such I figured that posting to update y’all on this progress would probably be a good idea. So for anyone new reading this for the first time, let’s answer that pressing question: What is the Bloodfall Campaign System? What is the Bloodfall Campaign…

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Game Dev Journals: Creating the Game Engine

In the process of developing the projects that we have going on here at Red Lily Adventuring we came across a problem: How do we make these systems unique and having their own feel while maintaining the feeling that they were developed by the same people? We wanted some sort of “brand identity” for lack of a better word. A specific hook that answers that the question “Why Red Lily Games over game…

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Bloodfall Design Journal Three and 2024 Plans

It’s been a busy holiday season over here at Red Lily Adventuring! I’ve been hard at work revising Bloodfall. It’s amazing how creative projects can change from their original intentions. The game is now much more a homage to the old Stormbringer RPG and old Warhammer Fantasy along with the very solid and obvious AD&D influences. The current version of the rule is about 1/3rd or so done, so I…

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Bloodfall Design Journal Four

Some more info and solid update on the development of the Bloodfall TTRPG!

We’ve been making a lot of progress over the past few days since we last updated y’all on the progress on the current build of Bloodfall. We were stuck with very little progress for a little while as we had to do multiple passes on the Profession systems and progression in order for them to make any sense. In the next few days we should be able to finish up designing all of the Novice Professions…

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Bloodfall Design Journal 4: Playtesting & Failure

At the end of August, I made a post about an idea for a game engine/dice system. We spent quite a bit of the last month doing pretty extensive playtesting to see if it should replace the d100 based system that we have been developing Bloodfall to work for. After several iterations, we’ve concluded that we are going to be sticking with the d100 hybrid system that we had been developing but we…

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Linda Tate

Personal assistant and troublemaker.

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Dungeon24: Day Eight

Area A8: Ruined Guardroom This room has been stripped bare of all of its furniture leaving the slick mossy stone construction exposed to the elements. The air in this room is hot and heavy, with a sickly sweet smell drafting in from the southern end.

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