#devlog i guess

[happy-hat-makes-a-game]

My TTRPG project finally has a proper name which is...

With Blood and Lead

"That to get what you want, you'll have to fight and pay for it... with blood and lead."

I was kinda surprised this name wasn't taken yet, because Blood and Bullets seems very popular, so I'm surprised no one had decided to use that euphemism (bullets are/were cast from lead). So, I'm officially calling dibs on that name.

One of the reasons I'm choosing an abstract name is because I can't decide what kind of setting I want to set my game in. When I started, I was thinking about paratroopers exploring dense judge to recover spare parts for their airship from overgrown Old Word. Then I had an idea of exploring the innards of gigantic leviathans (who might be dead or still alive), but I wasn't sure if that'd offer sufficient Role-Playing opportunities, so a Wild West would be more fitting (after adding magic, monsters, chainswords and pneumatic hammers.)

[happy-hat-makes-a-game]

As I may have already mentioned, I'm working on a TTRPG Hell Jumpers, insired by the book series Hell Divers (I just finished the second book and I inhaled the last third of it in one sitting).

And this which from "your usual medival fantasy adventures" to "post-apocalipse near future" feels somehow very... liberating, maybe too liberating.

For example, I'm already thinking about making the setting not a barren wasteland (there is enough of those) but a "lively" forests and fields (think Caelid or Toxic Jungle/Sea of Decay). Something along the lines of "The Earth is doing fine, the humans are fucked."

Change of scenery aside, I think it'd open more story possibilities and ways to interact with the enviroment and creatures there than "shoot everything".

But this switch also comes with some risks:

How will I pitch it to my player group?

I haven't played or read much surival/exploration games, so I'm not sure how to use my newfound freedom responsibly.

[happy-hat-makes-a-game]

Today I rewrote the rules for handling health in my system.

Mechanically it stays the same, but some of the names are different, so I can use the previous names in more fitting places, and the text now it takes half the space it took previously.

Which now means I have one third of the page blank.

[sweetjijisama]

Does this count as a devlog?

I am about to freakin make some bootleg cartoon characters from childrens tv shows and put them into the naughty jail in my game and no one can stop me >:D