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[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played CANTRIP ?

By Hipólita

Cantrip is a roleplaying game about witches who are coming of age while studying at a magical Academy. They will grapple with their place in the world at large, their emotions, their budding relationships, the expectations placed on them by everyone in their lives, the secrets held by the Academy, the weird and wonderful creatures that reside within it, and the constant scheming of their fellow witches.

This game takes inspiration from a lot of media involving the magical and supernatural coexisting and clashing with a mundane world. The most direct inspiration is Studio Trigger’s Little Witch Academia and you’ll find that the playbooks closely resemble many of the characters in that anime. Other sources of inspiration include Witch Hat Atelier, The Owl House, and Kiki’s Delivery Service. More tangentially, slice-of-life anime like Yuru-Camp and Non Non Biyori provide a lot of the tonal inspiration.

Cantrip is unabashedly queer and explicitly rejects the reactionary and unfun tropes that tend to show up in Magical Academy media and opts to tell a story that, while not free of conflict, is decidedly about girls living their best lives.

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Voting ended onJun 2, 2025

[vforvalensa]

We're So Fucking Back. New Beam Saber Playbook Just Dropped

Die Hausmeister: A Beam Saber Playbook by V For Valensa

A pastoralist pilot playbook for Beam Saber

After a pretty long hiatus I'm back to working on Beam Saber supplements. Die Hausmeister is a playbook about turning your Beam Saber mech into a self sustaining mobile home. Kinda like if Thisbe from Friends at the Table and Senshi from Dungeon Meshi were hanging out in Howl's Moving Castle fucking up the Beam Saber downtime action economy.

[vapordruid]

Estuve 3 meses organizando una jam de diseño de juegos de rol en el servidor de Discord de Sesión Cero y te lo cuento (?)

A diferencia de las jam de itch.io habituales donde te tiran un prompt y arreglate, quería que gente sin experiencia se prendiera a diseñar juegos o complementos para ttrpgs, porque es un medio HERMOSO de expresión y conexión con otres. Así que conduje tres charlas orientativas:

La primera para hablar de qué tipo de proyectos podías crear (aunque sea básicamente) en tres meses o menos.

La segunda para hablar sobre maquetación básica. Traduje y adapté al español rioplatense la plantilla de Canva de Explorer's Design, además de agregarle unas cuantas hojas más de data extra y un proceso que uso para armar paletas de colores. También sumé comentarios de la gente que participó del encuentro. Lo encontrás acá.

La tercera para configurar y usar correctamente itch.io para compartir tus juegos.

Sumé dos eventos más, más charlados, donde compartimos el proceso de nuestros proyectos. De ahí salieron proyectos e ideas nuevas y mucho entusiasmo ❤️

En el servidor creamos un espacio donde compartir el proceso creativo, se pudiera pedir ayuda, opinión o solo para mostrar qué lindo que te quedó lo que estuviste haciendo. Un montón de gente se ayudó entre sí. Fue hermoso.

La Jam terminó el 30/11, con 14 personas desarrollando:

12 juegos de rol.

3 juegos de rol en solitario.

2 suplementos.

2 aventuras/incursiones.

1 pack de dibujos.

De estos 20 proyectos, 12 se finalizaron y forman parte del Bundle que organizamos y está activo ahora mismo (12/24)! Chusmealo ⬇️

[thegiftofgabes]

The Gift of Dice - Intro Post

I am Gabriel Caetano (they/them), and I am a queer, Latine parent, TRPG creator, audio producer, and game facilitator (aka GM) from Brazil.

Roleplaying Games

I make tabletop Roleplaying Games, as well as TTRPG-adjacent experiences.

I like fantasy, science fantasy, and weird fantasy the most and I have been more and more invested in looking at games as enablers of social experimentation and questioning.

I like to say that every game I make is a product of excellent taste and developing skill.

You can find my games at https://thegiftofdice.itch.io/

Indie Games Facilitator for Hire

I run and facilitate (aka GM) roleplaying games as a gig.

I have over 100 session under my belt, and growing, and a large catalogue of indie, alternative games to facilitate for players anywhere out there in the world, including Masks, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Nibiru, Apocalypse Keys, Noctis Labyrinth, Troika!, Blades in the Dark, CBR+PNK, and many more.

You can browse through the dates I setup, or make a custom request.

Politics and Ethics

All TTRPG content has a price tag, except when I think it shouldn't, and all of them should have alternate methods of access for anyone who does not enjoy the privilege of earning dollars, euros, pounds, and other hegemon currencies.

Yet, non-white people, non-het, and non cis-male people anywhere who cannot afford to buy anything I make without putting their safety and well-being financially are welcome to get my stuff for free, one way or another.

I also offer seats for free or at a greatly reduced fee to people in the Global South, where the dollar exchange would make access to my game sessions absolutely crushing.

None of the content I create is compatible with Hasbro or Paizo products, or products by any company or individual that shares their ethics and predatory approach to industrializing an art form, on principle.

Additionally I do not use or rely on artificially generated content to create my games or run my sessions.

Game Design Principles

I've come across this game design manifesto and I've decided to adopt it for my own game design as best as I can and let it evolve as I grow as a game designer and writer.

against coercion: a game design manifesto by JPLeBreton

let players wonder about things and trust them to find answers;

connect players with patterns they find intrinsically fulfilling;

never treat a number going up as an inherently positive or meaningful even;

teach respect for the autonomy and boundaries of all things;

posit alternatives to fantasies of accumulation and extraction;

do not think of emotional responses as something you extract from players;

produce and distribute ethically;

aspire to more than escape.

Whether I'll succeed or fail at following these principles, or even how they will evolve over time, all I can say is let's play to find out.

Kindly, Gabriel Caetano

[laesquinadelrol]

¡Cairn, edición en español!

Basado en Knave de Ben Milton e Into The Odd de Chris McDowall, Cairn es un intento de hacer que Into The Odd sea semicompatible con ambientaciones OSR populares como Dolmenwood.

La generación de personajes es rápida y aleatoria, sin clases y se basa en el desarrollo del personaje en lugar del avance del mismo por puntos de experiencia o mecánicas de nivel.

El juego en sí tiene reglas ligeras pero funcionales, dejando la mayoría de las decisiones en manos del Guardián.

La edición en español incluye Barrow Delver escrito por Matthew Morris, así como tablas generadoras y reglas de viaje para jugar en solitario.

Descarga gratis en:

Cairn [Edición en español] by La esquina del rol

Explora un bosque sombrío y misterioso lleno de gente extraña, tesoros ocultos y monstruosidades indescriptibles.

Jugadores: 1-5

SRD en español:

Traducción del inglés al español del juego de rol Cairn de Yochai Gal.

Nota: Preparado para jugarse en solitario.

[platicas-d6]

No he desaparecido

Al auditorio en general, no he desaparecido, de hecho ya grabe el siguiente episodio del podcast, sin sin embargo, este episodio si va a tener que ser editado ya que lo grabe por partes, mientras cuidaba a mi hija, un gato travieso, y la sopa de la tarde

Desgraciadamente no cuento con computadora, mi celular donde grabo el podcast es tan viejo que no me deja editar el audio porque la app de anchor se cierra inesperadamente, asi que van a tener que esperar un poco a que pueda editar este episodio

[vforvalensa]

This week I put out a new ttrpg called You Meet at a Fantasy Tavern, which is all about taking the awkward start of a new ttrpg campaign where you're still figuring out what the party dynamics are and how the player characters even know each other, and turning that into a whole game.

I originally wrote this for @binarystargames's minimalist game jam, and its a supplemental game meant to warm the players up for a campaign in a game with a more traditional campaign structure like dnd, or pathfinder, or blades in the dark, or lancer, or what have you. The premise of the game is a play on the old dnd trope where the party meets for the first time in a fantasy tavern (although rules as written the meeting place can be whatever you need to fit the genre of your game) and the players draw cards to ask each other questions and get put in Situations that flesh out the relationships between the characters and why they hang out.

Playtesting this game was a lot of fun and we kinda discover in playing that YMFT is also a really effective improv exercise that gets you comfortable playing in character with a new pc really fast and we came up some really fun pcs, like Fish Boy Detective here, which is the character I've most enjoyed playing in a minute.

Check it out there are still a bunch of free community copies available.

You Meet at a Fantasy Tavern by V For Valensa

A Story Starting game

[thegiftofgabes]

Being a paid GM is its own adventure

It's been close to a year since I started running games for money.

I started out with a few one-shots of Masks and Thirsty Sword Lesbians until I got to run a few weekly adventures of Masks, Troika!, Noctis Labyrinth, Nibiru, Apocalypse Keys and more.

Given that being a paid GM has become my main income source, it is stressful at times. There are other downsides too, which I could talk about another time.

BUT

I have never played so many games, and for so long, until I became a paid GM.

I got to take part in the tales of Adjo and Nabi in their explorations of the haunted ravines of Noctis Labyrinth.

I got to see a bunch of teen superheroes like Nini, Eli, Selena, Justin, Arthur, Matt, Jake, Val, Cherry, and many others, as they met or faced divine parenthood, evil corporate bosses, criminal overlords, Florida Men, an eldritch goose, the Fairy Godmother, time/space-screwing warlocks, and, worse of all, PROM.

I got to see mythical avatars such as Enkidu, Boudicca, and others, as they traveled the Tree of Life.

I get to see Vagabonds weave the Chronicles of the Skyless World in Nibiru, a whole world contained in a massive space station.

I get to see some really messed up monsters teeter at the edge of becoming the Harbingers of Apocalypse, as they try to stop the apocalypse themselves.

And those are just some of the adventures I got to experience first hand.

Roleplaying games are both passion and work, and that is its own can of worms to unpack since capitalism pushes individuals to monetize their passions to survive.

But make no mistake, I thoroughly enjoy what I do and the players I get to bring along in this ride, and while I am conscious that there will be a time I will change and might need to step down, I will savour every single moment of it with is ups and downs.