#skyld ttrpg

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It's been a while since I posted on this blog - seasonal work is starting up again, so my TTRPG work has been a bit on and off

BUT

I'm having a really interesting experience right now with Skyld: that feeling when a project really becomes *something.* When it goes from a little drabble, a test of a concept, into something that feels like it IS going to happen. I'm used to this feeling with visual art, but it's really interesting to me feeling it in a written medium like this - I don't think I've felt it when working on prose before, so to feel it for Skyld's writing is so interesting to me.

Just... Skyld is going to happen. As I'm approaching getting it playtestable, it's really sinking in that this project is happening and it is real. Some of the creative worry and self doubt is letting up!

I'm really really excited for these next stages of Skyld's development.

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Switching to playing cards instead of dice was the BEST thing I could've done for Skyld as a game holy hell

Cards had a role in the dice version as well, but they were far less prominent, and the game was worse for it!

I've been working on character Traits recently using the card system, and it's now sold me on cards for Skyld. There's so many ways cards can be used and function in a game, this is by far the most fun I've had designing for this sort of mechanic. I'm gonna have to share some of these later.

I should've made this change to cards sooner honestly, it just feels better for a Noir game inspired by gambling & gambling cheating culture to use playing cards rather than the specific dice I was using before!

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I’m feeling SO proud - progress on my ongoing Noir-ish TTRPG project, Skyld, is going very smooth, and we’ve gotten to the stage of the first draft where I’m filling in specifics, of character creation options and picklists and the like! Skyld is starting to move out of the planning application and into a working doc!

I’m currently finishing up the character and NPC creation process stuff, properly articulating the game’s Promise now that it’s really starting to take shape, I’ve begun writing up some of the specific options (the Vices) that can be picked to build certain aspects of a character…

I’m so excited to start sharing progress on here

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game design is going well today