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MUTATE NOW MUTATE NOW
Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future is live on Kickstarter right now! In the remnants of the world, play in the smithereens. Get weird in the body and in the mind with this post-apocalyptic TTRPG.
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can’t stop looking at this screenshot of hugh jackman from VAN HELSING with a spelling mistake in the sub
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i ordered that textbook that makes you a good game designer and it arrived
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THIS DISCORD HAS GHOSTS IN IT is a game of entering and exploring a haunted house filled with ghosts.
that haunted house is a discord.
players are either investigators or ghosts.
investigators can only speak speak ghosts can only type
grab it here:
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i actually like that dnd is doing ai. it’s going make gaming better in a major way. for example you can now this is i can rpg players and find ways away we will be into new way for the table. it’s so exciting. join me
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rpg designers love writing downtime rules but then never take a vacation.
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CAMPFIRE is a horror storytelling game. CAMPFIRE is tailor-made for anthology horror like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Creepshow, with the at-the-table feel of games like Fiasco. CAMPFIRE is illustrated by the AMAZING
@slimyswampghost
, and comes to Kickstarter on June 1st.
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it can’t just be your first thought to just hire a PI and in fact the oldest and most killingest goon squad in history. you don’t just open the phone book for I: Investigstor, Private
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you really shouldn’t worry if you don’t have a good name for your rpg. somebody already tried “gurps” and stuck with it
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here's a tip for running ttrpgs: be a fan of the players and be an enemy of the state
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if you post VAN HELSING slander, you are wrecking yourself before checking yourself
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just thinkin fondly on this bit of gm advice from dogs in the vineyard. it changed my brain.
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THIS DISCORD HAS GHOSTS IN IT: GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION is available for preorder now!
enter and explore a haunted house filled with ghosts. that haunted house is a discord.
players are either investigators or ghosts
🔦 investigators can only speak
👻 ghosts can only type
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okay, sorry, unfollowing. at first i thought they (and their friends) had such sights to show me. an experience beyond limits. pain and pleasure, indivisible. i didn’t realize they were with leviathan. or responsible for the lament configuration puzzle box. sorry
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do you sell games in itch dot io? buried deep in their terms, if you keep income in your account for 12+ months, itch will charge a 10% fee of that amount each month until you initiate a payout, or the money is gone. thanks to
@smolghost
for finding this!
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hello TTRPG designers: here's a thread of info and links for award submissions this year. submit your games to awards!
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there are some ttrpg meta roles like “mapper”, “note taker”, “quartermaster”. what are some other ones?
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game design is mostly rewriting sentences describing how to take a card off the top of a deck of cards and put it down on a table in a certain place. but don't look at it. until you may.
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how i use Scrivener to write RPGs (a thread)
Scrivener is a document management app with a very good word processor built in. Right now, I like writing games that are around 20,000 words or 100 manuscript pages, so this is great for keeping track of a book this size.
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hey gang, let’s head this off at the pass: the head of this studio has a well documented history of abuse, and they’re stepping into our yard. do not interact, do not work for them, do not play, do not buy
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if only there was a way to compensate artists for making art…….. i’m sitting here scratching my head trying to figure out a way to get money from myself to an artist in exchange for art. tricky
As his Kickstarter passes $1.3 million, publisher defends Terraforming Mars’ generative AI art: ‘It’s too powerful a technology’
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your humble era has come to an end. clash against rivals in a world of aesthetics in the TTRPG all about fashion and style.
BIG GRAVE FASHION FANTASY is coming to Kickstarter in September. click to get notified when we launch!
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just checking out the russian version of drivethrurpg and i'm loving this bad mechanical translation of what an RPG is: we devote time and energy to him. both plump books of rules and heaps of colorful playing bones.
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every game designer has one mech game in them. lots of them have 100
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okay well then why stove on the cold game stove out hot play the game??
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hey rpg layout people..... i'm gonna collect the hot black friday sales i see and put them here. show 'em if u got 'em
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last night i finally printed out
@SenFoongLim
's "YOUR BOARD GAME CRITIQUE: Things I'd probably tell you if I had playtested your game." to hang on my wall. just such a good doc for design of any type
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CAMPFIRE: the anthology horror storytelling game is live on Kickstarter now!
tell a story, from creeping start to bloody end, in a single two-hour session, all with zero-prep.
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thinking about becoming one of those barbers who does pranks. a cruel barber. demon barber of prank street. haircut gone sexual
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ennies voting is great because it's limited to one ballot per IP address so you have to decide who the household gamer is. imagine. two people who like rpgs living together. in the eyes of the ennies this is foul. unnatural.
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thanks to everyone who picked this up and said nice stuff. i can't wait for you to be reduced to zero hit-points and say "no fucken way" and then salty runback with whatever messed you up.
my newest TTRPG is a love letter to Into the Odd, Cybermetal 2012, and the 1st edition of Gamma World. in PLASMODICS you play a group of mutant freaks, playing in the smithereens of the weird future.
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horror is up there as one of my favorite genres for games—but i wanted something fast, collaborative, and impactful. so
@WCgameco
and i made CAMPFIRE, with card-driven storytelling, coin-powered character interplay, and pacing that lets us zoom in and out of the story.
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something happens when i'm writing a basic rule like "what HP is" and i completely freeze and words and meaning and human consensus fall away until i type something like "The man is made of meat. HP is a sort of meat for the man. Reducing the meat, the HP, the man is no more."
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the trick to designing rpgs is to write two paragraphs at a time until you're finished
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CAMPFIRE does exactly what i want a storytelling game to do:
🔥 incorporate every player in a swirling narrative
🔥 surprise me every time i play
🔥 2 hour playtime, for players at any experience level
🔥 lets me say: "I GOT CHILLS"
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wouldst thou like to live zineliciously?
you can get the black mass zine, suite of music, and tarot cards here!
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oh so a lot
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wowowowow okay it’s happening!!!!
in what world WASN’T I gonna do zine quest honestly
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how do we get twitch to change the tabletop rpg poster. it hurts very bad
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CAMPFIRE LAUNCHES TOMORROW! horror of every stripe, built for no-prep single-session play around a campfire playmat. get it before the things in the dark get YOU
CAMPFIRE is a horror storytelling game. CAMPFIRE is tailor-made for anthology horror like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Creepshow, with the at-the-table feel of games like Fiasco. CAMPFIRE is illustrated by the AMAZING
@slimyswampghost
, and comes to Kickstarter on June 1st.
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it's my birthday! to celebrate, here's an announcement for the JOBST STYLE GUIDE. cover by the ever-skilled
@ValleyOfAlfred
. presented by
@goodluckpress
.
a desk-side resource for when your game turns from ideas into words. sign up for updates here:
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if will jobst has made you or a loved one unbold, deitalicize, or decapitalize words in your ttrpg, you may be entitled to financial compensation
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upcoming 2022 rpg trends:
-big minis
-wotc develops a new type of guy
-peripherals
-“second screen experience”
-terrain is out, semisolids are in
-worldbuilding renamed “liar’s chess”
-gear list price inflation
-theater of the mind replaced with shadows on the cave wall
-dices
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my name is will jobst, and i'm available for your next project!
-i'm an editor, i'll work with you to make your game sing
-i'm a project manager, i'll work with you to make your project smooth
-i'm a designer available for game consulting, i'll work with you to make stuff weird
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hey blades in the dark gms, how many pans do i need for my home game
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hi friends! you can preorder BLACK MASS here:
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do you think free league will get the license to make an rpg based on the dnd movie
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once again recognizing /r/rpg as an anti-designer, anti-art cesspool
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not to sound like an audio log in a video game but: my masterpiece is nearly complete. pickins, hoffman, and rest... i’ll have the last laugh. btw the code for my safe is 0451.
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my newest TTRPG is a love letter to Into the Odd, Cybermetal 2012, and the 1st edition of Gamma World. in PLASMODICS you play a group of mutant freaks, playing in the smithereens of the weird future.
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yeah
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i’m grateful. i’m thankful. i’m 51 feet tall. i use radio towers to brush my teeth. i fight helicopters daily. i’m catastrophic. i’m bothered by nothing, and a bother to everything. i’m proud
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telling the rpg executive that hated my pitch that he’s going to love the next one. you’re in a mech (he’s saying yes), you manage how hot and cold it gets (he’s standing, hanging on my every word) while dealing with the temperature of your emotions (he’s crying i’m signing)
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I saw SUSPIRIA last night and obviously made a game about it
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we could go to the toxic ancient salt underwater lake 👉👈 and see the anoxic undecayed fish graveyard 🥺
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i'm deep in an editing crunch on a bunch of cool projects--so my brain is bursting with stuff to include in the Jobst Style Guide! one of them is about sentence tempo. here's the classic example in gary provost's "this sentence has five words"
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here’s my recipe for the perfect rpg session:
-20 minutes for hanging out and catching up
-90 minutes to play
-10 minute break in the middle
🤌🏻
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THE
@goodluckpress
MERCH DROP IS HERE. four designs, four artists, tons of styles, featuring work by
@kayleerowena
,
@WCgameco
,
@smolghost
, and me!
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the discord is split up into rooms of a haunted house. ghosts haunt rooms and type their horror into them. investigators explore each room all while narrating the horror to all players.
this game is for two to twelve players, played over the course of one to three hours.
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big announcement!! it's........ mutating. plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future is now: a soft cover book.
get ready to play among the smithereens.
-tons of mutations
-freak generator 5000
-a world where a tidal wave is our king
-self contained and sapient
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damn i don’t like what dnd is doing. what if we created an identical alternative?
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i’d like cyberpunk stuff way more if they replaced the word “hack” with “clown”. i’m clowning the mainframe
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@lincodega
there's is a dndbeyond employee cracking their keyboard in half reading this tweet
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yeah so the window cleaners on the next building are talking about how freud sucks and it’s transferring full volume into my apartment. this guy loves jung. just explained what a freudian slip was. coen brothers level shit going on
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OPEN WORLD RPG is a long, comfy drive with friends.
play through a shared google street view window, a shared playlist, and a voice chat.
in this game, we’re just ourselves, in the car, goofing off.
grab it here:
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editing
@slimyswampghost
's CAMPFIRE deck is like not noticing a shadow growing taller and taller you until it's blotted out the sun and the horizon disappears. extremely great doomy shit
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WOW! i'm honored to be nominated for Designer of the Year, Publisher of the Year (w/
@smolghost
for
@goodluckpress
), and Best Roleplaying Game (w/
@WCgameco
for This Discord Has Ghosts in It) for the Tabletop Awards! this is such a great crop, i'm so happy to be included!
Announcing our finalists for the Tabletop Awards 2023 - this year’s standout board games, RPGs and creators! 🥁
Winners will be revealed on Dec 2nd at 5pm ET in the Main Theater of
#PAXUnplugged
! 🏆 (There's still time to vote for People's Choice, too!)
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hello! i'm will jobst, a game designer and editor for tabletop RPGs! i'm excited to announce that i have a few editing slots open this summer! if you're looking for an experienced editor for your tabletop RPG book or zine project, let's get in touch. my dms are open.
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here are three!
-rpgs as an artform are extremely young. if we were movies, we'd be just out of the silent era.
-play with new players as often as you can. you'll learn a lot.
-don't over-rely on video games or any singular non-TTRPG medium for design inspiration (cont.)
Okay! Experienced TTRPG designers, give us your top three wisdoms!
Mine:
- Take a break, write something small, like a solo game or fangame.
- Participate in the community beyond making promo posts.
- Make your randomizer choice thoughtfully and deliberately.
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You've been invited to a haunted house. That haunted house is a Discord server.
Find your fears, spill your secrets, and get to the seance in THIS DISCORD HAS GHOSTS IN IT, now available!
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boltgun is a great example of reflavoring basic mechanics to fit a theme--instead of armor, you have contempt. your hate protects you from pain. in ttrpgs we sometimes treat hp as a "luck pool" or something like that. let's get weirder.
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friends don't let friends not credit john stavropoulos in the text for the x card
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remember the last ttrpg you played, when you introduced your character, their look, clothes, and vibe, and got to meet everyone else’s? and how every scene after, that feeling faded, but by bit. sessions later, are you even “seeing” the characters anymore?
your humble era has come to an end. clash against rivals in a world of aesthetics in the TTRPG all about fashion and style.
BIG GRAVE FASHION FANTASY is coming to Kickstarter in September. click to get notified when we launch!
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Why is this mutant smiling?
Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future is coming to kickstarter on August 20th.
In the remnants of the world, play in the smithereens. Get weird in the body and in the mind with this post-apocalyptic TTRPG.
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goose chaseability is such an important rpg design spectrum to be aware of
"goose chaseability" is the new and most important design term I've learned, thanks to
@will_jobst
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