Clinking Dog 🎲 @clinkingdog@dice.camp

Oh cool yeah, the main projects I'm working on are:

Love Letters, a silly play-by-mail game where you try to work out if the other person is in Love with you but you're not allowed to actually talk about it. (Latest draft at http://nick.idealworld.org/loveletters/ )

CIC: Combat Information Centre, a possibly-PbtA game where you play the command crew of a military starship. Think BSG, primarily.

A wargame that I'm gonna enjoy more than Epic and Battletech while using the same models.

In other news I am really enjoying the new Battletech game by Harebrained Schemes and I am sad they're getting flak for simply including a "they" pronoun in the character options. I'm sure they'd be grateful for some support, if you're so inclined. (e.g. Buy the game - it's a lot of fun!)

Last boost: It me! :) Really enjoying @rabalias's BSG game. And it's helping me design mine ;)

Happy Valentine's Day! This is probably a good day to re-plug my silly letter-writing RPG provisionally called Love Letters :)

It's a two-player game where you write letters to each other to work out if you're in Love with each other or not. Obviously you can't just ask, though — that would be unthinkable.

It's very much a work in progress and I need to make some more updates following the first playtest, but if you're interested, see the draft here: http://nick.idealworld.org/loveletters/

I did a very quick test of the base mechanics in my wargame the other day, just to make sure they didn't immediately fall apart. They didn't! :) Yay. This means I can properly test & explore them now, and add the layers of complexity on top that will hopefully make it interesting rather than just functional.

Anyone know of a good supplier of mech miniatures? I'm finding the Battletech ones distinctly uninspiring.

FINALLY got my gaming table set up, clear and clean in my new house. I've laid out my battlemat on it so later today I can do some work on my wargame :) Exciting!

I'd just like you to know that the character I'm playing in my current roleplaying game is called Jack Spaceman - pronounced like Goldman or Silverman, not like "space man".

In hindsight, symbolically wearing my Apocalypse World t-shirt as 2017 rolled in was maybe asking for trouble. Sorry everyone!

This year I'll be wearing my Steven Universe t-shirt instead. Be the Universe you want to see etc.

Ok dice.campers the thing is

I am pretty drunk rn

And I <3 this whole space

And umm so yeah go you

That's it

Just I think you are probably pretty great

Ok

Bye

It's very empty in the UK mornings, though :)

I'm just so glad about dice.camp.

Re that last boost about GMs congratulating players (@featherfawn) - this works on a small scale too. One of my recent players said she found herself much more comfortable and less anxious about saying things / going out on a limb, because I responded to every player action / description with a genuine "Fantastic!" or "Nice!" or similar. Make your players feel their contributions are valuable.

(This goes for all players, tbh, not just GMs!)

Alright, it's happening. Dunno what I'm playing yet, though: https://www.twitch.tv/blackrat_tv