Craig Maloney (🎲🏕️) @craigmaloney@dice.camp

I think I've come to the realization that the one thing that I'm nostalgic about with Dungeons and Dragons is finding out about all of these creatures from mythology for the first time. That's it. (note: Not a request to fix this. I've done an admirable job of it, thank you.).

Any world-building that doesn't have at least three different calendars, and debates about the validity of each one is just lazy world-building.

I did not need to suddenly find that I like the HeroQuest system. Yet, here we are.

We can all get much better when we realize that life (and games) are not all zero-sum games.

Resource management? Sure. But not zero sum.

RPGGeek profile where "For Trade" is > 1 but "Want in Trade" is 0.

The Ashcan version of Survival of the Able is now available. Pick up a copy to help support this game getting made.

https://www.accessiblegames.biz/survival-ashcan-dtrpg/

It uses the Fudge RPG rules for a survival game about folks with disabilities surviving The Black Death in 1347.

Learn more here: https://www.accessiblegames.biz/survival-infecting-kickstarter/

Hope you'll check it out.

#fudge #rpg #ttrpg

Hitting the "now what do I do with this" phase of RPG creation.

Looking for playing D&D-style games without playing D&D? Monsters and Magic with The Effect Engine might fit that bill:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/127944/Monsters--Magic-Roleplaying-Game

#ttrpg #dnd

@MechanteAnemone has been busy converting over Fate games to Roll20. Check them out and try something new tonight.

https://mechanteanemone.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/what-ive-been-working-on/

#faterpg #ttrpg

Powerful words about a simple phrase that crept into game design discussions: "What is your game about" and the effects of rejecting other design paths: https://vsca.blog/2020/07/08/what-is-your-game-about/ #gamedesign

BTW: If you're looking to scratch that D&D itch might I humbly recommend giving 13th Age a peek (https://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/13th-age-core-book/). #wotc #dnd5e #13thage

Wizards of the Coast needs to get their act together https://www.tor.com/2020/07/06/wizards-of-the-coast-freelancer-quits-due-to-hostile-work-environment/ #wotc

I think I'm once again going to be purging my D&D stuff, even though it's from the TSR era, because frankly I'm getting tired of their current stewards #wotc

@Halfjack has been knocking it out of the park with his musings on mythology, law vs chaos, and orcs being evil. Great stuff:

https://vsca.blog/2020/06/26/orcs-and-evil/

https://vsca.blog/2020/06/27/look-mythology-is-crap/

https://vsca.blog/2020/06/29/law-and-chaos/

#gamedesign #tabletoprpgs

Sometimes i forget the beauty of Fate and how it can manage complex things like magic without getting too bogged down in modifiers.