Some Encounters In Sarkash Forest
LICHEN PROPHETESS: Old, wizened, moss and algae growing on her skin.Give her a bit of your humanity (say what, and reduce your max HP by 1) and she’ll answer any question. The gift lets her know the...
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Vinculus Hive, A Scifi Setting For Dungeon Bitches
So one thing that I'm finding with Dungeon Bitches is that, while the tone and themes are pretty concrete, the actual setting is never firmly pinned down. This is reflected in the games that have...
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Alright Fuckers I Made a Better Version of Vamp
So, vampire the masquerade. I've played it a lot. I really like the setting and have had a lot of fun exploring characters within it (although some elements are... problematic. Yeesh, the ravnos). But...
View ArticleTheory - Hard & Soft Tools
Alright, here's a framework I've been using to analyse games. It's about the mechanical means by which players can exert their will onto the fiction. Only a quick little post, but it should help...
View ArticleThe Virgin Huntress & The Invisible Girl
A pair of deals for dungeon bitches. As official as anything else, I guess. I wrote them and DB is my game, so feel free to use 'em.The Invisible GirlThe world is cold and nasty at the best of times,...
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Progress on Dungeon Bitches
So. 2020 has been a heck of a year. In march, right as the 'rona hit, I started work on Dungeon Bitches as a project. It's a bit of a departure for me - a storygame about feelings with an overt message...
View ArticleWhat I consider good design
So, one thing that I've been considering recently is what a 'well designed game' even means to me. I don't think "Is it fun" covers it. Basically any game can be fun if you play it with your friends...
View ArticleIn Love And War (part 1)
I have been watching princess principal and I have become inspired. Here's a loose skeleton for a game. A PbtA game about spies, and dangerous sapphic romance.Each player character is a spy, is gay,...
View ArticleIn Love And War (part 2 - characters)
(Part 1 here) So how to make a character for the game?First step is to pick your Classification. Your Classification is at the heart of your character: where their true loyalties lie, and why they're...
View ArticleThe Daughters Of Cacophany for Vampire 5th Edition
As with my post on the Kiasyd this is all completely unofficial and I have no idea what, if anything, White Wolf plan to do with the Sirens in v5. This is my own take on them, hacked together for v5...
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On Fudging The Dice
Been a while, hasn't it? And now Ya Girl is back with her hot opinions.I'm doing discourse. God help me.here is a photo, because the algorithm likes that.So. Dice fudging. It's been in the...
View ArticleFuck Balance
There's a vampire the masquerade game I'm playing in. One, Josephine, is a successful ancilla, with significant social influence over mortal and vampire society, a title in the camarilla court and a...
View ArticleAfter Gehenna - A concept for a VtM chronicle
OK here's the pitch: You know the concept people throw out sometimes in Vampire games, of a medieval (or pehaps older) vampire who's woken up from a millenia or two of torpor and has no idea what's...
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I'm Selling Out
This one's scary to post. I expect there'll be backlash. Fuckit.There's been a lot of talk about the place of D&D in the wider TTRPG industry and artistic medium lately. That its utterly dominant...
View ArticleOn The OSR And My Relationship With It
Following that last post, I want to make some things clear.I am not going to name any names. Frankly, I'm scared of the people I'm talking about, and how they might respond to anything I say if it...
View ArticleInto The Dark City - Part 1
A hack of Into the Odd where you play as legally distinct dark eldar.The skeleton for the game, Into the Odd, was created by Chris McDowell at Bastionland.comYou get to play as horrible decadent evil...
View ArticleInto The Dark City - Part 2
A follow-up to this post here. Part 2 is the backend stuff, tables and procedures for running the game.A hack of Into the Odd where you play as legally distinct dark eldar.The skeleton for the game,...
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Chaos Warriors
I've been looking back at Esoteric Enterprises, and listening to French Antifascist Rap and arguing about 40k lately, and looking at the state of the world and the inexorable rise of authoritarianism...
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If Revue Starlight Was A PBTA Game
What it says on the tin.If you've not seen review starlight, I don't know how to explain it to you. Go watch it. There's gay longing. There's a fun coming of age story. The show actually actually has...
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Black Death Walking - A playtest!
Being the Scandalous Diary the Succubus of L'Shan in the year 1466.It has been three years since I deserted hell. My protégé, a human libertine calling herself Molly, has a vision of the future. One...
View ArticleBlack Death Walking - a Guest Post!
A guest post by Curatrix Ribston, who can be found here on twitter, and also makes various very cool games. And is very lovely.She played the other side in the game described here, and made her own...
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So What Is Black Death Walking?
A narrative wargame I'm making, in the same vein as something like Mordheim, Necromunda or Gorkamorka. Let's start with the setting. I'll quote right from the text, since I think this sums things up...
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The Masquerade Grid, for VtM
A little subsystem for tracking the state of the masquerade in your vampire games.I wanted a minigame that tracked masquerade breaches and had the potential to have worse problems pop up unexpectedly,...
View Article⛧ BVLLET ⛧ HELL ⛧ WVRGVME ⛧
A WARGAME THAT IS A BULLET HELL SHOOTERIn hell, they don't have physical matter to forge weapons out of. No iron for swords, lead for bullets, saltpeter for gunpowder, or wood for spear-shafts. Nothing...
View ArticleAnother take on demihumans as social constructs.
I had an idea knocking around inside my head, and then I saw that Dan had already done it over on Throne Of Salt, which rather undercut my brilliant originality.More time has passed, so I figured I'd...
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