What are you working on right now?

#449

H! After a long pause I went and put down procedures for my Hunter x Hunter game and I believe there are experts in this community that can help me se them clearly without sweating it to much.

To frame the game intent some, I end up walking in the tracks of @DBB David Brunell Brutman’s Hogwarts RPG, with much of the mechanical aspect of the system relying on transactions of Conditions. Characters be moved, be affected, make it count !
The other part of the system is more conversational, but very precise. I use OSR-like standardized procedures to make sure people have all the right informations at the right time, in order to solve puzzles and make optimal choices under more or less pressure.
Here it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W9Zie2_nsec7c68EFe2r7BaKqPYLA52OPNZcb-q01bM/edit?usp=share_link

I’m trying a form longer than one page I hope it will stay smooth. I also hope to get adventures with the richest Challenges.I hope there will be enough Hunterheads interested to pay for or make illustrations.

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#450

I’m just back from Dragonmeet where I sold Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying.

I reached a cool milestone as Paris Gondo is now available via Indie Press Revolution.
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Paris-Gondo-The-Life-Saving-Magic-of-Inventorying-Box-Set-Print-PDF.html

The illustrated edition of Paris Gondo is available as part of the Ind’ Of TheYear Bundle alongside many other excellent TTRPGs.

Meanwhile, I posted my first devlog/session report for Rosewood.

So yeah, it’s been a busy couple of weeks. :sweat_smile:

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#451

The ‘beta’ rules that are freely available are probably 90+% of what the finished product will be. I’m mostly working on art and layout, plus some additional material that doesn’t change anything about the gameplay, but might add some options at the campaign level. If you don’t have the rules ping me and I’ll drop the most recent link.

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#452

I put out various modular mechanics …



… various games

And am still working on this one (the modular mechanics are for).


And that one:

It shows I will be back to school soon. My hopes? Anxiety management I guess.
:wink:

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#453

Still “working” on the same projects as I was working on last time, but here’s some updates:

  1. Shroompunk and Space Rangers of the Cosmic Frontier (pending) will be using the same core system, which I am still describing as Player’s Option meets the Rules Cyclopedia with a carefully curated selection of modern D&D mechanics. I’m also planning on releasing this system in a “Generic D&D Retroclone” format as PWYW. Progress is still… sporadic but I’m about to make some major QOL and workflow improvements that might help me focus more.

  2. Untitled, but I’m working for a retroclone of Street Fighter: the Storytelling using the Opening the Dark rules. Again as a PWYW offering, with a commercial version paired with a default setting-- a cyberpunk urban fantasy wuxia affair.

  3. I’ve got a shroompunk novel in the works, The Oathbreaker King: a Shroompunk Tale.

No projections for release dates-- I am still kinda working towards working on these projects.

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#454

I’m editing an episode of The RPG Academy Film Studies dedicated to Stalker.

It was recorded with Meguey and Vincent Baker, and Nella Inserra from Apocalist Book Club (one of my favourite podcasts).

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Besides that, I received new art from Bodieh for Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying.

I’m using it to assemble my first Kickstarter submission ever.

I also have four sessions of Rosewood Abbey scheduled in February.

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#455

I’ve begun working on my submission to the Starforged 2023 Jam.

My hope is that this will be a jumping point to my next published product since I didn’t publish anything paid in 2022. At the least, it’s an excuse to work on something, and more importantly, it’s another reason to play Ironsworn: Starforged and get some TTRPG time in!

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#456

Working on my linguistic mini-game. Grabbed some Dialect and some Aori and my field linguistics and just ran. And I’m very happy with where it’s going.

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Crossed with a map game it will become my love letter to the Youkaghir love letter (sex/age/identity=>plants QED).

And it’s… DONE!
I called it “Do you speak common?”

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#457

Another game goes ‘plop’ :


It’s just a reskin of Storm at the desert gate inn, but hey: it’s still something :wink:
If you like the genre, I’m open to material ideas for the second page.

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#458

I had an Oldboy project, and I think it is ripe now.

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#459

I just actually typed up and layout some basic framework rules for use with the Roll 4 Shoes rules. It’s an attempt to make a lighthearted fantasy framework to play in.

I hope to actually make it look pretty eventually.

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#460

Very cool!

I have put my Aunter x Aunter on hold for various little game poems for the 12 word and Grève jam on itch. I gained confidence when I finished the Youkaghir love letter project, and it made me bold enough to tackle my Saragossa Manuscript project. And it’s going well!

I am a huge fan of Potocki. And what is more, I am friend with Jan Potocki, his great grandson and homonym! My hope for the game is that he would write a little something, so that I could publish the game with “preface by Jan Potocki” written on it. And as always, I don’t gamble: this is a sure shot and it’ll be a great laugh. :grin:

The game takes some things from my own Riot! and maybe some from Simon Pettersson & Catherine Ramen’s Nerves of Steel.
In a nutshell: it’s very much a storytelling game where you take turns adding nested stories to framing stories. There’s nothing to win but the game creates occasions to shine by reincorporation. This is my jam and honey!

If you don’t know the Saragosa Manuscript, lucky you: it’s a honey comb you can bite from easily :yum:
If you want just a taste:

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#461

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I finally released the episode of The RPG Academy Film Studies recorded with Meguey and Vincent Baker, and Nella Inserra.

https://rolistespod.com/2023/1/21/film-studies-stalker-apocalypse-words

Check the description of the episode for the list of all the games that we brought up while discussing Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979).

PS: We forgot to discuss the official Stalker RPG.

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#462

Hi, no luck on my phone. Progress clocks keep cycling.
I found a copy on the Internet archives. I’m disappointed not to find FONT by Narrative Dynamics, the best Stalker game.

#463

Maybe my file hosting was under maintenance.

It seems to be back up now.

I’m not familiar with Font.

There are so many systems out there. :sweat_smile:

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#464

So . . . I’ve got to assume you’ve played the Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom, right?
It’s one of my favourite adventures. I’ve used parts of it in a bunch of campaignst. Done a video on it, and it’s also on sale this week for XRP’s 20th anniversary.
https://composedreamgames.com/marketplace/Pod-Caverns-of-the-Sinister-Shroom

#465

Wow, long gap, sorry. I’m talking to my art guy and planning to get publication back on track after some IRL interruptions. In service of this I’m going to try and get a significant amount of playtesting done in that time frame. So if you want to try a game, I can find you a slot.

#466

This year I’m attempting to use Roll For Shoes to run my multi-school, one turn a week, realm building game.

Let’s see how it goes, I’m planning to do a play by play report on the blog: https://thebeardedbelgiansplayground.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-rulers-of-pegolia-2023-begins.html

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#467

I have written most of my Shonen puzzle game in one-page modular mini games. I am now working on the most meta part, that’s how to weave character arcs stepping stones (think Jenna Moran’s Chuubo or Nick Wedig’s Baba Yaga) and external conflicts.

I’m excited because it’s a Grail to me: linking external and internal conflict in a symbolic way (exact analogy would kill the interpretative game). Few games do this, and my “formula” promises to be accessible enough and leave sufficient cognitive space to do fun things with the ext/int symbolic relationship.

I hope to hold that promise. I just passed the major obstacle. The problem I see from here is first to pick apart the advice from the rules (eg: stakes setting and raising when how and why). And second to keep it simple, although character progression, harm, and other important subsystems all want to converge into this play phase: Conflict. This will take some analysis (feels like playing Tetris with subsystems). But writing-wise, this means I have too much ideas and they’ll keep coming. All problems I love having.

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#468

So I was scrolling through my many, many, folders of PDFs and abortive writing projects and came across the Brindlewood Bay mystery I started for the writing contest and then promptly forgot about. Amazingly, I just kind of finished the first draft without having to gird my loins or it feeling like work (which is why a lot of the projects I put down don’t get picked back up). Anyway, if anyone wants to give it a read, here’s Death of the Author: da PDF

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