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At the Gates

I'm screaming, crying, throwing up right now. The Backerkit goes live on May 7th. It's real. It's really really real.

If you purchased the Ashcan and enjoyed it. If you didn't purchase the Ashcan because you were waiting for the actual campaign. If you are just now hearing about this game. If you hate me and want to spite me by pledging for a PDF and leaving fart jokes in the comment section.

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#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #at the gates #ttrpg design #jrpg #jrpg games

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At the Gates

I'm screaming, crying, throwing up right now. The Backerkit goes live on May 7th. It's real. It's really really real.

If you purchased the Ashcan and enjoyed it. If you didn't purchase the Ashcan because you were waiting for the actual campaign. If you are just now hearing about this game. If you hate me and want to spite me by pledging for a PDF and leaving fart jokes in the comment section.

Please go and sign up to get notified when the Backerkit goes live.

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At the Gates

I'm screaming, crying, throwing up right now. The Backerkit goes live on May 7th. It's real. It's really really real.

If you purchased the Ashcan and enjoyed it. If you didn't purchase the Ashcan because you were waiting for the actual campaign. If you are just now hearing about this game. If you hate me and want to spite me by pledging for a PDF and leaving fart jokes in the comment section.

Please go and sign up to get notified when the Backerkit goes live.

#Backerkit #kickstarter #ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #at the gates #ttrpg design #role playing games #tabletop #fantasy

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This also completely ignores how sometimes where your modifier to that d20 roll is coming from is a math equation to begin with. And yes, maybe you're using an online sheet that calculates it for you, but that's a function of its popularity, not its ease nor accessibility.

Also also: to be entirely fair, in my experience, while a lot of people claim that D&D 5e's rules are easy to learn (the basic mechanic is simple enough admittedly) in actual fact a lot of people seem to labor under a lot of misunderstandings about how the rules actually work (partly because of what prokopetz recently posted about: a culture of expecting the GM to simply walk you through the rules which is really work-intensive for the GM).

D&D 5e's rules are simple to learn when you're talking about the most basic stuff like okay you gotta roll d20 + modifiers and high numbers are good. The moment you start drilling into specifics you are almost guaranteed to find people who have simply misunderstood the rules.

Does the Bard's Jack of All Trades apply on counterspell? It does, even though I've had a person in my very mentions telling me that it shouldn't. This is like pretty unambiguously spelled out by the rules but it's still a source of misunderstanding.

How many spells can a character cast per round? A lot of people will say "Two, provided one of them is a cantrip with a casting time of an action and the other one has a casting time of a bonus action" but of course even that's not the whole story.

How does surprise work? Again, pretty straightforward, a lot of misunderstandings around it.

D&D 5e is easy to learn provided you only stick to the basics and don't actually delve into how the game's various rules interact.

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The Backerkit is going live on May 7th. Click here to get notified when it goes live. This is not a drill!

At the Gates

If you've missed it until now, At the Gate is a high fantasy game inspired by media like final fantasy and books like the Ryiria Chronicles. We have an Ashcan of it live on DTRPG. Please use your dollars to check it out, which will help a girl get some eyeballs on her work! https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/475586/At-The-Gates-Ashcan-Edition?affiliate_id=245791

#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #at the gates #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #ttrpg design #jrpg games #jrpg

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At the Gates

I'm screaming, crying, throwing up right now. The Backerkit goes live on May 7th. It's real. It's really really real.

If you purchased the Ashcan and enjoyed it. If you didn't purchase the Ashcan because you were waiting for the actual campaign. If you are just now hearing about this game. If you hate me and want to spite me by pledging for a PDF and leaving fart jokes in the comment section.

Please go and sign up to get notified when the Backerkit goes live.

#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #at the gates #ttrpg design #jrpg #jrpg games

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Oh hey, a book I have not only played, but helped to write the 2nd edition of.

Have you played SCION ?

By White Wolf (1st edition) / Onyx Path Publishing (2nd edition)

Playing humans blessed by or born from the Gods who can eventually ascend to join their ranks. Urban fantasy, but 2e noticeably lacks a masquerade - the fantasy elements are known to the World’s population.

In a world much like ours but not, Priests of a temple of Ra go out for coffee, as followers of Dionysius post pictures of their wine offerings on social media as kids take turns pretending to be Baron Samedi and Quetzalcoatl during recess. The gods of the old world still preside and watch over their people, seeking their worship and answering their prayers but an ancient foe has escaped from their prison. The Titans, the primordial beings of destruction and chaos have returned. The Gods cannot come down to The World and fight back against the evil Titans that plague their followers, less they be victims of fate, changing their legends and fates forever, instead they call out to their descendants. You, a Scion of the gods. You may of been born between your divine parent and a mortal, maybe you were chosen by that god, maybe the god created and bestowed life to you, or perhaps you are the human reincarnation of a forgotten god. As a Scion, you take your divine parent’s place and restore order to The World while also building your own legend, developing divine powers, gaining followers and earning a place in your pantheon. You grow and learn from your humble Origin, to becoming a Hero to mortals, then being recognized as a Demigod and finally achieving the godhead and becoming a God. Can you fight back against the Titans and fate?

#ttrpg #tabletop rpg #poll #Scion #ony

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This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?

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Emergency aid request!

I've finally secured an apartment and have been making plans to make my move out of Florida and live safely and out as a queer person. But I was surprised today with an "unwritten policy" from my landlord that they will only release my key directly to me, and only on the day my lease begins. If I do not find a way to cross the country round trip by tomorrow, I am losing this apartment, and all the money I've already put into deposits, utilities, etc. And with the price of last second airfare, I am in dire need of help.

Please, please share, and any help you can give would be appreciated.

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This is incredibly sad to hear, because Adventure Time TTRPG could have absolutely been a smashing success with its own system, and to hear the dev got scared by fan input makes me want to cry.

Appeasing fans is not your only job as a game designer. Making a game that works with your narrative is. Avatar Legends uses PBtA. It made $10million. I'm not even joking that Adventure Time had an audience outside of the tiny sphere of ttrpg world who absolutely do not care what the system is. Those people probably outnumber the "5e only" stans 10 to 1. Now all those people will be exposed to 5e rather than something new and beautiful. And I weep for this knowledge because fuck that.

Devs, never bow down to 5e supremacy fans. Do your own funky thing. Let your IP sing and be good, rather than "popular".

I think your RPG takes are really good :) I enjoy D&D 5e to some extent (like, it's fine), but I feel D&D's market dominance isn't great. But what gets me the most is how incurious many people who play D&D 5e to the exclusion of other games are. No interest in seeing anything that deviates from how D&D does things.

Yeah! This is a point I've tried to make clear too, like... ultimately if someone WANTS to stick to 5e that's not my problem. If they want to use heavily homebrewed 5e for a Doctor Who or Cyberpunk or Homestuck campaign or whatever and their table has fun with it like. Okay, I personally wouldn't do that but I also have no right to tell anyone to NOT do that.

But the moment they get so entrenched in that idea of "You can use 5e to do ANYTHING" that they start acting like someone else wanting to use anything other than heavily homebrewed 5e for anything is some ridiculous or preposterous idea that's when I have a problem with them. Especially when the people who think like that are a statistically significant enough portion of the tabletop public to affect business decisions in the hobby.

Like. One of the saddest cases I've seen in recent memory, the upcoming Adventure Time ttrpg from Cryptozoic was initially pitched as having its own system, only to later end up being switched to 5e. And considering that the initial Dicebreaker article that came out months before this announcement featured quotes from one of the developers about why they decided to use their own system and why they thought D&D wouldn't work well with the narrative flow they wanted for the game, and also that the reason given for the switch to 5e was "feedback from fans", it's clear that this is not a decision they made because they WANTED to make a 5e hack, but because they NEEDED to make it a 5e hack in order for it to be profitable because there's just such a huge portion of the tabletop public that got pulled into the hobby with 5e and is so fundamentally incurious that they won't touch a book with a 10-foot pole unless it some form of "5e compatible" logo on the cover.

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OP, it's this. At least for biological scientists. And anyone working with radioactivity. And probably chemists. So most scientists actually.

you ever notice how there's no special hat for scientists

#science hat #ppe #it leaves weird lines around your forehead when you take it off #that's how you can tell a real scientist when they aren't wearing it

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I'm sending this around again because I looked at the sales numbers today...

I only need 18 more sales to hit Electrum! Tumblr, please help me make this happen!

At the Gates

If you've missed it until now, At the Gate is a high fantasy game inspired by media like final fantasy and books like the Ryiria Chronicles. We have an Ashcan of it live on DTRPG. Please use your dollars to check it out, which will help a girl get some eyeballs on her work! https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/475586/At-The-Gates-Ashcan-Edition?affiliate_id=245791

#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #at the gates #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #ttrpg design #jrpg #jrpg games

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Gloomhaven RPG plays

So, if you're going to UK Games Expo at the end of May/early June, I'm running some demos of the Gloomhaven RPG. You can find the listing below. I know it's early, but I prefer to get my work done early so I can spend the rest of my day being in the exhibitor hall, where I can harass folks into preordering it.

#gloomhaven #frosthaven #ttrpgs #ttrpg #ukgamesexpo

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Hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Sometimes I deny myself the validity of forget that nonbinary folks are under the transgender umbrella and thus I'm not invading trans spaces when I desire a t4t relationship where I don't have to explain any of this gender shit.

I have been told that I am invading spaces by both cis and trans folks before and it just poisons the mind

#lgbtq #queer thoughts #being bi and genderqueer sure is a fucky experience

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copenhagen metro maintenance fucked me out of a flight to the tune of $1000 for the repurchase (no refunds or transfers for poors, from islandair) so now my broke disabled ass in the hole and could extremely use a hand if people have some to spare

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This my friend's first development gig, and this is such a big milestone! Give it the love and attention it deserves. Making fun of silly fantasy tropes is an evergreen topic.

They Came from the Cyclops's Cave!

The first game I've ever pitched and developed is out!

They Came from the Cyclops's Cave! is a game of fantasy cinematic adventure. Part of the They Came From series by Onyx Path Publishing, Cyclops's Cave is completely standalone, an awesome game covering fantasy in all its shapes.

Each They Came From is a love letter to a given movie/media genre zeitgeist, and I pitched Cyclops's Cave to be unique and do the whole fantasy genre. It allows to play from Harryhausen movies to The Lord of the Rings, passing through Xena, Ladyhawke, He-Man, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, The Black Cauldron, and Dragonheart.

Seriously, I can't overstate how much range this game has. Like, it *technically* covers TV shows and movies from the 40s to the 90s, but I am who I am, so you'll find nods to Adventure Time, Zelda, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and many more in here. Of course you will, this game's my baby, and I wanted it to commit to fantasy at its fullest.

Here you'll find:

- Tools to create your own heroes, be them warriors, gorgons, pixies, slimes, or mimics

- Cinematic powers that replicate movie beats.

- A vast collection of antagonists and creatures.

- Two ready-made scenarios.

...and much more!

Seriously, I love They Came From, how it combines comedy and devotion to media at the table through honest love. This baby of mine is the result of so much hard work, done by a team of awesome people who poured their love for the project into all pages.

Please consider checking it out! That would mean the world to me.

(Also: Cyclops's Cave is the foundation for the upcoming They Came From Witchford Academy!, its very cool upcoming Magical School supplement!)

#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #onyx path publishing #they came from

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I know I've been banging the At the Gates drum for a bit, but did you know that I'm also working on the ttrpg version of Gloomhaven? Today I want to enthusiastically share how much fun this game is shaping up to be.

We have finally settled on a ruleset that marries the fun tactical puzzle that is XHaven with the more narrative design goals needed for a ttrpg. And let me tell you, I think this might be the most fun game I've ever worked on. Like the sheer joy of flipping a card to do a cool thing. The deep amount of lore and setting building we've done to help you make some of the coolest little buds. I just. There aren't words.

So instead, I'll tell you about the characters in the game I'm currently running for our internal playtest:

We have a wizened, elder inox medic who has just seen too much shit. He had an eccentric collection of hair from every patient he's ever lost and an obsession with building dioramas. No, he isn't a serial killer, why do you ask?

We have a himbo quatryl with long, flowing, golden hair (it's a wig), a positive attitude, and a desire to change the world for the better by infecting the world with plagues to force people into better hygiene.

Then there's the crystal and sage obsessed orchid, who is an elemental master, but believes a good smudge will protect the company from gaining more debt.

We have a harrower collective, who are a group of newly hatched cicadas. They just want to scream you a fun screamo song, and maybe assist their buds where they can.

Then we have an unpaid intern inox who is just trying his best and is maybe the only thing keeping the mercenary company together. He works for the medic and realized long ago that this world sucks.

That was just character creation. There's so much more going on, but this post is already so long.

Anyway, if you like Gloomhaven as a cool tactical game with a story, then you'll love the ttrpg version.

#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #ttrpg design #ttrpg dev #gloomhaven #Cephalofair #frosthaven