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efangamez · 3 days

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3 (!!!) Days left to Help Me Exist Again!

Grab $80 worth of games for $25! PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS!

In this bundle, you can obtain:

GRIM, a retro FPS styled TTRPG inspired by Quake.

Neon Nights, a cyberpunk TTRPG with nearly infinite build variety, and it's two MASSIVE expansions!

Wrath of the Undersea, a TTRPG where you play as vengeful Eldritch peoples trying to reclaim the colonized surface.

Disk Master's expansions, where you can live out your Pokemon or Digimon dream on pen and paper!

This money will go towards affording therapy, medication, possible HRT (I am still deciding), and a new computer for work and enjoyment.

This money is life-saving, allowing me to not be on the verge of living with my parents in a transphobic county that is damn near a sundown town for trans people. I really need this money to live, and I would be eternally grateful if you could reblog and send this sale to someone who you think would help.

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shopwitchvamp · 10 months

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"Omg, I love these! They go up to size 6X AND they have pockets?! Wow!! But do you have anything longer?"

Sure do, no problem!!

"YES these are great!!! But what about.. longer?"

I gotcha!! Comin' right up!

"Now that's what I'm talkin' about! But... how about if I'm feeling like it's the kinda day where I need my clothing to be bifurcated???"

Never fear, joggers are here!

*wild cheering*

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🖤witchvamp.com🖤

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anim-ttrpgs · 15 days

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The Kickstarter for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is Live!!

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is our team’s debut TTRPG, over three years in the making! The campaign will run from April 10th to May 10th!

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How far would you go to learn the truth?

Play amateur detectives caught up in things they barely understand, and explore how the lives of your characters unravel as they push themselves to dig deeper into the unknown!

Tense investigations!

Delve into an investigation-focused mystery and horror system that lets players take initiative and use their characters’ unique strengths to find clues and deduce conclusions themselves. A few bad rolls won’t get the party hopelessly stuck, but at the same time Eureka respects their intellect and lets them take charge of solving the mystery!

Character-driven gameplay!

Stats and abilities are based on who your character is as a person. Freeform character creation allows you to build a totally unique little guy, and have a totally unique gameplay experience with him! This is supported by the backbone of the Composure mechanic. Stress, fear, fatigue, and hunger will wear your investigators down as they trudge deeper into the unknown. Food, sleep, and connections with their fellow investigators are the only way to keep them going!

Secrets inside and out!

Any investigator could be a monster, helping their friends while trying not to reveal their true natures. The party will learn to trust and rely on each other, or explode into a tangled net of drama!

Intense, tactical combat!

Hits are devastating, and misses are unpredictable–firing a gun will always change the situation somehow, for better or for worse!

Now in Technicolor!

Evocative artwork from talented femme-fatales @chaospyromancy and @qsycomplainsalot and the mysterious @theblackwarden paint a gorgeously-realized portrait of a world with shadows lurking in every corner.

Elegantly designed and thoroughly playtested, Eureka represents the culmination of three years of near-daily work from our team, as well as a lot of our own money. We are almost at the end, we just need some financial support to put the finishing touches on it and make the final push to get it ready for official release!

With every stretch goal we meet, the game gets better and better. Tons of beautiful new artwork, new options for gameplay, and even two entirely new playable Monsters could be added to the book, so visit the Kickstarter and secure your copy today!

If you want to try before you buy, you can download a free demo of the prerelease version from our website or our itch.io page!

If you’re interested in a more updated and improved version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy than the free demo you got from our website, subscribe to our Patreon where we frequently roll our new updates for the prerelease version!

You can also support us on Ko-fi, or by checking out our merchandise!

Join our TTRPG Book Club At the time of writng this, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is the current game being played in the book club, and anyone who wants to participate in discussion, but can’t afford to make a contribution, will be given the most updated prerelease version for free! Plus it’s just a great place to discuss and play new TTRPGs you might not be able to otherwise!

We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.

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cassimothwin · 3 months

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I have indie tabletop RPGs for sale on my store!!

I designed all of them and illustrated most of them. ☺️

If you make a purchase, don't miss the deals section!

In addition to selling the tabletop RPGs I made, my store also has notebooks, shirts, hats, and prints inspired by my games and illustrations!

Here's a little about the games I made! 👇

What Crooked Roots

This best-selling encounter book features custom illustrations and thought-provoking folk-horror scenarios to put in front of your players. While it’s designed for a generic fantasy 5e setting, most of the encounters use few mechanics and are easily adaptable to other settings.

Clean Spirit

This is a 3-5 player GM-less dwelling and relationship building game. Perfect to plug into your current campaign or to play as a standalone, Clean Spirit is a setting agnostic game that helps your group explore the space you live while learning more about each other’s characters.

Tangled Blessings

This is a 1-2 player magical school horror game that doesn’t require a GM. Using tarot cards, you’ll take on the role of a student supposedly destined for greatness. Find out which house you belong to, meet your rival, and avoid curses and ghosts as you study for your final exam before graduation.

The Sticker Game

This audio drama journaling game won Most Innovative from the Indie Groundbreakers and Best Family Podcast from Minnesota Webfest. It’s difficult to describe this absurdist yet meaningful experience, but if you or someone you know has a growing sticker collection and no where satisfying to use it, this is the game for you.

Carved by the Garden

My newest work is inspired by my time growing up at the end of a dead-end road in the woods. I did all the illustrations as well as wrote the haunting prompts. It’s a single-player journaling game based on the Wretched and Alone System.

#indie designer #ttrpg #solo ttrpg #indie ttrpg #journaling #solo journaling #dark academia #indie ttrpg designer #dnd

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cultofgalaxy · 2 months

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A new soundtrack by @strymes49

After the initial mushroom meadow levels, Kinoko's journey takes him into the coral caves beneth the Enoki village...

What could we find in these mysterious tunnels? 👀

#space #character design #kinoko the kuparkuke #video games #indie dev #indie games #2d platformer #aliens #galaxy #comics #caves #indie game dev #indie game #indie designer #indie music

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vforvalensa · 6 months

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Im working on a ttrpg called You Meet at a Fantasy Tavern where im trying to gamify the awkward start of any ttrpg campaign where you try to justify why these people are going on an adventure together and I really want to play test this soon, like this weekend or next. If we are mutuals and you like games and you wanna be in on this playtest please dm me, I need players

#ttrpg #indie ttrpg #ttrpg community #my games #indie designer #indie dev

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magic-yard-of-pidrav · 5 months

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The Uglier you are, the better.

That's how you should address a prototype if it was one of your gang. (don't recommended if the prototype is "finding my love interest", reaction may vary)

The less deceiving and cute a prototype is the less chance has to betray it's purpose: to answer a question... "How it feels and how it works this idea?" I guess i can convince a child that that even the E.T.'s game is really good if i put there, with an HD graphic, some of the latest Pokèmons (or some friends of mine with the oldest), but it's not right? Ugly is better.

#ugly #ugly is better #game prototype #game development #game design #game art #ugliest art #ugly art #pokemon #e.t. the extra terrestrial #indie dev #indie designer #illustration #unity engine

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anxiousmimicrpgs · 1 year

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If you like Monsterhearts, why not check out this bunch of resources? Includes a guide digital media, handling police and authority, and 12 playbooks! (including the Goblin, the Lost, the Knight, and the Hunted)

#monsterhearts #cinderbrush #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpg design #ttrpg community #indie designer #indie ttrpg #Monsterhearts #pbta

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radicalweft · 1 year

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I made this honeycomb denim jacket with dripping honey and bee appliqué. The denim is a 12oz indigo that was acid tie dyed and then dyed over with a gold dye. I designed the appliqué to be an asymmetrical honeycomb pattern so it would be more natural and unique looking. It was a lot of work but also a lot of fun putting this piece together.

It is a size Large(42”-44” chest) available in my Etsy shop. Link below if anyone is interested.

#my sewing #custom apparel #uniquefashion #diy fashion #indie designer #denim fashion #honeybee #honeycomb #handcrafted #sewing

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anim-ttrpgs · 23 days

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Why I Dislike PbtA Games, and How Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is Their Opposite

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It is no secret that I hate PbtA games.

Though due to a recent misunderstanding regarding another post, I’m going to preface this post by saying that this is going to be a very opinionated post and

I do not seriously think that PbtA games are inherently bad, though I may sometimes joke about this.

While I do often question the taste of people who make and play PbtA hacks, I do not think poorly of their moral character.

While I am going to call for PbtA to be used less as a base for games in the future, I’m not saying that the whole system and all games based on it should be destructified. It’s good for what it’s good for, but unless you’re doing that, I really think you should use something else.

Now that that is out of the way, here’s what I have to say about it.

My first experiences with PbtA games were pretty rough. Monster of the Week was not the first, but it was one of the first ‘indie’ TTRPGs I played after having previously played mostly only D&D3.5e and 5e. I really appreciated that the use of 2D6 over a D20 meant that the dice results would be more predictable, and I really liked the various “classes” I was seeing. (At this time, I didn’t really understand that they weren’t really “classes” at all, though I think I can be forgiven for this because many people, even people who like PbtA games, still talk like “classes” and “playbooks” are interchangeable.)

I was very enthusiastic to play, until it came time to start actually “making” a character, and found that I couldn’t “make” a character. I wanted to make a nuanced, three-dimensional PC who was simultaneously stereotype-affirming and stereotype-defying, with a unique backstory and dynamic with the other characters—but when I went to actually fill out the character sheet for basically any “class”, I found that most of the backstory and most of the personality for my character was being set for me by the playbook. It felt like the only thing about the character I really had a say in was their name, and that two PCs of the same playbook would actually turn out to be almost identical characters. At the time, I thought this was very restrictive and very bad design.

Later, now that I understand the design intent behind it, I still think of it as very restrictive, but I think of it as very bad design for me, not inherently bad.

When I play a TTRPG, I want more freedom in who my PC is. That doesn’t mean I want less rules, in fact having more rules can often increase freedom, but that’s a different post. I want to create original, unique characters, that I won’t see anywhere else. If it’s a class-based system, I want that class to barely touch the details of my character’s backstory or personality, so that I can come up with something original and engaging for why and how this “Fighter” fights. This means that two level-1 Fighters, despite having almost the same mechanical abilities, will potentially be very different people.

PbtA games don’t let you do that. In a lot of PbtA games, you’re not playing your own original character, you’re playing someone else’s character, that every other player that has picked up the same playbook before you has played. It’s more like “character select” than “character creation.” I think I could liken it to playing Mass Effect or The Witcher. Every player may pick a few different dialogue choices in those games that change the story, but we’re still all playing Shepherd or Geralt. No one is going to experience a new never-before-seen story in Mass Effect or The Witcher, which is very much a factor of them being video games and not TTRPGs, and therefore limited to the amount of code, writing, and voice-acting that can go into them.

This anonymous asker who sent a message to @thydungeongal seems to feel pretty similarly to me about PbtA games, and @thydungeongal's response is a very good response about how people find this appealing.

I have more respect for PbtA now than I did, but I still don't like it because to me it seems to play so much against what I consider to be the strengths of TTRPGs as a medium, much like how video games like The Last of Us and David Cage games play against the strengths of the medium of video games, and I will never like it. But other people clearly do, so to each their own.

Then another reason I don’t like it is because I think it’s oversaturating the TTRPG space. I’ve referred to PbtA before as “indie D&D5e”, and i do think that’s a reasonable comparison, because in much the same way that you always hear “D&D5e is a system that can do everything”, I think a lot of people seem to be under the impression that the PbtA system is a system that can do anything. It’s kinda the système du jour for indie TTRPGs right now, and many iterations of it make it clear that many designers do not consider how PbtA differs from more traditional TTRPGs, and how it is specialized for different types of TTRPG gameplay. Just like how I feel PbtA isn’t playing to certain important strengths of TTRPGs, I think that many—maybe even most—PbtA hacks don’t play to the strengths of PbtA. But this isn’t really PbtA’s fault, that comes down to any individual indie TTRPG developer on a case-by-case basis. And the cure for that is something I’m always saying: If you are going to be a writer, you have got to read lots of books. If you are going to be a director, you have got to watch lots of movies. If you are going to be a video game developer, you have got to play lots of video games. And if you are going to be a TTRPG designer, you have got to read and play lots of TTRPGs. That and you have to understand that TTRPGs are specialized. Even "agnostic" systems like PbtA are somewhat specialized, and therefore might really not be a great fit for the game you’re trying to make.

That and, to get more subjective again, there’s like an ocean of them, and I don’t even like the ones that are actually good.

Now that I’ve talked about how I don’t like PbtA games, I’m gonna talk about a game I do like: Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. Obviously, I like it because I’m the lead writer for it, but I would also like it even if I wasn’t the lead writer for it, because it’s just my kinda game. Eureka is the opposite of a PbtA game. I wrote it to play to what I feel are the strengths of the TTRPG medium.

Eureka’s character creation uses personality traits as a mechanical element of the character, but it does so in a deliberately freeform way. You build your character’s personality out of a list of traits, so who your character is is very much linked to what your character can do, but we aren’t just handing you a pre-made character.

Eureka is designed to incentivize organic decision-making by the PCs, most often by the mechanics of the game mirroring the world they live in. Every mechanic aims to create situations wherein “what will the PC do next?” is a question whose answer can be predicted - it doesn’t need to be ordained by a playbook.

One of my favorite examples of this is, rather than a “Fear Check” forcing the PC to run away if they fail, or “Run Away from Danger” being a “Move” on their character sheet, Eureka opts for the Composure mechanic. The really short version is that one of the main things that lowers a PC’s Composure is encountering scary stuff, and the lower a PC’s Composure, the more likely they are to fail skill checks, and the more likely they are to fail skill checks, well, the less brave they and their player probably feel about them standing up to this scary monster. So if the PC has low Composure, they are more likely to choose to run away. The lower their Composure, the better idea that will seem.

This system really really shines when it comes to monster PCs in Eureka. Most monsters benefit a lot more from having high Composure, but have fewer ways to restore Composure than mundane PCs. Their main way to restore their Composure is by eating people. The rulebook never says “your monster PC has to eat people”, but more likely than not, they’re going to be organically steered towards that by the game and world itself. Sure, they could decide to be “one of the good ones”, and just never eat people, just like you reading this could decide to stop eating food. You technically could, but when your body starts to fail, how long would you? (This is a big part of the themes of Eureka and what it has to say about crime, disability, mental illness, and evil. People don’t just arbitrarily do bad things, it is often their circumstances that leads them down that path until they see little choice for themselves in that matter, and “harmful” people are still just as deserving of life as people who “aren’t harmful”, but that really deserves its own post.)

It has been said that Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy actually arrives at much the same end as the PbtA game Monsterhearts, and I actually don’t disagree, but it gets there from an entirely different starting point and direction. The monster PCs in Eureka are very likely to eat people and cause drama, but it won’t be because they have “Eat People and Cause Drama” as a “Move” on their character sheet.

Monsters in Eureka have a lot of abilities, which they can use to solve (and create) problems as the emergent story emerges organically.

(Oh and Eureka is about adult investigators investigating mysteries, and sometimes those investigators are monsters, not about monster kids in high school, to be clear. The same “end” that Eureka and Monsterhearts reach is that of the monsters being prone to cause problems and drama due to the fact that they are monsters, though this isn’t the sole point of Eureka, just one element of it.)

You can pick up the free shareware version of this game from the download link on our website, or the full version for $5 from our Patreon.

And don’t forget, Eureka is fundraising on Kickstarter starting on April 10th, 2024! We need your support there most of all, to make sure we hit our goals and can afford to make the best version of Eureka we can make!

Interested in branching out but can’t get your group to play anything but D&D5e? Join us at the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club, where we nominate, vote on, and play indie TTRPGs, all organized by our team with no strict schedule requirement! Here's the invite link! See you there!

We also have merchandise.

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harperthejay · 11 months

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Just a little bit of work in progress content for my latest project, Slice & Serve. It's being made using the Breathless SRD, though it's got some unique twists, like Energy and Signature Gear, as well as being, well, a game about the employees of a pizza parlor joining a corporate tennis league.

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cultofgalaxy · 7 months

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In kuparkuke culture, autumn is the season for harvesting.

When winter comes, they hunker down in their mushroom homes to stay warm and leave as little as possible, not even to work.

Therefore, autumn is their time to prepare. ensuring that every member of the tribe has the resources they need to survive the winter.

#character design #space #video games #indie dev #indie games #kinoko the kuparkuke #aliens #2d platformer #galaxy #comics #autumn #fall #art #indiedev #indie designer #indiegamedev #indiegameart #leaves

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vforvalensa · 6 months

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Ran a playtest for "You Meet at a Fantasy Tavern" the game im working on for the itchio Minimalist TTRPG Jam yesterday and it went pretty well. The game's core gameplay premise, asking each other questions to make up back stories between your characters, is definitely fun. It just needs a structuring mechanic and maybe a bunch more questions for variety's sake.

#ttrpg #indie ttrpg #indie designer #ttrpg community #ttrpg dev #ttrpg design #my games

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