Monday

zine cover illustration. boar, skulls, axe, stairs, snake, banner that says cochon rouge

zine on patreon. dungeon for FAR

Trying to remind myself

Oh man I know exactly what game you are talking about. My frustration with that system fueled a month’s worth of hyper focused game design to produce my own version. Though I also skipped catching mechanics… 👀 That was intentional though.

Centaur Games Centaur Games

*Reposts appreciated”

My webstore heycentaur.com is finally up!
This took so many months of labour (mostly my partner’s), but it is all ready and running.
Physical copies of Kala Mandala are now available, shipping to most of the world.

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Aw man, I hadn’t even considered what the scene was doing. Been too occupied trying to get the local friend group to agree on something.

I've also come to realize I like games (board, ttrpg, etc) where the possibility exists for a kind of bad, boring, underwhelming session. The possibility of a wide open, surprising, unpredictable narrative space basically requires the possibility of a kinda mid game sometimes. See: all sports.

Or wanting to have a story told to you. I’ve had a ton of conversations with local 5e folks who very much want their GM to tell them a story with their OCs in it. Which of course no hate, but it does run very counter to the style of play we are talking about above.

lmao Well shoot it sounds like you got where you needed to be!

Ah yeah, it's been a bit since I played some Oregon Trail. Mayhaps you just need a more impactful lever/dial to have travel interact with? For instance in my heartbreaker directly interacts with both "HP", "items", and the amount of rolls available to a character.

If you are still looking for inspo, my heartbreaker (that is very focused on travel) just wrapped edits. I could send a plain text doc. Let me know!

What I’m trying to say is that I think you can make those penalties to travel more impactful. Just plan on play being centered around shorter journeys for your players, or require less of your rolls.

Hmm I might argue that travel can have very large consequences over a fairly short time frame. Oregon Trail can have one of the characters catch a disease and die within a few turns. Oregon Trail obfuscates that risk behind the idea of you only really failing if the entire caravan doesn’t make it.

Pilgrim’s Passages has just received its final edits before reentering layout. This has got me thinking about print again. It’s about time to see if I can sustainably do limited riso runs myself.

Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed YouTube video by Noah Caldwell-Gervais

Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed

youtu.be/KmasyRrWowc

Ahhhh the mystery has been solved.

Richard I miss you buddy. We gotta catch up soon.

Aw shucks!

What's happening? I got like 8 new followers today and can't figure it out. I'm barely posting.

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

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Wait vent is younger!?! That's wild.

Wait I was thinking of Teamspeak not ventrillo. Ventrillo is ancient lmao

It truly does. Ventrillo seems to have feature parity, at least the ones I care about, with discord.

Whelp that’s my final straw. Time to set-up vent, or something.

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God bless, your writing is the soul of your games. Who on earth would want you to replace it with slop?

Happy #ZineMonth / #ZiMo26!

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Use this as your soapbox.

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Might be worth grabbing a free vpn for a bit

My favorite anime of all time, and continues to influence my art constantly!