RPG writer/illustrator of Ennie award-winning two-page dungeons. He/him, here for 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Black lives matter.
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Question for the OSR and beyond, does any game do high level domain play well? If so, what do you like about it?
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This book represents a lifetime of dedication to making art. If you've ever wanted to collect anything of mine, this is the thing.
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What surprise obstacle will you face in the vault room? Who intercepted the team’s getaway van? Why do the hacker and the brawler keep sneaking away for private conversations? Play Thrill of the Chase to find out and get this heist back on track! jen-adcock15.itch.io/thrill-…
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If you have a podcast, blog, news site, or stream, I'd love to come talk to you about The Between, crowdfunding on BackerKit September 24th! Send me a DM or reply here.
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ICYMI, this is a great game bundle deal that also happens to help a wonderful human being with her cancer treatment. Check it out!
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No hype. No fanfare. No award show. No voting. No spell checking. No editing. Just some mother fucking RPG goodness. save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/bl… Sorry they are late: my life is bananas right now! #WhoNeedsTheEnnies
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
Spells are living demons. Everybody knows that. But you know how vampires have to count grains of rice that you drop? Spells have to read. That's why you trap them in books. The writing on parchment is a labyrinth the spells are walking, trapped, until you're ready for them.
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
Hey, game designers and players! What are your thoughts on a game's vibes and how you approach it? How do you choose a game that resonates with you, or that you expect to have a good time with? Digital, tabletop, whatever!
Wanna talk about it? Let me know. I'm recording stuff.
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
5e 2024's new character sheet shows a significant movement away from the Character Sheet as a tool for the player to engage with and toward the character sheet as a reference document for the player to "activate" when called upon.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career.
Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
More starship owner's manuals! Which one are you flicking through?
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
Mecha TTRPG friends -- is there a mech TTRPG about a crew that all inhabit a single mech? Not in a Voltron way or a pit crew way, but like more a starship crew way. I'm not very familiar with the genre (so other RPG recommendations in the genre are welcome as well) so help plz!
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
This reminds me of a LARP prop my friend Michael Strange hand made
Just TOO good, can't believe this stuff
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Yeah! And I made an asset pack for anybody who wanted to make their own Tolkien style maps: riseupcomus.blogspot.com/202…
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
I reference landmarks, not hex directions. If there are no landmarks, and PCs are not following a path, I determine randomly. Ref easy mode is to ensure there is a notable landmark in each hex.
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
Without a doubt the best example of the "fruitful void" concept in game design is the board game Diplomacy.
3 paragraphs out of 22 pages of rules are actually about diplomacy, and they mostly say "say what you want there are no rules". But it is the beating heart of the game.
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Grant Howitt made something like this: xitter.cf/gshowitt/status/131085…
September's free 1-page RPG is KAIJU GIRLS, a game in which you are a perfectly normal schoolgirl with perfectly normal worries except that you turn into a giant city-destroying monster when you're stressed out. PDFs and text-only version on my patreon: patreon.com/posts/41897307
Michael Prescott (Trilemma) retweeted
This is ingenious! I predict we will see a lot more of this in the future.
With @CriticalRole’s #daggerheart live I can finally share the fucking best piece of tech to come out of the Dev teams brains: INTRODUCING THE SIDE CAR!
Slide to the left or right under your character sheets in the QuickStart Guide for help navigating the page! 🗡️❤️🔥
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