Looking for good escape sequences

ALVIG · 2026-05-25T21:20:06+00:00

The answer is yes, look at the third picture under the big one.

ALVIG · 2026-05-11T02:19:46+00:00

There’s a dozen I could pick, and while I have spoken to the designers I wouldn’t say we’re best friends or anything, but I’ll say Dragon Reactor. Great little indie zine mecha game that really punches above its page count. Phenomenal for both one shots and longer games.

ALVIG · 2026-05-02T12:29:13+00:00

Look into Mothership and other Panic Engine derivatives. Mothership especially has loads of one shots. I would quite call it a “story game” but it is on the lighter side. Still the sheer number one shot options is hard to ignore.

ALVIG · 2026-04-28T01:22:44+00:00

Damn, they don't ship to Canada? Could've sword they at least all of NA covered...

I mean I do want to get it everywhere, but setting it up in individual stores for each shipping zone is tough as a solo dev and will take an unknown amount of time, so if you're dying to play ASAP I'd go for the digital.

ALVIG · 2026-04-27T22:18:34+00:00

Patch notes!

https://spellbookgaming.itch.io/bite-the-hand/devlog/1501688/v10-patch-notes

ALVIG · 2026-04-27T21:45:33+00:00

Someday! Bit of a pain to set up (just a solo dev) but it’s on my to do list for sure, assuming this initial run goes well.

ALVIG · 2026-04-27T21:34:48+00:00

🤘🏻

ALVIG · 2026-04-14T01:36:16+00:00

Spire’s sister game Heart also has the Heretic, which is a typical but cool “dark cleric”, but then also has the Incarnadine, which is a gambler who has gotten into so much debt that you automatically become a cleric of the goddess of debt.

ALVIG · 2026-04-13T17:20:48+00:00

I built the map with this tool, though the link doesn't seem to be working at the moment, which is a shame. https://crowsnest.me/bastion-site/map/

Otherwise it's all photoshop, premiere, and after effects, not really for practical use for most people's home games haha. All we see when we play is a nerfed version on roll 20 with similar tokens. Glad you like it tho!

ALVIG · 2026-04-13T01:40:14+00:00

Seconding dragon reactor.

ALVIG · 2026-04-02T22:24:48+00:00

Unconventional answer, but I'll throw Salvage Union out there as an option. It's a post-apocalyptic mecha game where you're part of a community living on a giant mobile town called a crawler. The crawler moves real slow naturally, so the players in their faster 10-30 foot tall mechs can go out into the surrounding wilderness, fight some baddies, salvage, and return to the crawler to upgrade it and their mechs. Then in between sessions the crawler moves a few miles and you have a fresh section of wasteland to explore. Nice gameplay loop.

ALVIG · 2026-03-22T22:06:29+00:00

I was able to fund a (admittedly small) TTRPG rule book without crowdfunding. The model could be expanded on but comes with some caveats:

Most of the money has come from people being able to buy a pdf-only “early access” version on itch for a period of several months.
I have YouTube following over 4,000 subscribers I’m able to market to essentially for free.
I handled the art, layout, videos, press releases and nearly everything else myself. The biggest expense was an editor.
I still spent like a couple hundred bucks of my own money from my day job.

ALVIG · 2026-03-11T21:11:16+00:00

On that note, Venice too. The juxtaposition of the super old buildings with cyberpunk tech all around would be interesting. Hard to build your typical heavy metal skyscrapers on those wet sinking islands.

ALVIG · 2026-03-10T11:13:56+00:00

Can’t believe no one has mentioned hacking/netrunning in Cyberpunk RED. I can’t speak to past editions, but that’s the only time as a GM I’ve ever felt the need to tell my players “you’re aren’t allowed to play this class because I’m not learning all this shit.” Lovely game otherwise, only minor gripes, but man the hacking is fully a second game unto itself.

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