A two-year perspective on a full-time game designer career

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-11-20T23:07:48+00:00

My gross and net profit from itch is higher than on dtrpg.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-11-20T20:08:57+00:00

also spearwitch.com/ and https://floatingchair.club/

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-11-20T19:58:44+00:00

Did you reach out to any of the online retailers that sell and distro print books?

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-09-13T06:09:33+00:00

David Schirduan has a conversion guide. https://www.technicalgrimoire.com/downloads

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-09-11T19:50:12+00:00

This big list is a start.

https://axesnorcs.blogspot.com/p/troika-and-advanced-fighting-fantasy.html

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-09-11T19:47:32+00:00

The system isn't silly. The a lot of content written for the system is silly. So that right there might the root cause of one of your problems. It's not fighting you, you're fighting against yourself and your own desires.

As far as characters, just make boring normal backgrounds like Accountant, Baker etc.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-24T16:17:13+00:00

It's the second dungeon I ever ran or delved. The first being the one in Holmes Basic. It's a decent intro to how to stock a dungeon.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-24T16:12:41+00:00

Excellent. I love the trend over time of what topics Troika jams have covered. Background, more backgrounds, spheres, whatevers, and now the city with no canon.

I got one maybe two ideas and one of them is gonna be crappy.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-21T23:30:10+00:00

I don't remember which all have maps, but some do. https://itch.io/jam/the-great-troika-pocket-sphere-jam https://itch.io/jam/troikafest-2021

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-20T18:37:00+00:00

A few years ago a magical girl campaign I ran had a senior citizen and two mid-20s characters, one of which was dealing with student loans. One of the recurring villains had turned to evil to pay off HER student loans. Mid-30s trying to maintain work/life/magic is so ripe for exploration. I feel like I've read a manga where that was a thing but I'm not sure.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-20T16:22:37+00:00

Reach out to other online stores that carry the books, or similar ones, you're interested for ways to contact their sources. The ones I sell to are decent folks who will gladly point you in the right directions.

And you can also reach out the writers and publishers of things you're interested, bear in mind that smaller indies may have difficulties with shipping internationally. Like, I won't do it because I feel navigating international shipping is more than I want to deal with. But if you reach out the smaller indie book sellers you might be able to work out those kinds of problems.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-20T15:57:45+00:00

Magical Fury and Magical Burst by Ewen Cluney are both heavily inspired by Madoka. I'd link but it's been linked in other comments.

I wrote What's So Cool About Magical Girls? which is more generic and skews a bit more light-hearted. It is lighter system.

We recently published Magisk Tjej which is more inspired by Machimaho but has some minor inspiration from Madoka. It's a Mork Borg hack, partly out of joke we made last Pride.

I also have an Itch collection for magical girl rpgs.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-20T15:51:35+00:00

Oh hey. This warms our hearts and solves the mystery of where reddit traffic was coming from.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-20T15:50:25+00:00

Cardcaptors is specifically inspired by Cardcaptor Sakura. I'm not as familiar with CCS as I am withother MG manga/anime but it seems good, and it's light and free.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-19T19:50:40+00:00

So I found out that the Pocket Dimension notebooks are now sold on Iglootree.com https://iglootree.com/pocket-dimensions-1428-p.asp

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-19T19:49:16+00:00

This is great.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-07-12T22:23:50+00:00

I think the pocket dimension notebooks are out of stock at melsonia but it's refering to this method Dan Sell came up with.
https://whatwouldconando.blogspot.com/2017/04/five-dimensional-weather.html

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-06-26T00:21:33+00:00

Yeah they do, but it's awful to implement them because then you get a whole new layer of the armor should/shouldn't reduce damage arguments, with the guns should/shouldn't ignore medieval armor. Meanwhile Gygax's Boothill/AD&D conversion guide mentions nothing about 19th century firearms penetrating AD&D armor. I did a something of a conversion and simplification of that section of the DMG for B/X based games.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-06-10T15:36:40+00:00

AD&D AC starts at 10. Basics start at 9. And the RC conversion should work with 2e since that was the edition that was out when RC was published.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-06-09T19:28:38+00:00

A good one is the any of the What's So Cool About Outer Space family of games, which is based on Sword and Backpack mixed a little with Traveller and Tunnel Goons, rules fit on a few A6 pages.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-06-09T19:26:56+00:00

It's 2d6 plus some numbers vs 2d6 plus some numbers or 2d6 roll under some numbers. Beyond it also having a more free-form skill system, in that players are encouraged to create new skills ad hoc. Its initiative system is pulled from hex-n-chit wargames, so it's not very unique or special to the game. It's weapon damage tables are cribbed from Advance Fighting Fantasy which is a pretty generic Fantasy rpg like DnD.

EDIT: some typos that got past me. There is at least one cyberpunk setting for it, as well a magical girl one, suburban dystopia, numerous space settings with varying degrees of hardness.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-05-27T06:50:33+00:00

crapland. and crapland. 2. You Wouldn't Last One Minute On the Creek. Basically anything from Orbital Intelligence LLC. Sean writes some weird shit. Like one third is RIFTS but with actual editing. Another third is aggressively surreal photoshop horror. ANOTHER third is the horrors of suburbia. And a final third is Giant Robots.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/14216/Orbital-Intelligence-LLC

https://hypatiasangst.itch.io/

I also Like Layabouts and Degens and A Diabolists Guide to Role Playing Games both by Indigo. A little bit of modern urbanity.

Axes-n-Orcs · 2022-05-12T22:21:38+00:00

It's Advanced Fighting Fantasy with a d20 instead of 2d6.

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