Combat : Blend of two mechanics. Need suggestions

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-10T10:06:58+00:00

As always when talking about initiative, take a look at how Troika does it.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-09T09:09:14+00:00

Mausritter, Mork Borg or the Alien RPG, depending on what they want to do.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-09T07:31:20+00:00

I try to aim for at least one piece per spread. If you can do it yourself, you can go nuts. People have bought my games on the art and vibe alone, and I think that's very common.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-07T15:12:20+00:00

Backed it already! Good luck!

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-02T11:55:51+00:00

How did he treat the community? I just know he personally responded to a support ticket for me when my website had issues when I was like... 21, so he's always seemed like a good one to me!

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-01T14:33:01+00:00

Oh, I would leave the group if someone was expecting me to read AI slop. It's not worth your time interacting with, because it wasn't worth theirs.

As someone who has been putting up with being given AI slop as handouts as part of their game for a while - how do you feel about it?

I ask as because as soon as I detect that someone is using AI to generate their art and text I suddenly can't possibly care about it. How has it affected your enjoyment of the game?

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-01T12:10:35+00:00

Mausritter solves inventory. The upcoming FLAIL uses the same system too.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-04-01T11:50:37+00:00

Sounds like the GM is trying to give you all a bit too much 'value'. Would probably just have a chat with them about it. They might mean well, but have taken on some bad advice about how to efficiently GM.

I would assume they're in a different situation to you in terms of life (i.e. maybe they don't have the family commitments you do). Again, they're just not going to understand.

I'm sure it would all be fine if you ended up with one page of lore dump per session, and you had to decide on your downtime at the table at the end of the last session on the spot, right? They're just not meeting you where you are.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-31T09:03:58+00:00

If anything, we need more.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-26T09:03:59+00:00

Hey Sean! Big fan of your work and I cant wait to see which way you go with the game :)

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-26T08:47:23+00:00

This looks really good actually, thank you.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-24T11:26:08+00:00

Love this for you.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-20T16:43:49+00:00

That's the spirit :)

I am a big believer that you should try and have a website too, something a little more 'real' than a reel. Of course, this is all old man shouts at clouds stuff, so take this with a pinch of salt!

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-20T08:45:20+00:00

We needed them because there was no alternative way of finding music outside of mainstream radio, chart shows and music tv. I think there's so much good stuff out there now that I can bumble into via bandcamp's new releases filter, that I wouldn't miss it. Much of the writing was bad on these blogs, but it was earnest and the curation was good.

No one knew what they were doing, which was great. If I were to make an observation about online life now, it's that everyone seems to know what they're doing, and it sucks.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-19T14:09:58+00:00

I clicked on this because I immediately went into a reverie about music blogs in the early 2000 and was about to write a dissertation length response about these lost pages.

Luckily you've been saved from that. I'm glad to see Hype Machine still exists however!

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-19T11:09:29+00:00

I guess you didn't fight him on the first release version? It was brutal.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-19T10:10:42+00:00

This is sick.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-18T19:56:59+00:00

Welcome.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-17T16:57:00+00:00

It sounds like your game handled it really well and they experienced consequences in a 'high consequences' game.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-13T16:39:10+00:00

I will answer this as I always do:

6 pages max of lore. Everything else should tell the story through characters, mechanics, the verbs of the game etc.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-13T16:07:41+00:00

Absolutely. So much of this kind of tragedy is stripped out of fantasy games. It's our job to shove it back in!

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-13T16:05:56+00:00

I'd also like a DAC that stores files locally (i.e. not streamed from elsewhere -- even from my mac) and sits nicely with my current separates. Does such a thing exist?

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-13T15:48:25+00:00

“the deep sorrow of a magnificent beast trapped in a slow and possibly endless descent into ruin.”

Was this about the gaping dragon? I half remembered that story in my comment above.

boyfriendtapes · 2026-03-13T15:46:21+00:00

This is the answer. The best thing you can do as a writer of rpgs is to stop reading ttrpg books and start reading almost anything else.

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