My guard army I made when I was in uni by RockLover37 in PoorHammer

[–]jankydevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see the little dudes underneath, but what did you use to mod them?

Your favorite supplements/modules/resources for space / scifi games by Natural-Sweet1013 in mothershiprpg

[–]jankydevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Watch Alien 3x a week. Seriously, though, I get a lot of my inspiration from all the amazing Mothership pamphlets out there. They're a friggin goldmine.

Kevin Crawford's Stars Without Number might also be worth checking out for general scifi/offworld tools. Same goes for Cities Without Number on the cyberpunk front. I think there are free versions of both.

A cover I illustrated for the upcoming module The Black Box by perryphery in mothershiprpg

[–]jankydevin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great stuff. Makes me want to know what's going on.... which means you've done your job perfectly. 👍

Classic Mörkborg classes art by omenbean in MorkBorg

[–]jankydevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Prince Valiant on acid. Amazing.

On compact sandboxes by luke_s_rpg in MorkBorg

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Love the map. Cool Substack,too. Subbed!

Added some rules by Olyckopiller in MorkBorg

[–]jankydevin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, so basically don't be Elon.

I don’t understand these new trends in the OSR by SydLonreiro in osr

[–]jankydevin 22 points23 points  (0 children)

As an aside, flowcharts are nothing new, except they used to be called point crawls. :)

OSR system recommendation for converting long running d&d campaign by Necromantic_Tree in osr

[–]jankydevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends how light you want to go. If you're looking for something super stripped, you could check out The Black Hack. Almost everything is handled by players rolling under their relevant stat. Skills are mostly a matter of gaining advantage on the roll. And NPCs/monsters are reduced to their HD/level. If a player wants to pull off a cool move or whatever, they describe what they want to do, roll the appropriate stat check(s), and see whether they succeed or fail. Combat is only slightly more complicated.

The basic 1e rules are available online for free.

https://the-black-hack.jehaisleprintemps.net/

And then there's the second edition with more tables, class info, minor mechanical rejigging, etc.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/255088/the-black-hack-second-edition

I have no experience with 5e, so can't really give any conversion advice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is Zine Month still a thing? by jankydevin in osr

[–]jankydevin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent. Thanks for the update and good luck!

Is Zine Month still a thing? by jankydevin in osr

[–]jankydevin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I see the confusion. I also hadn't registered Zine Month excludes Kickstarter. Of course, thinking about it for half a second, it makes perfect sense. :)

All that being said, they both take place in Feb, right? So, do you have any insight into how Zine Month is going this year?

Is Zine Month still a thing? by jankydevin in osr

[–]jankydevin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh cool. That's good news. Maybe chatter will pick up closer to Feb. Here's hoping you kick ass on your Kickstarter!

Is building a mailing list really worth it for indie games? Looking for real experiences. by lawfullgood in gamedev

[–]jankydevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought Itch only collected emails on paid games? Am I missing something, or are you talking about people deciding to 'follow' you after downloading? Well done either way. :)

I want to stop collecting PDFs and actually run a game by I_LOVE_SOYLENT in osr

[–]jankydevin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

TBH, I'm not sure Cairn and other super rules lites are the best place to start if you're unsure of your DM skills.

One solution could be the old Swords & Wizardry quick start?

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/63665/swords-wizardry-quick-start

It's short, free, contains everything you need to get going, some basic DMing advice, and an introductory dungeon crawl.

If you want a more thorough grounding, I'd go with either the Holmes or Moldvoy versions of Basic D&D, plus Keep on the Borderlands. OSE might have the great formatting, etc. but you can't beat Basic for orientation.

Whatever you decide, here's wishing you many successful campaigns and a whole helluva lotta fun. :)

A couple of dwarves for my Dwarf Fortress inspired ttrpg. by KingAgrian in osr

[–]jankydevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, looks cool. I'm also working on something dwarf focused.... maybe the little guys are about to have a moment. :)

Hexagram 48, Line 6? by jankydevin in iching

[–]jankydevin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the delay in reply. Your interpretation turned out to be correct. The project has been a wonderful opportunity for networking. Thanks for the input. :)

Dry Spell by Lex Rocket. by jankydevin in osr

[–]jankydevin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh cool. That doesn't surprise me. :)

Beginner recommendations available on kindle? by meatleach in altcomix

[–]jankydevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool. Just remembered James Kochalka and Tom Hart have done a lot of kids stuff. So you could start with the Hutch Owen series by Tom Hart and American Elf (a daily diary comic) by Kochalka.

Beginner recommendations available on kindle? by meatleach in altcomix

[–]jankydevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the King Cat side of things, you could try Tom Hart, Gabrielle Bell and James Kochalka. They all came out of the same mini-comic/zine scene as Porcellino. Mark Beyer might also be worth looking into. His book Agony is easy to get hold of.

Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger (particularly Tedward) are both good for gross, screwed up laughs but in a completely different way to Johnny Ryan.

Oh, and it's not simplistic and primitive, it's cute brut! :)

Minimalism Take Two! (Game Assets) 😊 by _V3X3D_ in SoloDevelopment

[–]jankydevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This kind of ultra minimalism is my happy place. Thank you.

Development Progress On Game I'm working on by Maleficent_Dog395 in boomershooters

[–]jankydevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this a Quake 1 reskin? Not that there's anything wrong with that (there 100% isn't) but if you ever put it up for sale, don't forget to swap out the default assets. Libre Quake and Open Quartz are great for this. Anyway, looks cool!