This is a massive update, patch notes are also available at: https://planariangames.blogspot.com/2023/07/mettle-core-15-revision-notes.html The 1.5 edition of M...
The idea for SPAR started where most of my TTRPG ideas do anymore: Discord. Back in late January or early February of this year, I’d been reading Extraction f...
GET READY The Imposition Dice System has been in development for a while now. One of the first things we nailed down was the dice resolution mechanic during per...
I have something really fun (for me) to announce! I have finished a master's thesis, that has received a pass. In it I am processing the development of the upco...
Welcome to the first true devlog for SPAR ! What is SPAR ? SPAR launches Chris McDowall’s Mark of the Odd framework into the golden age of thrilling danger, i...
This is my first devlog post for Dextra , which is my first published game. First off, I want to thank all of you who have made purchases of the game, and all o...
I've been working on a new edition of this game. Ruleswise, its mostly the same. Trimming some fat, and focusing on areas that playtesters seemed to enjoy, most...
It's the annivesary of Mangayaw's release on itch.io!! I feel inclined to do something special to celebrate this milestone. But instead I'm writing you all a bl...
It's been a bit since initial release and I got some good feedback from a lot of people. Overall, well recieved, but things are a bit to v ague. So there's a se...
[Campaign Setting] Night Wolf Inn (2016) Anthony Huso AD&D 1e Lvl 1 – 15 I started reading this because I was looking for good high level material and Anthony...
An excerpt consisting of the relevant portion of my latest newsletter ; ““More missions, more mission guidance, and more advice on building the setting, the...
I have been thinking hard about the prompt section of Gadgets and Gizmos Aplenty, and today I was struck by a little idea. My issue is that, for a game that use...
Here is a preview of a few cards from the upcoming 6-card Knowmadic expansion. Note: The designs are not final and are subject to change prior to official relea...
The first way you can lose a game as stated in the rules is "if you don’t have any available moving options during the Explore phase (e.g. the top card of the...
With the new layout, the character playbooks are now split across two A4-sized pages (or four A5-sized ones), which might be a bit cumbersome at the table. To r...
I started writing RPR during the first months of the pandemic. Remember that? lolsob Since then, I had to buy a new laptop, participated in over 10 TTRPGs proje...
Written by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn, The High Priestess is a magician abducted by the Phantom Wind as a child, both fighting and embracing its dark gifts. The inc...
Written by Rae Nedjadi (he/they), The Tower is a character who transforms violently between different identities, and must balance change against sacrifice. In...
As a great show of how fluid game design is at this stage, in our last Devlog I said we simplified the word “Fragment” and “Plane” to just Plane. Upon f...
[Adventure] H4 Throne of Bloodstone (1988) Douglas Niles & Michael Dobson AD&D 1e Lvl 18-100 SPOILERS: If you are a player in my high-level game do not read thi...
A lot of my concerns about the length and complexity of 60 Years in Space could simply be addressed by looking at the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons Players Han...
Page Design, Maps, and Terminology This isn’t final text in the v2 image by any means, but we’re walking down the path of making new master pages for layout...
Last weekend we made the difficult decision to pull Banda’s Grove out of layout, and rewrite the core rules from scratch, reorganize all the sections, condens...
No major updates this month - real life has gotten in the way (preparing for a baby is pretty involved!) and some of the revisions I started last month have spu...
When I started writing 60 Years in Space, there weren't as far as I was aware any TTRPG adaptations of board games. Dungeons and Dragons itself was an adaptatio...
Sixty Years In first came into being as a Google doc, then a collection of Google docs, early 2015. I had been working in my spare time (I didn't need much slee...
I recently wrote this as a reply to the How to ADHD YouTube video channel's " 10 Tips to Making Your Tabletop RPG More ADHD Friendly " and thought I would also...
Sunday night I got to do a playtest of The Real Housespouses of X in its current state. I learned a lot but also too little. The biggest takeaway was that this...
The goal for NAP III will be to push people to explore an area of oldschool D&D that is not often touched upon. Despite having a progression that goes up to and...
Hey friends! First and foremost, I wanted to thank you for your support. The fact that I can put something out to the community that is being enjoyed by many br...
Here's some lore for Afungus that does not fit in 12 words: The astronauts are workers in space. They are taught from a young age to be productive and competiti...
L'an passé, j'avais profité d'un peu de temps pour revoir les Livrets et quelques actions. Principalement pour des raisons d'élégance et de fluidité et sur...
Coming soon: Personae version 2: Special Abilities renamed: now called Enhancements. Default Identifiers renamed: (B)ackground, (C)onditional, (S)uperior, E(X)c...
Hello all! New Year welcomed us with huge fire - at least in realm of TTRPG. Fortunately, Beyond Corny Groń wasn't meant to be published on OGL anyway, so the...
The impetus to write You’re Sick (and It's Your Fault) came from what I learned during my year of tuberculosis treatment, but a singular informing event occur...
I've been an Apocalypse World fan for a long time now. AW was formative for me as a designer, particularly in its transparency of design: Meguey and Vincent too...
Just a sneak peak at Vlätkrig Set Two: Haemogoblin Warriors / Könkerors. Still lots to do on the Gnörves before these get finished up, but they were on the d...
Something that's talked about frequently in tabletop RPG circles is style , and how in many RPGs the table's style affects the direction of the game. Limelight...
Last month, just prior to the release of Limelight , Craig Shipman of Third Floor Wars was kind enough to interview us. Over the course of the discussion we spo...
It turns out I’m very slow at writing devlogs / session reports. The first playtest session of Rosewood Abbey took place Saturday, November 5th. I’ve since...
V0.02 – Update Changed the “Abstract” stat to “Quick”. Added Concern Added Faith Added explanation of Student Phase, including Attention Level Added e...
Noctis Labyrinth's Weird Fantasy is viewed through the lens of Science-Fantasy. After years of fantasy gaming, I had grown tired of traditional tolkienesque aes...
Howdy, folks! Along with the new ratfolk (rodentian) added to the book, I saw an error in their qualities and fixed it. So now's the best time get the new stuff...
Initially published on dice.camp. So here we go, based on Finding Styles , which in turn is based on An Abomination , I am trying to refine a core set of moves...
Not so long a chase as I thought before the next update (this is always the way with me, I talk about doing something in a backburner sort of way because other...
While I was working on the Dimyr adventure, for some reason, I've switched to 1.0 version of Hexhunt, which, to this date, I've still been working on. And this...
https://osr-vf.itch.io/tarot Tout fraîchement publié, une aide de jeu facultative pour Complotiste. 36 cartes pour aider à la création de personnage, et aut...
Recently, another TTRPG designer looked at my game. They said it really spoke to them, and they had ideas they wanted to share. “Great, bring them on!” I sa...
It’s not just an obsession with Sontag’s work, I had good reason for selecting the three touchstones of You’re sick and (it’s your fault) and limiting m...
Hi gamers! I just want to give an update regarding the pre-made character sheet. It took longer than I'd liked because of a few game mechanics concerning the ca...
