03/19/21 P1 Approximately one day ago I posted the first draft of The (Un)Naturalist here for the community to playtest and enjoy. What do the sixty-three downl...

The magic system in His Majesty the Worm is probably the subsystem that underwent the most dramatic changes during playtesting. Four completely different system...

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For those who don't know, John Harper recently updated Lasers & Feelings licence to fall under Creative Commons Attribution, which means that anyone with a publ...

Don't tell the FBI, but I love a good manifesto. When setting out to create His Majesty the Worm , I wanted to clearly articulate 1) what the game was about, 2)...

The Cable trait has been errata'd slightly and is now worded as such: Cable: Weapons or ammunition that have attached a length of cable or rope that is 50 feet...

You and I both know that ‘A Greeblin’s Journey’ is a solo journaling game about leaving home without a name to go on a journey to a place very unlike wher...

Hello today! I want to keep polishing the experience of this game until I'm satisfied, because it's very dear to me. Since this is a tabletop, testing changes i...

Chronicles of the Spacejammer: Enoch's Wake , the second Spacejammer volume, is now on Kickstarter as part of Zine Quest 2021! This second volume makes Spacej...

Questa sera stavo riflettendo sul fatto che i simboli magici da tracciare per gli incantesimi possono facilmente essere generati casualmente da uno strumento es...

Thank you so much to everyone who has picked up a copy of Crash, Boom, Bang! I’ve started developing the fourth game for this mini-bundle. It’s a pen-and-pa...

revision notes: new layout: added a spread to fit the print standard + better text flow minor recordings to fit the new layout better a flowchart map of the pir...

This Devlog is a few things. First, it's a test because I have never submitted a Devlog and am experimenting with this. Second, it's a chance to talk about the...

Hello today! This is Torchbound aka Reven, and this is my devlog! This game is something dear to me and I will not stop updating it until I'm satisfied and have...

A few months have passed since Juan embarked on the task of creating this game. Most of the work was done in a reckless fortnight, but after that initial rush t...

As I've been sharing the project around the internet, I've been collecting suggestions from folks on different maps I could work on in the future. My plan is t...

This has been a ride. I am truly amazed sometimes at the stuff I invent as I go. And knowing I've been a vegetable these past months is only putting me in more...

I’m really close to releasing the & VENTURE FORTH: Character Creation & Adventuring Booklet . So why don’t we go through the character creation process to...

So much has happened this year, but I am way closer to finishing this game and publishing it! I have all of the writing done. I might need to adjust a few thing...

If you're not aware by now, the Lasers & Feelings version of ADIOTOPIA RPG that I published back in August for the RPGenesis challenge was meant to be just a te...

December, 2020 The Colors of Magic is in the Ind of the Year Bundle 2020 ! I'm honored to be included along with 24 other games by international indie creators...

Been a bit quiet with my content updates recently, so let’s change that. We’re still sitting at around 17% of the way to our first stretch goal, adding extr...

I've added the playkit for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells 1st Edition. This includes 2 scenarios and 10 playbooks for use with the rules for Diogo's very moder...

Depletion and Despair should be key themes in a post-apocalyptic setting, and should have explicit mechanics to support those themes: DEFENSE: Choose depletion...

It seems like there is some confusion over the skill table. I do apologise for this, in attempting to make this game as simple as possible I may have lost some...

The recent release of Baldur's Gate 3 got me thinking about the joy of playing that original Baldur's Gate, exploring open worlds filled with quests, walking ar...

just some Tarot deck rules that were on my mind that I thought would be cool to add...

Hi everyone! Just a quick update and hope everyone is doing well during these crazy pandemic times :D Spark was put on hiatus early this year but now it's back...

Since it has been a little over 5 months since the last update (one of, if not the longest period of time this game has gone update-less) and there's no update...

Gli sforzi che sto facendo in queste ultime settimane (in cui mi barcameno tra lavoro, trasloco e scrittura) sono tutti tesi a fare un passo in avanti nel mio a...

Alcuni di voi forse sapranno che, da circa un mese, sulla piattaforma itch.io è in corso una jam per la creazione di giochi ispirati a Italo Calvino. Ho deciso...

Since the last art preview, Ironsworn: Starforged has launched early playtests. Dozens of spacers are setting off into the Forge to undertake perilous quests...

One of my design goals for atlantean hobos was to incite "dark magic" and all kinds of reprehensible behavior without having "spells" per se . So I started fr...

Già da un po' (quasi un anno ormai) sto lavorando ad un supplemento di ambientazione fantascientifica che spero di pubblicare entro fine 2020. Sono un po' indi...

Thinking a bit about the Standing rules for acquiring stuff, ... I recognize there are some in-built Western European assumptions. The basic mechanic is that o...

As part of the current KS campaign going on , this second edition update of Portal will be updated a week or two after the campaign ends. Look for new content...

TL:DR - Similar to eating a peanut butter cup… There’s no wrong way to play Space Aces. First some background: Space Aces is rooted in my love all things ca...

When the outcome of an action will be determined by a graduated-success oracle (i.e. "no, and," through "yes, but" to "yes, and"), things can get swingy and unp...

In writing a short, elegant game, one challenge is how to provide an adequate setting for the game. I try to do that not with a lot of description, but instead...

Hey y'all, so this is the first devlog I'll write about the second game I've ever written & released: SWORD. I wanted to put this out there in case anyone is in...

So far, mostly what I have for my ADIOTOPIA RPG (either already written down or as lose ideas floating in my head) is information regarding the lore and the set...

Work progresses on Ironsworn: Starforged , the in-development standalone sequel to the Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game. While I've been finessing the mecha...

ADIOTOPIA - Lasers & Feelings version was created as my entry for the RPGenesis 2020 Jam. The goal of this Jam is to create a playable TTRPG with at least...

You reach out - I deliver! A commenter asked for a zip file with all the bookmarks combined - and reading the request I thought to myself: why haven't I thought...

Hey! I loved playing Ragnarök Online back in the early-mid 2000s, and I always appreciated the quirky Job system. So, I realized my Traits were all over the pl...

A City of Shining Stars was one of my submissions for #beyondsuperjam back in March. Thematically, it draws heavily from Kurt Busiek's Astro City, and its conce...

The one-page GOSS (formerly GOKS) game has now been expanded significantly. First off, I'm introducing a poker dice mechanic for resolving conflicts. The core m...