Welcome to the June Edition Eternal TTRPG Jam!
This is a game jam for TTRPG designers to test ideas, experiment with concepts, and maybe find their next big idea! Every month there will be a new Jam with new themes and challenges.
Hosted by Rowan Sender
Come join the Discord!!
There's also the Reddit if you're so inclined.
Theme: ____-Punk
Genre-Punk is a huge field of potential. Trying to boil it down into one core idea, I end up paraphrasing Austin Walker talking about Gibsonian cyberpunk: it is about people that want some concrete change in the world and are sincere about their efforts to make it happen. That seems like a decent starting point for thinking through these ideas. Consider youth, consider power, consider motivation.
Challenge: Teaching Principles: DIY
Include systems for teaching your players how to make their own content for your game. This could include adventure planning guides, class design primers, monster stat templates, etc.
Starting with the June jam, we're embarking on a series of challenges that focus on how we communicate with our players. These will run through the end of summer and will mostly be framed around teaching players principles of TTRPGs as well as exploring what those really mean.
Rules
- Your project should be made within the time of the jam. Ideas from before are fine, and it's totally okay to develop after the end, but the bulk of the work should be done during the jam time.
- Keep it short! The point is to not kill yourself on this one project. Loosen up, follow your creativity, and maybe you’ll land somewhere you wouldn’t have otherwise.
- No previously published works. Make something fresh!
- No AI generation of any kind. Text, images, ideation. None of it. You’re better than that. What are we doing here?
- Charge what you like! I encourage pay-what-you-want, but it’s your call!
- Label adult, NSFW, and violent content appropriately.
FAQ (Presumably)
What is the Eternal Jam?
This jam is a continuous series of jams that run until the heat death of the universe (aspirational). Every month has a new theme and an extra challenge for designers. The idea is that it’s always here, so even if you don’t have time or aren’t interested in the theme of the month, you can pick it up on the next one!
What is the point?
The Eternal Jam is meant to be an outlet for experimentation within the TTRPG space. These projects are supposed to be tiny, quick, and creative. Most probably won’t be fully fleshed out. But every so often, the spark of an idea will catch and a new project will be born from the breeding ground of the Eternal Jam.
What kind of content is allowed?
Anything, in theory. Explicit content should be tagged appropriately, but other than that: games, settings, waxing prose masquerading as playable content. Really anything goes.
Format?
One pagers, micro-zines, booklets, a loose collection of notes. It really doesn’t matter. It should be small ideally. The original idea was handmade zines, so it should fall somewhere around there. Check out Electric Zine Maker if you want a cool tool!
Art?
I don’t know. I think it’s art, but who am I to say?
Draw it yourself. Use creative commons images. I don’t know, make a collage? Are crayons still a thing? You’ll figure it out, I believe in you.
