Printing this out for my school's social space! I read over it a year ago, and this game is quite well made :)
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Thank you! Unfortunately this is what it looks like when I remove the hexagons due to the way I was editing: https://imgur.com/a/UQpfvjr
However here are the source for both images:
Skeleton: https://exeuntpress.itch.io/rabbits-and-demons
Gun: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UV63xx3Mue8TbVxImTdBDbzH9uljLmFh (go to the GLIDE folder)
Hey friend! I just checked the download and everything seems to still work just fine. Did you unzip the download once you got it? Either way, here's a google drive copy you can try downloading, maybe that'll work better! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m4zLR2ne-SOlKeL397AvK34UnrZvKYb5/view?usp=sharing though this drive link seems to be giving me trouble, so here's a second go: https://pdfhost.io/v/NDTY5oGe._The_Last_Step_RPG_V15
this is a great joy to hear! While I know people play my games, rarely do I get a word back, so this is just wonderful :)
To answer your questions, you always tell each other your turns, but they don’t have to give away everything about your creatures, just hint at parts to them. Additionally, if you do give something big away, consider if your civilization would be able to figure this out, or if they would act without knowing this history. Finally, as there are 52 weeks in a year (cards in a deck), and 4 suits (seasons), you do move through each shuffled suit fully before going to the next season (aka rotation).
and worst case, my games are built to be flexible. So, house rules are always encouraged!
Keep on miscommunicating, and thanks for playing!
A Neurodiverse, Meditative Journaling Game (Singleplayer + Multiplayer Expansion)
The Goblin Thought
But unlike all the orcs, elves, witches, living pitch, oracles, and amateur film critics of the land, goblins thought differently.
When a goblin stands short, looks to the heavens, and screeches with all its might atop its hoard, it's expressing a mix of pure anger and joy in a world not quite made for it.
The goblin hoard - a pile of goods and trinkets - is a place of greed, yes. But it's the same greed that thrives throughout this land of men and beetles. It's the allowed selfishness that helps us learn and grow, walk and run, screech and scramble. The hoard is the goblin's memory.
What you see before you may look like trash, but it contains every nook and scratch of a goblin's living and breathing history. Without it, they are reset to factory settings and must start anew. Goblins can survive for a time without a hoard, but if they are gone for too long, they tend to forget things.
The goal of this game is to experience just a fraction of what it's like to be one of these marvelous misfits; to understand a mind separated and compiled by its own and others' experiences, which may not be as alien as you think. Build your hoard with every crook or crevice acting as a neuron firing with life. Make allies and defeat monsters, or simply exist and witness.
Be a goblin, and look upon your story with pride.
Interested? Learn more here:
https://kaimedina.itch.io/thegoblinthought
Game Jam Link: https://itch.io/jam/nanowrimo-ttrpg
In the spirit of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), it's time to put the pen to the paper and create some fantastic new tabletop games!
Taken from their website:
What Is NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand new novel. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists. NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs support writing fluency and education. Our website hosts more than a million writers, serving as a social network with author profiles, personal project libraries, and writing buddies. NaNoWriMo tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and hosts real-world writing events in cities from Mexico City, to Seoul, to Milwaukee with the help of 900+ volunteers in thousands of partnering libraries and community centers like… well, like nothing else. NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder. It’s a teaching tool and curriculum taught in thousands of classrooms, and NaNoWriMo’s programs run year-round. Whatever you thought NaNoWriMo is, it’s more than that.
The Goal
To promote old and new TTRPG creators to write up some great stuff this month, while supporting each other in this endeavor!
Rules & Recommendations
- You must either write 50k words in total (which can span multiple games) OR spend every day of November 2022 adding to your game. If you wish, you may also choose to focus partially on this tabletop challenge, and partially on the novel portion of NaNoWriMo.
- Your game must somehow support the charitable efforts of NaNoWriMo:
- Include a page referencing the purpose of the challenge and a link to their donation page (https://store.nanowrimo.org/collections/donate).
- If you sell your game at a cost, a portion of the funds is encouraged (though not required) to go to their organization to support new and budding writers!
- Your final product is encouraged to include progress shots of the game as it was being built within its main itch page. This is to help show your process.
- While one page RPG's are more than acceptable, keep to less than 5 entries this month. This is to help refine and expand the work that you have.
- Games do not have to have been started during November 2022 to enter, but they do have to have been sizably impacted by your work during this month.
- Upon submitting a game, if possible, try out someone else's game and leave a kind review!
Theme
Optional Theme: Wood Sorrel for Joy
Community
- The NaNoWriMo TTRPG Discord: https://discord.gg/vSnW8gvA
- Itch.io Discord: https://discord.gg/itchio-98142307840200704
- Non-TTRPG NaNoWriMo Discord: https://discord.gg/NyzpsCyk
- The official NaNoWriMo Community + Resources: https://nanowrimo.org/dashboard
- NaNoWriMo Community Group: https://nanowrimo.org/writing-groups/tabletop-nanowrimo-ttrpg
- Prep for NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org/nano-prep-101
It was definitely more difficult than most rpg's my friends and I played, but not in a bad way. We had a great time playing one of the scenarios the other night! I specifically loved how it played with what each character thought of the others. The pdf's are all super easy to read and understand + those summary pages for players are the best. The difficult part just comes when it seems more like improv acting than simple roleplaying, so I would only play this game with groups who I know are very familar with ttrpg's. Good stuff!
Our town is changing.
We are left with artifacts that hold us to the past. They seem to betray history by breaking, altering, and growing beyond a generation. This is not a betrayal. We do not expect the past to hold such power over the present, and we forget that the present accounts for history just the same. Rubbish will always forge itself into a monument, and we will always be a part of that.
To Care is to Cairn
is a worldbuilding tabletop roleplaying game that carries players through a civilization of their making, from a bird's eye view of once everyday objects. Artifacts will become part of a tapestry to a community's developing history, using real world archaeological influence. This game can be played as its own one-off session, or as a tool to add complexity to approaching / established campaigns.