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i'm doing 31 separate systems too!!! i'm making a list but i haven't quite gotten to the total yet fkljdfgh

reposting from last year:

wanderhome — character creation is simple; if you're familiar with belonging outside belonging, you'll understand what i mean right away. the flavor offered is vast and extremely tasty, though, and you can really get elbows-deep in writing out a character backstory if that's what you want to do based on just a few selections and a read-through of the world info.

heroes of lite —if you want a grid-based tactics game that isn't d&d, and you don't want to do a ton of math, heroes of lite is it. there's a thorough review here in the comment section and here on my blog which both discuss what the game and character creation is like!

this is being worked on lol sorry. please feel free to suggest  any non-ai based random generators too!!!

i've got a collection here. please feel free to suggest additions as long as they 1) don't use any generative ai and 2) are open to commercial use in ttrpg/physical products!

hmu if i made a mistake in the collection too

suggest ttrpgs for people to create characters for!!! please give a little bit of relevant information about its ruleset (crunchy, pbta, classless, skill point assignments, etc.) to help people decide if it'll be a good fit for them. self-promotion is okay, but keep it on-topic (games with literally no character creation mechanics or systems at all are a bad pick, for example) and try not to promote more than like two of your own games for this.

omg i love that. absolutely go for it!!!

there's been some discussion and idea-bouncing in the discord too!!

that said i think i'm also doing something minigame-based. i want to kind of capture the chaotic feeling i had as a child of imagining my pets journeying across all the different disparate worlds of neopia by having different minigames set in different parts of the world. i'm thinking maybe dice pools as a primary resolution system, and if you roll doubles, you roll on the Something Has Happened! table.

i'm not filing the serial numbers off or anything lmao i'm just going for it

i was looking at the on-site descriptions of different pets and figuring out some bits for each pet today... i don't think there's gonna be a huge detailed character sheet, just, like, one or two moves to help guide play

aaaa this looks so fun!! at a glance, i love the different titles—there's such rich worldbuilding potential just implied in them, and requirements like "make something forbidden" and "use the essence of a supernatural being" ask GREAT worldbuilding questions. the concrete goals to achieve are a great mechanic and add great structure to an otherwise loose storytelling game. there's SO much good stuff on the random tables (the rare ingredients are my favorite, but the seals of power is another great example of something only just meaty enough to make you go, "so what does that mean?"). this is my first introduction to the archivium system, and it looks fantastic; i love the means available for really long-term play!!

i'll report back once i play a bit too but this looks like an absolute blast and i'm so excited to try it out!! thank you so much for submitting this for my birthday jam!!!

i tried to make an outfit i might wear but there are SOOOOO many good options here, and as a hairy femme i was really happy about the visible pit and leg hair :>

i do not consider myself a Math Girlie but i had a whale of a time with this game!! it scratched a great itch in my brain for logic puzzling. thanks for sharing!!

i had a lot of fun with this!!! super great use of music and color; a certain twist turned an experience i kept laughing at into one where i went "OH. OH NO."

a couple of typos to report!

"He is best known for being amon the first investors to predict [...]"

"[...] shove it where no will have to deal with its BULLSHIT."

thank you for sharing this!!

i've not managed to complete this but i absolutely lost my mind watching a friend play through it (also failing to complete it) last night. incredible work

most (if not all) ongoing chatter will take place in the discord, so don't forget to join!

please feel free to use these forums too though if you are so inclined!

an absolutely beautifully written little biography; thank you for sharing it

gorgeous exploration of real-life "otherness" and traditional "monstrousness." the pixel art is lovely, too, for its simplicity. poetic and perfectly paced! thank you for sharing it!

this is a ttrpg jam but good luck out there!!

 i rated this AGES ago but wanted to say outside of the rating too that the title of this in particular has really stuck with me because i was also a mormon kid and i had a dangerously obsessive special interest with neopets and i wondered this exact thing. this captures a lot of familiar feelings; thanks for sharing it!!!

good to hear!! i wasn't sure if this had a set number of prewritten characters and/or a recommended range. thank you!!

i'm hoping to run this; it's so beautifully written and i think with the right crowd it would be a moving experience. it sounds as though the living are not intended to know who's alive and who's a ghost (unless you take a minute and become a ghost, in which case people will see you draw the slip from the bag); is that correct?

hey there!! may i ask how many players this runs for?

not being pushy at all!!! good lord i had a hell of an april let me tell you. i'll take care of it either later today or on sunday!!!!!

go ahead and take advantage of how busy i am to sneak in!!!!

sorry for the delay but you can now use this link to submit!! thank you so much for participating!!!!

publish it on itch like you would anything else and then just give me the url of the project page!! :>

if you made characters but missed the deadline, please let me know!!! i can add your submission after the fact on my end, and as long as you pinkie promise you were keeping in the spirit of the challenge and didn't just make your last few characters a week later, i'll include them with everyone else's! :>

i'm actually able to add submissions after the fact!!! use this link—it should only work for you since i had to provide your itch page first. thank you for sharing this here so i could make sure you got in!!!!

please still submit!!!! i didn't finish either lol but I'm glad you participated!!!!

hi there!! i love all these packs, but  they all seem to be expansions; is there a base pack available for purchase somewhere? thank you!!

i'm not a host or anything, but this is super cool of you!!! these look really good!

i meant to post this earlier but was swamped this weekend lol

anyway happy just over halfway through the challenge!!! where's everyone at? share what you've made so far! let us know what your goal is right now! lament having fallen behind! root for everyone trying to catch up! root for everyone keeping on track! be excited!!!

hey there! this is a super helpful tool, but i'm finding that it's SUPER tedious and difficult to go through the dropdowns one by one when there are no descriptive titles and thus no way to tell what's what without looking at all of them one at a time. would a UI that shows previews of the different items be viable?

thank you so much for this!!!

i am EMBARRASSINGLY behind sitting on a mere TWO characters so far—one in Iron Valley and one in Glitter Hearts. you can see them here if you want at least!!! they're in there with my big list of ttrpgs i want to make characters for.

i've got a long train ride coming up today; i might bring my tablet and connect to my phone hot spot and make a character or two on the way lmao...

happy week one of the jam, everyone!! what have you made so far? are you just catching up or getting started? that's totally fine; there's still time, and some characters are better than none!!! feel free to share where you're at so far now that we're a quarter of the way in!!

here's a general thread for talking about oracle decks!! what are your favorite oracle decks? what do you like about them? what do you want to see folks do with them?

come april, i want to have a big list of games with playbooks to highlight on the front page! if you're interested in your game featuring in that section, please submit it here!

if there's interest from creators, there may also be a pwyw bundle of some submissions, with profits split equally between all contributors—but you can be highlighted even if you don't want to be in the bundle!

please feel free to ask questions in this thread, but only submit games via the form!

thanks a ton!!!

significantly!! thank you so much!!! 💖

i'm excited about this jam but i can only read the description about a sentence at a time before my eyes give out lol. would folks be willing to perhaps pick a less saturated background? the white text on that bright bright blue HURTS. here's a handy dandy contrast checker, to help keep visual themes accessible to everyone!!

thank you!!!

here's my current list btw!!! i'm sitting on 23/31 planned, with a few of them admittedly somewhat tentative. there's a couple of systems i already know and love in there (heroes of lite, pokeymanz, tbsas, wanderhome, tsl, and sexy battle wizards), but most of them are systems i only have a passing familiarity with the specifics of but have wanted to get into, and i think making a character for them will be a great way to do that.

share your system plans for the jam here!!! if you want to highlight particular systems as recommendations for the jam, there's also the ttrpg suggestions thread, but if you just want to slap your list down here then please do!!!!

thank you for sharing this; it was just what i needed!!! i wanted to let you know that even though you mention tips, this being free and not pay what you want means that it isn't possible to leave a payment while downloading.