itch.io

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.

i'd also be very interested in the bunnies!!! really my dream is a set of characters out of the icons you've made and released but i will settle for now for bunnies all the way down 🐰

two quick recommendations from my list while i have a little bit of time; i'll probably come back here and add more later:

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!

also, one bit of self-promo: soul & survival is a one page lasers & feelings hack so there's not a ton going on, but i'm really proud of how much flavor i filled  it with and would love to see the characters people might build for it!!

hey friends!! i'd love to find someone more mechanically-minded to work on a project with! i've been rolling around all kinds of writing and worldbuilding for a while as i try to figure out my next ttrpg project and the simple fact is i'm bad at mechanics lol. i'd love to find someone who isn't who's interested in working on a game!!

to note, i'm also perfectly content to share the writing portion of the game (i think a project should belong to us both, and i think caring about the world it takes place in is a part of that, and it's easier to care when you have a hand in it!!), and i can sometimes rattle around loose mechanical thoughts, but i'm looking for a pairing where we at least Predominantly have each of our roles.

things i like and want to make games about:

• fantasy
• magical girls
• queerness
• relationships
• farming rpg vibes
• domesticity in fantasy worlds
• exploration
• witches
• tarot

here's some of the concepts i've been tossing around for various lengths of "a while" that i would be perfectly happy to turn into a joint project—but i'm glad to come up with something new, too!

• pokémon adventures, with a heavy emphasis on the vibes of "this is a kind world where people will help you wherever you go, and you will find friends along the way, and you'll travel together sometimes but not always, and it's full of wonder and joy and love"
• game about running a fantasy tavern where one player is the tavern keeper and everyone else sort of shares the traditional role of gm, playing staff, patrons, plot, and so on
• magical girl game using a card game played with tarot cards as the main mechanic to guide the characters' collectathon and battles
• i want to figure out the mechanics for a multiplayer letter-writing game instead of just a 2-player exchange so you can have letter writing networks and i have SO many ideas for this you have NO idea
• two-player letter writing game between a witch who's off on her big coming-of-age travel adventure and the friend she left behind in her hometown—could also be about a fantasy adventurer, a superhero, a sci-fi astronaut; i have ideas

please feel free to give me a holler!! if you drop your discord i can add you, or you can email courtney@magicalgurll.com if it's easier.

i don't take commissions on a regular basis so prices are negotiable, but i probably have time to get a piece done—i have samples here! there's contact info on the page if you're interested!!

i started this list when i was convinced i would still have any time at all to do the rpgg challenge, but i've been working on my list of ttrpgs i want to do for this!!

thanks for this as always!! i wasn't sure what the best way to submit a jam was, so i wanted to offer the ttrpg character creation jam, eureka mystery module jameureka mystery module jam, and tittyrpg!!

laughed out loud over just. "poop." laughing again as i type this. thank you

oh gosh, thank you so much for your kind words and interest in translating these (and for grabbing solo but not alone 5)!!! i found your email on your carrd; i'll send an email over to you momentarily! :>

have only skimmed the rules thus far but absolutely lost my mind over the descriptions of what happens if any given stat reaches 10—SERIOUS 10 was the one that made me guffaw. excited to get into this game!!

in addition, picrew.me and meiker.io are a great resource for character creators, but very few of them allow you to use the result in commercial products. make sure to check the permissions before charging for your final result!!!

i have a tagged, filterable collection of my favorite such character makers here!

i've got a collection here. please feel free to suggest additions as long as they 1) don't use any 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.

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

• seventh sanctum has generators for literally everything. it's sorted by genre and vibe and type and you can find a generator here.
• fantasy name generators, hallowed be her name. did you know this one is run by one person?? that's nuts. anyway here's names for ANYTHING
• magical gurll is—hey wait that's me!!! i make random generators too!! the tabletop ones are usually pretty system-specific but there's a good variety of character prompt generators, too!

hey pals!! now that the tavern keeper jam is much closer, i'm making a last effort to find a team!! i'm a writer specializing in character writing, with samples from an old commissions post here. i'd love to join a team in need of someone to help with the story or to provide a larger cast; i think i'd be especially good at providing a diverse array of patrons!!

i can also offer a limited amount of art, such as for character portraits.

finally, my plan if i don't manage to get on a team for a video game is to write a ttrpg, since i have experience writing those; if any other ttrpg designers would like to collaborate, hmu!!!!

vital note is that i am on vacation until december 11th and so can't take on MAJOR roles or hugely-scoped games, but talk to me and we can figure things out!!!

having noticed the "this is just an example" heading before, i honestly don't think it helps, because the blurb reads very much like an AI writing an advertisement for a specific video game instead of talking about the creation process or actually giving any prompts for what sorts of works would be suitable; stuff like "create your tavern from the ground up" is too vague to actually be helpful, and stuff like "send adventurers on daring quests to defeat monsters and save the realm from evil" is specific enough to confuse the intent of the jam.

tbh i think the entire "what to expect" section is like...not really at all what to expect; it fully reads like an ad for a final product instead of having anything to do with the act of making a game? even just cutting it would make the actual point of the page clearer imo

itch does let you set an item to Completely Free, i.e. you literally can't pay any money, which is what i'm assuming the calendar will be set as (they said it'd be "print and play format" so i'm imagining it as a single item with all the content aggregated and not an itch.io bundle), but it's good to clarify!!

is the description genAI? because tbh it doesn't read like it has anything to do with the idea of the jam or the "no rules" thing at all...

thanks so much for elaborating; much appreciated!! 💖

hi!! there aren't a ton of details about the final advent(ure) calendar in the jam description, just that a bundle is going up. is that bundle going to be sold or shared for free? if sold, where are the profits going? is this going to be published in any way except through the bundle? i'd like a better idea of what permissions i'm giving before deciding to submit to the jam! thank you!! :>

do you have any additional details about the game? if you have a rough outline, you must have an idea of the genre, tone, general sales pitch for the game, that sort of thing?