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masukomi

@masukomi@dice.camp

👉 Senior Back-End Dev. Seeking Remote Position 👈

Autodidactic, Autistic, ADHD, Trans 🏳️‍⚧️, programmer who loves thinking about TTRPGs.

If you're interested in hearing my random thoughts about life, programming geekery, 3D printing, and cute pics of my dogs and cat, then follow my other account at https://connectified.com/@masukomi

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Google went from “don’t be evil” to “help commit genocide or you’re fired”.

masukomi,
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@zachklipp I contend that their choice to remove "don't be evil" from their code of conduct is literally the most immoral act a company has ever committed.

Murder and war are bad - of course - but a lot of folks doing that believe they're doing it for good reasons. There's NO world in which removing "Don't be evil" from your code of conduct is NOT an unequivocally immoral act.

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Something that I've noticed in Candela Obscura & other recent games is the decision to NOT include character sheets in the book, and instead just link you to the web-site.

THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.

I have games that are over 30yrs old in my bookshelf. Do you really think your web site is going to still be around in that much time? Many of my books link to sites that no longer exist, or downloads that no longer exist.

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I read a recent TTRPG that was so filled with sexism and misogyny that i was disgusted.

Apparently we still need to be teaching men that women don't exist just to be sex objects, "whores", or objects that need protecting.

This blog post attempts to provide some concrete examples, for the gents who still don't get it. It points out normalized behaviors and attitudes that should be long dead.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2023/07/06/sexism-in-tabletop-role-playing-games/

Men: do !@#$ing better.

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Game designers & Authors. Let's help right a wrong.

Nex Benedict was a young kid. They died after being brutally beaten in a bathroom for being non-binary.

The next time you need a respected leader, or hero of days past. Name them Nex. Make them nonbinary.

Let's write the incredible tales of Nex, that Nex never got to write themselves.

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I love the "history repeats itself" aspect of @KoboldPress 's Tales of The Valiant kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/tales-of-the-valiant-rpg-launching-black-flag-roleplaying

Wizards effs with the license for 4th edition and spawns Pathfinder which is basically "here's 3.5 with the improvements you've been wanting, but without their greed. " - Then Paizo becomes huge.

Wizards effs with the license for 5.5 and spawns "Tales of the Waliant" which is basically "here's 5.0 with the improvements you've been wanting, but without their greed. "

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In 2 days 9th Level Games is launching a crowdfunding campaign for "City of Skull"

short version: Mazes (RPG) meets West Marches in a quest to retrieve magical items in a last-ditch attempt to save the last city… your city.

➕ assorted new shiny things for Mazes itself.

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/af6922b9-ca96-4a40-8855-9bfa70e7b968/landing

The problem is, I WANT IT NOW!!!!

Mazes is just a wonderful rules-light dungeon crawler with truckloads of personality that I love.

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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@Taskerland commented that my #Dragonbane flow-chart looked "Fiendish". They're not wrong, and I wanted to talk about that. More specifically about the hidden complexity in games & how designers need to think about things differently than players.

Here's a cleaned up version. Don't worry about reading the individual nodes, they're not important to this discussion.

Side note: I'd love to make these for your unreleased game in exchange for money. 😉
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Just got a PDF from a kickstarter game i backed. All the illustrations are AI generated and all slightly off in the way so many are.

I kinda hate it.

I get that most small TTRPGs are made by folks who can't afford to hire an illustrator. I don't have a moral issue with that scenario since no-one was going to get paid to draw anyway.

HOWEVER,
You still need to maintain a consistent visual style, and no-one wants to see weird-ass AI ...weirdness.

masukomi, to Autism
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Conclusive "proof" that #Autism & #ADHD are significant disabilities, from an unlikely source.

If you wanted to play an average #AudHD character in GURPS you'd have to take the following Disadvantages: "Absent-indedness", "Partial Amnesia", "Confused", "Gullibility", "Honesty", "Light Sleeper", "Klutz", "Social Stigma" and optionally "No Sense of Humor", and / or "Cannot Speak"

On the upside, you'll get 70-115 points to spent on Advantages!

cc @CynAq
@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

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Christian Sorrel of MeatCastle Gameware put together a "Meaties Award Zine" which they describe and link to in their latest newsletter: https://meatcastle.substack.com/p/salvaging-failed-projects

Each winning TTRPG game's entry is a creative award name, followed by a short description of what they felt made this worthy of celebrating, and a drawing.

It's one person's quirky, oddly laid out, random opinions on something they care about. That is to say, it's EXACTLY what a zine should be.

MORE OF THIS PLEASE.

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Mail delivery earlier today.

Photo of current status:

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I seem to be utterly failing to put together a group to playtest @evilhat 's new Tomb Raider game.

If you're going to be running this, and need / want another player please hit me up. I'd love to give this a try.

(For time zone purposes: I'm on the US's east coast)

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Someone asked "How do you guys solo play?" on the #MythicGME subreddit.

I LOVE this question so i took a moment to write up my answer https://www.reddit.com/r/mythic_gme/comments/1db3owa/comment/l7t7h99/

If you're on Reddit still, and you #SoloRPG I'd love to see your answer.

Also, OMG some of the ways people do this sounds ... so painful. Like OMG WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO YOURSELF, but it just goes to show how different our 🧠s are.

masukomi,
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Seeing how radically differently people approach #SoloRPG is also insightful in that it gives us a clue as to why some people find so much more enjoyment with solo play AND an frustrations in group plays

We don't just enjoy different types of games (trad vs narrative vs whatever) and settings. We also want to interact with our games in different ways at different speeds. There will always be some degree of "impedance mismatch" when playing with others.

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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Just hit print on the Daggerheart open beta playtest material.

I re-watched a video of someone doing a simple hand saddle-stitch on a huge stack of printer paper. As long as you have a way to make the holes for the thread to go through, it's not a big deal. So... 🤷‍♀️ I guess I'm going to be doing my first saddle-stitch binding soon‡.

note: i added a custom front page with the logo, so that's why it may not match yours.

‡ this is going to take forever to print.

masukomi,
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Tada 🎉 #Daggerheart v1.2 printed, and hand bound. Also, my first attempt at #bookbinding 😸

Is it pretty? No. Did it take far too long? Yes! Was it hard? No. Was it a fun learning experience? Yes!

3 images showing phases of the construction. At the top we have a dremel drill press on a folding worktable, and a stack of paper with 5 trigger clamps holding it together in the second photo we see a close up of the edge with a hand that's just pulled the needle with waxed thread through the center hole. in the third hole we see a quasi-saddle stitched binding with 2 x shapes across the outer edge. this was just before the cover was attached.

masukomi, to random
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I’m in the ambulance because we need to spend time acclimatizing the cat to it. I brought the stuff out to work on character, archetypes, but mowing took all my energy now I’m just laying here staring at the ceiling.

masukomi,
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I fell asleep. It was very quiet and very cozy and the bed was very soft. however, there was no pillow, and now I have a kink in my neck. :/

masukomi,
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I brought the cat and me back inside but that somehow made me more tired, so i laid on the couch, and the dog played “little spoon” and i think i fell asleep but my breathing was too fast and then i remembered i had no #ADHD meds because the pharmacy has none to give me, and being ducking tired on days with no drugs is normal, but it took like 15 minutes to be able to open my eyes and yes my brain is like this but finally i was able to take a picture of the adorability beside me and…

masukomi, to random
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I flowcharted all the stuff related to a player rolling a check (attacking / defending / whatever) in #DragonBane

It looks complicated but I swear to you that this is nothing compared to D&D and most other "trad" games.

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After that long 🧵 about flow-charts I realized that after having recently consolidated & cleaned up all the rules for MY game, it was actually in a state where it was ready for this treatment.

I'm not done & it's already significantly improved one rule.

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masukomi, (edited ) to random
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Looking for info & gossip re current landscape for TTRPG creators:

Bunch of "larger" publishers like @mcg seem to have turned to & stayed there (kickstarter tools suck(ed) so it makes sense).

got some interest when it re-launched(?) & seemed great as a backer but I almost NEVER hear about anything launched there.

Feels like Most folks are wandering back to .

Can anyone explain or shed any light on what the deal with any of this is?

masukomi, (edited ) to random
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I've been working on my game for a while now. I've learned a LOT along the way, & I obviously like sharing & discussing game design.

So, I put together a 7000 word blog post with the high level things I've learned that will probably apply to anyone trying to design a Tabletop RPG.

The experienced game design folks hopefully already know this stuff, but most of us are still figuring it out.

Let me know if this helps, or if you've got a different take on any of it.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2024/05/25/lessons-learned-while-making-my-game/

masukomi, to random
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ReReading through Mothership so i can run Decagone for folks .

This is an effing golden nugget. Every game should be so self-aware and share that knowledge so concisely with players.

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My game's pretty close to public playtestability. That means I need to put together some character Archetypes. In order to do this I've put together an internal worksheet for the creation of classes to make sure I remember to include all the critical bits for each one.

I've never heard anyone talk about using this approach but I find it invaluable. Here's a blog post with lessons learned & an analysis of mine.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2024/05/31/ttrpg-archetype-worksheets/

If you do something like this PLEASE share.

a screenshot of my current Archetype Creation Worksheet. There's a higher resolution version of it in the linked blog post as well as an explanation of the sections on it.

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Someone posted this on reddit, and I can't stop thinking about it.

For those who don't play Savage Worlds, it uses "exploding dice" so any hit can potentially produce an improbably large amount of damage. So, what's shown in this cartoon IS technically possible.

It seems ridiculous, but it is an absolutely wonderful feature of that game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/savageworlds/comments/1d3o4jl/how_to_tell_if_youre_playing_savage_worlds/
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