(Continued from Part 1, which looked at the state of TTRPG dungeon design pre-Jaquays. These two posts are cleaned upContinue Reading| Pathika
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …| Pathika
In the last devlog, I talked about the practical design problems I sought to solve in my campaign by creating an adventurer city, and of course one of the reasons Pathika is going to be shared publ…| Pathika
(Quick ad interruption: my new game Nielsenauts is out in print at the Space Penguin Ink store. Please buy it if you’d like to support the release of Pathika! It’s a one shot rules-lite…| Pathika
I want to talk about that scene. If you’ve played Chrono Trigger, you know the one: the one where the kids sit around a campfire and talk about what “entity” could be guiding them…| Pathika
The material I wrote for Pathika was not originally intended to be put in a setting book. Rather, I wroteContinue Reading| Pathika
As I mentioned last week, I’ve spent the last three years working on a big “city” book for D&D-adjacent games called Pathika, and it’s now text-complete. Below is a snippet taken from the book’…| Pathika
If you’ve been following this blog since it started back in 2019, you probably noticed that I’ve disappeared for about 3 years now. Great news, I have not quit the blog, burned out on writing, or b…| Pathika
Quick Reading Guide: Elevator PitchHighlightsContent and OrganizationWhat I Did With ItConclusionFurther Reading I run two kinds of modules: 1) those that offer me quality content in an easy-to-ref…| Pathika
Quick Reading Guide: What is diegesis? The difference between diegesis and abstraction How diegesis exists in games Game mechanics that seem non-diegetic are often just abstract …But a lot of…| Pathika
