Negative thought patterns, expectations, comparisons, self-doubt & self-criticism… You will overcome them eventually, so any time or energy ...| lithyscaphe.blogspot.com
Or, I Finally Beat Inspiral By Nerfing Workdays| Lithyscaphe
Over the second half of this year, I've started to get serious (and "full time") about finally polishing and publishing thinky-adventurey games, dungeons, supplements, and other unusual interactive curiosities from my deep, forsaken library of a backlog of nascent projects.| Lithyscaphe
But one week was a foolish forecast.| Lithyscaphe
Plans are drawn. | Lithyscaphe
I've been feeling bad about not making (well, releasing) stuff, so today I made a game about (not) making stuff. It's unbalanced and untested, but I'm releasing it to remind myself that it's something I can do.| Lithyscaphe
Welp, picking up where I left off (before a rapid fire mix of obsessions with multiple other projects, creative energy dips, all the while not really keeping up with RPG news or social sphere because it's increasingly all just a bit much, but that's how I roll these days) like nothing happened, because there's no reason not to. Though, my description of my process will be even more fabricated due to fuzzy memory of stuff I've already done, and my tone has completely changed, but I am a mercur...| Lithyscaphe
Step the Fourth: Crystallize Themes, Central Features, Inhabitants, Brief History| Lithyscaphe
Well, there was a time when I wanted to keep this style of writing off my blog, but it seemed to help me actually write instead of endlessly edit, so...| Lithyscaphe
Dungeon Cat| Lithyscaphe
After a bit of a hiatus from keeping up with the RPG-sphere (and not feeling motivated enough to get any of my own projects - or 15 draft blogposts, or eleventy billion notional-but-potentially-gameable brainstorm/shower-thought notes - into a shareable state), I've been inspired by a few recentdungeon design posts, actually getting some good OSR dungeoncrawling under my belt, and playing around with sometools. Before I knew it, I've got a foundation for a dungeon that I like well enough to t...| Lithyscaphe
Spoilers for my players!| Lithyscaphe
I want OSR combat to look more like “OSR Style Challenges” than “D&D combat”. Make each round an interesting puzzle for the players to get out of. The results change the situation and they’re presented with another challenge. PbtA games basically do this.| Lithyscaphe
From a sophomore GM of mostly old-school style games.| Lithyscaphe
Regardless of the wishes of the OSR's prominent proponents, whatever they might be, the term OSR has become irrevocably applicable to a plethora of interrelated but distinct concepts. Necropraxis held a survey in 2018 where respondents rated how much they felt "OSR" referred to eight separate meanings. But eight is (necessarily for the purposes of a survey that folks will actually complete) reductive, compared to what I think the term encompasses, or rather, is applied to by individuals.| Lithyscaphe
Mothership House Rule: Spacer Backgrounds and Recalling Memories| Lithyscaphe
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The Carcass Crab| Lithyscaphe
Here's a thing I've been working on recently; side project sixty three of eleventy seven. Yeah yeah, too much design, not enough play, I know. Get used to it.| Lithyscaphe
Your PC's relationship with the PC to your right:| Lithyscaphe
Dinosaurs, played straight, annoy me. Something about the dissonance of them existing alongside rust monsters and bulettes. If a module calls for a dinosaur, I intend to reskin them with this.| Lithyscaphe
Encumbrance, Dungeon Exploration Logistics, and Combat| Lithyscaphe
House Rule: Gradually Reveal Character Details| Lithyscaphe
Align Soul| Lithyscaphe
Principia Apocrypha is a new, free Primer for OSR and other Old School Style RPG Gaming in the form of a collection of Apocalypse World-s...| lithyscaphe.blogspot.com
Quintessential BX is a trimming and tweaking of Gavin Norman's B/X Essentials , itself a revision of Tom Moldvay and David Cook's Basic/Exp...| lithyscaphe.blogspot.com
Principia Apocrypha is a free Primer for Old School Style RPG Gaming in the form of a collection of Apocalypse World-style GM (and player) ...| lithyscaphe.blogspot.com