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My dungeon entry today is in homage to everyone’s favourite diceless narrative TTRPG fishblade 😍

#dungeon23 #fishbladesaga #ttrpg design #ttrpg community #game design

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(Check the link for the post itself! Here’s a screenshot of the same content available in the page, though)

Wizards of the Coast has finally made an official statement about the new OGL, and as expected, it’s an attempt to douse the fire with sweet corpo speak. So, here’s some key points about it, so we don’t forget what actually happened.

They repeated thorough the letter that this was to avoid bigoted content. About three times. Don’t let them lie to you: This was NEVER about preventing bigoted content. (In fact, please remember that WOTC released the hadozee on 2022, and has a lot of unresolved sexual harassment case allegations)

They also mentioned the NFT thing. Again: This is another buzzword, given how nowadays most people dislike NFTs openly. It was NEVER about preventing NFTs

Most importantly: They are blatantly lying about the leaked OGL being “up to revision” and them having planned “to accept community feedback”. The leaked OGL was sent as it is to implied third parties, alongside with contracts. THEY FULLY PLANNED TO HAVE PEOPLE SIGN IT AS IT WAS.

They have been saying they’ll backpedal on some of the choices. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM until we see an actual readable OGL of whatever changes they are promising. They are trying to, desperately, calm down the storm.

KEEP pushing, in fact. Keep unsuscribing from DnD Beyond. Do not buy their products, don’t watch the movie, etc. If this PR stunt makes people suddenly calm down, they’ll try to get away with the OGL as it is.

Also, here’s some segments I want to highlight, just to show how thoroughly filled with horseshit they are:

And third, we wanted to ensure that the OGL is for the content creator, the homebrewer, the aspiring designer, our players, and the community—not major corporations to use for their own commercial and promotional purpose.

This one is probably a jab at Paizo, but they certainly didn’t care about all the third parties affected by this. The “aspiring designer”, the “homebrewer”, the “content creator” are all people who probably have a foot in the industry and are working with smaller TTRPG companies, or third parties. Most third parties have a very limited number of employees (or quite literally consist of just one person), and hire freelancers as needed. These were quite literally the most hurt by this new OGL. Let’s not forget they were content trying to put an end to that.

It also will not include the license back provision that some people were afraid was a means for us to steal work. That thought never crossed our minds. Under any new OGL, you will own the content you create. We won’t. Any language we put down will be crystal clear and unequivocal on that point. The license back language was intended to protect us and our partners from creators who incorrectly allege that we steal their work simply because of coincidental similarities.

They made a section in the OGL that allowed them to steal content. Of course, they are claiming that is not true now, as it would give them a bad image. And yet, they have the nerve to claim they are just defending themselves when they release copied content.

Finally, we’d appreciate the chance to make this right. We love D&D’s devoted players and the creators who take them on so many incredible adventures. We won’t let you down.

This is obviously that sweet corpo speak that ties everything together. They never wanted to make this right: Again, the leaked full OGL was never a draft. They were ready to fuck the entire community over (and still are, most probably) over a greedy cash grab. Do noT forget, and do not relent now: The fight is not over.

We don’t need a “compromise” over the new OGL. I wouldn’t care if they applied this new OGL exclusively to OneDnD, but there is still a lot of people who have built a living operating under 5e’s OGL, and they should NOT be taking that from people. 

(As always, reblog for awareness!)

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It’s 2023 now and that means there are some things we need to leave in the past. I’m talking about skulls that answer three questions with a 50% chance of misleading you. The skull had a hard life. It’s done it’s job and now it’s dead it should be able to find peace. Why don’t you let the skull ask you the questions and then loudly argue with itself about whether you’re telling the truth?

#ttrpg design

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The Elf-king’s Memory Pit

My dungeon23 offering is gonna try to capture the general vibe of trespassing in a creative-mode minecraft player’s abandoned save file, and reading their diary. A blurb!

The elf-king hasn’t shown interest in touching solid ground in centuries.

People turn their heads down as he passes overhead - some jovially state that it’s to avoid the chance of seeing a Royal ankle or kneecap uninvited. Few would say the other reason out loud, but… say, did you hear about Amberfield? The farmers of that village had to change professions after a whimsical enchanted forest took root overnight. What a laugh.

For most of the world the king is seen rarely and from a safe distance, in the night sky as a distant nimbus. The only place a mortal might cross paths with the king is at the Memory Pit.

The Memory Pit is a geobasilean formation that stretches down into the core of the world. It might once have been a mine operated by the elf-king, or perhaps he just wanted to see what happened if the underworld and it’s creatures were laid bare to the sun. The king has never decreed what name his subjects should use for the hole, but he occasionally appears above the pit to deposit some new unwanted Knick-knack: cursed weapons, forbidden knowledge, long dead civilisations, a newly doomed civilisation, or (in one memorable occasion) never-ending buckets of lava. In any case, he rarely spends much time with these possessions, appearing in the sky just long enough to cause religious ecstasy in his faithful before plummeting into the depths and rocketing skyward again some hours later.

Kingsmoot is a city of pirates, thieves and true believers. It encircles the edge of the memory pit. It straddles the lips of the pit. It clings to the basalt pillars that dot the crater of the pit’s mouth. Rat catchers and fools and discarded people make up the principal population of Kingsmoot. Merchants bring food, clothing, pine boxes and other necessities to the city. They receive payment in magic swords and black scrolls.

There are many entrances to the memory pit in Kingsmoot: some are natural geographic features, some are manufactured by mortals, and of course there are some well-known geobasilean* formations that can be seen from hundreds of miles away.

What’s in the pit? The trash of a godking. The obsolete spell books of a wizard who can kill with a thought. The discarded weapons of a warrior who cracks mountains with his hands. The histories of dead gods and dead civilisations that fought and died on their feet rather than live on their knees. Maybe, some insight into the enigmatic being who routinely reshapes continents to suit his whim?

*’earth shaped by a king’. Examples include the 64 identical floating castles of Kilroyere, the flaming phallus island in the circle sea, the eastern arctic zones and of course, the memory pit beneath Kingsmoot and it’s surrounding beacons.

#dungeon23

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Test sketch for #dungeon23

Seeker’s Journal, Day 2

We retreated back to town because Jarulf could not use his sword arm after attempting to smite one of the omnipresent statues in the crypt.

We returned after a week of enforced bed rest and re-entered the dig site.

This is no crypt, it’s clearly a temple!

We were unwilling to brave the stair case due to the threatening demeanour of the statue

We were about to choose a balcony to scale and a climber by lots - and then Jarulf fell through a concealed trap door, along with our dice set.

#dungeon23 #ttrpg design

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A Brazen Crown's final hours

The campaign ends in a few hours! See it here before it is dragged back into the void from which it came.

This game has been the work of three years. I feel very strongly that the universe would like for it to exist. Maybe not in this form! Maybe not even as a fully-commercial product. But its a standalone card game that plays like a TCG and has a third-party license. People deserve to be free of the ever-present feeling of "your favourite things are owned by five corporations", and this game is meant to leave its ownership in the hands of the audience.

If you have seen this game, if you have thoughts about the game or the art or the design, I would love to hear from you so I can figure out how and where this idea needs to go. It might very well just be "to the nearest receptacle" but I don't think this is the end. Yet. Oh well, that's the post.

#A Brazen Crown #mork borg #trading card game #mtgcube #draft #tcg art #kickstarter

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My new easybake fantasy world building method is gonna be looking up what pliny the elder thought about animals and then making it true for magical creatures

Did you know dragons actually have blood during the summer months and they only turn into superheated magical furnaces during winter? It’s true! Pliny told me

when you think about it tho pliny the elder is kind of the funniest guy in the world like. he wrote all these books about natural history that he was wrong about where he confidently claims things like “some animals only have blood during certain parts of the year” and then when mt. vesuvius erupted and destroyed pompeii and herculaneum he said “oh mt vesuvius is exploding? let me go check it out” and then he died

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Streaming a game of A Brazen Crown with Ash from Long Tail Games.

I always loved Welcome to Night Vale’s ad reads and I’m glad we found a place to homage them here.

#trading card game #tabletopia #mork borg #a brazen crown #card game design #game design #kickstarter #Youtube

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*blue check mark voice* I am pleased to announce that the eleventh hour by Graeme base is getting a gritty YA Netflix adaptation next year you’re welcome

#unreality #netflix #childrens books

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Oh hey, there’s a review of A Brazen Crown now, neat

#mork borg #draft #tcg art #game design #multiplayer #card game design #Youtube

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It’s on the front page! 😃

#mork borg #card game design #kickstarter #tabletopia #crowdfunding #a brazen crown

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I am currently campaigning to raise funds for A Brazen Crown. Its a TCG-in-one-box, set in the Mork Borg universe.

Board Game Babylon has a neat interview up about the game, here:

#mork borg #card game design #game design #kickstarter

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Global Game Jam 16

http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/path We made / are making a game and it's mostly uploaded now!

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