My new YouTube video: A DM’s Guide to Ranged Combat is now live! Please go give it a watch!
If you’re a DM looking for a way to challenge your overspecced crossbow player, or just generally make mixed-range combat more interesting and enjoyable, it’s full of helpful tips and visualisations. Plus, supporting these long videos really helps keep my channel alive and funds more future content!
My new single-player TTRPG, No-Tell Motel, is now available! Come on over and grab a PDF, or throw in $5 more to pre-order your physical copy.
In No-Tell Motel, you play the overnight clerk at a sleazy motel. One of your guests murders another one, and no one much seems to care who did it or why. No one but you, that is.
Playing the game only requires a standard deck of playing cards and a six-sided die. You use the face cards to identify your motel's regular guests (yes, the book comes ready with 16), and the numbers cards to randomly generate things that happen between them.
And unlike most build-as-you-go mystery games, you can make your best guess and still get it very, very wrong.
The nightly spread of the game looks a bit like a hand of Solitaire, and that's on purpose. I wanted playing the game to feel a little bit like something you'd do to pass the time in the small hours of the morning.
Here's how it works.
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The rules generate different murder victims and methods, a highly randomized yet still coherent matrix of guest gossip, actions and conflict, and most importantly: a way to find out if your accusation was correct, and what the consequences are for pointing the finger.
If you like pulp crime, The Conversation, or Errol Morris's Tabloid, you should check out No-Tell Motel.
It's been quite the journey! I think overall I spent about 5 months on this? I am quite satisfied with how everything turned out and I hope that it was worth the wait! This is my first time making anything like this so it's far from perfect, but im just proud that I managed to get it done at all.
Anyway, any shares or reblogs would be very appreciated! I'd hate for this to just get lost somewhere in the depths of the internet. Thank you!
The Permanent Rain Press Interview with Lisa Ambjörn (Part 1). (Watch in HD)
Lisa Ambjörn returns for an in-depth discussion about the final season of Young Royals, including writing in intimacy and disagreement between Wilhelm and Simon, the renewed presence of Erik, the creation of "Wille's Song," and the deleted character cameo viewers didn't get to see.
Trailer for Tender Light, in my attempt to get more people to watch this amazing drama. (I mean if it stays solid it’s in the running for my fave 2024 cdrama - a modern!!!! If you know me, you know how insane that is.)
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Another trailer:
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I don’t know if this is going to be borne out in the story or the trailer is trying to mess with you but I love the vibe of implication that Zhou Luo somehow assisted in the murder of the husband.
It really does have a great “BBC prestige drama and an old school grim jdrama like Byakuyakou had a baby” vibe.
(And honestly I don’t care if Nan Ya killed the husband alone or Zhou Lou did or they did it as a team sport and whether it was premeditated or not because that man was a rapist abuser who deserved it and if there was any proper karma, that whole town would fucking burn to boot.)
A lei piacevano le finestre ma non tutte le finestre. No! Solo quelle che le portavano alla mente qualche riflessione. Un po' come succedeva con la musica. Doveva sentire dentro un piacere, un brivido, un fremito o un chiarore.. qualcosa che poteva entrarle nella mente o qualcosa da far uscire dal suo cuore. Forse aspettava solo le parole giuste per scrivere l'epitaffio sulla tomba dei suoi ricordi... @ilpianistasultetto