Dimitri, Dr. Givaca

@dgivaca.bsky.social

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Passionate about analogic games, mostly TTRPGs | Hobbies: Game Design/History/Mythology | Studying Geoheritage | (he/him) Write about TTRPGs and design at https://theludonarrativegivaca.wordpress.com/ Making random games at https://dimitri-drgivaca.itch.io

Pigsmoke TTRPG cover

Cover for Upwind: a Roleplaying Fable of Lost Science, Elemental Magic and Uncharted Skies

People taking notes at a table

a variety of travel equipment - map, guides, camera, bag, etc.

dominoes in a queue

The box for the TTRPG Villagesong, "A storytelling game of leadership and change", by Vee Hendro

The Realm of Eidylorn map at the end of the campaign, with the Places found and improved on by the heroes during their second time at the fantasy world of Eidylorn. Featuring sites like the Hollow Hills, the Witchwood, the Bones of the Behemoth, the Rune-Covered Ruins, the Desert of Broken Glass, the Mushroom Forest of Oor, the Slime Bogs, and the Floating Sky Islands.

23!!! notifs on my bsky menu. 23!!!!!! Wtf happened?! So many notifications! Have I mentioned there's 23 of them?!!!!!?!?!?!

Cover of the ARC Doom TTRPG, by momatoes.

Hard Wired Island cover

Initial setup of the pcio room for Pale Tides, with the Minor and Major Arcana separated, the phase tracker on the New Moon phase, and space for the Play Deck, Omen Deck, and discards.

The books in question - Blood Over Bright Haven, by M.L. Wang, and Nettle and Bone, by T. Kingfisher.

Liminal convention setup - corebook, printed scenario, notebook, bunch of d6s and a small whiteboard for clues.

Running Midnight Muscadines during an encounter with the Shadows of Tume

Elevation in a karst area, topped with a small tower. Sunny day, plenty of green growing among the grey rocks.

Tall cave gallery

9 – The Shadow of Yesterday
8 – Hard Wired Island
7 –
6 – Monsters and Other Childish Things
5 –
4 – Vale of the Failed and the Fallen
3 – Bestow, Mouseguard, One Last Fight, See Issue X
2 – Liminal, Monster of the Week, Raven, Zephyr
1 – A Complicated Profession, Absurdia, Broken Compass, Ghoulboys, Pumpkin Spice, Ruin, The Silt Verses, Threadcutters, Werewolf: the Freaklypse, Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast

The itch.io banner for A Complicated Profession, depicting a cast of various sci-fi characters (representing different Hunter and Host roles) lined up at a bar.

Realm of Eidylorn map, with the locations we've established spread across it in "sticker" form. From the run down Hollow Hills, to the wild and dangerous Floating Sky Islands, and the Witchwood outpost. Not forgetting three different places Twisted by Evil - the Rune-Covered Ruins, the Mushroom Forest of Oor, and the Desert of Broken Glass, where our companion fell during the failed final confrontation.

My setup for playing See Issue X - the book by Chris Longhurst, a bunch of cards, and my notebook (on the first page of the Origin Arc, where I've established the first cards of my personal deck).
The current cards in my personal deck are the following:
4 of Diamonds - "Strength lies in working together"
10 of Clubs - Flickering Caves (rebuilt)
8 of Clubs - ReSound Recording Studio
King of Clubs - University Campus
3 of Spades - Command / Talk to Critters
Ace of Spades - City's Ley Lines
6 of Hearts - Sam Vox
5 of Hearts - The Terraformer

Uneasy Lies the Head, Royal Edition, in its box, next to a "Thanks for backing" postcard with a picture of Adam Bell on a card, and a bookmark with some of Adam's previous games.

Vale of the Failed and the Fallen cover banner

Picture of TTRPG stuff laid out on the table - the Valraven books and slipcase, the custom tarot deck and dice, the playbook pamphlets, and the art prints. As well as the Monad Echo SRD book and the Ruin zine.

A picture of my copy of Against Time and Death, along with its bookmark, on top of the dining room table.

total game sessions - approximately 180

From left top to bottom right:
- Werewolves of Britain, a Liminal supplement by Becky Annison (found at a game store in Frankfurt)
- Vale of the Failed and the Fallen, a fantasy game of regret and redemption by Robert Turk (found in the same game store in Frankfurt)
- See Issue X, a superhero comic book solo game by Chris Longhurst (which I got a friend to buy at Dragonmeet and send me)
- Improv for Gamers (found at a game store in Köln)

dialect: a game about language and how it dies - rpg cover

Christmas Cookies Pt. 1 - a baking sheet filled with heart/flower/star/moon/clover-shaped cookies, before going into the oven.

My ongoing work on a google sheets character keeper for the Witchblood TTRPG.

cover of the physical copy of the threadcutters rpg

The virtual play space for A Complicated Profession, on Miro. Featuring the 4 Host+Hunter pairings: 'The Doc'+Bouncer, Hired Muscle + Safety Officer, Mystic Mentor + Janitor, Outdated Droid + Chef

The map at the end of the Ryne introductory adventure with the first group, in which they tamed a herd of gazelle-giraffes, met with the neighbouring amphibian community, almost were taken by a huge river wave going upstream, found pink flowers choking the landscape, persuaded a pig-bear to let them through, almost fell into a ravine, were taken up the mountain by a huge bird, and found that their Remnant was succumbing to another Remnant.
Their solution to the problem consisted in using their bonds to other communities to coordinate a collaborative effort to increase the tributes to their broken god.

Deadline - A Clockwork Press, a GM-less map-making and news-chronicling TTRPG. The game text is printed as an actual newspaper (folded on my dining room piano). Additionally, some city record sheets and broadsheets to use with the game.

A couple zines by Chris Bissette:
- Blood in the Margins, a W&A solo ttrpg.
- The Interview, a short story companion piece to BitM.
- The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, another W&A solo ttrpg.
All sitting on the dining room piano, alongside a pine cone and a stuffed owl.

Crucible zine on top of the dining room piano. A solo roguelike world-building RPG by Chris Longhurst.

Grimscar solo TTRPG material - the core book, along with the Deep Thicket expansion, a deck of game cards, a bookmark and laminated sheets of the character sheet and map. Everything displayed on top of our dining room's old piano.

Season core Test: https://poomang.com/en/t/mycore_test

Dimitri K. Core - Mid-Autumn Core
Remembers everything / Living worry doll / Sacrifices for others
Can't say no / Detailed perfectionist / Considers others' comfort
Shy but wants to lead / Touched by small things / Anxious without plans

My setup to play the Koriko solo ttrpg - a small coffee table with a leather-bound notebook, the book, a set of pens, a couple piles of cards and an unstable-looking dice tower.

Cover for The Colour of Magic

Two wooden shelves filled with TTRPG books, zines and accessories.

Golf Quest, a comedy + dexterity + roleplaying game by Shanice Fagan and Anna Blackwell.

Two hardcover supplements for Out of the Ashes - Desecrators and Devourers and The Book of Quests - on a table.

A bar chart representing the nº of sessions and the nº of different ttrpgs played per month in the first semester of 2025:
- january (11 / 7, respectively)
- february (17 / 7)
- march (22 / 12)
- april (19 / 13)
- may (13 / 6)
- june (15 / 6)

Next to it, a list of the 10 TTRPGs I've played the most this year, in alphabetical order: Between Clouds, Broken Tales, Cryptid Creeks, Degenesis, Monsters and Other Childish Things, No Stone Unturned, Starfinder, The Between, The Shadow of Yesterday, Trophy Gold

Zephyr RPG box, by Araukana Media, on my kitchen table. Cover depicts the conscient, travelling landmass of Ophoi, with the 4 Zephyr raging across it, and a party of 4 Windfolk. tagline: An Anarchist Fantasy Game of Fleeting Identities

Momatoes' The Magus, and the companion oracle deck.

Physical copy of Soul Cemetery, in its videogame-like case.

Jonathan Byers, Stranger Things

The Liminal one-shot on Roll20, with a backdrop of York.

a 3x3 grid of playing cards on a wooden table

On the left: Stealing the Throne playingcards.io template, as one of the Thiefs (8 of Hearts) is defeated by the sudden betrayal of one of their mates (Throne's 5 of Diamonds is aided by the addition of a Queen of Diamonds).
On the right: black-and-white art for the 'Justice Above' mecha.

Tableplop setup for the Threadcutters Showdown, where the characters face the Knight of Cups in a 6x6 grid combat, with some bats, overgrown plants and hazards thrown into the mix.

Geologist's Primer Bundle, by Double Proficiency. The main book, along with a notebook, coloring book, adventure (Bedrock Lullaby) and flash cards.

Screen capture of the roll20 interface during the last moments of the Out of the Ashes party in a dungeon - dead foes (red-crossed tokens) at their feet, and an all-decisive crit success at sneaking their way out of there with the rescued prisoners in tow.

7000$ stretch goal for the Soul Cemetery crowdfunding campaign: A gamefaqs-style walkthrough of Soul Cememtery, the fake video game.

Last strecth goal for the GAST crowdfunding campaign.
"GAST Grants: Carta system designer Cat McDonald will judge a game jam on itch.io with 3 grants available for the winners to publish their entries with Hatched Games." £14.4k/15k

A sunset sky, varying between orange and pink, with dark looming clouds. The name of the game, "Hit the Road, Jack!" is written in white on top.

Song of the Scryptwyrm banner, depicting the zine's cover (brown, leather-like appearance, with a detailed frame around and a colorful butterfly) on a dark background.

Soul Cemetery banner, depicting the zine for the solo game, designed to emulate an old videogame booklet, along with the "videogame" case for it.

Image depicting some of the contents in the boxed set (available both in standard and deluxe versions) for the season one of the GAST Horror Zine Collection: Undersoil, Preservation Tape (both by Rich & Kathryn Oxenham) and Tand Fe (by Kat the Lore Mistress).