paul

@thecastlebuilder.bsky.social

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he/they. once a software guy. newbie ttrpg designer. I blog about video games and ttrpgs biweekly blog: https://thoughtsabout.games/ games: https://thecastlebuilder.itch.io/

a badly drawn hex grid
A book cover with the large title text "An Altogether Different River" in a flowing cursive font. An eye-level view of a scene in a watercolor style, looking towards the shore from the edge of a riverside town. The foreground structures are short, shingled, homey, and warmly colored. Farther structures in the background look like ostentatious modern skyscrapers, towering above, in cold colors and low contrast. Author Aaron Lim's name is at the bottom of the cover.
Ridge City Riders Is The "Like Skyrim With Guns" Of Honey Heist
Screenshot from The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay of a weathered concrete wall with a graffiti scrawl in plain black writing that reads "FUCK TO YOU ALL"
Photo of a book titled "50 Hikes in the Mountains of North Carolina"
A photo of a whiteboard containing the plants listed in the game linked in the previous reply, but with crude whiteboard drawings of each one.
Page 1 of 3 of Emissary of Vengeance, a solo journaling game about summoning a demon to enact your revenge. The full text is linked in the body of the post.
Page 1 of 4 of Among the Ruins, a game about exploring a post-apocalypse by procedurally building ruins out of block tower blocks. The full text is linked in the post body.
Page 1 of 4 of "CRACK OPEN A BOY WITH THE COLD ONES", a dark comedy game for 2-4 players about CEOs bantering while they get transfusions of youthful blood. A text version of the game is linked in the post body.
Page 1 of 3 of Scattered to the Stars, an asynchronous journaling game about wandering spacefarers who have lost their home world, intended to be passed between players. A link to the full text is in the post body.
Page 1 of 4 of No Empty Spaces, a small module for narrative-driven random encounters for overland travel. A text version is linked in the post body.
page 1 of 2 of "Two Guys on the Moon", a silly little generator with rollable tables that creates a seed of a story for a scifi horror adventure. The text version is linked in the body of the post.
Screenshot of "The Rekindled Flame", a custom Faction for Blades in the Dark by John Harper, revolving around a secret drug that can keep ghosts from becoming feral
page 1 of 3 of No Honor, a game about a crew of thieves betraying one another during the final stages of a daring heist. A link to a text version is in the post body.
Page 1 of 2 of a mythic pantheon creation game, in which players take turns introducing deities or adding details to them, their relationships, and their stories. There's a link to the text version in the body of this post.
Page 1 of 3 of "Jajanken Duel", a 2-player storytelling game about shonen duels that's broadly inspired by Hunter x Hunter
Page 1 of 3 of The Shadow Plunge, a generic procedure for modifying a character's history or mechanics in a campaign-style game
1 of 4 screenshots of the rules to Glade of Solitude, a GM-less 3 player game about collaborative potion-crafting with imperfect communication
The setup for WORD WIZARDS, in which spelling be contestants accidentally cast an eldritch spell that summons a monster, and must use their newly awakened magic powers to defeat it
A landmark for Heart: The City Beneath, describing an enormous bramble with vicious thorns that spills out of a great ravine, attracting divers who delve into its depths
Max Payne stands in a shipping container with a small desk and chair, a dead body on the ground, and a briefcase on the desk filled with stacks of 1$ bills
screenshot from I Am Your Beast of a first person view of a snowy military encampment and a masked soldier aiming a gun towards the player