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Hey all, been an intense few days, and realised I haven't actually posted here about the fact the crowdfunder for The Magnus Archives RPG by the incredible Monte Cook Games is live RIGHT NOW.
It's going amazingly well, far beyond what we could have predicted, and I'm so excited by it. It looks amazing and I'm so psyched to see how Monte and the team bring the Archives to the tabletop. As someone who's been roleplaying since the 90s, Monte's work has obviously been a big feature in my gaming life, so you'll have to forgive me if there's a slight fanboyish tinge to how I talk about the project!
Check it out here!
200 Word RPGs 2024
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
Might only be on episode 3 of True Detective s2, but it's framed like a TTRPG campaign which keeps insisting on individual scenes between PC and dm.
WE LOVE TO SEE IT
Hey folks!! Heartbeat Highschool, our new queer-friendly, solo journaling, 90s anime dating sim TTRPG is LIVE on Kickstarter now!
In Heartbeat Highschool, you play a 17 year old high school senior who has moved to a new American high school in a new town in the late 1990s. You have schoolwork, a part time job with flexible hours, and several dating partners who are vying for your attention. Can you find your one true love and graduate high school before the end of your final year?
Features:
Manage your schoolwork and social life in a unique six-sided dice pool system.
6+ potential dating partners with detailed biographies and ~secrets~
Character design by areyoshi
Beautiful artwork by Demon Dionysus
Full list of holidays & school events (including potentially minigames!)
36+ page staple-bound 8.5" x 5.5" rulebook
100% Human Created Content!
!!! PLEDGE NOW !!!
You have instantly become my favourite person in the world.
COME SING WITH ME is a lyric game setting, a divinatory map, and a secret third thing. Inspired by (and made to explore) the album MYTH by @narcissistcookbook
It contains a map of the island of St. Sasha; a stolen songbook full of lyrics, curated by instinct; game tokens, with little instructions for their use; and the other stolen songbook scrawling with handwritten notes.
Created for the Tiny World TTRPG Jam.
WIZARD WRAPPED
You casted 1,039,627 spells this year
You pondered your orb for 985 hours
You targeted 109 spells at someone other than yourself - that’s in the top 6% of wizards!
You gained 5 familiars
Your favorite focus for spellcasting this year was a staff
Your cup size is H
Your most cast spell was Spontaneous Snack Generation and you used it 576 times this year.
Your most summoned object was Ketamine Ape at 69 summons
You trapped someone within an amulet for 10,000 years
You were unwittingly haunted by the evil skull twice
rule #1 of patricide is to have fun and be yourself
A.N.I.M. Financial Status Update May 12th, 2025.
As many of you know, to stay in business our team needs to make a minimum income quota which increases by 15% each month until it reaches $4,000/month. I’m going to start posting these updates weekly. This month isn’t looking good.
Current A.N.I.M. Income Quota Progress: $572.22/$2,321.74
Deadline: June 1st.
Status: RED
What you can do to ensure that we reach this goal and can continue operations:
Follow us on tumblr and bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/anim-ttrpgs.bsky.social
(reblogging/retweeting/whatever our posts on these sites, *even if you don't have many followers*, makes a *huge* difference and is actually how we get most of our new fans and patreon subscribers.)
Talk about us!
(play our games, tell your friends about them, make posts about your adventures or characters from our games, make homebrew stuff, etc. Like with the social media posts, this is the only way the word gets out about who we are and what we do! Without word-of-mouth, we're dead in the water.)
Subscribe to our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/TheAgencyofNarrativeIntrigueandMysteryPatreon
(you get monthly rewards such as Eureka updates, adventure modules, short stories, etc.)
Buy, or just download, our games on Itch.io
(money helps a lot, but even just downloading them for free gives us a boost in the algorithm and gets more eyes on us)
Donate on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/animttrpgs
(how this helps is pretty obvious)
Buy our snoop merchandise https://www.bonfire.com/store/anim-store-1/
(we only get a small cut of this, but the stuff is pretty cool, and they're good conversation starters)
I'm sitting down to continue writing the next chapter of "Tethered," and I am thinking about how interesting these cities are, and I really want to DM a D&D campaign in this setting. Just a cool, low magic steampunk era setting. I could homebrew some interesting ways shimmer could be integrated into the system as a potion that is both awesome and terrible for you. I know some homebrew campaigns have been made, maybe one day I'll check them out or just make my own. Gotta tackle my epic saga campaign first!