Sinful Games

he/him or they/them | Game Designer and data scientist, currently writing Far Lands, a GMless collaborative mapmaking RPG. I also run @RoborosewaterM

[Sinful Games @SinfulGamesLab]

For the Queen by @muscularpikachu inspired a major overhaul of the discovery prompts in Far Lands: the idea "tell the player something, then ask them a question about it" revealed why some of them hit so flat in my early tests- I didn't give the player enough to work with!

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Just finalizing examples of play to send Far Lands to an editor and commissioning a few initial pieces of art... This is starting to feel *real!* I'm so excited.

[Prismatic Wasteland @PrismaticWastes]

Rather than detailing exactly how long an exploration turn is or the dimensions of a hex, we should all be doing this instead

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@jdragsky Looking at this and some of them reminded me of Cultist Simulator in a great way... I was imagining some of these as mystical parallel realms and when I got to "criminal underbelly" the vision of that as a parallel realm was very amusing yet... So compelling

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With the latest versions of Far Lands, I've been shuffling around which steps are collaborative and which are the responsibility of a single player, and I've been really surprised by some of the results!

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@teamupmoves woah I'd never heard of City of Shining Stars! Seems exactly up my alley. I'm *definitely* going to have to try that out.

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Every time I see one of these I think there's some TTRPG character creation system in here...

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What if I just added a bunch of social and investigation abilities to SCRPG...

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@CatieOsaurus I'm also a huge fan of Microscope and Fiasco!

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@quinnthegm I do *very occasionally,* and only when it would be severely anti-fun. My biggest thing I do is "deaths door" where important enemies only *die* to dramatically appropriate hits and not just any old damage.

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I see a tarot deck

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://t.co/q92xyy5iUO #newyearseve #fireworks

[Sinful Games @SinfulGamesLab]

Also, if you were going to make characters in one system, and then translate them into another system for gameplay, what combinations do you think would work? Could you do SCRPG -> champions? Champions -> masks?

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@teamupmoves loved your series on Sentinel Comics RPG! I've felt like the game works really well for running a specific type of scene... What do you think of using pieces of other systems to expand it to include more tools for RP & investigation scenes?

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Very neat

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Might have a new favorite way to use Chat GPT. Not providing answers, but *questions*

[Sinful Games @SinfulGamesLab]

Played Exquisite Biome by @SeaExcursion and did character creation for Wanderhome by @jdragsky and I gotta say it was some of the most fun I've had in ages! Awesome wholesome game night.

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Made a little prototype for an idea I had. Playing around, it's a lot easier to make un-expandable patterns than I expected... But I wonder if there's a strategy opportunity there. But it looks as good as I imagined, even as a paper prototype!

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@DMJazzyHands @DnDBeyond Ngl I have long suspected that if you make tooany requests to their rng system in a short window you get the same roll (timecode based seeds maybe?) I've seen enough rolls like that to be very suspicious.

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@btruemn @FanRollDice Same here! Guessing the traffic from the giveaway must have overloaded the site a bit!

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@jdragsky This is (one of the many reasons) why I want to see a return of old school forums! ...just maybe with more concern for moderation this time around.