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Hyper-focusing on RPG design, Scroll & Steel (out now!), PBTA, Pathfinder 2e, etc.

he/they, free Palestine, blocks AI slop
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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · Jul 31
Scroll & Steel, my tactical fantasy PBTA roleplaying game, is available now!

Not sure how those things go together? Download the game for free and read it yourself.

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Scroll & Steel by The Dev Team
Tactical PBTA adventuring
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This was during a play. One of my friends was in old age makeup and at the water fountain. He was taking a long time, so someone else came up behind him and cleared her throat loudly.

He looked at her and said, “Age before bea… well, age before.”
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 4d
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Mark Cuban is proof that, if A Christmas Carol were real, Scrooge would’ve just spent the entire time arguing with the ghosts and claiming they were ungrateful and unrealistic.
December 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Might be the best Azul board I’ve ever had.
Board from Azul with three full vertical rows, one complete horizontal row, and two complete sets, total score=123
December 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Figuring out if he’s a deeply cynical old bastard or deeply reverent samurai is one of the true joys of Final Fantasy X.

When people talk about all time great video game mentors, he should absolutely be in the conversation.

Fucking love Auron
comradeishmael.bsky.social Ishmael, The Transition Will Not Be Televised @comradeishmael.bsky.social · 2d
When I played FFX as a kid, I thought this was the coolest shit ever. Twenty years later I picked the game up again and thought this was the coolest shit ever
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Of course, I should’ve known that I still had more to cook with these moves.

I realized that my earlier draft didn’t smoothly account for a situation where someone else is providing for you. And given that relationships are really the bedrock of Scroll & Steel’s design, I needed to fix that.
Minor rest When you take a quick rest to catch your breath, repair your equipment, and meet your basic needs (but not much else), check if you meet 3 of the following requirements. If you do, recover your HP to full. You’re taking at least a full evening to rest. You’re in a space of relative safety. Someone has a medical kit and can use it (at least one per six people). You’re well supplied (at least 1 Supply per person). Major rest When you spend an extended time in an area of comfort and security, check if you meet one of the following requirements. You’re in a community that cares about you. You’re providing for yourself (spend 1 Supply). If you do, recover your HP to full and choose 1 below. You may spend 1 Supply to choose an additional option. Prepare: Remove up to 10 marks on your playbook. Heal: Choose 1 wound. You either cure it or the GM tells you explicitly what you’ll need to do to cure it. Socialize: You spend time with a character you're with. Detail what you do. If they genuinely appreciate it, boost a bond with them.
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Here's why Apocalypse World: Burned Over kicks ass: the rules for driving a car sound like you're trying to tame a wild animal.
When you’re behind the wheel and you let your vehicle off the leash, roll+Cool. On a 10+, it does whatever’s necessary to achieve its impulse, and succeeds, or else it damages or destroys itself in the attempt. Decide with the MC what it does and what happens. On a 7–9, it strives to achieve its impulse, but at this moment, the outcome’s uncertain. Ask the MC how things stand now, and take +1forward. On a miss, it struggles to pursue its impulse but falls short. Decide with the MC how and why. When you’re behind the wheel and you rein your vehicle in, you’re forcing it to deny its impulse and pursue some other impulse or goal instead. Say what you’re making it do and roll+Hard. On a 10+, it obeys. It does whatever’s necessary to achieve your goal, and succeeds, or else it damages or destroys itself in the attempt. Decide with the MC what it does and what happens. On a 7–9, it accedes, but grudgingly: it tries to find a balance between your goal and its defiance. Ask the MC what balance it finds, and what happens. On a miss, it defies you. It pursues its defiance with its full will and intent. Ask the MC what it does.
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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go play the best game of the year
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 3d
Absolum is $19.99 on US eShop buff.ly/22v3Ghl
(Steam) $18.99 Fanatical w/ code OMENVIP buff.ly/Cix5U4J
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I've known that Scroll & Steel's rest moves were clunky for a while now, but I'm feeling really good about this rewrite.
Minor rest When you take a quick rest to meet your basic needs (but not much else), check if you meet at least 2 of the following requirements. If you do, recover your HP to full. You’re taking at least a full evening to rest. You’re in a space of relative safety. Someone in the group has a medical kit (at least one per six people). Major rest When you spend an extended time in an area of comfort and security, you recover your HP to full and choose 1 below. You may spend 1 Supply to choose an additional option. Prepare: Remove up to 10 marks on your playbook. Heal: Choose 1 wound. You either cure it or the GM tells you explicitly what you’ll need to do to cure it. Socialize: You spend time with a character you're with. Detail what you do. If they genuinely appreciate it, boost a bond with them. Destitute When you have no Supply and push yourself without resting, you become fatigued and no longer gain any benefits from the rest moves.
December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"Huh, that's interesting. I wonder why I haven't heard of that before... oh, right."
Thundercats: The Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter. It's raised $134k in 6 days. [From the Kickstarter description] Thunder... Thunder... ThunderCats—Ho! The roar of the ThunderCats echoes once more! For the first time ever, ThunderCats comes to the tabletop in an officially licensed roleplaying game compatible with D&D 5E - 2024 rules.
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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PBTA games have this reputation for being rules-light and generally loose games, but I’m looking over the preview materials for Apocalypse World: Burned Over, and I’m reminded that this is an incredibly mechanically rich genre.

It just asks different questions than traditionally crunchy games.
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Clair Obscur is a bit of a weird game to be at the center of the AI art debate because its art style... isn't that good. It's very run-of-the-mill.

If it wasn't for the AI controversy, I probably wouldn't have commented on it at all (except to say that the character designs are too symmetrical).
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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What I love about the Benoit Blanc mysteries is that different characters will mention things they’ve heard Blanc has done, but, crucially, they never mention the other mysteries we’ve seen. It’s always some other, strange mysteries we get no other details about.

That’s how you do world-building.
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Really loving these stickers @bejeweled-laura.swifties.social got me for my birthday.

(Believe the artist is @sugarboops.bsky.social)
Stickers of Laios and Senshi from Dungeon Meshi. Laios has the word, “Autism” beneath him and Senshi is surrounded by the word, “BREAD”
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Ran Scroll & Steel today for the first time since Metatopia, and it went super well. I do have a weird problem, though. Combat is fun, but I haven't gotten to playtest it much; players keep finding ways to avoid it.

Despite this, the solution isn't, "Fill it with characters meant to be killed."
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Dragon is 100% right and let's take a look about how Miyazaki presents the death of a "stormtrooper" with his own hand shall we?

In the scene I'm about to break down an imperial plane has landed in the Valley of the Wind searching for survivors of a crashed transport.
Naussica rushes towards an imperial soldier in full armor. He raises an axe high and she brings her long sword to bear.
December 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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if democrats think trans people's lives are worth sacrificing then i don't think they get to whine about losing their votes too
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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What always gets me is the assumption that killing is essential. It's a much easier (and less ideologically fucked) solution to have it so taking an enemy to 0hp merely means they're knocked out or defeated rather than killed. Comic books figured this out a century ago.
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Honestly this video is horrifying *before* you think about how these creators have the gall to spout this nonsense and then claim to have a Ghibli aesthetic.

But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.
gm-jordan.bsky.social Jordan @gm-jordan.bsky.social · 7d
The team behind Obojima not only don’t care about Ghibli outside of the aesthetic, they also fully do not understand it. They’re either complete buffoons or actively bad people and the truth likely lies in the middle.

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What can you lose by humanizing monsters? #obojima #studioghibli #ghibli #1985games #ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e #podcast
TikTok video by Obojima
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December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I don’t understand why everyone has a problem with this. I think it’s a fantastic idea to destroy all the attack drones and reclaim their metal for more useful purposes…

… wait that’s not how they’re making these?
News story: ModRetro reveals limited edition handheld made from attack drone metal Attached is an image of what appears to be a GameBoy made with dark matte metal
December 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Quick preview of a new playbook I’ve been working on, The Brute.
The Brute You don’t ask; you demand, you take, you bend the world to your will. When others talk, you act. Your key stat is Vigor. You are skilled in making your demands clear. Names Beast, Breska, Hades, Hector, Karmen, Markas, Nespa, Rhaze, Verbosa, Vichtor Look expensive regalia, gloomy wardrobe, imposing armor, unkempt clothes feral gait, measured gait, proud gait, threatening gait Focus (starting) When you turn your full attention to a character, and this move is unmarked, you may choose a focus character and a focus goal from the list below. Keep them from being wounded. Prevent them from leaving. Prevent them from escaping your sight. Make a lasting impression on them. When you trigger a move in pursuit of your focus goal, choose one bonus. Gain +1 to your Vigor for this move. Deal [+2d6] damage with this move. Roll +Vigor instead of the normal stat for this move, then mark Focus. Prevent all damage to either you or your focus character during this move, then mark Focus. When you act counter to your focus goal, you achieve your focus goal, or your focus goal becomes impossible, mark this move. When this move is marked for any reason, the effect ends. Battle bully After you attempt to hinder a foe, no matter the result, secretly choose one. If your foe attempts to do the action you chose as their next action, and you’re still close to them, describe how you shut them down. This negates the action and makes them vulnerable to you. Attack you Attack an ally Move away from you Body language When you flirt with a character and draw their attention to your body, you may sense character based on their response. If you do, choose one: Roll +Vigor instead of +Precision. You ask (and get an honest answer) to “What do they think of me” in addition to the other results of the move. Deceptive stance When you deceive by altering how you move and act (instead of by what you say), choose one: Roll +Vigor instead of +Precision. You give a signal to a bonded character that communicates what you’re doing without breaking your deception. Either way, your deception is broken if you discuss the subject of your deception. Focused vengeance When you would mark focus because your focus character has been wounded, you may instead change your focus character to the one that dealt the wound and change your focus goal to, “Prevent them from leaving.”
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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To make games you need a seed of entitlement to think you can do something better, but you must never let it make you so stupid as to think you've done something that's never been done before.
steinmakesgames.bsky.social Stein Makes Games - Wishlist Dig Dig Boom @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 8d
Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Just upped my pledge. I’m sure I’ll find someone who needs an extra copy.

16 hours to go and I believe we can cross $200k.
megueyb.bsky.social MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social · 7d
Here it is. The final 24 hours. You've helped coax banked embers into a steady flame. Tell me, what is one thing you'll bring with you into What-Comes-Next? Seeds? Thread? A good kitchen knife? What will you make of what's left? Together, let's light up the world.
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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At Metatopia, my playbooks were one page, front and back. That caused issues when people needed to flip back and forth.

My problem is players need info for character creation but then not during play.

Example: players need their starting bond prompts but don’t really reference them much in play.
December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM