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Jason Hein
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Game designer, conqueror of codebases, tabletop GM, and ADHD chaos.

Indie game developer who released Spectrum Break, a neon physics platformer.

Currently designing a tabletop roleplaying game about dark fairytale mysteries.

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Walter is a very elegant dummy.

#cats
September 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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My chubby cat Walter. ❤️

#cats #cat
April 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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How do I get anything done under these conditions?

#cat #aww
Fat cat laid out in front of my keyboard.
March 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The quick rules summary for Edict RPG is now absolutely packed with information.

#rpgdesign #rpg
Quick Rules Summary Here is a quick overview of the game. Your Goal Investigate the region for the monster's weaknesses. Knowing the monster's weaknesses makes it less impossible to fight. If you have just entered combat with a monster you do not know the weaknesses of, you should run before you all die. Learn the situation. Sometimes the monster is not the true enemy or can be cured. Pick off minions so they do not join the monster in the final fight. You succeed and level up when you defeat the monster or resolve the conflict. How to Perform Tasks Tell the GM what you want your character to do. If what you are doing is difficult, the GM will ask you to roll Muscle, Agility, Scout, Charm, or Study. Roll a d20 and you can spend any number of dice from that attribute pool to add that many d6’s to the roll. Tell the GM your result. If your roll is higher than or equal to a number decided by the GM, you succeed. Exploding Dice If you roll the highest value on any dice, you can roll another of that dice and add it to the roll. This is even the case for d20’s! Edicts Edicts are personal quests. When a player completes an Edict, all players gain an artifact, and improve the dice in their attribute pools and in their damage rolls. d6 -> d8 -> d10 -> d12 Combat All players act on the same turn. Each taking a major and minor action on that turn. You can take any action listed on your gear or the Action Sheet. If an attribute roll would be divided as part of an action, round down. Actions in the rules are underlined. Standard Turn Move to within range of an enemy. Use a major action targeting that enemy. If you have no target, sprint to an enemy. Battlemap Measurements Each space on a battle map represents a 1m by 1m space. For an action with a 3m range, it can target up to 3 spaces away. Damage When you roll damage, roll 2 d6’s. You wound the enemy if you beat their wound TN, then damage their group’s morale. Wounded If damage you take reduces your health to 0, you are wounded. You will be removed from the battle at the end of your next turn. Terrain On your turn, if you are in a terrain with an effect at any time, its effect immediately applies to you and lasts for the rest of the turn. When terrain is created under you, make an Agility roll to dodge out of the area before it is created. You move up to a number of meters equal to your roll divided by 10 (rounded down). Terrain in the rules are italicized. Escape If sprint movement would move you off the battlemap, you may escape combat.
January 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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A bandit stat block.

So far it looks like I have a stat block that is about the same size as one in dnd, but I have more interesting things in there.

Even for a simple bandit, there is a goal, a twist that happens in 1d6 rounds, and 2 weaknesses for the players to discover.

#rpg #rpgdesign
Bandit Wound: 8 Morale: 16 Speed: 4m Goal: Rob and escape. Twist: 1d6 bandits arrive in 1d6 rounds. Rob (Major): Choose an adjacent target while hidden, or someone adjacent they can agility exploit. The target becomes wounded from hunger at the end of combat if this bandit escapes. Variations: Choose 1 Dagger (Major): 7 damage to an adjacent target. Shortbow (Major): 4 damage to a target that is not close to itself or its ally. Weaknesses If you leave food on the battlemap. The bandits will sprint to it, take it, and then leave. You can make a 15 TN Charm check to reason with them. If you succeed the bandit's morale is halved. Then half the bandits become neutral to you and escape combat.
January 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Northern lights from the side of a country road.
October 11, 2024 at 3:20 AM