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Sigfried Trent (SigTrent Games)
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Week 42 update! ✅ Finished Everyday Pirates draft 🏴‍☠️ New art for Shotgun Fantasy 🎨 Deep dive into "designing backwards" for ship combat mechanics.

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Designer Diary 42: Designing Backwards
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December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Week 41: Shotgun Fantasy editing done! ✅ Everyday Pirates over halfway complete with awesome ship combat. This week's tip: Crunch vs Fluff in game design 🎲

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Designer Diary 41: Crunch vs Fluff
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November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Week 40: Shotgun Fantasy races through editing! I also reveal what game designers should pay attention to when playing other people's games + how it makes you better at your craft.

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Designer Diary 40: Playing and Learning
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November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Week 39 update! 🎉 Shotgun Fantasy is off to editing! Started Everyday Pirates for January. This week: my thoughts on random tables in RPG design

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Designer Diary 39: Random Tables
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November 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Week 38: Hit my mystery project deadline, renaming spells in Shotgun Fantasy & starting Everyday Pirates research! Plus, sharing self-motivation tips for game designers.

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Designer Diary 38: Motivation
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October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Week 37 update! Shotgun Fantasy editing continues, just announced Everyday Pirates for Evil Genius Games (Jan release!), and tips on learning how to prioritize your work as a contractor!

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Designer Diary 37: Prioritize
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October 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Week 36 update! Made progress on Shotgun Fantasy editing & shared contracting advice for TTRPG creatives. Plus: first Traveller session & Tron Aries thoughts! 🎲✨

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Designer Diary 36: Contracting
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October 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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First draft of Shotgun Fantasy is DONE! 🎉 Moving to final edits now. This week's video covers game dev communication tips - super important for any creative work.

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Designer Diary 35 Developer Communication
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October 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Week 34: Shotgun Fantasy first draft nearly done! 🎉 Writing furiously with magic items & spells. Next: Self-edit then formal editing. PDF release on target B4 year's end! Also: game design tips on conflict encounters 🎲
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Designer Diary 34: Conflict Encounters
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October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Week 33: #ShotgunFantasy magic items nearly done! Sharing for combat design tips - how to make fights feel like epic stories. Also: Alien Earth is AMAZING and ear infections suck 😅

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Designer Diary 33: Fun Combats
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September 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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What kind of scenario would unfold with a Paladin's 'Detect Evil' in modern politics? How would alignment work in contemporary settings?

#TTRPG problems as players start asking the hard questions!

Sign up - link in bio - for #ShotgunFantasy release info!📝

#Playtesting #GameDesign #TTRPG
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Party cleric's healing spells work on modern diseases. Do they:

A) Become a miracle worker
B) Hide from authorities
C) Start a supernatural clinic
D) Get recruited by Big Pharma

Moral complexity writes itself - pure #ShotgunFantasy gold! What would YOUR character do? 🤔

#TTRPG #EthicalDilemmas
September 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Week 32 crushed it! Magic items system for Shotgun Fantasy is finally clicking, playtest went amazing & I'm sharing my secret to lore dumps as a GM. Spoiler make players ask YOU! 🎲✨

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Designer Diary 32: Lore Dumps
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September 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Design challenge: updating spell components for modern settings. ✨ Can you buy 'Eyelash encased in gum arabic' online?

This is why Shotgun Fantasy needed its own spellcasting system - one that works in fantasy taverns AND coffee shops.

#GameDesign #TTRPG #ShotgunFantasy #SpellCasting
September 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Hit that perfect creative flow this week! 2x my writing goals for Shotgun Fantasy & the isekai section is done ✅ Playtesters excitement for the game feels AMAZING. I ❤️ players who discover cool uses for your mechanics

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Designer Diary 31: Finding a Groove
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September 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Week 30 dev update! I finished all the Shotgun Fantasy equipment packs & playtested with sky sharks. This week's design tip: writing for players vs GMs

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Designer Diary 30: GMs vs Players
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September 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Modern party gets magic powers, fantasy NPCs get smartphones. Tavern keeper Yelp-reviews adventuring parties & dragon TikToks their hoard.

Working on Shotgun Fantasy supplement. What's the funniest 'reverse culture shock' moment you can imagine?

#TTRPG #IsekaiRPG #ShotgunFantasy
September 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Which 3 #ttrpgs were your intro, the one that made you fall in love and the one that opened your eyes to possibility.

For me:

Intro: Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set 1983

My love for the hobby: Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Opened my eyes: Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game
August 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Week 29 game design diary is live! 🎮Shotgun Fantasy playtests going strong! Got some wizard balance tweaks to make though. This week's game design focus was adventure pacing.

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Designer Diary 29 Adventure Pacing
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August 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Week 28 design log is up! Curated isekai inspo examples for Shotgun Fantasy - from movies to games showing different world-hopping styles. Deep dive into reading comprehension tricks for game design.

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Designer Diary 28: Reading Comprehension
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August 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Week 27 gaming update is live! Playtesting is in full swing for Shotgun Fantasy #EveryDayHeros Suppliment. Also sharing my playtest survey strategies because structured feedback is good!!

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Designer Diary 27: Playtesting Surveys
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August 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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New video is up! 🎲 Our Shotgun Fantasy playtest is finally live! Also diving deep into what makes games replayable. Spoiler: it's not just "add more randomness" (though that can help when done right).🦸‍♂️

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Designer Diary 26: Replayability
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August 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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New video update! 🎉 Dive into Shotgun Fantasy news (Fighter & Rogue are DONE!), plus Wizard/Cleric updates + playtest docs. My game design tip: ENJOY YOUR WORK!

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Designer Diary 25: Enjoy Your Work
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July 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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New YouTube vid just dropped! 🎬 This week, I'm talking SigTrent Games updates (slow but for good reason!) But I got a good design tips on choice & consequence in TTRPGs!

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Designer Diary 24: Choice and Consequence
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July 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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New video out! 🎬 Week 23 update: Shotgun Fantasy progress & "Night Magic" ✨ Shadow Markets & Debatable Actions now on Sidekick 🎲 Game design tip: Checklists are key! ✅

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Designer Diary 23: Check Lists
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July 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM