one place I worked at farmed out QA to cheap labor overseas. it was enormously harmful to product quality imo. the few QA leads in-house who managed the offshore team were still overworked and undervalued and I can only imagine the working conditions for the offshore team, not that we'd ever know

...and in my experience it couldn't be less true; nobody knows the product as deeply and as holistically, and there is no more effective way to work out a tricky issue than with the help of someone who knows how to methodically narrow it down and determine the conditions for when it occurs

WE'VE REACHED DAY 31 of #ttrpgpromptober, the prompt for which is "halloween". This one's admittedly a little phoned in, but it's also blessedly short. I hope it's at least worth a smirk.

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

the straight-up katana handle is so perfect

Is it possible that the incompleteness was related to my insistence on making silly drawings of every silly space plant? Mind your own business!

Day 30 of #ttrpgpromptober was "harvest" and I landed on an (unhinged) idea that I liked pretty quickly, but got a little off track when iterating on it. It's incomplete and messy but it's got a pretty wacky pitch that I'm excited to revisit!

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

Had no big ideas for "flowers" for day 29 of #ttrpgpromptober so I just made a series of little prompts for inventing a Plot-Critical Flower. Had fun playing with ordering of prompts, choice structure, and attempting slightly more poetic language

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-2...

it would make you so powerful lmao

Day 28 of #ttrpgpromptober has the theme "Gods/goddesses". My partner suggested I try making something akin to Polaris' ritual phrases for conflict resolution, which I thought was a good fit for undying gods. Also, I've been playing Hades II 😅

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

As usual this needs some work, but my idea for Day 27 of #ttrpgpromptober: "Dreams/nightmares" felt like I was back in a groove! It's a generic campaign supplement for interludes where a PC dreams about future adventures and plays against their GM

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

For day 26 of #ttrpgpromptober ("Trail cams/found footage"), I made something a little bit obvious, but with a twist around playing with spacial consistency within the narrative. This one's pretty unfinished but I think there's a neat idea or two.

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

Made it to day 25 of #ttrpgpromptober, which is "cryptid". Wrote up a very light epistolary game about cryptids sending letters to each other over the years. It's a little simple but I'm happy with what I came up with

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

For day 24 of #ttrpgpromptober the prompt is "Colossal beast"; I thought I'd be into this one but I'm still kind of in a slump, and possibly just starting to get worn out. Anyway, here's some prompts directly about Shadow of the Colossus 😅

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

Prompt 23 for #ttrpgpromptober is "aliens" and I gotta admit I really struggled. I came up with a half-baked social-deduction-ish game? And I don't even really like those? It's kind of incoherent and unfinished but I wrote it so I'm posting it!

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

The prompt for day 22 of #ttrpgpromptober is "Summoning circles", so I made a solo journaling game about summoning a demon to enact a terrible revenge. It's a bit thin in some places but I had fun with the flavor writing and the prompt system!

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...

For day 21 of #ttrpgpromptober ("Sword in the forest"), I explored an idea about creating characters based on another player's prompt choices. It's pretty loose and gestural right now but I hope it might be evocative?

link: thecastlebuilder.notion.site/promptober-D...