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Game designer | RUNE, LUMEN, NOVA, HUNT, LOOT, Slayers | IGDN award winner | cognitive psychologist | He/Him gilarpgs.com
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Chris
Someone went ahead and gave a bunch of my games bad ratings on itch, including the GILA playtest. Feels more vindictive than productive 🥲
It feels good to be back in the NOVAverse
Don't forget to check your email! You'll want to read the September Mecha Newsletter's interviews with designers Spencer Campbell of NOVA and with Alex Connolly, artist on Spectres of Brocken, Salvage Union, Argo-0, and 👀 Rust Never Sleeps. Plus, lots of community releases this month!
Concepts are down and I think it's a fun one!
Ok I've been really chugging away at this. I might have something to show sooner rather than later.
Attempt #2 of streaming today! twitch.tv/gilarpgs
Three TTRPGs: one hundred swords, five missing matriarchs, and a very little lover. Our campaign for Cosmic Century Knights (@oneshotrpg.bsky.social & @worldstoforge.bsky.social), Homecoming (@meghanlynnftw.bsky.social), and Chuck is live NOW through September 26! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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Stream is live! Grab a seat/comfy spot as we give folks a few minutes to see the notification and settle in.
Next month will mark the 4 year anniversary of NOVA being released. Wouldn't it be cool if I had the New Dawn rules update written in an early draft by then?
baby got dropped in my lap, so we're punting the stream to the afternoon 🤞
Let's do a morning design stream! Probably talking NOVA and TIER stuff. twitch.tv/gilarpgs
I've got 4 Ennies! Let me put them to work...FOR YOU! I'm also going to start doing Pokémon and Magic proxies soon!
A quick update on the state of the rascal, folks. Among other things, we'd like to welcome @crapstacular.bsky.social to the team as a part-time news writer!
I woke up this morning wanting to design a spider Spark
I'm so dang excited to play this game tomorrow
Yep
Any Actual Plays or Podcast mutuals want to help promote a last-minute, brand new TTRPG Kickstarter I'm launching this month? Note on "last minute": The game is done and will fulfill shortly after the campaign is finished.
What's funny is since we recorded this, @rascal.news has done ANOTHER interview with @gilarpgs.bsky.social about exactly this topic
Solo September you say? Well, then perhaps you'd like to play a very good solo soulslike indie TTRPG. gilarpgs.itch.io/rune
I'd say a good 30-40% of my work on games doesn't actually look like work. It's doing dishes, going on walks, playing with my dog, staring off into the void in the distance.
We're diving back into the NOVAverse baby
Oh? Something is brewing and @nightjargames.bsky.social is cooking
The last few days I tried to do a design stream at this time of day my baby woke up from her nap after 20 minutes and crashed the stream. So I figure I shouldn't chance it today. Guess who is an hour into a nap with no signs of stopping? Hint, it's not Clover.
Just shared a very early draft of this with patrons. The companion seems like a good solution and would be pretty fun to design and play!
Pregens are written up for RAID, and the playtesters hit the BALDR Defense Network tomorrow morning
Solo September you say? Well, then perhaps you'd like to play a very good solo soulslike indie TTRPG. gilarpgs.itch.io/rune
Excited to playtest RAID tomorrow! All art by @nightjargames.bsky.social
I'm just saying, my patrons have been getting some good stuff lately. RAID ashcan, GILA Emerald Plains region early access, Slayers Duet rules draft. Might be time for you to consider supporting me there. www.patreon.com/c/gilarpgs
Ok that's pretty funny lol
Put it up on Patreon and will share publicly soon!
Spent the morning thinking about the no rolling Tier combat of RAID and how it might work well for GILA. It makes fights very lethal. You have to go in with a plan or edge, otherwise you're in trouble.
I'm just saying, my patrons have been getting some good stuff lately. RAID ashcan, GILA Emerald Plains region early access, Slayers Duet rules draft. Might be time for you to consider supporting me there. www.patreon.com/c/gilarpgs
Just shared a very early draft of this with patrons. The companion seems like a good solution and would be pretty fun to design and play!
Ok I think I have come up with a really fun way to play Slayers as a duet game (1 GM 1 PC)
nooooooo
Or she has very strong design opinions and is against everything I'm saying.
At this point I think my baby just hates games, with the way she crashes my design streams
Let's do a design stream! Maybe work on some TIER stuff? GILA updates, RAID playtest prep. Or talk about duet rules for my games! twitch.tv/gilarpgs
I need your thoughts and votes www.patreon.com/posts/137827...
9:30 PM on a Sunday night is a good time to write a blog post right? Here is a brief outline of a revised TIER system combat ruleset. It is very lethal! Which I think is good and right for OSR/adventure type games. www.patreon.com/posts/tier-c...
The September Mecha TTRPG Newsletter is out and it features NOVA by @gilarpgs.bsky.social! Plus an interview with artist @alexconnolly.bsky.social who has worked on Salvage Union and Spectres of Brocken. Also check out the monthly mecha content round-up with several new releases & a kickstarter!
I think they would!
9:30 PM on a Sunday night is a good time to write a blog post right? Here is a brief outline of a revised TIER system combat ruleset. It is very lethal! Which I think is good and right for OSR/adventure type games. www.patreon.com/posts/tier-c...
Spent the morning thinking about the no rolling Tier combat of RAID and how it might work well for GILA. It makes fights very lethal. You have to go in with a plan or edge, otherwise you're in trouble.
New patreon post! New hex for my lil Riverlands microcrawl that includes a "dungeon" for players to explore, and a strange mystery to unravel.
Thinking about this a bit more, I think a series of duet rules would be better. I have so many people come to my booth asking for duet games and I have nothing. I can at least point to RUNE if they ask for solo.
That's what I'm thinking!
Actually not just solo, but duet as well. I get sooo many people asking for duet games in my booth and it's a blank space for me.
Hopefully the game is about to get even cooler!
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I'm so excited the shop is able to offer this opportunity! We are going to need a lot of help over the coming months... 😅🤐
I've had so many people ask how to play Slayers, NOVA, LOOT, and others solo. I should think about it.
Thinking about making a bunch of "going solo" pamphlets for my games. Small rules tweaks and variants to play my games solo.
Thinking about them
Tabletop Bookshelf is one of the best online stores, and you could work for them!
I've got two of the delves keyed for the starter GILA region. I want to do at least one more before sending this updated version to patrons.
watabou is the gift that keeps on giving
Mike does incredible work
It's a fun trend where I don't have to do a dance! 💃🎨 #the_color_wheel
The only reason I would even consider it is because my wife is both Korean and a professional singer, and would work on it with me. Otherwise I wouldn't touch it. But we'll probably make something else together, we started brainstorming last night.
Vroom vroom
Hmm if only I knew someone Korean (my wife) and musical (also my wife) who could help me do it...
My wife is trying to get me to make a K Pop Demon Hunters TTRPG
Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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I've got two of the delves keyed for the starter GILA region. I want to do at least one more before sending this updated version to patrons.
Might work on the DUSK remake today
Day 3 of my time in the Dungeon Design course starts now! I'm picking up where I left off last time, refining the theme of my dungeon: ultra verdant forest twitch.tv/gilarpgs
Hell yeah you have
Folks, try GILA.
Did you try GILA?
Day 2 of the Designing Dungeons course stream is here! This is part 1 of 2, since a waking baby cut things short. youtu.be/45TT7ypRKLw
thanks for the heads up!
My latest video is a setting analysis of @felixisaacs.bsky.social's "The Wildsea!" I borrow inspiration from the work of scholar Stefan Ekman, and use his critical worldbuilding ideas to imagine how the world's culture is impacted by key setting touchstones.
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When I told them no, they mentioned that my peers had similar reactions and wanted to know why. After explaining all the reasons AI is awful, their response was "Reach out if I ever change my stance" Insane. Multiple people told them no. Change YOUR stance Fabled.
By the way, when I asked them to clarify AI usage this was part of the message they sent to me.
As a heads up to designers, there is a new VTT, Fabled, that reached out to me about putting stuff on their site. They use AI to generate images for things in their store, homebrew images, etc. Avoid them, block them.
Might work on the DUSK remake today
As a heads up to designers, there is a new VTT, Fabled, that reached out to me about putting stuff on their site. They use AI to generate images for things in their store, homebrew images, etc. Avoid them, block them.
You should try GILA gilarpgs.itch.io/gila-playtest
Go read this. kashi-info.carrd.co
it's real good y'all
Don't take my word for it, listen to @titanomachyrpg.com
Today's dungeon design stream got cut short because of waking baby. I'll get the vod up soon and hopefully can finish chapter 3 next time!
Day 2 of my time in the Designing Dungeons class by @riseupcomus.bsky.social starts now! Let's dive deeper into our theme. Ultra Verdant Forest. twitch.tv/gilarpgs
doing the thing twitch.tv/gilarpgs
It might be time for the next chapters in the Designing Dungeons class!
For real. its so freaking good.
This is a GSR game. Gila's special rules.
You should try GILA gilarpgs.itch.io/gila-playtest
Things I find myself searching at 2am while trying to get my baby to sleep: "how to uncreaky my floor"
Also, Shadowrun Anarchy is a name I've not heard in a long, long time
Ok this is a very funny FAQ on the Shadowrun Anarchy KS page
CANDLE is an inverted dungeon crawl for @morkborg.com and you'd be a fool not to buy it loottheroom.itch.io/candle #ttrpg
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