I've been hard at work throwing my latest game into a proper layout. At the moment, it's sitting around 300 A5 pages (THE CHONKINEST BOI I'VE EVER WRITTEN), and I've still got some things to add.
I've also landed on a name finally, Unsung Sagas! I'm hoping to have something to show in the next week
It's another #selfpromosaturday and you know what to do! Im personally looking for #indie #ttrpgs but I'm cool with anything you want to show off (SFW preferred).
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I trust my autocorrect way too much
So... fellow creatives...
Does anyone here have any experience or examples of such a thing, and what folks create with it? To take something very distinct and release it into the public, for them to shape it, write about it, etc, virtually with impunity?
... "things." Or, basically mindflayers without the hierarchal pseudo-society and alien gadgetry, and a lot more ominous and unsettling.
Being as this is a book to be released fully as a CC title, that means these creatures and lore entries can be used, remixed, and all that stuff. 2/3
So I'm deep in the muck of my D&D 5e conversion project, hard at the monster section. Going you've the aberration in the SRD, they're either boring, or distinctly D&D (or both).
So I made something new using the existing traits that's kind of something between the xenomorphs and Starnger Things 1/3
Don't let it scare you off mate. Keep at it week after week, and you'll start seeing all the people you're helping out more and more. You're more than welcome to use my promo posts (when I make them) if you keep up that good work
Keep it up! What you're saying is top tier advice a lot of newbie DMs and GMs, and even players miss out on.
Don't look so nervous. You know your stuff!
Another great bit of content on table play! You guys are killing it today!
Good advice and tips, and another like minded individual who promotes having fun with the game narratives
As I'm chipping away at my GMing chapter, I come across this posted on my self promo Saturday thread and this guy has it nailed right on the head! While I express communication as a key, I did not express trust as a component and I think I'll have to ammend that.
I hope to see a lot more, brother!
Following!
Just at 10x the goal, that's a great campaign!
Ah! I remember seeing this!
I've been wondering how it's going, glad to see it's up on kickstarter 🤘
The game will be released under CC BY 4.0, with a free, artless version available, a gmbinder.com document so you can just copy that whole thing with the style template, and make and sell your own things with it completely royalty free (from me, anyway).
I hope to have something presentable soon 🖤
Guides to actually play more scenarios than just combat, and how to keep it interesting. GM guides for starting out, running the game, making and modifying content, and a grossly simplified monster system that also provides meaningful lore and information on how to play them. 8/9
My self promo is this:
I set out a decade ago to make the better version of a fantasy game that I want. It's taken many shapes and lots of inspirations over that time, but its finally taken the final shape. It's a 5e clone that does more with less. One roll resolution, freeform characters, 7/9
Due to the overwhelming amount of everything I have going on in both my personal and professional life (not my day job, thankfully), I haven't been able to funnel funds into this. I've been busting chops to try completing my latest project and it's nearly there. 6/9
I'm just waiting for that to be finalized, and then I'm going to finish filing an LLC that aims to help provide resources as a publisher for indies. This will I include art drives for free high quality stock pieces, community guides on how to make and sell your games, and of course, the zine. 5/9
Careful what you sign, folks!
I'm settling on the terms that I get my IPs back and lift the non-compete. But. I can't disclose who I was partnering with.
I've been fighting that for a while now, and i put it aside because helping indies is more important. 4/9
I started up a publishing brand with someone, they filed as the only member of management and hired me as an employee, and in all the excitement I missed that detail as well as a non-compete and NDA form. Basically, I signed away my IPs at the time and had to operate under a pen name 3/9
Between more than a handful of personal problems, I've also been trying to startup a #zine showcasing #indiettrpgs. It's sort of stalled out at the moment, but I haven't given it up yet. I've also had a professional legal battle for years that I'm settling on to help make the zine a reality 2/9
It's been a hectic few weeks, but we're here for another #selfpromosaturday! Showcase your #WIP or completed #ttrpg, #podcast, #streamer, #art, or #writing!
I myself have had a busy time for the last month or so. 1/9
But the style template you use makes it so much more efficient. You don't have to select header 1 every time, just start the line out as
# Chapter X: Stuff
And bam, it's done. Automatically a chapter heading.
Print, save as PDF, and you're golden.
My recommendation is GMBinder.com
It fell off on development but it's still a perfectly viable tool. With some CSS know-how, you can set the style to whatever you like and just type. The layout is done semi-automatically, you still have to place your headers, page and column breaks,
It may just be because I'm on mobile
I tried clicking the link to the quickstart but nothing happened. For anyone interested:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
A quick glance at the page and this seems like it could be a chaotic good time
Thank you! It's not a mechanic I'm super familiar with, but I tackled it by granting points, or challenging the GM to rock paper scissors if you want to save those points, or when you have none to spend.
It's definitely for short form play, but the idea is to hopefully get your group playing again
Pendelhaven Press made a 5e and agnostic creature compendium of Norse mythology creatures some years back.
The simplest idea is give a bit of the lore, some ideas of how to play the creature, and some of the attacks it's capable of and a rough idea of how hard it hits.
Ahhhh I understand.
All the same, a lot of creators like holding their darlings close and end up smothering them.
To the struggling creators out there: It's good to share just enough of your game that gets people intrigued by what it does, and how it does it.
