Rowan Sender, Eternal

I really thought it was going to happen today for some reason. I just felt right

I should go start my zucchini and tomatoes but my garage is still a mess and I don't want to clear space for it right now

Started my planting for the season. Potatoes are in the ground

Thought I was going to do onions today too, but I actually need more compost first.

Finally finished the two towers

this was an idle joke a year ago but what with current events and so on i think there is now a legitimate chance that by the time this game releases whatever world it is satirizing will be so dead its genre might as well be fantasy

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I'm taking too long to get through His Majesty the Worm. I need to stop writing notes and just write opinions. It's slowing me down too much

I see. We are much alike.
Twill be a cold, dark, and very gentle place.
And one day, it will make someone a goodly home.
Then I will name this painting "Ash".

Maybe the quote that haunts me the most. Dark, cold, and gentle.

-All play is interpretive. There is no true game.
-Interesting things can happen when you stop prioritizing perfect clarity as primary goal. Trust your reader.
-Your game should probably be more lean.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

I thought for a moment that His Majesty the Worm was going to do something really interesting with "class" as a concept, but alas, no. You're adventurers and exist outside of the class structure of the City.

Yeah, I'll buy your game, whatever.

I'm so susceptible to inky splotchy artwork

Shocking🤡

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I didn't even think to mention that you could definitely pull from historical works for Public Domain Month!

Go make a Poetic Edda game!

Hey it's been, however many months I can't tell.

Doing the biannual thing again where you various creators can post your indie ttrpg down before so I can hopefully spread them to more people and maybe even make a review video on it!

I don't really have any new projects right now, but you're very cool for doing this kind of thing!

Angel's Egg was amazing. Definitely lived up to what I was expecting and more

this is my game, I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again. to play, you log it every time you kill an insect. this is also available as a web app @transwron.gs made with me. people tell me it changed their behavior- they think twice about hurting insects when they remember the rules.

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This is also why I was looking at the forge forums earlier.

I've obviously come across the GNS stuff before. Broken record, but I don't really think it's that useful. I really dont want to get into discourse about this ancient shit. This isn't what I was doing, OSR systems are just boring.

This was genuinely a good faith reading of these games to try to understand what's going on with them.

I just came out of them very disappointed, which is on me partially.

I got vaguely accused of being a Forge (I think) glazer for this in an itch review lol.

A forum that shut down when I was 14 and had its hayday when I was 8ish. Trust me, I'm not.

I kind of missed the whole thing. What were people arguing about in February?

Everyone coming in to stare at a corpse.

Yeah, I've read a bunch of tangential games over the past few years, but I'm using this as an excuse to finally get to the ones I've had on my list for a while.

The light tone feels off for a game that seems to be an interesting exploration of earlyish medieval dungeon delving with a focus on characterization and hardship.

I'm curious if the writing will maintain this sort of light, conversational tone. Or if it'll change to something that is more suited for the genre that the game seems(?) to live in.

His Majesty the Worm is quite a chunky game. I've managed to only read a few pages so far, but it's very interesting.