@eldritchmouse

TTRPGs. He/him. Ennie-award winner and definitely a person.

 Edmonton, Alberta
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Joined February 2019
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CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT is a two-player paranormal romance TTRPG with inspiration from The Bear, Twilight, and True Blood. Flirt shamelessly as your favorite mythical creature while trying to survive the dinner rush. The monsters in the dark are real. And they work in fine dining.
Coming soon to Kickstarter. Can't Take The Heat. Two mythical monsters, a werewolf and a siren, make flirty eyes at each other in the kitchen.

ALT Coming soon to Kickstarter. Can't Take The Heat. Two mythical monsters, a werewolf and a siren, make flirty eyes at each other in the kitchen.

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A new mindstorm blog post to close out the year! I'm theory-posting about the cognitive load of worldbuilding and our ability to comprehend it. tl;dr: the more stuff you include that is "off baseline" the harder it becomes to understand.
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Baseline Worldbuilding

Defining a baseline understanding when you're worldbuilding or writing an adventure.

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All I want is a boomer shooter that plays like a mix between Halo 1/2/3 + Half-life 2 AND has a decent map maker.
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I'm part of a Secret Santa as per the Explorers Design 2024 gift guide. I pulled Root Devil and wrote a small review of the Barkeep Jam entry... GATORBARGE! Come gamble in the maw of giant alligator. Test your luck until the jaws snap shut. Check it out: mindstormpress.com/gambling-…

Gambling on the Gatorbarge

A review of the Barkeep Jam submission Gatorbarge by Root Devil

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Finding a replacement for iaWriter on Android is proving more difficult than I thought it would be.
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🚨 New mindstorm post!! 🚨 Happy Blog Friday to all who celebrate! I've created a little mini game for bartering with the weird merchants you find in odd places. At the end of the post, you'll also find three merchants to drop in your game! mindstormpress.com/the-art-o…
A newspaper illustration depicting a man engaging in barter, paying his yearly newspaper subscription to the "Podunk Weekly Bugle" with various farm produce.

ALT A newspaper illustration depicting a man engaging in barter, paying his yearly newspaper subscription to the "Podunk Weekly Bugle" with various farm produce.

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When running a save-instead-of-checks game like Into the Odd or Mothership, frame up the saves for clarity. Okay, you're doing x, and saving against y. You're hacking the computer and trying to prevent it from taking too much time. Save vs Wis.
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In case you were wondering I'm actually incredibly tall and not a little guy at all (see evidence below)
Ty standing in front of a short door you'd have to duck to get through.

ALT Ty standing in front of a short door you'd have to duck to get through.

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NPC personalities are best when they're anchored firmly to ONE THING. Pick an animal, and have them act like that animal. Pick a character from a movie. Pick an emotion. Pick a color. Just pick one thing.
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This year, I agonizingly extracted myself from several tumultuous TTRPG business partnerships. In this goliath blog post, I'm sharing everything I learned from those trials: evaluating contracts, spotting red flags, and what to do when things go south. uncannyspheres.blogspot.com/…

A Nest of Vipers: Navigating TTRPG Contracts and Partnerships

In this blog post, I hope to share everything I learned from my misfortunes and triumphs in forming and breaking TTRPG industry partnerships—equipping you (the intrepid indie designer or curious...

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🚨 Ton of New Blog Posts Alert 🧛🏻‍♂️ This past weekend was unofficially officially Vampire Weekend (no relation to the band of the same name) on the blogosphere. So you have more posts about vampires than you could shake a crucifix at! Here is all the ones I could find 🧵
Marceline the Vampire Queen, Strahd von Zarovich, and Count Von Count are at a house party with a chandelier. Music about Oxford commas plays in the background

ALT Marceline the Vampire Queen, Strahd von Zarovich, and Count Von Count are at a house party with a chandelier. Music about Oxford commas plays in the background

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Tinkering on my science fantasy TTRPG continues! The only place to see the rules so far is my P*treon, where I just released 23 pages to all tiers. This update includes all the combat rules, even some rules for large scale combat
A strange group of adventurers with their war ostrich mount head toward a rickety bridge over a chasm over a verdant jungle. Two cybernetic gorillas lie in wait below for a potential ambush. In the background are the ruins of a domed futuristic city as two pterodactyls fly overhead. Heading: Prismatic Wasteland by W.F. Smith, Subhead: “Explore a World Hovering on the Edge of Time”

ALT A strange group of adventurers with their war ostrich mount head toward a rickety bridge over a chasm over a verdant jungle. Two cybernetic gorillas lie in wait below for a potential ambush. In the background are the ruins of a domed futuristic city as two pterodactyls fly overhead. Heading: Prismatic Wasteland by W.F. Smith, Subhead: “Explore a World Hovering on the Edge of Time”

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Need adventure ideas? Look up local historical events and twist them. Render out the fat, leaving only the core idea. Then, compress it as much as you can to a single location and as short of a timeline as possible. Boom. Instant adventure.
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WIP cover for my Halloween project! I don't know if I'll make the deadline, but I'm happy with how this is looking. Still trying to decide if it's going to be a Borg hack or a Mark of the Odd game, but I'm leaning towards the latter.
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digital art improvement over 3 years 👍
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show me a professionally taken photo of a GM dude and I'll show you a fella with his fingers steepled
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Looking to play Barkeep on the Borderlands with His Majesty the Worm rules? Do I got the solution for you 👇
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I think there's a small startup called NERV working on this
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4 days to go on this comic anthology that I am to be a part of! Help us get fully funded!
A colorful depiction of disabled creators gathering against the background of the disability pride flag. They cheer and hold signs that read "Fix the System" and "Disabled & Proud!" The banner on the bottom corner of the image notifies of a Kickstarter campaign ending soon.

ALT A colorful depiction of disabled creators gathering against the background of the disability pride flag. They cheer and hold signs that read "Fix the System" and "Disabled & Proud!" The banner on the bottom corner of the image notifies of a Kickstarter campaign ending soon.

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