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Lyme

@lymerpg.bsky.social

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TTRPG Writer & Game Designer. Known for Dawn of the Orcs, Fear and Panic. https://lymetime.itch.io/ https://brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/blog/ https://linktr.ee/lymerpg

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've finally released the first full edition of Fear and Panic! This is the most focused, streamlined version of a d100 horror system I could build, based on countless hours of playtesting and experience as a horror GM.
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Fear and Panic by Lyme

Player-Friendly Horror Roleplaying

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 1d

The Mothership Cataphracts game on Prospero's Dream is pretty fun so far.

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 5d

Contemplating how the most influential award show for Evil Hat was the Indie RPG Awards held in the early 00s, before Evil Hat existed as a company. @rdonoghue.bsky.social and I won one for an earlier incarnation of Fate, “best free game”. It was a narrower population that knew about it, but enough…

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 6d

I know this is an RPG question, but speaking as someone with a day job that regularly requires looking at construction drawings and as-builts, yes, please, start numbering hallways. And listing their square footage.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 6d

Turned out to be this one: bsky.app/profile/bari...

Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 7d

Game Jam called "Make It Fit" where we try to force a system to do something that it shouldn't do at all while still maintaining the ethos of the system. Farming mechanics in Blades in the Dark. Orbital Blues dating simulator. Draw Steel store management sim.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 7d

Put me on the list for this one. I have ideas. Maybe even a half-finished project.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 7d

Help! Someone in one of my 100 discord servers suggested a game jam making wildly discordant game hacks, and I have a great idea, but I can't find which server it was.

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Appleseed, but with funky dice and tarot decks.

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Spellbook Gaming @spellbookgaming.bsky.social · 9d

New Developer Showcase #actualplay episode! Today we are joined by @lymerpg.bsky.social to play his game "Dawn of the Orcs", a fantasy worldbuilding TTRPG! Join our council of weird sages as we construct perfect tools of war...
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The Manhattan Project, but with ORCS! | Dawn of the Orcs | RFD Developer Showcase Actual Play

YouTube video by Spellbook Gaming

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 9d

Time to build a local RPG design scene again!

Brian Liberge/Freddie (she/he) 🔜Dungeons and Drag Nuns @brianliberge.bsky.social · 12d

Boston area TTRPG designers, we are putting together a meetup to see each other in person, exchange ideas and build community.

Thursday October 23rd at @sidequestbooks.bsky.social in Bow Market

www.eventbrite.com/e/ttrpg-game...

TTRPG Game Designer Meetup @ SQBG

Come get to know the other TTRPG designers in Camberville and beyond!

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 10d

I bet Fantom Comics would show it. They do a lot of screenings and have Wingspan on their shelves.

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 10d

A couple times, I've been asked by people at public events if you need to know any particular math to design an RPG. Here's a blog post I hope will be helpful:
brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/basic-math-f...

Basic Math for RPG Design

I’ve been asked a couple times by people looking to make RPGs about what kind of math goes into designing an RPG, and if they need to study any particular ma...

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 12d

Could be. I started noticing it after watching The 6th Day, Fury Road, and Dark City in a row on a particularly odd day. It's also what every Neil Breen movie is. Not every action movie, but a decently large chunk.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 12d

3. Protagonist has a revelation or realization about the nature of their world, and may unlock or reveal some inner power. Not necessarily mystical but definitely can be.
4. Protagonist turns and destroys their pursuers, then rights the wrongs of the world.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 12d

1. Protagonist notices things that are off or odd about their world. May or may not include elements of existential mystery.
2. Protagonist is pursued by seemingly vastly powerful foes and flees, barely surviving.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 12d

There's a certain narrative that shows up repeatedly in genre movies and the YA fiction I remember. It's not the (thoroughly debunked) Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey. I'm wondering if anyone here can help me find a name. There are basically four parts: (1/3)

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 13d

Belatedly, the September update for TERMINUS!
We apologise for the delay caused to this service.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

Update 11: Belated September Update: Adventures in Printing, Surveys Inbound, Surprise Add-Ons! · This Blighted Isle: TERMINUS

Hello Friends,Happy October! Apologies for the delayed update. This project is manifesting the same punctuality as the train network it's themed on – who knew it was contagious? Anyway, I suspect the ...

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 16d

Orcini, Knight of the Grand Order of Oberon, who upheld its code to the very end despite his exile and the loss of his mechanical leg.

A distinguished looking man with a goatee wearing a black leather jacket, gloves, and a single golden medal on his chest, standing next to a shorter, grimy looking man in a green uniform

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Sol's Roles (He/They) {Accepting New Clients} @solsroles.bsky.social · 17d

The hardest part about sharing your work isn't the technical stuff it's trusting that your community wants to see you succeed. They do. The TTRPG space is built on people supporting each other's creative journeys. Join that tradition.

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 18d

Slav Borg probably has the most fun goblins, since you play as street-racing goblin gopniks.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 18d

Goblin started as a broad term for lots of different folklore creatures - and honestly it still is. I suspect the cute/social/childish goblins come from Paizo giving their goblins big heads, which they meant to be grotesque but humans instinctually see as a neotenic trait.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 18d

I confused Troika with Risus for the longest time. Glad I got that sorted out!

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 21d

Me writing a wizard text book every time I add a new wizard name only for the text book author to insert an academic slight against them then I add a bolded glossary term that is also a mechanic for the rpg and the named wizard discovered it but the author is still being petty: teehee *feet kicking*

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 21d

The Yog-sothoth.com forums were always polite and friendly (due to careful moderation). They're still around and s pretty nice place to talk CoC and horror in general, but not as active as they used to be!

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 21d

Also Countdown. Hastur Mythos and Night Floors are incredible, but I really enjoy Phenomen-X too, and I use the Report on Groversville [Redacted] as a handout every time I run Convergence.

Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 23d

Seven Part Pact!