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Rose Skye

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Actually a living doll. Author of fiction and tabletop RPGs. There is a cat sleeping on my lap as you read this. My blog: https://vorpalcoil.bttg.net/ My games: https://vorpalcoil.itch.io/ My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=77546454

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 14d

The first public version of Protoplastic, the plastic robot roleplaying game, is now available!

Protoplastic 0.4 Has Arrived! | Rose Skye

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 20h

🝊 🜾 🜳 🜲
Alpha Cipher
the magical espionage action
PVP RPG
is now at Version 1.0.
Look for it on Itch and DTRPG soon!
🜵 🜸 🜉 🜒

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 22h

The corn lobby is leaving money on the table.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty great! Much of the time, each screen is a discrete challenge, and you can try it over and over without penalty. I'll admit I did tap out at the credits and didn't do the postgame levels, where you're required to learn what is basically speedrun movement tech to progress.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 1d

That dynamic of really difficult challenge combined with very generous checkpoints and instant retries is similar to how Celeste works, and I like it. Even as someone who's not really good at precision platformers I was able to eventually beat the game through persistence, despite it being Hard.

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 1d

Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 1d

Finished a campaign of His Majesty the Worm, run by @magnolienne.bsky.social! It culminated in a betrayal by a party member, a hunt through the Hell Market, and a very anime final battle in an extradimensional void. I'll write up a post about my retrospective thoughts on the game soon.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 2d

Tsuyoku naritai!

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 2d

Water 7 is the part that makes the entire series worthwhile. It comes at the perfect time after prior arcs have set up the characters and world, but before the series falls prey to certain vices later on. Also, focuses on Nico Robin, AKA the best character.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 2d

What’s The Point Of Tabletop? | Rose Skye

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 2d

You're being too hard on yourself. You work diligently on a regular basis, don't beat yourself up over a few hours.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 3d

We need to fund a sociological study surveying tabletop player habits around conversational repair. Take thousands of hours of footage to compare stated preferences with actual practice. Publish a sociolinguistics paper and get crucified for low impact factor.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes, "number go up dopamine", but my brain just doesn't respond very much to that kind of thing.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 3d

Special exception given to Disgaea, which has sillyhuge attack values and such as a self-conscious bit of theater, urging you to do ten billion damage in one hit because you can.

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 3d

Friends don't let friends inflate numbers for the sake of having bigger numbers. It's a particular vice of video games (which don't require humans to do the math) but a tabletop example that comes to mind is Yu-Gi-Oh, in which every stat is multiplied by a 1000 just to look cool. Meaningless!

Enigmatic White Woman @worstgirleva.bsky.social · 3d

this table is so hilarious. the higher your level the more exp you need to level up, but also the exact same activities will give you more exp. making the number bigger for the sake of being bigger

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 4d

What interview is this from? I'm so curious about the director coming around to a "Skynet was innocent" position.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 4d

The last article in my Awards Debrief is up. What even is the point of an award show? Should anyone care?

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-4/

Where do rpg awards go next?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part four. What's the point of an award show? And what do we want to see in the future?

www.explorersdesign.com

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 4d

You'll be fine, they can't even move while they're doing it.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 4d

"They do not deserve to see heaven"

𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵

"Had I the power I would send every soul to paradise this instant."

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 5d

I printed out maps, filled out character sheets, and clipped little part squares in preparation for a Protoplastic playtest last night, but when the time came one person couldn't make it, and another showed up late, so quorum was sadly not reached. Still played some Cairn, though.

Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 6d

As small of a thing as it might seem when you're doing it, even a single positive comment can convince a designer that they're not pouring out their soul into an unseen void.

momatoes @momatoes.com · 17d

If you enjoyed a game on Itch, leave a comment!

Honestly, it really brightens a creator's day. And it's a big encouragement for others who may be interested in getting that game.

Itch hides reviews from the game page, so I find comments more useful in the long run.

Like a game? Comment away!

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 14d

"Eat God" is live on Kickstarter:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...

Be a blue-furred social justice advocate with detachable limbs, a many-eyed horror with strong opinions about metaphysics, or a jet-powered telepathic crab and stick it to the Man though the power of gratuitous cartoon violence.

Eat God

a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose

www.kickstarter.com

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 8d

Alright, the first in-depth article of my awards debrief is live. "How do the Ennies work?" A top-down look at my judging experience from A to Z.

Please share, leave comments, and ask questions. And don't forget to read part 1 if you haven't already.

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-2/

How do the Ennies work?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part two. What is the award process like behind closed doors, and how do the judges select nominees?

www.explorersdesign.com

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 7d

Hence me starting earlier this year! I have made connections in the community since then, which has been encouraging. It just feels like more of an uphill battle now that I missed the heyday of TTRPG blogging.

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sad that I didn't start blogging sooner. I read RPG blogs copiously years ago, but I felt like I needed to have more complete things to show to get into that scene myself. I now realize that everyone else was doing stream-of-consciousness while working on things, and I could have done that too.

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Rose Skye @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 8d

My reflexive response is that the GM should roll dice for the sake of simulative parity with the players, and because GMs should get to play a game and not just be an entertainer for the other people at the table. There is something to be said for the simplicity of not rolling, though.