RPG writer/illustrator of Ennie award-winning two-page dungeons.
He/him, here for 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Black lives matter.
Jul 27, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Learning about Brindlewood Bay's approach to mysteries made me realize how many RPG design bits are about increasing the relevance of the game conversation.🧵
Brindlewood Bay has a Theorize activity where players chew over the assembled clues and propose answers to the whodunnit. If their roll succeeds, then their theory becomes the real answer. This is the opposite choice that Blades in the Dark made, but for the same root reason.
Feb 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Daylight turns trolls to stone.. but not forever. A long enough spell of darkness will bring them back to flesh. Summer nights are too short, even with early evening's shade of hill or forest's edge. But in winter, as inky night seeps up from the ditches, stone quickens anew.
The people of the plains are free from worry. What few trolls came down from the far hills turned to stone long ago. Chipped and blackened by travelers' fires, they are little more than gaily named landmarks: Flintface and Prance, Bug-Eye and Mosscock.
Feb 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Only 26 mins in but Spaceship Earth, so far, is must watch. What an unusual gang, such a curious mix of ingredients.
Billionaire-backed hippie theater troupe decides to do construction and art projects around the world on a three-mast sailing ship that they made themselves.
I assume it all goes off the rails at some point, but what an unusual mix of diversity of project types, skills and hard work.
Mar 28, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
As someone who occasionally draws from other people's roughs, the main thing is clarity. If you have a corridor with a culvert running down the middle of it, but you've just drawn four parallel lines, it could be two corridors.
Ambiguity about what any given line is supposed to mean is the #1 stumble I see. Some tips:
Jan 16, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Rules for Google Sheets, for storing data you intend to use 1. Name the worksheet/tab simply 2. Column titles in the first row only 3. Column titles in one CELL only - never merge cells.
Break these rules, and you can't easily do pivot tables or lookups.
4. COLUMNS MUST BE SINGLE PURPOSE
If you have a phone # column, for the love of god don't use it for last name on some rows, or merge cells to spill over a long description from another column. This means you can't trust your own data. (Why is this phone number 'Smith?')
