🎲 TTRPG writer & GM | 🖋️ Designer of dark & dreamy games | 🐾 Cat-cohabitant | ⚔️ TTRPG creator #ttrpg #PbtA #D&D #osr https://linktr.ee/pinchofsaffronhttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3mhaphuam7c2lI locked the door, but they got in anyway. Everyone moved on but me. I watched and said nothing. I only feel seen while pretending. I followed them home just to be sure. The Mansion uses trauma and fear of the trapped victims to break them. #ttrpg #indiegame #indiedev17 Mar 2026 09:57 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhaphuam7c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3mgsajavajk2oWhat teenage stereotypical characters or tropes do you feel are underrepresented in horror media? Who would like to play as in a horror ttrpg? #ttrpg #indiegame #indiedev11 Mar 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsajavajk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3mgpr2yhyhc2kThe rot spreads under the floorboards of the Mansion. The old building stands on the outskirts, at the end of the winding gravel road, barely visible from behind the pines. It knows you’ll eventually visit. #ttrpg #indiegame #indiedev10 Mar 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpr2yhyhc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3mgnoobxyxs2zWhat would you be most afraid of in a haunted house setting? In the Mansion it’s rarely a monster, but rather a familiar voice. Maybe it belonged to your father and now you realize you’ve never said goodbye before he left on that one fateful night #ttrpg #indiegame #indiedev09 Mar 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgnoobxyxs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lsnxg7j7zs2tIn The Mansion, we use a 14-card deck to stretch dread across a session. No timers. No checks. No illusions. Just a slow build. And something that shouldn’t be here is now in the room. https://open.substack.com/pub/saffronquill/p/notes-scattered-across-the-hallway-803?r=57nyoj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true28 Jun 2025 10:34 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsnxg7j7zs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lsbp3lis7k2iYou don’t need to know every rule to run a great game. You don’t need a voice for every NPC. You don’t need lore that makes sense. You just need care, imagination, and snacks. Everything else is gravy.23 Jun 2025 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbp3lis7k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lrzwsosdfk2wThe opening of 28 Weeks Later is one of the most horrifying and effective intros in the infection genre. There’s little gore, no exposition dump. Just slow tick of tension, and the unmistakable feeling that everything is about to collapse. And then it does. #28YearsLater #horror20 Jun 2025 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrzwsosdfk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lryig4ptrc2tWhat's the weirdest thing your party has flirted with? I need to know for... reasons. #ttrpg #rpg19 Jun 2025 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lryig4ptrc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lruhtbcby22yI like fantasy cities that aren’t clean. Give me moss on the stones. Weird street food stalls. Chalk sigils on brick walls that no one will talk about. Give me the kind of place where the rain whispers the memories of the city.18 Jun 2025 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lruhtbcby22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lrsdkv5urc2y“Fear is a compass here. It only points toward what’s about to find you.” New design blog is up: how The Mansion builds horror through feelings, not numbers. #ttrpg #gamedesign #pbta #ttrpgdesign17 Jun 2025 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrsdkv5urc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lrpqen5qhk2oImportant thing I've learned #ttrpg If you don’t name a tavern right away, your players will. And I promise they will call it “The Moist Beaver” or something equally cursed. Just name it. Save yourself.16 Jun 2025 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrpqen5qhk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lrnh3i32h227Writing the Mansion, my PbtA game, is like assembling IKEA furniture with half the pieces missing, and also some of the pieces are emotional damage. It's fine. #ttrpg #gamedesign15 Jun 2025 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrnh3i32h227https://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lrhyxssjr22aThis is my editor, Ari. Her notes mostly consist of “sit on that a bit longer” and “needs more birds.” On the next round, "forget it". She’s never been wrong.13 Jun 2025 08:21 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrhyxssjr22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lrguqhasfk2cThere’s a house at the edge of everything you fear. It’s quiet there. The kind of quiet that gets louder the longer you sit in it. You’ve been there before. Not this house exactly, but one like it. A hallway that stretched too far. A door that didn’t belong. A flicker in the corner of your eye. /112 Jun 2025 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrguqhasfk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lqmie7n37s2nWhat if magic wasn’t rare, but just kinda... inconvenient with all these components and rituals. People moved on. Technology worked better. Magic is old tech with dust on it. And then the players find a way to switch it back on and experiment.02 Jun 2025 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqmie7n37s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lql7njy3vc2oI feel we need more content like this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jun 2025 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lql7njy3vc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/saffron1te.bsky.social/post/3lql7hwwtxc2oI used to have 5 indoor cats living with us in an apartment. It was glorious. Moving to another country forced me to leave 3 of them at my mother-in-law. 🐈 Now I live and design games surrounded by two cats, a daughter, and one looming existential crisis.01 Jun 2025 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:2r6447dfgrcnrfyptlrrovnb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lql7hwwtxc2o