Interested in history, TTRPGs, and LLMs You can find my games here: https://taylor-lane.itch.io/https://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lqkpd7cyek2uI've been studying and comparing travel rules between ttrpgs It's really interesting how 99% of ttrpg travel rules are very directly descended from the rules of Outdoor Survival Within the OSR and D&D, pointcrawls and what I would term "de-abstracted travel" are the only normal alternatives01 Jun 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqkpd7cyek2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lpp3hsntrk2qRandom shower thought: it's odd to turn based multi roll combat and NOT give players the ability to attack the AC, attack to-hit bonus, and etc of enemies + buff their own AC and to-hit Which would seem to either imply a lot of teamwork or something like 4+dex mod actions per turn21 May 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpp3hsntrk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lpb7uthkbk2zin ttrpgs, story is what happens after the session is over, when you're remembering it and bringing order to it so you can tell it to other people (who generally do not care and wish you would talk about something else)16 May 2025 04:46 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpb7uthkbk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lpaazzg3dc2a"what happens to the political economy of the valley after you kill the dragon in the mountain that overlooked it?" is obviously a way more interesting question to me than "what is the exact blow-by-blow of killing the dragon?" so i write rules to answer the former, but not the latter15 May 2025 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpaazzg3dc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lpa7bv54pc2mwhat ttrpg campaigns are y'all in right now? System and description?15 May 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpa7bv54pc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lp7je26trc2z@elmc.at what prompt did you use to write this https://elmc.at/kill-clerics-become-warlocks/ I can tell that it's chatGPT, but I'd be interested in knowing what prompt you used15 May 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp7je26trc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lp5e2dfqhk2vI think that the easiest way to make any NPC or group of NPCs feel instantly knowlable and yet interesting is to know it by its archetype: + archetype + desire + unexpected element You don't actually need anything else (Credit to Joseph Manola for that last one)14 May 2025 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5e2dfqhk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lp5dupwkac2vI think that my mental model of Fighter as a class owes more to anime and superheroes than it does to western fantasy fiction. I suppose that that's sort of interesting?14 May 2025 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5dupwkac2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lp5ds26gpk2vthe most common game design mistake in ttrpgs is not knowing what a session is supposed to look like the most common failing as a player in a ttrpg is not knowing what to do next these are two sides of the same problem14 May 2025 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5ds26gpk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lp5dphlgk22vPlease remember that confusing 600s Europe and 1400s Europe is the same time gap as now and 122514 May 2025 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5dphlgk22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lp5donfpvk2vHey, would anyone like to read over the classes in my OSR game -- Triptych -- and tell me which ones they would and would not want to play, and why?14 May 2025 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp5donfpvk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lckgyb5dr22n@budsrpgreview.bsky.social could you message me? I'd like to talk to you about my friend Joel Clark going on your show to talk about his kickstarter? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lonewolffists/lone-wolf-fists-acidandsteel05 Dec 2024 10:19 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckgyb5dr22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lc6fopfupc2jRace and class separated, or race-as-class? (examples of race-as-class provided. Race/class separation would just have Race --including human-- be sources of Advantage on some rolls) P.S.: I really do not like this Elf class I wrote30 Nov 2024 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc6fopfupc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lc3ehzr3c22nimagine a RPG where you pick a lock by rolling vs LC for each picked tumbler, then damage to its LP, & then when you defeat that tumbler you move on to the latter tumblers but not before saving vs tumbler resetting this is approximately how turn-based TTRPG combat feels, to me https://media.tenor.com/5lklqwUQw04AAAAC/lockpick-maymuncuk.gif?hh=282&ww=49829 Nov 2024 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc3ehzr3c22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lbufxmckrc22I generally design for theater-of-mind type play, and I don't want to use modern real-world measurement systems (also, imperial v. metric) because it's distracting, so I most commonly use the distances touch/spear reach/stone's throw/line-of-sight26 Nov 2024 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbufxmckrc22https://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lbrrks5trc2w"...We freed the slaves of Yoon-Suin? That's pretty nice. But I did it to shore up my power after we couped the slugmen to avoid arrest for doing the law-enforcement job that we'd scammed our way into after framing other people for the murders we committed to steal their boat"25 Nov 2024 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbrrks5trc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblzw3krjc2qWhy do you like playing a thief? What do you get from them that you don't get from playing any other class?23 Nov 2024 08:05 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblzw3krjc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblzvfkghc2qIt's interesting to contrast this with other critiques of 5e23 Nov 2024 08:05 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblzvfkghc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblzu5nm2k2qFun #ttrpg fact: it's traditional for starting equipment lists to include barnyard animals. Buy those. Literally no #dnd module ever is balanced for you to drive 200 goats ahead of you. They'll trigger traps & hinder enemies. You can eat them or set them on fire.23 Nov 2024 08:04 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblzu5nm2k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblztf7qjk2qA major & longstanding flaw in TTRPG discourse is that a large amount of people act like any suggestions or advice are coercive orders. Not sure where it comes from?23 Nov 2024 08:04 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblztf7qjk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblzsaov7c2qis there any reason, other than tradition, that the default setting for fantasy is pseudo-medieval rather than pseudo-early mesopotomia or pseudo-pacific islands or whatever?23 Nov 2024 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblzsaov7c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblzrla5mk2qYou guys know that when you're fantasy worldbuilding you can just put France in and call it France, right? Use a map of France. Talk about how the Count of Tolouse's sorcery is without equal. You are allowed to do this. No French person can stop you.23 Nov 2024 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblzrla5mk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblzqoos3c2qI hate the trope of the "adventurers' guild". Guilds are formed by local, powerful, businesspeople to act as a cartel Adventurers are wanderers with minimal social connections who do violence professionally They are not going to form a guild23 Nov 2024 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblzqoos3c2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3lblzm3ddkc2qYou can find my games here: taylor-lane.itch.io https://taylor-lane.itch.io/23 Nov 2024 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblzm3ddkc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3kp7gf4e43x2m@gregstolze.bsky.social hey, so, I sorta just went ahead and wrote up UA 4e. Got the core rules down to 4 pages? Couple extra for each of of the submodules of the game. It's playable, we've been playtesting this specifically for months & iterations of it for years. Are you remotely interested?03 Apr 2024 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kp7gf4e43x2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3kgjhi2nzht2h@gregstolze.bsky.social hey, Greg. Taylor from Twitter, here. Does Bsky have messaging? I don't use this app very much.14 Dec 2023 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgjhi2nzht2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3julhyhs7rk24There's a concept in political geography called a "shatterzone". That's the technical term for a place into which people from defeated/marginal groups flee. Shatterzones tend to be poor, culturally diverse, and at most minimally controlled by states Think Afghanistan, Appalachia, or the Caucasus.30 Apr 2023 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3julhyhs7rk24https://bsky.app/profile/foresteddepth.bsky.social/post/3julhthhaek2iWho are the TTRPG people on here? I wanna follow all y'all.30 Apr 2023 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:uorlan6bddicresbarn5fto5/app.bsky.feed.post/3julhthhaek2i