The prompt for the 30th and final day of #AprilTTRPGMaker is “Top tips and advice.” I think I'm going to go a bit meta on this one. Be skeptical of advice A nontrivial amount of advice is probably bad

Today is the last day of the #AprilTTRPGMaker Challenge, and I figured I'd quickly go over some of the tips and hints I've discovered during the development process. Keep Going Even When It's Rough Remember

The prompt for day 29 of #AprilTTRPGMaker is “Your community.” This is a rough one. In general I'm basically part of the indie games / story games community, but it's a pretty one-sided relationship. There's

22. How do you document ideas? Mostly on a Gregg-ruled steno pad I keep on my desk, which I write in with Bic mechanical pencils. Apparently these pads are supposed to be used for shorthand, which I don't

The prompt for day 28 of #AprilTTRPGMaker is “Favorite interview?”. As I mentioned in my answer to question 5, I have a tough time with giving answers to “favorite” questions. But I can describe some

The prompt for day 27 of #AprilTTRPGMaker is “Feature a TTRPG Designer.” I'll feature Steve Hickey. Steve seems to be doing interesting things with his games Left Coast and Soth. I haven't seen the finalized

The question for day 26 of #AprilTTRPGMaker is “Blogs, streams, podcasts?”. I'm not sure if that's meant to be querying what I produce myself or what I consume, so I'll answer both. What I produce Blogging

25: ...significa tornar um sonho real, ao mesmo tempo em que se dá ferramentas para que outros usem esse sonho como base para criar sua própria realidade fantástica. Depois que o RPG é escrito e está nas

24: Com relação a RPG, acredito que tenha sido o fato de, sozinho, ter licenciado um jogo de um autor estrangeiro, traduzido, e lançado aqui -- falo do Saqueadores na Fronteira. -- Isso é algo que, até

21: Quantos playtests se fizerem necessários. Mas, para números mínimos: ao menos dois one-shots como mestre, mais uns três jogos às cegas (nos quais entrego as regras para um grupo e eles se viram para

15. Do you design in public or in private? Public, in the sense that I talk about my design stuff on the internet. I'm not sure this actually works very well. I think there are a few reasons for that.

The question for day 21 of #AprilTTRPGMaker is “How many playtests?” This is a big question, and as I've said before the topic of playtesting is near and dear to my heart. More than zero My position is

20: Ferramentas de design favoritas? Dados, cartas, lápis, papel, tablet. Anotações e mais anotações enquanto estudo as probabilidades e faço as pesquisas relevantes. Relativamente simples, sem nada muito

The day 20 question for #AprilTTRPGMaker is “Favorite design tools?”. My favorite tool for game design is something inspired by an old pinned post at The Forge: imagining people playing the game and writing

Acharam que eu tinha esquecido? Acharam certo. Lembrei de fazer isso só agora à tarde. _ 19: Acredito que seja sempre o próximo jogo. Sim, o essencial é aquele em que estou trabalhando no momento. Houve

When designing a tabletop RPG, the most useful feedback a designer can get is a recording of a game session based off of a draft of the current rules. Record the session While it's nice to be able to get