When the pandemic started, a friend & I made Good Morning, Apocalypse!
It's a game meant to be played with people in your home or at a distance. You earn dice over the course of a week, and that helps you be able to tell a story together at the week's end.
I ran out of space in the last skeet, but you earn dice by completing chores or tasks that fall under one of 6 concentric rings of care (from self, to household, to neighborhood, etc.). You will probably want a whiteboard to keep track of everything during the week. 😅
Everyday Enchanter, and Low Spell Slots are some fun general purpose "give you an excuse to do a thing", I've found that The Bookshelf by Linda H Codega was a great way to mindfully clean up my shelves, and The Spirit of Small Gifts is a great way to get little this'n'thats sent in the mail to pals!
Honest to god our Zinequest game this year is about cleaning/organizing a room by looking at the objects in it and deciding which are storied/useful enough to keep.
Sure, it's about cute modern dragons and you get to absolutely mess up a deck of cards, but you decide what's wrong with your dragon's lair by assessing the room you're in and pulling cards from the deck lol.
Magic of Inventorying is jokingly written as a pretense of being a real method to declutter, but checking the inspiration behind it is more efficient. 😅
Probably not quite what you are looking for, but Love & Barbed Wire (love letters in WW1) is designed partly to inspire people to consider the value of writing physical letters to their loved ones today - artefacts that can be discovered in the future in a way that emails never will
I didn't intend for this while writing, but folks have let me know that The Horrors persist but so do I has been a fun way for them to make and follow through with a chore list.
While productivity is not the direct focus, I would argue that accomplishing tasks with the mindset of taking care of your animal friend could be a way of gamifying a to-do list into something more cozy.
Hmmm. I do have a player always asking for extra xp and a lot of tchotchkes (yes I looked it up. I have to every time) that need dusting. Thanks for the idea
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Now I don't have any excuses
https://www.hatchlingsgames.co.uk/inspirisles
It's a game meant to be played with people in your home or at a distance. You earn dice over the course of a week, and that helps you be able to tell a story together at the week's end.
https://lilithpoprocks.itch.io/good-morning-apocalypse
https://bsky.app/profile/rolistespod.itch.io/post/3lf3egexhlk2j
Yeah not a TTRPG but a list of workouts for every single D&D subclass (2014 and 2024). It’s free too (click the 100% off coupon on the page)!
https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/419273
https://the-lorelock.itch.io/dungeon-to-table
https://ennio-goes.itch.io/the-horrors-persist-and-so-do-i
Also, I love the line "Much like the ravenous maw of the All-Devourer,
your task list is ever growing"
It's about considering routines as rituals that empower you
https://kobanya.itch.io/housekeeping
While productivity is not the direct focus, I would argue that accomplishing tasks with the mindset of taking care of your animal friend could be a way of gamifying a to-do list into something more cozy.
Repeat!
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ic5imqv75adtvzw11l2bl/ALDGkMLQRKLh1lEf_ND1kqo/Small%20Games/the_cleanup_fgf_morningstar.pdf?rlkey=09hp0kzu9l62a9szb9k2gdnuj&dl=0