a checklist for making your first #ttrpg
Things it must be:
✔️fun
✔️playable (barely playable counts)
Things it does NOT need to be
✔️"good" (whatever that means)
✔️marketable
✔️perfect
✔️finished
✔️balanced
✔️three hundred pages
Things it must be:
✔️fun
✔️playable (barely playable counts)
Things it does NOT need to be
✔️"good" (whatever that means)
✔️marketable
✔️perfect
✔️finished
✔️balanced
✔️three hundred pages
Comments
I'm play-testing it from time to time, and finding small ways to improve the experience of playing it.
I've spent 20 months writing a system and haven't playtested it once (though it's getting close)! Puzzling out & tuning the mechanics is just too much fun.
No ambitions for what happens once the game's complete, but it'll certainly have been time well spent.
and if you added your own insights there, please feel free to do so again!
It definitely is one I need to follow, and just commit to sharing instead of the endless tweaking to get things right.
✔️ 100% original
✔️ mind-blowing
✔️ a social commentary
✔️ aligned with current buzzwords
✔️ d20
✔️ PbtA
✔️ FitD
✔️ an emulation of non-game media
...please help i'm drowning in them
I made 4 ttrpg projects before going live with Mutant Mash: Splish N Splash. They were fun games, and I have fond memories of them, they just didn't get put on itchio. And that's okay.
It’s just more of a board game at the moment than a full TTRPG
Now I'm back to not caring and my workflow is back in order.
It's a game. Being fun is the point.
(Although fun does mean evoking the emotional experience you intend to.)
Great work. :)
I'm amazed to hear that it's had such an impact, thank you!
I think I'll revisit that project again and see what I can do with it :)
Thanks so much for your support <3