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Dan Phipps

@itsdanphipps.bsky.social

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Ttrpg making guy with a flowchart brain. I make lists of things. Half of Gem Room Games. He/him.

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello new blue sky friends, I make games with Kali and you can buy them at shop.gemroomgames.com

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 3h

If we try to boil the ocean again I'm going to unalive someone

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 11h

Character sheet with languages like brainrot, haxxor, corpo, and normie

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 23h

A game that doesn't "support the story" would use a slow, methodical system to represent frenetic action or leave me on my own to create interesting problems and opportunities OR be so prescriptive that there's only one choice which means there are no choices.

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 23h

Game mechanics DO a good job, I should go to bed.

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 1d

If I'm saying it I probably mean the game mechanics does a good job evoking a feeling that matches the fictional moment it represents and/or it's creating situations that drive action/reaction at the table.

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 1d

The Last Judge felt really good, really felt like I was learning The Deal a little better each time

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d

Huge if true

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking news from Portland, today we saw a muskrat in the creek near the park I'm pretty sure

A muskrat, probably, in the creek by the park

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 3d

Surprised at how few Portland Marathon runners are following the 4:20 pace flag

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 4d

Reporting from the front lines, Portland appears to be calling an emergency nude bike ride.

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 4d

1974 is still new, just cut off any moldy bits and it's fine to eat

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 4d

New "what is an rpg" section just dropped

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 4d

When people I don't like ask me about the process of game design, I send them this diagram from Richard Duke's 1974 book Gaming: the Future’s Language

An enormously complicated diagram, the child of several pie-charts that have undergone a process of nuclear fission, largely illegible. A caption at the bottom reads 'Figure 19. The Game Design Process'

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 4d

Just finished False Gods and really enjoying how messy the Horus Heresy is. Just a bunch of 8 foot tall gossips stirring things up for the drama.

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Kali @helloitskali.bsky.social · 5d

Over here looking up Halloween dad jokes for card messages

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 5d

It's gotta be stressful to have a friend with a furry autobio comic because what if they draw you as like, an animal that sucks?

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 6d

What if the big Affinity news is they're bringing back Kid Pix

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, if taking the already glacial pace of combat and then slowing it down even further served the games design goals, I'd be all about it.

If we assume the design goals are "learn nothing from 4e, retvrn to 3rd" then id argue it's a rousing success.

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 6d

I'd argue they're even worse than un-fun or frustrating.

They're boring!

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 6d

Wicked smart

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 6d

One of the best decisions I've made in recent weeks is moving my social media apps so I have to swipe 3 times to get to them, and putting Libby in the spot where they used to ne

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 9d

Apparently I needed to sleep for 10 hours, weird

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 10d

Gotta really turn up the mental breakdown on this game if it's gonna get written

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 10d

It wouldn't be discourse without someone belligerently barging in to completely misunderstand the topic of discussion.

Like you maniacs that can't tell a cocktail from a flatbread

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 10d

Of course not, it doesn't even have lime or tequila involved

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Gem Room Games @gemroomgames.bsky.social · 10d

Oh! We remember this! We used it to make The Shops at Hellfist Citadel (formerly dire testament to war, currently testament to outlet shopping).
It's part of the 2022 Hex+Setting Collection, our system-neutral interdimensional modular hex crawl.
It was fun.

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