My plan was to avoid joining any more time-consuming #TTRPG game jams this summer.

Then this Vaults of Vaarn game jam was announced, and those plans went straight out the goddamn window.

https://itch.io/jam/vaarn-summer-jam-26

#VaultsofVaarn #gamejam

Ran a one-shot of #Numenera today. It was fun, but I always find the deep lore of the setting a little tough.

I understand it's not necessary to use the lore, and I can set my game in a wholly unexplored region of the Ninth World, but I still find its presence in the book a bit weighty.

I think I prefer the looser world building of something like Vaults of Vaarn, a somewhat less detailed science fantasy world. There's quite a bit less detail, more a mood than an atlas.

I've considered just using Numenera/Cypher rules in a #VaultsOfVaarn setting.

#TTRPG

Yesterday's links:

More Traveller encounter tables
http://ancientfarfuture.blogspot.com/2026/01/alternate-random-encounter-tables-for.html

Rock Baboons
http://archonsmarchon.blogspot.com/2026/01/towards-hoard-of-hundred-horrors-rock.html

Monster manual conversion final
http://ravencrowking.blogspot.com/2026/01/lets-convert-monster-manual-wraith.html

Vaarn: Seekers of the Eyeless Wisdom
https://vaultsofvaarn.com/2026/01/30/seekers-of-eyeless-wisdom/

Chronicle of an Age of Darkness by Hugh Cook
Review: https://pjamesstuart.substack.com/p/let-him-cook

#TTRPG #monster #Traveller #RandomEncounters #VaultsOfVaarn #faction #book

I'm turning the vaults of vaarn 2e draft pdf I received into a web app to create PCs and NPCs because I'm really falling in love with the setting and the really goofy dudes the character creation tables generate.

Might as well post the link, it's still WIP of course. https://ttrpgtools.legendesdelatable.fr/vaults-of-vaarn/character-generator

#vaultsofvaarn

Exploring more science-fantasy in strange worlds. Inspired by #UVG and #VaultsOfVaarn. In a #risograph style.

#ttrpg #art #osr #illustration #scifi #mastoart #artist #artistsonmastodon #riso #rpg #sciencefiction #sciencefantasy #artwork #ttrpgcommunity #nsr

All ten Vaarn characters timelapse.

(I forgot to turn off the timelapse option, so here is as a treat!)

#timelapse #VaultsofVaarn #art #characterdesign

Vaults of Vaarn random characters:

Cairngorn, a huge Lithling that came to learn about the rains in the Vaarn desert. Something that, to be fair, leaves them with a LOT of free time to do other things.

#TTRPG #art #VaultsofVaarn

Vaults of Vaarn random characters:

Tarvi, son of a Planeyfolk couple, trying to adapt to a 3D environment, making him seem as imposing and burly as possible. Too bad he stretched his face too much and now looks blurry!

#TTRPG #art #VaultsofVaarn

Vaults of Vaarn random characters:

Domino, a Cacklemaw exiled from her pack, with nothing but oily rags, for ignoring her boss orders and drowning a prisoner in water. She still laughs until out of breath thinking about it. It was totally worth it.

#TTRPG #art #VaultsofVaarn