I 💜 #TTRPGs and do a lot of work for the 🇵🇹 #ttrpg community. I also publish my own games. My name is Ricardo Tavares 👋
| Games | http://dreamup.games |
So what's your favourite solo #ttrpg that's the least like a journaling game?
I love writing but I don't feel the need to gamify the experience.
I also love boardgames so don't discard your #solottrpg recommendation for being too much of a game.
A simulation is a steady continuous reality following the arrow of time without skipping a beat.
Once this is no longer linear, you speed things up, slow them down, or skip a moment in favor of another, two things happened: somebody decided that and you're now constructing a narrative.
For my personal preferences (that some would say are pretty weird), there isn't a single GM tip that can't probably be made better by becoming a player tip.
Give me #ttrpg sessions that fail spectacularly because the master entertainer wasn't there to save us from ourselves.
I won't run your #ttrpg but I will host it, so treat me as a person, not a computer. Give me tools, not permissions.
I'm a player too. Show me rules strong enough to hang different hats on.
Don't worry if I drift from them as long as their purpose is clear. Be a reference point.
This channel is such a great love letter for specific RPGs, it's awesome.
Specially since they're not D&Ds all over again 👍
There really has never been a single D&D 🤔
So Hasbro can just go away and the elephant would still be in the room occupying three quarters of the #ttrpg hobby.
But at least it would be easier to ignore.
"We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. "
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Not sure how much this is a #ttrpg hot take, but the designer of an RPG should be its number one fan. Nobody else has spent so much time thinking about all the ways this game could be played. No one else knows all that was discarded in favor of what was kept. Nobody else can so deeply critique it.
Do you see that journey made by the #ttrpg designer as independent of the experience you want to have with their game? Or do you value having all that they offer as one integrated piece of work?
Do you resent or appreciate #ttrpg design as an artistic offer you're prompted to play with?
By the way, if you never tried your hand at #ttrpg design but can engage with a simple creative writing exercise, #rpgenesis has successfully helped many roleplayers bring a potential game to life💡You can join us in August 2026 for the latest edition: https://itch.io/jam/rpgenesis2026 👈
If you would put together a kind of 2026 calendar for #ttrpg designers, what moments of the year stand out to you? Focusing on independent #dndisnotforme #ttrpg design. #ZineMonth? #rpgenesis? The ongoing kickstarter for #ApocalypseWorld?
Also #dreamation? The 20th anniversary of #ukge? #1pRPGjam? #FreeRPGDay? #metatopia?
It's probably not just #pbta having a moment. Any other fresh resources for #ttrpg designers coming throughout the year? Maybe something from Cortex, Fate or Gumshoe?
There are probably a few other angles that I'm missing 🤔
