Hand crafting immersive candle scents for roleplayers and the stories they tell. A proudly queer / latina / woman owned business. https://delvecandles.com
Hello Tumblr! We're Delve Candle Company. We hand craft immersive candles for TTRPG players who want to fan the flames of creativity and inspiration during game sessions with scents designed and custom blended to evoke settings and moods encountered during roleplaying adventures.
🕯️We think our candles are special.
🕯️We know how much time and effort we've devoted to making them so. (It's...an extravagant amount).
🕯️We hope that if you give our candles a try, you'll agree.
You can check out our full line of deeply immersive, clean burning, 100% soy wax candles on our website.
And why do we do what we do? Well, we're a wee bit obsessed with the real life magic that happens when you sit down to play a tabletop roleplaying game. There's nothing else quite like it.
At their best, TTRPGs are transformative. They are revelatory. They are powerful in all the myriad ways that stories have always been powerful. They are chaos, and mischief, and ultimately just ever so much fun.
They are magic.
And we are completely ensorcelled. So much so that we've created a whole business just so we can contribute, in some small way, to the creation of those unforgettable moments around your gaming table.
We're Delve Candles. We love TTRPGs and the people who play them. We'd be truly honored if you gave our candles a seat at your table and let us join your adventures.
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The itch creators’ day sale runs from midnight to midnight on Friday (tomorrow as of this writing). During this time, creators on itch get all the money you pay for their games, instead of itch taking a slice!
Wild stuff! You should definitely support the creators you love during this time.
If you’ve been eyeing my games, they’re marked down, and I have a bundle that gets you a slightly lower price than if you bought them both separately!
What do you get in these games?
Love Will Still Remain is a game for 2-4 players about love, loss, change, and connection. It is inspired by Brandi Carlile’s The Firewatcher’s Daughter.
Participants play as a group of people who have encountered each other throughout the course of their lives. They find themselves all together once again after some time apart. Throughout the game, they reflect on their lives and especially their relationships with one another, good and bad, and trace the paths that have led them to the current day.
Get it here!
Thaumaturge, P.I. is a solo journaling game. You play the game by yourself, writing down the answers to the questions posed and your actions as you investigate the mystery. You are in control of where the story goes - you interpret the prompts.
You play as a magical teen detective at a prestigious school. Choose from multiple cases, explore locations, and solve the mystery!
Get it here!
I’d really love it if you checked out my stuff! My other works include:
The Beefcake Playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians (based on Gideon Nav)
The Corpsewright Playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians (based on Harrowhark Nonagesimus)
Holding A Mini-Con Online For Your Friends, or How To Learn A Lot of TTRPGs at Once
In November of 2020, nobody I knew was leaving their house to go eat turkeys with their family. We wanted to protect the ones we loved, but that left us with a whole lot of nothing to do where usually there was... something. Thus, the TRPG (Tabletop fRiendsgiving Potluck Games) was born!
You can do something like this too! Because chances are, your friends all know at least one game system to teach it to everyone else. And some of these systems don't take long to prep or run at all. In this post, I'll talk about how we do it and why it's a great idea if you and your friends are looking to learn more ttrpgs.
I have a private Discord Server called the Demonweb Shitpit, which is where I playtest everything I self publish. It's a very chill, invitation-only place that is reserved for friends. It doesn't have a code of conduct or anything like that; this isn't a community I'm managing. It's just a perpetual virtual house party. I wanted to wake up and head to the virtual fridge for breakfast and find two people standing in the virtual kitchen yelling about probability distribution, and that's what the Shitpit is. During the early days of the Pandemic, I really wanted to make life easier for everyone at that party.
The rules of the potluck are simple: everyone brings a game (or an event, like hosting a talk or panel) to play. That's what a potluck is. We've done this for three years now, and it is always a blast. I've played so many games I never would have otherwise: If It Hadn't Been for Cotton-Eyed Joe. Kids on Brooms. Blue Rose. Big Motherfucking Crab Truckers.
Here's how we do it:
Gather a group of interested people in one place. Discord works the best, because it has A/V built in for running games. You could also probably use a Facebook Event page or similar if you wanted.
Figure out a time people are available. You can set this over a long weekend (our first year, it was Thanksgiving Weekend) or on certain days of the week over the course of a month (One year it was "weekends during November).
Let everybody bring something to the Potluck. This doesn't necessarily mean that every one of these games is going to happen. You always need more players than you do games. But it is a potluck, and volunteering is part of the price.
Gather this information using a Google Form or similar: what are you bringing, what do people need to participate, when would you be available to facilitate, etc.
Get everyone to vote on which things they are most interested in trying out. Now you know which things are popular and which things might not shake out.
Make a calendar (Google Calendar or a Notion Database work great) of events and let people sign up for them. I usually let people sign up via informal poll on Discord:
After that, we make threads in the Discord channel for each game, and the folks running or facilitating coordinate things like how to prep for the game, safety tools, and content warnings.
Usually at the end of a potluck session, where I'd normally do something like Stars and Wishes, we have a talkback session. We talk about the system moreso than the session itself, give our impressions on it, and highlight moments or mechanics we really liked. It helps with learning a system if you can name one or two things you liked about it after the session is over.
What Games To Bring?
You are probably not going to want to bring a big, involved game with big, involved character creation to the potluck. If you really want to, check to see if the game has a quickstart with premade characters and simplified rules. Also, since you are introducing a game to folks who likely have never played it, multiply your estimated time to run the session by 1.5 at least. GMless games work really well, especially if there is little to no character creation, or character creation is an explicit part of play.
If you're going to run a potluck with your friends but need a starting point for games to bring, here's a quick list of games that might work well:
i'm sorry did you say street magic - worldbuilding, GMless fun
Stealing the Throne - you make your characters *during* play, which means you get to play right away
The Ground Itself - worldbuilding and GMless, a delight
Everyone Is John - VERY simple to learn!
Cozy Town - The best Stardewlike in my opinion
Paranormal Inc - GMless mystery game, where you draw clues and build the story together!
Heart: Quickstart - Dungeon Crawling, Underground City, premade characters
Orbital Blues Quickstart - Premade characters, You're Poor And In Space, Easy to Read & Run
Why Are We Doing This?
Our Potluck is one of the events I look forward to every year, and it's so easy and fun to get started. Also, if you're the kind of person who needs to play something in order to get a good feel for it, this is a really good opportunity. And scheduling to run a game for your friends is a great motivator to learn it. My friends and I are all in this together, and I don't want to let them down, so I prepare a kickass session and show up to their sessions. BOOM, now my horizons have expanded exponentially.
Including the talkback or any space to reflect on the game helps cement in our minds what we liked and didn't like about a system. And in future design conversations, we now have a shared vocabulary of all the Potluck games we've played together. When we talk about something, I'll go, "Remember that time in Blue Rose when you looked around and saw the set pieces?" and the folks who were playing will know what I mean and know what I'm getting at, and what experiences I'm trying to capture in our new project.
It's also just fun! Make fun memories with your friends and step out of your comfort zones. That's what it's all about baby!
As a big sci fi nerd at heart AND someone who has been making mixtapes for myself and others since the time we had to actually USE cassette tapes, I am BEYOND EXCITED for this new game launch!!!
The game is designed by J, one of the immensely talented DMs of the Planet Arcana podcast, which is a tightly-edited, retrofuturistic, tarot-themed audio drama built on a 5e framework!
J is a thoughtful and powerful storyteller as well as an amazing musician (in addition to DMing they compose all of the amazing Planet Arcana music that makes the show SUCH an audio treat to listen to!) and I have no doubt this, their debut game about trying to communicate with aliens through tarot and song, is going to be phenomenal!
Y'all check it out!! And if you're not already listening to Planet Arcana, y'all check that out too!! It's so good and deserves all the listeners in the universe!
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Waffles for Esther - A Solo Mystery Journaling Game of Small Town Hijinks!
Are you ready for a coffee caper?
A sherbet soirée?
Do you want to tango with a small-town troubled by treacherous tea times?
Don’t waffle on your decisions, the order is getting cold, and so is the case!
Start your investigation!
A solo mystery journaling game of small town hijinks.
Ill Met by Moonlight is a 1-2 player game inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Choose between playing Titania or Oberon, and relive the halcyon days of your courtship to reveal your inner truth – and heal your love.
This game needs no dice, just an old copy of Midsummer Night’s Dream, a big black marker, and the will to tear pages out of your book >:)
Port to starboard and over the side, pulled into the undertow.
this slush pour was an experiment gone right! makes me want to do more water-inspired designs. the cap faces are always so COOL so, i'm oversharing with this one
This is a free design journal for #dungeon23, first suggested by Sean Mccoy. A challenge to build a mega dungeon (or world!) over the course of a year, one room at a time.
We are considering building a Mega Grove for Banda’s Grove with the community. 52 fragments in total converged at the Grove, each one containing 7 locations, encounters, or adventure hooks.
To help the ttrpg community with this new challenge, we decided to create and release the Dungeon 23 Design Journal for free on itchio.
A minimalist journal containing:
1 calendar tracker
Full Spread dot graph pages
365 room/area design pages
Multi Formats Available!
A5 Portrait - Perfect making your own booklets.
A4 Portrait - Print them off and put them in a 3 ring binder.
A4 Landscape - Pretty awesome format, in our opinion.
Larger inner margins setup for wire-o and 3-ring binders.
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We handcraft immersive candles for D&D and other TTRPG players who want an extra spark of inspiration during game sessions! Our scents are thoughtfully designed and custom blended to evoke various settings or moods encountered during roleplaying adventures.
Our candles are made with 100% soy wax and fragrances free of phthalates and parabens for a clean burning experience. Available in highly portable 6oz tins and big, bold, and beautiful 16oz tins.
TTRPG designers: what is one game you've made that you think hasn't gotten enough attention compared to your other games, or that you wish more people would know about and try?
I'll reblog with my own answer later, but I wanna hear yours first!
Because of the very small venn diagram of people who read the Left Behind books and people who hang out in my side of ttrpg internet, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of interest in Forsaken. But what I will say is that it’s probably my best-written game, and if you’re at all unfamiliar with what makes evangelical Americans Like That ™️, this game will give you a pretty comprehensive understanding of what they think is about to happen any day now.
Reblogging because I am in that (presumably? hopefully?) very small population of folks who have read the Left Behind series and have now crossed over to the dark realm of TTPRGs, and this legitimately sounds like a fascinating and terrifying premise for a journaling game! And I'm certain there's folks out there looking for just such an experience.
(I doubt I could ever play it because of lingering trauma surrounding evangelical apocalyptic wishful thinking, but anyone without that emotional baggage should check it out!)
Do you want to try your hand at making a sticker game? Join #TheStickerJam! You have until the end of February to submit a project that involves using stickers!
This isn't ranked, so consider joining the fun!
A game jam from 2022-12-12 to 2023-03-01 hosted by Cassi Mothwin. Welcome to The Sticker Jam! Let's give more use to our sticker collections
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It doesn't get talked about enough, but This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a rad example of how you can adapt game design to your surroundings.
Basically, This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a digital larp. It's Phasmophobia played by chat. Your group creates a discord server to function as a haunted house, then you all explore it, building new 'rooms' out of channels as you go.
Some players take the roles of ghosts, and are muted but can affect the environment in the haunted house.
Other players take the roles of explorers, and can talk, but the ghosts are all listening.
Discord wasn't built to be gamified this way, but that doesn't matter.
As long as you can guarantee consistent behavior from a thing, you can build mechanics off of it.
Anything in your environment can be turned into a game.
And in this particular case, it's a really good one!
The mechanics lend themselves well to the kinds of pacing, limited communication, and untrustworthy setting that any good ghost story needs.
