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I figured out what I'm going to make for the Disabled Designers TTRPG Game Jam. "Thank You, Cityname! We Love You!" is a mapmaking rpg in which your party plays members and/or roadies for a band trying to find your way home after a show while lost in The City. The genre of your band will influence your options for starting supplies, and your position in the band will influence your character build options. As you make your way through the map, you draw random encounters from a table, which may be supply stops (corner stores, gas stations, bars, fast food), road blocks, allies, or hostile situations. Once you resolve (or run away from) a grid square, you draw what you encountered there. All checks are done with a standard set of playing cards, and contested checks are done as hands of card games.

Inner Light has some curly fonts and small serif type, and I’m working on a finalized version that will have full page art that occasionally moves that text around. This is, of course, a matter of some concern for people who have visual impairments and/or use screen readers and audio files and the like.

So I made a plaintext version, using sans serif fonts at larger size, and bundled it with an audiobook copy I recorded. The audiobook is broken into one track per text heading, so it's as easy to find specific sections in the book's playlist as it is in the book itself. The audio is available in wav format or mp3. Each plaintext/audio bundle costs the same as the regular book, and can be found here:

New battlemap is up! Right on time for the weekend, this map is set in a little town square: 5 variants to choose from including different weather and time of day, making a total of 42 items.

First WIP for the first map

This is the Enclave of Cloaks, the home of the Knowmads and where you report back to Those That Know after spending 8 3-nights on a map. I thought it would be best to have the first map give you a picturee of where you're going when you make these reports.

The trifold design is structured so that the front page (Page 1 Panel 3) shows the empty chamber and when opened reveals directly underneath it the outer flap (Page 1 Panel 1) with the same chambers but with knowmads walking around interacting, which under that unfolds to reveal Those That Know now filling the chamber.

Along with that, the full campus is shown across Page 2 and the full set of numbered labels for navigation. This includes the industries that keep this monastic order funded on the left and the domestic necessities for housing so many rotating residents on the right.

This map will likely have the most text of any of the maps I make in this initial pack, mostly because I think it's important to have most players on the same page about the basics of the world, but a lot of the intention behind the events visible in the scene will be left to interpretation.

May Side Table: Broke Wizards Tiny Test

Sabrina Hawthorne is BACK on the pod for a very special episode of Tiny Test. And what's that title? Broke Wizard 2?! That's right baby, the zany silly wizards are back for sophomore year to rest out some sick new mechanics that Sabrina is cooking up for the sequel. Listen in as Rhaena, Mo, Chris and a mysterious four character try to get into a party they are way too lame to be at.

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The excesses and hidden violence of our current, capitalist, society create wounds in the world from which demons emerge that hunt the vulnerable. You are a Radical, someone who has realised this and wants to fight back. It’s time to get MAD AS HELL.

Mad As Hell is a new TTRPG of anti-capitalist demonhunting by Evie Moriarty. This is a game of learning the tools of resistance, the strength of community and deciding that the horrors in this world are something you cannot accept.