IssaCC

I'm IssaCC (you can pronounce that as either "Issac" or "Issa CeCe!") (she/per)

I'm making a tabletop RPG (ttrpg).

I've been working on it for the past few months and just recently did a test run of the first draft, and I realized making a blog about my journey would be fun!

Warning! This blog may have cursing I'm my posts, so minors beware. Probably not other stuff at least without trigger warnings in the tags at the beginning of the posts.

Anyway, hope you enjoy following me and make sure to not be a butt in the comments, peeps!

First off, we have the Puffus.

They are the ostrich/ horse creatures of RnR. Players can harvest puffu eggs and ride them for festival events. They're not shaved for their feathers but their feathers catch colors from various dyes very easily, meaning players can customize the color scheme of their puffus.

Next up, the Caparies.

These moose sized animals are like the giant goats in RnR. They love rainy days and they like to swim like moose do. You can milk them for caparies milk and can make caparies cheese or butter out if it.

Next is the Moomer.

Good golly, what real animal could this probably look similar to??? I wanted them to look especially like the cows in Harvest Moon: Wonderful Life cuz they're the cutest cow design in HM imo. Much like cows in other farming sim games, moomers can be milked for moomer milk, which can be processed into moomer cheese and butter.

Second to last is the Wooly Bear.

Now this one was interesting to make. While I like me some sheep and their wide pupils, I wanted a new creature that wasn't a quadrupedal for RnR. So I made a koala like animal that has wool for fur. Their wool can be refined into making thread and yarn.

And last but not least, goose.

I know they rude sometimes but I like geese and they had to be in RnR. No to chickens, no to ducks, but yes to geese. Players can collect goose eggs from them and make mayo out the eggs.

With my new job making me pretty exhausted at the end of the day, I'm happy I got most of the ttrpg rulebook figured out beforehand. It's still got some work to be done, but it'll be easier to do that on weekends than it would be if I wasn't as far into it as I am now.

I also plan to do another play test with new players to make sure it's easy enough for new players to generally understand the rules and game mechanics.

Sleepy vultorm and I want to wish you all a wonderful pride month!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩷🩵

Whenever I publish Ranchers and Ruins, I plan to make it clear in the game description page that not only is this game written by a queer person but that it should be played by queer people. This is not me saying I don't want cis het allo neurotypical people to not play it at all.

But I want this game to encourage comfort and make a safe space for those that just want to work in a simple town, with their simple tasks. I also want it to be a game that allows therapeutic RPing for those who don't get to have a simple life for them.

And you know what? You absolutely don't have to be queer to struggle in this life, but you gotta know that the world has a lot of people in power that make being queer extremely more of a struggle than it should be. It's hateful, it's fascistic, and it's unacceptable.

So stay strong my queer family. And for those who really want to be an ally to this community, there are two great things you can do.

1) Listen, like actually fucking listen to queer people.

BUT I KNOW I EXPLAIN HOW IT RUNS IN THE RULEBOOK!

Ranchers & Ruins

It's both related to what normally happens in a lot of farming/ life sim games (ranchers related to animal tending and ruins for the mystery and fantasy involved in these games) and like Dungeons and Dragons, it has an easy to remember nickname too: RnR or R&R

I also love how it's like the r&r acronym (rest and relaxation) since I'm really trying to get the essence of a game that, while has some tension in the dungeons, is very relaxing and enjoyable to play with others.

Got some doodles of a few already. Probably should make a few more.

Here's what I got so far

Imagine making a chart for every season and time of day (i have 4 time periods in a day for the game) that shows for every fish in that season how much it costs and where in the 5 possible fishing areas could that fish be caught. Also there are various fish sizes that need to be labeled for game mechanic reasons and some fish only show up in certain weathers so you gotta mark that differently so the person understands it's weather dependent.

And that's Fusion: An RPG of feelings, friendships, and space rocks.

I loved watching Steven Universe and the mechanics in the rpg are very interesting. Failure rolls are high occuring, but characters gain experience from failures, which encourages the idea that mistakes are an opportunity to learn and improve oneself. It's tough but it's rewarding and a player only has 4 stats to deal with. I also very much like the use of tags instead of hit points, as it gets the idea without needing to be specific on damage intake or outtake.

I got to do only a couple one shots with that rpg, but it's pretty good. Some spelling/grammar errors in the rulebook, but like, it happens, especially since they mention the rpg is still in development.

I hope to put some kind of thanks for them on my rulebook whenever I publish because I definitely have parts similar to their setup (mostly in just dice rolling mechanics and the tags), and they deserve the recognition!

Anyway here's a link for anyone interested in buying Fusion.

And that got me thinking, "why not have an ttrpg like that?"

And that's kinda how I decided to make a ttrpg. I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this, but I at least couldn't find a Harvest Moon-esque ttrpg online and the idea of making one just got me so excited.

The farming, the animal tending, the fishing, the mining, the lumberly actions, the dungeons, and the connections characters make along the way just sounds so cool for a ttrpg.