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Our new mini-campaign (playing The Slow Knife by @mouseholepress) is now available on our patreon!

Check it out!! 🗡️⁉️🤬🌋

Oh hey, it’s Jack Harrison again, with a pretty, story-focused game. This one is called Bucket of Bolts (2021) and has a genuine sense of ennui about it (probably because it draws on Skeletons, Jason Morningstar’s game/musing on mortality).

Bucket of Bolts is an envelope. Inside is a single sheet of riso-printed paper that is folded up into a little booklet that contains the main rules. A series of cards by other writers contains add-on prompts, tables, character traits and such.

The game is a solo journaling game. Prompts lead you through the creation of the ship and its captain, the events of its career, modifications, triumphs, failures. A life, basically. Then the next captain and so on, until the ship, rusty and broken, winds up wherever spaceships go to die. I enjoy how the game gets you coming AND going: you get to not only be sad about the ultimate sorry fate of the ship at the end, but periodically throughout the game you get to be sad about the loss of the various captains as well.

I’m being flippant. Bucket of Bolts is a thoughtful little game that tackles topics of loss, nostalgia, purpose and a whole host of other things that will likely surprise players. And, off-setting the melancholy, drawing the ship and its modifications over time is an important (and delightful) play component.

It's time for the Road to PALISADE to continue! Today, around 6:30PM ET, we'll return to the Brink, everyone's favorite truck stop/space station from Twilight Mirage! To do that, we'll be playing @mouseholepress' Orbital, "a sci-fi RPG of precarious spaces amid interstellar war."

12:22 PM PDT, 23 July 2022 (Source)

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Because this was an incentive during our NNAF fundraiser, this Live at the Table will be free to the public! (It will also go into the main feed, edited & with music sometime in the future, like all the Road to PALISADE games). We'll post a YouTube link around 6:30!

NekoMancer @Tom_OBedlam:

@mouseholepress is there likely to be a reprint of Slow Knife? I just heard about it on @Friends_Table and it sounds incredible. Not surprised at all that it's popular enough to be sold out

12:23 AM PDT, 05 November 2022 (Source)

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Friends at the Table Retweeted:

Jack Harrison @mouseholepress:

Hey! Got a reprint on the way as part of my current KS:

6:14 AM PDT, 05 November 2022 (Source)

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NekoMancer @Tom_OBedlam:

Ah neat, thank you!

So I have started this Solo TTRPG that is based on Kiki´s Delivery Service. As the description says, "This is a game for one player, designed for contemplative solo play."

This fantastic idea is the brainchild of @mouseholepress.

I am going to publish my progress here, maybe you get attached to my little witch´s story, or it inspires you to give it a go! I am not a good writer and English is not even my first language. As a busy adult with a job and no friends that are into roleplaying the concept of Solo TTRPG became extremely appealing to me. I used to roleplay and those adventures were part of some of the best times of my life. Roleplaying is good therapy, I swear.

I am glad to share my story with you and I am intrigued to find out what Neyra´s adventures will be like.