Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/20252025 MotherV3 art. The first one is from August and the last 3 are September. Noticeable improvement! (All text in the images are quotes) 000
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/20252025 backlog featuring radiaactive. Online Reactor and Rise Above 000
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Time to start uploading the art I did in 2025 starting with Highlight #squeakart 061
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I've been absent from here for a long time but I've been busy. With what? Learning art. @fufuvt.bsky.social 010
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2024Huh apparently I was user #329,558 on this place. 010
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2024There is a REAL way: Enforce time keeping just like Gary begged us to in AD&D 1e (page 37). "Failure to keep careful track of time expenditure by player characters will result in many anomalies in the game." Which is exactly what you're talking about. A stamina system is just wonky timekeeping. 061
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2024If you see this, repost with an image you saved just because it made you laugh 000
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Anything could be friendly unless it was nonsapient opposed to life like undead. Occupied castles were common (this is historically accurate), but may or may not be friendly: It's up to the players and also how the GM plays the result of the tables. Below this as the rules for avoiding encounters. 010
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Trad RPGs skill systems need an overhaul. Success/fail + skill name should not be a foundational pillar of a system, it should sit ON foundational pillars. Instead, it sits on the GM. This keeps skill systems oversimplified because any additional mechanics is seen as adding to GM burden. (Art by me) 110
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2024@unboxedcereal.bsky.social I decided to glance at Reddit and found this gem that I'm sure you will just love; specifically the line: "In role playing games the tool we use to overcome the unnecessary obstacle is storytelling." The one just after it clarifies he really does mean story telling. 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2024Full text. Also this exchange me this idea: bsky.app/profile/lege... 010
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2024"How does a generic sword fighter deal with dimensional horrors immune to physical weapons?!" 000
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2024I saw your post and then minutes later saw this. Relevant. 010
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2024Levels need to exist because that's what pathfinder writers think an RPG is. Yet mechanically or narratively there's no explanation nor exploration of what it means for the setting that some people have guns that atomise you and some people have laser glocks. Levels just EXIST. 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2024Yes. Had this exchange recently (see pic). My reply was not taken well. There's a huge swathe of the community who thinks Roleplaying = Play acting detailed descriptions; nothing else. CERTAINLY NOT THE MECHANICS. To them the mechanics don't "speak" of happening in the fantasy world. 200
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Gygax: "Here are the rules and tables for making dungeons fast because this is a feature complete game." Later Game designers: "Yeah the GM is just supposed to make detailed maps without support that's normal. :))" 020
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 26/12/2023I'm convinced my two online players of 5 years are the best roleplayers alive. They can effortlessly play MULTIPLE characters at once. I don't need to call for rolls; they know the rules. They want to do something, they roll as appropriate. I'm spoiled as a GM. One depicted himself as a TI-84 here: 130
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 12/12/2023Absolutely. But that's what people think an RPG is now. 000
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2023Yeah I agree. Now, EABA kind of did this with Stuff! It's a book for designing... stuff. Lots of stuff. Weapons, vehicles, gadgets, creatures and even civilisations. Excellent layout too. Near there back there's a universale scale chart and a damage conversion table for other popular generic systems 110
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 08/11/2023Conditional Injury in Pyramid 3/120: Alternate GURPS V might be worth looking at. Yes it's GURPS but the design of the alternate injury system is interesting. It's not HP and it's not just 'resist KO' either. (Pain replaces shock if using those rules). 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2023BITD's "whole conflict" game rhythm shows this. This is not the structure of any kind of trad RPG. It isn't one. You cannot play it like a trad RPG, because it IS a conversation. Nothing exists until the conversation instantiates it. (Screencap source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAl8... ) 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2023Currently running a portal fantasy TTRPG campaign. Made some tables for encounters. 010
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2023That makes sense. A friend of mine has a d20 modern book, and I think he used it in the past. He went through it again after years of my GURPS games, recently was like "How did I ever think this was good or acceptable?" Pic related. 000
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2023I can't stand this in TTRPG design. If you design a class-based RPG by slicing up basic physical actions and gating them off behind classes, you don't know what you're doing. Gate off high to extreme proficiency at them? Sure. But not the ability to do it at all (Image 1 is Lancer, image 2 is D&D4e) 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2023It DOES effect me. Here's @unboxedcereal.bsky.social's thread from Twitter that also describes my experience. My group scattered to the 4 winds and massively different schedules after completing university, so I need a new one. Harder than it sounds. (original) twitter.com/unboxedcerea... 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Wanted to discuss this take by @mattcolville.bsky.social here instead of on X. I get what he's saying. D&D promises to let you inhabit and explore a fantasy world via the role of a character you make. BG3 lets you DO that better than actual D&D5e does because of multiple reasons. 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2023I was discussing this recently! Someone asked "Why is it that so many players don’t deviate from the medieval fantasy genre?" This answer (pic related) was a good beginning of an answer; basically pointing out what you are pointing out. But not WHY that is. I know why that is (continued) 111
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2023Here's an example, arranged to fit into a nice square here. I'm adamant that TTRPGs must be games for the GM as well; this is how you do it, not by writing a plot. You play this game, and when players take control of factions or form their own, they become players on this stage too. 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2023What's the short version? Set up factions with goals. How? Make factions (or NPC leaders), they have goals. Their goals are at odds with each other. Assign them resources, troops, etc. Roleplay them. You are a GM, this is the side of the game YOU play. I made something to help organise it. 100
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/202322 degrees isn't hot. Heat does not begin until 30. 110
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2023Many TTRPGs should just be supplements for existing systems. Especially ones that are just reskinned D&D. In fairness, the OSR guys at least do this with making their stuff somewhat compatible with each other. It helps because it's an open system. TTRPG is better as a hobby network than industry. 031
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2023Another day another person saying that if I don't want scripted narrative and fudging rolls in my TTRPGs I actually don't want roleplay and should go play a board game. It's all so tiresome. 010
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2023Yes, I am definitely a rules light system player, you should come try it. 000
Legendsmith @legendsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2023Aiming in Lancer is a feat, called a Talent. Sorry, you can't just aim, you need to have the talent to do that. Like how in a CCG, you can't take an action unless you have it in your deck. Fine in a CCG; design butchery for a game that's supposed to be about playing a character in a secondary world. 100
