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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Final class to level 5 complete. Playtesting still remains something I need a lot more of, but I'm going to start preparing the next 5 levels. I front loaded the abilities, the fun stuff people get to use, to check for balance issues, but going forward they'll be about half as often.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think... I'm finally happy with the core of this game. It took a "year" of playtest, technically sorta. I've done multiple changes to smooth out the complexity, because where I made it, I understood it completely, but that can't always be the case. It still is mighty complex, but more approachable

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Pulled the trigger on my first major adjustment during playtest and reconfiguring stats and skill checks. Overall the players shouldn't notice any difference.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Spent some precious hours smoothing out the combat sheet today. Going to redo stats and hash out the stats/class passives/traits/mutations tomorrow. I'm going to eschew the aesthetics on this one just for playability sake. I wish I had more frequent playtest days, should get an online one going.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Got that tinker urge again... Rehashing how stats are done and displayed in progress.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Been quiet on the western front as far as progress goes. Weirdly the more interested I am in 40k the more inspired I am to work on this. Playtests are going great, going to split and simplify the sheets to a Stat/Spell/Mutation/Trait Sheet and Combat/Equipment Sheet with more descriptive "do this"

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

What gives me immense joy as a newish DM and also designer of said game I'm DMing is the wry grin I get to do when someone is just flailing conversing in character and I slide the dice tray to them. The -1 to Diplomacy did not do them well.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

They're only level 1, they've only done 1 combat, but it seems like the direction I'm aiming for is noticed. These are FF14 enjoyers so they've played some MMO in their time.

Two people's feedback on my current game design through Discord:

Person 1: More thoughts: I really like the cooldown system with the dice on the cards. It's neat. Like you said it captures that MMO feel, and unlike D&D's x usage per short rest system you can't just like, spam an ability over and over

Person 2: ^ it definitely gives a broader feeling of ability economy, not just turn economy

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yo, #ttrpg designers. How many of you kept the D&D stats. All 6. STR DEX INT WIS CHA CON style, even if by another name? I kept the 6, but that's because I've used a lot of hexagons in the sheet design and it just fit.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I've started already compiling a bunch of additional classes or class specs for base classes that I don't know what to do with them at this point and I'm scared. Do I bump up the base classes to... 15? Each with minimum 2 class specs? That'd be 37 specs to play with 15 base variations to toy with..

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Spent a lot of my night automating a spreadsheet so that it can kick out mostly complete sheets. Still have a little bit of cleanup to do and I want to add more to the automator, but what's really neat is that it's mostly easy to export the sheet and import it to Tabletop Simulator.

Sitting on a grid of grey felt is a tarot deck, a playing card deck, a customized card that's green and the words are too small to make out.

Below that is a character sheet mostly filled. Bunt Swinton, the Trickshot with the background Athlete. The stats are listed in the middle on the top third of the sheet in a branching honeycomb where each hexagon is progressively smaller. Each branch is a stat commonly found in Pen and Paper RPGs. Beside each stat is the Skills that are associated with the stat. To the sides are some cut ins that give you Buffs and Debuffs on either side, so you can look down and see what issues you might have, like being on fire.

Below in the middle third is the health, attacks, and defenses sheet, showing 4 potentially equipped weapons and multiple different armors, each having an armor value to certain parts of the body which relates to how combat functions.

Finally in the bottom third is a bunch of horizontal lines for writing on with Traits taking up 3/4ths, and Mutations in the final 1/4 in a smaller box on its own. To either side of these is Cooldowns, where you can put your abilities that are on cooldown.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Group 2 has been slower to get rolling, but as of today there are enough character sheets built that gameplay can begin next time we convene! In... Two weeks! Group 3's feedback so far has been "really excited for next session"

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Me: I wrote a game that core involves aliens abducting part of earth, but I want to keep this game functional in all settings with some tweaking; a good core that can be adapted to fantasy and sci-fi. Also me: What if I spend way too long learning about warp drive physics for accuracy for the hook?

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Group 2 got some numbers written down and character ideas Group 3 got everything done and got to actually do a bit of a playthrough of the introduction hook for my little adventure module. Definitely found some things to clarify and correct, and fixed all that this morning. Feeling positive!

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Playtest group 1 has had one session Playtest group 2 starts tomorrow Playtest group 3 starts the day after Playtest group 4 unknown potential but keeping space for Playtest group 5 tapped for a one/two shot in a few months (intentionally short lived due to fitting into a friend's busy life)

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

One of the new people picked up chose a class that has yet to be worked on, so I spent a chunk of my week brainstorming, finished off the Trickshot today, a ranged single target damage dealer, with the ability to heal and enhanced their friends... By shooting them! Think Ana from Overwatch.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I think I worked out at least a mildly more interesting adjustment to travel. It does put a sort of layer of antagonism as the GM instead of just as a story teller, but I also want to inspire more "gamey" mechanics to what already exists in the space. Padding the boring parts with more gameplay.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Work trip meant grabbing three more players, finishing 90% of another playtest class just in case anyone wants it, and giving some rough idea of expectations I want out of a first time RPG player. The info has been handed to the new folks, here's hoping they like what they see.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Work trip and conference means afterwards I get to probably just sit and write and read and maybe finish the rest of the classes no one has picked for playtest so far, and maybe get a start on expanding the rulebook or making handy reference material. The firmament is the limit!

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Complete and functional for all the math parts of the game. You don't have to refer to the book to get values, you don't need to remember what you've trained in. Pick your class, your background, and any skills you train along the way, and it'll automatically update and populate.

An update to the earlier spreadsheet that catalogues your values for stats and skills based on choices made during character creation. It has colours that relate the skills to the stat (IE Might means you can Climb and Jump better, Fortitude means you have better Concentration) and a dropdown menu that will update based on whatever skills you pick.

Hope it's mobile friendly...

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I could have made breakfast this morning. Instead I spent all my time automating the number side of the game to make character creation a breeze. On the front it looks very familiar to popular game systems, the depth is in the class choice. Roll dice, green values used, class+background pulls value

A spreadsheet on Google Sheets. It has various stats and skills you would find in any fantasy roleplay game, with a number value with how good you are at it beside it.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I don't share many ideas because I have things under lock and key as I'm still building, but here's a tease: Snapback Corpse. 20 (+30)HP As it shambles forward, the skeleton and sinew rips from its body while the flesh tries to keep up and reform it to be made whole.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Spending a bit of my work day exploring enemy designs with unique mechanics. I want to make little ones before making a big one, like how video games tee up how to defeat the big boss by sprinkling around combat ideas in the monsters you encounter in the area just before it.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I'm at this point now where I can't really work on anything big until I get some playtest stuff back. I kinda know the route I wanna take, and I think I'm going to make some class packages/cards for players to make it easier for them to get into what they can do, but overall it's just play and fix.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Playtest the first in the bag and a lot was learned real fast from it. First off, NPC adjustments. Cutting all HP values in half, and doubling their output on damage. Not enough damage going out to justify dedicated healers or making things feel like a threat. Some jabs got in, but not enough imo.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Iron Fist, Class 8, is now playable. WAY more pared-down compared to The Shaman. Baseline every class has 14 abilities, and this one is one such case. In fact, the last two classes should also have 14 abilities total unless I get another bout of inspiration. 139/167 abilities for playtest

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I think I know what I want to do for an art style, but my goodness I'm going to have to bust out all my non-art chops to get something as a proof of concept for an actual artist.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Playtest material for this weekend has been fully prepped. The rulebook somehow lost a piece of a page and as such everything past the classes is all jankity janked and skewed, but it's still legible so we go regardless. Runs on D10 and D6's, hence the amount of D6s, and everyone gets ABILITY CARDS

A picture of a rulebook covered in 6 stacks of cards for 6 different playtest classes, and in the center are three boxes of Red, Green, and Blue D6s

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

7th class finally in a playable state. It's definitely the largest class, despite being only to level 5. Most classes only have 2 paths to go: Damage and either Support, Healing or Tank. The Shaman has 2 Melee Damage, 1 Ranged Damage, Tank, AND Heal tree you can focus into. The scope shifted a bit.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

99 unique abilities, 99 cards written for only 6 of the 10 base classes. I'm still working on the others, I'm expecting another 50+ cards (Shaman ended up blowing up in scope in a positive way). So about 150 unique abilities each catered to multiple different playstyles.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I have finished playing catch up for next weekend's playtest to start. Each ability is getting a card to go with it to help players not only keep track of everything easier rather than writing a spell list, it gives them something to share when helping friends. This, for example, is a Dome of Earth

A card that says

Earth Dome Lvl: 3
Range (unknown)Ft Target - X
Cast - 2AP
Save - N/A
Resistance - N/A
Duration: Combat

(text box deliberately scrawled over to hide information)

(D)ome has HP equal to your Fort(itude).
Cooldown Cmbt (Combat)

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We should have the ability to track how many words we've deleted in addition to how many words we've written so we can look back and see how much we had to sacrifice to get to finding that right combination that makes us happy.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Spending my entire day reworking my entire stat/skill/ability/save numbers to accommodate my dumpster fire of a brain.

Gríma Wormtongue, a man in a black fur with shoulder length, thin, greasy black hair and pale complexion, leaning in and speaking into the ear of King Théoden, who sits on a throne looking like an old man near death, a tarnished tiara type crown on his head, long white unkempt hair everywhere, wrinkles where wrinkles shouldn't be, and a long beard equally unkempt and white. He wears a fraying grey robe.

Overtop Wormtongue is a small white text that says "my brain" and over the king another text in white says "also my brain"

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

That rework I was reworking on has become a rework of the rework, and now I'm re-addressing almost everything I've already written with regards to dice rolling. Help.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I sometimes forget I was working on a Pokemon D&D with a few people back when I worked in a warehouse. That's where Stolen World also started. Turns out that place wasn't intellectually stimulating and I needed a brain project to keep myself alive through those years.

A google drive folder. My Drive > Dungeons and Dragons > Pokemon DND

Inside it are 6 files: Classes, Combat, Copy of Pokemon Go..., Map and Movement, Pokemon Catch R(ate), Read First! Doc Ru(les)

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I've been poking at my first module for playtest purposes and have only made it a third of the way through notable locations on my map. Today one of my players asked me if her character idea was good, and she doesn't know I wrote an entire city devoted to her character's backstory in 5 min flat.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I got home from a movie and just... brain blasted both initiative and stats and now I need to rewrite a ton of things but I think I like it a lot more and I just wanted to watch something dumb, go read and pass out. And NOW!?

media.tenor.com

a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in front of a computer .

Alt: a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in front of a computer throwing everything around the desk that could move from papers to folders.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Starting a group to playtest while at work, and I did a bunch of writeups trying to explain it to people. Oops my job deletes old messages so I spent a while doing a writeup for nothing Which obviously means making a Discord for all my Playtests to have their own little hubs and a place to discuss

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Going through the most tedious part of this design process: Drawing up the pre-alpha ability cards. The game has all your abilities outside of class passives written out on cards. If you look on the earlier sheet you can see little divots where cards fan out from your sheet.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Excited to start excited to start excited to start. I've got 2 groups confirmed, one group is my usual suspects plus another, but I convinced a few people I worked with for a smaller group during some lunch hours. That part is actually one I'm more intrigued in as 2 people have never played a ttrpg

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Working hook: Aliens! We heard about the size of their ship for weeks. We weren't prepared. An ominous report every hour of it closing in on us as it swept past planets devoid of life. We hoped it was friendly. We didn't expect it was hungry. Society start collapsing long before it even reached us.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

One thing I've also had a lot of fun writing is MMO style encounters. Each elite character has abilities that will test your party's ability to adapt. Some create combat timers for an all out slug fest, some create hazards they have to navigate around, or brace themselves to not be swept out to sea.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

BONUS for getting to a point I'm happy, an iteration of my Character Sheet with obviously a big stamp on it. There's been a few changes since this in the name of cleanup and adjustment of systems (Rsrcflnss is now Stamina for instance) but I ended up really liking how the main page looks.

A character sheet for the game Stolen World. It has futuristic text on it and there are many boxes, lines, and hexes for values, stats, skills, traits etc etc etc. There is also a massive blue "Sample" diagonally over it that hides a portion of the sheet.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Stolen World is a faster paced TTRPG that imbues gameplay elements of MMOs (Party Composition, Skill Trees, Class Specializations) and Warhammer (Many D6s and their manipulation) into a familiar shell of Pen and Paper you would expect from the past 40 years.

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Stolen World TTRPG @stolenworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Made this to offset the main accounts RPG talk, so feel free to mute this account if you're following me on @jekkus.bsky.social and don't want to hear the blatherings on.

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