thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I find it so odd that TTRPGs don't include a 1-4 page setting/system primer along with their character sheets. While I don't think D&D needs it so many other games would benefit. Who are you? What are you doing? Some basic setting facts, just enough to get the players to feel a bit grounded. 101 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Played Ahoy! tonight. Ahoy has become one of my favorite games. It is extremely tactically satisfying, wonderfully asymmetrical and yet it is so much easier to get to the table than Root. It is just so much easier to teach and everyone's roles and goals are just much clearer. #boardgames 020 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Name your top 15 tv shows ever, gut instincts only* Twin Peaks Babylon 5 Star Trek TNG Venture Brothers Taskmaster From Better Call Saul Avatar the Last Airbender The Expanse Malcom In the Middle Batman the Animated Series Carnivale Deadwood Penny Dreadful Doctor Who 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 13/04/2026TTRPG about me First game: AD&D Last game: Mythic Bastionland Longest game: Starfinder 1st edition Favourite game: SLA Industries Favourite mechanics: World of Darkness Favourite art: SLA Industries 021 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I am slowly learning Mewgenics though. Through a stroke of good luck I managed to unlock act 2. I can also reliably push into the sewers and the junkyard. However, the caves and the graveyard mess me up so badly I feel like it is better to just keep all my bad ass items. 010 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I like Mewgenics a lot. However, it is frustrating. So much so that whenever I watch a video on it and things go well for the person I turn it off in disgust. 010 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Tonight we play Railroad Tiles for board game night. I was worried about this game. It had a lot of hype around it and I dunno I've been let down before. HOWEVER, this game lives up to the hype. Quick to teach, quick to play, surprisingly strategic and surprisingly interactive. #boardgames 110 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Got to play Yunnan! A mighty game of selling tea in China. A game that harkens back to a time where board games came in ugly boxes, boards were brown, and they were cheap. After 10 years I still love this game. #boardgames 030 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Got to play Tammany Hall tonight! I like it with three people it is claustrophobic and aggressive. I do like it better with 5 where all the powers are in play and becoming mayor feels like a punishment. The ending was decided on an incredibly thin margin and I love games like that. #boardgames 130 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Got to play La Pastries Rococo! I was worried about this game because Rococo is one of my all time favorite games but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked the new version. The teach was pretty smooth, we had a tight final score spread, and everyone got the down pretty well. #boardgames 130 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I had so much fun playing Ahoy that I'm going to buy the expansions tomorrow. I am delighted and surprised with how much I love it. #boardgames 022 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Got to play some mother fucking AHOY! I've wanted to play this game forever and I finally got 4 people in a board game night. We all had a blast. Ahoy is an amazing game. I think it, unfairly, gets overshadowed by Root. However, I found Ahoy to be just as deep while being more approachable. 020 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 06/03/2026As of tonight I finally did it. After finally knuckling down and farming up Citrine I now have every warframe. I feel a glorious sense of accomplishment. #warframe 020 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 04/03/2026On the #ttrpg front writing equipment rules is so boring. I'm having to break it down where I'll do two pieces of equipment a day and then reward myself by writing something fun. I find myself dedicating a lot of time to weapons. Mostly because it helps flesh out the species. 010 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I love the way Elation works. It feels so all in. I desperately want them to bring back Qingque or someone like her. She was so much fun to play and she just sadly doesn't work in modern Starrail. They really screwed up with some of their early character designs. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 04/03/2026It took me all the way to pity but I pulled Sparxie! I did it for love. After messing around with her in the Divergent Universe she feels like half a character. However, I think her value will emerge when the elation MC comes out. Then she'll really shine. #honkaistarrail 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 28/02/2026There are plenty of things I should be doing for my #ttrpg. Instead I want to come up with a system so that game masters can get levels. Because game masters deserve levels too. I refuse to be jealous of Jughead. 020 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I feel like #ttrpgs can learn a lot from board games. Especially in terms of presentation and organization of information. Like Starfinder/Pathfinder would have pages of tables of weapons that would all have keywords that would be explained elsewhere. Which is a pain to reference. 011 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Been working on how I want to format the information for gear. I really want to be happy with the format because if I get 20 pieces of gear in and hate the formatting I will crash out. I will also never go back and fix it. I always felt that good presentation is key. #ttrpg 020 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I think one of things that gets missed with rules is that they need to be both a teaching material and a reference. It is easy to write rules that sound like they make sense. It is very hard to write rules that actually teach play, and facilitate reference. 100 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Reading some board game rules really helped me clear up the some of the difficulty I was having writing rules for my #ttrpg. There is a huge difference rules that read well but fall apart and rules that read well and lead to productive play. 110 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I still try to avoid 4 player games because I almost never get to bring them to the table. I usually end up with 5 people no matter how hard I try. Again on the one hand I am very lucky! On the other hand I just want to play Brass. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Last night I was going to have 4 people over to play Ahoy! One couldn't make it so I asked my wider friend group and I ended up with 6 people at my house. In many ways I am lucky! We got to play Heat, we had a great time. But I really wanted to play Ahoy. #boardgames 120 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Monday night is #boardgames night and I got to put Heat on the table for the first time! Holy god, I like that game. It plays fast, there is a bunch of strategy and it is fun. I was hesitant to get it because I already own Thunder Alley but I'm glad I did. Now I need to resist buying expansions. 050 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Been thinking of my #ttrpg that I spent a whole bunch of time writing. I got really far along. It is basically ready for playtesting but I haven't worked on it all month. Looking back my schedule at work has been brutal. Like one day off then work 4, another day off work 3, then one off and 4 more. 110 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Finally got John Company to the table! I managed to teach a 5 player game which was hard but I did it. I had a blast. We got through 3 full turns which isn't bad for a first game. We would of finished had I not been teaching it. Amazing game and well worth the effort it takes to learn it. 100 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I've been leaning to play John Company 2e. I'm no stranger to heavy games and even hex and counter war games, but that rule book is really bad. Like at no point do they explicitly state what makes a territory company controlled. You have to infer it by reading the governor rules. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Monday night is board game night huzzah! We went from having 6 people down to 4. Funny how that works out. Originally we were going to play Quatermaster General but we ended up playing Dominion! My players requested to play with the same set of action cards 2 times in a row. 100 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The smart part of me knows I should buy a variety of board games at different levels of complexity so I have a better chance of playing them more often. The rest of me wants to buy a big bad Lacerta game. Maybe I should throw Lisboa on the table next week to see what happens. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Last couple of weeks I've been having a hard time getting a board game night together. I've been lucky to get 3. Tonight 6 people wanted to come. So I got to play Euphoria Build a Better Dystopia. For years I'd use this game to bring people from lighter games into heavier stuff. 100 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 11/01/2026More and more I find myself stepping back from making corporations the arch villains in my various sci-fi campaigns. I feel like it gives corporations to much credit. More often I make them banal and rather uninteresting. Their evil is one of incompetent happenstance rather than active malice. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I feel we need someone to write a really good enemies to lovers yaoi about rock and paper putting aside their differences to defeat scissors. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I think my next goal is player handouts. Give them one sheets that goes over the base rules, combat, and some basic setting notes. Once I do that I think we can begin. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 08/01/2026On the TTRPG front I spent a bunch of the afternoon working on my game. I spent time trying to figure out damage values for weapons versus armor. I didn't want to over complicate it and I think after some basic testing and messing about I have a pretty good system in place. 120 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Got my first board game of the year down tonight! We played The King is Dead for the first time! I like this game. It is fast, thinky, and easy to teach. We played two games back to back and I had an amazing time. Best of all some of my group said they were ready to try harder games! 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I've been taking a writing break 50k in November plus another 20ish in December has left me a little tapped out. I think it is important to take breaks, read a whole bunch of stuff, and then go back at it. The reading part is almost as important. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Played some #bloodbowl tonight! Which was lovely. Normally this is our rpg night but that fell apart because everyone is exhausted from the holidays. One of my players expressed interest in Blood Bowl and tonight was his second game. He had a great time and I got to play so win/win! 120 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 30/12/2025At some point I am going to need to start editing it. Looking at the whole document is frankly overwhelming. Why would I write all this? Absolute madness. By breaking it down into more manageable parts I work on it a bit easier. It will also be easier to turn into a webpage this way. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Spending the evening doing boring admin for my game. I have three google docs. Between the three they are over 100 pages of text. So I'm spending the evening breaking them down into smaller, topical, easy to manage documents. This way I can much more organized when I go to work on the game. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 28/12/2025It's always so weird to me how some games will get season pass DLCs and people will love them but then other games will do the exact same thing and get hated. Like Age of Wonders 4 has a much beloved DLC eccosytem but people get big mad about Stellaris. They use the same DLC model for both games. 100 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I do think my last big thing before play testing is to set up a webpage. This way I can easily store and sort information but I can also give the players an easily accessible resource. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I designed the game world to facilitate play and I designed the rules to facilitate play within the game world. My instinct to present a completed product stems from that. I don't want magic or cyberware to feel tacked on because they were designed later at the same time I can have faith in myself. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 27/12/2025One thing I realized about my game is that I don't need to do everything right now. I don't need to do cyberware right now, I don't need to do a whole bestiary right now. I am one person. I have a functional core. We'll work with that and fill things out as they emerge. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I've still been working on my Ttrpg. I'm getting closer and closer to playtest time. I got a nice pile of weapon names and descriptions, I have armor. I need to mess with some numbers a bit but I'm mostly ready to go. 040 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I haven't been posting much here because I've gone back to WARFRAME!!! Recently, I've been impressed by how little boring admin there is in that game. Like you can't go one mission in Mechwarrior 5 without being handed a spreadsheet and repair bills. 100 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 21/12/2025One of the terrible ironies of my Bloodbowl collection is that I have almost two full Dwarf teams. It is a combination of the Dungeon Bowl box and a couple of Old World Alliances boxes I got on a deep discount. I hate playing and playing against the Dwarves. It is so miserable. 000 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Now I'm getting ready to paint my Ogre team. I bought Dungeon Bowl forever ago which had part of an Ogre team on it. So I actually have all 6 Ogres and 16 snotlings which is neat! One of my older Ogres lost a hand at some point so I've also been able to do some much needed repairs. 100 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I've been pretty depressed these past few days. The holidays are kinda hard for me. I did get a bunch of painting done though which is nice. I painted my Khorne Bloodbowl team. I got them painted up to about the height of my skill level and I'm pretty happy with them. 150 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 10/12/2025#ttrpg Finally sat down and started figuring out what I want to do with magic, how people will be animating skeletons, and overall how spells will work. Magic was huge stumbling block for me and I'm glad I am mostly over it. 220 0
thekolo35.bsky.social @thekolo35.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Sometimes when you got a lot of creative momentum it is important to remember that you can't pour from an empty cup. That it is essential that you retreat to the library and read for a bit. I don't have to reinvent every wheel. 000 0