Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cover art is a game mechanic. 190
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Got followed by an AI "art" account. Blocked the account and unfollowed a mutual who was following them. Get fucked AI nerds. 020
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ALSO why would I waste time writing an adventure site that has a 1-in-6 chance of being found? If I write something cool I want the players to see it. Yes, I know can hint it's there with rumors. But now you're describing a secret door, and we agree you shouldn't roll for those! 150
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026OSR games are like: "Rolling to spot traps or hidden doors is bad game design, anyway in this wilderness hex you have a 1-in-6 chance of finding the adventure site. Oh you failed? Sorry no fun for you." 1111
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Made by meat" is my new anti-AI slogan. 180
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I like all kinds: Fight, kiss and door. 0123
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case? 130
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Blaming this on the player is both cruel and wrong. This is a system problem. D&D is a really hard game to learn. It's complex and if you play badly it's not fun. You need a high level of system mastery to understand what's going on. So of course players are resistant to learning a new game! 2110
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Did I mention this is also a fundraiser for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota? Thank you to the person who just donated $25!! 051
Reposted by Victor, a Rascal certified game designerTheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 14/06/2026I asked my wife is I should write a manifesto and she said I need to manifest a job. 4303
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I already did this: Inspired by books like Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown, and Nancy Drew, Kid Detectives is a game of middle school kids in the mid 1980s solving mysteries in the sleepy town of Ida Falls. Who stole the soccer coach’s lucky hat? Who spread the vicious rumors about a friend?thisisvictor.itch.ioKid Detectives by This Is VictorA game of hijinks, friendship, and pinning clues to a cork board. 4176
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026You're not a real game designer until you've published seven manifestos. 092
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Big news! My Mausritter module is now Pay What You Want. BUT, and this is big, it's still a fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. I've set up a custom donation page for us. We can track how much we've donated as well. thisisvictor.itch.io/the-lonely-oakthisisvictor.itch.ioA Visit to the Lonely Oak by This Is VictorA Mausritter Adventure Site by Victor Lane 071
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I think it's bad form to discuss problems without also discussion solutions. A thread of alternatives to "GM picks the target number." 110
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I did one already but I got another: Asking the GM to arbitrarily pick a target number is bad game design. 1548
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026The entirety of my experience with Dungeons & Dragons is a singular session of 4th edition. Which barely even counts as D&D. 010
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Shit like this is the only reason I still use social media. *chef's kiss* 010
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Wait are you telling me the PbtA ISN'T just "narrative gurps"? Oh wow. 2161
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Teaser for my current project, a Daggerheart one shot. Imagine the placeholder sketch is actually a beautiful drawing of a dragon sleeping on a building. 1100
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026In the medieval ages people in Rome forgot what The Colosseum was used for. They thought it was a temple. Half of it had fallen down and people were living in the other half. The catacombs below the the structure were abandoned and collapsing. Yes, this is an OSR adventure. 061
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Tension is a better than surprise in RPGs and I will die on this hill. 0103
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Stonetop is the kind of game that makes me dream of an in person gaming group. I want to get together with friends, take turns masking dinner, and play Stonetop for years. 090
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 01/05/2026In the mesoamerican city of Chavín de Huantar, priests used hidden pipes to roar at visitors walking through the temple. A priest sat in a secret chamber behind a fierce stone statue and acted as their god's voice. Anyway, that's a freebie for your next OSR game. 120
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Entrance to the caves Dungeon master laughs darkly Rocks fall, party dies #haikudungeonjam 051
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This one is for a wilderness hex crawl: A single leaf falls THUNK THUNK arrows hit the trees Bandits in the woods! #haikudungeonjam 1134
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Ocean of treasure Golden snake swims in the depth Is it worth the risk? 171
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Kid Detectives. I wrote it. It's a fundraiser for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.thisisvictor.itch.ioKid Detectives by This Is VictorA game of hijinks, friendship, and pinning clues to a cork board. 063
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Some guy on reddit: "This game sucks, I didn't have fun! Also, I didn't use any of the game's core mechanics." Sigh. Can you imagine if people played any other game like this? "Poker sucks! We never dealt out the card, it was so boring." 1121
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Finished This Princess Kills Monsters and I'm desperate to know if @ryherman.bsky.social is aware of Perils & Princesses by @outridercreative.bsky.social. The venn diagram of these two works is nearly a circle. 370
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I'm procrastinating my day job SO . . . One like = one niche indie RPG I think more people should know about. 2233
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I got 2000s indie kid. Which considering that I have print copies of Poisin'd, Inspectres, Shab-Al-Hiri Roach and Dogs in the Vineyard seems like a pretty accurate description. The survey is completely unhinged tho. 340
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026That scene at the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where Jay and Silent Bob travel around the country beating up people who wrote mean things about them on the internet, except it's the Bakers telling people that their PbtA opinions are wrong. 0111
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026But how will I know if I'm winning in my collaborative storytelling game? 140
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Explaining how to play TTRPGs that don't have initiate systems always feels like I'm explaining how to have a conversation to someone who has never talked to another human before. "How do you determine who goes first?" Um, you just take turns? Sometimes I go first, sometimes you do? Like adults? 4272
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Game pitch, from Science Fiance and myself: Apollo 47 with arguing. You are scientists in a fictional field of research, at a contentious conference panel. Get a stack of random scientific journals and quote random sections at each other, using them to prove your point. Play until exhausted. 020
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Or, revolutionary idea, play games and make games. Call them whatever you want. Ignore the idiots who get into taxonomic slapfights and live a happier life. 3140
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 14/03/2026You can pry my bullet points from my cold dead fingers. 0100
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is asking if he can get an amen ?ALT: a man in a suit and tie is asking if he can get an amen ? 020
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This is such a boring way to approach story telling. If "number go up" is the only way you can convince of difficulty then you have a shit imagination. 080
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The type of dice rolled is frequently the least important part of game design. People get really hung up on which dice a game uses and that's usually not a meaningful question. 3193
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026RuneQuest 3rd Edition. Also the first RPG I've ever played! I'm in the very small minority that didn't start with the Big One. 040
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026We doing OSR stories? Last session I rolled for a random encounter and got, "Four lost Yodin sheep." No Yodin nearby, so the players slaughtered one for food. Next random encounter? "Six Yodin tribesmen." We're about to find out how that ends. 090
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I did this recently and stumbled across The Elusive Shift, all about the conceptual origins of RPGs. 031
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Fable makes an incredibly good point. My gender and skin color goes a long way to keeping problematic players in check. 030
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Some guy on Reddit doesn't believe that I've run RPGs for 150+ strangers and never had a problem. I'll tell you my secrets: 1) Don't run D&D. Problem players love D&D. I can't explain it, but it's true. 2) Run games at the queer meetup. Gay people are nicer that straight people, it's just a fact. 5455
Victor, a Rascal certified game designer @thisisvictor.bsky.social · 16/02/2026WE ALREADY RAISED OVER $150. IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN 24 HOURS. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO. 000
