u/superdillin

My latest game is out - and unfortunately since it's an erotic RPG it's hidden from itch's search function and front page, and also can't be shared on the itchio subreddit, so I'm just trying to share it where I can. I'm really proud of this one.

The game is directly inspired by Mickey 17, and was originally titled "Nasha Barridge Stopped a Fascist Regime by Wanting to F*ck Her Pathetic Boyfriend Crazy Style and You Can Too"

a two-player game about wanting to f*ck each other so bad you save the world about it, using a modified version of the classic card game war.

I know this is a little outside of what's normally talked about here but this is something very new and exciting for me so I wanted to share my thoughts and experiences if anyone is interested!

For background, I make a podcast, [One Shot](https://oneshotpodcast.com/actual-play/one-shot/), where we create improvised stories using tabletop roleplaying games as the building blocks. So improvised theater isn't new to me, however, musical improv absolutely is. Also, before this, I had never seen musical improv that wasn't comedic, so this was a big step outside the box for me!

The rest of the cast, part of a show called RPG Major, are well-acquainted with musical improv, and they helped to teach me the ropes in a short crash course before we recorded.

The show plays the game [Last Train to Bremen](https://open.spotify.com/episode/73QKeHQ9YhPvfB8n8RI6ct?si=HAYTPsWvQOeQDzw1Gl5rSA), a roleplaying game for 4 about a band who made a deal with the devil for success and are now running from him as he comes to collect. (a perfect game tbh, uses Liar's Dice as the central mechanic). In our playthrough, we had a guitarist in the room with us and we improvised songs as the fictional band, Broadside, were reliving their past on this runaway train. As if you made a Jukebox musical in reverse, somehow.

It is the most frightening thing I've ever done in my years making art. I hadn't sung in any capacity since college, which is an age ago now, nevermind improvising music. And now that it's been out for a few months, we've gotten word that it's been nominated for some awards - It's been nominated for an ENNIE, which is one of, or maybe the most, prestigious award in the tabletop games world. And it's been accepted into the New Jersey Web Fest, a festival for webshows of all kinds.

I'm proud of this in a really wild way, and surprised by myself for actually doing it. If anyone else has done musical improv, especially long-form, or is curious about this in any way, I'd love to just chat about it!

I know this is a little outside of what's normally talked about here but this is something very new and exciting for me so I wanted to share my thoughts and experiences if anyone is interested!

For background, I make a podcast, One Shot, where we create improvised stories using tabletop roleplaying games as the building blocks. So improvised theater isn't new to me, however, musical improv absolutely is. Also, before this, I had never seen musical improv that wasn't comedic, so this was a big step outside the box for me!

The rest of the cast, part of a show called RPG Major, are well-acquainted with musical improv, and they helped to teach me the ropes in a short crash course before we recorded.

The show plays the game Last Train to Bremen, a roleplaying game for 4 about a band who made a deal with the devil for success and are now running from him as he comes to collect. (a perfect game tbh, uses Liar's Dice as the central mechanic). In our playthrough, we had a guitarist in the room with us and we improvised songs as the fictional band, Broadside, were reliving their past on this runaway train. As if you made a Jukebox musical in reverse, somehow.

It is the most frightening thing I've ever done in my years making art. I hadn't sung in any capacity since college, which is an age ago now, nevermind improvising music. And now that it's been out for a few months, we've gotten word that it's been nominated for some awards - It's been nominated for an ENNIE, which is one of, or maybe the most, prestigious award in the tabletop games world. And it's been accepted into the New Jersey Web Fest, a festival for webshows of all kinds.

I'm proud of this in a really wild way, and surprised by myself for actually doing it. If anyone else has done musical improv, especially long-form, or is curious about this in any way, I'd love to just chat about it!

Hi all - I'm extremely green to any sort of coding or computer work, and have gotten farther on my own than I thought I would (which is admittedly not very far), but I'm stuck on something that feels like it should be simple, but I can't get past.

I'm running a Raspberry Pi 4 on Debian Raspberry Pi OS with the desktop, and I have FocusWriter installed. My goal right now is to have FocusWriter open when the system boots.

I feel like in all the tutorials/advice I'm reading, that there's a step somewhere I must be missing. I've been trying to troubleshoot it on my own but I have already borked my bash process once (which I figured how to fix) so I'm here asking for some help. The more ELI5 the better.

My eventual goal is to walk away with what is functionally a writerdeck, and while I know there is a writerdeck OS that I can use, I really want to try to make it function this way if I can.

Hi all - I'm extremely green to this, and have gotten farther on my own than I thought I would (which is admittedly not very far), but I'm stuck on something that feels like it should be simple, but I can't get past.

I'm running a Raspberry Pi 4 on Debian Raspberry Pi OS with the desktop, and I have FocusWriter installed. My goal right now is to have FocusWriter open when the system boots.

I feel like in all the tutorials I'm reading, that there's a step somewhere I must be missing. I've been trying to troubleshoot it on my own but I have already borked my bash process once (which I figured how to fix) so I'm here asking for some help. The more ELI5 the better.

My eventual goal is to walk away with what is functionally a writerdeck, and while I know there is a writerdeck OS that I can use, I really want to try to make it function this way if I can.

I'm basically looking for a VTT that has the ability for scene creations where I can set atmospheric imagery and music/sfx, and preferably a simple dice roller, for playing games that don't have a need for a grid. I know that I can set this up in something like Roll20 or foundry, but they're just such clunky websites to use and I figured there might be something else. When it first came out, Quest Portal was pretty much exactly what I was looking for, but then very quickly pivoted to being an AI campaign generator which I would just rather not mess with at all.

Anyhow - if anyone knows of something like this before I start building in one of the usuals, I'd appreciate it!

All three episodes of our One Shot of Realis are up as of today! This was such a great introduction to the game, which I'm very quickly falling in love with. Also, it was a joy to get Austin on as a player - I know designers so often get stuck having to GM their own games in perpetuity, and Tyler did such a killer job with leading this one-shot.

Featuring Elliot Davis (The Time We Have, Many Sided Media), Viditya Voleti (A Land Once Magic), Tyler Crumrine (Possible Worlds Games), Austin Walker (Friends at the Table, Realis), and me!