#tabletop nonstop

[indiepressrevolution]

It's ZineMonth!!! Lets talk about some cool games!!

There are so many awesome games crowdfunding right now that today we're just going to talk about 10 cool games that are currently crowdfunding on Crowdfundr! I'll be making more posts about more games in the future, and if you know of a cool game that's currently crowdfunding please add it on to this post!!

Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto lets you take control of the cosy Tea Grotto as you blend tea and build a community around you. Make friends, drink tea, go on an adventure, and stay wholesome.

The River Spirit is a guidebook for a solo journaling experience that uses a deck of cards to help you create memories of your hometown and the community found there, only to remix them into new stories and eventually sacrifice those memories for the greater good.

Tangled Blessings is a magic academy horror RPG for 1-2 players that uses tarot cards to reveal your fate.

On the eve of your final exam at Brackroot Academy, what mysteries, secrets, dread, and drama will you recall from your last four years of schooling?

In Dinocar, you and as many friends as you can gather will work together to map out a snippet of that world. You’ll paint a map, draw landmarks, slap buildings into place, and take turns going on chaotic road trips and commutes. At the end of a game of Dinocar, you’ll have a story to tell and a wonderful map to either frame on the wall or stick to the fridge.

Necro Mech Synthesis is a Bonepunk RPG about ghosts piloting mechs via possession! Fight in a world abandoned by God and defend Lady Death herself against the remaining three horsemen of the apocalypse!

Echoes in my Hull is a solo journaling game about remembering the people we have lost. Use a deck of tarot cards to become acquainted with your crew and ultimately be the last existing record of their lives.

GRANDMOTHERSHIP is a sci-fi TTRPG about senior ladies in space. Get in trouble, crochet a new scarf, go ballroom dancing, and find solutions where everyone else has failed.

My Mother’s Kitchen is a solo journaling game about traditions, change, and cooking. You play as the author of the original family cookbook, robbed of memory and trapped on Earth as the spirit of your cookbook. Act as a guardian for your family, and try to remember why you’re bound to the book as you guide your inheritors through centuries and generations. 

WANDS & LASERGUNS is a high-intensity solo roleplaying game about being a wizard trapped in an anti-magic future. Pit your old-fashioned wits and wondrous new technology against diamond-studded nobility, cybernetically enhanced gangs, dirty cops with a vendetta, and high-fashion psychopaths. The struggle is real when you're far from home.

Derelict Delvers is a thrilling, action-packed sci-fi roleplaying game that immerses players in a struggle for survival and profit. Players take on the roles of elite space troopers, scientists, and engineers who must explore derelict spaceships and space stations in order to scavenge for supplies, salvage for weapons and valuable resources, and ultimately, hunt down the monsters that threaten the very existence of mankind.

Still not enough games? Check out Crowdfundr's Tabletop Nonstop page or the ZiMo official website for more!

[crowdfundr]

Support Solo TTRPGs on Crowdfundr!

These ten games are Live or Launching Soon on Crowdfundr for Tabletop Nonstop!

Derelict Delvers from Cezar Capacle - Survive and thrive in derelict space with solo or group play.

Echoes in my Hull from Matthew Woodyard - A game from the perspective of a spaceship.

Wands & Laserguns from Christian Bahnweg - Play as a wizard trapped in an antimagic future.

Any% from S. Quinn Morris - Tarot-Fueled Speedrunning Action!

Soft Focuses from C. R. Legge - A solo journaling game about ADHD

Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto from Michael Sweeney - A cozy blend of tea, tarot, and journaling.

My Mother's Kitchen from Fleet Detrik - A game about traditions, change, and cooking.

Project Ecco from Elliot Davis - Track a time-consuming entity throughout an entire year and record your playthrough on the pages of a planner.

Tangled Blessings from Mothwin Productions - A solo or 2-player magic academy horror ttrpg

The River Spirit from Nico Macdougall - Create memories of your hometown and the community found there, then remix them for new stories.

[gigantic-spider]

The Stone-Flesh Gift promo

JayEmBosch on Twitter was kind enough to read through my game, so I want to return the favor for a fellow Crowdfundr...er. (Crowdfundrite? Crowdfundrian?)

Body horror and space: two great tastes that taste great together! The Stone-Flesh Gift is gorgeous and creepy and tactile in the best ways.

First off, the map is incredible. Navigating through stylized human organs as the map? Genius. Stunning. Feels like a Victorian anatomy textbook come to life, both familiar and alien at the same time.

The adventure hooks are good, but my favorite has to be Stone-Flesh Angel: The players, stuck on a hostile planet or decaying space station, witness the Gift land or dock near them. They don’t have time to consider the ramifications of boarding. Find out how to control the Gift.

Almost every room has a Neurolink, something a player can connect to to get information about their surroundings, but this comes at a price and isn't always clear. Instead, it's presented in poetic, metaphorical language, the way that the ship understands itself.

My favorite:

NEUROLINK (d5): 1. You tire of the pace of being. 2. You’re the tradewinds of a dried up planet. 3. You have no mouth, and you must wheeze. 4–5. You feel the bated breath of an expectant mother cradling her egg.

And if you like crafting systems and parasitic biological hazards? Well you're in luck, because this living ship has it in spades. There's just an unreal amount of gameable, engaging stuff in this zine. Do yourself a favor and check it out!

[reaperwh40k]

League of Votann skirmish game

[catshavenolord]

INTO THE SWAMP!

Just a quick reminder there’s still time to back the print run of Swamp Troll Witch(es) for Zine Month.

This is a cozy, GM-less game focused on exploration and problem solving with a splash of potionmaking and hot baths on the side.

Hop in now to get a print copy and early access to the updated PDF that will match the printing.

[ttrpgrisingtide]

Community Talks: Crash! Talks Blaseball, Their First Crowdfundr Project Our Community Talks series dives into what’s happening with members from our very own Rising Tide community discord.

Today, Adam interviews Crash!, and they chat about their first crowdfunded project, Blaseball: The Forbidden Book.

Adam: Can you introduce yourself, say a little about your history in games, and where people might be able to come follow you if they are interested?

Crash!: Okay! So, online pseudonym is Crash!. I'd mainly stuck to mainstream ttrpg for a good amount of time, 4 years or so before migrating to other more indie systems in the past two. Also been following the indie absurdist horror Blaseball for a while. Its game mechanics were diverse enough to where I thought it'd make a great TTRPG, and absolutely loved its community. Thank the animatics from the for that- I watch them day in and day out because they're amazing and really capture what people can imagine from just some simple text and images.

For TTRPG updates, my Tumblr is the most used. For the crowdfunding, and playtest updates, just hop on over to the Crowdfundr!

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[zees-pieces]

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[fredwkong]

Djinni's Gym: Hot Yoga

With a new gym opening in town, you had finally decided to get off your ass and try working out again. You had always been kind of shrimpy, and a few months of nonstop office work had added a bit of unwanted mass to your belly. A generous free trial of the new gym’s facilities was just the kick you needed to get back in shape.

Of course, you hadn’t counted on what seemed to be half the men in town taking the free trial as well. You shouldered through the crowd in the reception area, at least a dozen men filling out release of liability forms. “Look,” you said to the receptionist, a huge Black man, “can I at least go stretch and then come fill out the form when it’s not so busy?”

The guy looked you over and shrugged. “Sure, lil bro,” he rumbled. “The yoga studio is over there.” He lifted a massive arm and pointed across the weight room. As you nodded, you caught a whiff of the humid stench rising from his pit. As your eyes watered, you found yourself rock hard in your sweats.

“Th-thanks,” you stammered, and hurried through the turnstile, your cheeks burning. You had never reacted like that to another man. You looked around the weight room, trying to distract yourself.

The whole place was full of big weightlifters with a whole range of skin tones, all of them dressed in gym gear that left nothing to the imagination. You swallowed, your throat suddenly gone dry as a huge Indian bro grunted through a squat, sweat soaking the back of his tank top.

In a daze, you drifted across the weight room, your eyes drawn to every bouncing pec, rounded ass, and thick bulge you passed. A medley of scents flooded your nostrils, and your own cock started to leak pre into your briefs.

Finally, the door of the yoga studio closed behind you. Your head spun as you leaned against it, idly trailing one hand over your belly to cup your groin.

The yoga studio was dim, wood-panelled and, you quickly realised, heated. The thermostat on the wall read 38 Celsius. There was a single yoga mat set up in the middle of the room. To your overheated, lust-addled mind, some yoga seemed like a great idea. It didn’t occur to you that you hadn’t done a flow in years.

As you stepped out of your shoes and onto the yoga mat and stood in mountain pose, your feet tingled and expanded, darkening from toes to soles to ankles. Your joints flexed, supple and agile, as your feet began to emit a masculine scent that tickled your nose. Your cock jerked again, but you attempted to ignore the heat coiling in your belly.

You raised your arms and slipped into a forward fold, a little surprised when your hands easily touched the mat. You breathed into the gentle stretch in your hamstrings, unaware of your fingers stretching wider across the mat, their grip soft yet strong. An olive tone spread across your formerly pale hands as a sheen of sweat stood out among the thickening hairs near your wrist.

Stepping back into plank, you lowered yourself halfway and slipped smoothly into upward dog. You were surprised at how well your body recalled the sun salutation. After a few minutes in downward facing dog, you lowered yourself to your hands and knees in tabletop.

Dark skin rushed up your arms and legs. They got no longer or shorter, but tightened with lean, hairy muscle. Sweat poured off your body as you went through cat and cow repetitions, adding to the heady, musky humidity of the studio that was keeping you boned up.

You slipped seamlessly into a side split, your newly flexible hips bringing your cock and balls right down to the mat. You gasped, unable to contain yourself as your cock shuddered and grew against the rubber, thickening and darkening as a foreskin grew to cover the head. You felt an even larger spurt of precum gush into your sweats, which seemed to shrink and tighten, until you realised you were wearing stretchy yoga tights that left nothing to imagination. As you lifted out of the stretch, you left a visible pearly stain of precum on the mat, which added its own earthy musk to the air.

Finally, you lowered yourself from a plank onto your belly, resting one cheek on the mat as you breathed. Your shirt vanished into thin air, revealing your newly tight pecs, flat belly, and rippling back muscles. An olive tone swept up your neck, dusting your cheeks with stubble as your eyes darkened, hooded and lusty. You sighed in a deeper voice than you were accustomed to, relaxing into the yoga mat as your transformation ended.

The door of the studio opened behind you. “Hello?” rumbled the big receptionist.

His name suddenly leapt into your mind. “Hey Shaun,” you purred, a Hispanic accent creeping into your voice. “Want to help me stretch out?”

Shaun chuckled. “I’m on the clock, Jorge. I’ll take you in the showers after close.” He sniffed the air appreciatively. “You ready for your first class?”

Your cock flexed, trapped between your hip and the mat, at the thought of a couple dozen sexy men getting sweaty at your command. Only long practice at containing your lust until the right moment kept you under control. You couldn’t wait to lead them through a flow, get them hot and excited, and then help them release all their tension along with their sweat and, possibly, their jizz. You had become Jorge the Mexican yoga instructor, and you couldn’t imagine a better job than teaching classes at Djinni’s Gym.

[torao-chan]

So going back and forth about Leander I was wondering how quick you caught on to his scheming. Because I first I didn’t like him but I didn’t really have a reason why I just didn’t. But upon rereading his dialogue I was like hmmmmm

Oh man, I clicked like. maybe three lines in.

I have what my friend affectionately dubs an 'evil-dar'. I may not be able to tell you exactly why someone's fucked up, but if I see them and I immediately like them- they fucked up.

Probably, I think the earliest sign for me, was the emphasis on performing.

A pair of gilded boots stride across the tabletop. "Seriously, you dogs? Again?" Scattered laughter and cheers rise from the audience. I drag my eyes upwards... a well-dressed man stand on the table in front of me, his broad shoulder framed by the thick lapels of a trench coat. "This really is the last time, alright?" This time, when he speaks, the audience falls silent, as though bewitched by his magnetic presence or rich, low voice. But nothing is as captivating as his smile. He beams at the crowd around him, a performer on his makeshift stage. "Don't blink, or you'll miss it."

These were the bits the immediately drew me in, the bolded bits. And it's the bolded, italicized bits that immediately made me go 'he's hiding something, and it's horrific, and I want to know more.'

Gilded boots in a downtown pub; carefully designed, likely expensive in taste, and yet he's in the slums- the place where people pull a face when you mention going there. It doesn't say cheaply gilded, or with a fancy design- it's just gilded. It's intentionally not giving us much, but telling us something important- this is a man who is conscious of his appearance. Of how he looks, how he presents, right down to the design on his boot. And he cares enough to throw money at it. If it was just from his upbringing, he wouldn't maintain them, wouldn't still have them today. We don't have a word describing how put together the boots are, how well maintained, but we do immediately get told that he's a performer. It's highly likely that they are chosen and maintained intentionally.

"This really is the last time, alright?" is tasty tasty to me. How will this be inflected, when voiced properly? Is this an establishment of boundaries, from a man placating his pack of puppies? A certain firmness there, that indicates that his word is law here; he's not joking this time? Or is it a man caving to the pleads of his people, throwing them another bone to keep them satisfied in between working on other schemes? Either way, this is a man who has power and is prone to indulging people; and indulging them in a way that indicates he is above them. Whether intentionally or not, consciously or not, this is the stance it takes- to me, at least.

The audience is bewitched by him, the mage. His charisma is high, he's generally liked and adored, and that means he's a man who can get away with a lot of shit. He can work a crowd, appeal to masses and individuals as one, and makes them all feel special- whether they're all together or by themselves. This gets emphasized a lot later, too, and in a lot of his profiles and lil details, but this is when I knew that. He knows how to work a person, and that usually comes from trauma or social ambition, and either way- I'm interested and hungry.

The fact that they outright state he's "a performer on his makeshift stage" makes me so ravenous alksjgldsjgl. The table is his stage, the pub is his stage, heck! The whole town is his stage and he's performing nonstop the entire time we interact with him. Fake or real, undecided- but performing nonetheless. A performance doesn't have to be dishonest, but it is intentional. And intentional means that there's a goal to be achieved- grand or otherwise.

And then there's the warning.

Three lines in (damn, I was right- literally three lines of dialogue from him).

"Don't blink, or you'll miss it."

Such an enticing statement, always. It's so easy to miss, his flashes of soul under the performance. The moment in the pub, later, when he's content to leave the chaos to reign until the player turns to him for help (and then he sighs, like he didn't want to, wasn't planning to, but who was he to let down a new audience member?). The moment of flat on his face, when you refuse his hand, and he grabs you anyway, determined to pull you into his web, into his puppet show. You could be a valuable piece- a fresh pawn off the woodcarver's table, and unblemished, yet, by the rest of the city. The moment when he looses his composure slightly, unaware to what extent Kuras had seen you during your examination.

There's so much there that sold him to me immediately as a favourite, as a schemer, as someone to watch out for because they've always got a knife three inches from your back, and that is super attractive, but man.

Yea, three lines of dialogue in, and I knew.

As my friend said, I have an 'evil-dar'. asdlkjlgsjg if I like the character, she knows 9/10 times, they're definitely fucked up in some way aslkjdklgsdg

[here-there-be-bad-dragons]

Your hobbies don't need to be productive

They don't need to make you money

They don't need to make others look at you with respect

They're there to make your life better by you simply doing something you love to do.

If your hobby is map designing it's fine to just design maps for fun.

If your hobby is tabletop games it's fine to just enjoy yourself

If your hobby is sewing you can just make things for yourself and the people you want to do that for

You dont need to submit your hobby to the capitalist grindstone only to watch your enjoyment of it grow smaller and smaller until it snaps that you no longer love what you once adored.

You don't need to justify your hobbies to anyone! You can just enjoy it, and enjoy yourself, and have fun. Kill the concept of perpetual productivity, not even a machine can work nonstop without having a catastrophic breakdown!

Edit: ALSO it's fine to switch between hobbies, it's okay to not have a permanent thing you love. It's okay to take a break from the thing you love and then do other things you love. Just enjoy yourself.

[indiepressrevolution]

Not Yet Funded Zinemonth Projects

Even more TTRPG campaigns, but as of posting none of these have hit their funding goal yet! Please check them out and help make these games a reality! Want more? Check out https://zinemonth.spread.name/ and https://crowdfundr.com/spotlight/tabletop-nonstop/

Please feel free to add projects onto this post or shout them out in the replies as well!

[petite-gloom]

didn’t realize how far my drawers were underneath my tabletop until your previous post lol. i guess it looks a little funky but the freedom tho… like i have a lot of space to move around without accidentally bumping into the drawers/their corners. maybe i just move too much idk. hope you enjoy the new setup!!

i think it just looks weird to me because that one ikea desk/drawer set up is designed so the drawers sit flush with the edge of the desk! realistically there’s so many desks with drawers more tucked in. so so excited for the extra space though, i move a lot when im sitting too 😌 ive been banging my knees nonstop with the smaller tabletop

[crowdfundr]

Tabletop Nonstop

6 days left until Tabletop Nonstop - our TTRPG creators spotlight in support of Zine Month, hosted by the Crowdfundr ambassador @barilleon!

Let's take a look at the campaigns that are already set up on Crowdfundr but haven't launched yet! (Hint: hit the button "Subscribe" on a campaign page to get notified when it goes live).

Soft Focuses 2nd Edition by Chris Legge: a solo journaling game that encourages people to experience their life as though they had ADHD.

Curse of the Extinguished Sun: A Level 20 Adventure by Zeke Gonzalez: a fast-paced level 20 adventure chock-full of combat, exploration, and roleplay.

Pelogos by Brittany Wright: a multiplayer tabletop roleplaying game where you play as a paranormal investigator known as a Lantern Keeper, or as a sea ghost known as an Echo.

Unexplored Hoard by Rage Kage Games: a TTRPG and hobby interview show.

Traysikel - Ride or Die! by Alewood Games: a system agnostic, one-shot adventure for 1-4 Players and 1 GM by Rhodrick Magsino.

Necro Mech Synthesis by Thick Thief Games: a Bonepunk PRG about ghosts piloting mechs via possession.

Love & Hate in the Mana Wastes by The Gallant Goblin : a cinematic TTRPG actual play series.

Stay tuned for the updates and don't forget to support your favorite campaigns when they launch!

[mortphilippa]

Zine Month 2023

I hope you're excited for zine month as I am!

This year I am working with Crowdfundr on their Tabletop Nonstop event, a spotlight event to showcase indie creators.

Support the projects mentioned in my videos this month on Crowdfundr here!

Crowdfundr is the creator-friendly crowdfunding platform. It's free to use, offers multiple ways to fund your project, and directly invests in its user's success with spotlight initiatives like this one and resources like the Creator Hub. Get started now!

[goqmir]

sorry if this is a bad question for ur blog but do you happen to have any good recs for how to learn magic the gathering? it looks cool but also i have no idea where to start

sure i mean definitely the number one thing u need is someone to play with, ideally someone that already knows the game. if this is offline then if they already have decks u could borrow one of theirs, otherwise u could get an mtg starter set which i think comes with 2 decks for pretty cheap! if its online thats great because u have literally every card at your disposal assuming youre playing in a commander sim against your friends! our playgroup uses tabletop simulator which works GREAT but theres a 20$ buy in to the application (its worth it. plus you can import 3d models during the game and play other tabletop games there too. its a good app to have on hand) alternatively ive heard things about cockatrice for free but i have no experience. commander is the format that everyone loves to play and build casually where you pick a main guy and build around him but i know theres plenty of people who will swear to you that limited (the draft and sealed formats) are the way to go and youll see a lot of them play with custom "cubes" (custom-built limited draft formats with around 360-720+ cards) and the traditional 60-card formats are alive and well especially on mtg arena! if u have homies that want to play commander or cube id recommend giving it a shot with them! theyll probably have decks theyre happy to let you play with and itll be a lot of fun. if you dont have anyone to play with and you dont want to find people to play with you my recommendation is to sign up for mtg arena where you can matchmake for draft formats, standard, and historic brawl; unfortunately its a profit app run by wotc so you dont have every card to play with and you have to earn enough ingame currency to draft but its still a good environment that plenty of people love. otherwise my advice is just to build some decks! i have probably over 25 commander decks now that ive just been building nonstop since i picked up the format 6 or so months ago. its incredibly satisfying and i promise youll get the hang of it quick :)

[mc-and-elise]

Vanderwood and their relationships in the RFA

Part of a content contestwith @antiochean

Yooosung

They've joined the "Focus on school dammit" group

"This kid is still innocent and I'm not about to let Seven corrupt him"

Teaches him some recipes and tries to get him to eat better

Yoosung is trying to get him into LOLOL. They're intrigued by the tabletop version of it.

Zen

Bonds with him over motorcycles and theater

Is a secret theater nerd.

Helps him practice lines often.

They both share haircare tips with each other.

If they're dating MC, Zen is a bit less overprotective of MC, but instead of calling them a wolf, they're a "leopard"

Jumin

He's their boss

No really.

Vanderwood is a member of his security detail. They also occasionally work as the night guard at the office.

Jumin finally has someone else in the chat room who doesn't understand memes

And gets his protectiveness of Elizabeth the Third

They're still grateful for him rescuing them following the Secret Endings

Vanderwood isn't afraid to call him out sometimes, but not too harshly

He's still their boss

If Jumin and MC are together, they're one of the few people he trusts to leave MC with alone.

If MC ends up with Vandy, Jumin is more generous with time off and scheduling

Jaehee

Mom Squad™️

The two bond over their complaints over working for Jumin

Knows she could easily kill them. Is impressed.

Helps her towards her dream of opening a coffee shop

Seven/Saeyoung

Will never admit it, but he's one of their best friends

Trusts him with their life, something nearly impossible to achieve with them

Often scolds him for not taking better care of himself

After leaving the Agency and dealing with Mint Eye, they demand a full explanation as to wtf just happened

Never drinks around him. They don't know much about his past, but picked up that he had an abusive alcoholic parent

If MC ends up with him, they question what they see in Saeyoung.

If MC and Vandy are dating, nonstop teasing from Seven and constant tazer threats

Saeran/Unknown

They don't have the best relationship at first

Turns out kidnapping someone and then betraying them to help the brother they want dead isn't how you make friends

Saeran is understandably upset about that

Vanderwood gives them space, but shows they care silently

An extra pint of ice cream in the freezer, meals he loves, that book of bedtime stories Saeran mentioned wanting to get.

The two are quiet in how they support one another

And as an extra: Elise

Their bff

They've been partners back as secret agents

They both are in denial that they have feelings for each other

Knows they can turn to her for anything

She knows she can do the same

Both have adopted the twins as their unofficial younger siblings

She was upset that they left with Seven the way they did

When they finally end up dating, they become very domestic.

All the lovey dovey things