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How We Use Steem

I don't usually talk about how Loreshaper Games uses the platform of Steemit and the Steem blockchain in general, but since I'm buried in work on projects and d...

Barsooming Adamant's MARS

MARS isn’t Barsoom, but licensed property or not you can make it work with a bit of mangling. My concern here isn’t for balance, but rather to present some idea...

The Quiet Year – First Impressions

Oh, this blog still exists … Uhm, hi! A lot of stuff has been happening recently, and time has been sparse. I took some time to write this though. Soon I will a...

Roll Up! Roll Up! Welcome to The Carnival of Grimness!

Genties, Ladymen and children of all genders! Cast your functioning sensory organs in something approximating this direction and gaze in awe and wonder at the c...

AprilTTRPGMaker Day 21: How many playtests?

The question for day 21 of AprilTTRPGMaker is “How many playtests?” This is a big question, and as I've said before the topic of playtesting is near and dear to...

GGG 1: What is Roleplaying?

https://youtu.be/SQgMHxdJgg...

The best feedback for a TTRPG designer is a recording of a playtest session

When designing a tabletop RPG, the most useful feedback a designer can get is a recording of a game session based off of a draft of the current rules. Record th...

Fantasy RPG Cave - Step by Step Photoshop tutorial - GIF

Hello steemian friends. Today I bring you an in-depth Photoshop tutorial of one of my recent illustrations. All my cartography illustrations are published on my...

Kids (and their teachers) say the darndest things.

This week's @steemiteducation homework assignment asked the community to share "the funniest classroom experience you have ever had". Although I have written ab...

Building Depth in Games: Contagonists

Without conflict, there is no story. And it is the antagonist in every great story that provides and drives conflict. As game masters, sometimes we struggle wit...

So, you can’t think of a game plot?

One thing I believe strongly in, is that you can get a game plot from just about anywhere. Rip off a couple of films or TV series and mix them together. Take a ...

AprilTTRPGMaker Day 12: How do you get your work out there?

The AprilTTRPGMaker activity day 12 question asks: “How do you get your work out there?” Like several other people, I think the most accurate answer for me is “...

Join Roleplaying Minds on Minds.com

Roleplaying Minds: https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/619600467814522880...

My game design “brand”

Question 11 of the AprilTTRPGMaker activity is “What's yer brand?”. Generally I'm a bit dubious of the value of independent designers also creating a “company b...

Designing a Work Process

Today, I wanted to talk about work processes and productivity. I'm not exactly the best metric of this (though I have been writing a couple thousand words a day...

SSS&S - The Pitch

Over the next thirty days or so, I will be doing preliminary work and outlining plans and ideas for a fantasy setting for Machinations of the Space Princes...

Postmortem Studios April Update

Brad McDevitt’s latest clip art. I know, I know, I’ve been slack. Still really struggling with fuckbrain issues, but they seem – hopefully – to be somewhat on t...

Brok and Sindre the dwarven brothers

Brok and Sindre was two Dwarven brothers in the old Norse tales of gods and jætter (danish, i dont know what the are called in english) When I made the sculpt o...

Ship Graveyard- Fantasy Illustration - step by step Photoshop tutorial

Hello steemian friends. A little while ago I shared a WIP of a fantasy illustration I'm creating. This is the finished illustration for reference. I'll be shari...

Me "Pressing Start" on my Steemit

Hello! I am Christopher Michael Martin. I do my best to educate myself and help others when and where I can, though I'm not good for much. I'm pretty ok at cook...