Velocimancer Games

Hiya, welcome back to another TTRPG Tuesday! A brief one today, as I just had the barebones of an idea pop into my head and I wanted to gently fan that spark.  One trend in games that I haven’t attempted yet is the journaling form of the solo TTRPG.  I’ve purchased a few, started one, never actually gotten all the way through any.  But I think it’d be fun to do one that has accounting/ledgers as the premise: Perhaps the game is an ledger for a business, and the further into the game you go, the more pages reference previous pages; so the direction of the business is influenced by how faithful the accounting is There are a couple of supplemental materials, mostly brochures; some are referenced by the Ledger, as the prices of products for the business But some of the brochures are costs for various niceties - luxuries, vacations, escort services, offshore accounts, all the big and little things people embezzle for Part of the game is crunching the numbers for the busines...

Hello and welcome back to TTRPG Tuesday.  This could be a short one as I’m pretty well exhausted - not so much due to physical exertion as Massive Ramen Lunch and Subsequent Interrupted Nap.  But I submitted myself for a thing today that, if I got it, would mean a chance to develop one of my designs under the guidance of someone more experienced.  There’s so much incomplete work in my portfolio but oddly the one I ended up choosing for my pitch was the system I laid out in the post about Cold Iron Company .  Looking back on it, I’m surprised that I extruded that burst of creativity almost a year ago, and also, that there was so much to it.  I forgot how much I built it out beyond the Statuses table (which remains my favourite part). In terms of what I would want to work on, I think the following: Better delineate between the system (currently unnamed, all the crunch, the statuses and the character composition, plus a way to grind reputation with different fa...