Eve

There's an interesting tidbit from leaks of the famitsu interview with ryoko kui where she says it would be hard to make a dungeon meshi game since the story is all about the things that get glossed over in a game.

Which makes me wonder if it would be fun to make a forged in the dark ttrpg that flips the heist/downtime schematic, so that fights + exploring happen in a space where you still roll dice but you're expected to summarise/gloss over things, and the character moves and long extended sequences are all about what you do in camp, how you research things, etc. It seems like it could be really fun...

(I am not allowed to actually work on it tho until I finish my current fitd project)

People playing mech games and writing mech fiction should consider describing some negative consequences as the pilot doing a routine motion that they do all the time, but they get it slightly wrong, and the whole mech stalls out.

A stop along the road is a solo ttrpg about running a place (inn/hostel/home) that receives adventurers as guests. It uses tarot cards to establish details about the characters and you then write diary entries to describe the main character's interactions with them.

You can get it here, and it's really good! (spoilers) https://magicalgurll.itch.io/a-stop-along-the-road

I've been wanting to write up some notes on all the decks I have for a while. I quite like collecting tarot card decks, and I wanted to make a little catalog of them. Also, I mostly use tarot cards for solo ttrpgs, not for readings, so I thought that would put a fun spin on how I think about them.

I've also included an image of the guidebook used for each. In every case I've tried to use the easiest to access book, so where there's a pamphlet inset with the deck, I've used that as the reference. I'll make note of where this isn't the case.

I’ve recommended a solo rpg to go with each game. Sometimes I’ve chosen ones that are explicitly designed to be played with the tarot, but sometimes I’ll recommend ones that just call for playing cards. You can adapt these to tarot decks by removing the major arcana, and playing cups as hearts, diamonds as wands, clubs as pentacles and spades as swords. If the game also calls for jokers, add back a major arcana for every joker required.