Weekly Roundup 13

A Baker's Dozen

This week: The TTRPG Bundle for Trans Rights crushes its goals, forest-themed Cairn Jam, some ideas for communication, and a little bit of Tolkien and introspection.

TTRPGs for Trans Rights

An enormous bundle in support of trans kids in Texas. From their page:

Proceeds from this bundle will be split between two organizations: Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) and Organización Latina de Trans en Texas (OLTT).

Do what you can to help.

As for the content: there’s quite a few seriously good games in here.

Want to see a quick runthrough of them?

🍀 The Lucky Newt 🎲🦎 @LuckyNewtGames

The TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas Bundle is raising funds for a great cause. I'll do a tweet-long blurb for all 493 games included during the month it's running. If you're interested in support Trans Rights in Texas, you can find the bundle here: itch.io/b/1308/ttrpgs-…

Good games for a good cause. $5 minimum.

Cairn Jam

Yochai Gal @yochaigal1

I'm doing a Cairn jam. It's about forests. Whatever that might mean to you.

itch.ioCairn: Forests of Another NameA game jam from 2022-03-02 to 2022-04-02 hosted by Yochai Gal. Cairn has occasionally been called a “forest fantasy” roleplaying game. But what does that mean? Do the characters lose themselves in a deep wood, sur...

Yochai Gal, creator of Cairn, is hosting a month-long jam on the theme of ‘forests.’ Submit a game! Join the discord? (You can just lurk, like I do.)

D&D Factions

M.T. Black @MTBlack2567

Tell me about an interesting faction in your #dnd campaign? What is their name, their goal, their methods?

Faction inspiration. Lots of replies and interesting ideas and twists.

Frodo the Broken

✧ kylie ✧ @thejedijunkyard

this this this oh my god

One of the things that ‘tolkien fantasy’ games have mostly left behind is the real vulnerability and love in Tolkien’s works. The characters cry and fail and are broken, and the people around them continue to love them.

Deep down, Tolkien’s fantasy world is a world where people care about each other, and that’s something worth pointing out.

Communication

Owen K.C. Stephens has a Patreon! @Owen_Stephens

As a ttRPG player, let your GM know about something that will always motivate your character to action. Looking for your sister, the Lost Oracle? Want to find lost spells of the Fallen Empire? Hate Nazis? When the GM dangles a plot hook, bite. Take the worm. Then fight like hell.

Solid reminder.

The Big Sort vs Residential Stagnation

Depending on who you ask (and, probably, where you look), Americans simultaneously are finding themselves more unable to move and moving as fast as possible towards people that agree with them, on a historic scale.

Reminds me of something similar: Do you know that hunger and obesity are actually linked? What do you think makes Americans move less but towards places that they fit into better?