Pamphlet Up and Other News

I've been spending a lot of time browsing the ttrpg materials on itch.io, and I'm somewhat impressed. Itch.io is a game distribution platform primarily for software, but there's a fairly robust ttrpg community doing good work there, mostly micro-RPGs, ttrpgs for groups of 1 or more people to be played in a single session. These games often focus on exploring interpersonal relationships and collaborative storytelling rather than the tension-release cycle of adventure games like Alexis' or mine.
Itch.io's most significant feature, however, is the game jam. Anyone with an account can host a jam, which is an open submission forum for games dealing with some topic decided by the jam's creator. Some of these topics are thematic, some are structural. The game jam allows you to find and follow other creators who do similar work and to give your submitted work some publicity. Itch.io handles payment if you want to charge for your material. My account page has my first 'published' product, a free-to-download pamphlet describing a sequence of 7 nights by a crossroad. I'd love feedback, if you wanted to give it a read. Itch.io gives me a place to publish material that won't see the light of day in my regular game for a while (we had a TPK last session and are starting a new game in a different region, so much of my private brainstorming on the Stone Cult won't be immediately useful). I can build a body of work outside these blog posts with the Stone Cult and practice some skills that need honing (like dungeon design).

In other news, I've changed the name of my game from Prodigy to Saharjin. Ultimately, this is because there is another roleplaying game called Prodigy on the market, and although our games are completely different, I took this as an opportunity to find a name that speaks more to what my game is about: Saharjin is the name of the magical rainforest that dominates much of my setting.

Thanks for sticking with me. Now that I've my ADHD medication and it's turning into summer, I'm looking forward to being more active and posting more content.