#AprilTTRPGMaker 8) Routine: M-F Up @ 630, get kids up by 7, make sure lunches are made and out the door by 8. MWF drop off at school, then off to day job until 1730-1800. TTh off to day job then leave for pickup at school at 1700. Dinner, kid bedtime by 2030. (1/?)
Most Tuesdays now I have a game @ 2030. Some Thursdays as well with the occasional Friday or Saturday. Otherwise, writing or TV with the husband. Weekends are a whirlwind of kid chauffeuring punctuated by adulting (grocery shopping, laundry, etc.) (2/?)
So when do I write? Sunday mornings mostly. Kids sleep in a bit or watch TV and rarely have something scheduled so I can steal a couple of hours.
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Let me tell you about this game and my friend @widdledragon.
You wanna play a merperson? You like the schmoopy relationship part of RPGs? You like the buddy buddy relationship part of RPGs? This is the game for you!
#AprilTTRPGMaker 17) Fave feedback.
When I'm writing for someone else? Clear, specific, "More of this", "reword this", "I like where this is going". @EloytheSaint has been great about this on PTG2E.
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I don't solicit a lot of feedback on stuff I'm designing for myself. Roses and thorns at the end of a playtest mostly. I want to make people think of what they like so I can turn up the dial on that as well as what they didn't so I can fix that.
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I use a couple of people as sounding boards. My husband gets a lot of weird sentences that mean nothing to him thrown his way as I talk out something. My cat sometimes too. I should consider getting a rubber duckie.
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#AprilTTRPGMaker 4) My work is... complicated and simple at the same time. Mostly I strive to make sure that my kids will see someone like them represented when they play a game I had a hand in making. (1/?)
Too often, diversifying a property means adding white women or black men, but not black women. Or if black women are added, they're either the villains or the sassy BFF. (2/?)
I've told the tale of my first D&D game before. Made a character that looked like Storm because she was the only one in the book that looked anything like me. Dark skin, white hair, walks into the tavern and another PC slits my chars throat. And the GM let him.(3/?)