Our Magic @ourmagic@mastodon.social

@Mastodon Working on getting my verification going between this account and the ourmagic.info website, but not having much luck.

Sidebar of site has
Our Magic is on <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ourmagic" rel="me">Mastodon</a>

and I've tried multiple times deleting and re-adding
website ourmagic.info
in the boxes on the Mastodon Edit Profile page, but alas, no checkmark love. 🤔

Hooray! It's another postcard from Kabalor! Thanks again to Nala Wu for their amazing skills!
https://ourmagic.info/2022/05/02/a-postcard-from-kabalor-visiting-a-port-city-of-the-north/ #ourmagic #ttrpg #art

Jessica Hammer's EOTA (Experiences, Observations, Theories, Advice) system looks like a great approach for getting quality feedback for game design (or any other group feedback situation).

Overview here in this 5 minute presentation: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/spotlight/video/2019/improvingpeerfeedback.mp4

#gamedesign #feedback #playtesting #ttrpg #boardgames

New GM Tips post: Organizing My Terrain Collection

Hooray! All the storage trays are now labeled and I've written up my process for efficiently storing my collection of terrain and minis!

This has been a huge process, but I am so happy with the results. I'm looking forward to making fun builds in the weeks, months, and years to come. There are so many places to go together!

https://ourmagic.info/2022/04/18/organizing-my-terrain-collection/

#ttrpg #minis #storage

New update on the Our Magic Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/posts/ourmagic-info-65301260

Chugging onward through the many tasks of game creation, some of which involve domain configuration settings. Fortunately no wild failures rolled and all is working very well. 👍

Moral choices in games need to be more than "Should I actively be cruel and harmful to others or not?"

It often seems as if the majority of #rpg games in particular have failed to build in supports for the other half of morality in which one rises from neutral apathy to active kindness and proactive positive change in the world. That's a way of being heroes that's usually lacking system support. (e.g. 12 kinds of poison but no mechanisms for virtuous spirals of change and gratitude among NPCs).

Once the game launches the hashtag will be, of course, #ourmagic.

(Did you know there needs to be a result for a hashtag before you can add it as a column in the Mastodon advanced view? 😉 )

Another postcard from Kabalor and the name of the game! https://kabalor.wordpress.com/2022/03/21/another-postcard-from-kabalor-and-the-name-of-the-game/

New artwork by Nala Wu!
#ttrpg #rpg #art

First scenes of the world of Kabalor: a Nymion town https://kabalor.wordpress.com/2022/03/11/first-scenes-of-the-world-of-kabalor-a-nymion-town/

New artwork by Nala Wu!
#ttrpg #rpg #art

During early development the game was known as #Kabalor. That's still the name of the world and is a compound of the three core philosophies Chaos, Balance, and Order.

Chaos inspires opportunity. It is vital and virulent. Its strength is adaptability; its weakness is self-indulgence.

Balance inspires equality. It is fair and stagnant. Its strength is integrity; its weakness is obstinancy.

Order inspires authority. It is safe and sterile. Its strength is effectiveness; its weakness is bias.