@wildwoodsgames.bsky.social
Designer of Harvest & Grand Guignol. gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io.
Cooking enthusiast. Once an anthropologist and professional GM.
“Very witty and wise, like a mole underneath a tree".
Ace, aro, agender (they/them).
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialReminder that this playtest is a live and happening thing! We're short on feedback forms play mine and Andrew's cool game!!!!
@andrewgillis.bsky.socialReposted by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialThe latest session of my Dark Ages playtest is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_MF...
A little off-pace this past week as we had some scheduling to navigate, and I had more prep than usual to get through. So here we go...
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialReposted by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social2-month reminder that the public playtest for Dark Ages is running til the end of the year! Dark Ages is a post-apocalyptic, historical fantasy game of personal ambition, community strife, rights claimed & rights denied. Started by the Bakers, adopted by Andrew & myself. Go forth and playtest!
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.social2-month reminder that the public playtest for Dark Ages is running til the end of the year! Dark Ages is a post-apocalyptic, historical fantasy game of personal ambition, community strife, rights claimed & rights denied. Started by the Bakers, adopted by Andrew & myself. Go forth and playtest!
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialfeels like there was something in the water. I’m thinking also about the “this is early computing networks but mystical” vibes of all the half-psychic, half-magic stuff in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books
@riseupcomus.bsky.socialReposted by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialHow do you write a fighter class that's interesting?
How do you take standard fantasy and make it fresh?
How do you frame campaign setting details without giving reading homework?
How do you set up a long-term campaign from session 0?
Here's my pitch:
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/09/knig...
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialupdate for birdmilk: contract does allow me to sell PDFs direct iirc, it’s just the hassle that’s been holding me back from getting it set up on itch
@alexvalente.fyiReposted by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.sociali think @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social has a full purchase on my game soul, and i want to scream it from the rooftops
birdmilk wrote most of this, i edited and tweaked, and got to dip back into more creative writing for the stasima
games - as always - are so very good
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.sociali know all of 'em
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialThe fact you’re immediately committing to the harder but more productive for that person version of the conversation is sooooo you-coded in the best possible way 💖💖💖
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialGiven we’re substituting bacon, sliced thin, yeah? And just button mushrooms? (I’m gonna try this)
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialI’m shaking your hand and swearing blood-brotherhood: finally someone else who gets it
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialI have yet to write a PBTA game with a generic move / direct Defy Danger analogue and there’s a goddamn reason why
@lumpley.bsky.socialReposted by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialWhy didn't these kinds of moves— Pick 3, pick 2, pick 1 Pick 2, pick 1, pick none Exceptional success, success, compromise — become "how PbtA works"? Like I say, I think it's obvious why, but choosing one move to be "how PbtA works" at all was the first mistake.
@lumpley.bsky.socialReposted by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves.
Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialBoil browned I take it is the “cook them out in a little water first to break the cell walls and de-moisture, then sear til crispy” method? Or is it some new secret….
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialand/or those generic moves should not exist, and the theoretical use case should be addressed with the underlying mechanical scaffold (conversation + principles + MC moves)
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialgearing up to run Under Hollow Hills at my local con this weekend, where for reasons unknown to science I have decided to present a buffet of five different occasions for groups to choose from. some snippets, just to taunt and entice the many of you living too far away to attend...
@alexvalente.fyiReposted by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.sociala month ago five of us played Harvest, by @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social; four of us joined forces to write about it
enter @glaedth.bsky.social @zhenwa40.bsky.social @joao.omg.lol as we begin our little play...
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.socialin the background, Jeremy Strandberg standing with an “I’m doing my part” t-shirt
