#Grandmothership

[howdoispectate]

Doodles done on a magma with my partner Rigel!!! (Blue is Rigel, any other colour is me) [Partner is @ashcanasher ]

And featuring A friend of mines character bug agent!!! I forgot his username remind me to update this

[ashcanasher]

Well, heres a start! Just a bunch of doodles I did relating to behemoth, lots of ocs but thats okay.

However, to explain the last image, and the fact that the same version of the character is on the doodle page (middle far right) Thats just grandmeowmeow, a version of grandmothership so I dont spoil myself 😭

[mortphilippa]

Grandmothership - granny detectives in space!

Grandmothership by Armanda Haller is a silly ttrpg about grandmothers solving mysteries in space.

It's like if Murder She Wrote had a baby with The Expanse and then the baby grew up and wrote a comedy show about it.

Grandmothership is crowdfunding a print run with more art and layout on crowdfunder here! It is one of my sponsored picks for Tabletop Nonstop!

Tabletop Nonstop is Crowdfundr's spotlight event celebrating indie creators and their projects. Support the projects mentioned in this video ans more this month on Crowdfundr here!

Crowdfundr is the creator-friendly crowdfunding platform. It's free to use, offers multiple ways to fund your project, and directly invests in its user's success with spotlight initiatives like this one and resources like the Creator Hub. Get started now at crowdfundr.com

[bigtomo]

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[indiepressrevolution]

It's ZineMonth!!! Lets talk about some cool games!!

There are so many awesome games crowdfunding right now that today we're just going to talk about 10 cool games that are currently crowdfunding on Crowdfundr! I'll be making more posts about more games in the future, and if you know of a cool game that's currently crowdfunding please add it on to this post!!

Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto lets you take control of the cosy Tea Grotto as you blend tea and build a community around you. Make friends, drink tea, go on an adventure, and stay wholesome.

The River Spirit is a guidebook for a solo journaling experience that uses a deck of cards to help you create memories of your hometown and the community found there, only to remix them into new stories and eventually sacrifice those memories for the greater good.

Tangled Blessings is a magic academy horror RPG for 1-2 players that uses tarot cards to reveal your fate.

On the eve of your final exam at Brackroot Academy, what mysteries, secrets, dread, and drama will you recall from your last four years of schooling?

In Dinocar, you and as many friends as you can gather will work together to map out a snippet of that world. You’ll paint a map, draw landmarks, slap buildings into place, and take turns going on chaotic road trips and commutes. At the end of a game of Dinocar, you’ll have a story to tell and a wonderful map to either frame on the wall or stick to the fridge.

Necro Mech Synthesis is a Bonepunk RPG about ghosts piloting mechs via possession! Fight in a world abandoned by God and defend Lady Death herself against the remaining three horsemen of the apocalypse!

Echoes in my Hull is a solo journaling game about remembering the people we have lost. Use a deck of tarot cards to become acquainted with your crew and ultimately be the last existing record of their lives.

GRANDMOTHERSHIP is a sci-fi TTRPG about senior ladies in space. Get in trouble, crochet a new scarf, go ballroom dancing, and find solutions where everyone else has failed.

My Mother’s Kitchen is a solo journaling game about traditions, change, and cooking. You play as the author of the original family cookbook, robbed of memory and trapped on Earth as the spirit of your cookbook. Act as a guardian for your family, and try to remember why you’re bound to the book as you guide your inheritors through centuries and generations. 

WANDS & LASERGUNS is a high-intensity solo roleplaying game about being a wizard trapped in an anti-magic future. Pit your old-fashioned wits and wondrous new technology against diamond-studded nobility, cybernetically enhanced gangs, dirty cops with a vendetta, and high-fashion psychopaths. The struggle is real when you're far from home.

Derelict Delvers is a thrilling, action-packed sci-fi roleplaying game that immerses players in a struggle for survival and profit. Players take on the roles of elite space troopers, scientists, and engineers who must explore derelict spaceships and space stations in order to scavenge for supplies, salvage for weapons and valuable resources, and ultimately, hunt down the monsters that threaten the very existence of mankind.

Still not enough games? Check out Crowdfundr's Tabletop Nonstop page or the ZiMo official website for more!

[theinstagrahame]

One of the best things about Crowdfunding is, stuff arrives even when you're cutting way back on spending. A *ton* of stuff arrived in the last month and a bit. Got a bunch of really neat projects in, and it's time to get hype about it!

Why these games rule, under the cut

The Revenant Society: Banana Chan is one of those names that immediately catches my attention when she's on a project. Actually, looking at the list again, the team for this game was stacked, it was a real All-Star Cast. But like, even without the powerhouse designers on the case, this just gets all the things I want in a game: Time loops, murder mysteries, trapped on the Underground. A PbtA game where you solve your own murder is, y'know, a pitch that'll attract my attention.

Hellwhalers: I saw this game coming up through design phases in the Plus One Exp Discord, and it sounded incredible. Using tokens and an old ship betting game, you're part of a whaling crew chasing Moby Dick into actual hell. Maybe Ahab wasn't crazy after all, and maybe we won't survive.

Xenolanguage: I might own everything Thorny Games makes now, because they make games about language. Folks who may not know me might not know that I *love* linquistics. Honestly, if I could repeat college, I'd put more of my time into Linguistics. But due to the linear nature of time, I'll settle for playing games about decoding alien language in a first contact situation. Sorta like that movie Contact. Which, I loved.

Mothership and Desert Moons of Karth: I read through the original version of Mothership a couple of years ago, and it's one I wanted to get more into. When I saw that there was a chance to pick up the full 1e boxset on KS, I jumped. I've also seen tons of people talk about Karth as a really awesome sandbox module for the system, so when I had a little cash on DTRPG from selling books, it was an easy pickup.

Inscrutable Cities: Possum Creek Games told me to back this, so I did (this is a joke, but I do love PCG a whole lot). In reality, I saw Inscrutable Cities on Itch a while ago, and the pitch grabbed me. I love reading solo journaling games (I still haven't found a way I like to play them, if I'm completely honest, but they're really neat reads). Walking through an impossible city is something I'd love to do, so, I have the book for it now.

Reap: Spencer Cambell makes bangers, and bangers only. I'm not *not* on a mission to collect all of his work, but Necromancers? Solo tactical board games, built on Rune? Sure. I'm in.

Luna: Spencer Campbell makes bangers, and bangers only. I also picked up another of his books this month. The Nova universe? Moon cultists trying to destroy the sun? Sure, I'm in.

3 Moonlight on Roseville Beach zines: I played Moonlight on Roseville Beach on my now-defunct podcast, and it's a game that I honestly think about a lot. The dice system was complicated, but in a really neat way that gave the players a ton of really interesting decisions with every roll. What part of my action succeeds? What kinds of complications am I opening myself to?

Anyway, R. Rook put together some characters, mysteries, and monsters for the game, and I really wanted to explore more.

Hiria, In the Margins, A Visit to San Sibilia: I mentioned earlier that I like the notion of exploring weird cities, right? Well, here's two games about that, and a cool bookmark RPG for reading. I listened to San Sibilia played in an episode of Friends at the Table, and it really captured my attention. The questions were fascinating, and they let the players flesh out a city we'd only heard of, but not seen prior to that game. It was a cool coda on a really fantastic and weird season, Sangfielle.

Grandmothership: The title alone had me, but Armanda Haller is a creator I keep an eye on, because she makes really rad stuff. This caught my attention because solving mysteries in a weird, Mothership-esque sci-fi setting, as nosy grandmothers, really just, gets me. I want to do that. I want to live that.

Holdfast Station: I've been watching Stonetop develop through its email updates. It's another PbtA game, but with a robust city-building and city development core loop that, is 100% my jam. (Low-key, one of my favorite games is Dragon Quest Builders 2.) This game takes that concept to space, which is 1000% my jam, in fact.

Spectres of Brocken: Aaron Lim is a designer I got into early on in my foray into games, and I do love Mech Anime. I am eager to see his take on Mech Anime, and I am really intrigued by the way this game handles playsets and worldbuilding as part of the game itself. Really can't wait to dive into this.

Lay on Hands: This is another of those games I've heard about, but never actually checked out. I know Alfred Valley better by reputation than by direct experience, but this is one of those games I hear people constantly telling people to check out. So, I'm gonna!

Penumbra City: Maybe 5 years ago, I read a novella by Margaret Killjoy about anarchists living in an abandoned city, and beset by assholes within their community, and supernatural horrors from without. The world kinda stuck with me, so when I saw she was working on an RPG not in the same world), I was curious to see what that would look like. I haven't cracked Penumbra City open yet, but I'm jazzed to do so.

These two fell off the pile for the big photo, so I forgot:

Deathmatch Island: I enjoyed the Hunger Games and Battle Royale movies a pretty moderate amount, but what really caught my attention here was the promise that players could also break the Reality TV Parody. The use of the Paragon system also caught my attention. After hearing one AP of Agon, I really wanted to see how that would translate into this, and it didn't take me too long reading it to go "Oh, okay, this rules."

Our God is Dead: What if you were a paladin or priest of a faith, and you found out your god was dead? What if you also had like, a bunch of people who really needed that god not to be dead, like this weekend? This sounds hilarious, and I am going to insert it into conversation often to see if people want to play it. Apologies to people who know me.

Eagle eyed viewers may have noticed a second Mothership box. What's that about?

It's a storage box for all my Mothership Zines so far... Except the two that are just slightly too big!

And, some fun comics/graphic novels:

Good Boy Paws: A friend of mine in comics put this together, and it looked extremely cute. A sweet tale of a good boi.

Wine Ghost Goes to Hell: Picked this up because the creator had contributed to Bugsnax, which is a game I enjoyed, and the concept seemed fun. Will have to check it out and report back!

[pandiongames]

Alright, Mystery Lovers, we have a huge update for you!

We have released a new update for the Hints and Hijinx system! The Solo+ Expansion (and it's still free!)

Find it here:

You can now choose between the classic solo-only Hints and Hijinx ruleset, or the expanded solo+ which adds support for multiplayer and more traditional play (GM/Player, multi-session, free movement between locations, etc.) while keeping the core concepts of HnH.

Think of Solo as playing a great Detective (Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot, etc) whereas Solo+ is designed for a mystery solving team (like Scooby-Doo)!

Solo+ does add a little complexity to designing games, which is why we decided to keep the two versions separate: "Solo" and "Solo+".

The new Solo+ pdf still includes copy/paste rules, and a list of where to add your content.

This is the same system that will be used for our upcoming games The Substratum Protocol and Whispering Pines. Hints and Hijinx used a base of Breathless, GRANDMOTHERSHIP, and Brindlewood Bay for its rules. Solo+ adds additional concepts from RPDeshaies's Firelights.

The core changes between Solo and Solo+ are:

The number of skills increases from 2 to 6.

Skills are rolled in pairs, summed, and compared against the value of two drawn cards (Ace =1, King = 13)

Beaten cards are collected by players can be used for benefits - special boons players gain by discarding specific types of cards, or playing vs. the Guide.

Stress added health mechanic.

Determination grants new abilities as Stress increases, at a cost.

Actions - specific moves players can take with dedicated outcomes

Free flow between locations and dealing with complications.

Moving between locations is done with the Travel Action, with possible bonuses or negations while a montage of travel plays out.

Each location has a complication/event table, instead of a shared table.

Gathering a Clue and Understanding it are two different steps.

Understanding a Clue takes the player to a table of leading questions they can answer about the mystery. The split is optional in your own game. Simply remove the Understand action and Clue Question table.

With this release, we have plans to launch another Game Jam in the next month or so, so keep an ear out!

[evlynmoreau-blog]

I played the demo of Grand mother ship!  We laughed a lot. The demo version is pretty rough but the game have a lot of potential, I am excited to see the final version of it. Get a copy here: https://fnd.us/GRANDMOTHERSHIP?ref=ab_5C6662_sh_aCALV0

[crowdfundr]

Tabletop Nonstop

TTNS update: 12 campaigns launched so far and 4 out of 12 have already reached their goal!

Meanwhile, let's take a look at the campaigns that haven't launched yet. Don't forget to hit the "Subscribe" button on a campaign page to get notified when it goes live.

GOOD NATURE: The Complete Facilitator's Guide by Marco Torres, an educational storytelling game.

DISASTER/Double Feature by A Couple of Drakes, a set of tabletop RPG zines.

GRANDMOTHERSHIP by Armanda Haller, a sci-fi TTRPG about senior ladies in space.

Derelict Delvers by Cezar Capacle, scavenge the galaxy for survival and profit!

Project ECCO by Elliot Davis, a solo time travel game.

Reborn in Power: Chosen Creation by Arthadian Anthologies, an online science fantasy TTRPG.

Swamp Troll Witch(es) by Luke Simonds @catshavenolord, a gamemaster-less tabletop roleplaying game for solo journaling, epistolary play, or small group play based on the Motif framework.

NEXUS: Arena Combat System by D-Verse Publishing, LLC, a Beer'n'Peanuts arena-combat dice-chucker for 2-4 Friends!

Stay tuned for the updates and support your favorite campaigns when they launch!

[indierpgnewsletter]

Indie RPG Link Roundup - 05/02/2023

It’s the beginning of Zine Month (and Zine Quest) and there are hundreds of zine projects that are going to launch across February. If you feel like browsing, check out the Zine Month site. I’ll shout out two projects being run by folks from the Global South.

Argentinian designer, Armanda Haller’s Grandmothership, which mashes together Honey Heist, Brindlewood Bay, and Mothership to make a game about grannies in space. It’s on Crowdfundr, a new platform that’s accessible in countries that are blocked by Kickstarter.

There’s also Hit the Road, Jack by Filipino designer Kyle Tam which is a one or two person game about a thrilling chase between a vengeful lawman and a criminal trying to escape their sins. There’s a great actual play on Party of One if you want to check it out. It’s itchfunding so the number of sales decide the amount of additional content and design in the game.

Now Links of the Week

RPG Theory

Really interesting! An excerpt from Paul Czege’s new zine The Ink That Bleeds, about how to play immersive journalling games: “I think of this process as “write to find out,” and I think it’s necessary to a journaling game for it to be immersive.”

An article after my own heart. Videogame designer Tanya X Short (Boyfriend Dungeon, among others) writes in praise of messiness: “When I meet with other experienced game designers, we find ourselves admitting to fascination with decidedly inelegant game designs, and envious of those designers that permit themselves this kind of latitude.”

An interesting read about using Netrunner cards like a tarot deck and telling a story with them. It feels a bit like what I thought CCGs were as a kid before I actually knew anything about them.

Misc

On Polygon, Gamefound discusses their progress as a crowdfunding platform and their goal of eating into Kickstarter’s stranglehold.

Matthew Gravelyn collected data from 125 game designers/publishers on itch and published a report with some data visualizations to show the results. Interesting results, useful for any solo designer who publishes games.

Black Armada Games talks about almost getting scammed by someone pretending to be an artist by using other people’s art.

A database of RPGs or SRDs with open licenses

If you don’t subscribe to the Indie Press Revolution newsletter, it’s another good way to keep up with the indie games.

Applications for the Diana Jones Emerging Game Designer award are open.

Alongside #RPGSEA and #RPGLatAm, there is now a hashtag for tabletop games form South Asia: #saRPG.

If you want to support the Indie RPG Newsletter, please head to the patreon:

[notquiteinsane]

30, 40, and 44 uwu

30. Yep. Here at my grandparents I got a cereal bowl and a tea cup and I thiiiink I might have a mug at our house? It's like. Empty.

40. Have I had snacks? Haha. Uhh.. I had. A bowl of cereal. A bit before dinner. And I had full brekkie!!! And lunch. AND dinner. The grandmothership will NOT allow me to be at all hungry.

44. Oh God. UhhHhHhHHh that's personal. And I need plausible deniability in case I ever get terminal cancer and just fucking kill him anyway. Soooo.... that one ISO Auditor who made fun of my clothes. I'd kill him for like a nickel.

[theresattrpgforthat]

Thanks to @whimsy-of-the-stars I have been summoned! What if I told you...

There's a TTRPG For That!

Brindlewood Bay is a roleplaying game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries.

Honestly one of my favourite mystery mechanics is in this game - the Theorize move, which allows the players to come up with the answer to the mystery and then roll to see how correct they are!

Obachan Panic is a quick, easy-to-teach, easy-to-learn ttrpg about grannies and aunties saving the world. They saved your home and country countless times from alien invasions, government conspiracies, untold monsters, the singularity, economic collapse and deflated soufflés—AND made it home in time to make you that casserole you like.

This game comes with playbooks that you can print, cut out and paste together - a little arts-and-crafts scrapbooking session to go along with your storytelling game! It even comes with art for your characters!

Gold & Girl is a game about retirees, divorcees and widows all rooming together in their sunset years. Deal with problems like Nosy Neighbours, Rising Rent, and Thin Walls - using only two stats! Mysteries should be no problem with this game, just give your Girls something to be nosy about!

Grandmothership, by Armanda, is currently in development but it's a sci-fi setting about old ladies figuring out why the lights keep going out, why the robots are acting up, and what is going on with recent random disappearances. It's inspired by Brindlewood Bay, Honey Heist, and Mothership.

I love that the power of elderly women solving mysteries continues into the far future! The feeling of this game is that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, which very much is the way elderly women might think. You can check out the link for the preview!

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

decades of life experience

boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness

access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence

"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

[bigtomo]

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[lostintranslaation]

I miss the Gilmore girls :(

[cosmicrunaways-blog-blog]

It's your birthday grandmother,smash the mushroom.

[bigtomo]

GRANDMA X BORIS UNDER THE CUT IM CRAZZZYYYYTT!!!!!!! IM CRAZY

@/severants mentioned the grandmothership repairing boris ONCE and idek bro. a comic spawned....TRAGEDY BROUGHT UPON ALL OF US

THEY ARE NOT WELCOME IN MY STORE. DERMATOLOGISTS HATE THEM. NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE GOOD SKIN BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!