Ok, here's the blorb tree. It's hard to capture the true sphericality of this critter! Now if it can just last the first night without kitten slayage, then we can probably pack it with ornaments! 🤞 🤞

#Christmas #blorb

@LuluHelle He's like a white Kirby! 😂 #birb #blorb

@Rogerportsphotographic
#birb #borb #blorb

BLORB! A 1024 byte #pico8 game made with castpixel for #pico1k 2024.
https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2024/rate/3008293
or > LOAD #BLORB

Here's a commented version: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/snippet.php?cart_id=blorb-1

@thebrand @Sandra

There is a blorb t-shirt/sticker/shower curtain...

https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/designs/blorb-playstyle

#blorb #TTRPG

Up with this dollop of a robin. #blorb

@helenclayton #birb #blorb #rRoundBoi

Walking along a Catskill mountain trail and saw a Blackburnian Warbler just hanging out in a bush about ten feet away. He didn't seem to mind we were there. 😎 #birb #blorb

So this little guy was just going *peep peep peep peep peep* for like a solid hour. I don't know if he was calling to mom, or to other fledglings, or was just hanging out. When I left for work, I could see his bright red breast which still has plenty of fluffy down sticking out of it. Such a cute little #blorb.

My new alarm clock. #birb #blorb

Own personal blorb/antiblorb - why I like the 'players included' anti-blorb extension

https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2024/05/own-personal-blorbantiblorb.html

#dnd #osr #blorb

D&D got pretty intense and confusing! Into it!

I tried two things differently.

Number one is that I can’t have the video app open at the same time as the PDF app. So they can’t see me nor can I see them. But today I tried really hard to switch back to the video app as often as I could! Since my memory is /dev/null, that meant making notes of some of the baboons’ stats. (They were fighting large baboons.)

Number two is something that the DMG tells you to do (p247) but which is usually too much of a chore to do. It’s to give each monster a trait, like “the one with a helmet”, “the one with a scar” and so on. That’s difficulter than it sounds for pretty small rewards (we’ve been getting by just fine for ten years with just “the one that’s fighting Nanna”, “the one over by Nechta” and so on) but those rewards, though small, are non-zero and since I wanted to give 110% today, I tried it. It’s difficult but the difficulty is up front and then the payoff of doing that lasts throughout the entire fight.

Fun fun fun.♥︎

Also the session today was #blorb at its finest and most distilled:

I’ve got the rooms, I’ve got the features, I’ve got the monsters, I’ve got the traps, what do you do? And what ensues are totally fair shenigans like “OK we’re stuck down here and we don’t have a rope but if we polymorph the elf rogue into a giant hornet (other “giant fliers” are too big to fit the passage) she can carry the gnome and they can go to the Horus Head barbershop and buy ropes.” Two explorations turns later: “Whoops we can’t unpolymorph ourselves and the bard is 200 feet under the ground and don’t know whether we’ve landed and we didn’t come up with a plan. So we’re hiding on the ground until the polymorph runs out.” One hour later: “Whoops we have no money and there are only three ropes for sale here. Let’s head down to Gosterwick, maybe we can sell this figurine down there.” Two hours later: “Whoops we wore out our shoes and we are getting attacked by boars!” And so on. Love it.

This is great:

https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/03/no-foolproof-illusions.html

“Designer (?)”, I love that.

#blorb

So this is neat: the blorb playstyle.

https://idiomdrottning.org/blorb-principles

Most of it lines up really well with how I already run old-school games. Some bits of it I'm not sure are for me.

I'm sitting with those bits to figure out why, or if, that's actually the case.

But yeah, I dig this. It articulates things I believe but hadn't ever articulated myself, and does it well. There's a lot of gaming joy baked into this approach.

#TTRPG #Blorb

Inspired by a conversation elseweb about Blorb Principles, I reached out to the author of the blog post, collaborated, chatted and here we are:

https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/designs/blorb-playstyle

Inspired by:
https://idiomdrottning.org/blorb-principles

by @Sandra

#TTRPG #Blorb

@NanoBookReview #birb or perhaps more accurately #blorb

@loren I am not fooled -- you're starting with ping pong balls and painting them up.... #blorb