Caroline Hobbs

Introduction!👋 I'm Caroline Hobbs, and I'm part of the game design duo known as Less Than Three Games! I make and play gmless games where we co-create amazing worlds and stories together <3 🔗 Website: lessthanthreegames.com ✏️ Blog: lessthanthreegames.com/blog/ 🎲 Itch: lessthanthreegames.itch.io/

Want to see what a full game of Microscope looks like, from start to finish? This is for you. I raaaarely record games for the public, but I am excited to show off the new edition of Microscope and this was a real treat.

November is soon upon us and a new month of games to be had on Once Upon A Game. Girl Frame Fedora Noir Perils and Princesses Nimble

Microscope is the game I bust out when I want to introduce friends to weird games that celebrate their creative genius. I'm very excited especially for the rules updates to scenes in the new edition!

I'm doing an(other) Ask Me Anything, right now. If you've got questions, about the new Microscope (or really anything else) I am contractually obligated to provide answers www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

So exciting! Microscope is such a foundational game - really psyched for it to be getting a second edition

Playing all the sad women to get emotional revenge for Ben's game KILLING my farm boy

You'll be shocked to hear that I've thrown out my rules and started over! Again! 🫠

It's Monday, which means it's Story Game Night! Come join us tonight from 5pm-8pm in downtown Olympia, WA to play some story games as a community. We will meet at Altitude 15. We hope to see you there! #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #storygames #roleplayinggame #olympia

I have had an extremely harvest/cooking day. We made apple cider with garden apples, ice cream, cream cheese (super annoyed that I just now learned you can make cream cheese at home), and I'm now dehydrating garden plums and raspberries. 😮‍💨

Super fun session of Marc's current project, Pottery Shards, last night! You know it's good when your friend describes a piece of technology as "looking like the inside of a sliced tomato" and you viscerally recoil from the ick!

We thoroughly enjoyed Coyote vs. Acme! It also reminded me of the time @thehintguy.bsky.social ran a Toon Town session of Fedora Noir, and that playing cartoons + humans is extremely fun 😂

Some of my most treasured game experiences have been with Microscope. I'm very excited for the new edition!

I feel like I'm getting more and more analog in my writing process. I've started printing game drafts for revisions and am quite enjoying it!

The cycle continues: draft rules, "this will be great!", playtest, "this is terrible!", draft rules, "this will be great!" etc forever and ever 😂😭 (This time's different though! It will be great!)

😭 My farm boy character lives on in my heart!

Yeah! I had a lot of fun making a world while thinking about how cool The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are!

One Missed Call is a two-player game that my partner @thehintguy.bsky.social and I wrote together when we first started dating. It's about loved ones separated by space, and it's one of the few games that makes me cry every time I play it!

"It is quietly devastating" I couldn't ask for a better tagline for One Missed Call! 😂 ❤️ Thank @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social you for the sweet and thoughtful review!

Unboxing challenge: I'm looking for more GMless games that you can play together without any reading in advance. Games you can just pick up and follow the instructions cold Show me what you got!

Children are great because they can help you see things in a whole new way. Like how my 7yo just told me he thought Lord of the Rings is probably about Bilbo trying to get a bunch of rings.

After it had been sitting in our 'to play' pile for 13 years, we finally played Happy Birthday Robot! It was just waiting for us to have a kid, and for that kid to be ready to have the restraint to only make one butt joke 😊

My 7yo picked up a Downfall book and had a whole stream of consciousness about the title and the cover image. "Downfall. Woah, why is it in the sky? That seems like a bad idea. Pieces of it are falling off. Oh falling dowwwn. Down Fallllll. That is Not Safe. Why is it falling? Have you read it?" 😂

I hope I'll see lots of folks at Go Play NW this year! It's my favorite con - small and covid-conscious, with a wide variety of games run by kind and interesting people <3 Buying your ticket now helps ensure the event can happen, so please register if you plan to come! goplaynw.org/membership-d...