Lostwatcher Games

Lostwatcher Games

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Making and blogging about Indie TTRPGs Founded by @geekthegm.bsky.social Check out the free playtest materials for the Faction Sparkbook at lostwatcher.games

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Lostwatcher Games
@lostwatcher.games

What is Lostwatcher Games? We make indie tabletop roleplaying games. We focus on games and tools/aids for gamemasters and players that emphasize politics, community, intrigue, and relationships. Check out the alpha playtest materials for the Faction Sparkbook at lostwatcher.games!

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New Blog Post 10 Tips for Roleplaying Characters in a Faction

lostwatchergames.com10 Tips for Roleplaying Characters in a FactionMany player characters in TTRPGs are members of factions. Thieves have guilds, clerics have temples, paladins have orders, wizards have schools. Sometimes all the PCs are part of one faction, like a ship’s crew, a mercenary company, or a rebel cell. In my Faction Sparkbook I detail the many types of factions PCs could join. But as Prismatic Wasteland points out…
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New Blog Post: Why My TTRPG Needs an Anti-Fascist Statement

lostwatchergames.comWhy My TTRPG Needs an Anti-Fascist StatementAn ‘Olivia Hill Rule’ is any rule in a game that explicitly forbids fascists from playing the game. The titular Olivia Hill included it in their game #iHunt, co-written with Filamena Young, and it reads as follows: If you're a fascist, you're not welcome to play this game. It's against the rules. If you're reading this and thinking, "You just call everyone you disagree with a fascist," then you're probably a fascist, or incapable of drawing inferences from context and acknowledging a dangerous political climate that causes the oppressed to be hyperbolic.
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Check out the new Lostwatcher blog post: Want a Deadly OSR Game? Try Troupe-Play #osr #ttrpg #dnd #gamemasteradvice

lostwatchergames.comWant a Deadly OSR Game? Try Troupe-PlayThe OSR is strongly associated with high-lethality. Many lists of OSR principles directly reference deadliness, or include game attributes / play aesthetics which correlate with high-lethality. For example, the GM as “impartial arbiter” over “being a fan of the characters”, foregrounding strong “consequences”, “violence is a fail state”, and “forget game balance…
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New Blogpost: Did TTRPG TikTok Change My Life?

lostwatchergames.comDid TTRPG TikTok Change My Life?Last night (at time of writing) I publicly launched my indie TTRPG company, and an alpha-version of my first product, the Faction Sparkbook. This was months in the making, but looking back I can’t help but feel gratitude for my mutuals on TTRPG TikTok, who deserve a lot of credit for inspiring this creation.  I’ve been playing TTRPGs for over 20 years, starting with the (frankly unplayable) Star Wars d20…

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