Petri Leinonen·Mar 22, 2022Distancing from the Frontier Myth (Them Deeper Bones design diary 12)The Frontier Myth is strong in the traditional Fantasy TTRPG paradigm, but my personal cultural touchstones are different…
Petri Leinonen·Dec 26, 2021On the First Year (Them Deeper Bones design diary 11)Them Deeper Bones is my retro adventure fantasy role-playing game that can be found over on https://themdeeperbones.com/ (as of writing…
Petri Leinonen·Oct 27, 2021On Ability Scores (Them Deeper Bones design diary 10)Them Deeper Bones RPG does some significant changes to how Ability Scores work from a lot of other OSR games that draw on the legacy of D&D
Petri Leinonen·Aug 10, 2021On Worldbuilding (Them Deeper Bones, design diary 7)Building a world to a retro adventure game of post-post-apocalyptic fantasy, and some thoughts on the ways I cheated while doing it
Petri Leinonen·Jul 8, 2021On Initiative (Them Deeper Bones, design diary 6)Thinking about TTRPG initiative through the lens of the OODA loop decision making process.
Petri Leinonen·May 12, 2021On the undead (Them Deeper Bones, design diary 5)I found out I have an issue with the way I had written the zombies and the skeletons in Them Deeper Bones, my OSR TTRPG..A response icon1A response icon1
Petri Leinonen·May 9, 2021On the Frames (Them Deeper Bones, design diary 4)Them Deeper Bones, the OSR-adjacent adventure tabletop RPG, is, since version a.8.0, been built on the idea of four Gameplay Frames…A response icon1A response icon1
Petri Leinonen·May 1, 2021On Combat (Them Deeper Bones, design diary 3)3rd design diary on Them Deeper Bones OSR-like TTRPG. I take a look at combat and why I’ve built it without the HP grind. Also…
Petri Leinonen·Apr 24, 2021On The Creeds (Them Deeper Bones, design diary 2)How I’m using PbtA style Creeds and Tenets to bring my design choices to the players of my OSR-adjacent TTRPG, “Them Deeper Bones”…
Petri Leinonen·Apr 20, 2021On the background and basics (Them Deeper Bones, design diary 1)The first design diary for Them Deeper Bones — a retro adventure game based on ideas of games like Red Box D&D. Starting from the basics…
