Back in 2022, I added the concept of debt to Mangayaw. You can see the latest iteration of this in the current version of Mangayaw in itch.io. Not much changed, but there is an infant idea there.
Debt in...
2025-06-06 15:46:19 +0000 UTC View PostI really admire Cairn’s approach to player character development, now dubbed growth. Rather than levelling up and advancing mechanically, it’s instead very rooted in the fiction. What the PCs do in the game determines how they will grow, maybe get better or worse, but overall change.
I admire it, I really do. But it doesn’t come as naturally to me as I would like it to be. I’m never quite sure when to bring change to my playe...
2025-05-05 06:05:58 +0000 UTC View PostI have been reading and studying Philippine ethnoepics a lot recently. Just cultivating that brainrot of mine (or letting it fester?). I’ve found that these texts are a wealth of inspiration for Mangayaw. In vibes, in game loop, in identity.
There is an interesting commonality in these ethnoepics in how heroes are tied to community. I began contemplating how the player characters’ relationship with the game, the world, and the narrative they will make would change if they were part of and responsible for a community of their ...
2025-04-13 14:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The textiles you weave are imbued with the patterns, colors, and likenesses you witnessed in the realm of dreams. There is power in these designs, and it takes skilled hands and sound mind to contain them. You take:
Rations (3 uses)
Torches (3 uses)
Rod from a broken loom (d6 damage)
Spool of thread
Smelling salts (3 uses)
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2025-03-14 03:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Check the game out here! https://rmbananas.itch.io/of-promises-paper-airplanes
BTW, March is a midterms month, so I might not be able to make a video then.
2025-03-01 05:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to make warrior backgrounds this month. Again, these are all subject to change for later on. But I have to start somewhere, right?
Enjoy!
You were a paddler upon bamboo outriggers–seawater up to your knees, pushing through the waves. You were in the frontlines of raids on port towns. You are a nobody until you gain a kill. And yet the boat cannot set sail without your labor. You take:
Rations (3 uses)
Torches (3 uses)
... 2025-02-15 15:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had the idea of making videos about exploring RPGSEA and indie TTRPGs for a while now. This year, I jumped in.
I'll try to make one video a month. That's aside from my monthly TTRPG design update.
2025-01-28 00:33:28 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been 2 weeks since my first post here on Patreon. I've been writing up some character backgrounds for Mangayaw. I've been trying to figure out how to make a Youtube channel for another TTRPG-related project in the works. I hope to say more about that soon!
My goal for character backgrounds is to have six by the end of the month. But with college semester coming up soon, I might not be able to hit that self-imposed quota. We shall see.
But hey, I have three for you right now!
These are not final, of course. I'd lov...
2025-01-13 15:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Last day of 2024. Time to start something new.
In 2024, I got to achieve one of my goals for my Filipino folkloric fantasy TTRPG Mangayaw: run a long campaign with the game set on Southeast Asian fantasy worlds made by the likes of Zedeck Siew and Mun Kao. It started with a 2024-12-31 07:09:06 +0000 UTC View Post
