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Goblin With A Fat Ass - TTRPG

2023-12-31 @ 19:00 (UTC-7) by turbits

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tabletop-simulator

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Goblin With A Fat Ass TTRPG was made by Tom Bloom. I made some card graphics, and put it all into a ready-to-play tabletop sim game.


tldr; find the game on the steam workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3127313330 and the repo: https://github.com/turbits/gwafa-tts


Its a pretty basic setup, so you may find yourself having to add/remove components or making some house rules, but the game is simple and easy to change as you want.

Design Process

The most time-consuming bit - making the initial design, then making the cards and making sure they were (mostly) coherent and conforming. I used Affinity Photo and each card was separate. Probably better ways of doing this, like using the TTS template, but I had already started when I found them 🙉

Tabletop Simulator Process

This process was surprisingly painless. TTS comes with a handy tool called “TTS Deck Editor”, which makes it pretty easy to import images and export a deck image, to then import into TTS.

The peeps that made this software will never read this but the TTS Deck Editor could use some QOL stuff:

  1. move the grid setup (height/width) to the deck window somewhere, maybe a bar along the top of the new deck UI?
  2. if i’ve saved a deck, don’t pester me to confirm when closing a tab
  3. fix the issue with the last card in a deck - let me import 8 cards if i make a 4x2 instead of having to import 7 then another 1 without prompting me to make a new deck

You can play the game on Tabletop Simulator by subscribing to this workshop item: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3127313330

Repo is available here: https://github.com/turbits/gwafa-tts

Design Elements

Card templates and back

Colours

  • #00C130: green
  • #000000: black
  • #FFFFFF: white

Fonts

  • New Yorker: titles and some card text
  • Arial: all other text

Credits