Troupe: Doomsday

Devlog

• Rust Monsters, Grue, and Creatures of Unlight
  September 11, 2025 by Hexed Press#video

  I posted a couple of shorts yesterday and this morning, starting with thinking about Rust Monsters . This morphed into idea I had of taking the concept of the Grue from the classic Infocom Zork series... Continue reading

  
• Morale as a timer
  September 08, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #video

  My current plan is to reframe morale scores as timers. I talk through it quickly in this short video:... Continue reading
• A Wilderness Adventuring Draft
  September 04, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #blog

  Here’s a draft of something. It’s for wilderness adventuring. I really wrote this for myself, to get some ideas down on “paper”. It expresses some ideas that I’ve had in mind for a bit on st... Continue reading

  
• The Heart of Darkness
  August 27, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #blog, #worldbuilding

  Yesterday’s RPGaDay2025 prompt was nemesis . It inspired me to write a post about the setting that I’m building around the game: “ The Heart of Darkness .” The ultimate nemesis in the setting... Continue reading

  
• Weapon Effects Video
  August 27, 2025 by Hexed Press#video

  Yesterday, I streamed a look at the closed BETA weapon effects rules ... Continue reading
• Miss Opportunities
  August 26, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #blog

  Yesterday, as part of #RPGaDay2025 , I wrote up an idea for Troupe on leveraging dice that don’t produce boons in combat: The seed word for this post is “challenge” but, rather than come at it l... Continue reading

  
• The Book of Revelations
  August 25, 2025 by Hexed Press#magic-item

  Over on my blog, I posted a magic item called The book of Revelations . The questioner writes a question on one of the pages then places the book under their head when they sleep; upon waking, an answ... Continue reading

  
• Constructing things in Troupe
  August 20, 2025 by Hexed Press#blog

  This is not a post about crafting, really (sorry, not sorry), but about building things for purpose in a constrained time window— such as a raft to cross a river, a ladder for climbing out of a pit... Continue reading

  
• The Gods Must be Crazy…
  August 03, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #work-in-progress

  Working on Troupe stuff… I’ve been trying to figure out how to work out divine influences on in-game actions (outside of big picture events or “faction” actions) and I stumbled on something th... Continue reading

  
• Fixed bookmarks in Players Guide
  July 24, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #update

  I noticed there was some weirdness with the bookmarks in the PDF for the players guide so I fixed them!... Continue reading
• The Players Guide is here!
  July 24, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #update

  The fully-fleshed out players guide is here! Fixing typos and other oddities aside, I'm calling this one done, at least for now! Next up, the referees guide! At some point, after that, the price is li... Continue reading
• The online rules are live (and mostly complete)!
  July 15, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #update

  Happy Tuesday! I've now got most all of the Troupe: Doomsday rules online . It took some doing and I'm not 100% done but I thought they were enough done to share. In a separate, but hopefully useful,... Continue reading

  
• Another Session Recap + A Character Sheet Tweak
  July 12, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #update, #video, #session-report

  I played another " Troupe: Doomsday " one-shot on Thursday. As with the previous sessions, I ran my reverse-dungeoncrawl adventure, Escape! . In the stream I talk about running the game for some exper... Continue reading

  
• A couple of clarifications & a character sheet!
  July 10, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #update

  Happy Thursday! I made a couple of small clarifications (I hope) to the text and also put together a character sheet ! Most of the space on the sheet is dedicated to marking strain , with spaces to pu... Continue reading

  
• Anatomy of a fireball spell
  July 05, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #link, #how-to

  Over on my website , I posted an article that breaks down what a fireball-type spell might look like using Troupe’s ad-hoc magic system. It works as an exemplar for the pattern that shapes how all m... Continue reading

  
• Too Many Games Con + Game Session Recap
  July 01, 2025 by Hexed Press

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  #video, #vlog

  I attended Too Many Games Con in Pennsylvania on Sunday and had the opportunity to run some players through Escape! using the Troupe: Doomsday rules... Continue reading