The Trading Post: A World in the Hold
How much botany does it take to let my pirates steal a little pepper?
Articles by Ludo
Browse every Ludic RPG article written or co-written by Ludo: tabletop RPG experiments, projects, tools, and lessons from play.
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Pavillon Noir: putting my players in command of my favourite pirate RPG
How can a pirate RPG’s heavy rules become ingredients for emergent play?
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Learning the hard way: my first TTRPG review
Did I just roll a natural 1 on my first RPG review?
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Ludo's rating Discovering Fallout TTRPG: First impressions
How did a fun first session with Fallout still leave me giving its rulebook 2 out of 5?
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Alien Motion Tracker: the economics of my first indie project
1.7k installs! Did I really make money with the motion tracker?
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S.I.X.: Ten Days to Build a Two-Table TTRPG from Scratch
Too many friends for one RPG table? What else could we do but build an asymmetric TTRPG for two linked tables from scratch?
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Communities & People Who Pushed the Motion Tracker to Release
How did the Motion Tracker beta trigger a Discord security alert?
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The numbers, tools, and hidden work behind the Alien Motion Tracker app
What is inside the code and tools behind the Motion Tracker?
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Adding the Nostromo Device to the Alien Motion Tracker
Why was the simplest Nostromo tracker so hard to recreate?
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Fixing the Alien Motion Tracker App: When Every Phone Lies About North
How can a phone compass be wrong enough to send an Alien RPG echo behind the player?
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Why Ludic RPG needed its own home
How did one missing blog link turn into a full website rebuild and a tiny rebellion against trapped content?
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Building the Alien RPG Motion Tracker: Immersion Without Friction
Can a phone become a frictionless Alien Motion Tracker?
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Behind the Scenes of My First Alien RPG Campaign
What happened during 28 hours of Alien RPG, and why did players panic at flowers?
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Field v0.2.1: 9,378 Lines setting up the future
Why rewrite 9,378 lines for an update whose best feature is "the future will not collapse"?
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Quick update: Alien campaign prep & Ludic Field
How did Alien campaign prep turn into microphones, secret props, and a 100x faster map viewer?
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Ludic Field v0.2 release
Can a map viewer add more stuff without stealing more GM time?
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Small progress on the TTRPG map viewer
Why did drawing thicker lines for a map become a WebGL rabbit hole?
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The small joy of UI motion
Why do I love tiny UI motion so much?
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Building the Foundations
Why did one feature make me rewrite 80% of Ludic Field just to deliver nothing new?
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Balancing cool and clarity
How do you spend a whole night making something cool that might be useless?
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I tried to build realistic air ducts and failed
Why did adding realistic air ducts to a TTRPG map viewer make me reinstall RollerCoaster Tycoon?
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Experimenting with maps, limits, and freedom in tabletop worlds.
How did "I hate map editors" become "fine, I'll build one"?
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The journey begins
How did a box of RPG books start Ludic RPG?