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The core mechanics are heavily based on Into the Odd if you're familiar with that, but the major innovation is the Karma system.

It's very rules-light and fast-paced. The Karma system incentivizes engaging with the NPCs and interacting with the world in Buddhist-inspired and non-violent ways, and psychological exploration, but it doesn't shoehorn you into a particular style of play and if you want to get into scifi/fantasy fights you can do that too.

The module in the book gives a sets up a Poltergeist Investigation, an adventure in one of the Numberless Courts of Hell, and it demonstrates how to think of Karmic Attachments and how to set up those situations.

+1 to this question

EDIT: I apparently separately bought it a year before the racial justice bundle but also have it from that.

This turned out great!

Oh nice, is this from the conversation the other day (yesterday? this morning 0.o)? Anyway, if that's the case, I'm glad something good came from it :)!

Just picked this up, and you sold me on it before I reached the end of the first paragraph. This is interesting, and novel, and it means something. There needs to be more RPGs like this.

Have not read this yet, only just seeing this now, but it seems very much up my alley...

I've extended the deadline to the end of February because I have not been feeling well and would like a little more time to find some new avenues to promote this. I don't want to extend this to infinity- barring some additional exceptional circumstance I'll try to commit to this deadline...

Ya, it's probably fine either way

The physical game jams list won't be updated until after Jan 1st, so I'm extending the deadline for this jam by a couple weeks so that hopefully this jam can get added to the list and it'll give more time for people who may discover the jam through that list.

I just converted it back to .md and opened in VSCode with preview mode (ctrl-shift-v), looks much better that way, although I understand why you want to have the more accessible .txt file as well. You should just provide both.

Maximum Recursion Depth is a rules-light, OSR (old-school D&D) / Into the Odd-inspired tabletop RPG set in an alternate version of the modern world. It's a world inspired loosely by Buddhist and Taoist mythology and philosophy, weird urban magical realism like Vertigo Comics, Doom Patrol, and Persona, but also The Good Place and Bojack Horseman. It's a dark examination of the self and society, but equally full of camp and humor and absurdity.

If you'd like to learn more, check out the store page below, my blog Weird & Wonderful Worlds, or the #mrd channel on the NSR Discord Server (tabletop RPG discord server, tell them you came for mrd ;) ).

https://maxcan7.itch.io/mrd

Got caught up for a while working on the core mechanics and character sheet stuff but I think I've finally got a firm enough grasp on that to where I can simultaneously work on the scenario itself. Really will come down to mental energy as much as time. I think it is unlikely that I will be able to lay it out in any proper way by the deadline, I'm just hoping to get it complete and run it once. I did receive an offer from someone to potentially help with the layout, but if I'm not counting on that, then hopefully at least just a google doc.

Following up though, I will actually say though, part of the increased difficulty is because I don't necessarily want superheroes to be able to succeed on all challenges in an Action Chain easily; to some extent, the idea is to necessitate that they make tradeoffs and manage priorities. Superheroes should generally be able to succeed fairly easily at any given task, they're superheroes after all, but the challenge is truly in being able to do "everything". That being said, just the joint probability effect may be sufficient, and increasing the difficulty over the course of the chain may be overkill.

I have not read Trophy but I'm loosely familiar with it. I think you make a good point about not needing to make the difficulty increase over time since as you say, at least as-is the joint probability of succeeding at all challenges will be lower than on any individual challenge even all else being equal. I've heard many people speak really highly of the Devil's Bargain mechanic. I'll say I've read Blades in the Dark and didn't really like it, but my thoughts on it aren't so specific that I'd be above considering this.

Another possibility could be a system, I know I've read some like this before but can't think off-hand, where you have a dice pool and success is based on the number of dice that roll over a threshold (like success on 4+ on a d6) and degrees of success based on the number of successes. And then the idea of superheroes being able to give their teammates their own successes plays into the teamwork idea, but maybe it could also play into the Action Chain where you can decide how many successes to "spend" at each link on the chain, where you need to be mindful of potential surprise challenges or contextual challenges even if you have more than enough successes for every link in the chain. I'll have to give this idea some more thought but I'm actually growing to like this idea and I think it could make the overall Action Chain move a little more quickly while having an interesting meta-currency aspect to it.

After sharing my blog post for my idea for my funnel jam project on the NSR Discord Server, sagedamage suggested that I should come up with a more novel resolution mechanic to go along with this otherwise fairly novel game. After thinking about it for a bit, I've come up with this rough idea I'm calling an "Action Chain".

Blog post here

At its core, it's still a fairly standard roll-under Ability Score mechanic, so perhaps I'm sidestepping the core issue, but my hope is that this framing will make an otherwise well-understood mechanic operate in a way that's fun and thematic for this kind of setting, so like the best of both worlds. It is meant to reflect the dynamism of superheroic action, as another means of balancing out the various power levels and kinds of powers, and to represent one of what I believe to be the core attributes of superhero conflicts, that being managing tradeoffs.

When a superhero faces some obstacle or opposition, and it would not be a sure success or failure, and where failure would be interesting, they roll-under the appropriate Ability Score to determine success. However, instead of treating these as singular Save Rolls in isolation of each other, or having a separate Conflict mechanic system, instead, where it would make sense to have a series of challenges rather than a single challenge, an Action Chain is initiated.

So if a superhero is trying to stop a bank robbery, rescue the hostages, and defuse the bombs, this could all be one Action Chain. They decide which challenge to confront first; let's say rescue the hostages is their top priority. If they fail the Save, then they fail the entire Action Chain. However, if they succeed at the Save, they can choose whether to end the Action Chain, failing the subsequent challenges to guarantee their current successes, or they can confront the next challenge. On the second challenge, they take a +2 penalty to their roll on the roll-under Save, and on each subsequent challenge they take an additional cumulative +1 penalty to their roll, meaning the further down the Action Chain, the less likely they are to succeed.

1st Challenge: No Penalty -> 2nd Challenge: +2 to roll-under Save -> 3rd Challenge: +3 to roll-under Save -> etc.

If the superhero fails at a challenge, they retroactively fail the entire Action Chain. So even if the superhero succeeded at rescuing the hostages if the superhero then fails to defuse the bombs, then perhaps some of the hostages didn't get away fast enough before the bombs went off, or the superhero in fact missed one of the hostages who is still being held by the bank robbers who have successfully fled the scene. In some contexts, it may be ok to treat it more as a partial success or failure, just so long as the magnitude of the failure is treated as effectively greater in the case where they failed a challenge in the Action Chain, vs. if they had chosen to end the Action Chain before facing all challenges.

While sometimes the superhero knows all the challenges in the Action Chain and can choose the order to confront them, as in the example above, other times there may be surprise challenges or circumstantial challenges that they did not know about, or there may be circumstantial reasons why they don't get to choose which challenge to confront next. For instance, from the example above, perhaps after rescuing the civilians and defusing the bombs, a supervillain arrives and surprise attacks the superhero, so the superhero has no choice but to confront the supervillain before stopping the bank robbery. Or, maybe after rescuing the hostages, this gave one of the robbers time to trigger one of the bombs early, so now the superhero has to deal with the collateral damage before going after the fleeing bank robbers.

However, if the player was not aware of a surprise challenge, it should generally not count against them if they choose to resolve an Action Chain early, and instead should initiate a new Action Chain.

The scale of an Action Chain can vary, as in the example above where it is several very different tasks, to something more focused-in, like a skirmish with an opponent. Each action in the chain could reflect an attack and counter-attack between a superhero and supervillain, or the two opponents trying to surpass each other in a race, or fighting over control of an object, etc.

In some cases, it may make sense to have one Action Chain where multiple characters are involved (although the incrementing penalty is still cumulative, not per participant), and in other cases, it may be more interesting to have multiple chains, where each turn involves each PC moving one step along their Action Chain, and where actions in one chain can lead to circumstantial challenges in another Action Chain. The latter case may be a bit more involved and harder to keep track of, but could also be more dynamic. In either of the cases above, Action Chains can reflect the dynamic action scenes between superhero teams (or a superhero and supervillain team) facing off against each other, or a team against a single monolithic threat.

I would imagine that most entries are going to be DCC or more traditional stuff, so I can't speak for the jam, but personally, I think it would be cool to see more people trying to do novel or atypical things with the concept of the Funnel.

1. The idea of mutations and whacky stuff is something that would really appeal to me for a funnel for a more fantasy-oriented game, but I'm not sure how well it would work for this idea. That being said, in general I like the idea that the Funnel should in some way be a monumental experience for the "survivors", so I'll think about that. In MHA, it works so well because we get the completion of the first narrative arc for Midoriya, but within the context of a TTRPG, and a first session, and a funnel where players have multiple characters and don't know who will come out of it successfully, there isn't necessarily as much of the baked-in weightiness.

2. This is a really good point that I hadn't considered, that it should be expected to be a low-roleplay, more tactical experience, given the number of characters they have to juggle and the high uncertainty of what they'll end up with. This doesn't necessarily change anything I had planned on so far, but it does change how I think about designing for a Funnel, thank you! While there definitely will be this tactical element, I think I might also borrow some of the collaborative storytelling elements of from Anyone Can Wear the Mask, if not literally, at least in spirit. Even if I don't use any mechanics from that game necessarily, it demonstrated to me how to go about playing an RPG where you aren't really roleplaying as much as doing collaborative worldbuilding and storytelling, and I think that approach could be useful for a Funnel for the reasons you state, and especially in this case since I want there to be certain superhero narrative elements that might otherwise not come through.

I've had an idea for a My Hero Academia-inspired superhero funnel for a long time, and this jam has me thinking about this for the first time in a long time. I was especially inspired by the initial tournament to get into UA.

Granted, it will almost inevitably be very different than a typical funnel anyway because it's a very different genre and context. Like for instance, I'm tentatively going to use an original, rules-light, FKR-ish system, and PCs aren't just at risk of incapacitation, but also disqualification if they fall below a certain number of points or for violating certain rules of the tournament. I'm hoping the tournament structure and building the system around that will make it easier to manage, but without a frame of reference for running or playing funnels, I could be making things more difficult for myself by doing that.

So that all being said, as someone who has never run or played a funnel before, what are some unique concerns or subtle complications of running and designing funnel games?

I know that there's a lot about game design that I've internalized to the point that I have a decent intuitive sense for how to design adventures and run games and how mechanics affect play, but I do feel a little out of my element with the idea of a funnel. I'm especially concerned with how to account for the added burden on players to keep track of multiple characters, let alone for how to design challenges with that idea in mind. I'm concerned not just for the questions I know to ask, but also all the ones I wouldn't even think to ask until I'm in the moment and realize I didn't consider something.

I've read DCC and I've read some other things related to funnels, will probably need to go back and reread them more critically, and maybe it'll be fairly clear once I do that, but just wondering about GOTCHAs (like in a software engineering sense), and stuff like that.

Just ran a "one-shot" (it's going to slip into a second session) and it went really well! Granted it's a group I've played with before and people who have very similar sensibilities as me so it was stacked in my favor, but it basically played out as a best case scenario of what I was expecting, so I'm really happy about it. For the most part the mechanics worked well; I'm sure they could be refined further but the core of it worked well. The players were able to understand the abilities and the karma system, and I really liked how an encounter could be framed either as a Save challenge or a "Combat" and how that affects how things play out, that was probably the stand-out part of it imo even if someone were not at all interested in the setting or the karma system.

I've been working on the core rules and character creation stuff. I've now got four Poltergeist Forms, which are kind of like Failed Careers in Electric Bastionland. Every character rolls their abilities (except Karma, I've decided at least until I've tested it out to have Karma default to 3 for new characters), a career (broad category), a regular special item (I've only written a few so far), and a Poltergeist Form. For their Poltergeist Form, they roll 1 Quirk, 2 Starting Karmic Attachments, 1 Reincarnation Ritual, and 2 Poltergeist Items or Abilities.

I hope the Poltergeist Forms as concepts are coherent and interesting and not too... I dunno, intense (?)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qTv_n0nQIe8TnBhz31TySZhRAWE8PajlY2f8BOSi...

This conversation has been really helpful, thank you. Here's tentatively what I'm thinking for advancement:

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A character must resolve at least one Karmic Attachment and bring Karma down to 1 in order to level up and gain (some bonus). If a character would become an ashura, they can instead level down (and Karma defaults to 5).

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The idea being that you have to gain Karma in order to do stuff, and it empowers you (given the Karma Roll affecting degree of success), but then to ever actually advance, you have to resolve karmic attachments and impair yourself (less likely to fill succeed in any roll). You have to be willing to give up that material attachment. For this to work, resolving Karmic Attachments needs to divest more karma than is accrued by taking the attachment and/or I need to think of other ways Karma can be divested, but I'm ok with that.

And then, I like the idea that you can level down instead of becoming an ashura. It creates a buffer if a character gets in over their head, it's consistent with the themes of the setting, and because you'll be at a high Karma you're not significantly impaired, but it's going to take longer to bring your Karma all the way back down just to level back up to where you were before, making yourself weaker as you lower your Karma, which again feels fitting with the themes. It should be easy to gain Karma or level down, and enticing to do so, and difficult to resolve karmic attachments and divest their Karma. A player must divest their own Karmic Attachments if there is any hope for their character to do so ;).

So I'm thinking that in place of Failed Careers / Starter Packages, there will be something like Poltergeist Forms, the form they would take in one of the Numberless Courts of Hell if they died, prior to reincarnating, if they for-real died, but these will include some items or abilities and a short roll table if starter karmic attachments, all of which tie into the theme of the Poltergeist form and collectively should give a GM an idea of what some Karmic Attachments might look like. Probably for this initial release I'll just do a handful. Then there will also be roll tables for Karmic Attachments that aren't as specific to a character but are more like quests or things the party can interact with. So you can still sandbox to an extent, but if you're really mucking about without resolving anything, you're going to accumulate too much karma. This whole thing is loosely inspired by my vague recollection of Tenra Bansho Zero, but in a way they're also kind of like aspects in Fate.

I'm glad you appreciate the ritual idea. That was also part of my thinking; reincarnation is a central concept of this game and setting, but I also want there to be real stakes where characters can die, besides just becoming an ashura (although that is also basically like dying). Of course, if they die but don't become an ashura, they could still potentially be found as a Poltergeist in one of the Numberless Courts and rescued, if someone in the party can afford that Karmic Attachment...

Thanks!

wrt Abilities, I was trying to find a balance between flavor and clarity. I had considered using actual terminology and specific concepts from Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, but that seemed overly limiting, beyond my purview, and too difficult to use. Instead, the three attributes broadly represent these philosophies (Nature <-> Buddhism, Wisdom <-> Taoism, Propriety <-> Confucianism), but also each represent some aspect of play (Nature <-> Things that are physically or mentally exerting, Wisdom <-> Investigation, noticing, perceiving, willpower, Propriety <-> Charisma, social conflict, mundane tasks in the world). I'm glad you liked the government documents as propriety damage ;).

Ability Armor will most likely just come from items like Armour in Into the Odd, although it might also get tied into some of the character customization stuff I haven't written yet. Your idea of a passport as a form of Propriety Armor is a good example of what I'd be going for, thank you! Very reassuring to see that came across.

The way I'm using Karma in this setting is very different than the American / New Age colloquialism of Karma. It's not about good and evil per se, but about attachment to the material world. The material world is intrinsically flawed, so even if your intentions are good, you are just adding more Karma into this broken system. So unless you want to be an ascetic or nihilist or whatever, you have to find this balance between doing good in the world, because for those of us here in the material world, Black Lives Matter and we need a corona virus vaccine, but also detaching yourself so that you can see reality more holistically (I am trying very hard to avoid saying "spiritually" lol because that's become a kind of loaded and meaningless term).

So in game terms, your Karma goes up when you get involved in new quests and adventures and such (Karmic Attachments), and you get more powerful, but if it goes up too much you become an Ashura (an NPC Karma Devil). So you need to lower your Karma by resolving or divesting yourself of these Karmic Attachments, either by actually resolving them in some capacity, or dying and reincarnating. 

Unlike most humans, the PCs have the ability to reincarnate with continuity, meaning they basically come back into existence as if nothing had happened, but only if they kill themselves in a specific ritualistic way. I'm still deciding on the particulars both from a setting perspective and game perspective, but tentatively I'm thinking it'll be something like if they resolve a certain number of Karmic Attachments and then ritualistically kill themselves, they level up mechanically, meaning either they gain some permanent buff, or a new item, or maybe an increase to their Karma Die, and in terms of the setting, it means they're closer to having a "negative karma footprint" so to speak, and closer to exiting samsara, the karmic cycle of death and rebirth, and entering Heaven. Within the context of the setting, this would mean the campaign "levels up" because now they have to save Heaven from the Monkey King, but I'm not at all prepared to start working on that yet, that would basically be like a supplement to a hypothetical full campaign book for this game 0.o...

EDIT: To elaborate further briefly because now I'm getting self-conscious about it (I had originally intended on calling this game KILL YOURSELF: The Karma Punk RPG), my intention with the ritualistic suicide thing is not to trivialize or mock depression and suicidal ideation. In the classic "-Punk" sense, it's meant to subvert your expectations. It's intended more as a metaphor for being able to face yourself, and challenge your perceived identity, to accept "ego death". Being willing to put your weaknesses or failings behind you and grow, and fundamentally change as a person. That's what this game is supposed to be about; about how to manage all of these things- the mundanity of life, the very real problems in the world, and also yourself, and how all of these things are connected and you can't really manage any one of them well without managing all of them, otherwise you're just going to create more problems for yourself or others.

EDIT2: Also superficially the suicide idea was somewhat inspired by Persona 3, where the characters would shoot themselves in the head with this special gun to summon their personas.

Here is a google doc link for a very much WIP draft of Maximum Recursion Depth, my Bastion Jam entry. I would definitely appreciate any comments or suggestions!

Below is a list of what I think are some of the key mechanical differences between MRD and regular ItO / EB:

• More abstracted Abilities.
• Karma instead of HP. Not identical but fills a similar (but more dynamic) role.
• Emphasis on non-combat as combat.
• Damage to Abilities first, Karma second.

I managed to get my pre-covid local group together and we're going to do a zoom game weekend after next. I'm still deciding which version of ItO / EB I want to run, or if I want to go for a hack right from the get-go. I love Super Blood Harvest as a read, but I generally prefer to make my own settings and I don't know how well SBH would work with a different setting (although I guess I could just hack the Dirk Rules). I'm tentatively thinking I want to play in my Maximum Recursion Depth setting, although I'm worried it's a little too personal for a group of IRL friends. It's sort of like The Matrix meets Persona 5 meets Bojack Horseman meets Chinese Mythology / Journey to the West.

If I do that, I'll probably make it a fairly tightly-constrained scenario, where the characters will be largely auto-generated or pre-made. Likely a key feature will be their Poltergeist form / Karmic Attachment. The scenario would involve them in one of the Numberless Courts of Hell for some reason, with some mission that they need to get done and then escape / reincarnate. 

Another idea I'm having is an emphasis on non-combat combat. Basically splitting damage into STR DAMAGE, DEX DAMAGE, and CHA DAMAGE (or whatever I decide the three stats to be). All three affect HP the same way, but if HP is reduced to 0, they then affect their respective attribute.

Still very much in the brainstorming / spitballing phase, but any suggestions, advice, thoughts, etc. appreciated!

I've already listened to the podcast series but I'll check out the other stuff, thanks!

So, I've read several ItO / EB-related books such as Super Blood Harvest, Death is the New Pink, Silent Titans, Mutants of Ixx, and Maze Rats, and also follow Chris' blog. I've been meaning to read ItO / EB-proper for forever but I am a bad person who has a mental block around buying anything that doesn't have a red slash and a lower number next to the normal cost (and yes I know there's a free version but still...).

From everything I've read / seen / heard, the system seems like something I would mostly really like (minus a few quibbles but nothing major), but I still have not played it. However, I'm pretty well-versed in OSR and the tabletop RPG scene more broadly and think I have a reasonable grasp on it.

I joined this jam partially as a way to force myself to learn more about ItO / EB since it seems like one of the most interesting developments in tabletop RPGs in several years (or so I think) and partially to force myself to take a stab at producing something for the first time in a while.

That being said, I've got not a lot of time to get comfortable enough with the system to produce something for it, so does anyone have any suggestions for the quickest way for me to "figure it out" in time to do this?

For reference about me, my blog is weirdwonderfulworlds.blogspot.com where you can see the kinds of things I've done, what I'm interested in, how I think about RPGs, etc.

I've produced a single game, pixels & platforms, which is available on itch and I believe I originally produced it for another jam, and it's loosely based on lasers & feelings. It definitely needs more play-testing and more content but I'm relatively happy with it in its current form, for what it is. If possible, I would like to produce for this jam something of roughly the same scope and quality.

To follow up further, if you have any interest in tabletop RPGs at all, not just this one, please let me know! It's a lot of fun, and especially right now during covid, a lot of people are playing online and it's a fun activity to do with your friends.

Obviously there's this RPG here, or lasers & feelings which it is based off of which is super simple and is linked in the description for this game. Despite the popularity of Dungeons & Dragons, I actually wouldn't necessarily recommend the current edition, as it's fairly complicated (and also not my personal preference), but if you did want to start with D&D 5th Edition it's certainly doable. There's an RPG called Fate which I think is another good introduction RPG. There's a website, drivethrurpg.com, which is kind of like the steam or itch for tabletop RPGs, selling mostly digital, but also some print options. Pixels & Platforms is not available on drivethrurpg, but plenty of other great games are available on itch and drivethrurpg.

You can read more about my thoughts on tabletop RPGs at weirdwonderfulworlds.blogspot.com

Alternatively, you can check out r/rpg on reddit, or any number of other rpg subreddits such as r/osr (focused on old-school D&D). Also, I have a blog list on my blog with many other awesome tabletop rpg-related blogs. If you're the type, there's a whole rabbit-hole for you.

It's more like dungeons and dragons, except much simpler. You don't necessarily need to print it, although you'd probably want a grid mat to draw the platforms on. There are plenty of online tools for this sort of thing as well.

Yes, it's a tabletop RPG, not a videogame (despite appearances)! The pdf is the game!

The artist is harveydentmd on fiverr and he is awesome! 

Pixels & Platforms: The Platform Crawl RPG

A micro-Tabletop RPG primarily for one-shot adventures inspired by retro 2D platformer video games.

The rules of Pixels & Platforms are inspired by the tabletop RPG Lasers & Feelings by John Harper, but build upon that framework for a somewhat more complex game. 

Pixels & Platforms uses three attributes, and is designed to emulate the feel of retro 2D platformer videogames in tabletop form. This is a game of Platform Crawling; where a Stage is like a dungeon and each Screen is a puzzle platforming challenge!

It is available as PWYW, so give it a look!

I published and submitted it! I realized I'm probably not going to have time to make substantial changes before the deadline, so decided to just put it out there! I know it still needs further development, but I hope people enjoy it even as it currently is!

Came in yesterday and it looks awesome! He gave it to me in multiple layers and at multiple sizes, but here's one of them.

After a playtest that went really poorly, I'm feeling significantly worse about my game at this point than I'd like, to the point that I considered not even submitting it. I think there were some extenuating circumstances around that playtest, and I think the core of the game still is what I want it to be, and I've made some significant changes to the game, but I'm just not going to have the time to do as much playtesting as I'd need to get it to where I want it to be in time.

However, I mentioned before that I commissioned a piece of art for the game, and it looks amazing, so I decided I'm still going to publish it, I was already planning on publishing it PWYW anyway, and I'll update it as I get more testing and can refine it over time. I'm just a little frustrated still, but hopefully people will check it out and tell me what they think and maybe it'll come together the way I want it to soon.

Playtest over the weekend sadly didn't work out :(, but hoping to run a playtest soon. I've also commissioned a piece of art for the itch.io thumbnail that will hopefully attract people to the game. I've worked with this artist before and he does good stuff so I think it'll be good. Should be finished by the 24th and then I'll submit!

Thank you everyone for all of this advice! I've chosen to commission a piece from an artist on fiverr who I've worked with before and does good work, because I just don't have much skill or passion for visual design. We haven't finalized the deal yet so if it falls through for some reason then I will make a mad-dash with some of this advice haha, but if this commission does work out, I think it'll look really good.

Hi, I'm Max! I'm a Data Engineer in NYC, and I've been writing a worldbuilding / RPG blog for around a year now, Weird & Wonderful Worlds. I've been wanting to publish for a long time now but was always intimidated and never took the plunge, so I'm super appreciative of this jam. I think I've got a fun game planned that's on-track to publish soon, and I'm really excited to finally be able to say I've published a game, regardless of how it's received.

I was getting really frustrated with the fragmentation of the RPG community and these hostilities between storygames and OSR, and SWORDDREAM really appealed to me as being a place for fresh perspectives and a community for openness and positivity. I hope this all ends up going well and injects some much needed energy and diversity into the scene.

Incidentally, I relatively recently made an "Unofficial by design" subreddit for SWORDDREAM.  Right now it's a really small community, a place mainly for people to share their works, which is totally cool, but I hope it can become a place for respectful discussion as well.

Swords & Dreams personally rolls off the tongue better to me and seems like a really clever L&F-style dichotomy. Swords in the Dream as a FitD game also sounds cool though! Good luck!