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067: Designing unique TTRPGs with Cassi Mothwin

 

Cassi Mothwin shot into the ttrpg scene a couple years ago when she created her first project, What Crooked Roots, a D&D 5e folk horror supplement. Since then, she’s created two very unique games and is currently crowdfunding for a 3rd game, Tangled Blessings. Cassi didn’t plan to get into game design–it just kind of happened because of her Curse of Strahd campaign. Cassi’s had a really interesting journey and we spend this conversation really digging into it.

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Time Stamps

  • 00:00:00 Introduction
  • 00:03:30 Cassi Introduction
  • 00:10:21 Writing What Crooked Roots
  • 00:17:22 How burnout and stress led to Cassi’s next game, Clean Spirit
  • 00:27:50 How The Sticker Game came to be
  • 00:37:01 Making Tangled Blessings and deciding to use Crowdfundr
  • 01:00:04 Where can people find you?
  • 01:01:24 Wrap-up

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