Phil Gross
@mistergross
Game design, rulebook editing. Past lives: improv, writing Husband & father He/him
Still one of my favorite take-and-makes Verdant Arizona by @robindavid.bsky.social
🎲✂️ The math behind The Monolith map! Tunnels are adjacent to one another. Colored spaces are spawn points.
5yo’s first entry in his new journal: “I am scared because I see a zombie.” - translated from the original text
My wife makes a cake for the last day of school each year. This time our 12yo had special decorating ideas…
Bombastic is like candy in all the best ways. @robhovak.bsky.social is really flexing his range here.
Bustin out an old classic before helping at the @dvcgames.bsky.social booth at Origins
Really enjoyed Dead Channels by @dnlnwmn.bsky.social We decided the physically uncomfortable splaying mechanism reinforces the feeling of horror
Kickin it old school today After hundreds of in-person plays And thousands online Still slaps
Turxx was the first piece of Monolith art I saw. This still slaps so hard. Some musings: John Blanche’s 40K art was a touchstone for me in thinking about this design. His absurd and nasty depiction of power (especially the ‘good guys’) was key to 40k working as satire.
My parents found this old record and had it digitized. I can recognize my grandfather’s baritone and his Connecticut cadence. I can hear his stoic belief in the power of hard work.
I wish. This sucker pops up real fast every couple years in the middle of our rose bush. Here’s the battle wounds
My buddy Tom made castanets for us for our Queens Dilemma characters bc we pretend to be scorpions with claws when the evil Sun Kingdom is mentioned
@jmstar.bsky.social Desperation is great, brilliant design, heavy as promised
Playing Tower Up immediately after Ingenious, it’s fascinating how their game maths rhyme
First time playing Soothsayers by @jeffgrisenthwaite.bsky.social Very cool game. Great combos and follow system
@drawnonward.bsky.social you asked for more prototype pics and handsome capybaras right?
Supporting my FLGS and my GDB (game design buddy) @roscoschock.bsky.social