Season of the Itch

"Arabs in a Cave by the Sea" by Mariano Fortuny Marsal

It's officially summer, and I hereby declare that summer 2025 is going to be the season of me actually committing to a bunch of game jams. I'm starting strong, hopefully, with a last-minute entry to JAM THIS ALBUM! Vol. 3, which is all about making TTRPG stuff inspired by music or music inspired by TTRPG stuff (folk music being the specific theme for this volume). Having scribbled a bunch of ideas in my trusty old GM notebook over the past couple weeks that sketched out some vague kind of content inspired by this longtime favorite of mine, performed by Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico, I whipped them into a kinda sorta hopefully playable condition last night and this morning.

I swear I'll do the others in a more timely fashion. Most of them, anyway.

Next up is the Sci-Fi One-Shot Jam 2025 (I did actually do this one last year). After that, the classic TTRPG One-page Dungeon Contest Jam, the Summer LEGO RPG Jam (which I meant to do last year), the FIST Anniversary Jam, and the Build a Better World TTRPG Jam. There are a bunch of others that are tempting (a poetry-inspired jam!) but I'm just gonna commit to these five for now and we'll see how good I am at actually cranking finishing what I've started. Other than the OPD contest, I actually have my plans for all of these pretty well drawn up already.

Six jams in three months. Easy! One down already!