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S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

I'm diving into studying every RPG adventure published in Challenge magazine from 1986 to 1995, searching for HTT and HTT-adjacent design.

For a gamer who doesn't much like military sci-fi RPGs, I'm spending a LOT of time eyeballs-deep in them lately. 😆 Ah well.

#HTTRPG #AdventureDesign #TTRPG

March 7, 2026 at 2:48 AM

小宮

@komya-38.bsky.social

吠日作者がこう言ってるのは共有しておこう
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April 24, 2026 at 1:34 PM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

My hope is that this article will serve as a single landing-point for folks curious about what I mean by "High-Trust Trad" roleplaying, or HTT.

rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2026/08/what...

But, I know about hope, and the Internet. 😁

#HTTRPG #TTRPG #GMing #AdventureDesign

August 11, 2026 at 5:04 AM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

I have bloggified. What's trust got to do with FRP worldbuilding?

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#TTRPG #HTTRPG

Hammondal & Trust

Over on the Dice Camp , groovy questioneer luxet asked a question both compound and substantial, so I'll treat it as a mailbag entry here ...

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October 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

I really do believe that _every_ RPG playstyle, including those I don't care for, have their strengths.

One of HTT's oddball strengths is that it's great at dissolving the distinction between PC triumph and PC failure.

This isn't on the list of things most gamers notice about it.

#HTTRPG #TTRPG

October 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM

ざきゅー

@zaq-igle.bsky.social

『青解』が再公開されてました
人を選ぶのは間違いないけど、青解は、いいぞ

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May 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

Challenge magazine has so far been more fruitful than I'd hoped, with TWO High-Trust Trad adventures in the sixteen issues I've gone through so far!

That may not sound like a lot, but going in my guess was _maybe_ 1 in 12.

Might be a lucky fluke. I'll take it. 😄

#TTRPG #HTTRPG

March 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM

しろくま

@sirox11036.bsky.social

やばいこれ、アマトさんと私が欲しかったやつじゃん（語弊ありまくり）
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December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM

かざとり

@kykzttk.bsky.social

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アワセタチエしても私の絵がちんちくりんすぎて高確率でこうなりかねなくて涙

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March 11, 2026 at 10:09 AM

小宮

@komya-38.bsky.social

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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

I'm always on the hunt for modern examples of the HTT adventure form!

If an adventure depends on scenes, set-pieces, story, encounters, puzzles, location-crawling, or staged moral choices: it's not HTT.

If it's made of _problems,_ though ... I want to promote and celebrate it!

#TTRPG #HTTRPG

A pure-text image outlining the basics of what makes a High-Trust Trad adventure. In short, an HTT adventure describes one or more problems the PCs solve cretively, in-character.

October 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM

lie

@lie-eiluu.bsky.social

フォロワー！！！！！！再公開が来てる！！！！！！！エピゴーネ！！！！！！！

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ヒチョルソン on X: "✧ 　　　　　 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘭𝘩𝘶 　　　　　『エピゴーネ』　　　　　　▼共通HO▼ PCとKPCは同じアイドルユニットである。 ✧ ‣　https://t.co/FrcnxF60YD ~2025.7.3まで　[ 再公開 ]" / X

✧ 　　　　　 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘭𝘩𝘶 　　　　　『エピゴーネ』　　　　　　▼共通HO▼ PCとKPCは同じアイドルユニットである。 ✧ ‣　https://t.co/FrcnxF60YD ~2025.7.3まで　[ 再公開 ]

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June 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

From ~4 of the #HTTRPG workshops:

GM: [idea!]

Me: Love the vibe, but you've embodied the problem in the villain. It's optimal to just stab him in the face. Solved.

GM: I thought this is for those who don't play that way?

Me: It's for those who trust their GM to not put them in that situation. 🙃

September 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM

小宮

@komya-38.bsky.social

ox-xo再販されてるよー！！
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January 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM

ちダまReはん🌱

@duraheart.bsky.social

ちなみにらびんぐの身長はこれ、マロにある
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December 10, 2024 at 12:11 PM

小宮

@komya-38.bsky.social

ふっ………
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ヒチョルソン on X: "犀片で死なないでほしいわけじゃない犀片で死なないでほしいだけで……" / X

犀片で死なないでほしいわけじゃない犀片で死なないでほしいだけで……

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June 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM

🐶オレロ🐶

@orero.bsky.social

にこ……ついでにタイマン化できるかもわかってない
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October 30, 2024 at 12:41 PM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

Another way of summarizing that niche style of RPG I'm often on about. 😊

I always say it's "mostly about adventure design." Maybe this clarifies why that's so. I never can tell. 😅

#HTTRPG #TTRPG

- The primary mode of play is roleplay: playing an imaginary character "from the inside."
- The primary shape of the playground is the _problem_ or _problem cluster,_ diegetic facts designed for PC interest, with such complexity and nuance that there can be no optimal approach(es).
- There are, within the scope of these problems, potential states and outcomes the PCs deem desireable and/or undesirable, by degrees, and as individuals.
- The PCs have fair contextual agency to determine states and outcomes.
- The players have little or none.

July 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

What's high-trust trad? Look at the gameplay (and only the gameplay) in these terms. Trad play is high-trust when gameplay centers on the PCs creating and implementing their own solutions to problems.

#HTTRPG #TTRPG

A simple square-graph diagram emphasizing that the high-to-low spectrum of trad gameplay has "In-Character | Creation and Implementation" as the intersection labeled High-Trust and "Out-of-Character | Selection and Application" at the lowest. The graph is tilted slightly to indicate that the axes are not evenly weighted. The intersection of "In-Character | Selection and Application" is labeled "Upper Medium" and, due to the tilt, sits visibly higher than the "Lower Medium" intersection of "Out-of-Character | Creation and Implementation."

January 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM

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@model82a1.bsky.social

▋𝗖𝗼𝗖 𝟬𝟲

ビスポークランドでなにがあったか？
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「空、青いね……。キミはどう思う……？」

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February 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM

S. John Ross

@sjohnross.bsky.social

I ponder.

I've found #HTTRPG designs for Space Master, FASATrek, Space:1889, Twilight:2000 and other 80s sci-fi RPGs. Yay!

I've not found a single one for Traveller, and, brothers and sisters, I have TRIED. 😲

It's a #TTRPG game-culture thing? Dunno.

The search continues.

March 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM