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.

This episode was edited by Sam Atkinson.

Find Burnaway

• Kickstarter
• Website

Find Cassi/Tangled Blessings:

• Tangled Blessings Crowdfundr
• Website

Find Roll Play Grow:

• Show Page
• Patreon
• Discord
• Lightheart Adventures Website
• Lightheart Twitter
• Lightheart Instagram

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction & Updates
• 3:30 Cassi Introduction
• 10:21 Writing What Crooked Roots
• 17:22 How burnout and stress led to Cassi's next game, Clean Spirit
• 27:50 How The Sticker Game came to be
• 37:01 Making Tangled Blessings and deciding to use Crowdfundr
• 58:39 Upcoming projects
• 1:00:04 Where can people find you?
• 1:01:24 Wrap-up