Developing and Mobilizing a TTRPG Experience: Season D6

Author

• Jacob Woodrow Horne, East Tennessee State UniversityFollow

Degree Name

MFA (Master of Fine Arts)

Program

Digital Media

Date of Award

5-2026

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Jacy Richardson

Committee Members

James Livingston, Johnathan Hounshell

Abstract

Season D6 is a game that will be developed as an attempt to refine certain issues seen in popular games. These shared problems include allowing players to become self-sufficient in a way that clashes with a team-based mindset, and a lack of flexibility and accidental antagonism placed upon the storyteller. To remedy these issues, Season D6 will break up the statistics that players use to calculate their in-game abilities into three separate groups, employ an experience system used to purchase abilities at a controlled, exponential rate and to calculate encounters, and uses a “Dabble” system intended to specify the roles that players have within a party, as well as multiple customization and expressional options while still paying attention to avoid becoming too complex for a casual audience. To assist with marketing the game, Season D6 will have multiple illustrations made for it, in addition to an animated commercial, and be advertised at a local convention.

Document Type

Culminating Experience

Copyright

Copyright by the author.

Recommended Citation

Horne, Jacob Woodrow, "Developing and Mobilizing a TTRPG Experience: Season D6" (2026). Master of Fine Arts in Digital Media Culminating Experience. Paper 28. https://dc.etsu.edu/digitalmedia-culminating-experience/28