#fkr

[chthonicchromestudio]

Our entry for this year's [Amare Games Festival]: "The Fae King Is My Roommate" (FKR) Demo is now live on Itch!

Play [here]!

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Bluesky] [Ko-fi] [YouTube]

[freedomkustomrides]

✌🏽😎🍑

[urielbestgirl]

WHEN I CATCH YOU RICKY, WHEN I FKN CATCH YOU, SACK THIS MAN, I BEG OF Y'ALL FERRARI, PLS!!!!

[sprintingowl]

Waywarden

I release a new ttrpg every week.

This week is Waywarden---a fifteen page guide to converting any modern tabletop game into something comprehensible to 1800s Prussians.

You can use it to play 5e!

Waywarden by kumada1

Less than five, more than five.

[bad-quail]

DNGN FKRS

I churned out a little minimalist game before trekking up to St. Louis for Yuletime. Now that I'm back home I've been looking it over and making little tweaks. Kind of deciding what I want to turn it into.

It's called DNGN FKRS (pronounced "dungeon fuckers") and the whole thing is about 16 pages of rules (A6 size). About 1/3 of that is just explaining the Lifeline.

The whole thing is really just a pared down, semi-FitD style d6 mechanic, the Lifeline, and some very light inventory rules.

I kind of just want to throw it up free/PWYW and see if it gets enough nibbles to use for anything but a home game.

[spewagepipe]

Plumbing the Depths: Low Trust "Traditional", Part 5: Conclusions

In an effort to understand Hamilton's position better, I started reading other articles on his blog, and found this:

This is why role-playing games are so awesome. The game is yours. No designer and no judge has any right to come to your table to tell you that you’re doing it wrong. The methods you find to work for you, to portray and play your worlds are the right way. 

It seems... odd? For one, this isn't unique to RPGs – you can hack and homebrew any kind of game. But also, it directly contradicts the very prescriptive way that he's been attacking blorb.

Justin, if you're reading this, what you need to understand is that Sandra did exactly what you're suggesting in the quote above. For years, she played according to FKR standards, in high-trust groups, using the recommended techniques. She tried everything to make it work – and it still sucked for her. So, in response, she changed her game, and through those changes, she made it fun.

So why is Hamilton still unhappy about blorb?

Firstly, he's unhappy because it should be impossible for an FKR game to suck. Since it allows the GM to use any tool from any game while also empowering them to ignore any rule that causes problems, FKR should have all the strengths of all RPGs with none of their weaknesses. It should be a perfect game, satisfying any and all desires. If that's true, then Snan must be either lying or mistaken – hence, he accuses her of arguing in bad faith.

In reality, Snan's blog earnestly and clearly explains that unlimited GM authority was, in fact, the source of her problem:

I felt like nothing really mattered. The GM just made up what would happen according to their whim of what would fit the drama or what would be cool in the moment or what they thought made sense.

Unmoored from any hard rules, the games lacked tangible, real-life stakes to keep her invested. To fix this problem, she made the GM subordinate to the "prep", creating an non-negotiable bedrock to the game, and with it, the tangible stakes she was missing.

This, as Hamilton argues in yet another article, constitutes a "betrayal of the medium of role-playing".

This statement finally reveals the misconception at the heart of all of Hamilton's confusing contradictions: Hamilton is an RPG essentialist. He thinks that only One True RPG exists, and that all actual RPGs are, secretly, attempts to describe this essential game.

When he writes that we should "allow for the referee to follow their intended role", he genuinely thinks that there is only one intended role for the GM, for all RPGs, for all time. It's not just one possibility that he happens to enjoy – it's the true one, the default one. It was ordained by the universe itself, rather than some mere game designer. This is why he is disdainful of "designer intent": a designer's will is an imposition, their rules a kind of coercion, that are interfering with the essential RPG.

When he writes "the game is yours", he means, "except for these, the essential things".

He is, of course, wrong. There is no essential RPG. When Hamilton (and far too many other FKR/OSR theorists) describe the essential characteristics of the RPG medium, they are actually just describing their own designer intentions. GM fiat is not essential to RPGs – it's just one design choice, among many, and like all the others, comes with its own set of advantages and drawbacks.

[bsidez]

karen read tag on tumblr is a barren wasteland except for some old posts from the last trial so i will live here now discussing how karen is innocent in preparation for the upcoming trial

[destronlok]

The Journey Back (Minimalist TTRPG Jam #2) by DestronLok

Solo Survival RPG for Minimalist TTRPG Jam #2

My submission for the Minimalist TTRPG Jam #2. I don't actually think I've ever submitted anything for a game jam before.

This was really nice to do because it didn't take very long.

Please let me know if you have any feedback on my game.