#pbta

[molombo]

Where's the African mythology?

The Kickstarter is live now!

[anim-ttrpgs]

PbtA games will be like Brackets: Overcome Your Destiny

"The first game where you can overcome your destiny." - Indie Game Amplifier

4.99/5 stars 1,000 reviews

and then the rules are "on a Full Success, do something that overcomes your destiny."

[nullandvoidgames]

A risky PBTA move about rereading your favorite book and the dangers of nostalgia

[maximumzombiecreator]

On the subject of TPKs and failure in TTRPGs, I gotta say, I love a good mechanic for losing.

I love that Fate gives you metacurrency for conceding a scene, and I love that taking extreme consequences creates a new aspect for your character.

I love that when you die in Blades of the Dark, if you're still attached to the character, you can just become a ghost.

I love that in Monster of the Week, when you need to avoid harm it costs a point of luck, which triggers a character-specific consequence and lets you see when your character's luck is literally going to run out.

I even love that in Cyberpunk they've created an omnipresent group of amoral, heavily armed paramedics, so no matter where your character gets gunned down, there's always a chance of pulling through.

Basically, any game that is set up so that losing is going to make things more interesting, not less, is a game that's going to help great stories happen at the table, and I love that.

[sarahcarapace]

Violet Core - High Speed Sapphic Mecha TTRPG

After a long time of working on the game on-and-off, it's finally crash landed on Kickstarter!

(edit cuz the post keeps getting bumps!) We successfully funded in Oct 2024! So Violet Core is currently my full time job and things are currently looking good for the planned release in Nov 2025! Progress is going well and I post public updates on the KS every month (and usually here and on my blusky as well) or so if you'd like to follow along :3

the rest of the post is unchanged for archival purposes💜...

Violet Core is a sapphic focused ttrpg about sad space lesbians dueling each other and making out while stranded in space. Drawing inspiration from the absolutely wonderful visual novel Heaven Will Be Mine as well as GunBuster, Zone of the Enders and Knights of Sidonia. It focuses the dramatic tension between friends, rivals and comrades. It's a game whose beating heart is deeply lesbian in a way that is a touch tricky to put into words...its indelibly infused. It's a game preoccupied with a looming horizon of destruction and what we do in the face of calamity.

Wish me luck! And if it looks cool and/or sweet to you, please share it around! My platform is tiny and sucks unlike the game which is huge and rad.

(edit...omg the tags. I'm blown away TT u TT my heart is doing a thing)

(art by myself and @portentous-offerings) Link to the Kickstarter >>> Here

[worstgirleva]

❤️‍🔥mecha pilots ❤️‍🔥magical girls ❤️‍🔥racing drivers ❤️‍🔥rock stars ❤️‍🔥heroes of justice ❤️‍🔥whatever the persona characters are

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[heybiji]

he's fine

[clairebearsparkles]

Hiya, I was just wondering if there were any updates on your TMA TTRPG project because it seems super fun and I am gnawing at the bars of my cage to hear more about it :D

Thanks for asking about it. I unfortunately never found the time to test the system, but I think it’s at a point where people can at least look at it, so here’s my google doc of the PbtA heavily based on Monster of the Week tma system

This Must End

Table of Contents Introduction 4 Harm, Experience, and Second Chances 5 Basic Moves 6 ○ Fight 6 ○ Protect Someone 6 ○ Investigate 6 ○ Stay