#point crawl

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Lonely TTRPG EP 52 - Rift by Eric Dill

Venturing into Eric Dill’s creation, ‘Rift’, has been a delight. With a unique system for combat based on GilaRPG’s Rune, the game’s mechanics provide a refreshing approach to point crawls and combat dynamics. The meticulously crafted combat and point crawl systems are truly commendable. Originally built around a dark fantasy genre, Eric has ingeniously transformed ‘Rift’ into a sci-fi gem. The…

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[confused-possum]

I run D&D for my partner and our 2 friends who we used to live with. We had just begun a session of big travel where I have them working through a point crawl.

The very first stop is at this farm where two farmers are fending off their crops from wild animals (a dire armadillo and a couple earth elemental squirrels cause I love weird creatures). The party initially wants to help these folks. [Important Background: One of the characters, the Ranger, basically has a warrant out from the corrupt head of state of a city they JUST left, that these farms are a part of.] The issue was that these farmers had on display outside their home a flag showing loyalty to this head of state. The relationships here are complex, I was interested to see how the encounter would play out.

...it turns out you can plan something feeling complex and then the characters just like...don’t think about it because of perfectly understandable reasons. So all of them were basically ready to just straight up ignore the farmers let them end up however nature deems necessary. HOWEVER! The Ranger is a little peeved and decides to hurl a rock at one of them, to help the wild things get an upper hand. This results in them rolling max damage (a total of 7 versus this commoner’s 10 HP) and then it was the animals turn for a surprise round.

The animals obliterated these men. One of the stone squirrels crit, the others all rolled near max damage and I think they were like CR 2 or 3. These farmhands didn’t stand a fucking chance. I made this encounter to have the party make a choice, walk away due to the political alliance made by these folks or assist them creating an uncomfortable bedfellows situation. What occurred was one of the players braining these dudes, kinda by accident, and then the animals just finishing the encounter entirely on their own. Afterward they (the players and animals) just went in the home and the dire-dillo (dire armadillo nickname thought of by my partner) just immediately passes and the party raids the fridge and closet.

I love playing games with my friends.

[dicestew]

The Rapturing Sphere by Root | Dice Stew

A mega point crawl based heavily on classic films. A #dungeon23 project.

Finally came up with a title and cover art for my #dungeon23 project!

[copperfalls]

Copper Falls Under Siege: A Point Crawl

A point crawl is designed to allow players to go from place to place in a sandbox environment, discovering connections to new locations as they go with no predefined order or narrative. Each point description contains potential items and characters present. Additionally, each location changes based on how long after the fog’s advent they’re visited:

Stage 1: fog enters, flesh twitches (up to one hour in the fog)

Stage 2: the weak are taken, the strong fight on (up to one day in the fog)

Stage 3: the opportunistic hide and manipulate; abominations appear (up to one week in the fog)

Stage 4: all is lost; men become animals (up to one month in the fog)

Stage 5: winter comes, and even death dies; the fog returns to the earth, and flesh is granted its right to putrefy

The map below gives the geographical locations of each point as well as the kinds of paths between each. The different paths indicate the travel time, chance of encounter, and resource drain of each way of proceeding.

R: Road—a plain, clear route that reduces travel time by 10%

P: Path—an uneven, sometimes unclear route

S: Secret—a route that takes a successful Perception check to discover

C: Conversational—a social route, whether joking, seductive, and so on

T: Stealthy—a route that hides its travelers

Locations

The Chirurgeon: Often the last stop of the living before sleeping off their lives in the graveyard.

Stage 1: The corpses on the surgical tables bloat and turn gray. In glass jars, eyes and organs aggressively flit about.

Stage 2: In a place where things come to rot and die, the living have no power and are forced to switch allegiances.

Stage 3: The dead, uncomfortable with this site of redemption, abandon it. Dirty William and Tad the Robber and their demon (if they survived) have taken up residence here.

Stage 4: The roof sags--mold grows there, left to evolve by flesh gone uninterested.

The Ash Pile, the Chopping Block, and the Robber’s Yew: Formerly the site of Mark the Executioner’s pride, hangings and burnings now account for most of the deaths here (as per the Duchess’s orders, may Ivar bless her name).

Stage 1: Corpses dance on their ropes; ashes swirl in stagnant air; heads, absent their bodies, blink their eyes and smack their lips.

Stage 2: Mark struggles against his former victims (50% chance of survival).

Stage 3: If the executioner was killed, his corpse now keeps watchful guard over his death tools. Otherwise, even the dead have abandoned the area in order to besiege the church.

Stage 4: An endeavoring arm of the fog (six arms, actually, sewn onto four legs) digs in the ashes and dirt for the last bit of bone.