#trilogy rpg

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Examples of play

The new D&D players handbook includes an example of play describing a round of combat, showing how the game is fun, like this:

I wrote a lot of examples of play for Trilogy and this represents a single turn of combat, for comparison:

Even if Col failed, the consequence would have been something interesting happening - the guard still has a grip on Amber so she has to find another way to escape, another guard seizes Col, the story moves forward. I get that different people want different things from their epic fantasy tabletop games but sometimes it feels a shame that our less-well-known games will never sell enough copies to mark a rounding error on a Hasbro spreadsheet.

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As we run this Trilogy campaign I'm planning to put together some videos on the planning and preparation side of running the game. Here's the one I recorded ahead of the first session - this obviously contains spoilers for that session but tries to avoid wider ones for the season.

Also the quality is really poor because I'm a dipshit who ran off a test version then tried to render and ignored the warning pop-up so it overwrote my source video, with the obvious consequence that the "high quality" version was just the Windows XP background talking. Honestly? Might have been an improvement. The sound is pretty good though, maybe just treat it as a podcast that you can accidentally see if you forget to look away in time.

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The new Crudely Drawn Swords Trilogy campaign is starting to pick up - you can follow it over on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. We ran our second session of IC play last night and we got into some classic CDS mayhem. It's challenging running a bad larp inside a reality TV show inside a TTRPG but it affords some good opportunities to play around with tired tropes.