#ttrpgposting

[the-backspin-alchemist]

I’m gonna have to make a proper post for this elsewhere but alas making a new blog for a podcast is, to put it mildly, annoying, so here’s the announcement post on my blog instead!

@charlezarrd and I have an actual-play podcast now!

Children Of The Moon: Episode 1 – Just Another Job

Podcast Episode · Roll Me A Story · S1 E1 · 1h 38m

We each have a solo campaign that we’re running for the other and this one is mine! It’s a…uh. Cyberpunk…science-fantasy…noir…thing?

Look genres are hard, which is why I like to pretend they’re not real.

The first episode of his campaign will be on its way in a few weeks!

If you like it, spread the word, and stick around for more!

[sapphim]

the other thing about no/low-prep games that doesn't particularly jibe with me is that I loooooove a good prop. I love a handout. I love a physical object that I can waggle enticingly at my players. look at my props, boy.

[sapphim]

I've been trying to decide on the system for a one-on-one pbp game I want to run with a friend and it's got me to thinking how when someone asked me just a few years ago me what TTRPG system I'd choose to run a campaign in the dragon age setting my answer was "well it depends on what tone you want to emulate" but if you asked me today my answer would be "well it depends on what tone you want to emulate; what specific aspects of the setting you want to emulate; if you want to play analog, digital, on a vtt, pbp, with props, etc.; your preferred style of game; your preferred style of GM-ing; etc." but I still probably wouldn't say the official licensed system lmao

[sapphim]

during last night's Lancer session my pilot was undergoing some of the most catastrophic traumatic survivor's guilt of her life. IN a Lord of the Rings themed mini dungeon delve

told my GM to fuck off several times

[the-backspin-alchemist]

Once again seeing people blaming DND’s game design for why GMs in the DND space as a chore rather than the culture surrounding it.

Also suggesting PBTA games as an intro to TTRPGs is insane.

At least recommend something like Index Card RPG or Tiny Dungeons or something instead of subjecting both players and GMs to PBTA. Like. C’mon. Suggest something that won’t cause people to pull their hair out as much for an intro to the space.

[sapphim]

I think that of the like several separate times I've considered playing a shapeshifting character in d&d/pathfinder, in every single case I've independently come to the conclusion that what that character obviously needs is a wisecracking corvid familiar

[sapphim]

hey! people in my phone who are good at puns! would anyone care to help me name my next D&D character, a construct purpose-built for sailing ships? my current best take is Maritime Robotics - Sailor Model 3E or MR-SM3E, but I know I have not yet plumbed the depths of terrible nautical puns to which I can subject my friends

[sapphim]

I've inadvertently twice in a row made my ttrpg character a several hundred year old refugee who remembers a world now long-dead