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When your dig into the history of the world you're creating, how far back do you go?
#WorldBuilding #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #dinosaurs #history
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An outstretched arm with a great long line running down to the middle finger, whereupon it becomes a series of coloured bits.
"Deep Time: If the timeline of Earth were mapped onto the human arm, it would begin around the shoulder where the earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Animals originated within the palm, but the myriad forms alive today exploded onto the scene around the first knuckle, in the Cambrian period. Blocks along the finger represent the periods that followed, such as the Jurassic (dinosaurs!) and the Cenozoic (in which humans evolved, a microscopic sliver at the the tip of a fingernail.)"
Kann ein Ennie-Award eine Deportation verhindern?
Vielleicht.
Wieso das so ist, und wieso die Stimme, die du abgeben kannst, nicht nur ein Mittel ist, herausragende Leistungen zu würdigen, sondern ein Mittel zur Umverteilung von Macht, erklärt der Ennie-Nomminierte Em Costa in seinem Blog.
https://thepsychicmaelstrom.pika.page/posts/on-why-i-hate-awards-or-please-vote-for-me-at-the-ennies
I'm bringing this back. Three kernels of ideas for TTRPGs:
1. It's a 100-degrees Fahrenheit! Your AC can barely keep up. But it's January?
2. The moon! It's orbiting in reverse.
3. Oh Fuck! Someone trained the Pentagon's new AI LLM on the movie War Games! Now every government terminal is asking "Would you like to play a game...?"
#TTRPG gang! I am thinking of taking a few of my hodgepodge google doc adventures and polishing them up into proper PDFs and putting them up online somewhere.
So, my question:
What are the best-formatted adventures you've ever read? The ones that have GREAT information design, deliver the kind of information you want to see, and do it in the perfect sized package?
#TTRPG #GameStore
I spent a bit more than I had intended, mostly because they had a lot of books I was looking for.
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Some RPG books I bought - Painted Wastelands books, Savage Worlds Horror companion, Two Cloud Empress books, and a nice copy of Gardens of Ynn.
On my way back south, I made a point of stopping at Games and Stuff in Glen Burnie, MD, a short drive from I-95. It's perhaps my favorite #TTRPG store anywhere.
It's big, roughly the size of a small supermarket. One whole wall is dedicated to just RPGs.
There's a shelf for D&D, one for Pathfinder, and several shelves for other indie games.
There are three spinner racks for RPG zines, nicely organized by type.
There are also a few shelves of used games, at fairly reasonable prices.
If you're anywhere near Baltimore, worth a visit.
#GameStore
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Wide view of the Games & Stuff store
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Indie RPG shelves
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Used RPG shelves
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Spinner racks for RPG zines
Glimmermark session 56: they went down to the troglodyte cave again and tried to defeat the tribe that lived there. In between they met mostly inconsequential random encounters... and a giant leech that just dropped on them.
The fight with the stinky lizards was tough, although nobody really went all that close to death and smart spell use took care of some opponents. Lucky for them about half the tribe was out at that moment, and they managed to take down the king of troglodytes.
Gumshoe Creator Robin D. Laws Explains The Basics Of His Dramatic Game Engine, DramaSystem #ttrpg #gmtips #dungeonmaster
#TTRPG #Gamestore
I'm a little sad to see some of the changes, mostly out of pure nostalgia. This place was mostly unchanged from the 70s. The Strategist was essentially CBGBs for nerds.
I completely understand why they did it. The Strat's a business, not a museum, and I hope it keeps them open longer.
A lot of the glass cases are now filled with older, more collectible RPG stuff. There are signs saying Not For Sale on most of them. Not sure if that's temporary or not.
#TTRPG #Gamestore
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Glass case filled with classic RPGs
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Glass case filled with classic RPGs
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Glass case filled with classic Warhammer stuff
I stopped by at NYC's oldest gaming store over the weekend, The Compleat Stratgeist. After decades, it looks like they've updated the floor layout a bit.
The ancient bowed wooden shelves are still there, but it looks like they've gotten rid of a lot of the old books that presumably never sold. They still have all of the newer RPGs. I picked up a few items myself.
The center shelves are newer and smaller, and you can walk around a little more easily.
#TTRPG #Gamestore
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Interior of Compleat Strategist. Shelves filled with RPGs.
@HeyeBodo Forever GM: I don't do urban crawls usually. I give a little menu of interesting things, shops, etc. they can do or poke into, then back to the adventure. If they come up with something else, great.
I'm not doing another street-by-street door-by-door procedural. Even Lankhmar is very annoying to run like that, and most aren't as detailed or known.
#ttrpg #osr
@HeyeBodo
Your game will be completely different if the PCs are city natives vs. recent arrivals. Our Swords of the Serpentine campaign focused on the younger members of an old noble family with barely any money left. It was fun! No city crawling involved. Their grandma, the family matriarch, acted as quest giver, to acquire money and status.
We've beaten up the raiders. But can we survive the celebratory feast? #WhartsonHall continues with The Pirates of Drinax #GURPS #Traveller https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/gurps-traveller-the-pirates-of-drinax-second-edition/6780 #TTRPG #ActualPlay
#ttrpg question: IMO (larger) cities are particularly interesting adventuring milieu, but they can also be challenging for the GM, especially when cities aren’t just used as set pieces, but are meant to be spaces for interaction/exploration: You are faced with a high density of NPCs and encounters, and many points of interest.
Question for the players: Do you like city crawls?
Question for the GMs: What procedures and tools do you use for urban adventures? #osr
Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson walks into a comic book shop on the TV series “Diff’rent Strokes.” And look what just happens to be by the door: A display of Advanced D&D core rule books!
From the episode “The Big Heist,” which aired Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1981, this is one of the earliest — if not the first — appearances of D&D in film and TV in America, predating its appearance in “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” (June 1982) by 7 months.
#dnd #adnd #ttrpg #ttrpgs #osrrpg #DnDHistory
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In this screenshot of the “Different Strokes” episode “The Big Heist” from November 26th 1981, Gary Coleman, portraying Arnold Jackson, walks into a comic book shop where Dungeons & Dragons materials are displayed by the door.
Mutants & Ninjas: Bunch of the best Palladium games:
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/MutantNinja2026
Ninjas & Superspies and Mystic China are an *amazing* kung fu game (but a little complex; expect to be reading a while before playing). This is what I've mostly used as my modern-day not-Cthulhu game.
After the Bomb is TMNT&OS but in the bombed-out future oh wait that's just now.
Hmm. Now that 5e is in the Creative Commons, there’s a free version of it being developed. If used widely enough, this would cut out WizBro entirely and put the granddaddy of #ttrpgs directly into the hands of the players. I hope this gains traction. cf. Ben Milton’s Corporate D&D vs Folk D&D #DnD #dnd5e #Free5E #ttrpg
Sci-fi pen and paper RPG people!
What are your favorite systems for space combat?
I'm particularly interested in anything that has more resemblance with cruiser battles than starfighter battles.
I think running premade adventures in #TTRPG is like another skill I never developed over 20 years. At least some of them. Give me a sandbox-thing or one-pager and I'm on it. But more trad adventures, especially older adventures are black magic to me.
I read a post about the best adventures for Traveller, read about them and took a peak at some and... How do I start? How do I prepare it? Do I read it whole and make my own notes on everything? Running it straight from a book seems impossible
If you take the various 80s TSR task resolution charts and try to normalize them to compare, you get the following set of images. By normalize, I mean I just converted them all to roll low, percent chances.
The chart based games had "bounded accuracy" long before Mike Mearls came up with the term.
Still, to my mind, Marvel, Gamma World, Star Frontiers Zebulon, TSR Conan are all just providing "degrees of success" with different chance to achieve different degrees. (Image 1 and 2)
How the designer drew the various lines of percentages just seems to be make an increasing line by whatever whim struck them at the time.
If you try to convert D&D to a chart, you end up with a pretty bland chart. (Image 3)
Alternity did not have a chart either, but it had "degrees of success" by implementing a very simple mathematical formula to compute degrees of success. If you convert the chances to a chart, it looks like all the old 80s TSR charts. (Image 3)
I worked out these charts ~15 years ago, but decided to do them again and add some more data of games I missed.
#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #gametheory
Ah, I posted this from my #ttrpg account. So please imagine that I asked "Conan, what flavor tea is best in a chilled mug?" instead. ⚔️
@randomwizard Which is hilarious because they were ripping off Pacesetter, which was all ex-TSR people.
They did turn it around fast and put action tables in MSH & others, but never touched their flagship, where it would've helped.
#ttrpg
Ability scores for #DnD get a new way to be generated in the latest issue of d12 Monthly. You need to choose your race before you roll, but it’s not something you’ve used before. http://yumdm.short.gy/d12Monthly58
Recent discussion reminded me of a blog post I wrote in 2013 about how there is a connection of sorts between Alternity and FASERIP. Sadly, the wayback machine seems to have lost my images.
But I have backups!
FASERIP is a roll high on 1d100 with a chart to have degrees of success. (Image 2)
If you flip FASERIP to a roll low on 1d100 and plot the dgrees of success, you get (Image 3)
Alternity is a roll low on a 1d20 with a formula to figure out degrees of success which I will not go into here but you can read in the wayback machine if you are interested. If you convert that formula to a chart you get (Image 1)
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A bit of a behind the scene look at my non-Tolkien elves in the latest issue of my #DnD zine, d12 Monthly. https://yumdm.short.gy/elves
