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The Appx. N Jam 2026 is a few hours from being over, and I'm nowhere near being finished.
Oh well, next year I guess...
Minimale Fraktionen.
#ttrpg #pnpde #sandbox #citybuilder
https://iam-scire.itch.io/fraktionen
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Fraktionsmechanik auf einer Seite.
Was looking through 80s TSR Star Frontiers again. There are only 13 skills broken down into 3 categories.
In a previous conversation about homebrew D&D, I was talking about how there are only 3 classes/archetypes from a programming perspective, Fighter, Magic-user, Thief.
Code would have to be written for Combat, Skills, and Spells.
The other D&D classes would use that code.
Looking over the SF skill list, it also follows a 3 point approach that (somewhat) matches the previous discussion. But it is interesting how Tech Skills and Biosocial Skills could be Magic-user or Thief based, depending on perspective.
Military = Fighter = Combat
Technological = Magic-user = Spells
Biosocial = Thief = Skills
#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #gametheory #starfrontiers
**Glimmermark Open Table**
Spieler gesucht
Ich leite derzeit jede Woche Labyrinth Lord (B/X DnD) als Open Table auf dem Grenzland-Discord server (Kanal #Glimmermark)
Spiele dauern 2h, Dienstags 20.15 CET, Sprache Deutsch (oder Englisch, nach Absprache)
Grenzland Discord: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%C3%BCrich/Discord_Server
#ttrpg #osr #pnpde #dnd #labyrinthlord
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Gustave Dore illustration of rider looking at dead body in moonlight, dark shadow of a castle in back
Because another designer recently put out an RPG called Violence, the NSR discord started talking about Violence by Designer X from 1999.
Turns out it was re-released via CC-NC-SA. So everyone should read this work of art.
It is satire, from the guy who brought you Paranoia.
“What Is a Roleplaying Game?
Brother, if you don’t know, this is not the place to start.”
http://www.costik.com/Violence%20RPG1.pdf
#TTRPG #OSR #NSR #Satire #Paranoia #ParanoiaRpg #GregCostikyan
The odyssey of my Kickstarter reward for #PerilsAndPrincesses through USPS
1. Starts in Florida...OK
2. Moves to St. Louis...Makes sense
3. Gets to Madison...now we're getting somewhere.
4. Goes to Janesville...WTF (Janesville is a city of ~65K people 40ish miles south of Madison)
5. Goes to Oak Creek....WTF even more (Oak Creek is a suburb of Milwaukee; it's by the airport)
It left Oak Creek tonight, presumably on it's way back to Madison...maybe?
Also note it namedrops Swordbearer. Never comes up again. But Swordbearer is by B. Dennis Sustare, author of Bunnies & Burrows, the Watership Down-like RPG! B&B is a little complex, but not too hard. SB is a typical FGU overly-complex game, I enjoyed reading it but wouldn't run it.
Demons must be the SPI pocket box mini-wargame? It's not even slightly an RPG, and has even less "Authentic Thaumaturgy" than D&D.
#ttrpg #osr #SatanicPanic
Was looking for some old game materials, and found this trash:
https://archive.org/details/playingwithfire0000weld
It's post-Satanic Panic handwriging, "it's just a game, OR IS IT‽" "fantasy worlds are amoral, BUT GOD IS REAL."
But disappointingly, it has only brief mention of Tunnels & Trolls. There's some whining that Chivalry & Sorcery has REAL OCCULT RITUALS (so does Christian Mass, but it doesn't work either), and Arduin Grimoire having bloody critical hits.
#ttrpg #SatanicPanic #dnd #osr #ChivalryAndSorcery
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Playing
-With
FIRE
Dungeons and Dragons™
Tunnels and Trolls
Chivalry and Sorcery and other fantasy games
John Weldon and James Bjornstad
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Maybe your son or daughter plays.
Maybe you play
Maybe what you're playing with is more than a game.
Maybe you're playing with fire.
With more than three million Dungeons and Dragons® players in this country and with the sales of D&D and other fantasy games well over $60,000,000 each year, chances are good that you know someone who plays.
Since the 1979 disappearance of a college student involved in a bizarre D&D plot, Dungeons and Dragons and many games that imitate it have gained nationwide notoriety.
They are denounced by worried Christians and non-Christians alike who link the games to crime, suicide, and the occult.
They are defended as mind expanding and relaxing by
millions of players almost cult-like in their devotion.
What are the fantasy games?
Are they good?
Are they evil?
Or are they perhaps a mixture?
In this critique from a Christian, perspective, you'll learn how they are played, the benefits and hazards of playing, and the possible effects on the players. And you'll investigate possible connections with the occult.
Playing with fire can be painful and scarring: Weldon and Bjornstad offer advice for players and the parents of players.
John Weldon (B.A., M.A.) is an instructor at Horizon School of Evangelism in San Diego and is the author of many books, including Psychic Healing.
James Bjornstad (B.A., Th.B., M.R.E., Ph.D.) is academic dean of Northeastern Bible College and has been involved in cult research for eighteen years.
Current Issues
ISBN: 0-8024-0425-1
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Playing with Fire
suddenly all our terrors take form as Greg tells us about a mysterious woman in a white gown. What is she? A vampire?
Greg rolls the dice. "She's a chaotic illusion. But she's not a vampire." While we speculate, she attacks like a madwoman.
We explode into counterattack, our dice throws telling us how much damage we're doing. We hit her four times, tearing off her arm. Urgrurl slashes her in the abdomen. Wyvark, thrilled to be fighting evil at last, spears her in the head. Greg describes the awesome sight. "She's staggering. It looks like a shimmer spell.
She is dissolving into thin air." Will she heal herself and return?
As dungeon master, only Greg knows that she is a succubus. that luscious demon of mythology who descends on men when they are asleep in lonely outposts and lures them to sexual intercourse. Greg will bring her back on some other run, perhaps in her male form as an incubus who impregnates women as they sleep.?
Contrary to what you might expect, you are not sitting around a campfire on the eve of a full moon, listening to some fascinating (or frightening) medieval tales and monster stories. Nor are you watching a double feature of The Night-stalker on television. No, you are not having nightmares, ei-ther, from reading too much medieval fantasy and occult literature or watching too many late night horror shows. What you would find yourself in the middle of is some of the fantasy action and adventure of two different sessions of Dungeons and Dragons® (D & D), a fantasy role-playing (FRP) game currently enjoyed by more than three million players.
Why the great interest today in such games as Dungeons and Dragons®, Tunnels and Trolls, Chivalry and Sorcery:
RuneQuest®, Arduin Grimoire, Swordbearers, and Demons?
There are several factors best understood as part of the effects of a revolution in the way we view the world that help to explain this.
2. Moira Johnston, "It's Only a Game-Or Is It?" New West, 25 August 1980,
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The Theology of Fantasy Role-Playing Games
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The Bible tells of only one conclusion for man-resurrec tion. (Resurrection and reincarnation are incompatible with each other.) God made man as a psychosomatic unity (a physical and spiritual being). Man has not only a soul (and/ or spirit) but a body that is destined for resurrection one day.
Our resurrection is guaranteed by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and it will occur at the time of His return to this earth (Romans 8:23-24; 1 Corinthians 15;
1 John 3:2-3).
MORALITY
FRP games generally see an amoral universe at best. Good and evil seem to be presented as equal and opposite poles.
In these games, both the characters and the gods are required or expected to align themselves with one pole or the other. Good and evil can be complementary or in conflict with each other. Because these games are open-ended, there is no final victory for good or evil.
Such activities as rape, stealing, murder, mutilation, human sacrifices, and so forth are incorporated into the adventure of the games. The situation itself and the characters involved determine what should or should not be done (as well as what is right or wrong).
The Bible posits a moral universe. God not only is the source of the physical world (as we have already noted) but the moral world as well.
Morality is grounded in God's goodness. Thus there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments can be mea-sured. God has revealed this standard to us in the various
9. TSR Hobbies, Inc.. the manufacturer of Dungeons and Dragons® (D & D), has an in-house document entitled TSR Code of Ethics' in which explicit instructions are given us to know "good should always triumph over evil. However, neither this document nor this conclusion has been made public in or with any of the games or manuals manufac tured by TSR. (This was discussed on "The 700 Club" TV program, June
Our printer is kitting up all four volumes of Designers & Dragons Origins into their slipcases!
Still time to get this massive trove of #DnD history by @appelcline and have it ship out with the crowdfunding fulfillment:
https://designers-dragons-origins.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
#ttrpg
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Sitting on a desk in the office of our printer: The four volumes of Designers & Dragons Origins inside a vibrant purple slipcase illustrated with golden dragons.
So, a bit of happy to counter all the BS.
I got my new-to-me #Pathfinder 1e core in fantastic condition from @frotz a couple days ago. I am overjoyed! I've coveted this book since its release. Every time I resolved to buy it, something came up and prevented me from doing so. And then PF 2e hit, and I figured I'd jump in on that when I saw a huge sale. Turned out not to be for me. PF 1e's "3.75" feel is my happy place for D&D/d20 System.
Against the Darkmaster rules SRD!
https://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/2026/07/open00-system-reference-document-for.html
One of those "forever discussion" rpg discussion topics is should there be a unified experience point table or individual tables customized to different classes.
And then you could dovetail into what should the progression rate be.
Feel free to reply if you have "other" ideas.
#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #gametheory
| Unified XP Table: | 15 |
| Individual Class XP Table: | 5 |
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Ah, finally got that out of my system. Only to discover that there's just been another game submitted with a bell and a colossus…
I'm making a Diplomat class for a Chimera RPG hack I'm making and I came up with this Feat/Special Perk for the Diplomat:
Defusing Monologue: Once per day or chapter of an adventure (or act of an adventure) the Diplomat may test Resolve to defuse a situation, attracting everyone's attention by launching into a serious, intimate, meandering, and potentially incoherent but nonetheless true monologue about why everyone is there, what we're all here for, who our real enemies are, what we want in life, the insignificance of this conflict and the tremendous import of every breath we take to defuse the situation and confuse everyone (even the PCs who wished to fight) out of hostilities. It's often easiest to maintain the peace by not allowing a Q&A portion and dramatically exiting the scene.
New fantasy art from my Patreon is now available on dtrpg and rpg-trader
get it at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/5943/Artikid-Arts
or https://rpg-trader.com/creator/976/artikid
#art #fantasy #ttrpg
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Bringing down the wraith
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Wizard Blasts Chimera
The Wandering DMs talk about D&D invisibility spell and items. And how tricky the rules can be, and how, generally, the rules for invisibility have become more restrictive with each new edition.
In my little homebrew game, I change invisibility to just be more like a chameleon ability. It avoids some of the pitfalls discussed.
One trait I took away from races in Issue 58 of d12 Monthly is any sort of racial darkvision/infravision. Elves get low-light vision & dwarves get deepvision.
This means torches, lanterns, or magic are a must & it keeps darkness scary. #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG #DnD
My Daggerheart Campaign Frame "Stars' Embrace" is live on itch.io! Still sci-fantasy or sci-fi, whichever you prefer. Still free, still without creepy "AI" stuff.
Find it here: https://lachroes.itch.io/stars-embrace-daggerheart-campaign-frame
#Daggerheart #CampaignFrame #TTRPG #SciFi
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Screenshot of the campaign frame. Two pages, the left one is darf and dramatic, the silhouette of a space faring person against stars and galactic nebulae. To the right, the second page of the campaign frame shows some paragraphs of text.
Anybody who is looking for a new superhero or super villain name, at least for a certain genre of superhero play - here you go
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@gwenthefops@transfem.social. Says
OMG just heard "sword and sorcery" described
as stabracadabra and that's incredible
Jul 25,2026 at 04:37 PM