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My plan was to avoid joining any more time-consuming #TTRPG game jams this summer.
Then this Vaults of Vaarn game jam was announced, and those plans went straight out the goddamn window.
Lazy RPG Prep and the Lazy RPG Talk Show - LIVE: Sly Flourish Twitch Stream
Lazy RPG Prep and the Lazy RPG Talk Show: Sly Flourish Twitch Stream
The Wish Thief and Chases – Lazy RPG Talk Show: Sly Flourish Podcast
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Defending Out of the Fun: SlyFlourish.com
The Wish Thief and Chases – Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video
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Join us live at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST for Apostates of Dune, a Dune #ttrpg #ActualPlay!
For 10,000 years, the Imperium has endured. Now the ambitious rising stars of House Lykos may have the key to remake the galactic order...if they can survive long enough to use it.
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Four desperate companions, fleeing their sordid pasts, become stranded in a snowy pass.
Now, they must uncover the dark truths of a small town and each other!
Follow their stories in Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds #ttrpg #ActualPlay.
https://www.happyjacks.org/category/actual-play-podcast/aldgate-adventures/
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We just launched our Mailing List.
https://arcanemanifold.com/mailing-list/
We will be using it for news and giveaways. So I encourage you to join. #ttrpg #ttrpgnews
Our Jungle of Death homepage on Substack has now been updated with links to write-up reports from our session 0 and the first two full sessions:
#RedDiceDiaries #TTRPG #RPG #Shadowdark #DND #Hexcrawl #Pointcrawl
Despite the fact I didn't get to playtest that exploration procedure on game night, the weekend was fruitful for MM2. I may have cracked that nuanced d20 resolution mechanic I've been chasing for a while.
From 'infinite advantage' to 'boons, banes, and bangs', it is now called 'extra stakes'. I'll have to do some solo testing before I commit it to paper and blog about it (possibly, if I have time when I'm on holidays).
#macchiatomonsters #ttrpg #osr
I think it was this book that made me realise D20 splat books had gone too far.
Part of my folk-horror smock collection
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Someone made a brilliant but ludicrous 1000-sided die.
https://www.amazon.com/D-1000-8-Sided-Displays-Numbers-Probability/dp/B0C3L81JM3
@ludovic It's a pernicious trick.
There's a "ha ha not really joking" bit in Knights of the Dinner Table from the '90s, where Gary Jackson® bumps up headers & fonts 30%, put in pages of errata, sells a new edition.
Better page layout tools made it easy to just sell a fatter book. It looks like better value, it's more visible on a bookstore shelf. Same thing happened in novel publishing.
I like my games <64 pages, complete. Swords & Wizardry is pushing it at 144 now.
#ttrpg
A misfit group of young magic users comes of age at Inkwood, an unconventional wizarding school famous for accepting everyone and bucking old-world traditions.
Follow their stories in Hexbreakers, a Kids on Brooms #ttrpg #ActualPlay.
https://www.happyjacks.org/category/actual-play-podcast/hexbreakers/
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Rulebook page count, by @ludovic: https://ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/05/24/page-inflation-in-ttrpg-rulebooks/ #TTRPG
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A chart showing the increase in page count of TTRPG rule books from the 1970s to today, increasing from a median of about 150 pages to a median of about 475 pages
so yeah, I right now am writing that up as a short scenario for Call of Cthulhu. This whole place has a wrongness to it that fits with that system
In the finalé of our #WFRP4E #TheEnemyWithin campaign our heroes try to find a way to defeat SHEERARGETRU the Lord of Change and restore Karl Franz I, lest the Empire of Man fall into ruination and darkness.
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Happy Saturday! Who's gaming this weekend? If you are playing a magic user, keep a close eye on your familiar!
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A wizard recoils as two fighters hold a striped cat. One of them has a dagger to its throat. The text says "One false move, wizard, and your familiar gets it."
Zusätzlich zu den (stark frequentierten) Open-Table-Kampagnen im @jungundaltspielt wollen wir auch einen regelmäßigen Abend spezifisch für wechselnde One-Shot-Angebote einrichten (v.a. Starterboxen/Schnellstarter und Erzählspiele) 😊🎉
Anlass, eine ältere Idee wieder aufzunehmen: kurze einheitliche “Steckbriefe” für meine Angebote (und vielleicht nehmen andere es dann auch 😁)
Ähnlich zu Vorlagen für Rundenausschreibungen von Cons, aber ohne veranstaltungsspezifische Angaben.
Ziel: Interessierten einen schnellen Überblick geben, worum es sich handelt (und für meine eigene Übersicht).
Ich habe mir schon ein paar Gedanken gemacht, freue mich aber auf euren Input:
Name (ggf. System+Abenteuer)
Kategorie (Trad/Erzählspiel/OSR/…)
Freitextfeld “Klappentext” - je nach Spiel Genre, Hintergrund, Thema, Spielweise/ Spielgefühl etc.
evtl. Themenstichworte
Rundendauer
Spieleranzahl
Adressaten (Alter / Erfahrung)
potentielle Trigger
Safety Tools
@HeyeBodo I usually have Human, Dwarf, Elf, Goblin, Beastfolk as the major species. Dwarfs are best, they're fundamental "ancient builder/crafting people". Elfs to me come out of Celtic fairy tales, Wood Elfs/Fauns are fun, Sidhe are terrifying. Goblins are crappy Dwarfs, but more approachable. Beastfolk replaced Orcs as barbarians, players rarely genocide fuzzy babies.
The whole point of these is to replace Human foreign cultures, which are hard to distinguish in game.
#ttrpg
#ttrpg question: when it comes to the Fantasy genre, how do you feel about the classic EDO-combo (Elves-Dwarves-Orcs) - including minor variants à la „Actually, in my homebrew setting, dwarves are seaborne raiders…“?
Well established cultural touchstones that simply allow for an easy access to Fantasyland because everybody vaguely knows what „1 Elf“ is about post LOTR movies? Or are you super annoyed by all the tired tropes connected to EDOness?
**Macchiato Monsters 2 playtest report.**
I had spent Friday afternoon designing a one-roll exploration, encounter, and events (or 3E) procedure I was eager to test. I had drawn a map using a non regular polygon grid I wanted to try out. There wasn't enough time to key locations but that was fine: I was going to use *The Perilous Wilds* to discover them at the table. I always enjoy the process and plan to have something similar in MM2.
Here's how sideways it all went:
The party makes preparations for a five-day trip to the abbey of St Abbans. Not even half a day in, as they are approaching the Kryptwood, the 3E roll gives me a discovery. Afcouple d12 rolls later, TPW says it is a planar disturbance. The PCs are sailing down the river on their newly acquired boat so I say it's a whirlpool, making strange wailing noises and sucking in the surrounding mist. Everyone scrambles to escape, and everyone fails their check...
Fortunately I had a plan for TPKs and other accidents: *The Painted Wasteland*. An excellent book that of course I hadn't brought with me to the session. Well, friends, let me tell you one thing: running an adventure you haven't fully read from your phone is exhausting.
We had a great time though. The party made it to the Sorcerer's Market, swindled a merchant into exchanging some now worthless jewellery for ectodollars, and took rooms at the Pastel House. Next time, they can start looking for a way back home.
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Continuing my dangerous #DnD 2nd edition monsters I’ve never heard of, I bring you the Ghost-Stone.
A ghost trapped in a stone that leeches the life out of those who unfortunately have their shadow fall over the stone!
Explore new genres, tones, and #ttrpg systems without having to read a single book through the Happy Jacks RPG network!
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Friendship may change your fate. ⛰️💫
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Don't miss out on joining the fun of our weekly round table #ttrpg discussion that's informative, honest, and funny. #podcast
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@ng76 Back in the day, all the Tri-Tac games got a lot of convention play. Some GMs are sticklers for the full rules, & good for them, most use the quick-kill tables when you run out of HP & don't worry about it much. I've played with Tucholka once or twice, & he was loosey-goosey with it.
The later Tri-Tac games like Beach Bunny Bimbos with Blasters are more like how it really gets run, right from the start. But it's nice to have the option to use all the charts.
#ttrpg #tritac
I've taken two of the old character sheets for the RPG #Fringeworthy and made them fillable.
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/05/23/fringeworthy-fillable-character-sheets-for-an-interdimensional-rpg/
#TTRPG
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If anyone’s interested in joining in we are playtesting a new protocol (gmless story game) on the post world games server tomorrow at 10am pacific (UTC-7).
jim walked through his creation process earlier in the week.
Spectators welcome.
Content Warning: It is a Black Monk one, so it will deal with mature themes.
#TTRPG #StoryGames #Protocol #BlackMonk #PostWorldGames #jimpinto #PbtA #Playtest
Did a little #WorldBuilding tonight. Wasn’t up for much else. But I did roll up a new grid, which features a creature I’ve never heard of: Deathwatch Beetle from 2nd ed. Man, they are savage. 9HD and they have a sound attack which is save or die.
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG
Follow a covert group of mages as they protect free will in the 1940’s big band era in Trinity’s Wake, a swingin' Mage #ttrpg #ActualPlay!
https://www.happyjacks.org/category/actual-play-podcast/trinitys-wake/
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#illustration of a steampunk gentleman for The Wytchheart Machine, upcoming #TTRPG. Made in #krita on #linuxmint. #digitalart #noai
Suburban life has its ups and downs-like unexplained disasters, near-constant bad omens, and an oddly antagonistic PTA-but it’s never the end of the world.
…most of the time.
See what's changed in The World Ends Thursday, a MotW #ttrpg #ActualPlay.
https://www.happyjacks.org/category/actual-play-podcast/the-world-ends-thursday/
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Completed my third week of the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam.
This week, I did Dicey Tales, Vaults of Vaarn, Cepheus Deluxe, Tiny Supers: Fallen Justice, Traveller: Mercator, Numenera, and Fringeworthy
https://ng76.itch.io/31-guys-in-31-days