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@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.
#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
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.
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
Seit kurzem gibt es rpg-trader.com, eine neue Plattform für #ttrpg #pnpde Content. Itch ist ganz nett, aber mehr auf Computerspiele ausgelegt, DrivethruRPG hat ein furchtbares Handling, insofern ist da Platz. So weit macht RPG Trader einen guten Eindruck. Ich habe deshalb meinen bisherigen Output dort eingestellt und werde auch künftige Projekte darüber anbieten.
Und weil man ja keine Gelegenheit auslassen soll, hier ein kleiner Werbethread... (natürlich alles 100% Human Made)
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)
@ToweroftheArchmage @frotz @phf
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
Thursday Night AWBO S6: Everyone is touched by weird in R’lyeh
The Dreamers' Cloisters is where retired Fishwives spend their last days. Otter met with her ma and I loved that relationship. #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG
In the latest issue of d12 Monthly, my #DnD zine, I wanted to give an option other than Tolkien elves.
In fact, I have been using these elves for a while now in my own campaign. Find out more about them in my latest issue: https://yumdm.short.gy/d12Monthly58
Thanks to EN World for featuring Merryshire Detective Club on the EN World Podcast! We appreciate the shoutout and hope everyone enjoys the discussion.
Watch here: https://bit.ly/4f0IFCA
@deinol They're on archive:
https://archive.org/details/tsr09029permanentcharacterfolderandadventurerecords/page/n1/mode/2up
No THACO, the 10..0 boxes are for Wpn vs AC.
But TSR considered it DM's Eyes Only even after Judges Guild & others had republished the tables.
Part of the reason I found AD&D so off-putting, and went back to OD&D/Basic and then Palladium & RoleMaster.
A conversation about AD&D, and how the character to-hit matrices were in the DMG, which was “Dungeon Master Only!” material.
I know by the 1986 character sheet product it included a spot for THAC0. I’m curious what the early AD&D sheets looked like.
I think the 80s version of the PHB had a record sheet, but I’m uncertain.
Anyone know where I can find a scan of these sheets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Character_Folder_%26_Adventure_Records
Since all my fantasy stuff is unapologetically space opera in cheap renfaire cosplay, and thus concerned mainly with the modern world as it is and might become, I often find myself pondering _majestic high fantasy matters_ like "the fantasy equivalent of a punch-card for a free hoagie."
Pointing out that choosing your real personal flaws in character creation is like free points #ttrpg
I was looking through old Gamma World adventurers, and it occurs to me, looking at the woman holding the stop sign in GW2 Famine in Fargo (Image 1)
I believe that is suppose to be young Mary Kirchoff
Compare the drawing to this known drawing of Mary Kirchoff in issue 9 of Polyhedron Magazine, when she became editor of the magazine. (Image 2)
She became head of TSR's book department eventually? Discovered R.A. Salvatore
https://dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Kirchoff
Through @Lyme's recent post about Dawn of the Orcs getting a second printing on Backerkit I found out about THIS BLIGHTED ISLE:
"Over hill, over dale; a creeping chill, a twisting rail… System-neutral adventures in modern horror from the British Isles."
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/patchwork-fez-games/this-blighted-isle-at-the-ennies-emporium
@Taskerland has a typically thoughtful and helpful review of the original printing: https://tasker.land/2025/08/26/review-darkened-hill-dale/
Hello #ttrpg community. What system would use to run a investigative horror scenario set in rural communities in the UK? (See the previous post for the adventures in question).
No wrong answers! I'm just keen to see what games people are digging.
The poll asking if people use war dogs in D&D is what got me to thinking about the 80s module O2 Blade of Vengeance.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@randomwizard/116873582032858802
The provided pre-rolled character Erystelle comes with two war dog pets.
