#TTRPG #RPGaDay2025 #SpectresOfBrocken
Once in a while, you're just looking for a really flavorful setting. Flipping through my collection, one of them jumped out at me. You'll never guess what it was. No, seriously, you'll never guess.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2025/Day+11+-+Flavour
I love it when I read something that triggers an understanding that had been eluding me. In this case, it's one of the failures of modern media mapping its way into TTRPGs. Obsessive validation.
https://grimtokens.garden/Thoughts/Veilguard+and+the+Obsessive+Validation
This is a really good way to kick things off. "What was the first RPG you bought this year?" I just wish that I had a more satisfying answer to the question. I guess I really needed to start the year off with a bang.
https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/RPG+a+Day/2024/RPG+A+DAY+2024+-+First+RPG+Bought+This+Year
I think a #Discworld #TTRPG needs:
* Dramatic systems that let the character’s personalities shine over their abilities
* Possibility for action and danger, but resolving it in a fast, dramatic way - no turn by turn fights
* Some kind of narrative meta-currency for players - failure when interesting and in service of the story, not random
I’m leaning towards a diceless system involving dramatic resources being gained and spent - perhaps a bit like #SpectresOfBrocken’s word bank. (3/3)
when advertising this game to my friends so i could get someone to play it with me, i, with nothing but affection, referred to it as “gundam: three houses.” you play in two phases: in the academy phase, you play students learning how to be mech pilots; after a timeskip, you play the conflict phase, […]
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