RPGADAY2024 03

Most Often Played RPG. Gumshoe for sure, but specifically it’s been The Yellow King RPG. I’ve run most of the published material and even started writing my...

The Raspy Raven Rag

Friday was session one of scenario one of @pelgranepress Cassilda's Song This is Normal Now playtest.

It's a modern day scenario for @robindlaws The Yellow King RPG, but as the first rule of playtesting is that we don't talk about playtesting you'll have to be content with an image apropos of nothing.

#ttrpg #gumshoe #TheYellowKingRPG #TheKinginYellow #notdnd

Started a prologue to my #solottrpg improv of #TheYellowKingRPG in the first of four eras - Belle Epoque era Paris of the late 1800s. Before dice have come out a Zen tarot deck and artist oracles have provided inspiration with a single draw from each.
@gnomedic For RPGGeek's Solostice : Using the Plot Unfolding Machine for #TheYellowKingRPG . #solottrpg #GUMSHOESystem . I missed that you had already picked up something. What are you playing?
This evening, I ran my very 1st game of #TheYellowKing, using the #FreeRPGDay adventure The Doors to Heaven, and here's my conclusion: what took me so long to get to run this game? Why did I let it gather dust on a shelf for so many years instead of enjoying it tremendously as I did tonight? And I'm not the only one: my players are so into it and want so much more now! @robindlaws @pelgranepress #ttrpg #rpg #jdr #TheYellowKingRPG #TYK @foundryvtt
7. I have no idea how to claim what the smartest game might be. Smart mechanics that boil down rules to their essence? I guess the way #brindlewoodbay handles plot is quite smart but I haven’t played it yet. So I’ll vote for the way #Vaesen handles health and afflictions by giving you conditions. I also appreciated the health and condition cards in #TheYellowKingRPG because they ditched hit points for cards that affect mechanics and the story. #rpgaday2023

Lunchtime and I just finished writing a seed for @pelgranepress #TheYellowKingRPG Paris setting. It stars one of the French realist folk from the 18th century, and uses a lovely (that is, very unpleasant) entry from the Legions of Carcosa supplement.

Anyway, something to get into a playable state over the summer, working title is Visible Forms. #ttrpg

More #TTRPG, as Last night I ran #TheYellowKingRPG Cassilda's Song - The Wars. It's a playtest across four settings and this is the second. I have a second group running the first, the Paris setting.

It's a lot of fun but pretty mind bending, the players did a fair amount of input into a strange phenomenon that had occurred to their PC and now we are riffing off that as much as the scenario.

Seven D&D players walk into Belle Époque Paris...

Background Back in September 2020, I put myself forward to run an introduction to gumshoe for our Friday group.  Our Friday group had been r...