Paddy HatchetOct 31

Another fantastic session of #Nahual, in which our undead avenger Bat nurses a wicked hangover, our Axolotl player has too much fun embodying her evil (?) clone/twin, and our Monkey learns that lighting cigarettes is hard when you have fewer fingers than you're used to.

The crew have since bailed to Tijuana in the hopes of mooching of an ex-girlfriend and maybe relieving some tension in a gratuitous beach episode.

I love this game.

#ttrpg #rpg

BryantApr 12, 2025

GILT 2025

Umpteenth in an occasional series discussing games I might ilke to run or play someday. What’s on my mind in 2025? In no particular order…

  • Nahual has been on my list for a while now. It’s a really cool adaptation of a Mexican graphic novel. The Kickstarter had a translation of the original material as a stretch goal, but you know how those go sometimes. Anyhow: it’s interestingly rebellious urban fantasy about shapeshifters who hunt angels to make a living in Mexico City. Needs to be a campaign because the journey of becoming a more adept shapeshifter is a pretty key part of the rules, and the setting is about community which means it also benefits from time to breathe. Somewhat more inclined to run this because it’s a world I’d enjoy riffing on.
  • Legacy: Life Among the Ruins is an odd choice in a way. I’m not compelled by the setting which is fairly generic post-apocalypse material. It’s sort of more a toolkit setting — you can make of it what you will, but you have to put that effort into it. However, the generational style of play is fascinating for me. Also obviously a campaign. I’d run or play. 
  • Outgunned is so high on my list of one-shots I can’t even say. I want to find out first hand if the action mechanics are good; word of mouth is strong. I could use a more flexible version of Feng Shui in my toolkit. One-shot, or maybe one scenario’s worth of play over a couple of sessions, since the whole point is finding out if I like it. I do have a campaign floating around in my head set in a Madripoor pastiche, complete with street level superheroes and mad science, and the existing superhero rules for the game would do just fine even before the upcoming superhero-specific book, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Happy to run this.
  • The Troubleshooters is occupying a similar place in my head except it’s more that Tintin nostalgia is strong in me. Pulpy 1965, you bet! Nice d% system that won’t get in the way, Jet Age coolness, etc. I would really dig playing this, I think.
  • Worldwide Wrestling is fun. I’ve run it once; I’d be into running a year’s worth of events in my PNWage Wrestling promotion. (Man, past me put in the work to make that writeup usable, thanks!)
  • Trophy one of these days. Specifically Trophy Dark, I don’t need the campaign play here. And I wanna play this, not run it. I mean I could run it but I’m interested in how it feels at the other side of the table. I did play Trophy Gold once but the scenario never got finished, which was a bit frustrating.
  • Agon or a derivative, but probably Agon. I like getting the pure form of an exciting design. You could talk me into Deathmatch Island. I am more interested in this as a player than as a GM, because I’m interested in the competitive aspects and I don’t want the extra effort of nudging players in that direction. But, you know, with the right group…

    • #agon #nahual #outgunned #trophy

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    SWLing PostApr 20, 2025

    Don Moore’s Photo Album: Guatemala (Part Five) – Visiting Nahualá

    https://swling.com/blog/2025/04/don-moores-photo-album-guatemala-part-five-visiting-nahuala/

    #Chichicastenango #DonMoore #DonMooresPhotoAlbum #Guatemala #LaVozDeNahual #Nahual #RadioSutatenza #TGVN

    Don Moore’s Photo Album: Guatemala (Part Five) – Visiting Nahualá

    Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Don Moore–noted author, traveler, and DXer–for the latest installment of his Photo Album guest post series: Don Moore’s Photo Album:  Guatemala (Part Five) – …

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    Fando Jan 10, 2025
    #humor #naturaleza #ajolote #Nahual
     Leo 🇲🇽Oct 23, 2024
    Me vengo enterando que, dada mi edad, tener dolor de caballo, mal del puerco y tos de perro no me convierte en #nahual... #Chale 
    Irene N.Oct 17, 2024

    Drawtober No. 2 Shapeshifter
    Autopsy of a Nahual, a sort of sorcerer that can change into the form of an animal. Companion animal will be looking for sweet revenge

    #gore #bodyhorror #horror #digitalart #illustration #horrorart #nahual #shapeshifter

    KadomiJul 29, 2024
    Gestern haben wir wieder #Nahual gespielt und Tacos gegessen, und es war einfach famos. Der große Traum ist jetzt ein Rollenspielwochenende mit drei parallelen Runden in einem Setting: Nahual, Pasion de las Pasiones, und Cartel. Obwohl wir das mit Nahual alleine irgendwie auch schon hinbekommen. Gestern gab es auf jeden Fall Beziehungsdramen, interfamiliäre Probleme, geheime Agenden und natürlich illegale Autorennen. #pnpde
    Paddy HatchetJun 28, 2024

    Another session, and Nahual continues to deliver in all its grisly body horror fun.

    A PC is in the lock up after her former evil pharma company jailers caught up with her.

    And without even worrying... she says

    "Well I guess I look my reflection dead in the eye and start eating my own hand."

    I'm sure I needn't tell you that there were strong mechanical incentives for this.

    #rpg #indiegame #nahual

    Show threadPaddy HatchetJan 31, 2024

    Absolutely ripping first session out with our Nahuales, with questions answered just leading to bigger questions. Got a couple of the quirkier playbooks at table, so in addition to our too-chatty-for-her-own-good middle aged butch of a Monkey, we have a naive young Axolotl fleeing the lab that created her (?) and a Bat back from the underworld hunting down the suits that had them knocked off.

    And naturally they've chosen the Taco Truck, most chaotic changarro.

    #ttrpg #rpglatam #rpg #nahual

    Paddy HatchetJan 24, 2024

    Aaaaaand super keen to be kicking off our Nahual sessions this evening! Not quite as immediately lethal as old Traveller character generation, but it sure does have its own ways of making a crew of poor bastards already in a serious fix. Been looking forward to this for a while.

    I'll probably drop updates here and there as our broke Mexican hospo workers slaughter parasitic angels for fun and profit.

    #ttrpg #nahual #rpglatam #rpg