After a false start with Scum and Villainy (the GM struggled with the system), we’re switching to Numenera for our new campaign.
We played it briefly before several years ago, and while the system is kinda funky it’s one game I’d long wanted to return to. I’m reviving my old character from 2014, since I’m not done with them…
If you like ebooks and you like free things, you should know about Standard Ebooks. They take public domain books, and properly format and proofread them. They're much nicer to look at than their Project Gutenberg equivalents.
I used their versions of Burrough's Mars novels heavily while working on a project.
They persist on donations, so feel free to kick in a few bucks.
Finished the D&D 5e version of the Sunless Citadel tonight. I played the 3.0 version 22 years ago, but didn’t remember anything besides the Kobold NPC Meepo. He met a pretty sad fate this time around.
Not sure where we’ll go next, but I’m encouraging the GM to take a look at the Kobold Press campaigns.
Looks like Backerkit is swooping in to scoop up disaffected Kickstarter users. http://backerkit.com/crowdfunding
When playing in RPGs, discussing and adopting other players’ suggested plans is a constant occurrence. One thing I’ve started doing is, instead of just “let’s go with that plan,” is saying “*I think that’s a good idea*, let’s go with that.”
It’s a little thing, but I think that little bit of explicit recognition promotes a more collegial atmosphere at the table.
Holy shit: Jeremy Strandberg (author of the amazing Dungeon World blog Spouting Lore) archived 31 Google+ communities by converting them to WordPress posts, preserving 37,000 G+ posts in the process.
I stumbled across this today. It feels like finding a literal treasure trove.
https://spoutinglore.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-g-archives.html
I'm not sure if anyone else has done this before around here, but I think we #ttrpg players need to do a better job of finding each other here on Mastodon.
If you want other gamers to find you, add your account to this Google Sheet I have created. Boosts are welcome!
#dnd #pathfinder #pnpde
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U4yvDGvI6aq7pElQWHC5g9__5Owk-M6GdgM4c_wd3Ms/edit?usp=sharing
Played Call of Cthulhu today and we ended up inadvertently speedrunning the scenario.
We went directly to the hidden basement room containing the Lovecraftian horror, bypassing all of the clues and investigation entirely. We defeated the monster and saved the world (unbeknownst to us), but had zero context for why my neighbor had a lab full of corpse parts and a weird monster in his cellar. Great success!
Today was session four of Cyberpunk RED (using the 2020 setting). We wrapped up two missions we’d been running in parallel. The first involved replacing a violent protection racket with a select coalition of smaller, less brutal gangs (we didn’t just want to leave a power vacuum), and the second, less altruistic mission, was the hired assassination of a minor military officer. Both went off without a hitch.
Tokyo-based American working in the video game industry. Role-playing gamer and goth/industrial music fan. He/him. Non-RPG stuff at @RobinMarx