Canageek (RPG Focused) @Canageek@dice.camp
Canadian geek, not a geek in a can. I started gaming in grade five, started playing at conventions in 2002 with Living Greyhawk.
Open to suggestions for the type of things a locksmith/electrician/engineer/gunsmith/inventor would have in his truck in 1925.
So far:
-many tools
-bunch of half assembled locks and guns
-welding torch
-various sized chains and belts to hook things up to motors
-two or three small engines (Lawnmower through vacuum pump size)
-A couple of lead-acid batteries
A dungeon crawling as reality TV/sports type game. Kind of like X-Crawl but actual real dungeons. Possibly with dimensional travel? But television style commentary, dealing with managers, branded gear, and so on.
Not with XCrawls terrible real world setting though. That thing is BADDDD.
Idea: Lets all list game ideas we want to run, but have never gotten around to, and hashtag it with #SomedayGame
A GM has a hard job because they have to have try to constantly have bad things happening to the player's OCs without getting players angry at them for it.
Trying to find some creepy ambient music to put behind my voice on a podcast thing. Free music archive has a couple potential tracks, but they get busier then I would like. Does anyone have suggestions?
How to improve any rpg system : blend it with watership down.
Jedi Bunnies!
A warren accidentally digging into the underdark!
Post apocalyptic rabbits!
There is a game I love called Neptune's Pride. Free game, plays out as a really slow RTS, as in, takes 6-12 hours to send ships to attack someone. Very slow paced, check a couple times a day type of thing.However, as the popularity has fallen off, it is hard to find players that won't drop out quickly, so I figured I'd try to set up a Mastodon game of it. Is anyone interested?
The committee of the Diana Jones Award has announced its five shortlisted nominees for 2018, 'for excellence in gaming'. They are:
* The 200 Word RPG Challenge, a competition organised by David Schirduan and Marshall Miller
* The Actual Play movement
* Analog Game Studies, a journal edited by Aaron Trammell, Evan Torner, Shelley Jones and Emma Leigh Waldron
* Charterstone, a board game by Jamey Stegmaier
* Harlem Unbound, a roleplaying game sourcebook by Chris Spivey
Oh, this is neat:
Looks like HeroQuest is getting a System Reference Document (SRD) and will be released under the OGL:
https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/7674-heroquest-srd-and-ogl-genre-packs/
Really pleased to see Chaosium open this system up as I think it has some potential.
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@Canageek @woozle As I recently noted on the Google Plusses, "Please at least once play in a diceless RPG like Amber. You will never again question the use of dice (or cards, or other randomizer). Chance turns out to be the difference between frustration and fun."
That said, I wrote SIX WORD RPG and some other minimal games, and they work fine with only the slightest cooperation between Referee and players.
Politics night in the #GURPS game.
Randomization is important to RPGs as it adds risk. If I take a swing at someones face, I shouldn't know if it is going to hit before it lands. Likewise, even a persuasive person sometimes meets someone having a bad day, or reminds the persuadee or someone they don't like.
@Canageek OK here's an unpopular RPG opinion for ya. Minimal rules [played with the wrong people] lead to maximum arguments.
I can't stand playing a rules-lite game and having some important action fail because the rules fail to qualify success, leaving it up to the GM to arbitrarily make the call based on whether or not it works for the story they want to have play out.
Without rules, it's not a game it's just role play.
(That said, this applies less with people you know/trust)
Saying yes all the time makes you a bad DM. Players ask for unreasonable things on a regular basis and you should tell them no when they do. Don't be a doormat.
There is a mountain of advice on how to be a good GM, and almost none on how to be a good player, but they are equally important. A bad player takes up too much of the DMs time and can ruin the game for everyone else, but this is something you can learn not to do.