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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.

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.

Ahh, Sunday. Before I could even get out of bed, #TheYellowKingRPG ensorceled me as if I was staying to read The King in Yellow play. Finally got to volume one's section on 1890's Paris, people, places, foes and possible Carcosan arcs. Now I don't know iif I can... Or even want to escape. Time for soloing, worldbuilding, and taking out the Plot Unfolding Machine for a spin. #ttrpg #GUMSHOESystem #ttrpgoraclesandemulators #ttrpgsolo

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

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.

#TTRPG #gumshoe #TheYellowKingRPG

A nice write up of introducing GUMSHOE to some DnD players.

https://justanotherpipeclue.blogspot.com/2021/02/seven-d-players-walk-into-belle-epoque.html

Last week #TheDeeSanction followed by #TheYellowKingRPG The Wars then last night #Dragonbane

At my limit of RPGing but a wonderful variety of games, GMs and players.

This week #OutoftheAshes, back to #TheDeeSanction then #TheYellowKingRPG Paris before #FrontierScum and ending the week with more #Dragonbane

Overstretching but as partner is away, I'll not be getting into too much trouble

Got games to prep; #ttrpg reading weekend Ben Milton's #OSR game #Knave #MorkBorg flavoured #FrontierScum from Karl Druid then a #gumshoe game from Robin D Laws #TheYellowKingRPG - Cassilda's Song, The Wars playtest

We finished the first scenario in the playtest of #TheYellowKingRPG campaign. What a great group, with loads of wonderful interplay and positive feedback. Looking forward to continuing beyond the deadline. #gumshoe #ttrpg

Friday is a hard time to GM, end-of-the-week syndrome. Still, within a few moments of play, I'm energised and riffing off of the player interaction, creating memorable scenes in an epic story, both written by the author and then redeveloped by the collective.

A great deal of fun & horror was had in session one of the playtest of Cassilda's Song.

Not much can be divulged but as flavour...

...a destitute portrait painter, armed with wine & cigs
...a lovesick poet taking an impromptu dip in the Seine
...a sculptor's bloodied jacket given up to a gendarme
...art students arm themselves with a scythe, secateurs, a pruner & a hay fork
...a dead end in an alleyway, but something has followed them

Gaming retrospective for 2022
https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2023/01/gaming-in-2022.html

TL;DR: 49 games (12 face-to-face), dominant game was #dnd5e run on #roll20 for my Curse of Strahd campaign. Games I played most myself were #trailofcthulhu (Eternal Lies) and #TheYellowKingRPG - both Gumshoe. #playrole was my go-to VTT outside the D&D campaign. Finally introduced the kids to gaming.

So, for an early Christmas present, I've decided to bring forward the sign-up to The Raspy Raven Gumshoe Season to ... TODAY!

Around 3 weeks to put your choices in & join the Discord (See my profile)

https://tinyurl.com/Gumshoe-Season

#ttrpg #gumshoe #NightsBlackAgents #SwordsoftheSerpentine #FearItself #Timewatch #TrailofCthulhu #TheEsoterrorists #TheYellowKingRPG #CastingtheRunes

cc @pelgranepress @robindlaws @Mytholder @gbsteve @Multiplexer @simonjrogers @TheTweedmeister @PaulBaldowski @seanfsmith

#5and5 #ttrpg
5 Recently played games:
1. #callofcthulhu
2. #dungeonsAndDragons
3. #trailofcthulhu
4. #Morkborg
5. #ose

5 games I want to play
1. #deltagreen
2. #kidsonbikes
3. #draculadossier
4. #mothership
5. #TheYellowKingRPG

re: Delta Green, I've been prepping for two weeks for first session this coming Friday. I'll be running Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays, and I've been making handouts and props like a madman