Yora
Yora  ·  2 days ago

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While I love making my own settings for #ttrpg campaigns, I find the Procyon Sector from the #ScumAndVillainy rulebook quite impressive.

It's only 47 pages in a giant font (I'd say 10-12 pages in a D&D book). It has 12 planets, that come to one paragraph worth of description each. And 36 factions! That each get three or four sentences of description each.

And somehow this works! I feel I understand this world and its complex power dynamics, and could run a great game with just this.

#FitD

cybergoths
cybergoths  ·  6 days ago

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Blog - Reflections after finishing Zozer Games' Far Horizon for the #travellerrpg and #Cepheus #ttrpg

The scenario felt very different to the usual #Traveller adventure that I've run, with a strong hard science flavour. The planning exercises needed by the game enhanced the feel, and roleplaying tended towards vignettes in key scenes, partly also because people had multiple characters. The mystery about the rogue planet added an unknown factor. Highly recommended.

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2025/04/reflections-after-finishing-far-horizon.html

Wightbred
Wightbred  ·  2 weeks ago

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Lots of roleplaying systems have different titles for GM to try to refine and differentiate their specific role in that system. Fewer systems have different titles for non-GM players that point to how their roles are different. Anyone got any interesting examples?
Not looking for examples of GM-ful / GM-less games, or titles for groups of characters (eg: Shadowrunners).
#ttrpg
Stuffed Crocodile
Stuffed Crocodile  ·  2 weeks ago

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ttrpg fortunes

fortune cookie with fortune slip that reads "The program 'fortune' us currently not installed. You can install it by typing" sudo apt-get install fortune-mod"

fortuneis one of those classic unix programs that are available on basically all unixoid systems. The only thing it does is “display a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations”, or as the man-page of fortune for debian says: “fortune – print a random, hopefully interesting, adage”.

To be fair, the fortune part of the name comes from fortune cookies. So whatever is printed is not meant to be taken too seriously.

You wouldn’t think this is a terribly interesting or even useful program, but people have found uses for it over the last few decades. It might just be used to provide a human element to an otherwise sterile work environment, but I also found it used at least once to provide a noticeable update to an otherwise static website (by printing adages about project management. So the updates were functionally useless, but the program did fulfill an important task).

What the program does is this: it takes a file of adages, or sayings, or other small text snippets, and when called prints one of them. You can chose which file you want to take those from, you can choose the length you want your printed text to be, and a few other smaller options. It will determine one and output it. It’s one of those programs that breathes the unix philosophy that a program should do just one thing, but do it well.

You might encounter it every time when you log on to a shell, where the admin has configured fortune to print a quote. Or some people have it in their signature for forums or emails. (sometimes connected with something like cowsay which prints a bit of crude ascii art cow (or whatever) saying whatever fortune spit out. 

 ________________________________________/ I could never be a druid, I just don’t \\ trust the trees. They’re too shady. / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||

There are a lot of different fortune files available, from the stock ones that are shipped with distributions, to other projects where you might, e.g. find Discworld quotes, or, I dunno, your favorite Chuck Norris facts.

Anyway, I was futzing around with our IRC network lately and while playing around with a bot that could use fortune, I realized that there was no actual file available for stuff about roleplaying (or wargaming, or boardgaming, or any gaming for that matter).

So I decided to make one.

Right now it’s only a small page on campaignwiki.org: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage but the idea is to soon enough move that to github and do it on there.

If you want to add to the file: the page above is a wiki so you can just add what you want to add. (some people already did). I am looking for pithy sayings, jokes, DM advice, and everything else that might be interesting. Have a great quote about roleplaying games? Maybe even a more or less short story? Just add it on there.

Rate this:

#dnd #fortune #Linux #osr #rpg #ttrpg #unix #Wargames

Law Dog: unusual RPGs a favorite.
Law Dog: unusual RPGs a favorite.  ·  2 weeks ago

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#ABCRPG #ttrpg

U is for Universe

I remember when this one was on the shelves at Walden Books. Originally designed as a fix for the things not liked in Traveller by SPI, later acquired by TSR and scuttled to make way for Star Frontiers. This one never really had a chance.

Will Tuladhar-Douglas
Will Tuladhar-Douglas  ·  2 weeks ago

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#ttrpg
#scifi

Folks, I have a child who is looking for play testers for a _hard_ sci fi RPG system - real physics, optimistic and thoroughly decolonial politics. ("well, it's not optimistic if half the world gets nuked", they said.)

It is not another capitalist warmongers in space hard SciFi system.

If anyone's interested, please contact me by DM and I will put you in touch.

Joshua A.C. Newman
Joshua A.C. Newman  ·  2 years ago

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You might wonder: is there a #ttrpg inspired by Vance, Le Guin, Gilgamesh, Red Sonja & Conan, and Torah... that DOESN'T pay the fucking Pinkertons?

AND is that game easy to pick up, beautifully written by award-winning storytellers, & plays over coffee OR through a long, sexy Bronze Age Sword & Sorcery campaign?

GOOD NEWS! It's on SALE for FUCK THE PINKERTONS DAY*!

*erryday

[Join https://patreon.com/joshua to support my creation & access my library, or https://joshuaacnewman.itch.io/the-bloody-handed-name-of-bronze for a pdf)

An enormous, pale crocodile with a green gem in its forehead — the queen of its river — negotiates with a human sitting in the sand at the shore. The human seems relaxed as she explains that the approaching army from which she hids is much more sustenance than her little, skinny self, and she could bring them here for the crocodile to feast upon. The crocodile will concede, with the caveat that each time she hungers, the little mortal will feel her hunger.
An enormous, pale crocodile with a green gem in its forehead — the queen of its river — negotiates with a human sitting in the sand at the shore. The human seems relaxed as she explains that the approaching army from which she hids is much more sustenance than her little, skinny self, and she could bring them here for the crocodile to feast upon. The crocodile will concede, with the caveat that each time she hungers, the little mortal will feel her hunger.
An enormous, pale crocodile with a green gem in its forehead — the queen of its river — negotiates with a human sitting in the sand at the shore. The human seems relaxed as she explains that the approaching army from which she hids is much more sustenance than her little, skinny self, and she could bring them here for the crocodile to feast upon. The crocodile will concede, with the caveat that each time she hungers, the little mortal will feel her hunger.
The cover of The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE, on which a woman, dressed in a bronze helmet and linen armor, draped in the pelt of a wild animal, casually decapitates a henchman while other henchmen encircle her with their weapons at the ready. At her feet is a substantially more slight, bearded man who has summoned the approaching thunderstorm that has, unfortunately, decided that this is the time to renegotiate their agreement that the storm help him.
The cover of The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE, on which a woman, dressed in a bronze helmet and linen armor, draped in the pelt of a wild animal, casually decapitates a henchman while other henchmen encircle her with their weapons at the ready. At her feet is a substantially more slight, bearded man who has summoned the approaching thunderstorm that has, unfortunately, decided that this is the time to renegotiate their agreement that the storm help him.
The cover of The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE, on which a woman, dressed in a bronze helmet and linen armor, draped in the pelt of a wild animal, casually decapitates a henchman while other henchmen encircle her with their weapons at the ready. At her feet is a substantially more slight, bearded man who has summoned the approaching thunderstorm that has, unfortunately, decided that this is the time to renegotiate their agreement that the storm help him.
Jürgen Hubert
Jürgen Hubert  ·  3 weeks ago

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A model of a Man Engine in the #Mining#Museum in #SanktAndreasberg - an elevator of sorts which allowed miners to get into a mine and out again far faster than by climbing ladders.

I really encourage you to read the Wikipedia entry to understand the concept. And then you can inflict this on your #ttrpg campaign the next time the player characters delve into an old mine. :D

#engineering #history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_engine
Jürgen Hubert
Jürgen Hubert  ·  4 weeks ago

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One of the massive pumps that kept the Samson Pit in #SanktAndreasberg - once the deepest mine in the world - free of water.

Since learning more about historical #mining , I have come to the conclusion that the typical "old mine" dungeon complex in #DnD and other #ttrpg don't give enough thought on how to keep the water out.

#history #engineering#Harz
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