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.
libraryogre
libraryogre  ·  8 months ago

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An occasional #TTRPG thought I have: we lose a lot of gaming history because of licensed materials. I've heard how great the Ghostbusters RPG was. I know and love d6 Star Wars (2e R&E was mine), and have a new appreciation for RM, which I know through MERP.

But because they're licensed properties, they don't exist anymore. Can't reprint, licenses sold to others. Not gone, just rare and hard to get.

A gif of Roy Batty, from Blade Runner, saying "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain."
Tim_Eagon
Tim_Eagon  ·  4 months ago

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OK, that's enough news this morning. Everyone, post some of your favorite Dragon Magazine covers. Here's mine, from Issue 126 by Daniel Horne. I didn't actually encounter this piece in Dragon Magazine; I saw it repeatedly used by TSR in other promotional materials and fell in love with it.

#Fantasy#FantasyArt#Magazine#Dragon#DND#TTRPG

A giant, armor-clad skeleton bursts out from the snow. It wields a massive axe in one hand and arrows and broken sword blades stick out of it's undead remains. It looms over a surprised woman with long, brown hair wearing leathers and fur-trimmed winter clothes. She's knocking an arrow in her longbow in reaction to the undead monstrosity. She's in trouble, as her quiver is empty. A snow covered forest and mountains are in the background. The Dragon masthead is yellow and the rest of the text on the magazine cover is a darker grey that stands out against a yellowish-light gray background.
A giant, armor-clad skeleton bursts out from the snow. It wields a massive axe in one hand and arrows and broken sword blades stick out of it's undead remains. It looms over a surprised woman with long, brown hair wearing leathers and fur-trimmed winter clothes. She's knocking an arrow in her longbow in reaction to the undead monstrosity. She's in trouble, as her quiver is empty. A snow covered forest and mountains are in the background. The Dragon masthead is yellow and the rest of the text on the magazine cover is a darker grey that stands out against a yellowish-light gray background.
A giant, armor-clad skeleton bursts out from the snow. It wields a massive axe in one hand and arrows and broken sword blades stick out of it's undead remains. It looms over a surprised woman with long, brown hair wearing leathers and fur-trimmed winter clothes. She's knocking an arrow in her longbow in reaction to the undead monstrosity. She's in trouble, as her quiver is empty. A snow covered forest and mountains are in the background. The Dragon masthead is yellow and the rest of the text on the magazine cover is a darker grey that stands out against a yellowish-light gray background.
Alex Keane
Alex Keane  ·  4 months ago

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Had a post from Grognardia show up in my feeds today reminding me of this excellent post from A Knight at the Opera analyzing why the simple mostly black cover of Classic Traveller is so effective:

https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-best-rpg-cover-of-all-time.html?m=1

The distress call really does set a mood better than most any illustration I've seen on an RPG cover.

#Traveller#TTRPG

LexTenebris
LexTenebris  ·  4 months ago

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I may be feeling like hammered garbage with a cold this morning, but that doesn't mean you go without content, albeit recollected content. Here are four articles containing recommendations for tabletop role-playing games and war games this Christmas season.

https://grimtokens.garden/Articles/Game+Recommendations+for+the+Christmas+Season+2024

#TTRPG #wargames#buyersGuide #games

Norton Glover
Norton Glover  ·  4 months ago

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I mostly finished creating all of the worlds in the Foreven sector for my ongoing #Traveller campaign.

Most of them were randomly generated, a few were designed, and a handful were taken directly from various Traveller/Cepheus books. I used the TravellerMap site to generate my own map and booklet.

I'm going to tidy it up a bit, and make a final version for my players. Will most likely post it on my blog as well.

#TTRPG

Legit_Spaghetti
Legit_Spaghetti  ·  4 months ago

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I am currently OBSESSED with Hero Forge. I made minis for my Wednesday night #TTRPG group, and now I'm making NPCs. This is a Fremen I'm working on.

I remember using Hero Forge years and years ago, and all the features they've added are REALLY nice. Like, just being able to repose the mini and having fine control over arm and hand positions is so, so cool.

#Gaming#3dPrinting

EDIT: Oh neat, you can share links to models!

https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D50786799/

Of Gods and Gamemasters
Of Gods and Gamemasters  ·  6 months ago

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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, paraphrasing J.R.R. Tolkien
TTRPG Community #ttrpg #fantasy
Don't stop creating.
SilverGM
SilverGM  ·  4 months ago

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One of the less-talked-about benefits of metacurrencies (fate points, hero points, etc) is that it allows me, as a GM, a quick, easy, and direct way of compensating players whenever I make a mistake. #ttrpg
Gerard Thomas ⭕️
Gerard Thomas ⭕️  ·  5 months ago

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#RaidMetal The rules are where I want them. Now working on a unit building system so I can come up with some testing scenarios. Catch is making them as simple as the rules yet workable!

https://iamgerardthomas.com/b/TH7

#TTRPG #tabletopgames #tabletop#SciFi#ScienceFiction

Jay Africa
Jay Africa  ·  5 months ago

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The L.A. Public Library commissioned me and a writing team to adapt Octavia E. Butler's the Parable of the Sower into a Fate RPG. We're running portions of it at the Octavia Lab at the LAPL Central Branch in DTLA on 12/14! If you're a fan of the novel or Fate, sign up and roll dice with us!

Learn more at https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/journey-earthseed-tabletop-roleplay-campaign-octavia-e-butlers-parable-universe

RSVP to rsvpoctavialab@lapl.org

#octaviaebutler#parableofthesower #lapl #losangelespubliclibrary #fate#evilhatproductions #ttrpg #gamer #dmlife

Jürgen Hubert
Jürgen Hubert  ·  5 months ago

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As a reminder, when doing #ttrpg #worldbuilding , it's usually unnecessary to have human(oid) history go back "tens of thousands of years". If you need some justifications for old ruins and whatnot, it's easy to cram them into the last thousand years or less. Real world history is _full_ of interesting stuff happening in fairly short time periods, so it's not difficult to arrange the same for fictional worlds.

Besides, humans constantly come up with new ideas and new technology. If you _want_ human society in your fantasy world to have a typical late medieval/Renaissance-era tech level, then you will need to come up with some good reasons why they haven't developed further - and that gets trickier the longer the history of human civilization in your world is.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime

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