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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

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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.

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Highly gameable phrases from the (fascinating) Wikipedia article on guano:

- infected secretions
- demand for guano has started to rise again
- cave fauna
- Confederate guano kiln
- Bat Cave mine
- larvae of the grotto salamander
- avoid exploring caves or old buildings
- the Guano Age
- wholly dependent on bats
- colonised by invertebrates
- spiders, isopods, millipedes, centipedes, and barklice
- the acidity of the guano
- largest colony of bats in the world

#TTRPG #devlog #weirdwikiwizards

I started reading through the Death in Space RPG last night and I really like it. With a few short paragraphs and some well chosen gear and mechanics, it does a good of setting the tone for what it is going for.

One thing that I like from the Mothership rpg is the d100 table of patches you can give characters.

Inspired, I have started my own d100 table for patches for Death in Space. It's a lot of fun.

#DeathInSpace#Mothership #ttrpg #rpg

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Here are a couple of the patches for my Mothership inspired Death in Space patches:

* "Spaghettification's on the menu"
* (5% oxygen level left indicator)
* “Did you close the airlock?”
* What doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again”
* (CRT monitor displaying static) “Listen to the Void”
* (Hub spaceship in a bottle)
* “Save the Space Whales!”
* (Pipe organ) “donor”
* “I stared into the Void and it stared back”
* “Solid Welds Save Lives!”

#DeathInSpace#Mothership #ttrpg #rpg

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I started reading through the Death in Space RPG last night and I really like it. With a few short paragraphs and some well chosen gear and mechanics, it does a good of setting the tone for what it is going for.

One thing that I like from the Mothership rpg is the d100 table of patches you can give characters.

Inspired, I have started my own d100 table for patches for Death in Space. It's a lot of fun.

#DeathInSpace#Mothership #ttrpg #rpg

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A discussion today reminded me of an old project, never completed: building a star map of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization universe.

I kind of wish someone had done a #ttrpg set in that universe. I proposed as much to Steve Jackson Games back in the late 1990s, in the form of a #GURPS setting book, but they didn't bite.

Today I doubt it would get much of an audience. Too bad. There are a lot of great stories in that universe, and it's always been a big inspiration to me.

#sciencefiction

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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."

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I have been looking at En Garde! lately, a 1975 #ttrpg which hasn't really seen much of a rules update since 1977, but still is being published (now in it's 4th edition).
It's a game about gentlemen drinking, womanizing, gambling, toadying, and getting into scrapes with one another in 17th ct. Paris.

Think The Three Musketeers, the rpg/#wargame.

In fact it originally was a fencing duel system, with the whole roleplaying part just a way to generate reasons for characters to duel each other.

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I'm a writer, and one of the things I use social media for is to promote my own work.

I also know how annoying it is when authors never post anything *else*. So I limit myself to one post a week. That's today.

Here's my most recent book, published by Ad Astra Games. This is my current last word on designing scientifically plausible exoplanetary systems for fiction, at least until I produce a second edition.

#sciencefiction #selfpromotion #ttrpg #worldbuilding

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/483143/architect-of-worlds

Looking for suggestions for rules-light, genre-agnostic #TTRPG systems. I’m looking to start up a one- or two-shot that may or may not lead to a long term game. The future game is less important as I’m open to translating to another system. Free/open games are appreciated, but not necessary.

Thank you! 😊

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@BeefGriller Fudge #ttrpg
Fate Accelerated
Microscope
In this World
Dread
Fiasco
Pip System
The Spark