Jim Jones
Jim Jones  ·  2 months ago
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

Jim Jones
Jim Jones  ·  2 months ago

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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

Jim Jones
Jim Jones  ·  2 months ago

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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

randomwizard
randomwizard  ·  3 months ago

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Recent discussions about hypothetical D&D economies led me to look into Roman currency. Here is a great wikipedia image of the common currency in the 27 BC - 100 AD Roman era.

So instead of copper, silver, electrum gold (the D&D standard), the early Roman Empire used various iterations of Bronze, Orichalcum, Silver, Billon, and Gold.

And today I learned Billon is the name for an alloy of silver and gold, or silver and copper, or silver and gold and copper, or basically any alloy of silver and some base metal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Imperial_period:_27_BC_%E2%80%93_AD_476

#dnd #rpg #osr #history #gametheory #worldbuilding

randomwizard
randomwizard  ·  3 months ago

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Messed around with making a zodiac constellation chart for my homebrew campaign. It probably will not come up in play but I sometimes think just making things lends a certain versimilitude to the game. Plus, it might lead to other ideas.

I based the zodiac after the real zodiac but sometimes changed the names, sometimes changed the constellation to be one very near, or sometimes made it up.

Now that I am done, I can not rule out that maybe The Elder Scrolls influenced my choices in some subconscious sort of way.

#dnd #osr #rpg #worldbuilding

Jon Hancock
Jon Hancock  ·  4 months ago
Looking through the various cheat sheets and rules references I've accumulated for the FATE RPG, I found this diagram explaining the relationship of different titles published for the game. Showing this to a potential player might not be the best way to convince them the rules themselves aren't complicated…

#RPG#FateRPG#Games

Jon Hancock
Jon Hancock  ·  4 months ago

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Found a podcast discussion of how to play FATE, so hopefully this will help to cement the mechanics in my brain.

#RPG#FateRPG#Games

Screenshot of Pocket Casts app showing the title card for the podcast "Inspiration Point". Title in large black text with a yellow exclamation mark taking the place of the second letter I. Blue background. Black and white portrait illustration of an armoured knight of some sort positioned under the yellow exclamation mark, as if they've had a sudden realisation. Text below title card: S03 E37: FATE School 1 (Guests: Robert Hanz & Tiana Hanson) Inspiration Point
Screenshot of Pocket Casts app showing the title card for the podcast "Inspiration Point". Title in large black text with a yellow exclamation mark taking the place of the second letter I. Blue background. Black and white portrait illustration of an armoured knight of some sort positioned under the yellow exclamation mark, as if they've had a sudden realisation. Text below title card: S03 E37: FATE School 1 (Guests: Robert Hanz & Tiana Hanson) Inspiration Point
Screenshot of Pocket Casts app showing the title card for the podcast "Inspiration Point". Title in large black text with a yellow exclamation mark taking the place of the second letter I. Blue background. Black and white portrait illustration of an armoured knight of some sort positioned under the yellow exclamation mark, as if they've had a sudden realisation. Text below title card: S03 E37: FATE School 1 (Guests: Robert Hanz & Tiana Hanson) Inspiration Point
Jon Hancock
Jon Hancock  ·  5 months ago

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The equipment descriptions in the Mongoose 2300AD rulebook come just before the relevant illustrations, which leads to this accidental juxtaposition of the excavating tools illustration with the locksmithing description due to them appearing at the bottom of the page. In fairness, this quite accurately illustrates my characters' usual approach to picking a lock.

#RPG#TravellerRPG#Traveller

Image taken from the Traveller 2300AD RPG by Mongoose. Picture shows a selection of hand excavating tools, including a pickaxe, hammer, spade and hatchet, above a text description which actually accompanies an illustration overleaf. Text: "Locksmith Kit - A locksmith kit contains tools for opening mechanical locks. On most worids it is illegal for an individual to possess a locksmith kit without a local license. The locksmith kit allows a Traveller to use the Mechanic skill to pick mechanical locks. All locks are rated by the difficuty of picking them and lockpicks by the bonus they add to the Mechanic check. If the locksmith kit..."
Image taken from the Traveller 2300AD RPG by Mongoose. Picture shows a selection of hand excavating tools, including a pickaxe, hammer, spade and hatchet, above a text description which actually accompanies an illustration overleaf. Text: "Locksmith Kit - A locksmith kit contains tools for opening mechanical locks. On most worids it is illegal for an individual to possess a locksmith kit without a local license. The locksmith kit allows a Traveller to use the Mechanic skill to pick mechanical locks. All locks are rated by the difficuty of picking them and lockpicks by the bonus they add to the Mechanic check. If the locksmith kit..."
Image taken from the Traveller 2300AD RPG by Mongoose. Picture shows a selection of hand excavating tools, including a pickaxe, hammer, spade and hatchet, above a text description which actually accompanies an illustration overleaf. Text: "Locksmith Kit - A locksmith kit contains tools for opening mechanical locks. On most worids it is illegal for an individual to possess a locksmith kit without a local license. The locksmith kit allows a Traveller to use the Mechanic skill to pick mechanical locks. All locks are rated by the difficuty of picking them and lockpicks by the bonus they add to the Mechanic check. If the locksmith kit..."
Ike
Ike  ·  5 months ago

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Is there a TTRPG system and campaign already built that:

- is simple enough for 3.5 year olds
- includes dice rolling
- non violent problem solving
- fantasy setting

Would love to introduce my kiddo to TTRPGs, Role Playing, Dice Rolling, and Collaborative Story Telling but don't want conflict, violence, etc. to be an element of the problem solving.

Would prefer not to build my own systems and campaign but not sure if anything is out there with these requirements.

#DND#TTRPG#RPG

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