I'm reading the first and second editions of Urban Shadows and comparing them. Spoilers for a future blog post/bsky thread, but I think the first edition is a better game.

Woops forgot to include the XP track!

My PbtA game of middle school mysteries finally has a character sheet!

You know it's the worst timeline when I agree with Ted Cruz.

"The Samsung refrigerator you already purchased is going to start showing advertisements." *taps the meme*

Cancelled my Disney+ account. I don't like Jimmy Kimmel, but still.

"Two hours RPG sessions? That's not enough time to do anything!" Skill issue. Git gud, noob.

Ah yes, my favorite generic system *checks notes* PbtA????

Tannic was the first OSR module I ever ran, super excited to run the sequel!

I'm sorry, but whatever else it may be, "Guy who says school shootings is acceptable cost to have guns" getting shot in a school IS funny, and it's goofy to make like it ain't.

Anyone who ever published a PbtA game is legally required to promote this campaign. I don't make the rules, that's just how it is.

This is peak "I didn't have eggs" and I love it.

Woops, @dngnclub.itch.io and I started a Discourse. Time to ignore this app until it blows over.

I know I have a well curated Bluesky page because this has been up for three hours and no one called me a gatekeeper.

I'm buying a game *because* I trust the designer's vision and creative intent. If I didn't why would I spend money on it?

5e has trained a generation of gamers into believing all TTRPGs need house rules to function.

Random user I don't feel like putting on blast: "All PbtA games feel generic." Brindlewood Bay, Escape from Dino Island and Night Witches: "Are we jokes to you?"

LABOR DAY SALE!

The greatest sound ever made is the opening guitar harmonies in End of the Line by the Traveling Wilburys. No contest. The second greatest sound is an 808 bass beat. I'm partial to It's Tricky. Third place is the THX logo sound. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

Classic example of player/system mismatch. This hypothetical group is probably playing D&D. They should be playing Pasión de las Pasiones.

This is the energy I want in my life.

This is true power gaming.

IF everyone is rolling behind a screen then the group should play Liar's Dice simultaneously. Anyone can call bullshit on a roll and that player has to reveal their dice. If they lied about the roll that player buys dinner. For everyone.

New position on fudging dice rolls in TTRPGs: Either no one fudges or everyone does. All rolls are done in the open OR all players roll behind a personal screen and reports the rolls to the group. It's the only way to be fair.

This is an instant buy. I got to read the expanded version and it absolutely slaps.

Chutes and Ladders is an OSR dungeon, you heard it here first folks.

Last night in my Prohibition era urban fantasy game, one PC died, one PC who already died twice was trapped as a ghost, one PC was offered the chance of freedom and turned it down, one PC died for the fourth (I think) time, and Satan himself reached up from Hell to claim the soul of the BBEG.

Quinns Quest is the anti-capitalist hero Mulligan dreams of being.

Have you ever been like "yeah Glee was good but there should have been more actual monsters and less actual singing?" On Wednesday, September 3rd, your dreams are about to come true. Follow twitch.tv/RollForFelicity to be notified when we're live!

I have reasonably interesting thoughts on an extremely niche hobby. Actually, I have interesting thoughts on multiple niche hobbies. But I don't think anyone would understand my extended rant about the performative culture of partnered fusion dance.

No one reads the rules of Wingspan and thinks "yeah, I'm going to change this" but people regularly try to house rule TTRPGs before they've ever played them and expect everything to be hunky dory.

When I wrote this I googled "hunky dory" to check the spelling and discovered no one knows where that phrase came from.

No one looks at a 2-4 player board game and goes "Does this work with five people?" but they'll shove eight people into a D&D session and expect everything to be hunky dory.

This is what PbtA system mastery looks like.

This is going about as well as I expected, but I have no regrets.

Can you imagine asking this question about literally any other topic? "Why do people eat different food every meal?" "Why do people watch a different TV show every night?" "Why do people wear different clothes every day?"

I FEAR NOTHING

Pasión de la Pasiones set in Doskvol is a dream campaign of mine.

I'm always fascinated by what mechanics game designers decide to explain. Troika has half a page on drowning, but specifically says the table has to decide how many small items fit in a single inventory slot. There aren't even any examples or advice.

This thread is great, because I went on the exact same journey. I read it and thought, god damn this is complicated! Why is this even here? Then I realized it's to keep HP values low, while still allowing players to roll damage. Then I played DH and realized it's actually a pretty simple system.

An unasked for opinion: People who brag on social media about their TTRPG character committing violence are a walking red flag.

Advertise your account with a gif? Don't mind if I do.

I have my Bluesky homepage set up to only show posts by my mutuals. Every week or so I get bored and start browsing some of the TTRPG feeds. Then I remember most people on the Internet suck and I go back to hanging out with my friends.

Oh hey, I've done this! thisisvictor.itch.io/performance-... (I wrote this four years ago, never played it and never revisited it. You've been warned.)

Why support a billion dollar corporation when you can buy better games and put the money directly into the designer's pocket?

One like = one completely hinged TTRPG opinion, because all my opinion are perfectly sane and reasonable.

I've said it once and I'll say it again: You don't need the game's permission to change the rules of the game. And before anyone says, "Rule Zero is there to stop people from arguing with the GM." That's not a system problem, your friend's just an asshole.

1000 Year Old Vampire any%