Please respond by saying what sorts of TTRPG things you're pretty likely to either talk about or respond to if you see them.
This can be a list of games (D&D! Tribe 8! Fate!) or categories (the weirdest of indie stuff! NSR! Anything PBtA!), topics (Worldbuilding! Publishing!), stuff you're making, meta-commentary (The State Of The Industry), and so on.
Then maybe share, and if the replies are building up, check them for new people.
@LeviKornelsen hey everybody! 👋
My name is Asher, and I post (and blog!) about all sorts of #OSR#NSR stuff. I have some #MÖRKBORG adventures on my itch page!
Working on a #dungeon23 project that uses #Errant as its skeleton. I like worker-owned businesses, am a Leftist from Pittsburgh, and have been getting really into DUNGEON SYNTH.
@LeviKornelsen Obviously #Earthdawn is the most likely subject you'll get from me, but I might wander into other topics as well, since I'm just a fan of gaming in general. Mainstream? Indie? GM Advice? Player support? Pretty books?
I wrote Sufficiently and Sorcerously Advanced, Monster Ambulance, Console, and others. AMA. Seriously I love talking about my games.
I play mostly Exalted these days, but I'm also a big fan of Tenra Bansho Zero, Monster Care Squad, Heart, Nobilis, Continuum, Icon, Delta Green, Unknown Armies, Tribe 8, etc. I'll play D&D-derived things but WotC no longer gets my money.
I love any sort of setting that leans into its premise hard.
@LeviKornelsen Hi! Literally 20 mins ago I thought about finding more folks on here who are into this. Looking to join and play more RPG campaigns online, as I am still avoiding face to face contexts. Played Vampire and Warhammer, would be OK with any system though. Can anyone give me ideas on where to start looking?
Would actually be useful for me too: I have a group of friends (mostly transwomen in their 40s+) who are potentially needing a new DM for their DnD 5E game on Discord. So, if there was anyone looking to take over an Exceptionally Silly and Homeruled game full of murderhobos, let me know and we can chat about it.
Well, mainly getting it populated, really. #DMAcademy is a subreddit, but reddit is no longer a place I wish to be. There's some lemmy/kbin instances of it, but I think it's a good # to get going.
Generally, the main issues for new DMs are keeping the player characters at the foreground of everything, including the #worldbuilding as well as aligning all the various needs a party might have properly.
Not going to mention the bane of scheduling conflicts
Well the big problem in world building is the lack of culture. Heritages and what not are used as stand-ins but that's clearly wildly off-base and has questionable assumptions baked in. E.g. if an Elf is raised at the bottom of a dwarf mineshaft then why should they know how to use a bow.
Levi has a very interesting free book on how to write cultures conceptually, you should check it out!
#ttrpg#dnd#dungeonsanddragons I'm midway through writing up a few adventure modules and similar stuff. I'm currently just using my account here to post fun magical items that I make up that are intended to be used in dnd but can be adapted to fit in any system.
@Tearcell@LeviKornelsen Its at the top of my to-play list. I'm hoping maybe to run a one-shot type of deal someday, but I have to get more familiar with the rules first. The Shadow of the Weird Wizard kickstarter is in full tilt right now, blowing through stretch goals, in case you missed it... Its the fantasy sword & sorcery offshoot of SotDL.
@LeviKornelsen Thanks for hosting—we gotta pump up the community here so the elephant can trample the ex-bird.
On here I'm likely to talk about indie games, but I do still like #DnD, for all its corporate and design faults. Some favs are #ForgedInTheDark, #Fate, and #WhatsSoCoolAboutOuterSpace. But I love anything that is trying to do something new while also being recognizably a #ttrpg. (Some of the more experimental stuff is a little too out there for me!)
And though it's not quite a #TTRPG, I'd toss #Frosthaven into the mix, too. It scratches many of the same itches, even though it's much more a board game than a TTRPG.
I'm writing a #scifi / #horror#TTRPG called Veil Runners. It's designed for #oneshot or episodic games. Easy to learn, narrative-oriented, improvisational. The design focuses on the players' ship as the core of the party, and aims to deliver plenty of player agency opposed by dire situations.
This would be the first game I make public, my previous games (Rust Skunks, Burden, Operation Awesome, and Neurohack) never left the home table.
@LeviKornelsen I’m super interested in TTRPGs that work as ‘visionary fiction’ invitations for players, or that work with #narrativetherapy in interesting ways. Things like Avery Alder’s games (especially the games in Variations on Your Body) but also any game with cool or interesting gender expansive dynamics (like Apocalypse World). I am in the very early stages of planning a gaming and narrative therapy conference-ish thing for next year. I’d love to hear about other games that fit!
My most favorite is KULT: Divinity Lost, and after that there comes
Mörk Borg
Call of Cthulhu (classic)
Alien RPG
Death in Space
Vaesen
The One Ring
Shiver RPG
Avatar Legends a little
And actually any other storywise roleplaying games.
I keep myself away from dnd because of a huge burnout
For systems I'm an evangelist for #savageworlds but I also really enjoy #faterpg and Protocol Game Series.
I'm currently in a Shadowrun game set in New Orleans and we're using an adaptation of the Savage Worlds ruleset. Couple sessions ago my Dwarf Private Investigator taunted a nasty looking Troll by eating his McHugh's 🍔🍟 from his fridge. 😂
I believe it'd be possible to make a D&D-like game I like better, but WotC won't be the one to make it.
#Eberron is my favorite D&D setting by far! But sometimes an original setting is a better fit for a D&Dish idea. And sometimes a fantasy idea isn't particularly D&Dish, but I don't have a system I favor for that yet.
@LeviKornelsen I really enjoy all sorts of convos about GM/Ref business, especially #hexcrawls and sandbox elements, tools, etc. Mechanically, I’m most likely to hop into #dnd, #odnd, #adnd, #osr, or #nsr talk as I’m most familiar with those systems. I’ve got #traveller and #pendragon on my to-play list so I definitely keep my eyes peeled for posts about those. General #worldbuilding is fun too. Always looking for topics and materials to highlight on my YouTube channel, #hexedpress.
@LeviKornelsen i mostly like queer independant ttrpg, but i play everything i can c:
currently running a Public Access (by Jason Cordova) campaign 💛
i've played and loved :
Apocalypse Keys (and everything from Rae Nedjadi)
Wanderhome (i also love Jay Dragon's work)
Brindlewood Bay (played a lot of these grandmas!)
the current ttrpg authors i am following closely are stargazersasha (the girlfriend of my girlfriend...), logan timmins (LOGAN...) and snow (.dungeon, The Wizards and the Wastes...)
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