I've been really diving into Free League games lately. My FLGS has a monthly RPG night and the theme this time is Indie Fantasy.
Really wanna run Forbidden Lands (because I just really wanna play FBL), but not sure it's the best for game store one shots introducing people to new games.
Bonjour ✨
Je vais m'essayer au #JDR en tant que MJ avec #ForbiddenLands qui est de la fantasy.
Il y aura 4 joueurs mais je propose 2 places car deux amies à moi vont participer.
Campagne sur du long terme. :d20: :d10:
Entre personnes queer et ça aura lieux sur #Lille#roubaix
First Game Purchased This Year: Forbidden Lands. I ended up with two copies: one in English ... and one in Swedish.
The Swedish one arrived first do to a shipping mishap. My family is Swedish - my grandfather and grandmother came to the US as teenagers - but they never taught my dad (or me) Swedish. #RPGaDay23#ForbiddenLands
It's a beautiful boxed set... but I don't understand a bit of it. Free League said I could keep it ... in case I wanted to learn Swedish some day. #rpgaday23#ForbiddenLands#sweden
Over on Mastodon we are enjoying ourselves with this #RPGaDay2023 thing. Have spawned a few interesting conversations. So why don’t take it over here here as well? And let’s do the whole first week (Day 1-6) at once....
FIRST RPG played (this year)
Beginning with a double whammy. First played (at all) is DnD 5e, the gateway system being the gateway. First this year (checking calendar) also DnD 5e since the first Tuesday was before the first Friday (Torchbearer night). That Tuesday group have been together for probably five years now. Thinking that being a good track record for an online group of strangers.
First RPG GAMEMASTER
D&D 5e. Gateway drug being gateway drug and wanted to see if I could. Well, I could.
This year - Blades in the Dark. This game is run as the tertiary game in my D&D group so we have something to do when the DM is away.
First RPG BOUGHT (this year)
Went though my account and saw HumbleBundle January 1st and got excited, but it was just the bank date. Humble’s purchase date was December 30th. It was the #Vaesen & #ForbiddenLands bundle.
A bit further I found an 11SEK purchase from Drivethough on the 10th. Apparently it was a sale going on the then as I got #BasicRoleplaying for 1US$. Kind of a steal. Have yet to actually download the PDF and read anything. Just an offer too good to pass by.
Most RECENT game bought
July 8th Swords of the Serpentine. A #gumshoe Sword and Sorcery game. Bought it for the #swordandsorcery wibes but will run it because Gumshoe looks pretty awesome.
OLDEST game you’ve played
7th Sea (1999). Nothing else comes close. Ran a kind of long Thea-throttling campaign. Enjoyed the system but wouldn’t return to it. We tried 2ed when it came out but it wasn’t for us. We did swap Thea over to 2e though for the cleaner lore.
Favourite game you NEVER get to play
After a fair bit of thinking as what I want to play I just run I’ve come to an answer. And that would be some Runequest (or mythras) in Glorantha. Buuut with a GM and other players that are really into it. Aaaaaand really leaning into the cult and mystic side of it. Yes, I think that would be my white whale.
First RPG i played (this year)
First RPG I ever Played was D&D. Nuff said about that, so I’ll focus on this year, and that was #ForbiddenLands, as the Symbaroum Group, sadly, didn’t take off.
Anyway, Forbidden Lands is a nice and sadly neglected/underrated Hex Crawler by #FreeLeague with a lot of OSR energy going for it. It uses the Year Zero engine and is appropriately deadly, forcing players to make better use of their wits than their character sheets.
I love it.
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.
RPGaDay 2023 - Week 1 (media.mastodon.nu)
Over on Mastodon we are enjoying ourselves with this #RPGaDay2023 thing. Have spawned a few interesting conversations. So why don’t take it over here here as well? And let’s do the whole first week (Day 1-6) at once....
Two New Exciting Expansions for 'Forbidden Lands' Released Today (www.belloflostsouls.net)
Add more adventure and new monsters to your Forbidden Lands games with two new expansions - The Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch.