Still thinking about our madcap gaming session last night. The whole group was rolling so many Advantages and very, very few Successes that it just turned into... how to describe it? My net runner was in a slap fight with a scientist dual wielding syringes, and neither of us could land a blow. When we finally got to "let's blow this thing and go home!" it was a blessed relief. #ShadowOfTheBeanstalk#Genesys#TTRPG
When I hear people say in #ttrpgs that they like to make up the character’s backstory and personality as they play rather than beforehand or at a session 0, I think they must have players that are far better at improv than the ones I play with.
In my experience, if a character doesn’t have a backstory at the beginning, they never will have one.
@SJohnRoss@Kokirimuscle "frontstory" - I like that. Yeah, some TTRPGs build that into the game to ensure players have such touch points. I play a lot of #Genesys and so my characters always have at the very least a desire, fear, strength, and flaw that can provide hooks.
One use I have noticed for generic systems like #Genesys and #CypherSystem is when they can be modded to fit more specific settings, the #DresdenFiles#ttrpg does this pretty well with #FATE. It's not as good as a ground-up, dedicated system, but it can be more accessible for someone who wants to do something unique.
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On a bit of a whim I picked up #Genesys#rpg and the dice to go with it. I know custom dice is a contentious topic but I personally like the idea and am excited to try it.
That being said, I'm coming to the system cold. I'm working through the rulebook but it's 200+ pages so I'm having trouble keeping it all in my head. Any good resources out there for learning the system? Cheat sheets, actual plays (that adhere fairly closely to the rules), blog posts, etc?
@nickdrawthing A good way to get started with #Genesys is to look at the free adventures published in each of the released settings. Those sort of ease you into the rules.
@nickdrawthing Sure thing! I've been playing #Genesys regularly ever since it came out. I played its predecessor at a gaming convention back in 2016 or 2017 and was hooked by the multi-axis results of the dice system. I'm also a big fan of class-less RPGs, so I really like the freedom this system has to grow a character in whatever direction you want. And since Genesys is genre-agnostic, we can use it for all sorts of campaigns!
I got to thinking about Generic TTRPG systems, and why I don't really care when I see a new one. It's not that I own a lot of them. It's that they're really just generic combat systems. It doesn't matter how great your new combat system is... I want to do more than just go around fighting people.
@masukomi Why is #Genesys listed as "sadly abandoned" in your round up of generic #ttrpgs? To each their own, of course, but it's my group's #ttrpg of choice, and we use it for a variety of genres, to tell stories of characters who do struggle and who do not spend most of their time in combat.
I saw some folks shared their cyberpunk screamsheets earlier, so I thought I'd share mine from an Android: Shadow of the Beanstalk game I ran using Genesys. I did incorporate some lingo from both Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0 and Shadowrun.
Sag mal, liebes #pnpde, bin eben bei der Vorbereitung unserer nächsten Runde #TwilightImperium4 über das dazugehörige #TTRPG-Setting gestolpert. Das gehört zum #Genesys-System, von dem ich bislang ehrlich gesagt nicht weiß, außer dass es angeblich ziemlich narrativ sein soll und spezielle Würfel benutzt (was ich an sich ja schon schwierig finde). Gibt's da bei euch irgendwelche Erfahrungen, die ihr teilen könnt/wollt?
I was thinking of playing the solo adventure that comes with #Dragonbane (side note: ridiculously impressed with the system) but when I reached for dice at my side-table I discovered that i only have narrative dice in the living room.
Someone in the #genesys#rpg discord asked me what's happened to Brisbane in the Brink of the Billabong setting, and the only thing I can really think of is perhaps they try to build their own Beanstalk but - lacking funding - they only get part of the way... so they have this megastructure just called 'The Black Stump'
Mein erstes RPG war DSA, überarbeitete 4. Edition, ca. 2008. Wir haben das in der Familie (meine Eltern und mein Bruder) ausprobiert. Hat überhaupt nicht funktioniert. Die Regeln waren viel zu kompliziert und das Abenteuer ("Im Reich des Flussvaters" oder so) hat auch nicht direkt richtig losgelegt.
Naja, eine zweite Session gab es dementsprechend nicht. Rollenspiel war für mich erst Liebe auf den zweiten Blick, Jahre später.
Mein Lieblingssystem ist Fantasy Flight Star Wars/Genesys. Ich mag die vielen bunten Würfel und die Symbole und welche Möglichkeiten zur Interpretation sie bieten.
Ich mag auch die Skillbäume. Die bieten mehr Auswahl als die klassischen DnD-Aufstiege, fühlen sich aber thematisch konsistenter an als reine Point-Buy Systeme.
Leider bin ich noch nicht oft dazu gekommen, das ganze in Aktion zu sehen, vllt ein halbes Dutzend Sessions insgesamt.
There's a long discussion on gun calibre vs barrel velocity and at what point something goes from Ranged Light to Ranged Heavy to Gunnery on the #Genesys discord and... I'm wondering how many of these folks should probably just be playing GURPS
Reading up on releasing stuff for #Genesys#Rpg, and slapping the pdf out there with no traceable fingerprints might be the best way, cause gods, company legal folks get in the fuckin way.
Me: Look at all these cool #TTRPGs out there! There's Fantasy AGE, Genesys, Star Wars, Star Trek, Cyberpunk, Paranoia...
Gaming Group: NO! We don't want new rules/genres! Only D&D!
My spirit, deflated.
I will give them credit. I did introduce them to #Genesys via Android: Shadow of the Beanstalk and #Alien RPG. They enjoyed them. But the Genesys funky dice are hard for them to grok (I get it). And they love fantasy first.
Wonder if there's Fallout rpg premade scenarios I can port to #genesys
There's a premade called 'A Better Man' in this file dump, but it's definitely been written for the Star Wars system, not Genesys - so I suspect it's very, very, very old.
Now, this graph is shittier than what I'd like, but it's Google sheets and I can't be fucked with doing better right now - but this is - so far - how many items each #Genesys#rpg setting has on DrivethruRPG.