Come on people, you already know that. I may not play it actively right now. But it was my first RPG Love and will probably be for days to come: #earthdawnforeverbaby
I'd like to name #Puppetland here. Mr. Punch took over Puppetland, killed the Maker and installed an autocracy. In sessions of 1 real time hour you play puppets trying to overcome him and restore peace to Puppetland.
#rpgaday2023 Day 29 - most memorable encounter (this year)
We, @ArneBab and myself as double gm, had a two party session of #EWS set in and outside of a video game with sentient NPCs and players. The best encounter was with the real selfs of the player players after they got kicked out of the game and realized, that everything up to that point in the story had been a game for their characters too.
This year I did not play any scary RPG games. It is not my style of game anyways. Scary in a sense of powerlessness and struggling is a different thing though. I do remember a One Shot of #KleineÄngste in 2004. Playing kids without powers facing horrors is really something that gets to you.
Excluding that, it’s tied between Gurps for the flexibility and Mechanical Dreams for the awesome world and deepest psychological concepts.
Honorable mentions: Shadowrun and Fate — awesome Cyberpunk-Fantasy and the system that gave Free Culture its breakthrough in RPG. And actually The Dark Eye. It gets more right than it appears.
Letzter Tag des #RPGaDay2023: Was für ein großartiger Zeipunkt meine Timeline mit meinen Antworten zu fluten weil ich bisher einfach nicht die Muse hatte etwas abzusenden. (Sorry) :rm_bitter:
I favor understatement in RPG materials. Weird fonts and cluttered layouts hamper my ability to read the book. Many things that might make a book look "cool" may turn me off it.
My current favorite is the Star Trek Adventures Gamemaster's Guide. Textured cover. Simple black text on white pages. Enough art to navigate around it. Even has a bookmark!
I like these D&D character sheets for players with dyslexia. A relatively simple layout with enough going on to be interesting without devolving into visual chaos.
When my houseruled Dark Eye Character fell in the battle against a
daemon pactist who went through several gates of daemonization during
a battle in the sevenfold stroke campaign (Siebenstreich).
His Character sheet hung in my room for years, along with the d20 I
used in the battle.
#RPGaDAY2023 rollup: 28) SCARIEST game you've played
Mechanical Dream. There’s a whole other level of dread that builds up
when you know that the world around you is several orders of magnitude
bigger than you — and when the game manages to actually evoke that
feeling of lying below a tree the size of a skyscraper with leaves
falling that can crush entire villages while the knocking of a wood
bug spells terrible danger.
#RPGaDAY2023 rollup: 24) COMPLEX / SIMPLE RPG you play
Looking back the past 5 years: Splittermond is the most comlpex I
played. It’s action-duration based combat is pretty complex but works
well, though it brings combat pretty far into board game territory.
Simplest RPG I play is my own 1w6.org / One Die System ☺
#RPGaDAY2023 rollup: 23) COOLEST looking RPG product / book
Mechanical Dreams: it has this mix of sketch and quality, of giving
you a strong foundation for your game and intense archetypes that
shine through the illustrations and style, that’s utterly great.
It also never had commercial success, but it is a work of art.
I only played two: Dresden Files and Star Wars. Of those Star Wars
clearly wins, but mainly because I played a pretty long campaign with
the kid in which the padawan got to save and teach a group of younglings.
We didn’t use the official rules though — but one official adventure.