seedling

@seedling@beehaw.org

I use the name Seedling or Seedling Games on the Internet to talk about tabletop RPGs and other related creative things.

Sometimes I make things as well, you can find my website here: seedlinggames.com

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Game System Recommendations

I thought it might be nice to set up a thread in which we can recommend game systems to one another. What do you like? Why? Give us a quick blurb about a game you like and why you think others might like it. Maybe call out if you think it would be good for absolute beginners or folks new to the OSR/NSR. Oh and the genre too. If...

seedling,

This is all going to be more NSR

Cairn seems like an obvious one. It's classic fantasy that will be pretty familiar to people, it has a good number of adventures as well as adventures for other systems that have been converted, and also all the rules are totally free.

Mausritter (modern, but nice) and liminal horror (modern, but horror) are also good. These are all Into the Odd games, there are a lot of hacks of this system for different settings and I feel like you can't really go wrong there.

I'll also recommend Fallen, especially for solo games. It's more like gothic fantasy. It has some really good random tables. I use the oracle deck for other games all the time.

seedling,

Defederation is a key feature of the fediverse. This is probably the politest defederation I've ever seen. I'm glad this is the first on Lemmy because if this kind of thing bothers people, they'll be in for a rude awakening once we get some real defederation drama.

And you can't have federated software without defederation, just wait till someone starts setting up massive numbers of throwaway spambot accounts

I'm thinking of making a Blades in the Dark community. Would anybody be into to that?

I don't really know where to begin with moderation and I have limited access to the internet with my current living situation. If anyone has any suggestions on if this is a good idea or if any of you would be interested in joining such a group I'd love to hear from you, thanks! :)

seedling,

I'd probably join, but also I feel like I'm in 5 different rpg communities that don't get a lot of posts.

Just throwing this out there, but what if we had like weekly themed threads for different types of games or something?

seedling,

That's basically how federated software has to work. Without defederation, running federated software becomes unusable. Either you get overrun by spammers or you become legally liable for illegal content from other servers if you don't do anything about it (the beehaw admins mentioned someone posting child porn as being one reason for defederation). Lemmy is clearly in its early days but this kind of thing will become way more common, as it is on more mature fediverse platforms.

Email providers are a good example of federated software. They have to make sure nobody is sending spam or malware or they will get federated, and they can be very aggressive about that.

Ultimately if you don't want defederation to ever happen, you want a centralized system run by a single organization. Those are your options.

Or you can have the government step in and have a very highly regulated system like for telephony, where almost nobody gets to run an instance, which seems unlikely in this case.

seedling,

I really like this. I come at this from a more NSR than OSR perspective, but I feel like I wouldn't go so far as to say that the difficulties of parleying and fighting should be matched - the situation is what it is. And even if not fighting is always the better choice, the players won't know that and won't always make the best choices.

I generally play these types of games with combat being what happens when things go wrong. Unless one side has a very clear advantage, combat is high risk for everyone involved and usually it's better for everyone to avoid it. Combat happens, not because either the player characters or the NPCs would choose it as their first choice, but because you play games about situations in which everything is likely to go wrong.

seedling,

As someone who is very much a beginner, I found it really helpful though I never finished it. At the very least it helped me figure out a lot of what I was doing wrong and get un-stuck in getting better.

seedling,

Cairn (https://cairnrpg.com/) is free and fairly simple. I play it solo sometimes, though the rules don't give any particular guidance for that, though someone has made a third party set of solo rules: https://manadawnttg.itch.io/barrow-delver

I've had some luck finding people online to play with, usually over discord, which is also an option.

seedling,

I think you can ignore the "pending" thing.

I did just learn that if you're the first one on your server to subscribe to a community, you'll only see new posts from that point forward and not old ones

seedling,

Itch is great, I'll second that recommendation. It also has some really indie stuff you can't find anywhere else. I think it's DRM free in the way GOG is, in that the platform doesn't support DRM. A good number of games are free, and some are open source as well.

Also it has tabletop RPGs!

seedling,

Yeah, I think one thing I like about it is that the distance between people making things and people playing the game is not that far. Lots of hacks and creativity, lots of sharing ideas, a good amount of creative commons stuff too.

I'm working on something for the A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon game jam and it's been cool to see a lot of other people making something for the first time for the jam

seedling,

I just discovered !osr which seems NSR friendly!

seedling,

I haven't looked at that one yet, but I'm waiting on the kickstarter for issue 2!

seedling,

I’ve seen temporary ones in libraries. Like they’re only on certain days but are somewhat regular

seedling,

I have a weekly game of Blades in the Dark right now! It's maybe actually my longest running campaign - stretching the limits of the system - also we're playing as cultists

seedling,

oh I hadn’t thought of doing that, but that’s a great idea!

seedling,

Hi everyone! I was born in Canada, live in the US, and Asian and mixed race. I'm generally a little vague about my real world identity online though beyond that. You can find me here on Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@seedling although it's basically all my TTRPG stuff.

seedling,

I've been playing Blades in the Dark and also Cairn, two games that are pretty different.

I'll try almost any game. I like playing different types of games. I'll play 4E, and I'll play a GM-less dice-less story game. But when it comes to running games, I like modern rules-light OSR-ish games like Cairn because it's just a lot easier for me as a GM.

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