gonna start a coin-flipping game with tibbius. gonna play a witchy person.
Update 2022-02-11: Moving this to dead. The story was really good. The system was surprisingly good. The gimmick is that you a special that you can invoke and it just happens. And then you flip a coin. Heads = you can continue to use your special. Tails = special is burned until recharged. Made for smoe really fun gameplay.
See more at https://tibbiusgames.itch.io/2-bit
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pbp on rpg.net with tibbius. Playing former child actor Sender, who is a blade for hire who just wants to retire and be a mushroom farmer, who is also haunted by the ghost of his dead twin brother who he absorbed in the womb, and who is also followed around by small woodland animals like a disney princess.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/170294/Risus-The-Anything-RPG
Update 2022-02-11: Moving this to dead. Never could remember to go check rpg.net for updates. One of our players dropped, and it became not enough to keep the story going. sad! First time playing Risus, a game I’ve long wanted to try. Don’t feel like I ever got to really get a handle on it.
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-“I truly am happy that you get to know your falcon-headed god, Kiara. It is a gift I hope you won’t take for granted!”
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A hack of Tunnel Goons by Nate Smith. Very fun original world, hex crawly open sandbox. You can get a lot done even with hyper minimal rules
https://seanfsmith.itch.io/puffin
Update 2022-02-11: Still going strong! Sean just recruited some new players to breathe some new life into the game. We abandoned the spooky haunted house which we learned is actually just a front for an arms smuggler. Then we decided to go climb an anti-crater!
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that said, it was a great group. a real convergence of spheres.
I don’t know, i’d run it again. I imagine i’ll feel more prepared the second time around. the players (except for pete) all seemed to have fun
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307416/Brindlewood-Bay
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Arkham 1628 is a game of Cthulhu Dark that I started playing 2022-02-02 as a DM. It is a discord voice Oneshot and is currently Complete.
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Radsauce. Ran it with Carter, Hilary, and Jimmy. It went a bit over an hour, and the we finished it up in a bit over an hour the next day. Not positive I got all the rolls right, but the players seemed to have fun. I got a couple wtf moments out of them which seems like a success. I think there might need to be something said upfront about how the point of some of the weirdness is just that it is weird. That is, not every theme is a clue to the answer to the mystery. (Speaking directly of the puppet theme in this adventure.) There was interest in continuing with the othe mysteries in the text, so we might start that next week
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Pathfinder is everything I hate about ttrpgs. I only keep playing this because it’s the only way this particular friend group continues to get together, so I’ll probably keep playing it forever, hating the game and enjoying the company of my friends.
Update 2022-02-02: We killed this campaign as a group to try out something new. New system, new characters, new game. Inject some life and some fun into this struggling beast.
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fun! eskur ran it, played with hat and wrongtube. never played 2400 before, that was fun. never played the UVG setting either. that was also fun. played in the Forest of Meat!
https://wizardthieffighter.itch.io/ultraviolet-grasslands-and-the-black-city-uvg
https://jasontocci.itch.io/2400
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super good! ran for z and j. the premise was ‘Cheesy Hallmark Christmas movie for OSE’ and I think they pulled it off really well. Players arranged for the best ending possible: get /everybody/ to meet up at the docks: dinaz and lucretia to steal the ship (desperate move by L to get on the naughty list) both bounty hunters, yvette and midge, to capture dinaz and lucretia + bitter; winter and loss there, snow to arrange a romantic sleigh ride with Z and Loss… it was a beautiful chaotic mess that was super fun. five thumbs up.
https://r-rook.itch.io/ose-quiet-midwinter
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Zigs and Dragons is a game of D&D 5e that I started playing 2021-12-03 as a Player. It is a Roll20 + Discord Series and is currently Ongoing.
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Zig’s first time DM-ing! A series of oneshots on a mysterious island. Getting to play with Alex again is fun. The characters escalate from session to session from level 3 to 6 to 9 etc. Have played two so far. Having a lot of fun playing and getting to make new characters all the time.
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yule homebrew is a game of Into the Odd that I started playing 2021-12-21 as a Player. It is a Owlbear Rodeo + Zoom oneshot and is currently Complete.
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another Kyle game! got to play with eskur and wendi and kim. first time playing into the odd. played Luna Saturday, dreamy moonchild with a cane. we ventured down below a giant tree, and prevented a goblin invasion. (Wendi stopped the ooze ritual and tossed a bomb into the mirror.)
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Originally supposed to be a really quick adventure with my core Troika pbp group, but has been slogging along for months now. I’m about to just end it so we can move on to something else.
https://brick-road.itch.io/13-story-bazaar
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This was a first, made a little toy rpg (a lasers and feelings clone) and some tildepals wanted to play it, so I ran a game for nico and malvarma. fun little session!
http://tilde.town/~dozens/giraffe/
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beautiful craptastic chaos at galgoricon 2021! Galgorian and Spooky Rusty ran a two table game with players constantly teleporting between the two locations before joining up at the final encounter. It was bonkers and fun. Big cast of characters, almost 12 players
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Moon’s Shot is a game of Troika that I started playing 2021-09-09 as a DM. It is a Zoom Oneshot and is currently Complete.
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ran moon’s shot for alex, sparky, and jade. a good time was had by all. they did a capitalism, but for good
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Did moon’s shot again but for the skookums-and-dragons crew. Zigs, Alex, and Jess. They murderhoboed the whole thing.
https://signalstation.itch.io/moons-shot
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Kyle ran us a game of Cthulhu Dark! Played with Josh and Mike and wendi. Investigate Garret’s Ranch in Fate, Texas. Everybody escaped intact and alive. A very simple but very flexible game. I liked how you can boost your roll with a cost with the insight die. And we did a good job of using the failure die once or twice. Occupation is really important and you can kind of cripple yourself if you pick something off like “uber driver” like josh did. Nobody took advantage of infinite rolls, and I think somebody suppressed insight only once. Which is all to say that for a rules light game, you kind of have to remember a lot. Anyway, it was fun!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/98137/Cthulhu-Dark
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wendi’s game of mmnmm. almost immediately fizzled out. might resume at some point?
https://wendiy.itch.io/marvelous-mutations-merry-musicians
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Just started. Not much to report yet. Update 2021-10-31 Game stalled out really quickly, probably not going to pick back up
https://ian-yusem.itch.io/picket-line-tango
https://www.mothershiprpg.com/home
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Update 2021-10-31 on hiatus
https://banditcamp.io/wickedones/
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Acid Death Fantasy is a game of Troika! that I started playing 2021-10-01 as a Player. It is a Play By Post Adventure and is currently Dead.
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Abandoned by gm after a valiant effort at keeping it going which is sad. Andy was one of the most creative and generous GMs ever, creating original playscii artwork for us, and providing us with groovy vintage vinal soundtracks.
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Fun game! Surprisingly spooky. Quite lethal. Cursed sunflower = corrupted bees and candy cultists. Played with FKR discord folk.
https://losing-games.itch.io/mausritter-honey-in-the-rafters
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Fun pick-up game from Melsonia discord. The game hilariously involves googling random Florida Man stories to create NPCs and encounters throughout the game. Could have honestly done without the whole police violence part in the middle. Good times overall though! I think this was my first time playing Troika in real time.
https://gordinaak.itch.io/cocaine-alligators
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Dome Riders (Homebrew) is a game of Troika! that I started playing 2020-10-08 as a DM. It is a Play By Post Campaign and is currently Hiatus.
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One of the most tragic stories of 2021 both in-game and without. Epic setting dreamed up by GreyWarden, and then when they abondened the game, me and fraidy_cat and jade decided to keep playing by ourselves using a GM emulator. It was a great experiment in collaboration and self-government, and it was really going places. We have 22 pages of original setting content in a google doc. But then a huge in-game encounter killed our NPC leader and things never really recovered from that. Currently on infinite hiatus.
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Storm King’s Thunder is a game of Dungeons & Dragons that I started playing 2020-04-02 as a DM. It is a Roll20/Discord Campaign and is currently Hiatus.
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My original long running D&D campaign with my original gaming group. Calling it ‘on hiatus’ is generous. It’s dead in the water. We haven’t played in a year. But I just can’t let it go.
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So we started playing this one game and the the GM vanished, so I stepped in and turned it into So You’ve Been Thrown Down A Well, which was super fun. Highlight: the insectoid race who rules as written couldn’t speak, so in play-by-post, the communicated exclusively via emoji.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/313219/So-Youve-Been-Thrown-Down-A-Well
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