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<p>In 2021 I started keeping track of all the <abbr title="tabletop role playing game">ttrpgs</abbr> I play in a recfile database.</p>
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<h1 class="title">Games!</h1>
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<h2 id="toc-title">Index</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#tales-of-athas-dd" id="toc-tales-of-athas-dd">Tales of
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Athas (D&D)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#an-empty-dream-girl-by-moonlight"
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id="toc-an-empty-dream-girl-by-moonlight">An Empty Dream (Girl By
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Moonlight)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#spelljammer-dd" id="toc-spelljammer-dd">Spelljammer
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(D&D)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#twilight-dungeon-of-the-void-magus-fighting-fantasy-hack"
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id="toc-twilight-dungeon-of-the-void-magus-fighting-fantasy-hack">Twilight
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Dungeon of the Void Magus (Fighting Fantasy Hack)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ultraviolet-grasslands-halberts-fantasy-traveler"
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id="toc-ultraviolet-grasslands-halberts-fantasy-traveler">Ultraviolet
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Grasslands (Halberts (Fantasy Traveler))</a></li>
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<li><a href="#betrayal-at-house-on-the-hill-dd"
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id="toc-betrayal-at-house-on-the-hill-dd">Betrayal at House on the Hill
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(D&D)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#small-medium-large-troika"
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id="toc-small-medium-large-troika">Small Medium Large (Troika!)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#camp-spookypants-sleepaway"
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id="toc-camp-spookypants-sleepaway">Camp Spookypants
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(Sleepaway)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#holiday-oneshot-dd" id="toc-holiday-oneshot-dd">Holiday
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Oneshot (D&D)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#planar-nexus-1400" id="toc-planar-nexus-1400">planar nexus
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(1400)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#newton-handle-quarrel-fable"
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id="toc-newton-handle-quarrel-fable">Newton Handle (Quarrel &
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Fable)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#corollaries-of-lisergia-lisergia"
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id="toc-corollaries-of-lisergia-lisergia">36 Corollaries of Lisergia
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(Lisergia)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#castiron-sworn-ironsworn"
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id="toc-castiron-sworn-ironsworn">Castiron Sworn (Ironsworn)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#clericthief-brighter-worlds"
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id="toc-clericthief-brighter-worlds">cleric+thief (Brighter
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Worlds)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#basement-quest-shoes-in-the-dark"
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id="toc-basement-quest-shoes-in-the-dark">Basement Quest (Shoes In The
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Dark)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#good-buy-cruel-world-brindlewood-bay"
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id="toc-good-buy-cruel-world-brindlewood-bay">Good Buy, Cruel World
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(Brindlewood Bay)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#untitled-plasma-torch"
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id="toc-untitled-plasma-torch">untitled (plasma torch)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#boneheads-adventure-skeletons"
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id="toc-boneheads-adventure-skeletons">Boneheads (Adventure
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Skeletons)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#capn-mushroom-and-the-case-of-the-red-slipper-nonefkr"
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id="toc-capn-mushroom-and-the-case-of-the-red-slipper-nonefkr">Cap’n
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Mushroom and the Case of the Red Slipper (none/fkr)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#dragonflyd6-dragonfly-d6"
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id="toc-dragonflyd6-dragonfly-d6">dragonflyd6 (Dragonfly D6)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#zigs-and-dragons-dd-5e"
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id="toc-zigs-and-dragons-dd-5e">Zigs and Dragons (D&D 5e)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#anvil-homebrew-smithy-of-sacrilege"
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id="toc-anvil-homebrew-smithy-of-sacrilege">Anvil (Homebrew) (Smithy of
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Sacrilege)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#guardians-of-the-shadow-frontier-tricube-tales"
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id="toc-guardians-of-the-shadow-frontier-tricube-tales">Guardians of the
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Shadow Frontier (Tricube Tales)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#orion-valentine-thousand-year-old-vampire"
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id="toc-orion-valentine-thousand-year-old-vampire">Orion Valentine
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(Thousand Year Old Vampire)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#a-game-of-trophy-gold-trophy-gold"
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id="toc-a-game-of-trophy-gold-trophy-gold">a game of trophy gold (Trophy
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Gold)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#lichway-old-school-essentials"
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id="toc-lichway-old-school-essentials">Lichway (Old School
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Essentials)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#facing-the-titan-facing-the-titan"
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id="toc-facing-the-titan-facing-the-titan">facing the titan (Facing the
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Titan)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#story-bizarre-troika" id="toc-story-bizarre-troika">13
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Story Bizarre (Troika!)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#nyolibhoteps-sewers-maze-rats"
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id="toc-nyolibhoteps-sewers-maze-rats">Nyolibhotep’s sewers (maze
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rats)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#strixhaven-dd" id="toc-strixhaven-dd">Strixhaven
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(D&D)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#numenera-2-bit" id="toc-numenera-2-bit">Numenera
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(2-bit)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#to-kill-a-god-risus" id="toc-to-kill-a-god-risus">To Kill
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A God (Risus)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#acid-death-fantasy-troika"
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id="toc-acid-death-fantasy-troika">Acid Death Fantasy (Troika)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#dad-overboard-brindlewood-bay"
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id="toc-dad-overboard-brindlewood-bay">Dad Overboard (Brindlewood
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Bay)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#arkham-1628-cthulhu-dark"
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id="toc-arkham-1628-cthulhu-dark">Arkham 1628 (Cthulhu Dark)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#agents-of-edgewatch-pathfinder"
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id="toc-agents-of-edgewatch-pathfinder">Agents of Edgewatch
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(Pathfinder)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ultraviolet-grasslands-2400-exiles"
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id="toc-ultraviolet-grasslands-2400-exiles">Ultraviolet Grasslands (2400
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Exiles)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#quiet-midwinter-dd" id="toc-quiet-midwinter-dd">Quiet
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Midwinter (D&D)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#yule-homebrew-into-the-odd"
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id="toc-yule-homebrew-into-the-odd">yule homebrew (Into the
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Odd)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#giraffe-wants-best-leaves-giraffe-wants-best-leaves"
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id="toc-giraffe-wants-best-leaves-giraffe-wants-best-leaves">Giraffe
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Wants Best Leaves (Giraffe Wants Best Leaves)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#crapland-2-troika" id="toc-crapland-2-troika">crapland 2
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(troika)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#moons-shot-troika" id="toc-moons-shot-troika">Moon’s Shot
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(Troika)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#moons-shot-troika-1" id="toc-moons-shot-troika-1">Moon’s
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Shot (Troika)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#garrets-ranch-cthulhu-dark"
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id="toc-garrets-ranch-cthulhu-dark">Garrets Ranch (Cthulhu
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Dark)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#rockaway-beach-marvelous-mutations-and-merry-musicians"
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id="toc-rockaway-beach-marvelous-mutations-and-merry-musicians">Rockaway
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Beach (Marvelous Mutations and Merry Musicians)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#picket-line-tango-mothership"
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id="toc-picket-line-tango-mothership">Picket Line Tango
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(Mothership)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#wicked-friends-wicked-ones-forged-in-the-dark"
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id="toc-wicked-friends-wicked-ones-forged-in-the-dark">Wicked Friends
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(Wicked Ones (Forged in the Dark))</a></li>
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<li><a href="#acid-death-fantasy-troika-1"
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id="toc-acid-death-fantasy-troika-1">Acid Death Fantasy
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(Troika!)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#honey-rafters-mausritter"
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id="toc-honey-rafters-mausritter">Honey Rafters (Mausritter)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cocaine-and-alligators-florida-man-sphere-troika"
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id="toc-cocaine-and-alligators-florida-man-sphere-troika">Cocaine and
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Alligators: Florida Man Sphere (Troika)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#dome-riders-homebrew-troika"
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id="toc-dome-riders-homebrew-troika">Dome Riders (Homebrew)
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(Troika!)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#storm-kings-thunder-dungeons-dragons"
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id="toc-storm-kings-thunder-dungeons-dragons">Storm King’s Thunder
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(Dungeons & Dragons)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#so-youve-been-thrown-down-a-well-troika"
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id="toc-so-youve-been-thrown-down-a-well-troika">So You’ve Been Thrown
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Down A Well (Troika!)</a></li>
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<h2 id="tales-of-athas-dd">Tales of Athas (D&D)</h2>
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<p>Tales of Athas is a game of D&D that I started playing 2022-11-17
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as a Player. It is a in person Campaign and is currently Ongoing.</p>
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<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
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<p>an in person campaign with the old vulcamonos gang!</p>
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<p>can’t believe it. very excite.</p>
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<p>some real mad max / dune / acid death fantasy kind of world building
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from Keegs, which is really cool. good for him. there’s a huge, cracked,
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blistering sun; and two moons (they have names and everything but i
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didn’t write them down). there are 9-ish ‘islands’ of earth in a ‘sea’
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of loose sand, so despite being in an unforgiving desert, there’s lots
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of nautical imagery. different crafts that can sail on the silt sea.</p>
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<p>we started out in prison with no items. as cliche as meeting in a
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tavern, but fun. we felt underpowered and desperate.</p>
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<p>i’m playing a lovable rogue based on dolly parton. her name is jolly
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pardon. she grew up dirt poor in a one-room cabin in the (hills). one
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day she was spotted by a traveling (prince) who was enchanted by her
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singing. he whisked her off of to the court of the petty warlord, where
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she grew very popular. her nemesis Dolene, however, grew jealous of her
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and spread rumors to besmirch her reputation. Dolene was eventually
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successful and the warlord tossed Jolly out of the court.</p>
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<p>In our session, we broke out of gladiator’s prison, crossed the city,
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and made it to Shatterglass, an abandoned obsidian mine and outpost of
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the Veiled Alliance, an organization dedicated to freeing the slave
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cities of Athas.</p>
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<p>We found what was left of my crew there. Zax was a husk. his mind had
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been wiped. And the others had been dragged deeper into the mines.</p>
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<p>Following the trails, we found a strange tableau. Thri-keen eggs had
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been arranged around the bodies of Verin and Zara. As we approached, a
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horror burst from the ground and attacked us.</p>
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<p>So yeah! Super excited! It’s been about 8 years we determined since
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we’ve all played together. and Keegs is a super crafty dm. There are
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battle maps and minis, and he gives everybody dossiers for character
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sheets and notes, and sometimes he crafts huge stage pieces for the map.
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it’s all really quite impressive.</p>
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<p><strong>Update 2024-01-27</strong>: So I just realized a couple of
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things. 1) it’s been almost 1.25 years since we started this campaign
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already!! and, 2) the way this gamelog—which, according to my git log,
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I’ve been keeping since 2021-12-23—is set up, I don’t really have any
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way to keep track of individual sessions of an ongoing campaign in a
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meaningful way. Besides little updates to existing entries such as this
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one. That is, if I want to run the numbers and see how many individual
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sessions I have played over the course of a year, I don’t really have
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any easy way to do that. I shall ponder this.</p>
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<p>Anyway, huge session last night. The culimation of our last year of
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playing. Let me catch you up:</p>
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<p>The city-state of Thanalas is ruled by a cruel despot. Martok, a
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cannibal halfling with psionic powers in a world of little to no magic.
|
||
And we’re trying to overthrow him and give the city back to the people.
|
||
So we rallied a bunch of townies to our cause. And we waited until the
|
||
night of the Lunar Veil, this big parade + festival celebrating the rare
|
||
full double eclipse of the sun by the planet’s two moons, to stage the
|
||
coup. BUT some terrorists, the Ghostflame Syndicate, planted a bunch of
|
||
bombs in the parade floats to wreck the coup and damage the cause. But
|
||
we found them and defused them. And meanwhile a couple of us got caught
|
||
in Martok’s private viewing box in the gladiatorial arena. (We had just
|
||
executed on a plan to assassinate Martok by spiking his drink with the
|
||
one half of the explosive components of the Ghostflame’s bombs, and
|
||
lacing his food with the other half. So after he eats and drinks them…
|
||
BIO BOMB.) And the rest of us have just found out that our pal Valtor,
|
||
the hugely popular and renowned gladiator, is in cahoots with the
|
||
Ghostflames and got them access to the parade and the coliseum to plant
|
||
all the bombs.</p>
|
||
<p>And that’s where we are now.</p>
|
||
<p>A whole bunch of stuff happens in parallel. Dakka gets roped into
|
||
working the announcer booth for the gladiatorial games, pulling off a
|
||
bunch of Vicious Mockery and Bardic Inspiration through the giant
|
||
announcer’s horn. At one point, our man Henry shows up in the booth and
|
||
is like, Hey boss what’s this? And shows Dakka one of the bombs. Turns
|
||
out there are dozens of them planted in the stands. Which are packed
|
||
with people. Dakka announces a competition, tells everybody to look
|
||
under their seats and if they find a little hourglass shaped thing,
|
||
CAREFULLY bring it to the announcer’s booth WITHOUT letting the sands in
|
||
the two halves mix for the chance to win a Fabulous Prize! This is maybe
|
||
the most dangerous thing Dakka has ever done.</p>
|
||
<p>Meanwhile, Lucia is running around running all kinds of stuff behind
|
||
the scenes. Kale, head of the Ghostflames, summons her for an audience
|
||
and asks her to kill Martok. She’s like, gosh that’s TOTALLY not already
|
||
part of our plans and is totally inconvenient, gosh. But she accepts.
|
||
Then Zara—a old pal of Jolly’s from the Veiled Alliance freedom fighter
|
||
group—shows up in the crowd and approaches Lucia. She tells her the
|
||
thri-kreen are IN the arena. (We have a kinship bond with the thri-kreen
|
||
after rescuing their eggs from the ankheg.) They have buried themselves
|
||
in the sand and will wait for our signal to leap out and attack. When
|
||
she hears the “competition” announced over the horn, she runs up to the
|
||
announcer’s booth, teaches our man Henry how to disarm the bombs, and
|
||
sends him out to find as many as possible. Eventually, he and his boys
|
||
disarm about a dozen. And about a dozen more are turned into the booth
|
||
for prizes.</p>
|
||
<p>Meanwhile, Darragh, our champion, is prepping for the final event.
|
||
It’s her versus Valtor. She delivers a pep talk to some of the civilians
|
||
who have been conscripted / forced into being gladiators. (After we
|
||
ourselves escaped from the arena, Martok captured a bunch of commoners
|
||
and forced them to fight in our place.) They are being forced to fight
|
||
seasoned guards and gladiators in a re-enactment (to the death!) of the
|
||
ancient battle at the temple, where the execution of Rajat shattered the
|
||
sun and drained magic from the world, an event to which we are
|
||
mystically bound and have had visions of. Darragh’s pep talk, and her
|
||
bribing one of the guards to join the commoner’s side, lead to the
|
||
commoners narrowly defeating the guards in a dramatic and very unlikely
|
||
upset. Then it’s finally time for the main event.</p>
|
||
<p>Jolly and Diablo have been entertaining Martok, his personal
|
||
bodyguard Grak, and a couple of guards this whole time in Martok’s
|
||
personal box. A lot of deception and sleight of hand and luck have made
|
||
this go fairly well. He noshes on the laced grubs. And as the final
|
||
event starts, he cracks open the bottle of his finest wine. Which is the
|
||
drink spiked with the catalyst. He toasts, and downs the drink, and he
|
||
fucking EXPLODES. Jolly and Diablo dive behind the thick oak bathroom
|
||
door and avoid most of the blast. They’re stuck in there now though, so
|
||
they escape down the poop chute and end up outside the arena.</p>
|
||
<p>Simultaneously, Darragh and Valtor square off out on the arena. A
|
||
dozen guards encircle them, and behind each of them is chained a giant
|
||
ten foot tall scorpion to force them into close quarters. Darragh
|
||
immediately gives the signal, and the sands rumble, and over a dozen
|
||
thri-kreen warriors emerge from the sand and start wrecking the
|
||
gladiators. Darragh easily dispatches Valtor and when she grabs his
|
||
scimitar it burns her hand and sears her mind.</p>
|
||
<p>When Martok’s booth explodes, Grak the half-giant (with whom we have
|
||
a lot of personal beef) is thrown from the booth, through the air, and
|
||
lands on the arena floor far below. He survives, but just barely. Only
|
||
for Lucia in passing to magically catapult a small stone through his
|
||
skull.</p>
|
||
<p>An over-excited fan shakes her hourglass in the stands, and blows
|
||
several rows of seats to kingdom come, and also blows a hole in the side
|
||
of the arena. Disastrous. But also the only unintended explosion after
|
||
recovering two dozen something bombs?</p>
|
||
<p>And that’s where we ended. Now you’re caught up on a little over a
|
||
year of D&D.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="an-empty-dream-girl-by-moonlight">An Empty Dream (Girl By
|
||
Moonlight)</h2>
|
||
<p>An Empty Dream is a game of Girl By Moonlight that I started playing
|
||
2024-01-03 as a Player. It is a zoom Campaign and is currently
|
||
Ongoing.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Started Session 0 of GBML. Mal is GMing. And I’m playing alongside
|
||
tehfraga, el, deafgamer, and chantel. We did a whole lot of
|
||
worldbuilding, session planning, and character building. I was pretty
|
||
excited to play this game beforehand, but I gotta say I’m REALLY excited
|
||
to play it now! This game is part of the Lantern Light Adventures game
|
||
network. So it’s going to be streamed on twitch, and then published on
|
||
youtube and also as a podcast. It’s my first time playing anything quite
|
||
so public, so I’m a little bit nervous about it. But also looking
|
||
forward to it. Wheeeee! <a
|
||
href="https://www.twitch.tv/lanternlightadventures"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.twitch.tv/lanternlightadventures</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="spelljammer-dd">Spelljammer (D&D)</h2>
|
||
<p>Spelljammer is a game of D&D that I started playing 2023-02-23 as
|
||
a DM. It is a roll20 + discord Campaign and is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Started a new game for the Beekey Blinders. Supposed to be just a
|
||
one-shot of spelljammer, but they liked it a lot and wanted to just keep
|
||
playing this. So now this is what we’re doing!</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2024-01-03:</strong> Completed this game a couple
|
||
months ago. It was heckin fun! The gang hasn’t gotten together for a
|
||
game since then though. sadface :(</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2
|
||
id="twilight-dungeon-of-the-void-magus-fighting-fantasy-hack">Twilight
|
||
Dungeon of the Void Magus (Fighting Fantasy Hack)</h2>
|
||
<p>Twilight Dungeon of the Void Magus is a game of Fighting Fantasy Hack
|
||
that I started playing 2023-12-19 as a Player. It is a discord live text
|
||
Adventure and is currently Ongoing.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>This was a <abbr title="Lunch Time Live Text">LTLT</abbr>
|
||
<abbr title="One Hour One Shot">OHOH</abbr> with Sean and Florik. I
|
||
played Roderik the Frail (because I rolled abysmally low Stamina), a
|
||
librarian and amateur entomologist who wants to make a quick buck and to
|
||
capture some rare insects. Florik was Lonk the Lazy Jewelry Store Guard,
|
||
who just wants to go fishing. I don’t actually know what system Sean was
|
||
running, but it had the familiar Skill Stamina Luck format of Fighting
|
||
Fantasy, which I know he loves. Banter between Roderik and Lonk was
|
||
jolly good. Brain and muscle. We explored the dungeon, avoided the
|
||
Invisible Apes, captured a blind salamander, found a secret passage and
|
||
a hoard of jewels, and fought off a <em>dwelf</em> or dwarf-elf. (It was
|
||
“a bearded elf” that we rp-ed into being a dwarf / elf hybrid, yee-haw!)
|
||
10/10 would play again!</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="ultraviolet-grasslands-halberts-fantasy-traveler">Ultraviolet
|
||
Grasslands (Halberts (Fantasy Traveler))</h2>
|
||
<p>Ultraviolet Grasslands is a game of Halberts (Fantasy Traveler) that
|
||
I started playing 2023-12-14 as a Player. It is a discord audio +
|
||
campaignwiki.org Adventure and is currently Ongoing.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>finally got to play with kensanata and the boys! trading, exploring,
|
||
buying goods, negotiating prices, hiring guards = economics simulator. i
|
||
actually installed ledger-cli to keep track of accounts and inventory.
|
||
played for 2 hours and at the end of it, we have a spreadsheet and a
|
||
loan and a trade route. and a guard. i am playing Bagagalio Quatro!
|
||
which is a name i got from the UVG name generator. i guess they are from
|
||
fantasy italy. he is an exiled bluelander and cultist of the blue god, a
|
||
rapscallion and magician. first time playing any kind of traveler.
|
||
character creation is really interesting with the past careers and
|
||
stuff. <a
|
||
href="https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%c3%bcrich/Ultraviolet_Grasslands"
|
||
class="uri">https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%c3%bcrich/Ultraviolet_Grasslands</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="betrayal-at-house-on-the-hill-dd">Betrayal at House on the Hill
|
||
(D&D)</h2>
|
||
<p>Betrayal at House on the Hill is a game of D&D that I started
|
||
playing 2023-08-01 as a Player. It is a in person Oneshot and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>what is up this is a oneshot game that i played over two sessions
|
||
with a bunch of coworkers from the office. connor ran it and erin was
|
||
there and those were the only two i knew from our holiday oneshot and
|
||
everybody else was new. we were all potential heirs to lady longbottom’s
|
||
fortune and all we had to do was survive one night in her weird spooky
|
||
haunted house. we used betrayal at the house on haunted hill to
|
||
procedurally randomly generate the house. that part was pretty fun. it
|
||
made it feel like a classic traditional dungeon crawl which is a style
|
||
of play with which i actually have no real experience. we just showed
|
||
up, gelled as a party, and started exploring. i played professor
|
||
plum—that is, christopher lloyd from the movie clue—a bumbling wild
|
||
magic sorcerer which is one of my favorite classes to bring to a level 1
|
||
game. and i was a firbolg silverquill initiate. didn’t get up to too
|
||
many hijinks but did get to wild magic surge twice, turning myself blue
|
||
and casting confusion on myself. dm brought the optional sanity rules
|
||
from the dmg. consequently i lost control of my character a couple
|
||
times, which resulted in me downing one of my party. he turned out fine.
|
||
i fell off the top of the tower not once but twice. and then the guy i
|
||
downed fell off the tower and fell on me and downed me. what goes around
|
||
comes around i guess!</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="small-medium-large-troika">Small Medium Large (Troika!)</h2>
|
||
<p>Small Medium Large is a game of Troika! that I started playing
|
||
2023-02-09 as a DM. It is a Discord Voice Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>First time playing with the Aftermathematicians!</p>
|
||
<p>Ran a game for Enki, Tuesday, Dril, and Lofi.</p>
|
||
<p>We played Small Medium Large, winner of the 2022 one-page dungeon
|
||
contest.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://www.dungeoncontest.com/"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.dungeoncontest.com/</a></p>
|
||
<p>Been a while since I played some Troika. Good times.</p>
|
||
<p>We had a lawyer, a sorcerer of friends, a dwarf, and a gremlin
|
||
catcher.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="camp-spookypants-sleepaway">Camp Spookypants (Sleepaway)</h2>
|
||
<p>Camp Spookypants is a game of Sleepaway that I started playing
|
||
2022-10-27 as a Player. It is a discord + jamboard Campaign and is
|
||
currently Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-01-26</strong>: from Pathfinder to a game with no
|
||
real rules or objectives: my irl group had a hard time adjusting to
|
||
this.</p>
|
||
<p>it didn’t help that we took <del>2 weeks</del> 3 months! off from
|
||
between sessions: we all forgot a lot from the last time we played.</p>
|
||
<p>but we settled into the groove, and i think everybody had a really
|
||
good time!</p>
|
||
<p>I play songleader Oleander. I rekindled a friendship with the
|
||
ropeskeeper, and ended one with the lifeguarder after accidentally
|
||
injuring a camper.</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-02-26</strong>: Killed this game because it was
|
||
too hard for the group, and decided to go do some oneshots and figure
|
||
out what to do next for a campaign. Might continue playing this solo
|
||
just to see what happens because I really like it.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="holiday-oneshot-dd">Holiday Oneshot (D&D)</h2>
|
||
<p>Holiday Oneshot is a game of D&D that I started playing
|
||
2023-01-18 as a Player. It is a live and in person! Oneshot and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Played a live and in person game for the first time ever! (Since
|
||
before pandemic)</p>
|
||
<p>Work friends: C. (DM), EH (bard), EK (artificer) A. (bard), and M
|
||
(geomancer (druid)). and Me (bard).</p>
|
||
<p>3/5 of the party was bards! It was bard-tastic!</p>
|
||
<p>I played Barumpa Pumpum, the lizardfolk College of Creation bard.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://tiny.tilde.website/@dozens/109706687499993446"
|
||
class="uri">https://tiny.tilde.website/@dozens/109706687499993446</a></p>
|
||
<p>They were a little hillbilly, a little redneck. Straight from the
|
||
swamp. A little uncouth.</p>
|
||
<p>We had to go save Santa from (spoilers) Cleff Tezos, who wanted his
|
||
company, The Nile, to be the sole supplier of Christmas Toys. So he made
|
||
a big old evil Robosanta to go on a rampage in the North Pole.</p>
|
||
<p>Structure was great. Like, 85% puzzles and 15% combat.</p>
|
||
<p>We had to find a key, a code, and an RFID card do get into Santa’s
|
||
Palace. That was the puzzle part.</p>
|
||
<p>During the final part, there was a dance-off mechanic that the DM
|
||
came up with before realizing that the part was 60% bards.</p>
|
||
<p>Anyway, super fun. Haven’t gotten to play 5e as a player in a while.
|
||
Good times.</p>
|
||
<p>Hopefully I get to play with this group some more in the future.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="planar-nexus-1400">planar nexus (1400)</h2>
|
||
<p>planar nexus is a game of 1400 that I started playing 2023-01-16 as a
|
||
Player. It is a live text Adventure and is currently Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Played a tibbius game with sean.</p>
|
||
<p>I’m playing Orrowyss the Haunted, a spirit mage. A portal to the
|
||
spirit realm exposed Orrowyss to otherworldly energies. They are
|
||
followed by the sound of tinkling bells. They wear an ancient amulet,
|
||
and a faceless mask (it has two black eyes, and a black vertical line
|
||
through each eye running the length of the mask) when channeling spirits
|
||
from the spirit realm. Their familiar takes the form of a small but
|
||
vicious dog.</p>
|
||
<p>Me and Sindie were sent to run off some ratfolk bandits. We tracked
|
||
them to their caves, and they promised to leave the humans alone if we
|
||
cleared out the caves of the presense.</p>
|
||
<p>good fun!</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-01-23</strong>: Got a little further into the
|
||
dungeon. Fought off some vines and a woozy trippy room. Found some loot
|
||
and some tech that might active a Portal</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-01-30</strong>: Fought a spooky spider and got
|
||
kind of roughed up. Made it to the portal room. But still missing 2
|
||
glyff balls. Got to turn into a Ghost Form, and then switch back and do
|
||
some stabs. That was pretty awesome.</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-01-26</strong>: Almost a month since we last
|
||
played, no updates. Moving to dead.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="newton-handle-quarrel-fable">Newton Handle (Quarrel &
|
||
Fable)</h2>
|
||
<p>Newton Handle is a game of Quarrel & Fable that I started playing
|
||
2023-01-04 as a Player. It is a live text Campaign and is currently
|
||
Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>sean is running me and tibbius through a dungeon!</p>
|
||
<p>i am playing Cali Copperpot from Castiron Sworn.</p>
|
||
<p>we played a quick 90 minute sesh this morning and did some
|
||
exploring.</p>
|
||
<p>I rolled all 1s during character creation!</p>
|
||
<p>Cali gonna dieeee</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://seanfsmith.itch.io/quarrel"
|
||
class="uri">https://seanfsmith.itch.io/quarrel</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://quarrel-fable.carrd.co/"
|
||
class="uri">https://quarrel-fable.carrd.co/</a></p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-01-10</strong> Played another sesh this morning.
|
||
Cleared level 1. Fought a giant butcher. Sidestepped the boss, a mopey
|
||
goth cenobite. Levelled up.</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-01-24</strong> Sean ran almost the exact same
|
||
exploding corpse encounter for us that Tibbs ran for us in Planar Nexus!
|
||
🤣</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2023-01-26</strong>: Almost a month since we last
|
||
played, no updates. Moving to dead.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="corollaries-of-lisergia-lisergia">36 Corollaries of Lisergia
|
||
(Lisergia)</h2>
|
||
<p>36 Corollaries of Lisergia is a game of Lisergia that I started
|
||
playing 2021-10-05 as a Player. It is a Solo Campaign and is currently
|
||
Ongoing.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>jotting this down to get it in the logs.</p>
|
||
<p>i started playing Lisergia with a mishmash of systems and oracles a
|
||
while back. Don’t play it super often, but still think about it and
|
||
return to it sometimes. It’s dreamy and surreal and groovy and nice.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://capacle.itch.io/lisergia"
|
||
class="uri">https://capacle.itch.io/lisergia</a></p>
|
||
<p><gemini://tilde.town/~dozens/corollaries/></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="castiron-sworn-ironsworn">Castiron Sworn (Ironsworn)</h2>
|
||
<p>Castiron Sworn is a game of Ironsworn that I started playing
|
||
2023-01-02 as a Player. It is a Solo Campaign and is currently
|
||
Ongoing.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>sinatra inspired me to read Ironsworn, which I had been meaning to do
|
||
anyway for a long time.</p>
|
||
<p>It looks really rad!</p>
|
||
<p>I made a character and ran her through an encounter and it was really
|
||
fun. Different. Combat was very cinematic. Treating the battle as a
|
||
progress meter that you can test to see if it’s complete is a totally
|
||
different feel than just attacking a sack of hit points.</p>
|
||
<p>I liked it a lot. I’m going to keep playing!</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="clericthief-brighter-worlds">cleric+thief (Brighter Worlds)</h2>
|
||
<p>cleric+thief is a game of Brighter Worlds that I started playing
|
||
2022-08-30 as a Player. It is a solo Campaign and is currently
|
||
Ongoing.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Playing a solo game of Brighter Worlds!</p>
|
||
<p>It is super fun!</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://awkwardturtle.itch.io/brighter-worlds"
|
||
class="uri">https://awkwardturtle.itch.io/brighter-worlds</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="http://tilde.town/~dozens/clericthief/"
|
||
class="uri">http://tilde.town/~dozens/clericthief/</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="basement-quest-shoes-in-the-dark">Basement Quest (Shoes In The
|
||
Dark)</h2>
|
||
<p>Basement Quest is a game of Shoes In The Dark that I started playing
|
||
2022-07-13 as a DM. It is a email play by post Campaign and is currently
|
||
Ongoing.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>This game is the cat’s pajamas. it’s the bee’s knees.</p>
|
||
<p>It is a play-by-post game on the tildepals email list.</p>
|
||
<p>We’ve had a lot of people dropping in and dropping out, but it is
|
||
mostly just sinatra and mio playing, and me facilitating. And it is an
|
||
absolute blast so far.</p>
|
||
<p>We are playing the postcard-sized <em>Shoes in the Dark</em> rules,
|
||
which immensely support the free-wheeling, rules-light style of play
|
||
we’ve naturally adopted.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://dozens.itch.io/shoes-in-the-dark"
|
||
class="uri">https://dozens.itch.io/shoes-in-the-dark</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="http://tilde.town/~dozens/quest/"
|
||
class="uri">http://tilde.town/~dozens/quest/</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="good-buy-cruel-world-brindlewood-bay">Good Buy, Cruel World
|
||
(Brindlewood Bay)</h2>
|
||
<p>Good Buy, Cruel World is a game of Brindlewood Bay that I started
|
||
playing 2022-10-26 as a DM. It is a discord voice, jamboard Oneshot and
|
||
is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Boy I struggle mightily with Brindlewood Bay. It is such a
|
||
challenging game to run. There’s no guidance for how to play the
|
||
characters. The clues that pop up lead the fiction in weird directions,
|
||
and as the facilitator you’re left holding the bag trying to give your
|
||
players what they want when following up with questions. And at the end,
|
||
there are so many red herrings and clues that don’t add up, and
|
||
just.</p>
|
||
<p>The ending, the Theorize Move, is the most interesting and fun part
|
||
of the game. But it rarely creates a narratively satisfying ending.</p>
|
||
<p>I also don’t know how to create tension or stakes in this game.</p>
|
||
<p>Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun.</p>
|
||
<p>I just feel like I gotta find a different system to run these
|
||
characters and this story on.</p>
|
||
<p>BTW there’s no written evidence of this anywhere, but the second BB
|
||
game we played was in March of this year. The first was in February. And
|
||
this is the 3rd, seven months later in October</p>
|
||
<p>Anyway, the module was Good Buy, Cruel World by Michael van Fleet,
|
||
and it was great. Everybody seemed to love mallwalking and being in the
|
||
mall. This is the 2nd game i’ve played by van Fleet, the first one being
|
||
<em>Moon’s Shot</em>, a oneshot for troika.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://signalstation.itch.io/good-buy-cruel-world"
|
||
class="uri">https://signalstation.itch.io/good-buy-cruel-world</a></p>
|
||
<p>Here’s a character sheet if you want to use it.</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fbzZnOhHlsuuxDGkroHHpZJgLPIPydOGyKI3Knv9P9w/edit#gid=2144772881"
|
||
class="uri">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fbzZnOhHlsuuxDGkroHHpZJgLPIPydOGyKI3Knv9P9w/edit#gid=2144772881</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="untitled-plasma-torch">untitled (plasma torch)</h2>
|
||
<p>untitled is a game of plasma torch that I started playing 2022-09-30
|
||
as a Player. It is a discord live text Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/356977/Plasma-Torch-A-OnePage-RPG-of-Derelict-Spaceships"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/356977/Plasma-Torch-A-OnePage-RPG-of-Derelict-Spaceships</a></p>
|
||
<p>a one-on-one OHOS with tibbius</p>
|
||
<p>it was short and fun!</p>
|
||
<p>there are two parts to playing the game:</p>
|
||
<ol type="1">
|
||
<li><p>doing stuff: roll d6. +d6 if your background applies, +d6 if you
|
||
can use your equipment. 5 - 6 = success, 1 - 4 = fail.</p></li>
|
||
<li><p>resource die: if you fail, roll d8. 1 - 2 = step down your
|
||
resource die to d4, and your resources are depleted. if you fail on a
|
||
d4, you die, or whatever.</p></li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
<p>running the game looks super easy. there are tables for generating
|
||
rooms and complications as you explore the derelict ship.</p>
|
||
<p>i think the resource die is a fascinating way to represent health and
|
||
death and resources and depletion all in one handy little mechanic.</p>
|
||
<p>during the game, my character (Naylen, a rugged ex-convict with a
|
||
crowbar) sneaked in through an airlock onto an abandoned, derelict
|
||
pleasure cruiser to find some loot. they struggled a little bit to get
|
||
the airlock to work, but then made their way into the hallway and down
|
||
into a medical bay. (which was locked, but Nalyen guessed the password;
|
||
it was 1234.)</p>
|
||
<p>inside the medical bay, he was confronted with some kind of
|
||
tentacular eldrich horror / medical experiment. it crushed him and
|
||
ripped his space suit, but he bopped it with his crowbar and got
|
||
away.</p>
|
||
<p>and then we had to stop</p>
|
||
<p>two thumbs up, would play again!</p>
|
||
<p>tibbius said he’d be interesting in adapting the system to some kind
|
||
of fantasy dungeon crawler, and i agree that would be fun.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="boneheads-adventure-skeletons">Boneheads (Adventure
|
||
Skeletons)</h2>
|
||
<p>Boneheads is a game of Adventure Skeletons that I started playing
|
||
2022-09-08 as a DM. It is a discord live sesh Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>one of my players no-showed during our regular D&D campaign so we
|
||
busted out a quick onepage rpg</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://gshowitt.itch.io/adventure-skeletons"
|
||
class="uri">https://gshowitt.itch.io/adventure-skeletons</a></p>
|
||
<p>i’ve been wanting to play this one for quite some time because it
|
||
looks silly and ridiculous.</p>
|
||
<p>Our characters were Vinnie, a sadistic former garbage collector with
|
||
a vengeance streak a mile wide; Snak, a former orc; and xxx, who used to
|
||
have a gambling problem.</p>
|
||
<p>The skeletons surfaced near a busy crossroads and encountered a
|
||
shepherd who kicked Vinnie in the pelvis. Snak scared him off, and he
|
||
ran away with his sheep, vowing to report them to the Visiting Lord.</p>
|
||
<p>They regrouped in a nearby barn where they found a shrine to the
|
||
Visiting Lord. They took apart a goat, Vinnie wearing its pelvis and one
|
||
of its legs, xxx wearing its head as a hand.</p>
|
||
<p>The sweet little old farm lady came by and, confusing the skeletons
|
||
for her long lost Eustice, offered them soup and redemption. But they
|
||
knifed her to death anyway.</p>
|
||
<p>Bert the farmhand stumbled upon the scene and hit Snak in the pelvis
|
||
with a shovel, knocking her to pieces. They took out Bert, stole a
|
||
horse, and burned down the barn.</p>
|
||
<p>They came up with a two part plan: vengeance on the shepherd boy, and
|
||
confront the Visiting Lord.</p>
|
||
<p>Snak put on a disguise and pretended to be Clarissa, the milkmaid for
|
||
whom the boy pines. While he was distracted, xxx appeared on horseback
|
||
and Vinnie leaped down from above and sent the boy, his love unrequited,
|
||
into the wild blue yonder with one swift kick to the crotch with his +1
|
||
Pelvis Kicking Boots.</p>
|
||
<p>Now all well disguised, they ventured into the village and found the
|
||
Church of the Visiting Lord. They confronted him, and he turned out to
|
||
be Eccentric Kevin, a fellow skeleton and frenemy from the wizard’s
|
||
dungeon.</p>
|
||
<p>They put Kevin’s skull on display on the church as a religious symbol
|
||
and mouthpiece for their agenda, began to rotate through the role of the
|
||
Visiting Lord themselves, and started to tax their congregants
|
||
heavily.</p>
|
||
<p>Amassing wealth and spreading their new religion became their new
|
||
mission.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="capn-mushroom-and-the-case-of-the-red-slipper-nonefkr">Cap’n
|
||
Mushroom and the Case of the Red Slipper (none/fkr)</h2>
|
||
<p>Cap’n Mushroom and the Case of the Red Slipper is a game of none/fkr
|
||
that I started playing 2022-08-09 as a Player. It is a live text Oneshot
|
||
and is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>a quick true fkr game with me and erika, sean running</p>
|
||
<p>mad fun.</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://sean-f-smith.medium.com/the-case-of-the-red-slipper-f99872ab7078"
|
||
class="uri">https://sean-f-smith.medium.com/the-case-of-the-red-slipper-f99872ab7078</a></p>
|
||
<p>erika played Maelo, a tomb raider / cat burglar with a bit of razzle
|
||
dazzle magic.</p>
|
||
<p>I was Cinder, a grizzled sell-sword who has agreed to do just ONE
|
||
more job so he can retire and be a mushroom farmer. He’s is also a
|
||
former beloved child actor, star of <em>Li’l Fatso’s Jamboree</em>.</p>
|
||
<p>We were called in to investigate the gruesome murder of Baron von
|
||
Leffe’s squire. They were besieged by bandits out on the road. The Baron
|
||
escaped, but the boy was skewered by arrows and had his right arm
|
||
cleaved off and absconded with! The latest in a string of arm
|
||
thefts.</p>
|
||
<p>Cinder and Maelo quickly established a great Watson/Holmes dynamic,
|
||
and discovered that the wounds from the arrows display necrotization
|
||
consistent with the Red Slipper mushroom that grows in the
|
||
graveyard.</p>
|
||
<p>In a cut scene, the two set up a trust and a will so that in the
|
||
event of their unfortunate demise, the Li’l Fatso Memorial Mushroom Farm
|
||
will be established to teach children the joys of composting.</p>
|
||
<p>Sean pointed out afterwards that there were no dice rolls whatsoever,
|
||
which I find delightful.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="dragonflyd6-dragonfly-d6">dragonflyd6 (Dragonfly D6)</h2>
|
||
<p>dragonflyd6 is a game of Dragonfly D6 that I started playing
|
||
2022-07-18 as a Player. It is a live text Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Hiatus.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>almost forgot about this one!</p>
|
||
<p>sean ran a game of dragonfly d6 for me and tibbius</p>
|
||
<p>it is a cardless version of his very interesting insect horror
|
||
survival with a solitaire card game mechanic, exuviae</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://seanfsmith.itch.io/exuviae"
|
||
class="uri">https://seanfsmith.itch.io/exuviae</a></p>
|
||
<p>the first playlogs can be found on medium:</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://sean-f-smith.medium.com/play-report-dragonfly-d6-part-one-c8654b2f3a6f"
|
||
class="uri">https://sean-f-smith.medium.com/play-report-dragonfly-d6-part-one-c8654b2f3a6f</a></p>
|
||
<p>in the second session, Sid and Midge arrive at the Angles house, and
|
||
shit goes immediately sideways.</p>
|
||
<p>Sid heads in to talk with speak with Isolde Angles who behaved and
|
||
moved most unnatural.</p>
|
||
<p>Meanwhile Midge tried to sneak around the side of the house but got
|
||
covered in eggs, and then chased by the mosquito-stuffed skin suit of
|
||
Mick the dispatcher.</p>
|
||
<p>Sid eventually came to her rescue as Miss Donnelly climbed out of the
|
||
cab.</p>
|
||
<p>It was a total horror show. Midge was not in control. It was really
|
||
fun!</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="zigs-and-dragons-dd-5e">Zigs and Dragons (D&D 5e)</h2>
|
||
<p>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
|
||
Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-02-16</strong>: Been continuing to play this and
|
||
enjoy it. It’s been nice watching Zigs come into his own as a DM. It’s
|
||
been just man and Jaybee playing lately. Miss playing with the others,
|
||
but it’s also fun with just the two of us. I’ve played a different
|
||
character each time, slowly building out the sprawling family tree.</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-08-30</strong>: Moving this to dead. Game fizzled
|
||
out after some tensions at the table escalated.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="anvil-homebrew-smithy-of-sacrilege">Anvil (Homebrew) (Smithy of
|
||
Sacrilege)</h2>
|
||
<p>Anvil (Homebrew) is a game of Smithy of Sacrilege that I started
|
||
playing 2021-06-01 as a Player. It is a Play by Post Campaign/Open
|
||
Sandbox and is currently Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://seanfsmith.itch.io/puffin"
|
||
class="uri">https://seanfsmith.itch.io/puffin</a></p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-02-11</strong>: 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!</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-08-30</strong> Moving this to dead. Haven’t had
|
||
any movement on it in quite some time.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="guardians-of-the-shadow-frontier-tricube-tales">Guardians of the
|
||
Shadow Frontier (Tricube Tales)</h2>
|
||
<p>Guardians of the Shadow Frontier is a game of Tricube Tales that I
|
||
started playing 2022-08-23 as a Player. It is a discord text Oneshot and
|
||
is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>tibbius is running a game for me and brine and sean.</p>
|
||
<p>I’m playing Toobin, a sneaky little bastard with preternatural
|
||
senses, and who is often greedy. Joining Toobin are Khedera (sean), an
|
||
agile sentinel who’s quick and too often vainglorious; and Syfas
|
||
(brine), an agile seer who can manipulate elements with a touch but can
|
||
be blinded by vengeance.</p>
|
||
<p>We came across a body by a waterfall, discovered that it had been
|
||
killed by an archer while waiting for a lover’s tryst. Took the body
|
||
back to the village. People were sad about it :(</p>
|
||
<p>And that’s about all we had time for in this
|
||
<abbr title="One Hour One Shot">OHOS</abbr>. We didn’t have time for a
|
||
<abbr title="One Hundred Minute One Shot">OHMOS</abbr>. So we’ll play
|
||
again next week.</p>
|
||
<p>Did a lot more roleplay than Getting Stuff Done. Found out that
|
||
Toobin is superstitious, and shy around people who aren’t Guardians.</p>
|
||
<p>Tricube is fun. Never heard of it before Tibbius suggested it.
|
||
Excited to explore further the karma/resolve + quirk/perk mechanics. I
|
||
kind of like the meta token currency.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/294202/Tricube-Tales"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/294202/Tricube-Tales</a></p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-09-28</strong> I missed a couple games due to
|
||
being out of town. But now I’m back. Tibbius is … what’s the ttrpg term
|
||
for <em>distro hopping</em>? We ditched tricube for Quarrel & Fable,
|
||
which he then hacked into his own “Test Metal”.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://seanfsmith.itch.io/quarrel"
|
||
class="uri">https://seanfsmith.itch.io/quarrel</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://tibbiusgames.itch.io/tst-mtl"
|
||
class="uri">https://tibbiusgames.itch.io/tst-mtl</a></p>
|
||
<p>I missed the entire fight with the ‘mirror wolves’, but dropped back
|
||
in just in time to pick back up the original murdered lover mystery,
|
||
which is exactly where i left off.</p>
|
||
<p>Brine left the game, sean i think got busy with something else, so it
|
||
was just me and tibbs, which was just fine</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="orion-valentine-thousand-year-old-vampire">Orion Valentine
|
||
(Thousand Year Old Vampire)</h2>
|
||
<p>Orion Valentine is a game of Thousand Year Old Vampire that I started
|
||
playing 2022-07-16 as a Player. It is a journal Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Been meaning to play this one for a while. The catalyst for doing it
|
||
is that I think my players in my D&D game might at some point soon
|
||
go meet a powerful vampire NPC. And I wanted them to have a compelling
|
||
and complete backstory. And now they do! It was a wild ride. It ended up
|
||
turning Valentine into kind of a wretched thing. Not a proud, beautiful
|
||
creature, but a desperate, damaged, and unhealthy one. I’d like to play
|
||
it again, at least one more time. I felt like I didn’t grok it enough to
|
||
create much continuity or connection across prompts. I had resources and
|
||
skills, but wasn’t often able to use them effectively. That’s probably
|
||
on me. Next time! 5 out of 5, would play again.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="a-game-of-trophy-gold-trophy-gold">a game of trophy gold (Trophy
|
||
Gold)</h2>
|
||
<p>a game of trophy gold is a game of Trophy Gold that I started playing
|
||
2022-06-29 as a Player. It is a live text Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>An ongoing series of live text play on discord. Technically a
|
||
oneshot, i guess? But spread out over 1 - 2 hours of text here and there
|
||
on discord.</p>
|
||
<p>It’s a Sean game with eskur, 7th Outpost, and wendi. (wendi couldn’t
|
||
make it this time tho)</p>
|
||
<p>I’m playing Ifori, who is basically a <em>cleric of a small god</em>
|
||
from Brighter Worlds. And who is also basically a less monstrous version
|
||
of Bbblippt from Wicked Ones. She has a small turnip-like creature that
|
||
she believes is an infant god. It gives her access to rituals at
|
||
least.</p>
|
||
<p>This game, we escaped and immolated some kind of sucking flesh tree,
|
||
and then desecrated a shrine to some evil earth deity and then killed
|
||
one of its priests.</p>
|
||
<p>And that was about it! Short and sweet.</p>
|
||
<p>First time playing Trophy Gold. The stress mechanic feels the same as
|
||
from Cthulhu Dark. I like it. Makes things feel risky and scary, and
|
||
that you’re constantly on the edge of doom and disaster. Kind of like
|
||
the token meta-currency. Haven’t gotten a chance to actually use it
|
||
yet.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="lichway-old-school-essentials">Lichway (Old School
|
||
Essentials)</h2>
|
||
<p>Lichway is a game of Old School Essentials that I started playing
|
||
2022-06-10 as a Player. It is a discord voice Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>played some OSE with sean and the gang. played a human thief named
|
||
Myla Wygarthe (thanks dmheroes). played very fkr style: there were no
|
||
rolls at all. very system agnostic. we had some fun searching a spooky
|
||
dungeon for the dark enchantress.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="facing-the-titan-facing-the-titan">facing the titan (Facing the
|
||
Titan)</h2>
|
||
<p>facing the titan is a game of Facing the Titan that I started playing
|
||
2022-06-04 as a Player. It is a miro + discord voice Oneshot and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>This was a Swords Without Masters game, the first of which I’ve
|
||
played. Played with eskur, fergus, and hoid.</p>
|
||
<p>Very interesting system. GM-less, narrative, storytelling. Lots of
|
||
fun. Interesting use of setting tones, and then freeform story
|
||
telling.</p>
|
||
<p>unique d21 tables: roll d66, and the low roll is the tens and the
|
||
high roll is the ones.</p>
|
||
<p>played for 2 hours, didn’t get to finish. but really liked it. very
|
||
unique to the kinds of game i usually play.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="story-bizarre-troika">13 Story Bizarre (Troika!)</h2>
|
||
<p>13 Story Bizarre is a game of Troika! that I started playing
|
||
2021-04-29 as a DM. It is a Play By Post Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://brick-road.itch.io/13-story-bazaar"
|
||
class="uri">https://brick-road.itch.io/13-story-bazaar</a></p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-05-12</strong> The game is complete! Blessed
|
||
Lytton, Dear Labolas, Precious Frondella</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="nyolibhoteps-sewers-maze-rats">Nyolibhotep’s sewers (maze
|
||
rats)</h2>
|
||
<p>Nyolibhotep’s sewers is a game of maze rats that I started playing
|
||
2022-04-17 as a Player. It is a discord live text Oneshot and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>finally got to play a game with sean!</p>
|
||
<p>short little 2 hour live text game on discord.</p>
|
||
<p>possibly my first maze rats ever.</p>
|
||
<p>i played a chisled chimneysweep hippie, and we went down into the
|
||
sewers to find out what the cultists were doing with all the
|
||
doubleslugs.</p>
|
||
<p>read the whole thing here:</p>
|
||
<p>https://sean-f-smith.medium.com/play-report-maze-rats-nyolibhoteps-sewers-1003d411c39f</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="strixhaven-dd">Strixhaven (D&D)</h2>
|
||
<p>Strixhaven is a game of D&D that I started playing 2022-02-21 as
|
||
a DM. It is a roll20 + discord Campaign and is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Strixhaven happen!</p>
|
||
<p>Background: my pathfinder group agreed to disband and reform as
|
||
something else. Seems we were a little burned out on the game and needed
|
||
a change. (I for one have complained to anybody who will listen about
|
||
how much I hate Pathfinder!) So we decided to try something a little
|
||
lighter and light-hearted and we went back to 5e D&D and agreed to
|
||
try <em>Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos</em>. Former DM gets to play, I
|
||
get to DM, and we finally had our first session.</p>
|
||
<p>Chierce showed up having not made a character and decided to just
|
||
lurk quietly and watch, which was both totally okay but also kind of
|
||
weird.</p>
|
||
<p>Our planned cadence is ~1.5 hrs twice a week. We’ll see if we stick
|
||
to it.</p>
|
||
<p>We got one third of the way through the first 3-part session. We
|
||
might get through the next two parts next sesh.</p>
|
||
<p>Anyway, cool, new game! Super fun!</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-03-16</strong>: Second session went so much
|
||
better! Threw out a bunch of the rules. Made the rolls a bunch more
|
||
simple. Players actually solved the mystery, Got a couple glimpses into
|
||
the conspiracy. It was a hoot and a holler!</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-10-06</strong>: Finished the campaign! That was
|
||
super fun!</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="numenera-2-bit">Numenera (2-bit)</h2>
|
||
<p>Numenera is a game of 2-bit that I started playing 2021-10-31 as a
|
||
Player. It is a Discord PBP Adventure and is currently Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>gonna start a coin-flipping game with tibbius. gonna play a witchy
|
||
person.</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-02-11</strong>: 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.</p>
|
||
<p>See more at <a href="https://tibbiusgames.itch.io/2-bit"
|
||
class="uri">https://tibbiusgames.itch.io/2-bit</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="to-kill-a-god-risus">To Kill A God (Risus)</h2>
|
||
<p>To Kill A God is a game of Risus that I started playing 2021-08-24 as
|
||
a Player. It is a Play by Post Campaign and is currently Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/170294/Risus-The-Anything-RPG"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/170294/Risus-The-Anything-RPG</a></p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-02-11</strong>: 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.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="acid-death-fantasy-troika">Acid Death Fantasy (Troika)</h2>
|
||
<p>Acid Death Fantasy is a game of Troika that I started playing
|
||
2021-09-16 as a Player. It is a Play by Post Campaign and is currently
|
||
Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Another more different ADF! Born of the APF server, but on another
|
||
new server with Kunailby. Playing Gliftwirp, a sarong-fu master who is
|
||
also basically the hamburglar</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-02-11</strong>: this game fizzled out. The second
|
||
ADF Troika game I’ve played to do so! Too bad. I enjoyed the brief time
|
||
that I got to create some McDonalds cosmology. Just for fun, here’s
|
||
Gliftwirp expositing a little bit.</p>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>Gliftwirp bites into a burger that he swiped from somewhere, closes
|
||
his eyes, and sighs happily.</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>“How grand that your falcon-headed god gave you his own sight as a
|
||
boon! How grand that you can even know your god!”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>“Sadly, my god grants no boons and answers no prayers. It is a long
|
||
story with which I shall not tire you okay fine if you insist.”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>He settles in to tell a story.</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>“Long, long ago, my god (whose name I cannot say for reasons you will
|
||
soon understand) was a member of high stature in the Court of the God
|
||
King. And his best friend and closest confidante was the court jester,
|
||
Rhahn Ald. But their friendship would end in tragedy! Just listen and
|
||
you will know why.”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>“You see, Rhahn Ald, the trickster, had quietly and discreetly been
|
||
stealing magical items from the king’s coffers, slowly, over the years,
|
||
accumulating glamour that he used to increase his influence in the
|
||
court, to weaken the God King’s mind and make him reliant on him. My god
|
||
(whose name I cannot say) eventually found out and threatened to expose
|
||
Rhahn Ald. So the mad jester framed his best friend, and easily
|
||
convinced the God King of his guilt.”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>“So as punishment, everything was stolen from my god, including his
|
||
name. The Court of the God King will only allow him to be referred to as
|
||
the Evil Nemesis. (Bit dramatic don’t you think?) He also had his
|
||
handsome physique stolen from him: he now inhabits the form of a large,
|
||
four-armed, purple worm. And he had his home and all his land stolen
|
||
from him: he now resides in a damp cave. Most cruelly, he had his
|
||
intellect stolen: he remains just barely aware of what he used to be, of
|
||
what was taken from him. But his eloquence is gone. He is incapable of
|
||
forming the words he needs to defend himself, or gather followers to his
|
||
cause.”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>Gliftwirp sighs sadly and nods. “My god was cursed and exiled because
|
||
of the evil trickster god Rhahn Ald.”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>“And in retribution for his wrongful suffering, his followers turn to
|
||
holy acquisitions and righteous theft. Just as everything was taken from
|
||
our beloved Evil Nemesis, so do we take and redistribute. And so we
|
||
shall until he is redeemed and restored to his rightful place.”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>Gliftwirp continues quietly to himself, under his breath, “Robble
|
||
robble, Amen,” and takes another bite of his hamburger.</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<blockquote>
|
||
<p>“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!”</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="dad-overboard-brindlewood-bay">Dad Overboard (Brindlewood
|
||
Bay)</h2>
|
||
<p>Dad Overboard is a game of Brindlewood Bay that I started playing
|
||
2022-02-10 as a DM. It is a discord Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>okay so first of all this is a historic game because after years of
|
||
inviting her to join me in my hobby, this is the first time pete agreed
|
||
and actually joined. bittersweet: she did not have fun.</p>
|
||
<p>nor did i, to be honest. this was a very challenging game to run. i
|
||
felt stressed out and frustrated the whole time. the clues were super
|
||
vauge. it was hard to understand a new system, and the mystery, and also
|
||
stay on top of helping people play their character. There was also a
|
||
bunch of the game that I should have just thrown out because it was not
|
||
applicable/appropriate for a one-shot. Also all of the clues are
|
||
objects. There’s no way to have a clue come up in conversation without
|
||
the person running away so they could find an object, or somehow
|
||
describing the object for some reason.</p>
|
||
<p>I had two players (pete and ari) who had never played a game before,
|
||
pete was kind of lost. i should have thrown out abilities and had a
|
||
straight 2d6 roll.</p>
|
||
<p>that said, it was a great group. a real convergence of spheres.</p>
|
||
<p>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</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307416/Brindlewood-Bay"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307416/Brindlewood-Bay</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="arkham-1628-cthulhu-dark">Arkham 1628 (Cthulhu Dark)</h2>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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 <em>wtf</em> 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</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="agents-of-edgewatch-pathfinder">Agents of Edgewatch
|
||
(Pathfinder)</h2>
|
||
<p>Agents of Edgewatch is a game of Pathfinder that I started playing
|
||
2021-02-26 as a Player. It is a Roll20/Discord Campaign and is currently
|
||
Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><strong>Update 2022-02-02</strong>: 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.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="ultraviolet-grasslands-2400-exiles">Ultraviolet Grasslands (2400
|
||
Exiles)</h2>
|
||
<p>Ultraviolet Grasslands is a game of 2400 Exiles that I started
|
||
playing 2021-12-29 as a Player. It is a discord voice Oneshot and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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!</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://wizardthieffighter.itch.io/ultraviolet-grasslands-and-the-black-city-uvg"
|
||
class="uri">https://wizardthieffighter.itch.io/ultraviolet-grasslands-and-the-black-city-uvg</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://jasontocci.itch.io/2400"
|
||
class="uri">https://jasontocci.itch.io/2400</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="quiet-midwinter-dd">Quiet Midwinter (D&D)</h2>
|
||
<p>Quiet Midwinter is a game of D&D that I started playing
|
||
2021-12-28 as a DM. It is a discord + owlbear.rodeo Oneshot and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://r-rook.itch.io/ose-quiet-midwinter"
|
||
class="uri">https://r-rook.itch.io/ose-quiet-midwinter</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="yule-homebrew-into-the-odd">yule homebrew (Into the Odd)</h2>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.)</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="giraffe-wants-best-leaves-giraffe-wants-best-leaves">Giraffe
|
||
Wants Best Leaves (Giraffe Wants Best Leaves)</h2>
|
||
<p>Giraffe Wants Best Leaves is a game of Giraffe Wants Best Leaves that
|
||
I started playing 2021-12-05 as a DM. It is a jitsi -> mumble
|
||
(technical issuse) oneshot and is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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!</p>
|
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<p><a href="http://tilde.town/~dozens/giraffe/"
|
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class="uri">http://tilde.town/~dozens/giraffe/</a></p>
|
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<p>
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<center>
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🎲🎲
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</p>
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<h2 id="crapland-2-troika">crapland 2 (troika)</h2>
|
||
<p>crapland 2 is a game of troika that I started playing 2021-11-05 as a
|
||
Player. It is a Discord Jamboard Oneshot and is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stratosfiend-2-zine/crapland-2-a-surrealist-suburban-troika-rpg-book"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stratosfiend-2-zine/crapland-2-a-surrealist-suburban-troika-rpg-book</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
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||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="moons-shot-troika">Moon’s Shot (Troika)</h2>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>ran moon’s shot for alex, sparky, and jade. a good time was had by
|
||
all. they did a capitalism, but for good</p>
|
||
<p>
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||
<center>
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||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="moons-shot-troika-1">Moon’s Shot (Troika)</h2>
|
||
<p>Moon’s Shot is a game of Troika that I started playing 2021-09-21 as
|
||
a DM. It is a Discord Oneshot and is currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Did moon’s shot again but for the skookums-and-dragons crew. Zigs,
|
||
Alex, and Jess. They murderhoboed the whole thing.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://signalstation.itch.io/moons-shot"
|
||
class="uri">https://signalstation.itch.io/moons-shot</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="garrets-ranch-cthulhu-dark">Garrets Ranch (Cthulhu Dark)</h2>
|
||
<p>Garrets Ranch is a game of Cthulhu Dark that I started playing
|
||
2021-10-30 as a Player. It is a Zoom Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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!</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/98137/Cthulhu-Dark"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/98137/Cthulhu-Dark</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="rockaway-beach-marvelous-mutations-and-merry-musicians">Rockaway
|
||
Beach (Marvelous Mutations and Merry Musicians)</h2>
|
||
<p>Rockaway Beach is a game of Marvelous Mutations and Merry Musicians
|
||
that I started playing 2021-06-12 as a Player. It is a Discord PBP
|
||
Adventure and is currently Hiatus.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>wendi’s game of mmnmm. almost immediately fizzled out. might resume
|
||
at some point?</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://wendiy.itch.io/marvelous-mutations-merry-musicians"
|
||
class="uri">https://wendiy.itch.io/marvelous-mutations-merry-musicians</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="picket-line-tango-mothership">Picket Line Tango
|
||
(Mothership)</h2>
|
||
<p>Picket Line Tango is a game of Mothership that I started playing
|
||
2021-06-01 as a Player. It is a Play By Post Adventure and is currently
|
||
Dead.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Just started. Not much to report yet. Update 2021-10-31 Game stalled
|
||
out really quickly, probably not going to pick back up</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://ian-yusem.itch.io/picket-line-tango"
|
||
class="uri">https://ian-yusem.itch.io/picket-line-tango</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://www.mothershiprpg.com/home"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.mothershiprpg.com/home</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="wicked-friends-wicked-ones-forged-in-the-dark">Wicked Friends
|
||
(Wicked Ones (Forged in the Dark))</h2>
|
||
<p>Wicked Friends is a game of Wicked Ones (Forged in the Dark) that I
|
||
started playing 2021-04-29 as a Player. It is a Play By Post Campaign?
|
||
and is currently Hiatus.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Update 2021-10-31 on hiatus</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://banditcamp.io/wickedones/"
|
||
class="uri">https://banditcamp.io/wickedones/</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="acid-death-fantasy-troika-1">Acid Death Fantasy (Troika!)</h2>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/331670/Acid-Death-Fantasy"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/331670/Acid-Death-Fantasy</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="honey-rafters-mausritter">Honey Rafters (Mausritter)</h2>
|
||
<p>Honey Rafters is a game of Mausritter that I started playing
|
||
2021-06-07 as a Player. It is a Foundry/Discord Oneshot and is currently
|
||
Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>Fun game! Surprisingly spooky. Quite lethal. Cursed sunflower =
|
||
corrupted bees and candy cultists. Played with FKR discord folk.</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://losing-games.itch.io/mausritter-honey-in-the-rafters"
|
||
class="uri">https://losing-games.itch.io/mausritter-honey-in-the-rafters</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://mausritter.com/"
|
||
class="uri">https://mausritter.com/</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="cocaine-and-alligators-florida-man-sphere-troika">Cocaine and
|
||
Alligators: Florida Man Sphere (Troika)</h2>
|
||
<p>Cocaine and Alligators: Florida Man Sphere is a game of Troika that I
|
||
started playing 2021-05-23 as a Player. It is a zoom Oneshot and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://gordinaak.itch.io/cocaine-alligators"
|
||
class="uri">https://gordinaak.itch.io/cocaine-alligators</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="dome-riders-homebrew-troika">Dome Riders (Homebrew)
|
||
(Troika!)</h2>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="storm-kings-thunder-dungeons-dragons">Storm King’s Thunder
|
||
(Dungeons & Dragons)</h2>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<h2 id="so-youve-been-thrown-down-a-well-troika">So You’ve Been Thrown
|
||
Down A Well (Troika!)</h2>
|
||
<p>So You’ve Been Thrown Down A Well is a game of Troika! that I started
|
||
playing 2020-12-21 as a DM. It is a Play By Post Adventure and is
|
||
currently Complete.</p>
|
||
<p>Here’s how it went!</p>
|
||
<p>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.</p>
|
||
<p><a
|
||
href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/313219/So-Youve-Been-Thrown-Down-A-Well"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/313219/So-Youve-Been-Thrown-Down-A-Well</a></p>
|
||
<p><a href="https://www.troikarpg.com/"
|
||
class="uri">https://www.troikarpg.com/</a></p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<center>
|
||
🎲🎲
|
||
</center>
|
||
</p>
|
||
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|
||
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|
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|
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