#beam saber rpg

[tobespierre]

sorry guys but the toxic old man yaoi being invented in our ttrpg group is beyond mortal comprehension

[canonkiller]

world's most normal animals

(if you want to use my concepts in your ttrpg campaigns you should 1. ask me 2. update me on events like a little podcast 3. give me money about it. I also take commissions once my queue is cleared!)

[prokopetz]

I can just tell the author was chuckling to themselves the entire time they were composing this paragraph.

[bottomlesssarcophagusstudio]

AFTERBIRTH OF THE SHADOW KING (2023) Sci-Fi/Post-Apocalyptic Horror Expansion by Rowan A. for Austin Ramsay's FitD mecha game Beam Saber.

WRITING, LAYOUT, ILLUSTRATION

[toskarin]

To celebrate Bandcamp Friday, I've updated both of my tabletop soundtrack packs, OMEN/CONSTANCE and NOMAD/VIRTUE

In a nice little twist of fate, both albums now have a similar runtime, clocking in at just over an hour each! I'm honestly just as surprised as anyone else is

Whether you're diving into the writhing abyss where eyed-things dare not crawl or warming your hands with the fire surging from your rival's overclocked heatblade, Ri47 Heavy Industries is proud to soundtrack your most memorable adventures

As is tradition, I've also knocked a little bit off of both albums' price tags. If you already own either album, you already own both of these updates for free

So what's on the menu? Check below the break!

[Featured Track: Primordial Leviathans and the Vanishing Shore]

OMEN/CONSTANCE: Update 1 takes your table into places far from the light of the sun, featuring three new songs and two new ambient worldscapes themed around pelagic horror and the cruel tide.

With the authentic sounds of survival horror at your side, let the unspeakable sea erode the walls of a normal life, leaving nothing but the smell of salt and bygone rot in its many-mouthed wake.

Whether you would uncover secrets that ought to have been left beneath their shrouds or cling desperately to the side of some great and horrible truth, let OMEN/CONSTANCE - Soundtrack for Oneiric Roleplaying be your most ardent of accompaniments as you plunge boots-first into strangling darkness.

...and whispering water.

[Featured Track: Schimmelreiter]

NOMAD/VIRTUE: Farewell Update stands wreathed in the fires of triumph, featuring three new songs themed around a grand finale and the sacrifices made to forge it, to see this mission to its end — come hell or high explosives.

The Farewell Update is intended for use as a multi-staged encounter theme for the culminating battle of your campaign. To this end, the Farewell Update includes a traditional overpowered encounter theme, a surrealistic fanfare for the last desperate push towards victory, and a bittersweet epilogue track for tying up those loose ends before your ride into the ashen sunset.

Whether you cling to hot iron and force just one more moment's advantage, steady yourself against the shearing wind to pull the trigger one last time, or fall from the arms of a loving orbit to save just one life, let NOMAD​/​VIRTUE - Soundtrack for Mechanised Roleplaying be your copilot as you tear yourself free, rising from the wreckage to defy the best laid plans of mechanised gods and electronic devils.

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Just over half a year from the album's original release date, after two free updates and well into its sequel's lifespan, Ri47 Heavy Industries decided to prepare a third and final update to our debut soundtrack as a surprise to those who got us here in the first place

From our house to yours, thank you for your continued support. - Rin

[oleandypng]

while i am playing beam saber with my friends we are using the lancer frames for flavour and here's my horse cold comfort

[fiovske]

Do you have any recs for other non-DnD game systems? I've only ever played 5e, and I'm a little intimidated to get into other systems, but I also want to branch out and get away from WOTC's bullshit.

Sure thing! I am also including a link to the itch.io pages since that's where i get most of these games!

Blades In The Dark: i'm mentioning this first bc the rules are very easy to grasp and if you're looking for a setting that has a touch of ghosts and steampunk, this game is the perfect gateway to that! it's the best for a heist i have found and the game mechanics and names are so soo sick here's just a slice from their itch.io page:

personally i find the setting and the stress mechanic very cool, because it takes into account the mental toil that an action can have and i find games with inbuilt consequence mechanics very compelling! it introduced the concept of clocks to me and i am obsessed.

a) adjacent to Blades, are all Forged In The Dark Games which are third-party blades games, and the most notable of them is Scum and Villiany which is space-western setting and also my favorite and if you're looking to play a game in the breadth of star-wars like interplanetary politics and everything, i highly recommend this game! b) if you're looking for a Blades game with mechanics to suit something more royalty-adjacent, with court-politics and agendas and masquerade parties and all, like say d20's court of fey and flowers vibe then i recommend Court Of Blades! I havent gotten around to playing this yet but it looks really promising and i soo badly want to play a game in this setting!

2. The Ground Itself : this is a world-building game. focused on one single place over time and how it changes and how it's people change, the events of this game can be spaced out from a week to several millennia depending on the rolls of ur dice or your choices! i have found that this game serves very well as say, a session zero game also, for setting up a place before you play in it, and not only a very fun session of making a place together for your party to play in, but also not leaving all the work to the gm! so it's a win win situation!

tbh, all games by everest pipkin are very good! i wanna get my hands on world ending game as well bc it is a game about giving your campaign, your world-building and your characters the perfect send-off.

3. Wanderhome : if you're looking for something ghibli-esque (this is the closest i can come to defining this game thru popular media) then i highly recommend wanderhome! it's got a very cozy pastoral vibe to it and the art is really beautiful and you get to pick from a range of animal-folk to play as it's very cool!

also honorable mentions,

a) Sleepaway is a game by the same creator in which ur a camp counsellor to a bunch of misfits and horror stories around campfires ensue! b) Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast which is an upcoming game which you can still back and it looks really interesting so i'd recommend checking it out as well!

4. Lancer: this game has mechs it has space-battles and you get to be a pilot in a future set years in the future and a thousand directions to take ur campaign in! he relationship between pilot and mech is smth that can be so personal.....

i wanna play lancer sometime it has very cool mech designs and it has very much piqued my interest, if i find ppl who wanna play lancer w me im 🏃🏃!

5. Heart The City Beneath : honestly, one of my fave settings of all time, it has strong horror components so mind the cws! but the classes and the game mechanics are very intuitive and overall it helps you not only build a character that feels natural and organic, but since this is a horror setting, things do not have happy endings... however it will ensure that your characters have a well-built journey whose ends will be terrifying and magnificent.

I got introduced to the fallout mechanic through this game and oooo how i love it, it's the perfect blend of your actions have consequences + every consequence is interesting and will affect your character deeply and emotionally, which is <33

this list got too long so i will just mention some more here:

the quiet year (very good map-making game, for before the frost shepherds arrive in winter.)

beam saber (forged in the dark game that deserves its on mention! austin ramsey's games i highly recommend!)

thirsty sword lesbians (ecactly what it says on the tin, i wanna check this game out also)

lotr's one ring rpg (this one is the closest substitute to classic d&d bc lets be real. tolkien is where d&d got it's shit from. and i have heard good things abt this game even tho i've never had the chance to play it)

mothership rpg (space horror whose build mechanics are very easy and user-friendly and i've had a LOT of fun with this!)

orbital (one very beautifully written rpg about life in space and it's only 32 pages but well-worth the time, highly recommend)

that's all i can give off the top of my head, i might've missed a few but these are strong standouts, so i hope u find at least one to your liking!

[ri47]

NOMAD​/​VIRTUE - Soundtrack for Mechanised Roleplaying [Act 1]

This album includes four original songs and two alternative arrangements blending mechanical undertones with a rustic sense of adventure. Additionally, this special release includes five sound cues intended to accent your tableside adventures.

Whether you're freelancing or engaging in the more evergreen trappings of military mecha piloting, let NOMAD/VIRTUE complement your fireteam's soaring highs and crashing lows.

Also probably compatible with non-mecha ttrpgs. Rin hasn't tested this and can't safely confirm or deny it.

[vyctorianbyron]

Lancer RPG is cool

But it feels like a very incomplete RPG system, because it only really focuses on the mecha and makes that aspect really crunchy and mechanically deep However the human and non-mech combat side of the game is very narrative play focused with few mechanics or depth of any kinda outside third party supplements and at that point it be better to just slot in a different TTRPG to handle the non-mecha side of things So I really hope if they ever make a 2nd edition they have expanded rules for roles outside of Lancer (Mech) pilot

[allthatyouknow]

Hi! I was wondering: how do you choose what system to use? How did you find Beam Saber? there seems like there are so many options, i want to start my own podcast but I can not decide which one are the best for that thank you!

Hello!

So, I think the conventional wisdom would be "play whatever is fun for you to run, and use that for your podcast" but after thinking about it a little bit I don't actually know that would recommend that in every case.

Specifically, I would recommend any system that doesn't tend to get too stuck in the rules. Specifically, avoid systems that rely on battlemaps and lots of rolling to resolve combats. (I know that this kinda counts DnD, literally the most popular RPG out but uh... I don't think it's good for podcasts! That's my problematic opinion)

As for recommendations...

I am by no means an expert on tabletop systems, so my go-to recommendations are Forged in the Dark games (like blades in the dark, Beam Saber, etc) and Powered by the Apocalypse games (dungeon world, the sprawl, monster of the week).

These two families have great bones, and have been a real pleasure to play for me and my group. As far as how I found these games, I actually only knew about them from listening to Friends at the Table.

Beam Saber and Dungeon World both were introduced to me through there. Being able to actually hear them get played really helped me understand how they worked in a show.

At the end of the day, it really depends on the type of game you want to run - and what you want to highlight on your show. The recommendations I put forth above are because I really care the most about rules that enable stories, more than stories that enable the rules. (Particularly for a podcast. I love a nice crunchy system off-mic).

I hope that helps! I will give a shout out to the r/rpg reddit which is a great resource for describing the genre, tone, and style you want for a game and having a group of people pitch you ideas.

I've found a lot of cool systems through there.

Thanks for writing in!

[literalcatpod]

39 - Making a Lab Experiment-turned Ace Pilot in Beam Saber

Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark system by @austinramsaygames that lets you live out your mecha anime fantasies, if you're into that kind of thing. If you need a fresh idea for a character, why not consider playing as Cedric, the mildly psychic cat who operates his mech via telepathic connection?

NOTE: This episode does not constitute an endorsement of CAT's actions in Gaza on behalf of Israel. We here at the Literal Cat Podcast would strongly prefer a free Palestine. Honestly if I'd known about the connection when we recorded this, we probably wouldn't have done it. You can stay informed by checking the latest from the BDS movement here.

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Cover art and Intro/Outro music made by Joel Holland

Thanks for listening! We’ll Cat-ch you later!

[filohazard]

I riffed on the cover of Austin Ramsay’s ‘Beam Saber’

[This is based on the game’s cover art by the artist Vincent Patrick]

[vforvalensa]

I got stranded in New Jersey due machinations of the airline industry against me and now I got a lot of expenses I was not expecting. Please buy some ttrpg games to help me escape from Jersey!

https://itch.io/s/98885/stranded-in-jersey-bundle

[bottomlesssarcophagusstudio]

ADMIRALTY BLUES (2020-Present) Actual Play podcast of Austin Ramsay's FitD game Beam Saber, on which I am one of the cast! Also available on Spotify.

CHARACTER ILLUSTRATIONS

[toskarin]

hey! it's bandcamp friday! that means everyone is about to start advertising at you. that means I'm also about to do that.

I made a mecha ttrpg album a little while back. as of now, it has two more tracks than it did when it initially released, bringing it to 25 minutes if you count the first new track, Beyond Wrath, and 39 minutes if you count the new unreasonably lengthy ambient track, Thousandfold Coils

if you already bought the album, as always, you don't have to buy it again to receive the new tracks. think of them as early holiday gifts

if you haven't bought the album, I hope you like erhu, because I habitually used it in nearly every single track without fully realising I was doing that. tehe

thanks for your support!

[oleandypng]

more beam saber art! ft. @zayphora's oc arthrax! she very kindly drew suma so i had to draw our ocs hangin out!!!