#eureka ttrpg

[anim-ttrpgs]

"Gang Way!" investigator Trait from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. Every investigator has 3 to 6 Traits!

[corviacore]

Some sketches of my Eureka character Elia, she's a homebrew monster I got to play on the ANIM RPG book club discord server by @anim-ttrpgs , these are scenes of her encounter with a much less amicable monster during the last session of our latest module, where she was forced to reveal herself as a fallen angel for the first time!

It was a lot of fun and while Eureka very much isn't *focused* on combat, more on the investigation aspect of the experience, the way the system handles it was still a LOT of fun and lead to a fun situation where her burning sword was simply put out and she fell back to her firearm, making her a proper Angel with a Shotgun!

[yoshicolonoscopyfootageofficial]

Just realized that eureka ttrpg could possibly be used to run a fallen london-style campaign pretty well, considering a lot of the appeal of fallen london is the mysteries surrounding the setting. There’d probably have to be some custom rules to hack it, mostly stuff around the impermanence of death. Also when composure hits zero investigators are checked into the royal bethlehem.

Might also do with a custom set of supernatural character options, though the secrecy element would also be less stated, since the setting deviates from Eureka’s assumption of supernatural beings being very uncommon. Generally that stuff would have to be hacked a good bit. This’d also lose that poignant disability metaphor most likely… maybe some of this would be better suited as traits or something…

I’m mostly spitballing here, especially since I know failbetter is planning to cook up their own system soonish

Also I’m still working my way through the eureka book itself so I’m probably working with some spotty info on the system itself

Eh, I’m still having fun thinking things up, and the candle finder society stories got me in the mood (the murdered puppet case was pretty linear mechanically but I could see an interesting module built out of it’s core)

[chaoticblade5]

I really want to know why hate crimes are a required part of the Eureka ttrpg. Also, why are the homeless people treated as the same level of inconvenience as a pile of shit? It seems like a really mean-spirited game for how much I have seen people raving about how respectful and nice it is compared to other investigation games.

[coffeewolfart]

Fun facts about her:

Her traits are Night Owl, Technically... , and Woo-Woo

This is because she's spent many hours of the night looking up random shit she's interested in and then passing out until noon-ish, she is really cagey about things without wanting to actually lie about them, and she has weird superstitions about being able to see visions in dreams and thinks she might be able to read things in tarot cards (though she doesn't think all tarot readings are magical or helpful.)

She was adopted into a family that has practiced and taught witchcraft down generationally, and they're where she learned most things about magic and potion making.

(Not everyone in her family is a witch, but most of them have at least some knowledge about it even if they aren't able to practice it.)

She knows other supernatural things exist outside of witches (she encountered one herself after all), but she doesn't know all that much about them directly. She does study as much folklore about supernatural creatures as she can though, just in case some of it is real.

Her freckles glow like stars whenever she uses magic and always faintly glow in dim light. Its not enough light to be immediately noticeable or help her see things in the dark, but its still there.

On the subject of freckles, they subtly shift to reflect the stars in her hemisphere. It took her way too long to figure this out.

She doesn't think werewolves (as in Eureka wolfmen, aka the hollywood people forced to turn into wolf human hybrids under the full moon) actually exist. She knows that the Werewolf mage power exists, and she just thinks that some people just saw witches using it and telephoned it into a monstrous wolf human that preys upon people in the night. She's got weird priorities and standards for what counts as realistic to her.

She likes to knit and crochet little stuffed animals, her favorites are cats and owls.

Remade an old OC, meet Astra the dreamweaving witch!

Astra's an old pathfinder character that I decided to convert to the Eureka! system as a witch. She's gotten a goth makeover as a result. You guy's should check it out if you're interested, @anim-ttrpgs made it and posts a lot about it.

Astra's a college dropout of a witch living in a renovated van house and traveling the country. She makes a living doing "psychic readings" which may or may not actually involve magic and selling stuff on Etsy. She's generally very cheerful and slightly suspicious, but once a mystery has gotten a grip over her she bites into it and doesn't let go.

[faeriedaez]

Introducing: Urethra! Bad Traits for Bad Investigators

Available now on Itch, I have created a Pay-If-You-Must collection of 14 new traits for the HIT independently developed, critically acclaimed, urban fantasy noir mystery solving tabletop roleplaying game known only as Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. The traits held within range from actively hindering, laughably specific, and even decently powerful (albeit with humorous presentation.) If you're a fan of Eureka, please help yourself to my little supplement, I guarantee it will at least bring you a chuckle. If you AREN'T already a fan of Eureka and you're seeing this post I BEG you, click the underlined link above or even right here. Believe me when I tell you Eureka is the TTRPG scene's next indie darling. Alright. PEACE.

[chaospyromancy]

The plight of being a woman walking back to your car at night is that they won't even let you start eating your burger before bothering you. Who's they? Why the wolfmen. Of course.

This is a modern AU of Gen for @anim-ttrpgs's Eureka!

[bad-eureka-updates]

i hear in the next update they are removing men

You say removing men, I say creating a lot more women.

[legov7]

Inspired by @anim-ttrpgs's mystery ttrpg Eureka.

One of these creatures is a monster known to kill humans without remorse. You can't play as one, since that would interfere with the intended gameplay.

The second one on the other hand, the man eating shapeshifting sheet of flesh called the Thing from Beyond is totally fair game for a player character.

[jamie101]

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy - question everything, investigate everything. The motive for the murder, that shifty NPC, that mysterious old clock, another investigator's aversion to sunlight, the sinister shadow cast through the window of the manor, your gender identity, why your heart skips a beat when your friend smiles at you,

[anim-ttrpgs]

@llapdog

(I’m censoring part of this because it’s a spoiler for FORIVA, but most people who have played FORIVA will probably be able to figure it out)

Thank you!

We get “why hasn’t anyone else thought of that” a lot, and my answer is the same. The “trad” and “neotrad” TTRPG is both a young artform and a super stagnate artform because it’s mostly the domain of big corporations or indie developers who have only played games by those artistically stagnate corporations, and TTRPGs and related types of game outside of that category are so young of an artform there’s not even that much to build off of even when the developers are trying. That, and a lot of people’s assessment of what TTRPGs are good or bad is entirely “vibes based” with most of that burden of making any game fun unfairly thrust upon the GM rather than the rulebook, and all the air is sucked out of the room by D&D5e and Pathfinder, so also it’s entirely possible that plenty of games or adventure modules have done this before, we just haven’t heard of them.

Also, anyone interested can get the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy adventure module this ask is referencing by subscribing to our Patreon.

and/or you can listen to the playthrough by @tinytablepodcast!

[corviacore]

Last Sunday I hosted a game of Eureka by @anim-ttrpgs two friends of mine, there was supposed to be 3 but one couldnt make it, oh well you all know how it is with scheduling, it still played quite well with two people though, this system is actually really good for smaller groups from my experience with it so far.

We were playing horror Harry's haunted house, a premade module that comes with the free download of Eureka from ANIMs itch.io site! Check it out if you haven't yet and support them if you like Eureka!

Both of these friends of mine were new to the system and I had only narrated a single session of Foriva the Angel game before so I was breaking new ground as well and we were struggling a bit to RP while learning a new system, still a lot of fun though and honestly I think Eureka is pretty easy to get into, dont let the large pagecount on the rulebook dissuade you, its simply not done yet and gas some editing left to be done on it.

I don't wanna spoil too much, but the players had a lot of fun giggling about their own characters stubbornness and resulting consequences such as tumbling off a small balcony and bumping their butts.

In the end my players told me they really liked it and would be willing to play some more and while they did NOT correctly solve the mystery of horror Harry's haunted house they had a lot of fun with it! I also found it mostly smooth and pretty easy to run and I think I managed well enough. My players enjoyed that they felt more like theyre driving the game then in DND where it's often hacking and slashing or freeform rping until the DM puts the next thing in front of you (our personal experience) and they enjoyed the partial successes as well, they even made use of their Eureka towards the end wich they managed to scrape together enough points for and that helped them get to a conclusion, even if it was the wrong one xP

All in all a successful session and I think Horror Harry's haunted house is a EXCELLENT introduction into the game ,with low stakes it showcases allmost all major mechanics (except combat) and is easily finished within a single session if about 4-5 hours, take it as a sort of tutorial for both narrator and players and you will have a decent idea of how this game plays amd what to expect from it!

[umbraldame]

I know that writers of Eureka always talk about "eating people" as a metaphor for people who's needs are difficult/impossible to meet but hear me out, this kind of "hot monster girls eating people" style of gameplay is cornering a market that other games are too cowardly to capitalize off of.

[octobelus]

hey if you want to solve mysteries as a genius detective, bumbling idiot, super powerful predator, deeply traumatized weirdo, Normal Guy, or some combination of the above, check out the ttrpg Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy

development is ongoing, but in its current state my character got to trigger a cascade of dramatic reveals and worsening mental health among the party where it turned out 3/5 of them were living dolls while a dead body lay at their feet and the only human was covered in its brains. I haven't played ttrpgs in yearsss and this was a hilarious way to come back to it!

[the-ghost-in-your-attic]

one thing about Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy that I've never experienced before is that for the first time in my 7 years of playing rpgs, I'm actually making a character who's a woman! as a trans person, the constant third person verbiage and reminders about player/character separation don't trigger my dysphoria like in other games, so I'm off to sail the brand new waters of pathetic women

basically an entirely new Loser Woman demographic: Extremely Dysphoric Transmascs

[coffeewolfart]

Remade an old OC, meet Astra the dreamweaving witch!

Astra's an old pathfinder character that I decided to convert to the Eureka! system as a witch. She's gotten a goth makeover as a result. You guy's should check it out if you're interested, @anim-ttrpgs made it and posts a lot about it.

Astra's a college dropout of a witch living in a renovated van house and traveling the country. She makes a living doing "psychic readings" which may or may not actually involve magic and selling stuff on Etsy. She's generally very cheerful and slightly suspicious, but once a mystery has gotten a grip over her she bites into it and doesn't let go.