#icrpg

[ghost-in-your-computer]

I'm still laughing about the last tabletop session I had in ICRPG where the gang casually went to a public execution, conducted an impromptu prison break, ended up saving what might be a key NPC, and then I made my character look like a looser in front of her.

[stormethecat]

The art of WARP SHELL from Index Card RPG by Brandish Gilhelm

[stormbringrr]

Not much happens in the Copperbind Forest that doesn’t come through the Fang Rat Inn at some point or another. Perched right on the cusp of the Great Phoenix Desert, the Fang Rat Inn offers a final brief respite before heading into the perilous land that leads to New Thunderbird. Start your adventure under the Fang Rat Inn with The Windstone Chronicles Vol 1 on DriveThruRPG and don’t forget to grab a copy of the full map and hidden characters on our Patreon page. The Windstone Chronicles is a narrative adventure that reads like a found journal, engaging not only the players, but the Game Master in a compelling fantasy world. This adventure is designed with low-level characters in mind but can be adapted for any level or system. Content: A 4 room dungeon with room illustrations and challenging combat puzzles 3 Unique Monsters including the dreaded magic shredders Hand-drawn detailed map of the area 4 Hero Characters, with tokens, quests hooks, and suggested stats and equipment #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #icrpg #oldschoolessentials #makeyourownrpg #makeyourownttrpg #fantasyrpg #rpgmodule #adventurerpg #fantasyttrpg #mapofthearea #uniquemonsternpc #compellingcharacters #downloadablerpg #rpgmodulewalkthrough #fangratinn #crit-yeah #urbansunrises #windstonechronicles #fantasyinn #rpginn https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjg7Ci4pz-R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jeffs-gamebox]

#RPGaDay2024 August 15th.

This is a good opportunity to talk about loot as experience in fantasy roleplaying games. Part of #RPGaDay2024.

An RPG with great character gear: Index Card RPG. This is a great opportunity to talk about gear as experience in fantasy TTRPGs. I was first introduced to this concept by Index Card RPG where the character’s gear is their experience in the form of improvements to them. The +1 To Hit and Damage sword is the same as gaining a warrior level in some other d20 system games. Casters can grow by…

[whpubs]

Join us tomorrow, 5/6/23, for some Index Card RPG fun as we take to the starts in Last Flight of the Red Sword!

https://twitch.tv/WanderersHaven

[tnarutopodcast]

To the #roleplayinggame crowd & fans/friends of Talking Naruto Shippuden Podcast that didn't know already. Our Co-host Lawson (@lawvanguard ) released an #ICRPG called First Fantasy on #DriveThruRPG Get that and extension for $6 bucks now! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/416073/ICRPG-First-Fantasy Play it and after a day, leave a 5 stars & comment. Also listen to episode session 0 here⬇️ https://lawsonphoenix89.podbean.com/e/session-0-meet-kimchi-and-budek/ #rpg #finalfantasy #podcast #swipeleft https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0Q_wvPcAo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[scormey]

Heroic, Part 4 (Ep. 108)

Heroic, Part 4 (Ep. 108) #ICRPG #TTRPG #Solo #ActualPlay #Podcast

The (hopefully) thrilling conclusion to this month’s adventure in ICRPG, on today’s show! Game: “Index Card RPG, Master Edition“ Oracle: “Mythic GameMaster Emulator Cards“ Music: “Celebration” by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

[reapin-season]

Reapin' Season, el foro, hace uso de un sistema basado en el d20 (dado de 20 caras) inspirado en Dungeons and Dragons 5ª Edición e ICRPG para ejemplificar toda prueba de habilidad realizada por un personaje.

En vez de explicarlo detalladamente, invitamos a hacer las preguntas que se consideren necesarias sobre él (dado que, francamente, es mucho, demasiado, excesivo texto).

Podemos adelantar, y resumiendo muy crudamente, que se mantendrá el uso del dado de 20 caras (como ya hemos dicho anteriormente), la lista de Atributos y Habilidades (adaptada a la ambientación y foro) y el concepto de las Competencias. Sin embargo, no tendremos clases, sino un sistema de 10 Rangos donde los personajes obtendrán diversos beneficios, incluyendo Poderes (tenemos 40), conforme progresen.

Además, hay un listado de 169 objetos creados y disponibles en la Tienda. Los cuales incluyen Armas, Armaduras, Mejoras, Cachivaches y Aumentos Cibernéticos (inspirados en Cyberpunk 2077). Todos únicos y funcionando con sus propias mecánicas.

[sigmasupreme]

Keep on the Borderlands Battle Report Session #3

Link to previous post

Keep on the borderlands continues! We've now played for three sessions of Old School Essentials & Keep on the Borderlands, and I reckon I'll run at least 3 more before considering changing up the rules to a new system. (ICRPG is very appealing right now).

Good session all up, click for the details.

Today we had some new players, a Thief, an Assassin and another Elf. They rolled terrible on their hit points and it was a miracle they didn't die.

They journeyed toward the forests in the north, encountering a mad old man and his pet mountain lion. One of the NPCs was killed, as well as a player character.

I increased the rewards substantially from what was written in the module, but players are leveling up very slowly.

I think I'm beginning to get tired of the incremental XP present in older editions like B/X and AD&D. It's a big hassle to calculate how much XP the players get when it won't actually result in them levelling up. Games like Maze Rats and Deathbringer have solved this by having all XP be in single digits. ICRPG also just allows the GM to simply grant additional abilities at their whim.

These systems look really appealing, so I'm unsure if OSE will continue beyond 6 sessions.

Players weren't really prepared for the fight with the Old Man & his pet mountain lion. One player did attempt a backstab, but it didn't hit. The assassin didn't get a chance to assassinate either. (not sure if that works as a ranged attack).

The second combat encounter, the players fought a werewolf, I was convinced they would all die, but I got them to team up with a werewolf hunter, prep some ammunition, and they seemed to go along with the Werewolf hunter's plan to ambush the werewolf.

They did extremely well in this encounter, but it almost felt too easy, and most of the planning was done by the Werewolf hunter character which I was controlling. At least, that's how I remember it.

Players are still having fun and it seemed to fine for one of the players who had never played before.

[bugbearbrothers]

•ADVANTAGE & DISADVANTAGE• Widely heralded as one of the best pieces of 5E design, this mechanic represents situational boons and detriments by having players roll two D20’s and take the higher or lower result. The genius of this design was its ability to distill a wide array of disparate abilities down to a clean dice roll. However, its strength is also its weakness, as it ended up making the mechanic ubiquitous throughout the game (especially if you’re using flanking rules). Another problem with the mechanic, first identified by Hankerin Fernale over at Runehammer, is that it is psychologically discordant. Because you see two results, your brain has trouble narratively latching to one and ignoring the other (especially when you crit while rolling with disadvantage). Although most of us are willing to live with these shortcomings, what are some ways of replacing or repairing this mechanic?

1. Dice levels: like the spell ‘Guidance’, you could assign different dice levels to different levels of advantage, adding the second dice’s result to your total.

2. Static bonuses: instead of granting advantage, give players a +3 to their roll when they have the upper hand. This approach is used in ICRPG.

3. Triple advantage: if you don’t mind advantage but you don’t like how static it is, allow players to sometimes roll 3D20 and take the highest.

4. Double an attribute bonus: instead of making advantage static and character agnostic, allow it to reflect the underlying attribute being tested. Got +5 Strength? Treat it as +10 this time around!

5. Dice magnitude: games like Savage Worlds and DCC both solve the issue by assigning players dice of higher values for their rolls as they level up.

[tomimi-does-stuff]

I've been making an ICRPG one shot during my time in the bus while going to work and I finally finished it!

It's a 2-3 hour adventure where the players try to steal a painting from the Louvre, Da Vinci's lost painting: The "Mona Arrugada".

I also made character creation incredibly simple so it can be played on the spot whenever I want.

Can't wait to get the chance to play it with friends.

[stormethecat]

I just wanna gush about this character I made

My friends and I recently decided to give D&D a break and try out a new TTRPG system called Index Card RPG which comes with a sci-fi setting called WARP SHELL and it's super fun. One of the races you can choose (called a bioform) is a mecha, and one of my friends and I wanted to be one. We decided that another friend's mechanic character made us in a series. His character is named Null, the other mecha is named 01, my character is named 03, and there's a third lost mecha named 02. Both 01 and 03's memory of 02 have been wiped, and I have yet to learn anything about her

01 is a large tank-like robot with treads and a ripsaw and a taser. He's a scientist who specializes in xenobiology. (Unfortunately no picture available, but imagine something similar to Bastion from Overwatch with a big "01" painted on the side in block letters)

03 is a much thinner build with agile helicopter blade legs. He's designed for protection and specializes in machine guns. He has a massive particle cannon that unfolds from his torso and telescopes outward, resting over his shoulder in the form of a gatling gun. (Reference below for the type of robot he's shaped like, imagine something like that with a big "03" painted on the chest in block letters)

So there's this sort of subversion of expectations for 01 and 03's designs, with the big one being the brains and the littler one being the firepower. Null is a bit of an outcast, but always wanted friends so he created 01, 02, and 03 as a series of mecha to keep him company. And better yet, Null has a class ability called "jerry rigger" that allows him to combine any two machines to perform a hybrid function, so we decided we could use that to voltron 01 and 03 together.

I've written 03's personality to speak kind of pedantically and have very dry humor, inspired somewhat by Omega from Sonic. It's been very fun to roleplay and the deadpan deliveries and brotherly banter between 03 and 01 is fantastic.

It all just feels so epic, and I'm loving the freedom and simplicity of ICRPG. Plus a sci-fi setting after so much standard fantasy is pretty refreshing. I'm having lots of fun with it.

[stormbringrr]

Have you visited the Fang Rat Inn yet? Find it on DriveThruRPG The Windstone Chronicles Vol 1. Not much happens in the Copperbind Forest that doesn’t come through the Fang Rat Inn at some point or another. Perched right on the cusp of the Great Phoenix Desert, the Fang Rat Inn offers a final brief respite before heading into the perilous land that leads to New Thunderbird. Start your adventure under the Fang Rat Inn with The Windstone Chronicles Vol 1 on DriveThruRPG and don’t forget to grab a copy of the full map and hidden characters on our Patreon page. The Windstone Chronicles is a narrative adventure that reads like a found journal, engaging not only the players, but the Game Master in a compelling fantasy world. This adventure is designed with low-level characters in mind but can be adapted for any level or system. Content: A 4 room dungeon with room illustrations and challenging combat puzzles 3 Unique Monsters including the dreaded magic shredders Hand-drawn detailed map of the area 4 Hero Characters, with tokens, quests hooks, and suggested stats and equipment #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #icrpg #oldschoolessentials #makeyourownrpg #makeyourownttrpg #fantasyrpg #rpgmodule #adventurerpg #fantasyttrpg #mapofthearea #uniquemonsternpc #compellingcharacters #downloadablerpg #rpgmodulewalkthrough #fangratinn #crit-yeah #urbansunrises #windstonechronicles #fantasyinn #rpginn #fantasyart #fantasyworld https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1YjVVLra-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[eltomimi]

Last week I started planning an ICRPG one shot on my rides in the bus and I'm more than halfway done???

Like I just need 4 secrets, 2 room descriptions and 7 items for a loot table and its done. Wow.