#nico.ttrpg

[yharnamsnewslug]

I finally convinced a couple of friends to play Bluebeard's Bride and I can't fucking wait. I've been wanting to run a game of this system for such a long time, especially one set in the 1500s in the Andalusí Caliphate. I can't wait to reference so much medieval Islamic poetry!!!

[yharnamsnewslug]

Making evil little bad guys in D&D is so much fun. Fooling your players into a false sense of security is SO much fun, especially when it's revealed that they've been TOO comfortable with someone.

Last game they went to visit a friend NPC who apparently sold his memory to one of the Pirate Princes of Keoland, and he couldn't remember them. He is now a very good illusion wizard and he can walk (was previously dying of a very bad autoimmune disease that would leave him dead in 2 years) and go about the world just fine. So my players were like, "Well, I mean - I guess that's good?"

But Noa? Ooh, Noa knew. She was like, "But he had a happy family and life as well. Being in a wheelchair didn't mean the end for him - especially since his family has money. I don't care if he can walk or not, did he CONSENT to this? That's my problem."

And there - RIGHT there, she took off the bracelet that NPC had given her and told him "it's me. Noa. Please, are you okay?"

And I did a charisma saving throw for the kid and he PASSED. So he vomited something up and began to plead for help to the two PCs - right before going back to the new NPC. And Noa and Alicia, my players, were STUNNED. He vomited something bloody, a little sack with demonic runes, and suddenly being in the circus wasn't safe anymore.

Alicia grabbed Noa's arm tightly and the two tried to leave, unable to see the masks of the circus folk as something innocent and fun anymore. Who had truly consented to being a new person? Did all of them forget their previous lives?

Were they agonizing, behind the smiling masks?

I fucking LOVE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS!!!

[yharnamsnewslug]

I want so bad to use Tales from the Loop to make a story set in Spain, in like, my fucking hometown, because that's supposed to be the incentive of Tales from the Loop, you know? That the motivation and nostalgia stems from it being your hometown.

But it's set in the 80s, and I don't think you guys understand just how behind Spain has always been in regards to industrialization. That's why its integration into NATO and the EU was so fucking important. We were an agricultural country with very little education unless in a main city, and we were very, very fucking poor. Almost as much as we are right now.

On top of that, terrorism was at an all time high, like - this is supposed to be where a Loop is created, but why the fuck would a Loop be created in San Fernando, Cádiz??? Where did our government even fucking get the technology?? Or the people to run it? The materials? We had nothing in the 80s.

We'd just come out of a dictatorship, we were scrambling, religious fanatics and the nationalists had won.

[yharnamsnewslug]

This Halloween I'm running a game of Something's Wrong With This House!!! I can't wait, it looks like so much fun, I'll let y'all know how it is!

[yharnamsnewslug]

Question for everyone! What's your favorite ttrpg system? A player of mine is gonna finish her degree so the D&D campaign is taking a break, but the others wanna play something else meanwhile.

I'm tempted to do a Powered by Apocalypse system to make them play Sunless Sea/Skies, but I also had the idea of maybe running a Mutant game? Or a the End of the World game? I've no idea, the opportunities are infinite! I also have an Alien manual!

[yharnamsnewslug]

One of the things that can elevate ttrpg games is props. And it doesn't even have to be, like, incredibly expensive or anything, though for me at least, it does take a long time.

Make letters and documents, mostly. Sometimes I'll do voice recordings, with effects, or edit songs that I'll use in the background.

[yharnamsnewslug]

Me, reading Tales from the Loop: oh, this books seems so cool, this GAME can have such cool implications about -

The book, which is Swedish: it's the US and Sweden that have been able to create the Loops, because the magnetrine effect works better in the northern hemisphere :)

Me, squinting: ......bit sus.....

[yharnamsnewslug]

You seem to play a lot of varied ttrpgs that's so cool what's your favorite?? Which one did you play first???

Oh, yeah! I didn't play D&D always, I actually started at 15 with Call of C'thulhu, and it is still perhaps my favorite. It's very fucking punishing, and though I haven't played the latest edition, I wish I played more (as a player!).

I only DM D&D, because I know this system the best and I've played it the most. It's hard to say which is my favorite? Mechanically.... I love CoC's sanity system, it's just SO GOOD, and the fact that you SHOULD NOT FIGHT.

On the other hand, I love D&D battles, or the politics of Cybersailles and Vampire the Masquerade. I love running through the post-apocalyptic world of Mutant, Apocalypse World and the End of the World (playing Alien, my cousin Jaime is running it!).

I'm also going to play soon a system I've never played or even heard of, which is about the whole Magical Girl genre. We're going Full Madoka so that's gonna be interesting! I'll be a player as well.

I've also played Dark Heresy, but I'm not THE best at 40K lore so I'm a little bit of an idiot on that one. Playing an imperial priest.

I ALSO NEED TO FINISH READING THE ALIEN TTRPG MANUAL, WHICH IS SO FUCKING GOOD??

All in all: I wouldn't know what to say about my favorite system. All ttrpgs have their strengths and weaknesses, and you as a player or DM have to find out which one adheres to you the best.

[yharnamsnewslug]

Y'ALL, SUNLESS SKIES ALREADY HAS A FUCKING SYSTEM, AND IT'S FREE!!!

GO PLAY THE GAME, GO PLAY THE TTRPG, IT'S A DELIGHT FOR COSMIC HORROR FANS

Question for everyone! What's your favorite ttrpg system? A player of mine is gonna finish her degree so the D&D campaign is taking a break, but the others wanna play something else meanwhile.

I'm tempted to do a Powered by Apocalypse system to make them play Sunless Sea/Skies, but I also had the idea of maybe running a Mutant game? Or a the End of the World game? I've no idea, the opportunities are infinite! I also have an Alien manual!