#rpg hack

[psychhound]

[ID: a cover image for a game. large brown text says "bagel, lox, golem talks" and smaller text says "a for truth's sake SRD solo-journaling game". the background is a faded photo of houses in a village. there are white stars, an eye with wings, a kippah with a star of david, and a golem on the image. end ID]

Bubbie Blumenthal has a leaky roof again. The leviathan in the river keeps lying its head on the thatch to sleep. Rebbe Ezra has instructed his golem to scare the thing off, to no avail. It’s a stubborn beast, even if it does seem to have a soft spot for the schoolchildren who feed it latkes on the way back from learning Talmud.

All you know is that you’ll need a new notebook soon with how eager all the old zaydes are to chat your ear off after a little post-Shabbos wine. One glass in, and every one of them claims a dybbuk encounter that week. Well, it’s good material. You’ll figure out how true it is after it goes in your field notes!

Bagel, Lox, Golem Talks is a solo-journaling game where you travel to a magical Jewish shtetl in order to learn more about the community and write an ethnography on them. 

Pull cards to ask questions of the residents, roll dice to see how well interactions go, and get to know a host of colorful characters from young mensches, to golems, to nephilim, to the community rabbi. Unlock 12 different locations and gain levels in friendship and familiarity with the community as you document more and more in your field notes.

You'll need: A d20, d12, and d8, and a deck of playing cards

BLGT is a hack of For Truth's Sake by @hmooncreates

Get it now on itch! BLGT is free/pwyw!

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Requested by @veemochi

[kamabr]

have you considered… Goncharov (1973) the ttrpg?

download the one-page rpg for free here!

You are the characters in one of the many fabled extended and unreleased cuts of GONCHAROV (1973), the greatest mafia movie ever made, and winter has come to Naples, Italy…

Get your cast of players together to tell your own tale of drama and crime, passion and longing, and maybe just a little bit of humanity. Make your fortune, claim your city, then face your hubris—and give yourself a cinematic final act.

In the end, sometimes death is what makes one immortal.

Perhaps the rise was the fall, after all…

[arcadebroke]

Dungeons of Hinterberg

[bardicbird]

pen doodles 👍👍 she’s fun to draw

[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.

[marlowedobbeart]

Mods are asleep time to share my videogame: ✨FIRE EMBLEM: GILMORE GIRLS EDITION.✨ That's right. I made a 1-hour FE8 mod about Gilmore Girls for the literal millions of people who are fans of both franchises. (👇🏻Play it now!👇🏻) https://marlowedobbe.itch.io/fegilmoregirls

[damsels-n-dice]

Have you ever wished that your TTRPGs had more teenage angst in them? Do you love playing Lasers & Feelings but prefer fantasy & magic over science fiction & lasers? Do you just want to add another indie RPG to your endless list of games to play? Introducing...

Kisses & Curses is a free (with optional donations) game, based in the Lasers & Feelings system! It includes bonus mechanics for personal relationships and social status, to support that teen drama feeling, as well as all the standards Lasers & Feelings rules. I'd love it if you checked it out and/or had a go at playing it :)

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[prokopetz]

I just discovered that there are three different hacks of Olaf Hits the Dragon with His Sword published on AO3, two of which are based on a Chinese historical drama from 2015, and one of which is Batman.

I was wondering why my itch.io creator profile kept getting hits with AO3 as the referring URL. I guess now I know!

[kelocitta]

Tangentially related to some of the discussion i posted earlier but quiet literally the first RW Art Month i participated I did it completely on whim like, one day before it started. And I mostly did it because I hadn't drawn a ton of rain world and wanted to draw more. Fandom presence was a lot smaller than and I was one of a handful of artists who did the entire thing. Fast forward and I still do Art Month and I've gotten to work with VC directly. But it was quite literally something I decided to do completely on whim that set the ball rolling, and for something a lil more niche and certainly with a lot more dev/fandom art involvement than most. It's really random how and why you might get noticed more than usual, especially with the "toss it into the search and hope it pays out' mechanism of Socmed

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

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Requested by anon

[caliburnabsolute]

It's so funny to me how many weird similarities there are between Pokemon Insurgence and Pokemon Unbound. Like, even beyond the surface level comparison of them both being edgy but well-regarded fangames that are packed with features and known for their difficulty. I'm just gonna list out what comes to mind (SPOILERS FOR BOTH GAMES UNDER THE CUT).

At the start of the game, you are asked how "mature" you want the story to be; Unbound removes this in version 2.0, but in both cases, if you choose the mature story option, people die.

In both games, you explore the region that Kalos was at war with 3,000 years ago in the backstory of XY. This is revealed later on in Insurgence, but it's part of the opening exposition in Unbound.

You are the child of a legendary Pokemon trainer who was famous throughout the region and had partnered with the Mythical Pokemon Hoopa before vanishing under mysterious circumstances; in both cases, they turn out to have been trapped in a pocket dimension the whole time.

You start out both games trapped in a secret base owned by a shadowy antagonistic faction (the Cult of Darkrai in Insurgence, and the Shadows in Unbound).

If you choose the mature story option in both games, a nameless grunt is incinerated by their boss's Houndoom before you even leave that secret base. This doesn't happen in Unbound from 2.0 onward, since the mature story option is removed.

One of the first gym leaders does marijuana (the second gym leader, Xavier, in Insurgence, and the first gym leader, Mirskle, in Unbound).

This isn't a parallel but I just want to mention that Xavier Mega Evolves his Beedrill with a Mega Bong. Make of that what you will.

Your rival in both games (at least, your first rival in Insurgence, since you have two) turns out to be the son of a major antagonist.

The third, fifth, and seventh gym leaders in both games specialize in Flying-, Electric- and Steel-, and Water-types respectively. This feels more like a coincidence to me, but I might as well mention it.

I wasn't a fan of Insurgence (aside from liking some of the Delta Pokemon designs), so I've been turned off from Unbound for the longest time because of these similarities (along with a couple other issues), but... I dunno, I feel the urge to give it another try for some reason. Don't be surprised if I start liveblogging Unbound.

[kamabr]

more info about the free goncharov (1973) ttrpg!

[link to the tiktok]