#tabletop rpgs that arent d&d

[legionofmyth]

Mark MacKinnon of Dyskami Publishing

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[prokopetz]

hay sorry i am late to this but with the itcho blm bundel do you perhaps know a confinient list of all the ttrpg games on it bcs they arent always clearly marked on it (i alredy have it but i am so incredibly lost D:) i would be thankful for the help and am sorry for the interruption

I’m not aware of a complete list, no (if only because nobody can agree on a working definition of “tabletop RPG”, and a lot of the included titles are really pushing the boundaries!), but I think this one is reasonably comprehensive:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ulbRK-U4LAxb7f2MGHLt5mC-2ifYk5bbT77UK85_PW8/

[rabdoidal]

Do you have any tips on how to run / play monsterhearts? Unfortunately my only tabletop experience is with D&D, I tried looking up stuff but I thought maybe you might have advice!

listen to your players

fling a lot of sex spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks with your players to complicate their lives

encourage as much interjection of their imaginations into the world as you can (doing the classroom exercise they talk about in the monsterhearts 2 book is really useful! basically letting your players name characters, decide what they’re like, etc gets everyone into the Teen Drama headspace)

as the DM, its nice to get deeper into RPing to help people get in character! im always ready to make myself a goof and improv a bit to let people relax into the story

with monsterhearts specifically, as the DM, respect boundaries for romance and flirtation - its a game all about budding sexuality so its interesting to see how players use sex to get what they want

try filling out this RPG consent form with everyone if you arent sure how far to go!

i put on a bunch of 1995 pop music to help us get into the zone lmao

honestly the monsterhearts 2 pdf has a lot of advise so ive read thru it a few times! hope this helped!

[riddlerhymes]

17+19+20 Jonathan and Jervis and Edward

under a thingy since its gonna b long,,

17. Regrets

jon often regrets pulling the stunt that got him fired from his job as a professor. it was his dream job, he loved it! he wishes he could go back to it

jervis has a lot of regrets. he regrets the outbursts that got him fired from Wayne Enterprises, all the impulsive kidnappings, becoming a rogue and ruining any chance hed had at having a normal life again, etc

ed sometimes regrets leaving his life behind to come to gotham and prove his dad wrong. he did have a job already set for him at a locally-owned shop and everything, but he wanted to live in the city and have a big city job and do big city things. he feels like it was selfish of him

19. People they’ve hurt or indirectly killed, and how it affected them

jonathan doesnt care much about hurting people. people get hurt all the time for plenty of stupid reasons, so it shouldn’t matter if he hurts a few in the name of “research” right? most the people hes hurt probably had it coming anyways, in his eyes

jerv tends to lash out a lot… so of course he’s hurt people, he doesn’t like hurting people, it just sort of happens.. and sometimes he wishes it didnt, sometimes he doesnt care, it really depends on the situation and person he’s hurt

ed doesnt like to hurt people that arent tied into his plans. he always picks specific individuals for specific reasons, bystanders getting hurt from a plan gone haywire is something he hates!

20. What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

i could go on and on about aus and “how it couldve happened” n all that, after all i do LOV that stuff n come up with wayy too many concepts along those lines, BUT the first thing to come to mind on this is… losers au

jervis is a gas station clerk since he’d flunked all his college classes and couldnt get the job he wanted. still a very controlling person and he knows it, so he doesnt really maintain any relationships outside of being friendly with coworkers

edwards an amateur programmer that works at gamestop and plays d&d at the library with his small group of friends! also into conspiracy theories and true crime documentaries, since he himself cant investigate crimes currently taking place. 

and jonathan’s a librarian. he got a job there after being fired as a professor, only thing he doesnt like about the job is that group of 20-somethings being loud playing their tabletop rpg……. and of course, he enjoys horror and monsters(of the eldritch variety mainly)

[blackcatbard]

this is a long and rambly post about nothing i apologize

people always talk about how the first season of yugioh is so wild with the rules of the game and like yeah to us now where there are rules set in stone it may seem frustrating. but while not 1:1, the DM anime does mirror the manga to a certain point, and in that arch of the manga the game wasnt as structured as it is now.

its just always funny to see people get so up-in-arms when they check out the series and see how the rules were bent in the first season. ive even seen self-proclaimed fans of the anime/manga complain about this. and some of them are most likely arent being serious with these complaints, but with how much fandom, as well as the internet itself, likes to find things to complain about, you cant help but wonder how many of these people are being genuine. not to mention people saying "i like the yugioh card game but i cant stand the anime because of how bad the first season is with the rules". which like whatever, they can do them, its just such a weird way to look at it to me.

this has always just been my interpretation, but back when duel monsters was first introduced as magic and wizards in the manga, it seemed to give off more of an rpg vibe than a card game one. the inclusion of the map with all the various terrains kind of helps this idea because its like they had to place their monsters and explain how placing them there gives them an advantage. it seemed to be about describing the events within the game, and whoever made the more convincing reason that their monster triumphs would take the win. kind of like that game Story Wars, idk how many people know about that one.

even in the first season this kind of thinking shows when atem does stuff like firing this monsters at cards to do strange effects via catapult turtle. it seems like the idea is "i can add this bit of flavor to this card to make the narrative of this battle we're playing out more interesting". its like the DM in D&D warping the rules to give his players story a little bit of flavor.

then as the game is developed more in-universe, someone realizes "hey this system is kind of way too exploitable" and we get the more structured rule set we see in later seasons and in real life.

this is definitely not me saying this is how the game is definitely meant to be taken in those early chapters, its just an idea, a headcanon i guess, that explains the kind of sporadic disregard of the rules we've all come to know. also the idea that one of Takahashi's biggest influences had been tabletop rpgs and he valued "communication between people" when they play games together. when he started to develop the game more, he couldnt probably just throw structure into it out of no where, he had to wait for a story moment where he could throw in these new rules. seto's battle city tournament probably seemed the best place to introduce them.

idk this post got way too long, these are just thoughts and ideas that have been floating around in my head. like i said, i dont think my whole "duel monsters was more of an rpg at first" idea was what Takahashi definitely intended, its just an interesting theory that brings a different element to the game in those early chapters in my mind.

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