#ten candles rpg

[midnightcmedia]

Four prisoners find themselves loosed upon a dying world. What is it that awaits them out there? Angels? Devils? Men? The first episode of 30 Candles is out now at Rolling Midnight wherever you listen to podcasts!

Art by Addie Lillard

[midnightcmedia]

Tune into RRN's Pilot Jam Showcase For a sneak preview of Rolling Midnight's upcoming season 30 Candles!

Join us on Twitch next Saturday, April 14th for the Rainbow Roll Network Pilot Jam Showcase! Members and friends of the network have been hard at work on new AP pilots as part of the jam, and we can't wait to share their hard work with you all. 💖

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played TEN CANDLES ?

By Stephen Dewey

A tragic horror RPG played by candlelight, following the characters’ final moments of hope in an apocalypse.

[bloodborne-on-pc]

I need something LGBT (Lancer GURPS Blades in the Dark Ten Candles) to happen to me soon.

[calamitypod]

Our second episode of Kingdom is out!

We get down to brass tacks and do some scenes—we’ve built our kingdom and our characters, and now it’s time to see what happens. Come for the psychic consultations and full sacks of loaded baked potatoes; stay for the light class warfare.

[damsels-n-dice]

WHAT TIME WE HAVE LEFT

a tragedy for 3+ players including GM. phones (or paper) required for notes.

play begins by an approximate length of the session (e.g. “about an hour”). the GM privately sets a timer in that range. do not start it yet. when this timer goes off, the game ends, and the world ends. 

together, the group agrees on a setting and any safety tools. then players create characters. note the following:

name 

description

what you want

why you can’t have it

the GM begins by describing the scene and NPCs, and setting an in-universe time limit. usually, this is the same as the real-life one. start the timer.

players and the GM act out scenes as the PCs attempt to achieve their “what you want”. when a situation’s outcome is unclear, play roshambo. if a character is the obstacle, play against them (for NPCs, GM chooses who). otherwise, play against the GM. players may choose to lose at will, but the GM may not. the person who wins describes the outcome of the action, and play continues.

when the timer goes off, the world ends. the GM describes how, and works with the players to describe each PC’s death.

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

[jackaycola]

I LOVE ADDY! Started watching Ten Candles lesss go

[sapphim]

Great news everyone I am finally importing my RPG PDF collection into Calibre.

[ID: A screenshot of ebook library management software displaying thumbnails of two indie tabletop games (Lady Blackbird and Ten Candles) and soooooooo many AD&D Ravenloft adventure modules. Seriously why do I even have these. /ID]

[midnightcmedia]

Out among the Redwoods, a strange wildfire is raging. Trapped, running out of air, and racing against time, five people try to send a message. Canaries don't escape coal mines, but someone hears their song. The next episode of Rolling Midnight: 30 Candles is out now!

Art by Issy Quigley

[msfcatlover]

The “Ten Candles” dice pooling system is one of my favorite of all time, and nothing else has ever really captured the dread of feeling your chances narrowing & options being whittled down quite like literally feeling your dice pool get smaller & smaller with each successive roll… until there’s just a single d6 rattling around in your hand.

It’s such a viscerally tactile way of conveying the horror, I love it so much!

Anyway instead of constantly making the world's silliest people mad with my mild criticisms of D&D I'm going to say some positive things... about games besides D&D.

I love the tables in Rolemaster, like you've probably heard this before but the random tables in Rolemaster are basically little story generators.

The system of strings in Monsterhearts is probably one of the best if not the best social mechanic ever.

I love how Errant empowers players with the ability to make actual tactical choices about how their characters move around in places.

I love how weird Troika!'s character options are. I'm playing a weird muck wizard right now. He can cast a spell that literally ties some tongue in knots.

I love the presentation of everything in Break!, it's an absolutely beautiful game and I can't wait for the physical book to arrive so I can show it off to my friends.

I love the investigation point/Eureka! mechanic in Eureka, it ensures that characters will at least have some clues available to them provided they're willing to do the work, also there's so many fun traits that alter the flow of investigation points in fun ways.

[secretsnowclub]

Snow's TTRPG Class: Lesson #1, a reading list of experimental rpgs

"Go ahead, put anything here," Tumblr says. Well don't you worry, Tumblr. I will put anything here. Just wait and see.

I wrote this article: https://nerves.games/2023/07/26/snows-ttrpg-class-reading-list/

It's got some words in there. Go check it out. OR, just look this list of games and read them. It's your first assignment. These are all games that I think have pushed on the boundaries of TTRPGs and most of them I would consider experimental. They are in alphabetical order.

Adventure RPG (in Need of Translation), Mameli – https://better-legends.itch.io/adventure-rpg-in-need-of-translation 

Apollo 47 Technical Manual, Hutchings – https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/products/apollo-47-technical-manual-an-rpg 

Care for Hecuba, Libre – https://bigstuffedcat.itch.io/care-for-hecuba 

Clay Creatures, Sinclair – https://s-jared.itch.io/clay-creatures 

Disk Horse, Geist – https://fm-geist.itch.io/disk-horse-1-off-to-the-races 

Don’t Lose Your Mind, Baugh – https://evilhat.com/product/don-t-lose-your-mind 

Everyone is John, Sullivan – https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/271276/Everyone-is-John 

Feedback, Slattery – https://adira.itch.io/feedback 

Flying Games, Dragon – https://possumcreekgames.itch.io/flying-games 

Freebase, Thron & Shaughnessy – https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1411822901179.pdf 

I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST, Mison – https://mariabumby.itch.io/i-eat-mantras-for-breakfast 

kill puppies for satan, Baker – https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1370/08/1370081361036.pdf 

Lady Blackbird, Harper – https://johnharper.itch.io/lady-blackbird 

Paranoia, Costikyan, Gelber, and Goldberg – https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/224392/Paranoia–First-Edition 

Plot Armor, Black – https://oriondblack.itch.io/plot-armor 

Print Weaver, Morrison – https://nlmorrison.itch.io/print-weaver 

Teen Witch, Adler – https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/variations-on-your-body 

Ten Candles, Dewey – https://cavalrygames.com/shop/ten-candles-pdf 

This Discord Has Ghosts in it, Jobst & Vass – https://willjobst.itch.io/ghosts 

Unusual Esoterica, Unpleasant – https://axesorcs.itch.io/unusual-esoterica-series-1 

We Are But Worms, LaBresh – https://riverhousegames.itch.io/we-are-but-worms-a-one-word-rpg 

Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, Moran – https://afarandasunlessland.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/wtf.pdf

If you didn't read the article: this is not a list of best rpgs, or a list of great starter rpgs, or a list of my favorite games! It's simply a list of experimental games that I think pushed the bounds. I think if you're in my internet house (which you are while you read this, welcome in, get comfy, we've got fresh-squeezed water) you should read these and have opinions on them, even if your opinion is "lol, lmao, this is trash." But this is school so you have to put it in a complete sentence of you get an F. Minus.

Bye,

Snow

[omophagic-beast]

TABLETOP TRICK OR TREAT

hello! a mid-october treat for you!

starting off with an appropriately themed game

"Fight or Fright! is a Halloween Trick-or-treating game about magical costumes, possessed decorations, and scoring lots of candy. It’s about that feeling you had as a kid, putting on a costume and so desperately wishing you could be that character. But wishes are powerful, and sometimes you get more than you bargained for. "

i first saw this game talked about on the creators tik tok (@mixuppixels)! im obsessed with the artwork, which all has this bubbly cartoon-esque style, and id love to run it as a bit of a break from my usual Ten Candles type halloween fare

its also on sale as part of a halloween themed bundle!

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Aita for never making white ttrpg characters?

Title is a little weird, but I play a lot of ttrpgs with friends. I (M19) am white, so is all but one girl in our ttrpg group (F23), she’s Puerto Rican.

Anyways, all the games we play are rpgs based in the real world, whether they be urban fantasy or horror, they’re never in fantasy worlds. I like to explore different cultures, researching them and designing accurate characters for these games. I made a Bangladeshi girl for a MASKS: New Generations game who wanted to be the first desi superhero in America and was attending a superhero boarding school in upstate New York, I made half Iraqi/half Black boy in a homebrew power by the apocalypse game who was raised by his Chinese step-mother and was adopted into a giant extended family that took place in Brooklyn NYC, I made a black camp counselor for a Sleepaway oneshot, and I made a Mexican/Cajun boy for a Monsterhearts game taking place in south Louisiana.

For every character, I took my time and did days of research into backgrounds, cultures, and potential sensitivity issues. The last thing I want is to misrepresent a culture. The Puerto Rican girl in our group, let’s call her “Mary”, has never had a problem with my characters, but I’ve gotten comments from other players that it’s weird that I never play any white characters. I’ve made a white character twice; one for a Ten Candles game who was a 50 year old vet (and I miss him everyday, easily one of my favorite one-off characters because of his intense hatred of the Dallas Cowboys), and one for a homebrew 80’s slasher game who somehow because the first jock to be a final girl (He was too pure for this world, can’t wait to play his reincarnation in an ALENS game)

Our forever GM hasn’t ever had an issue with my characters, she even brings a giant variety of NPCs from all over to her games and makes the whole experience so much fun. The few times she’s made characters, they’ve always had great chemistry with mine and I’ve always had a good time

But, even with Mary’s and the GM’s approval, I still feel off about the comments of the other players. I love my characters, and the research I do for them helps me as a writer as that’s my profession atm. It seems like every time I propose a new character who isn’t white, I get asked “so what part of the world are they from now?” or “aren’t you German? Are you scared of doing a German character?” or other questions like that

I don’t play ttrpgs to insert myself into different fantasies, I play ttrpgs to explore new characters and new settings through different experiences. I don’t want to be labeled racist, but I understand if I’m coming off that way. If I’m voted the asshole, I’ll reflect and learn why. Commenters, deffo tell me how I can be better.

Anyways, AITA?

TL:DR, I’m white, I make primarily POC characters in ttrpgs, my group is annoyed and makes passive aggressive comments each time I do so. Aita for not making more white characters?

🔮

to find this later ^^^

What are these acronyms?

[heir-of-the-chair]

Wait wait wait my actual irl real life friend JUST suggested we play this game that’s you????

Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

[fipindustries]

One thing i always did find a bit frustrating about after the hero is that you can tell there are ten thousand stories that happened before the events of the story you are reading. You can tell every cgaracter has insane ammounts of backstory to them. In a way it almost feels like you are arriving in book ten of a long series. I suspect a big part of this is because most of that previous story was told in the original curious tale RPG.

But the biggest intrigue i always felt was how had galavar, within the span of a single lifetime, between the events of the great galavar abd after the hero (a period of time that i think covers roughly 30 years) the man managed to fund and build a whole ass city state? When you arrive at his city, for all that you see it in ruins, it feels like a lived in place. With its history and a strongly defined culture. It doesnt feel like the paint is still drying off the walls or whatever.

And this was the work of a single man and his motley crew of merry men and women.

Well, its nice to see that worth the candle answers a very similar question with the council of arches founding the state of miunun in the isle of poran. Even though the tools at their disposal were certainly much more fantastical than those of galavar.

[freakscircus]

i think i’ve mentioned this before, but some friends and i have recently got into playing ten candles which is a really fascinating tabletop roleplay game that lends itself to a lot of creativity. i am always fascinated with new rpgs but i don’t find myself having the time or the patience to learn a new system beyond 5e, but ten candles is so simple. essentially you play out a post-apocalyptic scenario where the death of all your characters is inevitable and you can’t really fight your enemy, just bide your time and try your best. this creates the most helpless and terrifying atmosphere and it is so much fun to play through. last time we did an attacked spaceship losing power in the middle of nowhere in space, alien style except so much more futile and terrifying. now my main rpg friend and i are discussing trying a medieval plague or witch hunt scenario which i think would be so incredibly fun. it is so rare to find a system with so much flexibility and creativity balanced with such simple rules - i am so excited to play again