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And We Will Sing In The Dark By The Water Treatment Plant by kumada1 Tabletop howling RPG.

Tabletop howling rpg.

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Mathematically, economically, I should do that.

Actually if I posted about the weirder games less and the normal games more often I would probably build more of a normal games audience.

Bafflingly Buff Bullfrog Boyfriends by kumada1 bodacious buds befriending the befallen

Lest it be doubted that I wrote the frog game.

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I simply require both anonymity and fame, two easy to acquire things that have a great time coexisting.

Perpetually torn between the need to build my brand and invite people from other platforms to follow my bluesky and my need to write weirder games without having to explain to a relative that this one is about dating a bunch of buff frogs.

I am sorry.

Highly, emphatically recommended. This is a great ttrpg.

But, uh. That does something.

It being a largely tables based game means that two people can by pure luck have extremely different times with it. And the questions and prompts invite you to add a lot of your own interpretation to it, further customizing it. And there's mechanics to let you customize it further...

Reincarnated as the Unlovable Villainess?! by wym_lawson A solo journaling TTRPG where you are reincarnated into a fantasy/paranormal/wuxia otome game as the Villainess.

This is a spectacular replication of genre and also a solid work of the genre itself and also a high yield delivery vehicle for some very unexpected horror and you can engage with it on any of those layers.

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Reincarnated As The Unloveable Villainess?! is so gad dang good.

Hey. Hey you. Do you like completely normal villainess isekai journaling games that are 100% completely normal and do not contain anything hidden in them?

Leaving Avalon by Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock A DftQ game about a magical land and those who once ruled it

Unofficially, this one is entirely inspired by my feelings about Susan Pevensie, and answering the question of, do you choose to go back or do you move on with your life and forget about it, though I don't think it answers the original ask for isekai games jen-adcock15.itch.io/leaving-avalon

I guess another thing is that, outside of the "this could happen to me" kayfabe, the isekai-ing has a tendency to be kind of irrelevant in a modern isekai's plot structure. There's plenty of exceptions! But in a story that isn't going to explore it, it could just as easily be standard fantasy.

The Villainess Is Dispossessed by kumada1 Help a royal disaster find or avoid marriage in this romance ttrpg.

Hang on one more.

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Another hitch here might be that a lot of modern isekai tends to lean on a kind of fatalist wish fulfillment ("after I die, I'll get to rest") and when playing a game vs reading a story you can't get lost as easily in the wish fulfillment.

There's some isekai ttrpgs from the Japanese scene. Konosuba, for example, specifically has its own adaptation. Although I think the audience appeal might be more for playing in its world vs playing in an isekai.

I Just Want To Enjoy My Peaceful Life In Another World But-- by kumada1 A trpg about a diesel-fueled ferrier-of-the-dead that does not know when to quit.

I've got an abomination!

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Solo But Not Alone 6 Signup If you have a singleplayer TTRPG you've never submitted to Solo But Not Alone before, this is the place! Solo But Not Alone is a bundle of singleplayer TTRPGs of all kinds, sold for $10 to benefit m...

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I'm very excited for what might show up in this bundle and will definitely be buying a bundle for myself.

You can still submit your own mecha ttrpg too -- link in SprintingOwl's comments! Submissions due by Sunday

Yeah! I like the conventional exploration and the way it bleeds back into the tactical fights. It's not quite like other games that do this same thing, and there's def room to explore it.

Adding elves to my setting, but they all look like borzoi.

I am so charmed by the weird horsedog elf thing khris has going on. I was fully expecting all stock dnd fantasy.

This is a Tacticians Of Ahm recommendation thread.

I don't think this is going to call any game design out of me. I like what's going on here, but I think you can emulate it just fine with Tacticians Of Ahm.

Of course, this is also going to make me have to figure out how to play 3. I know it's in three parts, we only got one of those, and there hasn't been an english release of the other two so...

If early Fire Emblem is technically precise, this is big expansive handwaving, but it works. It's fun, even through the cumbersome bits, three decades of evolving design later.

You get a high hp low defense centaur with a ranged attack. Then you get a low hp high attack melee only centaur. Etc. They progress differently, and there's lots of little optional recruits and side content.

Game balance is an extremely mixed bag, and wants you to reset stages and grind (hero even has a spell specifically for this) and you're untouchable when overleveled and instakillable when you don't grind.

But. Each character feels like a neat little variation on a formula.