Tachi (Matt)

Tried it, wasn't much of my thing

But the friends I showed it to then kept on playing and by now they're almost at lvl 50 after two years of play

i can be trusted to make a gundam ttrpg, bandai entertainment, you can trust me to make a gundam

What I should be preparing for my #ttrpg campaign: NPC motivationa, loot, enemy tactics

What I actually just made: d6 random OSHA violations

Surgeries are far more automated and take advantage of a wide range of diagnostic equipment, in large part to make them possible in the first place in 0G environments

Pharmacology has made massive strides forward, but a lot of it has been under the guidance of shady megacorporations

Depends on how well you can pay, even poorer people can generally get *functional* prosthetics and get patched up

Properly regrowing or cloning and engrafting a new limb or organ, that's the expensive option but ends up effectively indistinguishable from original body part

I do often see it this way, if campaign doesn't end with first lost combat, you can well... afford to have PCs sometimes get into something above their pay grade and lose
Similarly, if combats are not mandatory, if they can be avoided or escaped, it's not the end of the world to make them unbalanced

MT2, setup with dragons, a whole lot of dragons

some runs are about sending a message

#monstertrain #monstertrain2

Jako dygresja, ciekawe czy po pandemii, wojnie na Ukrainie i całym cyrku odstawianym przez USA gdziekolwiek w rządach czy wielkich korporacjach dotarło do decyzyjnych że coraz bardziej stabilność i bezpieczeństwo są ważniejsze niż natychmiastowy zysk

Tak to jest kiedy wszyscy politycy mówiący o "niezależności" i "zniewoleniu przez złą Unię" nie potrafią zrobić nawet kroku w stronę zabezpieczenia swojego kraju przed nadmiernym poleganiem na pojedynczych łańcuchach logistycznych

Also, disturbingly relatable if you happen to sometimes sink into a nihilistic state of mind

I picked up "Notes from Underground"

That's one dense book, don't think I could take in more than 20 pages at once

I mean, not combat itself

You don't just roll d20+Fighting and on success have your character fight smart and win the overall skirmish

You get abstractions for how likely attacks are to land, how damaging they are etc.

But what's not abstracted are the tactical decisions taken

Tbh it seems more tied to play styles than systems and can vary within cultures

Like obviously with modern DnD, there are groups that run it by the book almost like a tactical wargame and people who just go by the vibes, overriding rules if they feel those don't fit the fiction

And a massive point in favour of abstraction is time scale that doesn't work for playing it out 1:1 (like, it's some effort that'd take days)

Sometimes it's also about wanting to convey some specific vibe or aspect, not just cold reality of how X works

Several things, for example how hard is it to just go over the factors involved without some simplification

Also how important is the situation to the game? If it's really core do not abstract it (might still have mechanics for some parts of it or issues auxiliary to it)

and now we have people making fan TTRPG systems and setting based on it

Bad TTRPG Idea;

Use clicker training and mini cookies to reinforce behaviors you want at the table from your players.

Stay in character? Click. Give them a cookie.

Don't speak over each other? Click. Give them a cookie.

Pay for pizza and drinks? Click. Give them a cookie.

Sometimes it's preference, sometimes it's just lack of interest and stocking around just because it's the game that's available or out of personal attachment to the group

tbh a lot of people are not even motivated by systems

it's premise or vibe that gets to them and mechanics are a secondary concern

We all know Megumi was getting his ass beat at the game and called upon the trump card

challenge where you have to beat the game off the holdover spells the opener is just insane, would be hard to explain but it killed the boss the first Turn he showed up

bro that's basically drawing Exodia on Turn 1

#monsterTrain

I guess if I had to make it into some kind of a point, if you can only get along with people as long as politics aren't brought up, you're not much of a community even by the low standards of internet groups

Funnily enough I am in a TTRPG Discord server that features people of vastly different political inclinations

There's even a designated channel for them to argue, no "don't bring up anything political"

And somehow it works, hell many of them meet up irl once a year from across the country

finished doing Covenant 10 runs in #MonsterTrain2

Just in time for the DLC to drop and make me do it all over again

The Ride Never Ends

One of the sets of tokens I've made for Grimm to be used in VTT's. A mix of Grimm from the RWBY series proper and custom ones I designed myself!

#ttrpg #RWBY #RWBYAE

Tbh personal preference isn't much of a controversial take in itself

It's when you start making some actual statements about the character of people doing the talking or implications of discussing builds that it can get into the "hot take" territory

it is an interesting vibe, especially if it turns around the irl dynamic of british empire being the superior militarily and technologically aggressor

#ttrpg GM tip: The earlier you kill them, the more of your beautiful prep is preserved from their filthy, despoiling little player eyes. You made something perfect. The last thing you want is some half-drow bard/paladin rubbing his dumb homebrew feats all over it.

Bad faith is just a lost cause and fixing interpersonal issues is outside of game designer's control (and responsibility)

It's better to spend that energy on fixing stuff which someone could get wrong by accident or due to lack of clarity

It's not even a high standard, more so just acknowledgment of reality

Rules are not mind control, they're a suggestion and depend on people actually agreeing to follow them

If there's "exclusion" caused by being unable to follow rules in good faith, they're doing it to themselves