#ryuutama

[sprintingowl]

Ryuutama

I guess I'm sort of doing a small series on TTRPGs that get slept on, so let's talk about Ryuutama.

Ryuutama is a pastoral fantasy TTRPG about travel.

You manage your water and food, try to stay out of bad weather, fight monsters sometimes, and solve little problems in the villages you come across.

The vibe, as communicated by the book's gorgeous art and layout, is cozy and pastoral. However, the game also comes with a built-in tone slider. By deciding on the type of dragon that the GM is, the group can play a gentler, or more dire and combat-driven game.

Yes. This is required. You have to decide what sort of dragon your GM is.

Somewhat cutting against the usual TTRPG expectations, the GM is also encouraged to cameo in the game---either by appearing in the background of a scene in their dragon form, or by actually intervening in the story.

Gameplay is super easy to learn, but has some real tactical depth. Most dice rolls and d + d, with the size of each die based off one of your attributes. Combat uses a simple grid with front and back rows, and you get small bonuses for incorporating the environment into your attacks. Magic is available to everyone, and the spell lists are small, concise, and extremely useable.

Character creation involves a fair bit of customization, but the centerpiece is your profession. This is a game where it's reasonable to play as a farmer or a merchant, and there are huge advantages for doing so. Every class has stuff they can do in combat, but some classes are better at carrying gear, others at managing food and water, others at handling different environments.

Managing how you travel is important, and your HP in combat is a factor of how well rested, watered, and fed you are.

The book comes with lots of GMing advice, plus a bestiary and sample adventure, and it's probably one of the easiest to read rpg books I've encountered.

If you like games like Banner Saga, the Atelier series, One Way Heroics, or Yamafuda! 2nd Station, or if you want to try something that's a little like DnD but cozier, more travel-focused, and gentle, I'd highly encourage a look at Ryuutama.

[canvaswolfdoll]

important note.

[graciedart]

so happy to finally post this! i have been working on some NPC art for our ryuutama (like dnd, but ghibli) game! meet heart, club, spade and diamond. four ryuujin (dragons) who watch over wonderland!

[kusogitsune]

I love Lumi so fucking much

[annalandin]

Never fear, the healer’s here! I'll be playing Rue Alder, the tiny forest-child herbalist and all-around mom-friend in The Promise Tree - an upcoming  streamed Ryuutama-campaign GMed by @littlecuppajo starting Oct 21, 12pm PT!  It’ll be airing at twitch.tv/littlecuppajo - catch it live or on VOD there!

[airic-fenn]

If youre pissed that WOTC is revoking its old ogl, you might be wanting to boycott them go play other games for a bit.

Now Im not a die-hard expert on all the ttrpgs out there, but there are a few that I particularly like and recommend if you dont know where to start:

• Ryuutama

I love Ryuutama so much. Its a lot simpler than dnd and really gives older japanese rpg video game vibes. Its very cozy fantasy with a heavy focus on adventuring and story telling than on battling. The english translation was actually a kickstarter thing, and it’s also in dire need of more homebrew content because there was supposed to be a translation of the supplement but thats probably never gonna happen anytime soon, if ever.

• Call of Catthulhu

No, I did not spell it wrong. Put simply, Call of Catthulhu is Call of Cthulhu but with cats. You all play cats. Dont let that fool you though, it can get surprisingly tense and gruesome if you play it right. You’ll probably love it if you were a warrior cats kid.

• Delta Green (and CoC in general)

“Modern” (1980’s) setting for (actual) Call of Cthulhu. The CoC games are fun if you like mysteries, conspiracies and yknow. cosmic horror stuff.

• Traveller

A scifi rp where you play a dude in space (an explorer, traveller, soldier or trader). This one is fun because character creation is VERY extensive and is part of the gameplay, but before the story starts. You make roles to determine all of the things that happened to you prior to the adventure like, did you go to university, have you suffered any life-altering injuries to your mind or body bc of some terrible accident, did you accidentally get aged 50 years older by getting zapped through a wormhole? Fun stuff like that. My friend calls it the existential crises rpg.

• Pathfinder

I mention it obligatorily because people tell me its the most like dnd without technically being dnd but I havent played it.

Anyway there are definitely so many more games but those are the ones I’ve played (other than pathfinder) and enjoyed. Feel free to reblog with your own additions to the list.

[brbgensokyo]

I love the Ryuutama illustrations so much

[theshunbun]

Beanns character from our Ryuutama game~

[diamondgulsdoodles]

My character for my buddy @brbgensokyo ‘s upcoming incredibly nonstandard ryuutama campaign, Mako, a shark boy who’s a traveling battle bard, on a quest to find his “sound” (which is uncovering old world pop punk cd’s as well as trying to compose his own in this long lost style of music). and trying to make friends along the way! a party animal with a heart of gold!  

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

Ryuutama

Ryuutama is... a good game. It is often described as Hayao Miyazaki's Oregon trail, for it's pastoral setting focused less on big bombastic heroes and more on the common folk, and it's plot line centring around travel, family togetherness, and questing, rather than violence and heroics.

[ttrpgart]

full-colour art for the hunter, artisan, merchant, and farmer classes.

source: ryuutama - natural fantasy rpg artist: ayako nagamori

[pentarts]

Muscle Egg: Due to the large amount of proteins within this egg, it has become incredibly strong.

[graciedart]

npcs from my ryuutama game! I’m love them very much <3

[kusogitsune]

Master of the Haunted Plushies and all round bad influence 

Artist’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/_mukuro666

[madqueenmomo]

Ok. So like. Let me tell y’all a story cause I know tumblr would appreciate this chaos.

I’ve been playing this Japanese Table top game called Ryuutama: natural fantasy rpg.

It’s fun. And it’s basically you go on a journey and stuff happen and you can be a merchant and farmer ect and it’s fighting is more story telling focused with using items for bonuses. It’s nice.

It starts with a game zero we’re your party and dm create a world you adventure in.

We noticed the logo has an egg. And create a world that is egg shaped and every house is a baba yaga house that can just up and leave you on a short notice. We call it “moving day”

And this is our party.

So in this game we each have jobs. One of us draws a map. One takes in inventory. One has to handle our fighting info.

But more importantly, one of us has to write a journal of our adventures.

Luckily, being the dislexic who not word good I am, I’m the one who handles inventory.

But….

One day……

Our journal keeper, the only human in the group, was not present…

And so. I give you…

The point of this post.

Adventures taken down by a giant chiken that sound like was written by a crazy person but I swear it’s what happened that game.

Also that chicken is just trying really hard to jot this shit down.

Anyway bless our GM and remember to create spas for fairies to assert your non dominance.

[brbgensokyo]