#rpgaday2024

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

RPGaDAY 2024 is here

The RPG a Day of this year is here. 1 prompt per day.

Day 1 : First RPG bought this year

And already i can't say one name cause i was a full cart...

On the 10th of January......I bought Outgunned, Public Access, Our haunt and 2 Masks supplements ( Halcyon City Herald, Secret of AEGIS)

[maddyisabstract]

Day 7 of #RPGaDAY2024! Not sure what 'good form' means in this context so I'm just gonna share the first solo TTRPG I played, Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings. Excellent prompts, BEAUTIFUL book, plenty of vampire angst for this goth right here.

[open-hearth-rpg]

#RPGaDay2024

RPG with Great Art

I did a whole series of posts looking at some of my favorite rpg covers: lovely, evocative, or just eye-catching. I love cover art and more than once I’ve bought games solely on that basis. Some have been hits (Cryptomancer), some misses (Children of the Sun). Considering interior and exterior art together is a little tricky…

Like…we live in a gaming world with Spire, DIE, and #iHunt. These offer amazing and consistent graphic design and illustration. So I want to talk about a different kind of great art: games with art that keep me from throwing the game away. These are games which I am fairly certain I will never get to the table. The system doesn’t click for me, it’s too complicated for my group, or even the genre isn’t a good fit. I’ve got several of these games: the old Heavy Gear ttrpg, Warmachine, Planescape.

But the grand-daddy of them is Weapons of the Gods. I love/hate this game. It has brilliant ideas, rich cultural material, and wild concepts. But it’s a mess system-wise. Definitively not what I want from a game. Even after playing a couple of sessions I can say I have no idea how it works. 

But the interior art’s so good. Mind you it comes from a license, the Weapons of the Gods series apparently from Jademan comics. It is Hong Kong manhua of wild xianxia action. But it doesn’t feel like an adapted work because there’s so little context given. Like the book doesn’t really do anything to actually help you gain an understanding beyond a massive, continually info-dump. 

And that’s OK because it's brilliant to look through. The interior art’s full color– something we’ve seen more and more in the last couple of decades. But it is bright, vibrant, and full range in that color. Too often we get rpg, full-color core books which have interesting art but it's muddied, washed out, and grimdark. Imperium Maledictum and a bunch of the 5e books have this problem. It reminds me of the failure of the Final Fantasy: Spirits Within movie. They had the FF franchise to work from and no costume or set budget limitations, so they went with the most greyscale and boring approach possible. 

Weapons of the Gods is anything but boring. It is a hot, beautiful mess and I love it.

[dunkaroniandcheese]

RPGaDay 2024 days 15-22

Good heavens the time has passed since last update ops

15. Great character gear!

This ones not abt a specific game, but I have always had a weakness for pointed wizard hats with wide brims! In ttrpgs you're more allowed to imagine what wizard gear looks like, but its important to me that the pointed hat is explicit... In video games, wizards will oftentimes have hoods or circlets, or more subdued hats... Stop that! Embrace the big hat!

16. Quick to learn

An RPG thats quick to learn... I wanna say Mausritter, which I found quick to learn both how to play and how to run! The rules are easy to understand, the vibe of the game is articulated v well and sets expectations wonderfully :)

17. An Engaging RPG community

Gotta go with the GOATs over at @anim-ttrpgs and their ttrpg book club! Very friendly folks, lots of fun discussions both on the topics of ttrpgs and on the topics of eating people!

18. Memorable moment of play

Hmmm... I'll give this to my time with Drakar och Demonar Expert, where my character had *limited* proficiency in the... grey tongue? ogres, orcs, trolls and such spoke it. My character and his companion were met by an ogre, who pointed at my character (elf) and asked my companion (dwarf? mistaken for orc) "is he food"

My character responded by saying "I am a slave, not food, don't eat me" and rolled bad on the language check (very low on the language skill) and the words came out as "You're my slave"

The ogre slammed his club down at my character in an instant, barely whiffing and causing a thunderous slamming sound that alerted the rest of our companions to our location

19. Sensational session

There's a lot of sessions I've really enjoyed, I remember the second dnd game I was in having lots of fun adventures, but I might give it to the first campaign I was in!

Not necessarily the best session, our characters found a lone house far from civilization smelling of freshly baked pies, my character was chosen to investigate while the others stood watch nearby

After knocking on the door of the house , he was greeted by an old lady and welcomed inside for food and drink, and shortly after sitting down... the house grew legs and started walking away, which went completely unbeknownst to my character, and much to the worry of his companions who now had to chase down a house

20. Amazing Adventure

Houm.... There are few games Ive been in that I wouldnt call amazing adventures, but this might go to the Drakar och Demonar game I was in! Escaping an orc infested forest, wandering a town market and buying a huge horse, exploring an ancient dungeon, freeing a lich, replacing an eye with a gorgon's eye, being sent to the past and rewriting history, accidentaly gaining the ire of a daemon, coming back to the future... A lot happened in six months

21. Classic Campaign

First dnd campaign I was in, it was all homebrew and reciting it all would be hard, but Im very fond of it and the memories I made there

22. Notable non-player character

I gotta give a tagged shoutout to @domoz cause she's made two of my favourite, if not my all time favourite npcs with Gabby (my daughter) and Mozzie (peak goblin of all time)

[ladytabletop]

4. RPG with Great Art

Oh geez oh no there's too many to count!

I have an entire folder just called "for looking at" (which i also often play, but you know)

DEATHGRIND!! MEGASTRUCTURE by @ostrichmonkey is a favorite to look at. great use of monochrome.

Inevitable by Soulmuppet Publishing has just a wonderful, wistful style that very well marries the arthurian with the western.

Extreme Meatpunks Forever by Heather Flowers is choc-full of amazing, vibrat art.

.dungeon by snow really understands its position as an old forum with lo-fi graphics.

Necronautilus by World Champ Game Co. is one of Adam Vass's best, in my opinion. His art is always chaotic and the singular nature of every spread in this one really sings.

I could go on!

[rollforfelicity]

RPG a day thread! I will probably forget to do this after a week like I did last year but what the hell! First RPG bought this year is almost impossible to say. I bought Odd Gobs by Madness Heart Games as a gift for my friend and I think that was for their birthday, and if so, that would have been it. I actually am pretty reserved with my game purchases, especially since I already have so many games I haven't played, so I think I've only bought a handful of games this year, most of them from bundles.

Most recently played: Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast by Possum Creek Games! I played a chapter with Mike a couple of weeks ago when my physical copy arrived. We played the chapter The Longest Night of the Year and had so much fun. I'm hoping to play it more soon! Normally I would have played a few other things more recently but I have been recovering from covid so I canceled a few games.

It's almost midnight so what the hell, I'll do day three right now, too. An RPG with great art: Justicar from @dinoberrypress! I love how varied and expressive the character art is in the book. It does a good job of showing the variety of characters you can play in the courtroom setting, and also pays homage to the character designs from Phoenix Wright, which is clearly a big influence on the book. I love this lady and her dog. The art is heightened by the great layout and use of fonts for the game. It's a lot of fun to flip through (and a lot of fun to play).

[theresattrpgforthat]

RPGaDay 2024

For the month of August, I've noticed the dice.camp folks on Mastodon sharing this around. It looks neat!

[dicebound]

Day 1: - First RPG Bought this Year

The first RPG I picked up in 2024 was Iron Valley. It's a hack of Ironsworn and Starforged where you create your own life sim ala Stardrew Valley, Harvest Moon, or Animal Crossing. The art is simply adorable and the mechanics are robust without being overly complex.

[shyestbarbarian]

#4 RPG With Great Art

Gonna go with a big gay no brainer here and say LANCER. I love how the art tells stories, how it gives the sense that each individual mech is its own unique build. It does it in a way that inspires me to create my own custom designs and paint jobs depending on the history and personality of my pilots.

[dungeonofthedragon]

Day 4: RPG With Great Art

I can't possibly choose just one! Big fan of Girl By Moonlight's colorful and evocative pieces. Whenever I flick through Tales of Xadia, I end up yammering to my partner about how beautiful the art and presentation is.

Nova is heckin gorgeous too!

[uktabletopindustrynetwork]

UK TIN is collaborating with the creators of RPGaDay to promote and support it across our community! In the TIN O'Clock News Bulletin, our director @comradebubbles sits down with @autocratik to talk about how people can get involved with #RPGaDAY2024. youtu.be/pL3yzjiTICk

[companionwolf]

Day 2 - Most recently played

Discord PbP group game

Trinity Continuum Core -- I'm a player; my PC is Decker, who's part of the legacy squadron as a pilot for the Aeon Society.

In system group PbP game

FIST Ultra Edition - I'm the referee; we finally got through the entirety of the introduction sequence to the campaign.

The PCs are as follows--

SILVER (RETIRED, TURNCOAT/TRUTH/MEDIC), played by "!"

PIERCE (MERCENARY, BOMBER/PARKOUR/WALLBANG), played by "☆"

KINSHIP (FIREBRAND, ACE/ANIMUS/AURA), played by "♡"

INNSMOUTH (AMNESIAC, AQUATIC/SUNDER), played by J2

MOLOTOV (WILDCARD, HACKER/MECHANIC), played by K

HARE (AVENGER, HYBRID/GROUND), played by "♤"

Solo game

Fate of Cthulhu -- I'm playing this by myself using Mythic 2e, doing the Rise of Cthulhu timeline. I've completed Event 1, which for my PCs was 'destroy that fucking cursed ass artifact that's on auction'. Things escalated real quick. There was IED making in a motel room & later explosions. Very normal game!

My PCs are as follows--

Ghost (Xavier Erikson), one of two time travellers; High Concept is "post apocalyptic survivalist loner"

Espy (Fae Esperon), the other time traveller PC; High Concept is "thief from the future"

Hawk Wildner, a past/present person who got wrapped up in the fuckery; High Concept is "anarchist kid"

Quentin Marsh, also from the past/present and got caught up in the shit; High Concept is "big fucking nerd"

???, a NPC turned PC by the end of Event 1; High Concept is "getaway driver"

[maddyisabstract]

Day 5 of #RPGaDAY2024!

Nibiru was one of the main ways I got through the pandemic. The campaign we played is still very special to me. The worldbuilding in this book is so rich and detailed, and offers so many creative threads to pull on. I also always wax lyrical about the memory mechanics, which help you build your amnesiac character as you play.

[open-hearth-rpg]

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RPG You’d Like to See on TV 

I always give this answer for this, I’ve been giving this answer for years: somebody needs to make a #iHunt TV series. Really, seriously, right now. 

We’ve already had lots of classic monster-hunting series: Buffy, Supernatural, Grimm, izombie, etc. It’s a tried and true formula– especially when that’s mixed up with messy lore. An #iHunt series could have that, with an outside looking in approach. 

We have hunters but they don’t know much about their supernatural quarry. What they get is contradictory and incomplete. The people who do know probably chase the same quarry or know that the info has value. And frankly shit shouldn’t make sense. Over time our protagonists should be putting together their own sense of this world– only to have it overturned by some new encounter. 

That’s the monster/target side of things. The more interesting side is the gig economy of monster-hunting and what that that does to our heroes(?). They’re desperate and hungry. The system’s an even bigger foe than that which they pursue. Lots of room for great character development, real life tensions, and moral quandaries. It’s also a sharp comment on tech bro culture, the rapacious nature of gigging, and the drive to the bottom of capitalism. 

Make our characters have messy lives tied up with some supernaturals– love, sex, family disputes. It could be dynamite. Some recent media have glanced off the edge of this. Day Shift, for example, has an exploitative hunter company, but it really avoids engaging with any real critique. Any show should be messy, with a non-comedic version of the vibes of something like Los Espookys, Chambers, or 30 Coins. 

If forced to give another answer, probably an Apocalypse Keys animated series– maybe with the vibe of Suicide Squad isekai. I think that could be dynamite. I would also dearly love to watch a show based on Danger! Unexploded Spell. A prestige mini-series of that would be incredible– magic, desperate characters, and constant danger. The Magicians meets The Hurt Locker.

[dunkaroniandcheese]

Compelling characters

Every RPG has compelling characters dummy! Ah! Specific ones? Hmm... Maybe not exactly what the question asked, but I think Eureka by @anim-ttrpgs does a wonderful job of letting you make interesting and compelling characters!

The game encourages you to make Normal People, that is to say, humans with agency, and humans with agency are generally some of the most compelling people you can find! For a heroic knight or wise wizard, braving danger is but part of the job! But what would it take for a local baker to take up the mantle of an investigator? How would the local librarian react to finding out The Truth about what lurks in the dark?

The game also lets you make mage and monster characters and then asks, how do they fit in with society? How do they navigate a society that would kill them if they learned the truth? Can a puppet girl and a vampire girl fall in love? The last one you'll have to find out.... Yourself....

[ladytabletop]

3. Most often played RPG

For years this would have been DnD 5th Edition (or prior to that, Pathfinder 1e). Now, I have a group that is switching systems pretty often! But I think it still would have to be Wildsea. I'm playing a lot of one-offs in that system and I was so excited to run it at GenCon!