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unopenablebox · 2 years ago

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maybe i should just prep like 3 or 4 games recreationally. pretending that it’s in case i ever acquire a ‘group’ and wish to pitch them options. when in fact. i don’t enjoy optimism such as this

#box opener #tatterbox #maybe i'll write up a young wizards game too #i know i should try running it in fate accelerated in the sense that that's the classic kids doing hijinks and fighting evil setup #and i should be braver about leaving the d20-pbta bubble #but i just .... dislike the vibes. i dont want them #it feels. wibbly. and overly cute #especially since young wizards is sort of playing a group of fundamentally identical people who are specialized #rather than. uh. I'm the Prince of the Caravans and I have to Rescue My Brother which seems to be. the fate energy?#and you dont really do. duels.#i should stop doing pbtas but theyre easy and fun to customize and make sense in my brain with the units that action should be in #anyway. idk why i have to archive my pitiability here but i suppose someday i will be rereading my blog––#as you do––#and go 'oh hey. i had half a young wizards game that i could briefly regard.'#and that's its own reward.

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unopenablebox · 3 years ago

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the true nightmare of an interest in running tabletop rpgs is trying to find literally any game that isn’t about the fucking lovecraft mythos

#CTHULU ISN'T INTERESTING #BEING DRIVEN TO MADNESS BY THE UNKNOWN: NOT FUN‚ MOSTLY RACIST‚ INSPIRES PLAYER INCURIOSITY ABOUT THE WORLD #in particular i kind of want to do a mystery thing but all mystery games. are about cthulu #i just wanted to know if anyone has ever reskinned a pbta game in a way closer to my particular setting concept #than classic dungeon world which i would describe as 'not close at all'#and/or if there was a more mystery-driven system with good mechanics and an appealing setting #however. even if there is #it's impossible to know #because it's buried under eight pages of f u c k i n g c t h u l u #box opener #tatterbox

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unopenablebox · 5 years ago

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inaugural worldbuilding/how-to-play-a-ttrpg meeting with the people in my cohort im going to run a dungeon world game for ended with me asking about their favorite fantasy stories or any set pieces or atmosphere they particularly like. the answers i got back were:

1. “uh, i like the caves from the lord of the rings.” “the mines of moria?” “yeah, those ones. those are great!”

2. “i really liked eragon because there wasn’t a battle at the end of the lord of the rings so i thought eragon was a lot more satisfying. also the eragon elves were better.” “interesting. what about the elves was better?” “i don’t know, i can’t remember the books”

3. “i came to fantasy fiction late in life, so i don’t really have any favorites. but i did recently see all three lord of the rings movies in one day! i like forests and the shire”

meaning i’ve been asked to run a campaign that is, functionally, lord of the rings milieu fanfiction, for people with only vague memories of literally anything about the lord of the rings

i love being extremely qualified to do tasks

#i am going to steal so many things wholesale from the silm.#i love to lead an easy life.#box opener #yes speaker 2 is fucked up because there very much are battles at the end of the lord of the rings #and also because eragon sucked #but i don't actually think any of it will bear materially on the atmosphere of the game so i am magnanimously forgiving him #also i think he read both series at age 12 #and these things happen.#tatterbox

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unopenablebox · 5 years ago

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...............i’m planning another tabletop campaign

#in this one it will be mandatory to play a wizard. wizards only #box opener #tatterbox

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unopenablebox · 6 years ago

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hey what happens if i name a d&d character “cavitation reel”

#do i get arrested for austin walker thoughtcrime #box opener #ttrpg tag #tatterbox

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unopenablebox · 6 years ago

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of course, now i understand that that was wrong, which is why instead i just attempt to subtly one-up the other players in my ttrpg games by creating the character who will most appeal to the particular narrative and trivia interests of the gm

#box opener #i used to try to play straightforward characters who could get in a lot of emotional development #but i've decided that's a sucker's game.#admittedly the only person who's gm'd for me in like a year and a half is my girlfriend so this might actually just be #''flirting''#tatterbox

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