#ttrpg oneshot

[thechekhov]

Hey, do YOU want to play a no-stakes oneshot where your party are all staff working at the Essek Thelyss estate, and the biggest problem you have to face is getting some mail? 

Well boy do I have a zip file for you!

Long story short, this is a game I played with some friends, and because it was a lot of fun and I already made it all anyway, I’ve decided to slap it into a PDF and make it available for others!

It’sdownloadable for free at the link below on my Patreon. 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/dnd-5e-adventure-82496022

Check it out! And hey, if you like it and think I should do more stuff like this.... tell me maybe! Because this was fun to put together. 

[madamrynodm]

My friend was a part of the kickstarter for Avatar Legends, so he's teaching our group how to play for a oneshot. I chose earthbending so fast it wasn't even funny

Yùn rú (韵如), Guardian Playbook. She's a weather-beaten earthbender that wanders the Southern Earth Kingdom as a hired hand. Helps fight off bandits, protect caravans, and stuff like that. She's a tall, well-muscled woman with braided black hair and mismatched armor. She doesn't smile often, but when she does, you'll notice she's got a few metal teeth from fights gone by

[beebundt]

we're going to be doing a fun little oneshot and im totally not trying to contain my excitement to be a normal human being !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pocketgalaxies]

the flow of having the gm move occur after the players fail or roll with fear makes a lot of narrative sense but otherwise the lack of organization in combat seems to make it a bit too easy for some players to inadvertently not do anything for ages. which i don't think is really a problem for this group of people being highly experienced ttrpg players (both in general and with each other) but i can imagine this becoming a bit more problematic with less experienced groups, as it puts the pressure on individual players to jump in and declare that they want to do something. i don't have any constructive solution to offer for this because obviously an initiative-type mechanic wouldn't be fair but just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[cassimothwin]

Last Flight of the Pandora is a zero prep, single-session space horror RPG!

I picked up this game at Gen Con 2023, and I was blown away by how easy it is to get to the table. It's packed with content, simple to digest, and fast to pick up.

Check it out!

[quiddie]

Fun fact, I’m almost certain I was the only one at the Calamity table that had played with every other person at the table.

Brennan & Lou in MisMag

Marisha & Sam in ESO: Blackwood

Travis in an unaired CR test game

And Luis in Endymion’s Gate

And that’s why being a full-blown ho in the TTRPG scene pays off! 💖

[bards-anonymous]

Me, when I forgot I have to plan for a session tomorrow:

[rpdeshaies]

The Perfect Game For a Oneshot

You are here, with your friends, enjoying the evening. Then someone suggests:

Hey, maybe we could play a TTRPG?

Sure, you could pull out a big game like DnD or Call of Cthulhu. But what if you want something you can print and learn in less than 5 minutes?

Breathless is a survival horror role-playing game where you play as Survivors trying to stay alive in a walled city full of Crawlers (🧟‍♀️). The entire game fits on two sides of a letter-sized sheet of paper, making it the perfect game to print at home and enjoy for a nice and cozy zombie killing one shot.

The game is inspired by things like: Shaun of the Dead, Left 4 Dead, The Last of Us, and other great zombie related media.

Basically, if you want to kill some breathless living dead, this is the game you are looking for!

Here's a link to know more:

Also, @monsterfactoryfanfic made a fantastic review of the game which you can find on youtube!

[artist-rat]

a long-distance friend is coming over and we’re gonna have a oneshot d&d adventure—i decided to grab my boy Knell and customised him a lil for his and Knead's participation <3

[warlordfelwinter]

i asked my players if they wanted to play a oneshot as dukes of the nine hells and @cappurrccino came out the gate with such a banger character concept that a design slammed into my head so hard it broke through my several months long art block

so here's haaztre (or h'aaztre or something else if juri changes her mind before halloween) the gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss duke of maladomini

[charophyte]

I'll be playing Ash in a homebrew Pathfinder game soon- decided to make them an Investigator :>

[thechekhov]

I have a question about the map you made for Essek's house, how do the stairs work? I can't figure out how they connect to each other or which direction they go.

Oh, fair enough. I did not make that very clear.

If you overlay the maps on top of one another you should actually see the places where the stairs overlap. What I forgot to add was arrows for which way is up. But basically:

Arrows (→) indicate when a stairs is going UP and the letters indicate a linked staircase.

So for example, Floor 1 we have the 3 towers. There is the Spiral staircase (A) in the Greeting Room which goes up to the (A) spiral staircase in the Library. The O staircase in the Kitchen leads to the O staircase on the second floor of the Domicile Tower, the Closet. The E staircase in Storage leads up to a (hidden) E staircase in the Alchemical Lab.

On Level 2, in the Alchemical Lab we have the E staircase hidden underneath the I staircase (which goes up to the Arcane Ritual Chamber). The Domicile Tower and the Closet has two staircases. O comes up from the kitchen and lets out there. U leads further up to Level 3. In the Library, the spiral staircase continues up to the Gardens.

On Level 3 we have the I staircase in the Arcane Ritual Chamber. The U staircase in the Bathing chamber from Level 2, and the Y staircase that leads up to the Bedroom Study.

And these last two are kinda self explanatory I think.

In general, I would greatly recommend either downloading the free PDF that explains all this in more detail...

[inverswayart]

Intern Holstenwall

Cheery man with a frame suited for both graceful pirouettes and bending steel rods, intern Holstenwall was picked up by the Bureau from one of the darkest corners of the city and is ready to put his strengths to good use. 

Tenacious, Mortal, Idealist, Hunter

Alan Holstenwall, a renegade

Unable to put up with Bureau cold and stifling ways, Alan seeks a new cause to dedicate his fiery heart to. 

Mortal, Disciple, Suspicious, Maverick, A Rival's Ascension 3 

Alan Holstenwall, a Long in the Making

Burning with youthful vigor, Alan sheds his old singed skin in tact with the hidden rhythms of the world.

Mortal, Exalted, Suspicious, Maverick, A Rival's Ascension 4

Alan Holstenwall, a Disciple

Alan smiles and crushes bones with equal inescapable warmth. 

Mortal, Follower, Disciple, Exalted, Forge 4, Heart 5

Alan Holstenwall, a Conflagration

Like a blaze dancing over ashes, Alan won’t leave anyone unaffected.

Mortal, Follower, Disciple, Exalted, Forge 7, Heart 10 

Prisoner

As long as his heart beats, Alan won’t give up escape attempts. Therefore, one should not talk to him or bring him anything above room temperature.

Mortal, Heart 5, Lantern 3, Grail 3, Prisoner, Forge 3 

[idrils]

my super hot take on 'you shouldn't play dnd' (due to it being, not a perfect gaming system for every story + owned by a corporation that, well, it's a corporation so it hates you) -

is that if you want to find a new ttrpg you should check out the oneshot rpg podcast!

it's an actual play podcast run by the fantastic game master james d'amato, and the players are a rotating cast of sharp and hilarious chicago improv comics

the point of the show is to showcase tons and tons of different rpgs, usually indie ones - because there's so much more out there than just dnd, but it's hard to know where to start! each game is played for 1-4 hourish-long episodes, and they're an excellent introduction to whatever game they're playing

where to start? one of my favorite episodes is the one where they play call of cthulhu but as scooby doo characters!

there's no through-line or arc throughout the show's run, so you can look through the catalogue and jump into any episode where the name of the game sounds promising. some of those ttrpgs include the avatar the last airbender ttrpg, wanderhome, the firefly rpg, the dragon age rpg, something called 'gunfucks', and a hundred other systems you've never heard of!

(and if you're into more longform storytelling by the same group of people,

a star wars oneshot in the edge of the empire system spun off into its own show which i love with my entire heart

campaign skyjacks is a post-apocalypse sky pirates story about folktales and anti-capitalism loosely based on the card game illimat and the music of the decemberists

neoscum is a classic near-future cyberpunk dystopia game in the shadowrun system

for you ultranerds, patrick rothfuss is a frequent guest in these longform games!)

anyway i can't recommend the whole podcast network enough in terms of learning new rpgs and laughing your ass off, check it out and have a great day ✌️

[windienine]

a gift for you!

it's more chuubo's

[bamboorocket]

I swear I still draw canon stuff, but I've been throwing concept sketches at @mikanashii and @feliciadraws while working on finishing the Crossover prompt for Spookami, and Felicia all but demanded I post these here too. So more Lancer!Waka doodles for y'all + a rough first pass at an overall color palette.