#ttrpgposting

[sapphim]

during last night's Lancer session my pilot was undergoing some of the most catastrophic traumatic survivor's guilt of her life. IN a Lord of the Rings themed mini dungeon delve

told my GM to fuck off several times

[the-backspin-alchemist]

Once again seeing people blaming DND’s game design for why GMs in the DND space as a chore rather than the culture surrounding it.

Also suggesting PBTA games as an intro to TTRPGs is insane.

At least recommend something like Index Card RPG or Tiny Dungeons or something instead of subjecting both players and GMs to PBTA. Like. C’mon. Suggest something that won’t cause people to pull their hair out as much for an intro to the space.

[windupaidoneus]

MY LOVIES 🫶 xia is @sea-chief's character yippie

[maeljade]

i'm a big fan of ur ttrpgposting, a friend of mine got me into pathfinder 1e and it's so much more fun than dnd 5e lol

I can't promise that the experience will be the same since I only really play the owlcat pathfinder games and not actual tabletop. So numbers are gonne be a lot bigger then what's actually rolled at the table.

[citriarchive]

haven't ttrpgposted outside of an au context in a while bc ive been brainweird about it and still am but theses fix me so anyway rn im just thinking abt how badly yaevinn needs to fucking retire. he has literally wanted nothing but to just be a Guy and instead he just keeps experiencing things against his will. like did he make forged famby about it? yes. did he love about it? sure. but he can do that shit at home he just needs things to stop happening forever and honestly me too. let him rest. it's not even eeby beeby anymore he needs to be given the space to never do anything ever again actually. usually i'm like "nonono he is going through it and i am the cause mwahaha" but like what it i just tucked him in and let him sleep on his boyfriend's chest. what then. what the fuck then.

[windienine]

new followers i know you're here for ttrpgposting (and possibly birdwatching detail) but the jrpg-styled god/mortal visual novel has me by the throat rn and if you have inquiries such as "hey who's the really tender-looking glasses man. who is the clown woman. why is the clown woman menacing the glasses man. why does he let her." i can answer those:

play soul of sovereignty prelude (2023) by ggdg

(you can also ask about them in my inbox that's fine too)

[cherabby]

“We are excited to announce the next generation of OneDND, OneDND-X.”

“Not even we know what the purpose of alignment is anymore. We’re just keeping it in because you guys can’t shut up about ascribing meaning to it.”

“Look, we can’t publicly agree that racism is bad, nor that anything we’ve ever done may have been racist, because it would ostracize the racist fans. And then where would we be!”

ttrpg twitter is wild because as the website burns bitches are just absolutely speedrunning the worst opinions possible, like you just log on and there's truly unbearable people arguing about whether a game can be evil or something and its like BABES! THE FIRE ALARM IS GOING OFF!

[grandgobbobarb]

I really want to like Kult but its lore is dripping with stuff uncomfortably reminiscent of the fascist conspiracy theory shit I grew up surrounded by so I think as much as the system looks cool and the idea of playing characters ascending to monstrous godhood in an explicitly gnostic universe seems fun, I’m going to have to give this one a pass....

rip

[sapphim]

hey! people in my phone who are good at puns! would anyone care to help me name my next D&D character, a construct purpose-built for sailing ships? my current best take is Maritime Robotics - Sailor Model 3E or MR-SM3E, but I know I have not yet plumbed the depths of terrible nautical puns to which I can subject my friends

[sapphim]

kick problems into the astral plane

Reblog this with a 6 word summary of your last d&d session

Mine is “Lost my religion eat a croissant”

[sapphim]

I've inadvertently twice in a row made my ttrpg character a several hundred year old refugee who remembers a world now long-dead

[sapphim]

Lancer today the GM gave us the option to go in guns blazing or go in stealth, knowing that we (Tokugawa, Blackbeard, &c.) would of course choose to go in guns blazing.

obviously we went in stealth.

[sapphim]

feels really good in Lancer when the elite veteran enemy NPC rolls a 1 on their structure check and just fucking explodes

feels really bad in Lancer when your teammate rolls a 1 on their structure check and just fucking explodes

perfectly balanced

[sapphim]

contextless meme from the rpg group chat

[sapphim]

My Lancers! (Build a bastard picrew)

Gene "Heck" Hecklinger (callsign "Echo") is a geneticist turned hacker. People and computers are the same; it's all just code execution. She was sent out on a Union Science Bureau far-field team expedition in the dying gasps of the Second Commission and returned back to the find the utopian-minded fully automated luxury space communism Third Commission in charge some several hundred years later. (Thanks, relativity!) Subjective age she's like 90, which is like the equivalent of our 45. Smokes like a chimney. Stubbornly unwilling to give up facsimile cloning, which is a big no-no in ThirdComm. God forbid women override the subjectivity of their own bodies which they grew themselves in a vat!

Our last campaign arc ended with our unit going abruptly AWOL from our Union handlers and teaming up with a rogue AI for reasons that would involve too much explanation of the alien nature of AI in the Lancer setting, which to be honest neither Heck nor I are entirely clear on. (I was going to re-read that section, and then decided not to. For the bit.) What matters is that ANANKE has a stern demeanor and a concerningly laissez-faire approach to human experimentation, and one of our pilots is down outrageously bad. Heck has raised concerns about the ethicality of said experimentation and has numerous notes but, knowing Heck, the results will still be ethically dubious!

My new girl, Vaike, is a young local in a homebrew distant diasporan system largely cut off from blinkspace and the omninet, the vibes of which I am lead to understand are potentially articulated as Roman Empire meets Soviet Union meets northern/eastern European folklore meets 1990s-esque sci-fi magitech? There are space dragons. We kicked off the first session by killing the local commissar. Vaike has recently become aware of her ability to psychically connect to blinkspace (and thus the... internet, kind of?) with her mind, which has plagued her with weird fucking dreams. Her piece of shit old mech is always threatening to overheat and melt down spectacularly so she's constantly fighting to vent her reactor before she cores out. Into a flamethrower, mainly. :) (When the adrenaline from the last fight wears off she is going to be very upset.)

[windupaidoneus]

also a baomao