Currently the group is in the undercity trying to open up the water based infrastructure while navigating the politics of people who’ve been neglected and forgotten from the top side
Had to change my plans from the mission I was initially going to run to a more personal mission regarding the Rockerboy's missing friend from her backstory.
Got to play in a game of No Nut November where we all played as squirrels trying find food for the colony. Hilarious game. I made a fashionable hat out of the sack of a cat that tried to eat my friend.
Pokemon tabletop united game, we got a big break in the serial killer thing we're doing and I'm hoping we catch them and end their reign of terror. Big issue is if I can slow or stop my pcs descent into further corruption
It's like a side plot that was interesting but is feeling less like a fun thing but a block to us getting to what we really feel we need to do but can't leave as it's time sensitive.
Like obvs it's fun but we are like, we want to get back to the cataclysm event that we need to prepare for 😅
Second session of an Old Gods of Appalachia game I'm dming. We did our first game back in September and it was a real bastard to get back together (was October insane for everyone else?). We're running the opening module from the book and they're going to get to do a maze this week~ PUMPED
Getting back to a home game after almost 9 months apart, it's going to be a mostly low-key hangout (they're riding a train through the layers of Hell) except they're going to get attacked by a giant bat monster and they don't know it yet
Update: they won't get to the bat fight this week, but somebody did let about 70 abyssal chickens into first class, so now there's a mystery for them to solve.
I am playing a D12 system I have been developing. I put together a stripped down, and I mean really stripped down, less than 8 page stripped down, version to the Minimalist Game Jam 3.
Pretty good. I am hoping for feedback on the mini version, see if anyone finds any systemic problems with it. And the more filled out version I am running for my players seems to be going well.
I buried 2 of them alive (classic Sabbat), and forced the other one to lose humanity by turning a human hostage into a stuffed toy for the child vampire they have been tasked with "babysitting".
It was fun 😂
Ran DnD last night, the final session in Serenity Springs which is my homebrew domain of dread based on 1950s America. This morning my wife and I played Arc Nova (board game) and built lovely zoos for two hours.
Just finished session 2 of my 90s urban fantasy campaign and the party did the mission perfectly and got to level up. I'm excited for next week as they are now going to get things they can't talk their way out of.
After we finished our very standard western European medieval LOTR-esque kind of campaign, I asked what they wanted next, and one of the players said 90s Americana and within 4 hours everyone had made their drafts of 90s character sheets to run by me. Just giving the table what they want 😄
Had a #5e Dragon lance game with DM @ricmthegm.bsky.social yesterday. On Monday playing Storm Kings Thunder. And sprinkle throughout the weekend Dragon Age Origins. #DAO
For the Dragon Lance campaign I am playing a human cleric/paladin of Paladine.
For Storm King's Thunder I am playing a half-orc barbarian. Who started off as a naive back woods lumber jack, but he is starting to see the world as a violent and corrupt.
XCrawl is a mod of DCC (which it D&D Old School). Xcrawl was great fun...think D&D mixed with the Running Man or Hunger Games. DCC is always fun. i run a monthly table.
Huh, neat. Sounds fun. Not a whole lotta gamers around me that I know well enough to trust with running/ playing too many ttrpgs. So many fun things one day I wanna try out.
try here for an online group that hardly does 5E but does Mausritter, Mothership, DCC and tons of other TTRPGS. Have played 4 different times on there and had an awesome time, meeting tons of good people. https://pigeon-raspberry-ypsc.squarespace.com/ttrpg-pickup-con
That would probably be the responsible thing, to treat it a bit by bit, but I have a bad habit with games to sink whole days and then not touching it from months.
Had a good time playing Dead by Daylight last night once my internet finally came back. Tonight our playtest group has their session 6 and tomorrow is my birthday. A great weekend lined up.
Next weekend I am running Vampire the Masquerade. This weekend I am planning it. The players are playing their ghouls during the day shift and have to negotiate (or not) with airport security to get a box out of a plane that was routed to the wrong airport without being discovered by hunters.
That sounds like a wonderfully fun time. Vampire of the Masquerade is one that's always been on my list, but I am the only one of the homies that's pretty about vampires.
The main villain of story set around Christmas is the prince's favorite most loyal "ghoul" who is really a Nephandi techno mage and completely immune to the blood bond, who is mind controlling him like Jafar. He is a modern-day lich who has turned his attention to the kindred of Chicago.
The cam is in disarray because a bunch of the craziest sabbat were unleashed earlier in the year and each day of the Christmas season, aided by intelligence the Nephandi is feeding them are doing a big masquerade breaching attack that is also stirring up hunters.
not all of them bought the retainer merit so as a substitute, they play staff members of the club with the "weak mortal" template. Their day shift character should be built as a mediocre loser with garbage stats. One character is literally "pissf****t" from Disco Elysium.
In the first session where I featured the day shift, I opened up with them being invited to breakfast by some other ghouls called "The Uptown Brunch Club" who mostly shit talk and gossip about the dumber, meaner, kindred behind their backs while talking up their masters.
The brunch club is composed of independent, anarch, and camarilla ghouls who don't care much about the lines or conflicts of the kindred and just want an easy workday while the boss man is asleep. Real punch clock types.
I often set the scene describing the "eye burning" daylight and sickly overcast over grey slush covers streets and bare trees (It is December in Chicago, in universe)
It's 2020 but in my world COVID didn't happen, there were just a ton of mortal terrorist attacks that shut everything down instead
My family d&d game is tonight (though I've been thinking about converting it to Draw Steel). We're in downtown after their adventure to liberate the Molten Enclave from a military coup/enlightened uprising.
I've been running a draw steel game for a while, so I think it would go well. But I don't want to pull the rug out from under my kids if I can help it.
The liberation went pretty well (though the first round against a giant where everyone missed looked grim).
I've already run my 5e game for the week on Thursday, and it was a Big Deal session that I'm still feeling the glow from.
Tomorrow, @failanth.bsky.social and I are gonna play You Have Always Lived In the Lighthouse, a duet #TTRPG that I'm super excited to try! I will be playing The Creature.
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Currently the group is in the undercity trying to open up the water based infrastructure while navigating the politics of people who’ve been neglected and forgotten from the top side
Got a downtime session in the cards
Like obvs it's fun but we are like, we want to get back to the cataclysm event that we need to prepare for 😅
It was fun 😂
But also love a good urban fantasy!!
For Storm King's Thunder I am playing a half-orc barbarian. Who started off as a naive back woods lumber jack, but he is starting to see the world as a violent and corrupt.
Now I'm mostly just at a point where some of the combats I need to finish are pretty difficult so I'm trying to figure out how to beat them.
2 runs of Do You Hear The People Sing? Which is a Larp about a production of Les Mis.
1 run of Krakenfall, which is about stranded sailors escaping a weird island.
It's 2020 but in my world COVID didn't happen, there were just a ton of mortal terrorist attacks that shut everything down instead
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1646790/Striving_for_Light/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3002500/Goldenheart/
The liberation go well?
The liberation went pretty well (though the first round against a giant where everyone missed looked grim).
But the dwarves are now back home!
Tomorrow, @failanth.bsky.social and I are gonna play You Have Always Lived In the Lighthouse, a duet #TTRPG that I'm super excited to try! I will be playing The Creature.