Current plan for settings for my TTRPG system: - Fallout (Alpha/Beta testing) - Sworcery/Low-High Magic hybrid (Documentation/Concept) - Combined Arms Intergalactic Mecha-Feudal Super-Future (Early Dev) - Crystalpunk/Magecraft Modern Nuclear Age (In my brain) - 3 others (also just in my brain) - ThreadSky

babbymode.bsky.social • 160 days ago

Current plan for settings for my TTRPG system:
- Fallout (Alpha/Beta testing)
- Sworcery/Low-High Magic hybrid (Documentation/Concept)
- Combined Arms Intergalactic Mecha-Feudal Super-Future (Early Dev)
- Crystalpunk/Magecraft Modern Nuclear Age (In my brain)
- 3 others (also just in my brain)

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momerathe.bsky.social•160 days ago

Sounds interesting. What would you say is the common thread that links these settings together, and what features does your system have to enable it? (I ask as someone who's working on a multi-setting game myself)

babbymode.bsky.social•160 days ago

This originally started off as just me starting by creating a module for 5e, and it ballooned away from that over a couple years after realizing I hated the structure of 5e for what I wanted to do. There was a bit of a Ship of Theseus 'problem', but it finally culminated to a generic "base game."

babbymode.bsky.social•160 days ago

The primary mechanics used my custom d100 ruleset (going with the name of TnT at the moment), then using 'modules' that either keep or adapt that base game to fit the particular aesthetic quality of the setting in that module, but keeps mathematical/rules parity with other settings.

babbymode.bsky.social•160 days ago

A caveat is that mechanics can be unique to a setting, but I would wager it wouldn't be too hard for a kitchen sink solution to make that possible. There's kind of a meta-game I want to eventually include as a setting in and of itself for the utter absurdity of it.

babbymode.bsky.social•160 days ago

In terms of how it plays, I have been rigorously using my Fallout home game I managed to wrangle together as guinea pigs to fuck around and find out how to balance the crunch I crave on the arbitrary "game simulation" level vs. the abstraction of the game as a collective experience.

babbymode.bsky.social•160 days ago

So far the standout things are:
The rules have yet to feel like they are "In the way" of the intended experience, and the players feel like the sandbox is appropriately responsive to their decisions. That could also be a blindspot due to the bias of my DMing style, but I'll know for sure soon.

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