abekin.bsky.social
Referee and master of many RPGs. Enjoyer of walks. Appreciator of nature.
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Dragonbane! It's heroic fantasy with tactical combat. It's classless and thanks to being roll under, you'll never have to figure out a DC. Monsters have a table of moves to keep them exciting.
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Not yet, but it's high on my list to run this year. Curious to see your thoughts after playing!
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Need? No. But it's just as much a power fancy to be a suave charmer or glib liar. Mechanics allow anyone to access that. It can also take weight off the GM (or allow the GM to play and be surprised) to allow a social interaction's pivotal decision to rest on a test.
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Pandemic gave us goblin mode. Can this presidential term give us siren mode?
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It's so good! I'm running Abomination Vaults through Foundry and it's a first in class Foundry module and rules system implementation. Music! Lighting! Tokens! Everything is plug and play. Only wish the map was labeled
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I like having an RSS reader with good blogs to scroll through and I still love forums (RPG.net). But neither gives me the dopamine rush of a Twitter/Bluesky/etc.
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I can instantly hear the music for Wispy Woods!
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Weaknesses feel especially weird. I feel pretty vulnerable to fire, acid, bludgeoning... but make it narrative, a creature with fire weakness combusts, taking extra damage and hurting everyone close. Or do the hydra/troll thing where it blocks regen. Flat damage mod is not interesting
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I buy nearly all my music from Bandcamp, often using Bandcamp Friday to ensure more money goes to the artist. The tags have allowed me to discover some fun new artists
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I adore Infernax. It's so fun. If you can, the couch coop is amazing. It has no right being so good. The secondary character is so different.
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My primary is the one I just finished a 34 session campaign: Dragonbane. I'm excited to try more new stuff this year!
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On the D&D side I think this is the muscle wizard.
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Hell yeah! Have fun! Now you have a "get out of interacting at the Christmas party" card, should you need it.
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Ah, sick! Love the Play It Loud! red. How you liking the Analogue Pocket? I'm so tempted by them.
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I've heard many stories of parents playing Mausritter with their young children. It's free, short and very simple and can be tactile with the "arts and crafts" inventory. If Redwall or other tales of small mice in a big world sound appealing, give it a shot mausritter.com
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Scripts are a good comparison. Reviewing a script has value, but reviewing the play is going to be very different. Of course, each play performance will have its own production, cast, etc. and be very different. Same for RPGs. It's a tricky beast but that table experience is so valuable.
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Truly. Leans into the goblin experience without feeling twee or edgy.
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This game reads so well. I desperately want to get it to the table. That dice mechanic seems very fun and straightforward.
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Only movie I've seen in theaters that I walked out of.
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Getting that fridge out had a fun combo with appliance sales guy guaranteeing me "If the fridge is there, we can remove it." with the installers instantly saying "Nope." That was painful. Then the water line installed by the flippers was janky and installing the new fridge broke that too...
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Our house had a flipper special where they built the cabinets around a 36" fridge and we had to remove the trim and a light switch to remove our old fridge. You couldn't open the doors all the way or take out the shelves because the doors hit the wall.
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Moonring is Ultima inspired but very, very cool. Plus it's free! store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/...
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Maybe give Skald: Against the Black Priory a look. Great, turn- based RPG with chunky pixel graphics, detailed combat and a well written cosmic horror story. store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/...
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I hate it. People really want this in fantasy adventure TTRPGs now too. Why do you want to spend every post-fight carving up a monster for 1d6 teeth when you can take a sword from the adventures corpse in it's lair? Crafting is so unfun to me and I don't get why people love it.
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I would absolutely buy and read this book. As mentioned in another comment, I'm the guy who read the Elusive Shift for fun.
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What hell is this villain doing? Just chilling in the cave? Waiting for the PCs? There's no clues on how to advance his plot what so ever. Yes, I could do all this heavy lifting, but I bought this adventure to give me those things.
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Not to mention the villain of this module gets no build up throughout. It's just a drow that my party slew without a thought. They didn't even know he was the villain because how would they?
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Phandelver is written in such a way that the information for finding Cragmaw Castle is unavailable to them, probably to stop a TPK. As a counterpoint, they can go to Thundertree, another TPK waiting to happen (and in fact, the second TPK in my run of Phandelver).
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One of the initial frustrations is my players wanted to pursue the goblin quest: they were captured by the Cragmaw goblins and wanted to root them out. They were invested and the adventure as written was quashing this.
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My players had fun, thankfully. I did not. I was constantly struggling against the adventure. It's not an adventure that is easy to use at the table. There's a dramatis personae but it's truncated and doesn't actually tell you these character's hooks or quests. No fodder for roleplaying.
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I am seeing these urinnovations and that you're worried about a trickle makes me think you should get your prostate checked.
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I think Dragonbane fits this mould. The world is dangerous and ready to be explored but you feel more heroic. Plus the core set comes with a great campaign (that can function as individual adventures). It's more trad than storygame, but you can see a little bit of the latter
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You're in Minneapolis? Awesome. Hopefully the Source carries the new Stay Frosty!
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She 90% of my 82 tabs while absentee voting.
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I live in St Paul and trust Naomi's work. She's been doing this for years. Reaching out to candidates, reviewing campaign websites, researching court cases/filings. What she does is a public good.
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Would monster closet work here? The Escher closet?
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It's fantastic. I've been running Secret of the Dragon Emperor in Foundry since August 2023. We're getting close to finishing and we're going to move on to Path of Glory soon after. I'm hoping that module comes out for Foundry soon.
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Mythic past had dragons walking around. Ended up cobbling together a hack of the freely available FATE and what I knew of the recently released Spirits of the Century for my campaign.
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Fireborn! The GM guide has some fun world building in the metaplot heavy style of the time. Modern London with magic returning, mythic past with returning magic. System sounded cool: dice split between 4 elements, combat were built on fighting game style combos. Little clunky in play.
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I came to your books through Shadows of the Apt and this was so true to my experience with them. It made it a very satisfying series to read. It makes it hard to watch something like Rings of Power when there are no conclusions, only questions. Including, will this be renewed!
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The Dragonbane core set, while it looks like a starter set, is actually the full rules (including a substantial bestiary), an entire campaign, standees (NPCs, PCs, Monsters!), dice set, reversible battle mat and world map. It's a fully playable box, literally everything you need.
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Sounds great! Anyone who cares at all about the Zelda timeline needs to touch grass.
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So excited! I've loved Noah since I heard about him from you.
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I've run one adventure an I'm playing in a second game occasionally.
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I started my second PF2E game on Monday. Running the Abomination Vaults!
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Lots of good ones already in the comments. I'm add:
* Between Two Cairns - OSR module review
* RPG X-Ray - general interest RPG topics
* Roll for Topic - general interest RPG topics
* Spl*tbook
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I'm in 4 game too!
-Biweekly GM. Dragonbane campaign that I'm running through Secrets of the Dragon Emperor
-Biweekly Player. The One Ring
-Biweekly GM. Pathfinder 2e run of The Abomination Vaulted
- Monthly GM. Lost Mine of Phandelver (I hate this adventure but I'm almost done)