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This is a place to talk about tabletop roleplaying games.
Some have a random room with a random bandit. But why is a bandit in this dungeon, on his own? What is he doing here? So I've made a little python dungeon generator ('dungen') which generates a dungeon by making history. (1) A cavern or mine makes tunnels, then (2) dwarves, gnomes, or elves make the place liveable. Finally, (3) a bad-guy attacks, and converts those nice liveable spaces with minions. Get a copy here, on my little git server. '> ssh -p 2222 soft.dmz.rs -t dungen' git clone...
so I made a mini "basic D&D" — Last weekendish I decided hell with it, I'd try to smush a take on "Basic D&D" into one 16-page minizine format (1/8-letter pages). After a lot of scribbling right onto a blank mockup minizine, and tweaking some things here and there, I got one. Spent the middle of the week typing and formatting, and here we are: Lindwyrm. It's pretty loosey-goosey but I'm okie with that, lol.
The Legacy Edition's Box's Random Labyrinth Generation — The only thing I've done recently with The Fantasy Trip was use the Random Labyrinth Generation dice drop table in the bottom of the Legacy Edition Box. I've got a post on my µBlog that talks about...
dungeon24 — Has anyone in gemspace been playing with #dungeon24 (or the predecessor #dungeon23)? The rough concept is: make one room of a megadungeon every day for a year. No other rules. I burnt out hard after a couple weeks last year, but even though I'm a few days behind in 2024, I have a good feeling. I'm treating it more like a daily writing discipline exercise than a "I...
My TFT gaming is on hold right now while I set things up to handle the changing schedules of the players. I’m going to run the Barrowmaze megadungeon on nights when people are missing, with everybody having to be out of the dungeon at the end of the session, so next time when it’s a different group who can play it doesn’t matter.
I've been playing Melee/Wizard on game night when people are missing, which is sadly not uncommon, since they're all busy young adults. So far it has been random dungeons from The Fantasy Trip 2019 Postcard Contest that I'm running with Melee/Wizard to help people learn the basic rules of The Fantasy Trip. I'm going to move it to a TFT campaign, but basically one where everybody has to be back in town at the end of each session of play. That means it doesn't matter who is there and who isn't. I...
Right now, I'm playing the Melee and Wizard parts of The Fantasy Trip on nights when some of my players are missing, as a means of learning the system and teaching it to my players. One of my players did not like the way turn sequencing worked and options worked, and I found keeping track of current adjusted Dexterity when the combat phase came around was difficult. Since we're playing online I made a Google Sheets spreadsheet that kept track of things and automated some of the process. I...
My Tabletop Interest — I sometimes play DELVE, a solo map drawing tabletop game based on Dwarf Fortress, its a fun exercise in creativity I like it. I have never played a TTRPG but am interested in the lore of the World Of Darkness series thanks to a YouTube video series called hunter: the parenting that is set in WOD. very excellent series highly recommend. I also am somewhat familiar with Warhammer 40k thanks to the series 'what if the emperor had a Text To Speech device' and I also played...
The games I play — My friends and I play D&D mostly, but we just finished a few adventures of the new Blade Runner game. Blade Runner RPG has an interesting ability system that seems well balanced without having too much math. I have super fond memories of TFT. I played it a lot when it first came out (*cough cough*) but not much since then. Over the years I kept returning to the idea that the TFT rule system was what D&D should have been.
What Tabletop RPGs interest folks here? — Right now I'm very interested in The Fantasy Trip from Steve Jackson Games, Monsters! Monsters! from Trollgodfather Press (which has the same rules as Tunnels & Trolls, but is from the original author of T&T), The Lair of the Leopard Empresses RPG from Mindjammer Press (which uses the M!M! rules and builds on them in very interesting ways), the Westlands 2D6 System RPG from Menagerie Press, and Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2E from Arion Games, but I'm...
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