Showing posts with label rpg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rpg. Show all posts

Friday, July 4, 2025

Good write-up of a Conan RPG campaign by Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol

From their newish blog, evaluating the Conan RPG rules, discussing the clever ways their GM manipulated the campaign, and offering general suggestions on how to review a TTRPG:

It’s not a straight hit-points-to-death system. If you go over a threshold in a single blow, you do an injury. If someone would go beneath zero, it’s an injury. There’s probably some more in there – but it’s number of injuries which lead to death. Oh – and to finish off my one-man-blender, this is where I spend a momentum to add an extra injury whenever I do an injury. So when I’m at all cooking, I’m doing 3 injuries whenever I attack, which kills most people.

What I’m saying, I really did feel like Conan.

(And speaking of TTRPGS, the massive TTRPG Humble Bundle is still available.) (Warhammer, Cyberpunk, G.I. Joe, etc, etc)

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Kieron Gillen created an AI-cursed expansion for the Die RPG

The inspiration:

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

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— cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM



Free rules supplement for incorporating the wheel in a game:

I have been bombarded by people saying that this should be the next DIE RPG expansion for our Emotion Knight class. You're welcome. Full 4-page PDF on the site. I'll include the images in the next post in this thread. #ttrpg #dierpg

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— Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Kieron Gillen posted a pay what you want game zine

My new game zine! HOW DO ALIENS DO "IT"? is a game about confused teenage aliens trying to work out what their information-scarce society isn't telling them. It's playful, but approaches big themes lightly. It's pay what you like, but do pay nowt. #ttrpg kierongillen.itch.io/how-do-alien...

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— Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM



And if you missed it, a pay what you want quickstart for the Die RPG.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

A quickstart for the Die RPG based on the graphic novel by Gillen and Hans is a pay what you want download

Includes a new scenario.
The DIE RPG Quickstart is the fastest way into your own warped fantasy world. It includes: 

Complete (but simple) rules

DIE’s question-driven character creation process

The Dreams We Had As Children, a scenario by DIE creator Kieron Gillen

Advice on how to get the most out of playing and running the DIE RPG

Full-colour, illustrated character sheets for each of the game’s Paragon classes – the Dictator, the Emotion Knight, the Fool, the Neo, the Godbinder, and the enigmatic Master

Saturday, February 1, 2025

FYI I'm participating in a RPG prison break run by Alfred Valley on Bluesky if you'd like to follow along

Lord help me, I've had an idea To coincide with Zine Month in February I want to run the #VALLEY100 – a 100 person gauntlet that will take place entirely on Bluesky over 10 days. Each player will be given a character and simple instructions, and can win prizes depending on how far they get.

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— Alfred Valley (@alfredvalley.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM



My assigned character and character portrait (I got to name her) if you'd like to follow along and support when the opportunity arises (starting on February 4, I believe):


Mabel Capper, a stable hand with a convincing goblin mask, who was arrested for murder. SWEET SPOT: 35–48 LUCK: 3 ALIGNMENT: Odd STARTING LOCATION: 5 #VALLEY100

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— jstruan (@jstruan.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Monday, April 1, 2024

Some good April Fool's Jokes, including this genuine free RPG supplement, and a SHFiguarts figure I believe is real





















Friday, March 22, 2024

The "Replay" podcast is a terrific playthrough of the RPG "Die"

Die seems so absurdly demanding of creativity from its players, but this is a wonderful, funny playthrough (I have two episodes left). Even the "Prelude" where they design their characters is entertaining.

Sunday, November 19, 2023

Good podcast series about people playing the RPG "Die"

Such a seemingly intimidating game that demands a lot of character creation effort, but these players are skilled, and the pods are edited to cut down on empty space. (I've only listened to ther first 1.5 episodes.)

Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Writer's Guild had a special RPG-themed picket



Here's a write-up and photo gallery.

Thursday, August 10, 2023

The game-breaking joys of playing Baldur's Gate 3 as a barrelmancer

RPS:

As the name suggests, it's all about doing mildly game-breaking things with barrels, crates and other heavy containers, by taking advantage of high strength, the Throw command, and the fact that Larian RPG characters can somehow fit items as big as they are into their inventories

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Imagine, if you will, living in a world where barrel-shaped neutron stars appear out of thin air to smash all your mates to atoms.

Vampire illustration for the Die RPG



(The hardcover is up for preorder at Amazon, and in stock in various formats at RRD.)

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Playing Baldur's Gate 3 as a party entirely consisting of bears

The introduction:

It seems like only yesterday I was playing Pillars of Eternity as a party of bears. Back in 2015 I created six ranger characters, had them each summon their bear companions, and then left the rangers behind and just ran around the game as Oops All Bears for a while.

Why? Because bears. And it worked for a while, too, because for whatever reason, Pillars of Eternity seemed completely unprepared for bears to walk around the map without their owners at their sides. Enemies didn't react to bears invading their strongholds, no one got suspicious when they were surrounded by six bears, and for a while I simply chewed a furry path of destruction through the game.

Lots of gifs and vivid description of antics.

Gelatinous Cube-themed dice



*Previously: QR Code dice.

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Memopad for turning meetings into a simple RPG

Friday, July 7, 2023

Links to the Ennies 2023 nominees for best free RPG games and products

There are many other categories (including best family games and best art), but here are the nominees in the free category (downloads are straightforward, but I think each site required an account):

Exclusion Zone Botanist

Root: The RPG Talon Hill Quickstart

Shrine of the Jaguar Princess

Stranded, Mongoose Publishing

The 2022 Level 1 Anthology

Friday, June 30, 2023

Just look at this Minotaur RPG character commission

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

RPG that only uses three letter words

Some screencaps in the tweet, posted here.

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Thrawn RPG Sourcebook available for download