#political rpg

[probablybadrpgideas]

More unconventional world-threatening disasters for your heroes to fight

The halflings have finally fucking snapped

Unfortunate political loophole gives ravenous ghoul total power, everyone upset at being eaten but insisting they need to respect the process.

World's greatest Archmage is drunk off their ass

There's some guy in a cape with glowing red eyes cackling and waving a skull staff around. He's not explicitly done anything wrong but, like, we kind of assume there must be something going on there. Right?

The blessed artifact that will save the world from the demon invasion has a big spider on it and no-one wants to go near it.

Someone gave the Tarrasque a knife

Every time someone casts a spell the moon comes one inch closer to the earth.

Oh shit the Elves just invented capitalism

Cursed item that will destroy the world if anyone says "rhubarb" near it. No-one knows which item it is.

Fire elemental desperately lonely and coming to the material plane for hugs.

There's one warlock who's just eldritch blasting everyone on the planet one by one, like an asshole.

Poorly considered Elder Evil Vacation Day coming up.

The GM is getting bored, and the PCs must entertain them from within the game lest they abandon the game and render their world non-existence.

#RPG #roleplaying game #D&D #alchohol #politics

[galacticshq]

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[prokopetz]

Do you ever have a passive gripe with the way trade is represented in medieval/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic fiction? I can't shake the feeling that those are societies that have moved beyond the need for abstract currency - that such forms of trade are more a concession for the viewer to analogize trade to our world instead of offering some kind of unique barter for a world.

A medieval peasant isn't gonna want gold coins for jack because the next trade caravan is two seasons away, they'd much rather a useful tool or some extra fertilizer. Credits in science fiction universes can become worthless due to Future™️ hackers setting their bank accounts to extraordinarily high values, so extra parts for firearms and spaceships are much more useful. Caps in Fallout just make no sense in a world where food and water are few and far between!

I feel unreasonably grumpy about this and I wanted to know if you have any kind of insight to this kind of thing.

There are a couple of only partly related problems here:

1. The idea that the economies of most sci-fi and fantasy settings, as depicted, don't make any sense. This is absolutely true, because most science fiction and fantasy authors don't really think about that sort of thing – their settings only have economies to the extent that the details of those economies are relevant to the plot, which they usually aren't.

2. The idea that it doesn't make sense for currency to exist in these settings because most of them logically ought to have barter economies. The trouble with this assertion is that there's no such thing as a barter economy. Yes, you can describe what one would look like, but no civilisation which has ever actually existed has operated in this fashion. It's a made-up idea – at best, a spherical-cow approximation of how the exchange of goods and services operates in a stateless society, and at worst, complete bullshit.

Consequently, whether or not it makes sense for anything like currency to exist is going to depend on the particulars of how the setting's economy operates (i.e., all the details that that are getting glossed over in point 1, above). About the most we can say in nearly all cases is that we simply don't have enough information about a given fantasy or sci-fi setting's economic structure to know whether it makes sense to have currency or not; we can't just assume in the absence of further details that things will default to a barter economy, because – again – there's no such animal.

#media #tropes #fantasy #science fiction #sci-fi #gaming #video games #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #worldbuilding #game design #economics #politics #swearing

[the-toybox-general]

Geno Sketches! ( Experimentally posting cropped versions of the image to hopefully help quality viewing again! )

#my art #toybox-arts #SMRPG #Super Mario RPG #Geno #Maybe I'm getting it !!! maybe!! #polite little dancer ( pointing a finger at him )

[sylvanus-cypher]

It's weird that the people I see with the most vitriolic disdain for Lancer aren't the conservative, chauvinistic, right-wing morons who the game explicitly criticizes, but a lot of far-leftists whose policies line up pretty damn close to Union's but disagree with its existence for seemingly incomprehensible reasons; I think it perfectly demonstrates how pervasive Capitalist Realism is that even many leftists reflexively denounce the idea (and it is the idea, because it's in a sci-fi TTRPG) of a democratic state that genuinely has the people's best interest at heart

#lancer rpg #mecha #politics #anti capitalist #a better world is possible #discourse

[wealmostaneckbeard]

The politics in Lancer the mech pilot TTRPG seems center left to me. A good way to explain what's going on in that game's universe is with this overly long metaphor:

Imagine an alternate history where Nixon somehow beat JFK Jr to the white house, and once in office he lets Kissinger go nuts setting fascists up on an accelerated schedule. That's what Union's Second Committee was like. Then Tricky Dick procedes to nuke Vietnam a couple times. That's the Hercynia Crisis and that FTL Piston weapon launch. JFK and company ride the shock and horror of approaching nuclear war into office on the promise of de-escalation and enforcing civil rights, and they deliver. That's the coup that formed Union's Third Committee. Kissinger, Nixon, and the entire pentagon/raytheon corp take over NASA in Cape Canaveral, Florida where they form a tolerated corporatocracy in exile. That's basically Harrison Armory on the planet Ras Shamra. Now a United liberal-leftist front of America is actively trying to tear down dictatorships around the world that Kissinger set up (he got assassinated at some point in this time line) and replace them with socialist democracies. That is Union's Justice/Human-Rights Department and a few other government branches. So far they've had some success although people are pointing out that it's a bit hypocritical that the liberators are using weapons from corporate conservative states where civil rights are discretely curtailed. That's what's driving political discourse in 5016u in Union's legislative body, the Central Committee and it's myriad political parties.

So yeah Lancer's political intergalactic landscape is a bit like modern day? Except also cthulhu is giving out reality-breaking tech to militant civil rights advocates and random civilians? That's what HORUS basically is, btw.

Now that I've written this out, it would make for a good american alt-history with mechs campaign in Lancer...

#henry kissinger #lancer rpg #alternate history #union's third committee #union's second committee #harrison armory #science fiction #table top role playing #ttrpg #mech #mecha #usa politics #usa history #richard nixon #john f kennedy #us history #us politics #horus

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I had a job as a sort of butler who’d just bring stuff around to various rooms and put them on tables there.

Every room was a different D&D-type roleplay group, some for Earth, others for other worlds, and there were a lot for subsections, like for the specific parts of Earth wars was related to them, their environments, etc.

I was going to the American politics one often and overheard something like, “Well then, because someone decided there has to be four presidential impeachments, we’ll have to get rid of one.”

I watched as they whispered what that even meant and who it was about and then soon enough there was this Billboard of every US president, real, current, and possible future, with some faces being covered in static.

Jimmy Carter’s face also turned to static, and I felt the memory of him dripping away. Then I spent the next day wondering who the president between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan was.

#dream #text #2023 #job #butler #d&d #dungeons and dragons #earth #dragon #roleplay #rp #rpg #war tw #politics #america #american poltiics #jimmy carter #gerald ford #ronald regan #president #potus #usa #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[dragonkid11]

The kindling that will start a thousands years empire.

This is basically a revamped version of the DDD series I made on the KTB history a long while ago, since some more correct info has been released with the release of Field Guide to KTB, just never got to it yet with the sheer amount of stuff I worked on back then.

Well, better late than never!

#youtube #lancer rpg #ttrpg #Drink Deep & Descend #history #lore #story #Karrakin Trade Baronies #turns out concentrating your political power in the midst of a crisis is in fact a bad move

[vexwerewolf]

Really gutted that I can't spare the page space to go into extremely dense, indulgent explorations of Furnace City's weird, unique political situation.

"So each of the three major political factions has subfactions, of course - everything is a spectrum. You've got the more moderate Paleoanarchists who acknowledge that the Second Charter is legal and was duly voted for by a majority of the city's populace. 'Sure, we don't like it, but it's legal, so we'll just try to convince people to vote it out.' But then you've got the more radical ones, who insist that the Founding Charter was an irrevocably binding document that renders any attempt to depose it illegitimate, and I genuinely cannot express how funny a position that is for an anarchist to take."

#lancer #lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer-rpg #in golden flame #furnace city #fictional politics

[dduane]

...Don’t miss the Special Rule at the bottom.  (”...accidentally”?) :)

#RPG #UK politics

[draculancer-flow]

Sticking it in a Balor, feels like a beehive on my shaft

#dracula #dracula flow #lancer #lancer meme #lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #mecha #memes #shitpost #politics

[probablybadrpgideas]

Rarer D&D alignments

Bastard Good: You make the world better for people but in a really obnoxious way so everyone low-key hates you for it

Chaotic Dead: You set yourself on fire at the start of each session

Informed Evil: you're wearing a red cape and cackling so we kind of assume you've probably done some bad things off screen, right?

Lawful Pointless: You follow the rules of chess in every situation you find yourself in.

False Neutral: HAHA FOOLS! I WAS NO DRUID! I WAS A PALADIN ALL ALONG!

Lawful Anxious: You follow very strict laws but you don't know what those laws are or if you're breaking them.

Personal Evil: rather then making things worse for sapient life, you work to make things worse for Steve specifically. Everyone else is fine.

Centrist Neutral: "I don't support The Chained God Tharizdun breaking free and unmaking all reality but if we stop him through force we're just as bad as he is. Did you know there's actually zero difference between good and bad things?"

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Sexy Lawful: You follow very strict rules but in such a way we kind of suspect you're getting off on it.

Chaotic Incidental: You act completely randomly but by sheer chance your actions turn out identical to if you followed very strict rules.

Theoretical Good: You want to do good things to help the world and once you stop binging Netflix you're absolutely going to.

Ugly Neutral: None of the other alignments want to hang out with you so you're neutral by default

Chaotic Meta: You pointedly refuse to follow the rules of the game you're playing.

Thirsty Evil: Look, orcs are hot, ok?

#RPG #Roleplaying game #aligment chart #D&D #politics cw #I guess?

[anim-ttrpgs]

Do you think Eureka would be suitable for a story where PCs are agents for 1 of 2-3 political rivals? Are there any mechanics in the game that you think would lend themselves well to the kinds of political intrigue and campaigning the story would involve?

As much as I love saying that our game is good for certain things, I have to admit that it has no mechanics for political intrigue beyond its existing mechanics for mystery intrigue (which are extensive). In the rules itself, we say that the PCs are not supposed to be agents of any larger organization rules-as-written, but we do give a few pieces of advice for how to do it if you want to buck that rule and use Eureka for your secret agent game.

From our experience it does do *undercover spies* pretty well, despite having no rules-as-written mechanics for the party being supported by state resources. This is probably because being an undercover spy is not 100% different from being an amateur detective. You’re trying to carefully uncover secret information, without drawing too much attention to yourself. The difference is just who you’re working for and who you’re trying to conceal your identity from.

However, @horseabortion69 I know is working on some kind of secret agent centric sci-fi adventure meant to work with Eureka, and I implore her to share more about it on this post.

#eureka: investigative urban fantasy #eureka #rpg #ttrpg #roleplaying #tabletop #secret agent #detective #allied forces #political intrigue #spy #spies #scp foundation #scp

[prokopetz]

Okay, I know this is going to come off as me holding queer creators to higher standards, given how many urban fantasy tabletop RPGs there are out there whose default premise has the player characters fighting blood-drinking Illuminati cultists, but any time I see a self-labelled Queer Anarchist Revolution RPG with an urban fantasy bent whose default premise still has said queer anarchist revolutionaries fighting blood-drinking Illuminati cultists, I'm struck by a certain sense of, well, clearly you want me to receive this as a politically aware text, but you couldn't do ten minutes of reading up on the origins of the conspiracy theory tropes you're name-checking here? Really? Really?

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #game design #politics #antisemitism #blood libel #grumping #violence mention

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[sylvanus-cypher]

Vitriol aside, the people who criticize lancer re: Union are right about one thing: a better world is not for us. Any real good in this world is already twisted and corrupted beyond all repair, and so are all of us. We collapsed the only tunnel out of the cave quite a while ago.

I cannot stress enough that this opinion/attitude is literally everything I have been talking about. When I'm talking about how pervasive capitalist realism is, how pervasive the belief that capitalism has won and we're all fucked is, this is what I'm talking about. That narrative only benefits one group, and it's the capitalists; if they convince us that there's no hope, then it's much more likely that we'll lie down and rot while they steamroll us than rise up to make real changes, whether through a ballot or through revolution.

There are nearly eight billion people on this planet, and 90% of them are being screwed over by the systems we live under, more than enough to change the world for the better. It's just that most of them either A) have been duped into thinking the system benefits them, B) don't know what to do about it, or C) don't believe they can do anything about it.

Capitalist realism may be the single most insidious tool that the ruling class can use against us. The second we all surrender and accept the status quo is the second that it becomes true and the world ends. Don't fall for it. Don't sink into despair. Don't lie down and rot when a better world is possible.

I'm begging you. A better world is possible, and we can reach it if we try.

A better world is possible. Even if we have to fight for it.

#lancer rpg #lancer #lancer ttrpg #mecha #late stage capitalism #politics #a better world is possible #capitalist realism #anti capitalist #socialism #ask