#ttrpg tag

[dykebeckett]

truly I think the only thing that can make you a better game master or dungeon master, other than doing it and practicing, is seeing how other people do it. watch mark hulmes to see some of the coolest worldbuilding and learn about mechanics. watch aabria iyengar and learn to ask your players “what does that look like?” watch brennan lee mulligan and learn that the bad guy can always be capitalism. and whatever it is that matt mercer does. wear vests i guess idk

#ttrpg tag #source: I have been a forever dm since 2019

[poltergeisz]

Lace, my drider character! i love her shes so silly

#art cam #art #drawing #drider #oc #ttrpg tag #tofw tag #lace tag

[clementine-kesh]

i’ve become too committed to the bit and so present to you all the house is alive and it hates you (and you are austin powers)

#disclaimer this has been playtested once #if anyone has any suggestions or feedback please lmk #ttrpg tag

[stormtide-leviathan]

My warlock has the Dream spell once per long rest from an item so any time i make it to the end of a long rest without needing to use it i've decided to torment the head of a particularly awful noble house with psychic nightmares

#original post #dnd #ttrpg tag

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

OKAY. I finally managed to carve down an actually simplified version of the offline pocket edition I made for the excellent RPGSolo system. I definitely have more things in mind to expand on as options for players who want them, and this draft is Rough and near entirely unedited because I pounded it out in like half an hour during a migraine, oops, BUT! It should be fully functional as it is currently, and I hope people enjoy it as much as I have been.

(Also, if you like it I encourage you to go give the creator of the original site some support! This wouldn't exist without his work, and there's all kinds of neat extra tools and in-depth explanations to be found there and on the forums. Go check it out!)

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To play, you will need a d100 (percentile dice), a d10, and a Likelihood table. One is provided below, but you may substitute your own percentages if you want to tweak your chances.

• A way to record the events of your game and/or to keep track of bonuses and penalties is recommended, but not required.

RPGSolo runs on the Yes, And/No, But system.

• Yes, and...: Not only is the outcome successful, but it's better than you expected; you are even better off than you would have been from achieving what you meant to do. Situations you are observing turn out to have some extra good news involved, or you gain even more thorough insight than you were looking for at first.

• Yes: You achieve your goal.

• Yes, but...: You achieve your goal, but there's a hitch or it comes at a cost.

• No, but: You fail your goal, but not completely. If you are making an observation, the situation isn't great, but there's a silver lining.

• No: You fail your goal.

• No, and...: Not only is the outcome a failure, but it's even worse than you thought, and/or you're worse off than if you had left it alone.

The Likelihood of a given roll dictates how likely you are to receive one of the above six outcomes. Each Likelihood lists the corresponding results on a scale from 1 to 100.

• No matter the Likelihood you are rolling from, there will always be a chance no matter how small to roll each outcome. Almost Impossible has a tiny chance to roll 'Yes, and...' and Sure Thing has a tiny chance to roll 'No, and...'

Optionally: you may add modifiers to increase or decrease your chances in a given scenario. Your character might be a trained fighter; they might have a sprained ankle; they might have found a flashlight; they may have a bad reputation in town which makes interactions with the townsfolk more hostile.

• Each point on a modifier counts for +1 or -1 Likelihood. A +1 turns a 50/50 into a Somewhat Likely, a -3 turns a Likely into a Somewhat Unlikely, and so on.

• Some modifiers make a bigger difference than others. A friendly demeanor might add a +1 bonus to checks involving interactions with the surly townsfolk, where that sprained ankle might be a -3 penalty to attempts to move quickly.

• Optionally: you may also add modifiers to change the outcome of a roll, not the Likelihood; a 'No, but...' becomes a 'Yes, but...' for example. These have a much stronger influence on your game, and you may want to use them sparingly.

• You may assign modifiers to your player characters--or other characters, or locations, or anything else--ahead of time, or you may add or remove modifiers during play as you feel they are appropriate.

At the beginning of each turn, decide what action you want to take, what observations you want to make, or what happens in the world around you.

Roll 1d10 to determine the difficulty of an action.

• 1: Almost Impossible

• 2: Very Unlikely

• 3: Unlikely

• 4: Somewhat Unlikely

• 5: 50/50

• 6: Somewhat Likely

• 7: Likely

• 8: Very Likely

• 9: Sure Thing

• 10: Reroll with +1 bonus (or just reroll, if you'd rather)

Add any appropriate modifiers to determine the Likelihood of the roll.

If you check the Likelihood of a roll and don't like your chances, you can choose not to pursue it.

• If there are any rolls you might want to come back to and try again later, you may want to make a note of it on the side. You might decide to leave a door with an alarm alone until you can find some tools to disarm it with, for example.

If you decide to proceed, roll 1d100 and consult the appropriate Likelihood table.

Add any appropriate outcome modifiers to determine the result.

Decide how to interpret the result.

• In case of wording you're not sure of ('do the guards notice me?' for example), a lower outcome is generally negative. You may want to write out the translated result next to the 'yes, and/no, but' result, for the sake of clarity.

• If you're rolling to decide between multiple options instead of for negative/positive outcomes, you may use your d10 as a yes/no oracle, or use 'yes, and/no, but' to roll for the degree to which the result falls between the presented options.

• Oracle between 2 options:

• 1-5: No/First option

• 6-10: Yes/Second option

• Oracle between 3 options:

• 1-3: No/First Option

• 4-6: Neither/Both/In-Between/Second option

• 7-9: Yes/Third option

• 10: Reroll, or secret fourth option

If you want to make more than one roll to determine what's going on before you continue the narrative, feel free to make as many in a row as you want before you describe what happens.

Optionally: you can use a Do-Over to redo a roll, or directly choose your outcome, if you really don't want to continue with what you got.

• It's recommended that you limit the number of these you have access to, if you want to keep some challenge in your game (5 Do-Overs per scene, for example), but you don't have to. You can do it as many times as you want; it comes down to what's most fun for you.

Write out what happens as a result of the outcome you rolled, until you reach the next point where you want the dice to show you the way.

Happy roleplaying!

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Likelihood Table

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Almost Impossible/Sure Thing:

-No, and...: 30% (1-30) [...] 1% (1)

-No: 50% (31-80) [...] 3% (2-4)

-No, but...: 11% (81-91) [...] 5% (5-9)

-Yes, but...: 5% (92-96) [...] 11% (11-19)

-Yes: 3% (97-99) [...] 50% (20-69)

-Yes, and: 1% (100) [...] 30% (70-100)

Very Unlikely/Very Likely:

-No, and...: 20% (1-20) [...] 3% (1-3)

-No: 40% (21-60) [...] 5% (4-8)

-No, but...: 20% (61-80) [...] 12% (9-20)

-Yes, but...: 12% (81-92) [...] 20% (21-40)

-Yes: 5% (93-97) [...] 40% (41-80)

-Yes, and...: 3% (98-100) [...] 20% (81-100)

Unlikely/Likely:

-No, and...: 15% (1-10) [...] 5% (1-5)

-No: 30% (11-50) [...] 10% (6-15)

-No, but...: 20% (51-70) [...] 20% (16-35)

-Yes, but...: 20% (71-85 [...] 20% (36-55)

-Yes: 10% (85-95) [...] 30% (56-85)

-Yes, and...: 5% (96-100) [...] 15% (86-100)

Somewhat Unlikely/Somewhat Likely:

-No, and...: 10% (1-10) [...] 10% (1-10)

-No: 30% (11-40) [...] 20% (11-30)

-No, but...: 20% (41-60) [...] 10% (31-40)

-Yes, but...: 10% (61-70) [...] 20% (41-60)

-Yes: 20% (71-90) [...] 30% (61-90)

-Yes, and...: 10% (91-100) [...] 10% (91-100)

50/50:

No, and...: 10% (1-10)

No: 20% (11-30)

No, but...: 20% (31-50)

Yes, but...: 20% (51-70)

Yes: 20% (71-90)

Yes, and...: 10% (91-100)

#ttrpg hacks #solo rpgs #solo ttrpgs #RPGSolo #whosebaby makes things #whosebaby does game dev #wiggles about this i am very excited and it's Fun #i'll have to post some examples of what it Looks Like in Action but the rp part will require more brain than i have available rn #ttrpg tag

[heccfriccart]

i think im cursed

twice now the character im making for a vtm campaign has deleted itself. once was just everything after freebie points so not a total restart but now this happened

actually i do know why im cursed its cause i based this character off of this fucker:

#ah yes my favorite vampire clan: caretaker #honestly this is what i get #kind of twst related so i'll put a few tags for it #twst #rook hunt #vampire the masquerade #ttrpg tag #i just wanted to play as you rook why do you hate me :(

[galaxywhump]

I don't think I've shared one of my most important possessions here

#i've read and it's amazing #for those who don't know it's a tabletop rpg #and i'd love to play it one day #if anyone's interested there are free community copies on itch.io! #i bought the physical version abroad cause it was cheaper than getting it in poland with shipping #i've also been hyperfixating on brindlewood bay and i've run it a few times #very fun game #marti talks #hyperfixation tag #ttrpg tag #i probably should've posted this on my sideblog but forgot #oh well #oh also the gm in this game is called the gaymaster

[grainjew]

You stand at the shore. The wind blows in your hair, whipping it backwards, stiffening it with seaspray. Beside you, your best friend holds your hand, watching with you. Over the horizon, your lover knots ropes on a ship, a page in your handwriting protected in a shirt pocket, over the heart. Who do you love the more? Flip a coin. Don’t look at the result: it fell into the sea.

a very personal piece written for the anti-romance jam on itch! thank u to the organizers for making me speedrun my aro character arc so i could be in the right place to submit to it haha

#anti romance #anti romance jam #anti-romance jam #entirely unsure which of those is the right one so we're just using all three out here #ttrpg tag #zephflix original #aromanticism #wasnt sure i'd even manage something for this but i managed to sneak it in at the last second

[scooplery]

i spent all day drawing while rotating current tabletop game in my mind like a kebab

#we've only played one session but i would die for all three of them #ttrpg tag

[smallredrobin13games]

My hack of Drama! Drama! And The Queen! is now out! Check it out using the link above.

#indie ttrpg designer #indie ttrpg #indie game #Drama! Drama! And The Queen! #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg tag #my game stuff #my ttrpg stuff

[dykebeckett]

best question for a game master to ask their players is “what does that look like?” I think it’s so huge to give the players a hand in the look of the world you’re creating

#listening to zone of imbalance and aabria is really good at this I love how often she asks this #my kingdom for a chance to play a ttrpg with her. #ttrpg tag

[poltergeisz]

marnie! new ttrpg character! (thirsty sword lesbians to be precise)

#art cam #art #oc #oc art #ttrpg art #tsl #thirsty sword lesbians #ttrpg tag #marnie tag

[batmanshole]

magdalena jeanette lore so far:

autistic but doesnt know it cause its 1814. swedish. likes dirt and soil and flowers a lot but has to be a proper lady BOOO. very sleepy. if she was alive today she'd do numbers on here. green thumb, prefers plants to people but is a hopeless romantic. a little ditzy but well-read. english isnt her first language

#ttrpg tag #<- new!

[stormtide-leviathan]

Is there any feeling better than building a character with the express purpose of hitting stuff really hard and then proceeding to hit stuff really hard?

#original post #ttrpg tag

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

hey there, LL fandom!

first off i have been gone for a while, whoops, hello

second, i have been on a huge tabletop dev kick lately, and i am considering whipping up something for lorien legacies! i'm not sure yet how much of it would be its own system vs how much of it would be a supplement for an existing, larger game, but LL has some worldbuilding that i think would adapt really well to RPG format and i thought it'd be neat to give it a shot.

right now the main things i'm planning on adapting in some form are:

legacies, Of Course

charms

the Goop, especially augments and vatborn

chimæra

garde vs non-garde

species (where relevant and appropriate)

whatever is going on with the entity, the spark, and how they relate to different planets' alive-or-dead status

staying undercover vs strategically revealing information

establishing bases, resources, and backup vs being ready to make a clean getaway

guidelines for making/tweaking new legacies, charms, etc while keeping them balanced and fun, as well as leaving room for people to use their own interpretations of the worldbuilding

And So On

it might take me a while to get around to it, and it might turn into a Huge Complex Thing of Its Own, or might just be good for some flavoring and small mechanical twists added on to an existing game. but i think it'd be a lot of fun to work on, and if anyone has suggestions for systems you think it might work well with or other things from the books to adapt, feel free to weigh in!

#lorien legacies #i am number four #ian4 #ttrpg tag #LL tag #LL rpg #It's a Good Fandom Bront and i'd love to be able to contribute something like this to it if people are interested #all i ask is no dnd or warhammer requests; if you want to rejigger some of the stuff that comes of this for those that's totally cool! #they're just massive sprawling systems and they're a bit much for me to learn well enough for this kind of thing i'm afraid #whosebaby makes things #whosebaby does game dev

[clementine-kesh]

I saw your post about DND and I agree, but i also don't know where to even *start* looking for other tabletop systems, do you have any recommendations of where to find some or just game recs in general?

yeah for sure! itch.io is a great place to start, they have a ton of indie ttrpgs for just about any kind of campaign you can imagine. in terms of specific systems: lancer, stars without number, and uncharted worlds are all great for scifi campaigns. if fantasy settings are more your thing, blades in the dark and monster of the week are both great as well.

i also recommend trying out a few of the smaller/more one-shot oriented systems. ech0 is one of my absolute favourites, it’s perfect if you like scifi worldbuilding and history. our god is dead, stewpot, boy problems, and honey heist are a few more really fun ones

#if anyone has any other recs please feel free to share! #ttrpg tag