TOR2e für morgen musste abgesagt werden. Das Leben passiert.
#pnpdenied

Dafür war die Runde heute sehr gut. Sea of Dead Men gefiel mir gut. Wir haben einen Schatz gesucht, mussten dafür allerlei andere Sachen und Informationen finden. Nur für einen von uns endete es gut, der Rest sind quasi ihren Traumata verfallen.

Ich glaube ich muss aber noch ein paar Mal Forged in the Dark Spiele spielen, um mir ein umfassenderes Bild davon zu machen.
#SeaOfDeadMen #FitD #pnpde

https://ensifer.itch.io/sea-of-dead-men

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CBR+PNK is a fast and elegant #TTRPG based on the #FitD system about #cyberpunk mercenaries and rebels on their last job.

Great for dramatic and action-packed oneshots, for veteran and new players alike.

I've played it a few times with different groups and we always have a blast.

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I added new community copies for A Fistful of Darkness and some are still available.
So, if you want to play and cannot buy, please grab one, no questions asked.
I will add a community copy for every sold copy of A Fistful of Darkness at itch.
#ttrpg #afod #fitd

https://monkeyecho.itch.io/a-fistful-of-darkness

Hillview sucks. So you built a hoverboard and blasted into the multiverse.
8 sessions
8 years
Make it big, or go down in flames.

Seats for our new #slugblaster campaign open now!
https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmbmd0nun009mt2pqkftqtidw

#proDM #FiTD #Teen #drama #TTRPG #indyRPG #startplaying

Another in-person playtest complete for An Empire Divided (working title), the Romance of the Three Kingdoms-inspired FitD.

This time I added character creation and a real faction playbook for the first time!

#fitd #ttrpg #threekingdoms #bladesinthdark #三国

Tonight the Ferrymen return to Doskvol ... just as the Jinn's latest score kicks off and boy was it a doozy!

The Jinn summoned a demon, stole very important bell, basically changed the very fabric of the city !!!

We'll see how the Ferrymen manage in the chaos that follows

#BitD #BladesInTheDark #FItD #ttRPG

Blades in the Dark Session Report:
A simple heist - infiltrate the Supply Warehouse, poison the Cheese so that the crew of the salvage ship are struck down with "The Green Curse"!.
All goes well, until the *real* curse arrives - a half-form Tycherosi demon-engine, hungry to be made flesh!
I forced it back into slumber... for now... but it has my scent...

#bladesInTheDark #ttrpg #rpg #fitd #bitd

Working on some Blades in the Dark prep today.

The random tables in the back are terrific! A few d6 rolls and you've got a fairly well realized NPC

#BitD #BladesintheDark #ttrpg #fitd

So I'm still not 100% convinced how much I enjoy running Forged in the Dark from a GMing perspective, but I've had two different one shots for two different groups foster fail into campaigns in the last few months, so that certainly says something about how they are as a player!

#ttrpg #FitD #ForgedInTheDark #SftD #SongsForTheDusk #Grimwild

Which #forgedinthedark #fitd game is best for a Swords & Sorcery kind of play? In other words, which #bladesinthedark #bitd clone is a good alternative for the world's most famous d20 game?

@artemis Finally, it may be worth checking out Grimwild. That’s #FitD rather than #PbtA but on an initial read it does seem to do something very D&D like. I think there is a PWYW version on DTRPG if you want to look (and they’re currently running a second crowdfunding to expand the print run).

Very excited for my Songs for the Dusk players to have to clean up the aftermath of a simulated Trophy Dark session tomorrow!

I started with eight NPCs, and ended up with one dead in ring 1, one dead in ring 3, one dead in ring 4, two dead in ring 5, two incurably corrupted in ring 5, and one survivor, along with who betrayed who and when. It was fun!

#SongsForTheDusk #TrophyDark #FitD

I think there is a pretty big sandbox campaign structure in Scum and Villainy, with the clocks, factions, heat, and entanglements. But I might need more actual experience with the game to really grasp its full extend and potential.

#ScumAndVillainy #FitD #PbtA #ttrpg

While thinking about how to set up a custom world for #ScumAndVillainy, it occured to me that the game is inherently designed for sandbox campaigns.
You're just not exploring hexes on a map, but instead interacting with and navigating the factions. Which is why the Procyon Sector has 36 of them. With every job, you can improve your standing with one faction while decreasing it with another faction. You can't step anywhere without stirring up the system of relationships.

#ttrpg #FitD

While I love making my own settings for #ttrpg campaigns, I find the Procyon Sector from the #ScumAndVillainy rulebook quite impressive.

It's only 47 pages in a giant font (I'd say 10-12 pages in a D&D book). It has 12 planets, that come to one paragraph worth of description each. And 36 factions! That each get three or four sentences of description each.

And somehow this works! I feel I understand this world and its complex power dynamics, and could run a great game with just this.

#FitD

So many #FitD RPGs, and not one about adventurers going into dungeons to raise treasures.

One would think there would be a big demand for that.

But I guess it's difficult to make a game that goes completely against the structure of D&D-style games while matching the fiction of D&D.

#ttrpg

Scum and Villainy is so hard to learn...

#ttrpg #ScumAndVillainy #FitD

Some insight into FitD Action Roll difficulty

https://spriggans-den.com/2025/04/20/some-insight-into-fitd-action-roll-difficulty/

@blackcoat And of course, you can always trade position for effect. That might actually be a much more important mechanic than I thought.

A quick Flashback can easily get you Increased Effect, which you can trade to change the Position to Risky or even Controlled.

If your action has a Controlled Position, you can't really screw it up. You always have the choice to just try something else when you fail.

#pbta #fitd #ttrpg #ScumAndVillainy

It's just becoming clear to me that any circumstantial advantages or disadvantages in Blades in the Dark and Scum and Villainy only impact the Effect level of a successful action roll, but not the chance of getting a success.
Success chance is only increased by Pushing Yourself, using a Gambit, or getting Assistance from another character.

It will take some time to wrap my head around how to apply that in practice.

#ttrpg #ScumAndVillainy #FitD #PbtA