Plant relationship bombs in your DramaSystem games! 💥 Hidden secrets between characters create explosive drama when they surface. Tension rises, trust breaks, and the story hits harder when everything is on the line. What secrets will your character hide? #TTRPG #DramaSystem
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Looking for fresh DramaSystem episode themes? Robin D. Laws suggests stealing—nicely. 🎭 Abstract, emotional episode titles from shows like Game of Thrones or Mad Men make great prompts for your sessions. Just avoid the obvious ones! #TTRPG #DramaSystem #Hillfolk
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🎭 In Hillfolk, the concept of "chuffa" comes to life! It's the playful, seemingly unnecessary banter that builds tension before the real drama unfolds. Discover how this quirky element enhances roleplaying and adds depth to your DramaSystem games! #TTRPG #Hillfolk #DramaSystem
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@cyancqueak @Tregenza Another #TTRPG of fire-fighting may be of interest (if not seen already): "Fight Fire" in Fate Worlds Vol 1 for #FateRPG (by @jmstar and Leonard Balsera). It has custom skill list for fire-fighting - & consequences suffered by PCs (different from Fate Core) *never go away*

Also #Dramasystem supplement "Blood on the Snow" has short setting "Fire in the Heartland" of small-town Volunteer Fire Department (less fire-fighting mechanics, more interpersonal drama) by @GregStolze

#ttrpg Fantastic birthday ttrpg road trip yesterday from West Michigan to NW Chicago suburbs for a trip to Games Plus in Mt. Prospect and the perfect Guatemalan restaurant and tienda.

Found a hard copy of #Hillfolk for its #dramasystem ruleset.

Caught up with #onering Middle Earth books including the new Moria tome.

Grabbed a basic #mothership scenario in advance of my deluxe kit arrival.

Grabbed Chicagoland's own Amanda Lee Franck's 'You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge' #indiettrpg &

Drama System Season

St. Cyprian School of Extraordinary Academic Studies Wednesday, 18 September 2024 01:00 UK

Pyrates Wednesday, 18 Sep 19:00 UK

Paged Friday, 20 Sep 18:00 UK

Rome: Senators & Gladiators Sunday, 22 Sep 12:00 UK

Games run on The Raspy Raven Discord, see bio.

#TTRPG #TTRPGs #Dramasystem #PelgranePress #Story

Join The Raspy Raven, link in bio for a short season of @pelgranepress DramaSystem games.

Progress through the ranks of wizarding school, become a beloved character from your favourite novel set up house together and go back to ancient Rome, as gladiators fight it out whilst you take control of the senate.

#TTRPG #DramaSystem

Thanks for the art @grahamroewe

@Jwmuk The concept of "Paged" (literary characters escape the books in the British Library and become flatmates in North London) caught my imagination when I saw it in #Dramasystem supplement #BloodOnTheSnow. (Enjoying both #JasperFforde's #ThursdayNext books and Simon Pegg / Jessica Stevenson London-flat-share sitcom "Spaced" probably helps!) It's an idea I've since had ticking away to use (maybe with "British children's literature" spin) one day...

So sad I can't join this at Pelicon!

#TTRPG

Want to amp up your DramaSystem game like a TV show? Try this: start a group scene, then ask an NPC to leave. This power move boosts emotional stakes, showing the character you’re talking to that they matter. Secrets and one-on-one moments fuel drama! 🎭 #TTRPG #DramaSystem #Hillfolk
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Our #TTRPG group tried #Hillfolk tonight, using the #UnderHollowHills setting.

Not sure we can recommend it to folks. We all really enjoyed the characters we created and were having fun playin them, but the #DramaSystem mechanics left most of us cold. We tried to make it work, but I think it was a failed experiment. Too much focus on pushing story forward and a resolution system that was unnecessarily convoluted.

It needed one person pushing a story forward instead of us taking turns crafting a scene and trying to create drama. It felt artificial and forced.

As a thought exercise it might be interesting, but it wasn't the right system for our group.

#GMLife

@camckinney I pull out a Hexaco pick/randomizer list for generating one to three personality guides. https://hexaco.org. And I'm collating a similar guide for #dramasystem relationship guides. I am especially of character creating mechanics that create relationships and in-game dynamics.

I am having a fun time with a deep dive back into and visit back to Hillfolk and the #dramasystem. I haven't played yet, but am relearning rules and making notes for #solottrpg as well as 2-4 players (game suggests 5+). It's also #SystemAgnostic and would make great fun as a challenge to weave together one shots or mini-campagns, too.

On adding the fantastic to #RPG settings, @robindlaws's Iron Age #Dramasystem #Hillfolk has an interesting section "Why no magic laser-wielding dinosaurs?" The answer? (1) It's to direct focus on the character drama at *that* game's core, and (2) "Having habituated yourself to the style, you can move on to as outlandishly geeky a setting as your heart desires." And Dramasystem has plenty of such high-concept geeky settings too (which I also happily mine for ideas for other games!)

@trantion Either / or. If I'm feeling random table generator I'll draw and roll d10 for an idea of how strong that personality spectrum or can refer to it for picks. Lately I lean towards drawing one to three for one shots or mini- campaigns. I'm looking forward to trying #dramasystem with it, too.

@robindlaws And Ken's prompt during the show about Emily Care Boss is very much in support of my research and pre-design thoughts regarding relationships, personality and psychosocial experiences. Right alongside my wife offering to help take #dramasystem out for a first time spin this holiday break.

@auguryignored @RustySellsword @foundryvtt Totally. There's a learning curve though (like any game actually) and a good dose of tweaking and tuning to pick up the suitable mods (and to adapt them to your setting).
The thing is that I find Cortex Prime so versatile that I've yet to find what it can't do. For example, yesterday, I added a dose of the #DramaSystem character creation at the beginning and it worked wonderfully well.

All throughout the month of October, #ClubJdR, my main French place of residency on #Discord, is organizing a #ttrpg event for #Halloween. I'll be running #JohnKovalic's #SeriesPitch for #DramaSystem, #TheDagonBarandGrille, @robindlaws's #CthulhuConfidential, a post Black Death adventure using @PaulBaldowski's #TheDeeSanction / #SanctionRPG and a #TheMagicians hack using @ian_h_cooper & @Chaosium's #QuestWorlds.
Wish my players luck! They'll definitely need it! @foundryvtt @pelgranepress #rpg

I've never had the chance to get to run a sequel to my #DramaSystem #SeriesPitches, but thanks to popular demand from my #TheGoodPlace players, we got a setting reset. Tonight we've reshuffled all the relationships & desires, and now all the PCs & NPCs have got their own dog. It all started with one dog pic on #discord that looked like one of the PCs. We hadn't even started our session that we were already laughing hard. @robindlaws @pelgranepress @foundryvtt #Hillfolk #SeriesPitch #ttrpg #rpg

#RPGaDay2023 Day 31: To choose my favourite #ttrpg, I need to think in terms of the only one I'd keep if I ever had to, and that would be #Hillfolk. Its system, #DramaSystem, allows me to imagine any kind of setting on the fly, and to help generate that side of the #rpg hobby I absolutely love above anything else: emotions, in the characters, in order to be felt by the players afterwards. I love drama & I love #DramaSystem. @robindlaws @pelgranepress #jdr #RPGaDay #FirstEdition #FirstEditionRPG