#roleplaying

Noah ChinnNoahChinnBooks
2026-01-28

From the Big Guy's perspective, it's just a nice walk in the woods with his daughter...

fables.pro/a/series/fuzzy-knig

Noah ChinnNoahChinnBooks
2026-01-28

From the Big Guy's perspective, it's just a nice walk in the woods with his daughter...

fables.pro/a/series/fuzzy-knig

2026-01-27

Actual Play Podcasters & AP Performers, Want to Collaborate?
I’m looking to team up with podcasters or actual‑play creators interested in showcasing Oceania 2084, winner of the 2025 RPG Magnifico Award and currently nominated for the No Dice Unrolled People’s Choice Award.
I don’t have a budget, but I can offer a solid mutual‑benefit collab:
• I can join your table as a guest player or GM
• Help with prep, world‑building, or rules onboarding
• Boost the series on my own platforms
If you’re curious about the game, check it out here:
jochergames.itch.io/oceania-20
If this sounds interesting, drop me a message or comment, I’d love to chat!
/Johan
Creator of Oceania 2084

#actualplay #ttrpg #collab #roleplaying #oceania2084 #orwell #dystopian #letsplay #ttrpgfamily

Boomland Jenkinsuo@pixelfed.social
2026-01-26
Adventurers and mongbat trainers from across the lands gathered at the Bloody Farms Tavern for a rooftop tournament of Strongbats followed by drinks and snacks at the tavern below.

Players gambled on fights and cheered on from the sidelines.

Thanks for hosting, Riv!

#UltimaOnline #Roleplaying #TidesofPower #IndieGameDev
Ultima Online players gathering at a tower tavern. The tower sits in a grassy field and has a bar, kitchen, and shelves filled with magical and mystical things.
2026-01-26

PsyPost: Researchers are using Dungeons & Dragons to find the breaking points of major AI models. “A new study presented at the NeurIPS 2025 conference suggests that the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons can serve as a tool for testing the intelligence of artificial intelligence agents. Researchers found that while current models can handle simple questions, they struggle to manage the multiple […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/psypost-researchers-are-using-dungeons-dragons-to-find-the-breaking-points-of-major-ai-models/
Noah ChinnNoahChinnBooks
2026-01-24

It's recess. Time for Rebecca to catch Sheri up on recent events in the story. It's a lot for her to process.
noahchinnbooks.com/fuzzyknight

Roleplaying games are stories

They’re different from novels, short stories, comics, theater, movies, and most other forms of storytelling. That does not remove the tale being told nor the concept of story.

If anything they are most similar to communal storytelling around a campfire and improv dramas. For the most part roleplaying games are communal events with a group.

How did I bump into this well-worn debate? Via a recent thread on EN World, the rare bright spot in RPG discourse.

Let’s talk about “plot”, “story”, and “play to find out.”

My response there focused mostly on the story and plot aspects, and the power of having more voices (something rare in written fiction, but common in other forms of storytelling).

There are people who are not good authors, nor good directors, nor good actors who are good roleplayers/gamemasters/etc. By leaning into the ways that community, plot and play-to-find-out work the creation displays, maybe even demands, story emerges.

This is the Potential of games like D&D.

Sometimes conventional Western storytelling formats can lean into the things that make the emergent and divergent story that happens in RPGs. This can be magical — because it shows how all story is really a reflection of point of view, or in our hobby — spotlight.

RPGs-as-story feel messy when considered through a lens of a literature class or mainstream television.

But, stories are quite messy

Two people can read the same story, watch the same film, listen to the same podcast and come away with different meanings, see different main plots even.

To me, RPGs are stories in the way that campfire tales are. They involve a lot of wandering, forgotten threads, lack firm outlines and are at their best when the tale is woven through multiple voices providing input.

Can they be a traditional novel after the campaign? Absolutely! But during the telling of the tale they are similar to writers who don’t edit as they go or a director who over films alternative concepts that aren’t on the script.

One of the more thrilling things about RPGs is that it is an ensemble cast of both PCs and recurring NPCs. Together they’re important, but the tale and spotlight as to who is most important can easily shift. Use any of them as the point of view to change the story as you understand it. Each can be vital.

The messiness is the fun part of RPGs as story.

The messiness is what helps me discover tales I cannot tell on my own. That’s part of the power of the table and broad casts in ensemble stories.

You think you’ve seen stories like this before, so you can guess what’s going to happen. Who’s important and who isn’t, but that’s because you’re trapped in your POV.
– later –
When you file people away as sidekicks you don’t realize their importance to the story, and this story belongs to a lot more people than you think. Where to shelve a book, it’s not a little thing. You’re telling the world what to value. Who to value.

From The Magicians, Side Effect (S4, E7).

RPGs are very much like that.

They remove your assumptions. You don’t know what’s going to happen. The POV constantly shifts and the importance of the broader cast shifts constantly.

From RPGs-as-Story we learn what and who to value by including others.

#meta #RolePlaying #RPG #storytelling #TheMagicians

A campfire and a full moon
Noah ChinnNoahChinnBooks
2026-01-21

When you try to get someone excited about your campaign... but it kinda comes out more disturbing than you remember it...

fables.pro/a/series/fuzzy-knig

2026-01-19

If you missed us live, catch up with the madness

youtube.com/live/NGwDMUOuNV0?f and wherever you get your podcasts

#ttrpg #podcast #pathfinder #dnd #roleplaying

Boomland Jenkinsuo@pixelfed.social
2026-01-19
Players gathered for a round of Sunday night poker on Ultima Online Tides of Power.

One player "lost his shirt" on Nino's Fruit Slots.

Another player danced the night away in thigh boots, and nothing else!

Everyone drank spiked cider, ate cakes, and shared stories and laughs together. This is what online gaming is all about.

The night had many high jackpots... it's safe to assume some people went home with heavy bags, and others had to sleep outside the tavern.

#UltimaOnline #TidesofPower #Poker #roleplaying
People in a video game gather around a poker table in an underground casino ran by a dealer named NinoPeople in a video game gather around a poker table in an underground casino ran by a dealer named NinoText showing record jackpots from the night, with people splitting a 200,000+ jackpot at pokerBouncers stand outside Nino's casino in Ultima Online

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