So as the newest edition of the year is about to roll-out, what are your RPG plans ? Play more ? Less ? Try another game ? Finish a long campaign ?
Some of my plan
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Run a Mecha campaign, still not sure on the game, currently reading beam saber, which looks quite heavy for a “rule-light” game
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Play a heroic fantasy larp, Since covid I’ve been more in high immersion parlour game
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Find a seat at a World of Darkness table
I haven’t played it yet but Girl by Moonlight is a forged in the dark game that has a space-mecha setting. Could be worth checking out.
Girl by Moonlight’s space mecha setting isn’t much about mecha fighting, it’s more about politics in an enclosed space (I was a playtester and have run a pretty number of games between all the playsets there was).
Beam Saber is more about mecha fighting, and it uses the same engine
- run more Blades in the Dark
- switch my 5e group over to pf2e after our campaign finishes
- run an exploration based campaign (currently looking at Quest for the Frozen flame Pathfinder adventure path)
- formalize, trim down and focus the concept of my own RPG game system down to something properly testable for a whole session
Have you been listening to the Glass Cannon’s Blood of the Wild actual play of QftFF? It just finished book one and was good fun I thought!
It’s subscriber only but you could just sub for 1 month and the harvest all the legacy content. Their best stuff is blades and delta green but the majority of that is free to download anyway
I think they get the PF2e rules pretty wrong in places but it’s a good listen anyway
My goal for the year is to get my game published, as well as find more non-D&D folks in my area. I find too many that only know that one game, and I want to find more who knows more.
I am from Europe and it was really a surprise during the WotC/Hasbro’s fuck up to discover that for a lot of people in the US, DnD and TTRPG are co considered to be the same thing.
@phase @psion1369 Some of the issue is simply that a lot of people don’t have the slightest idea that D&D is a single example in a larger category called TTRPGs.
For most people outside the hobby, “TTRPG” draws a blank stare, and “RPG” conjures thoughts of video games. “Like D&D” gets some superficial comprehension.
And then there are the people who drive the rest of us nuts calling *ANY* TTRPG “D&D”, whether it bears any resemblance or not…
I really need to buckle down and play through BG3 though I’m pretty stoked for Dragon Dogma 2 in early 2024!
I think I’m going to leave my Friday group. I wrote a long post but it was too long and detailed. The tldr is one of the players kind of sucks (nice, but sucks), and one wants to play a game and style I don’t.