Tales From the TTRPG Dust Pan

In this episode I drive on a lovely fall day into the catskill mountains, and talk about pushing a square peg into a round hole. Then (2nd part) I give some thoughts on what I do to solve the "Blank Page" problem.. (That thing... that thing where you start a fresh document and just stare a the blank page hoping it will fill it's self with ideas..) And I digress a bunch along the way,...

Talking a bit of game design

It seems Aaron has cracked the code for keeping a week night game running for a real period of time? What’s the secret? I’m not sure any of us know.

Answering Otto’s questions from the last episode. How would I introduce a new setting and or system to players in a perfect world? And bird talk.

The wife is away so I get to do some walking and talking in the around the neighborhood. Talking about respecting the work that your friend's put into the games you play , and how I have not always been the best at doing that. Look out for: 1: A fancy introduction 2: Squirrel 3: trying to find my way round a ball field 4: reading plaques 5: Streams 6: Birdus interruptus ((Hint it is not a mock...

This is not about meat or wagons. It’s mostly about social mechanics in TTRPGs, The UPS store, and a question for the group.

Live in the moment, but don’t lament for moments passed

Dove tail to yesterday’s post . Why my nonD&D campaigns historically haven’t stuck and how I would (( again in that perfect world )) fix it.

I’m going to use GURPS as my example for this pod cast though it applies to pretty much much any game. Introducing new systems: Where I think I failed in the past, and how I would introduce a “crunchy“ system to a group. Also a side bar on when I would use a rules light system like VIRTUAL HEROE SIMULATOR. A guy in a hurry tries to run me off of Rt28. And I drop my phone EXCITEMENT!!!

It’s Monday and this is the stew being served. I got to work on my AAIE monster book this weekend. Which surprised even me. And I digress about AI art, genre how suddenly all of it is looking the same to me.

I ran a game, a rare and humbling experience anymore. So let’s talk about trimming Mekton.

Apple is being strange and I am actually running my second game of the summer

Expectations run high as I plan to. Fake my way through some Mekton Zeata

A bit of scrambled pod today as I meander my way home from work I still think about games … and I still wonder

I take a nice long walk and talk about my recently complex relationship with roleplaying games.. I do a fairly good job of expressing myself. Then the world, with knife like timing shows me how astoundingly stupid I sound. Enjoy.

The group got together and chatted about proceeding with a Birthright Hybrid 5E game.

Being hyper fixated on remapping my Aleria campy, was both counterproductive and probably would have doomed this reboot to an early death. Moving on from that issue have a new issue how do I make decisions meaningful.

Trying to modify my campaign to make things work … why not just make things work with my campaign ?

An update on revamping my old campaign to work more like birthright.

I am no against hustle and grind but to me this represents something in the winds of the industry.

So I recorded this in the morning and spent the day cleaning up a sewage back up … please forgive me if I have no ideas what I talked about. It’s been a day.

I’m so glad you asked …

Sort of

How do we continue? Is time the greatest enemy? The selection of system? Nostalgia? Listen as I walk around my neighborhood talking to myself.

Sometimes a player just can’t plan ahead for party changes , character development and so on … a system should take that into account.