#die rpg

By Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans

OUR 600th POLL!

DIE, as seen in the comic by the same name, is about normal people getting transported into a TTRPG. Each character class (called paragon) uses one of the standard polyhedral dice: The DICTATOR: a bard with teeth, plucking heartstrings as often as they snap them. The FOOL: rushing into battle with a smile on their face. As long as they don't think too hard, it'll all go well. Probably. The EMOTION KNIGHT: fueled by a sacred emotion, they lose themselves in it. If they feel it strong enough, they can kill gods, and even ideas. The NEO: a cyberpunk rogue, most adventurers want gold, but they need it. The GODBINDER: clerics and demonologists, using favours and making deals with the gods of this world. The MASTER: the world is a game, and every game has rules. It's up to them to bend it. The landscape of the ttrpg gets shaped by the characters' psyches, and the ultimate choice has to be made unanimously: stay in the game forever, or return to the real world. Dead players get no vote.

(God I wish i played this, it's been on my list to play for too long)

And here are the characters from the other DIE RPG campaign that I'm running!

Hi, hello, I love ttRPGs, don't you?

I've been running them for about ten years now, for several groups since COVID. Online, in person, a mix of the two. It brings me such a joy to bring people to the hobby.

But it's not quite enough. None of the people I play with are as enthusiastic as I am. They don't have the interest to engage with RPGs the way I want to - and that's perfectly alright! It goes without saying that the Game Master-type figure is often the

That said, I figure that maybe it's time to take the plunge and try to connect with others who feel about ttRPGs as I do. Who want to engage with so much more than the big names, who are willing to dig into weird mechanics or engage with some fun worldbuilding idea that crosses their path at two in the morning; or even just someone who'll see me drop a fun location and think to themselves, "Hey, that's neat, I'll put this in my own game."

I'll be writing about large indie RPGs like Heart: The City Beneath (my sheila), Spire: The City Must Fall (embrace anarchism, tear down the town) and DIE: The RPG by Kieron Gillen (don't mean to toot my own horn, but I wrote a blog post elsewhere once and Mr. Gillen himself reposted it, and ain't that nice?!). Many Free League ones, too, I love those, and the titles coming out of Darrington Press (though, idiotically, I didn't pre-order a copy of Daggerheart, which I will eternally be tormented about).

There's no escaping D&D, either, and I do sometimes have opinions about it: those will appear occasionally.

What I hope to do here is engage with the smaller titles, too, alongside all the bigger ones I've played and loved like The One Ring, Alien, Dragonbane (and half a dozen RPGs by Free League, who very rarely miss, don't they?). I want to find bizarre, unhinged rules that will have me laugh out loud in disbelief at the nerve or sheer ingenuity at display.

And I hope to make new friends. That would be a treat.

There you have it. If this sounds good and fun and what-have-you, stick around. Say hi. I hope you have a grand ol' time here.

The Silliest Thing of All

Who needs fantasy therapy when you can have an emotionally charged talk with your Dictator* best friend??

This is so nothing but I have like 100+ pages of writing about her why not post some of it idk

Rii <333 I’ll yap about her if you let me /threat

*Dictator is a class in DIErpg centered around the ability to take control of others’ emotions. They are generally hated and feared within the worlds of DIE.

^ The entire concept of this is the reason the fic has a teen rating lmao

Nvm I added smn last minute that shot it right up to mature with graphic depictions of violence lmao. There isn’t a lot but. It is there lmao. Memories :)