#foriva

spoilers for FORIVA below. And if you're not worried about that, you should be! it's an absolute joy to play and you should absolutely give it a try sometime if you haven't already

Thank you so so much. :)

FORIVA is definitely not without its flaws - which we are aware of and plan to take another pass at ironing out in the future - but of all of our publicly available adventure modules it’s the one I’m most proud of and feel best represents what a Eureka module should be. We aren’t quite there yet to the ideal Eureka module, but we kind of have to finish the actual Eureka rulebook before we can worry about that any more.

Pioneering new ground in the artform of TTRPGs is hard.

Also FORIVA: The Angel Game has some of my favorite villains ever.

mine and @laya-snowfeather 's freaks i love them so much

It was very fun and the players were really engaged, even though most of them were new to the system and with it even being the very first ttrpg experience for two of them!

Obviously we didn't finish the whole mystery.

Late into my prep I saw the tumblr post estimating the lenght of FORIVA as 2-6 Sessions. I would have loved to have this information as part of the module itself.

To add a bit of (unreliable) data to your playtesting information:

6 mostly new players took roughly 4,5-5 hours to gather information, arrive at the "first" pivotal location and interact with the object described in appendix A. The ensuing consequences made for a nice cliff hanger end point, when sleepyness and having to catch the last bus necessitated an end to the session.

First of all this is so great to hear :)

I’m answering this like a week or so late because of other obligations and a super full inbox, but after we got this message, I immediately went and added an estimated number of sessions to all official Eureka adventure modules. That’s part of the updates that were released for them recently, along with the stuff I private messaged you about when you said you were going to start playing. Those changes I suggested when running it are now officially part of the module.

@llapdog

(I’m censoring part of this because it’s a spoiler for FORIVA, but most people who have played FORIVA will probably be able to figure it out)

Thank you!

We get “why hasn’t anyone else thought of that” a lot, and my answer is the same. The “trad” and “neotrad” TTRPG is both a young artform and a super stagnate artform because it’s mostly the domain of big corporations or indie developers who have only played games by those artistically stagnate corporations, and TTRPGs and related types of game outside of that category are so young of an artform there’s not even that much to build off of even when the developers are trying. That, and a lot of people’s assessment of what TTRPGs are good or bad is entirely “vibes based” with most of that burden of making any game fun unfairly thrust upon the GM rather than the rulebook, and all the air is sucked out of the room by D&D5e and Pathfinder, so also it’s entirely possible that plenty of games or adventure modules have done this before, we just haven’t heard of them.

Also, anyone interested can get the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy adventure module this ask is referencing by subscribing to our Patreon.

and/or you can listen to the playthrough by @tinytablepodcast!