RPGaDAY 2017 - Day 5: Which RPG Cover best captures the spirit of the game? For me this is many of the Gamma World covers in the 80s. Probably the second edition? I dunno, this was the 1983 edition, which I did have a copy of back in the day.
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RPGaDAY 2017 - Day 5: Which RPG Cover best captures the spirit of the game? For me this is many of the Gamma World covers in the 80s. Probably the second edition? I dunno, this was the 1983 edition, which I did have a copy of back in the day.

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RPGaDay 31: What do you anticipate most for gaming in the next year?
Right now, Masks. Probably two different games, ultimately, given I'll be running it for the kids as well as the online game. (It's getting easier and easier to pull this off as they get a bit older.)
I'm sure a touch of No Thank You, Evil, maybe with Kaylee running the game.
I'll be playing more 5e DnD Adventurer's League, because playing is nice. Also running that for the kids, since I picked up some miniatures and everything.
And past that, I have no idea. There will be more than that, I think, but I'm really not sure what. Maybe some Palace Job -esque Blades in the Dark? Maybe some Urban Shadows? I really have no idea.
But if the real question is focused on what has most of my anticipation, and not 'what are your predictions', then it's definitely Masks right now; that game is firing on cylinders I didn't even know we had.
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#RPGaDAY 2017 - Fragen und Antworten 28 bis 31 und Bonus
#RPGaDAY 2017 – Fragen und Antworten 28 bis 31 und Bonus
Die #RPGaDAY 2017 Blogaktion geht heute zu ende. Die letzten Fragen stehen an und werden heute von mir beantwortet. Neben den 4 regulären Fragen rund um das Thema Rollenspiel, befasse ich mich auch noch mit einigen der Bonusfragen, die als Alternativen für ausgelassene oder unbeantwortete Fragen gedacht waren. Um was es sich genau bei #RPGaDAY handelt, wie man dabei mitmachen kann und welche…
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RPGaDay 30: What is an RPG genre-mashup you would most like to see?
Mash-ups don't get me very far these days.
See, I play with my kids a lot, and they don't know the baseline genres well enough to appreciate mash-ups of those genres.
Which is to say, they just don't get the joke, yet.
At the risk of repeating myself, I'm going to dive into this a bit more.
One of the… I'm going to say "dependencies for enjoyment" in many – I might even say "most" RPGs I've run (or run into) in the last few years is a deep knowledge of the associated genre — not just the genre for the setting, but the RPG genre of the game in question.
So… like this: once upon a time, all you really needed to know when starting to play D&D was "there's magic, no guns, and weird monsters." Same was true, basically, for Traveller or whatever. The premise was simple and straightforward.
Still true for 5e versions of those games, probably.
But there are a WHOLE BUNCH of games/settings out there now that lose a tremendous amount of signal when trying to reach a new player, because that player doesn't have the decades of previous gaming exposure that informs the game designer's decisions for a game.
Steampunk Planetary Romance isn't inherently cool or interesting as a concept if the person you're sharing it with isn't familiar with the "pure" components of that salad, you know? It's just weird sci-fi with wood ships and a lot of brass and goggles. Now, that might still work for the player, but it won't work for the intended/expected reasons.
Masters of Umdaar is… not especially compelling if you didn't grow up on the right cartoons, you know?
I run into this constantly when playing with my kids – stuff I find interesting/entertaining… until I realize that for all intents and purposes, my kids just don't get the joke.
So first, I'd need to run the original games everyone's ironically riffing off of, then we can get to the mashups. Otherwise, it's not a nuanced re-envisioning for them. It's just… weird and kind of confusing.
When I run a game that doesn't have that problem, it's almost always something only trying to be itself.
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What is an RPG genre-mashup you would most like to see?
Space Pirates?  Cheesy, soft sci fi with an 80′s vibe ala the movie Ice Pirates I don’t think it would be a ton of work, in fact there are probably a ton of systems that could do this with little or no conversion work.  White Star anyone?

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RPGaDay 28: What film/series is the biggest source of quotes in your group?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Aliens, but… I mean, it could be a hundred different shows.
This was, however, more true back when I was playing face to face.
These days, a lot of the 'quote banter' that used to suffuse our table talk has been replaced with posting relevant image memes in the Roll20 chat window. I love it, personally; nothing like having the nascent force user fighting the temptation of the dark side… and see a fellow player post a photoshopped Gollum clutching a jedi holocron to their chest. That's good stuff.
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What film or series is the most-frequent source of quotes in your group?
The inevitable Monty Python quotes are pretty stale but they still get trotted out!  One of my players sometimes quotes Douglas Adams books which I often miss because I’m not a huge fan.  Terry Pratchett references are also common (I maintain the luggage was just a way to avoid dealing with encumbrance rules!)
A new blog post is up: #RPGaDay 2017 - Day 27 #RPGaDay2017 This post is a part of the #RPGaDAY series for 2017 by David F. Chapman and RPGBrigade.