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For clarity, when I post some unhinged proposal for a tabletop RPG premise, I'm not interested in your opinion regarding the practical feasibility of such an undertaking, and if you think it's appropriate to offer one, this suggests that you have fundamentally misunderstood what kind of conversation we are having.
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One of my personal game design white whales is an OSR game that takes the modern roguelike "core advancement schema is constrained to single runs, plus some sort of auxiliary metaprogression based on rewards for completing runs" and cross-breeds it with the "dungeons are mythic underworlds/fragments of other worlds/living creatures parasitising our reality" conceit that some contemporary OSR games go for to produce a game where the core rules furnish robust character creation procedures but simply have no concept of advancement, incremental or otherwise, and then each individual adventure module has its own context-specific advancement schema which is only effective inside that particular dungeon, and goes away outside of it.
e.g., one dungeon might allow characters to advance by progressively enbodying mythic archetypes to produce something resembling a conventional class-and-level system, save that the "character classes" are specific to that dungeon, and a different dungeon which nominally has the same advancement schema would have a totally different set of playbooks; another might have fully randomised advancement in which player characters acquire weird body-horror mutations that grant mildly game-breaking super powers with no ability to influence which ones they get; and a third might have wholly extrinsic advancement based on acquiring golf-bags full of magic items with oddly specific functions. In each case, progression through the relevant advancement schema would be extremely rapid, such that exploring its full gamut in the span of a single adventure module is feasible, and player characters would "reset to level 1" once that module is complete.
However – and this is the keystone of the entire exercise – we're explicitly not obliging GMs to basically design a whole new game every time they want to roll their own adventure module, because 90% of the text would consist of a long list of modular pieces of advancement schemas which can be plugged together like Lego bricks to produce whatever the dungeon at hand uses, tied together with some sort of monstrous set of Big Stupid Tables which enable advancement schemas to be randomly generated, with the GM's only obligatory responsibility being to invent an aesthetic for the dungeon which justifies these particular elements coming together in this particular configuration.
if you want a good ttrpg, there should be communication! between players, player to gm, gm to player - everyone should be ensuring they're on the same page so they know they're all working together
I'm reading through an article on the topic of commissioning art for a TTRPG book and, like, it's extremely helpful. The author clearly knows what they're talking about and I feel like I am being very successfully guided through the process to make sure I can ensure a pleasant experience for the artist I hire.
But also the author is so incredibly smug that I want to bash my head into a wall. Five times the article has been interrupted with tangents about things on the internet they hate, every paragraph has at least one snide comment or piece of passive aggressiveness, and it feels like they genuinely hate the reader for being inexperienced enough to need a guide like this. I wish I already knew everything I need so I don't need to read this anymore but I need to be educated about the things I'm doing and AAAAA
My friends are going through The Horrors and I need to scream about this so you all had to listen xoxoxoxo
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I have started a new YouTube video series on the basic essentials of getting into tabletop RPGs. The very beginner questions; before you pick a class, or sort through spells, or try to learn the lore of a setting. This first video, "Whose Role Is It Anyway?" focuses on introducing a definition for tabletop RPGs and a basic overview of what expectations you should have about everyone's contribution to the game experience.
the thing about assembling a ttrpg group is that everyone there should have the same or similar priorities out of what they want from a game
like, your party being split between people who want to murderhobo their way through combat encounters, people who want to talk their way out of problems and focus on character relationships, and people who want to explore - you might not be able to find an equilibrium that works for all of them
