#ttrpgposting

the other thing about no/low-prep games that doesn't particularly jibe with me is that I loooooove a good prop. I love a handout. I love a physical object that I can waggle enticingly at my players. look at my props, boy.

I've been trying to decide on the system for a one-on-one pbp game I want to run with a friend and it's got me to thinking how when someone asked me just a few years ago me what TTRPG system I'd choose to run a campaign in the dragon age setting my answer was "well it depends on what tone you want to emulate" but if you asked me today my answer would be "well it depends on what tone you want to emulate; what specific aspects of the setting you want to emulate; if you want to play analog, digital, on a vtt, pbp, with props, etc.; your preferred style of game; your preferred style of GM-ing; etc." but I still probably wouldn't say the official licensed system lmao

I think that of the like several separate times I've considered playing a shapeshifting character in d&d/pathfinder, in every single case I've independently come to the conclusion that what that character obviously needs is a wisecracking corvid familiar

hey! people in my phone who are good at puns! would anyone care to help me name my next D&D character, a construct purpose-built for sailing ships? my current best take is Maritime Robotics - Sailor Model 3E or MR-SM3E, but I know I have not yet plumbed the depths of terrible nautical puns to which I can subject my friends

I've inadvertently twice in a row made my ttrpg character a several hundred year old refugee who remembers a world now long-dead