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@carnationknight.bsky.social

23, a little bit of a blogger, 18+ only

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HeroQuest, a non-BRP Glorantha game written by Stafford, has such pearls as "Lunar Empire brings prosperity to conquered lands" and "this society is caste-based, but life there is so good that nobody cares to do anything about that", and it really makes me doubt author's morals

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Today in my #solottrpg campaign - two forests declared a war on each other. Each forest possesses nature spirits, and the spirits of a relatively remote forest sent magically engineered beastmen to slaughter the spirits of the forest around my city, while also slaughtering half of our army.

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@jellymuppet.bsky.social

dog idk how i tell you this, but "no warning label" is a warning label. i love this project has to warn people there won't be trigger warnings so they don't get triggered

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@ half of bsky You can't really blame most teen boys for being nazis when your views are essentially nazism surgically altered to not trigger a ban. I, on the other hand, can absolutely blame most of you

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I only have access to Champions at the moment, and reading through it really reminds me of D&D 4E (at least the section on running wuxia games mentioned reskinning powers). Bushido sounds like Fate and MSH as just half of the comedy games.

JC (they/them)@sentienthominid.bsky.social

So, Bushido's downtime system that allowed players to change the setting in direct diagetic ways? Champions use of descriptions to frame mechanics (Special Effects)? Marvel Super Heroes "day in a life" soap opera structure? (yes thats TSR, I know) πŸ™ƒ

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I can wholeheartedly believe that when they were published these games caused literal futuroshock, but today every third indie game has something from this and new and exciting things as well.

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As an "archivist" of early TTRPGs, absolutely no. There were good ideas there, sure, but most of the games suffered from various "infantile disorders", especially when compared to cool-looking (but fucking expensive!) modern games, especially journaling ones. Reject nostalgia, become hyper-modern!

JC (they/them)@sentienthominid.bsky.social

This applies to TRPGs too, and *no* I dont mean just the games from the dragon game company out of the midwest. There are a lot of good ideas and structures that were teased then discarded as "industry standards" were more-or-less imposed by distributors for how games should be played (choo-choo).