Tabletop RPGs/story-building games - beyond D&D

I am green with envy! That sounds awesome.

Ooh :)

I never posted in this thread I guess? I actually played in a Cyberpunk Red (using the starter pack thing) for a couple of sessions before the lockdown, and it was great fun :) our characters were all so awesome, and we were immediately the most caring people in night city? (that's what it's called right?)

i acted out this awesome scene that i'm still proud of where half the party ended up in a mexican standoff with some angry incels on a roof, i got on the roof and sat cross-legged in the middle with a bottle of soju and two cups and basically commanded the lead incel to sit and drink with me while i gave him some kind of insane rambling circular tony robbins motivational speech and defused the entire situation. then he went downstairs to apologize to the bartender for being a creep and my party mugged his lackey.

oh man!

if i were there, i would definitely have recorded that with my smartgoggles

haha someone did! but they failed their, uh, something roll, and it didn't go viral yet :(

which is for the best i suppose bc my guy is trying to keep a low profile on account of trying to take down the corp that killed his anarchist art collective/polycule

i went really wild with my backstory

did you have any media in your group? I almost switched to Media at the last moment, but only 1 other person in our group has decent combat skills, so i figured i should be someone who can help out there as well

also notable, my character has an obscenely high cool stat, and i communicate entirely non-verbally 90% of the time to "maintain the illusion"

xp no media! they haven't added it yet to Cyberpunk Red as far as I know. I think it'll be in the full book, which comes out... some time.

i am so sad the game went on hiatus, it was seriously so goddamn fun. the DM ended up running a different game over the internet and i joined but i didn't know anyone i was playing with and everyone's voice sounded similar and it was the Alien RPG which has really cool mechanics but i felt like it moved too slow and was really stressful and i ended up dropping bc i couldn't make one of the games bc i was having a bad brain day :(

ooo Alien RPG sounds fun too

Not sure if you've said this elsewhere, Karl, but are you playing with friends or did you hook up with a group through roll20 itself? I've been feeling the urge again lately, and never really got that much off the ground with pals.

playing with old high school pals. but yeah, i guess you can find a game with other people through roll20 as well? i haven't really messed around with it too much yet.

If there were a way to wrangle all the timezones, I'd love to play with ilxors.

i was going to say, i'm surprised there's not an ILX game going on right now! i would join the party but i'm cyberpunkin for a while

I'd maybe be up for an ilx game but yeah, timezones might be an issue.

i'd love to play this w/ ilxors when it comes out
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redcarnations/red-carnations-on-a-black-grave

That looks fun, never played anything like that

i was joking around a while ago about making an RPG set in the reign of terror, tocsins and tumbrils

Would be well-received

About a year ago I started work on an RPG about posting on a message board. The classes are done, progression and basic game mechanics are done... I gave up because it all just felt too meta. Might dig it out.

i would love to hear more about that

i am putting all my skill points into image posting and typing speed

It's in a work notebook somewhere (might actually been be in work somewhere) but the general premise was that you had to keep posting without losing interest, getting banned or lapsing into self-parody.

You basically controlled your own narratives and the GM would occasionally bring in unifying threads like clusterfucks, real world event, C/D, Defend The Indefensible, POX etc

Stats were in semi-contradictory pairs - perceived knowledge vs actual knowledge, readability vs repetition, snark vs nice guy, motivation was a standalone stat I think.

Classes were journo and wannabe as separate things, faux naïf, nostalgiac (maybe this was going to be either someone who would go on about how good the board used to be and/or someone who had grudges from previous board beef), fact bringer (possibly with minority interest as a sub class), board lawyer, social media substitute and something I called Light/Heat which was basically a Noize Dude.

Progression was about a combination of believability and citations/memorability in the hope you could become a board regular without having to become an admin.

Some say... we've been playing this all along.

i did order a pdf of red carnations so when it comes out i'll bump to see if ppl want to get a game. is there interest in putting some kind of rotating indie ilx tabletop online RPI together just in general? so many of these games i haven't played but have heard amazing things about (like dogs in the vineyard). but it's unclear to me how you go about finding a group for this -- my irl now roll20 group is great but i wouldn't really describe them as RPI (but trying!) & we only play dnd 5e.

What's RPI?

roleplay intensive as opposed to more mechanically interested or combat oriented games normally. it's a term of art i know from the MOO/MUD days when some servers distinguished themselves along those grounds and normally didn't allow any OOC (out of character) interaction. my dnd group is more about cracking jokes and ppl have varying levels of immersion. one thing i like about a lot of these indie games is they seem to be designed exclusively for RP - some hardly have any mechanics at all!

That sounds like it might be up my alley!

Definitely keep me updated, I'm interested but might not be able to fit in with you US players. Ideally I'd go for RPI *and* cracking jokes, nothing too strict but everyone giving it their best.

RPI & jokes is the holy combo. I'm also interested but GMTing it

reposted from idiot thread repository:

i have been devouring information about dungeon world and it feels like just the right kind of loosey-goosey for me. run and gun. the fiction is paramount. HOWEVER.

i am getting extremely ANXIOUS to GM (DM?) this game with my kids. i have no idea wtf i'm doing. i'm supposed make up villages on the spot and give them tags? if i make up a monster to battle my kids i need to create special moves for them on the fly??

how do i dispense with this anxiety??

i think as you do it you'll get more comfortable with it. doing it with your kids should be forgiving i'd think and good practice for dming for adults?

just don't tell your kids you made any of it up, let them believe it all comes from the game and they'll think it's all cool. worked on the adults i made stuff up on the fly for!

both those posts sound wise.

i've gone way down a rabbit hole with this. these are fun: http://lumpley.com/hardcore.html

what do ppl think about forum roleplaying? probably too embarrassing to ever do on ilx...

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/317424/Dissident-Whispers

^ All proceeds going to the National Bail Fund Network

What are people's opinions on paid games on R20? Should I as a noob stay away or is it worth taking flyer on?

OK obvs not RPG but Codenames is playable online now! Any ILXORS fancy a game? https://codenames.game/

what is it?

Oh, it's board game about words. You have a deck of cards with a single word printed on each, and deal some ~25 of them out. Two teams have certain words that they need to guess to win, and one person on each team gives out very concise clues to get their teammates to pick the right cards.

I am accelerating down a massive WFRP 4e hole and it is gre8.

Been DMing the first stage of The Enemy Within, finishing in the next week or two, it's been a lot of fun.

The combat/advantage system is a bit of a mess but who cares about the combat really

Had a guy going all in on portraying a deluded Bretonnian Halfling Robin Hood wannabe, it's like getting some acting for free

we love to see it

That’s the way it should be.

Assembled a group for WFRP 4e and we generated characters last Sunday, and had our first play session on Wednesday. Outrageous fun. I’m having difficulty thinking about anything else.

TTRPG based on Come Dine With Me, anyone? https://kierongillen.itch.io/come-dice-with-me

Oh my.

Who you playing as Nick? I had a very enjoyable run last year as a young soldier who lost a hand to a bomb attack on my first full play session

I’m GMing. Party had a ratcatcher, a slayer, a physician and an outlaw. Done three sessions on an introductory adventure I wrote, and next Wednesday we do Night of Blood...

No horrific injuries yet - they’ve mostly been combat averse, and sensibly set a rat ogre on fire before letting the slayer at it - but the outlaw got beat up bad by skaven and has contracted ratte fever (but doesn’t know it yet).

Slayers’ first attack on the rat ogre was to hit it with his “bottle of cheap spirits”, and he was lucky enough to catch it right in the snout and give it a second ‘ablaze’ condition. He then basically dismembered it as it tried to flee.

waaaaagh

i bought troika and am excited to run it soon