This is Random TTRPG Thoughts 71
May 1, 2025. The trees continue their campaign to make my life miserable. My coffee is brewed, though, so my synapses are fighting back. In the endless neurological skirmish, as the sparks fly and my synapses are triggered by friend and foe alike, explosions of thought cut through the fog. These are random TTRPG thoughts.
- I won’t get to use my cool GM screen for Open Adventure, 5-8 PM May 18 at Brewery 33. Why? Because there are four GMs who’d like to run, so I get to play a PC! I just need to decide if I want to play Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme or Call of Cthulhu.
- My Dragonbane group is back tonight! During our last session, a while ago, one character died. We rolled up his new character on Monday, and the party has their first magic user!
- I have made a lot of characters for Tales of Argosa. Now I need an opportunity to set up an adventure and run it.
- My two in-person Cypher System tables, Numenera and Super Heroes (their team is “Sneaky Fast Punch”) return this month after taking April off. I’m rather excited!
- I really want to read Rust and Redemption for Cypher System, but I had to begin reading another Numenera book to prep for a campaign turn first. What book is that? I’m not saying, my players read these.
- I’ve contemplated picking up a bad stick-on goatee and having “Mirror Universe Wes” do occasional random TTRPG thoughts or first-looks. The trope could get old quick, but he’s fun to write.
- I have a deep appreciation for the GM-to-GM joke, “You mean you killed the characters. Right?”
- D&D is a fine game. By all means play D&D and games like D&D. The hobby is wide, though, and deep. So be sure to try out other systems and genres as well. Also, folks who encourage you to play other systems are not “elitist.” That is an actual take I saw last week, it hurt my brain.
- If you play a TTRPG to out-play the other folks at the table so you can “win,” then you are having fun wrong. Unless the game is set up for that style of play, that is. Then you’re just having fun.
- Congrats to my friends, Dan and Jacob, for being on Roll For Combat! Even though you’ve been promoted to c-list YouTubers you will still be invited to convention d-list meet-ups!
