This is Random TTRPG Thoughts #86
The house is quiet, coffee has been brewed and sipped, and I’ve got a whole half-hour before I need to get moving for the day! As the morning fog lifts my consciousness is bombarded with flashes of things it has difficulty comprehending, which are then shoved into my mental catalog in no particular order. These are Random TTRPG Thoughts.
- I am bummed that we were unable to run Monty Python’s Cocurricular Reenactment Programme this week (get well soon, Brian). But I am grateful to my players who rolled with the punch and joined in for some Streamlined Superhero fun! Do not mess with Sally.
- I finished Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy this week and, it is a very good book. Also, if you check it out for yourself, understand it’s from a professional press. Books like that are pricey. I’m on to Playing at the World!
- I have grown to love easy on-boarding games. I entered the hobby with B/X D&D, so I guess I’ve always loved easy on-boarding games—but games like Into the Odd and Streamlined Superheroes reduce character creation so much play can begin in about five minutes. These are perfect convention games.
- We will have a few players out this week for our Dragonbane session, so we won’t be playing that system this week. But we will play something.
- So the President takes over the DC police citing a made up crime-wave. The Texas GOP is trying to give themselves more congressional seats “because we can,” and other so-called “red states” are following suit. California has declared that they’re going to do the same as a Mutually Assured Destruction move, which has other so-called “blue states” following suit. The Texas GOP has basically said, “Screw you, we do what we want” and the Governor of New York has declared they are in a state of war. Oh, and the regime apparently doesn’t like free markets and is instead embracing state capitalism (if you don’t know what that is, look at China). All this is at the feet of Trump and his paper-thin skin because this is what autocrats do—they try to seize every lever of power and then delegitimize opposition so they can pull the levers to keep power. Don’t let the fascists have an easy time of it.
- I really would like to pick up Gunslinger Knights from Monte Cook Games, but I’m saving up for both GameHole Con and the Cypher Evolved crowd funding…so I’ll have to wait a bit. My review queue is long-enough as it is, anyway!
- I need to run The Electric State for a live stream soon. Now…what could I write for a scenario?
- The adventure we ran for Streamlined Superheroes this week was written for my “hobby lunch” group, which is running Cypher System Superheroes. It took maybe 15 minutes to convert. The adventure is a follow-up to my Sentinel Comics RPG adventure, though that adventure takes place in the fictional “Old River City” instead of Philadelphia. My goal is to write five or six adventures to use and make them for all three systems. That way if I want to run a superhero game I can have my choice. And I know people want me to check out Tiny D6 Superheroes…it’s on my radar!
- I need to figure out what Monty Python’s Cocurricular Reenactment Programme adventure I want to run at Brewery 33 on August 24th! The fun starts at 5PM in Riverton, NJ and it’s “First Come. First Play.”
- It amazes me how many of my current connections have come through the TTRPG hobby. There are people I know, friends I’ve made, and contacts established all because I enjoy sitting around to shape a cool story with other people while rolling funny dice. I love it because it connects me with people cherish story. And not just tell a story, recognizing they are part of a story. Very cool.
