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With all the discussion of tools for campaign maps and all, I was looking around at mapping tools and I ran across MapForge. It looks cool, but then I noticed there is a KS for a new tool for creating tiles. This might be of interest to y'all. Hope the crossposting from the crowdfunding thread is cool, but I'd love to see this campaign succeed.Doctor Zero posted:Ever wanted to make your own tile sets, but lack the talent or time? Ever wanted to make your own assets for VTTs? Ever wanted to get into the business of making low effort E: ugh, crappy snipe. 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:
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Runa posted:Oh poo poo Like the hounds, IT IS RELEASED! https://www.ironswornrpg.com/product-ironsworn-starforged
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I think I read that those are probably half a year away, unfortunately.
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I was digging through my closet for something and I found the first solo/coop board game I ever bought, DnD's Temple of Elemental Evil. I didn't really know what it was back then, just an interestingly heavy mystery box you could apparently use to play a game of DnD with yourself. I ended up shelving it because it was bullshit hard, but I think I'll try again. If it's as hard as I remember then maybe I can hack in some more 4th edition DnD to give myself more stuff, which is barely even cheating, I feel.
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Ragnar34 posted:I was digging through my closet for something and I found the first solo/coop board game I ever bought, DnD's Temple of Elemental Evil. I didn't really know what it was back then, just an interestingly heavy mystery box you could apparently use to play a game of DnD with yourself. I ended up shelving it because it was bullshit hard, but I think I'll try again. If it's as hard as I remember then maybe I can hack in some more 4th edition DnD to give myself more stuff, which is barely even cheating, I feel. I recently ordered a physical copy of Temple of Elemental Evil from drive through RPG (the actual module, not the old boardgame). I was planning to run it solo with a pregen party, rather than just read it. I was planning on putting it in my campaign world, and this should be more fun than just reading it for prep 
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Ragnar34 posted:board game Temple of Elemental Evil Man, this really makes me appreciate Jaws of the Lion. The Gloomhaven core mechanics were revolutionary, and JotL is GH minus chaff at a price comparable to the DnD board games. The comparison almost makes me wonder if they were made to be repetitive, simplistic and incomplete on purpose, so players would want to transition to Dungeons and Dragons proper. Or maybe this game is for people with an entry level standard of complexity (ie is sane). It's not awful in a vacuum though, and it feels a little easy if anything. Ragnar34 fucked around with this message at 23:43 on May 10, 2022 |
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Is there an Ironsworn thread in Trad Games? If not, would there be interest in one? I recently discovered IS and have been having a blast with my group doing IS/Delve.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Is there an Ironsworn thread in Trad Games? If not, would there be interest in one? I recently discovered IS and have been having a blast with my group doing IS/Delve. There is a powered by the apocalypse thread. That might be your best bet for a decent discussion https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3727833
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The scope of that thread is much broader than this one and it’s kinda dead. Terrible suggestion. I’d be interested in an Ironsworn/Starforged thread for sure.
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I'd be interested in a dedicated thread, too. I haven't had much time to play, but I bought Starforged as soon as it was up. Between both games there's a lot of potential.
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I’ll make one! Give me an hour or three to write an OP. Longer if I struggle to think of a good thread title.
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Oops! I went ahead and made one, sincere apologies for not seeing your post while I frantically put mine together.
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No worries!
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Strider Mode just got released for The One Ring. Digging into it, and Shawn did a great job adapting it for solo play from what I can see so far.
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Itch.io is doing another TTRPG charity bundle,this time for Planned Parenthood and NNAF (National Network of Abortion Funds) lot of solo games in there. https://itch.io/b/1375/ttrpgs-for-reproductive-rights
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Skwirl posted:Itch.io is doing another TTRPG charity bundle,this time for Planned Parenthood and NNAF (National Network of Abortion Funds) lot of solo games in there. Oh sweet, thanks!
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Some cool stuff in there. "What Crooked Roots" has a few tasty encounters and happenings to unsettle players. There's a warning in the introduction that settings with detect/dispel magic, identify, true seeing, etc. might get less out of these, but if I think the setting would be enhanced by these themes then personally I might just cheat. Detect magic says there's no problems, dispel magic does nothing, true seeing turns you into a shrieking and writhing NPC for a couple rounds until you wake up with no magic sight and no memory of what you saw, and identify returns with results that amount to "mind your own business." It's a bit of a copout, but it also gives you ways to tell your players they don't and can't know everything, that the world is bigger than they are, and not everything can be taxonomized with a set of keywords and a list of powers. Sometimes a monster stat block should just be the word "RUN" written in teeth and dead bees. Of course this isn't the supplement to use if you're playing something meant to be completely crunchy at all times. My interactions with the DnD 4e thread make me think this wouldn't work, for example. Read "What Crooked Roots" if you want to gently caress with your group. e: Oh right, solo play. I think this can work, especially if you find ways to interact that the book doesn't cover. Ragnar34 fucked around with this message at 05:04 on May 14, 2022 |
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Should also point out that it looks like most of this bundle seems to be not in previous bundles. I haven't checked exhaustively, because the money is for a good cause, but everything I click on only lists the current bundle, whereas previous bundles with repeats would list all the different bundles it was a part of.
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Skwirl posted:Should also point out that it looks like most of this bundle seems to be not in previous bundles. I haven't checked exhaustively, because the money is for a good cause, but everything I click on only lists the current bundle, whereas previous bundles with repeats would list all the different bundles it was a part of. Yeah I'm pretty impressed, I don't even recognize most of the games and I've bought most of their bundles.
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Devorum posted:Strider Mode just got released for The One Ring. Digging into it, and Shawn did a great job adapting it for solo play from what I can see so far. Is this gettable for people who didn't back the Kickstarter?
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If you like solo RPGs, I'm hosting a CYOA-style playthrough of Thousand Year Old Vampire, where other posters can choose the Prompts. You can find it here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3654812&pagenumber=42#lastpost
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Skwirl posted:Itch.io is doing another TTRPG charity bundle,this time for Planned Parenthood and NNAF (National Network of Abortion Funds) lot of solo games in there. This is amazing! Everyone should know this contains Goons in Toyland https://mr-ray.itch.io/goons-in-toyland
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Drone posted:Is this gettable for people who didn't back the Kickstarter? I thought it was, but looking at it...it might not be, yet.
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Are there any good solo games out there about the development of a community or family over time? Essentially Centennial as a solo RPG is what I'm thinking here, or the solo version of The Quiet Year with more focus on specific people over generational time.
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I've not played it, but Twilight Song maybe?
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Kestral posted:Are there any good solo games out there about the development of a community or family over time? Essentially Centennial as a solo RPG is what I'm thinking here, or the solo version of The Quiet Year with more focus on specific people over generational time.
IME games tend to go for a couple generations on average. If you're playing solo you could also just pick whatever Interval you want instead of using the Interval-picking mechanic in the game, which is mainly there for group play (Intervals are the gaps of years/decades/generations between the parts of your story you actually play). EDIT: There's also Parable of the Future, a permaculture/regenerative ecology-inspired game mixing TQY and Twilight Song, if you want an oracle/setting that's a bit closer to Centennial. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 18:31 on May 22, 2022 |
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Rutibex posted:I recently ordered a physical copy of Temple of Elemental Evil from drive through RPG (the actual module, not the old boardgame). I was planning to run it solo with a pregen party, rather than just read it. I was planning on putting it in my campaign world, and this should be more fun than just reading it for prep You might want to check out Scourge of the Slavelords and Queen of the Spiders if you can find them. You can run a "super-campaign" going from 1st level pissants dealing with that moathouse all the way up to fighting Lolth on her home plane.
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Everyone posted:You might want to check out Scourge of the Slavelords and Queen of the Spiders if you can find them. You can run a "super-campaign" going from 1st level pissants dealing with that moathouse all the way up to fighting Lolth on her home plane. Ive actually been doing exaclty that! I have a hex map I've filled with dungeons from classic adventure modules, and every week the party goes off and raids a dungeon (there is a Dragonball hidden in dungeons around the world, it's pretty much a Dragonball season 1 campaign ). But between the weeks I am running three rival parties as solo games, who are also hunting for the dragonballs. I do it real time, so if there is a week between sessions the rival parties make a week of progress. I started everyone off with Village of Homlett combined with the DCC adventure Sailors on the Starless sea. They have defeated Ghost Tower of Inverness and a few Basic Fantasy dungeons so far.Unfortunatly Queen of the Spiders is not available print on demand  I have Scourage of the Slavelords and Dungeons of Dread though  I printed out Decent into the Depths of the Earth, Vault of the Drow, and Queen of the Demonweb Pits from pdf and put them all togeather in a binder. I am for sure putting a Dragonball in the underdark.
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Rutibex posted:Ive actually been doing exaclty that! I have a hex map I've filled with dungeons from classic adventure modules, and every week the party goes off and raids a dungeon (there is a Dragonball hidden in dungeons around the world, it's pretty much a Dragonball season 1 campaign What's the point of the Underdark if there aren't at least a few dragon testicles in it? Now that would be a campaign. The party is hired by demented fantasy Bob Barker to spay/neuter the dragons to prevent overpopulation.
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Been doing a bit more 5 Parsecs and still enjoying it, especially how codified everything is between missions. It feels much more like a game than a storytelling exercise and I feel like I haven't seen too much of that outside of things that hew closer to CYOAs or IF and such and I was wondering what other solo games people have experience with that are more of this type of thing. Something like Fabled Lands is I think too far in one direction, while Ironsworn too far in the other. Though, I do enjoy both of those as well.
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Potsticker posted:Been doing a bit more 5 Parsecs and still enjoying it, especially how codified everything is between missions. It feels much more like a game than a storytelling exercise and I feel like I haven't seen too much of that outside of things that hew closer to CYOAs or IF and such and I was wondering what other solo games people have experience with that are more of this type of thing. Something like Fabled Lands is I think too far in one direction, while Ironsworn too far in the other. Though, I do enjoy both of those as well. One thing I really liked about Fabled Lands was the "your quest is to do whatever the gently caress you want whenever you choose to do it." I know some people were a little throw by that after a bunch of "You are Hero Protagonist. Your quest is to find the Macguffin of Macguffiny to save the village of Setting from the Dark Lord Plot."
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Everyone posted:One thing I really liked about Fabled Lands was the "your quest is to do whatever the gently caress you want whenever you choose to do it." I know some people were a little throw by that after a bunch of "You are Hero Protagonist. Your quest is to find the Macguffin of Macguffiny to save the village of Setting from the Dark Lord Plot." Yeah, I really love the sort of open nature of Fabled Lands. As far as CYOA goes, it's on the top of my charts. I owned two of the books myself when I was younger and would trade/borrow a friend who had the third. If I was pick one thing in particular that impressed me was things that progressed without you doing anything (other than repeatedly visiting a location) like the town dealing with a civil war. And of course the keyword system that makes the entire thing work by having things you do in one book affect or carry over into others.
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Potsticker posted:Yeah, I really love the sort of open nature of Fabled Lands. As far as CYOA goes, it's on the top of my charts. I owned two of the books myself when I was younger and would trade/borrow a friend who had the third. If I was pick one thing in particular that impressed me was things that progressed without you doing anything (other than repeatedly visiting a location) like the town dealing with a civil war. And of course the keyword system that makes the entire thing work by having things you do in one book affect or carry over into others. The official CRPG adaptation just went 1.0 on Steam, btw. They're still adding book material, though, just got to Court of Hidden Faces.
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Megazver posted:The official CRPG adaptation just went 1.0 on Steam, btw. They're still adding book material, though, just got to Court of Hidden Faces. How is that? I thought at first they were doing a straight electronic version of the books, but the screenshots look like it's almost an entirely new thing.
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Potsticker posted:How is that? I thought at first they were doing a straight electronic version of the books, but the screenshots look like it's almost an entirely new thing. The text bits are more or less the same. The combat system has been expanded to tactical fights on maps and there is proper UI for buying stuff and inventory, etc. It's... okay. If you're already a fan, it's worth a look maybe. I bought it because I played through the Java version a long time ago for free and found it a faithful adapation and, thus, a little too old-school for my taste in 2022.
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Potsticker posted:Yeah, I really love the sort of open nature of Fabled Lands. As far as CYOA goes, it's on the top of my charts. I owned two of the books myself when I was younger and would trade/borrow a friend who had the third. If I was pick one thing in particular that impressed me was things that progressed without you doing anything (other than repeatedly visiting a location) like the town dealing with a civil war. And of course the keyword system that makes the entire thing work by having things you do in one book affect or carry over into others. One of the things that impressed me in Book 1 was that if you got involved in the civil war you could choose who to support, the general or the would-be king. While there are consequences to that choice (showing up in certain locations afterwards could potentially get you killed), there are no punishments that some books use to enforce their morality. Also, getting involved in the civil war is optional. It's the main plot of Book 1 but if you want your character to buy a ship, explore the coastal areas and gently caress around trading various goods, that's completely okay too.
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One issue with the computer game is that they haven't implemented book three, so you could find yourself in over your head a bit quicker than expected if you go north too early.
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I did not read through all 15 pages of this thread, but has anyone mentioned Tunnels & Trolls yet? My first introduction to pen and paper RPGs was finding my dad’s Tunnels & Trolls modules from the late 70s when I was around 8 years old (way back in 1984). I have interviewed the guys Flying Buffalo Games before when I used to run a trad games website a couple of times, so every year at GenCon I always stop in to their booth and hang out with them for awhile. A few years ago they kickstarted a re-publish of a lot of the Tunnels & Trolls back catalog in the form of Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls, and I beta tested a iOS version of DT&T around 2018; however, I have no idea if the app was ever published. The cool thing about DT&T os that it can be run either as a traditional multiplayer game system, or just used to run the Tunnels & Trolls solo play modules. The game was super fun for me as a kid; however, it has a real old school (and extremely fatal) feel too it, so it is not my ‘go to’ for running games for people, and I’m not really into solo play anymore. When I saw this thread though and scrolled through the first 5 pages or so without seeing it mentioned, I thought it might be worth pointing out this game to my fellow goons.
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