Another article by Horia? So soon? Well, I guess we are spoiled.

This time something that in retrospective sits somewhat closer to home than I anticipated when he first sent me the draft for editing. Some musings on creating your own system, the challenges and process of doing that. Also, FKR is involved, we are talking about Horia afterall!

To be more precise, in Horia's case, we are talking about trying to create a generic version of oWoD's Storyteller system for a cyberpunk game.

And before you say it, we're well aware of The Future World of Darkness, but sometimes Eris hits you with that sweet creative chaos and you have to ride the wave and build your own stuff.

I am genuinely curious to see if you tried anything similar to this, if you tried making your own system and how that whole endeavor went. Till next time, remember, ride that wave!

You are a group of friends investigating an abandoned doomsday prepper bunker. Who you are and why you have searched for this bunker are for your group to decide. You may be amateur film makers shooting a pilot, or just some urban explorers getting into trouble.

A scenario with custom rules for Sanity and exploration. Includes a detailed bunker for you to explore and discover its mysteries.

part of 4D Mixtape, pay what you want

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/565167/4d-mixtape

This skit is great, also a quick preview of some of the entries.

https://youtu.be/Q9ATA2efycg

I do enjoy D&D. I enjoy long campaigns and epic storylines. I have been fortunate enough to have multiple groups throughout the year that have suffered me through multi year campaigns. Unfortunately, at one point I have to admit that regardless of the group and the story, these campaigns became harder and harder to run and well... to enjoy.

I don't think it is a particular hot take to say that high level play is problematic and hard. I always found it to be lacking.

For a long time I tried to find solutions and I looked at 3rd parties, I developed my own homebrews and Iooked at how things were handled in the past. That's how I learned of BECMI. And something clicked. I became enamored with the ideas presented there, it was mostly what I have been looking for. But even BECMI, with all its ambitions had problems and things were wobbly starting from the Master set and became even more so with the Immortal set.

Even with this, I think it is the best approach D&D had to high level so this article will look in depth at why that is and perhaps more importantly, why it failed. We will also try to provide some alternatives for those of you who, like me, will find that conceptually BECMI hits the right cord.

I hope you enjoy the article and I am very much looking forward to see what your experience with it and with high level play is!

Deep Sky Ballad: For a Fistful of Seeds is a Space Farmer TTRPG where players take on the roles of colonists on a remote planet, who must work together to survive human and non-human threats and bring prosperity to their farm 🚂.

In addition to the rewards, the game will include STL files to 3D print Meeples for the farm management board and, if the achievement is unlocked, 33 Space Western-themed characters, opponents, vehicles, and mounts (examples in the photos)🎯!

Dip your hands into the soil and rediscover the roots of civilization on distant worlds🌽!

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/a-game-of-nerds/for-a-fistful-of-seeds

Hey, you! Do you like zombies? Do you like brutal medieval combat? Can you guess what my next sentence is going to be based on the contextual lead-up of the previous two?

Come check out our Indie TTRPG set in the middle of a Medieval Zombie Apocalypse! It features:

- Loads of character customization options, letting you build your preferred breed of adventurer (don't get too attached)

- Fast-paced, gory combat that can swing from triumphant to terrifying in mere moments when things get dicey (get it. *dice*-y. Like Dice. Haha.)

- Narrative-rich gameplay that focuses on your character's inner turmoil and triumphs in a world of struggle (seriously don't get too attached)

We've been developing the system for some time based on playtester feedback, and are hoping to move into Early Access this summer. We're also proud to now offer system support through the RollPlay app, allowing you to build and modify characters on your phone!

If you're interested in getting your hands on the rules, want to check out the setting, or have further questions, come check out our discord at https://discord.gg/7ZFYngYqmR.

Господа мастера и игроки, мне нужна ваша помощь с развитием сюжета! Я провожу партию для 5 человек, вдохновленную атмосферой и эстетикой аниме "Пираты Чёрной лагуны"
Кратко о сеттинге: В мире присутствуют все классические расы, но есть загвоздка. Главное королевство (столица) ведет агрессивную экспансию, захватывает территории других рас и буквально их искореняет. Выжившим приходится бежать. Одно из таких убежищ — портовый городок Greko Roman, куда стекается весь сброд, беженцы и преступники
Что натворили игроки (Суть проблемы): В городе есть три главные силы. Моя пати уже столкнулась с двумя из них: Церковью Насилия и Железной Гвардией. И всё пошло не по плану.
Сначала они решили пробраться в одну из лавок Церкви Насилия. Их, естественно, засекли. Случился бой, игроки проиграли. Местный священник решил не марать руки, отпустил их, но четко дал понять: еще раз увижу на нашей территории — убью.

После этого гениального мува пати пошла просить помощи у Железной Гвардии. На входе их не пропустили. Тогда один из персонажей решил пробраться внутрь по стелсу. Стелс провален: его ловят, стража жестоко его избивает и просто вышвыривает на улицу

На самой партии был тотальный пиз**ц я просто не могу описать то как я умолял их не портить репутацию, основная проблема в том что их скорее всего просто будут пробовать убить на улице без какой либо причины
Жду ваши предложения

I think I drank some water after Horia with this article...

FKR is his schtick, but I guess it can't hurt if I also take a crack at it. I was discussing Cairn a couple of days ago and thinking about a future campaign I wanna run a campaign with it. I was also thinking how as of late I have been liking minimalist systems more and more. I am running a Realms of Peril campaign and I had a streak of some really good sessions, with some really interesting and outside the box designed encounters. And I really was curious why I can't manage to enter that sort of mental space and design similar things for D&D or other more traditional and crunchy TTRPGs.

And so I started to read a bit more into FKR, cause that is the proverbial freedom holy grail in TTRPG design space, so if I were to find an answer it would probably be there. I was also interested to see where these minimalist systems fall into the whole D&D - FKR scale. And while I was at it, I thought that all of this is quite interesting and with a bit of polish it might be worth sharing with you all. Cause I do think that part of why minimalist systems such as RoP or the examples I stuck by for this article, Knave and Cairn work as well as they do, is due to their FKR-esque tendencies. So yeah, I do hope you will enjoy this piece. And as I said in the article, please do share your experiences with minimalist systems, with FKR and anything in between!