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since people are starting to move away from wotc, instead of going to pathfinder or letting another big-name group swing in, a couple indie rpg systems that i would love for people to get into:

swordsfall is an afropunk sci-fantasy rpg that has put a ton of effort into worldbuilding based on pre-colonial africa, has a really cool take on advantage/disadvantage, and whose first official book is currently on sale for 5 dollars!

the fate system is meant for general usage, and it has a character creation system i really enjoy!! it also comes with several different genres built in - there’s superhero, scifi, traditional fantasy, pirating, and lots of tips on how the existing rules might expand into other settings.

powered by the apocalpyse isn’t actually a system, it’s just any indie title that is inspired, either lore or mechanics-wise, by the apocalypse world system. essentially, pbta is a list of different indie titles, and a good place to start if you have a really specific idea for a world you want to go off of.

the core rules for swordsfall, fate, & most of the pbta entries are free, but i highly recommend you take the time to support indie creators financially - and, if you can’t afford to do so, that you take other steps to support them!

#system recommendations #tabletop roleplaying

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Decorative Armour Set by Bard Baitman

Personal work + research sketches ✦~✦~✦~✦ This is the portrait of a legendary mercenary and folk hero. Centuries ago, she was hired by a small town to end its subjugation to the local princeship. The prince’s yearly tournament included a grand cash prize for the winner, and along with the town’s pool of money - they intended to buy their independence from their inept and disinterested ruler. The whole town came together to assemble the warrior’s armour: the veteran smith created a simple armour set for her; the craftspeople decorated it with meaningful drawings in the local decorative style, telling the story of the townsfolk’s escalation from peace with the authorities, to the aggressive sentiments that lead to their quest for independence. ✦~✦~✦~✦

#HEART EYES #art

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Hey, got another question related to The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality from itchio. You mentioned the video games you recommendeded (and I definitely agree with the recommendations for Pyre and Bleed), but which of the TTRPGs would you recommend? Because the themes for quite a few of them are interesting, but I don't know which of them are particularly fun.

(With reference to this post here.)

Could do. The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality’s contents are considerably heavier on video games than tabletop games, and I’ve already covered solo/single-player tabletop RPGs in a previous post (and won’t replicate them here), so this is necessarily going to be a somewhat shorter list than the previous one; hopefully folks will find something in here that catches their eye all the same.

A few personal favourites:

Anomaly - A SCP Foundation inspired investigative RPG based on Avery Alder’s The Quiet Year. Its sequel is also included.  

Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Game - A Fate Core-powered RPG based on the webcomic of the same name.  

Blades in the Dark - A tightly engineered supernatural heist caper game that plays a lot like tabletop Dishonored.  

The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze - A Bronze Age tragedy whose dice rules partly inspired my own Olaf Hits the Dragon etc.  

Corvid Court - A game about terrible people doing terrible things. Also, you might literally be birds?  

Costume Fairy Adventures - Exactly what it says on the tin. This inclusion is purely self-serving, as I’m its lead developer!  

The Curse of the House of Rookwood - A gothic urban fantasy game with a focus on family -- for better or for worse.  

For the Honor - A She-Ra and the Princesses of Power inspired setting hack of the Firebrands framework.  

Glitter Hearts - A rare example of a non-grimdark magical girl tabletop RPG. Uses the Apocalypse Engine.  

Godsend - A diceless god-game hack of Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (the base game is not required to play).  

Hello, World - A Blades in the Dark setting hack (see above) about immortal digital intelligences in a post-cyberpunk utopia.  

Ironsworn: Delve - A huge dungeon-crawling expansion set for the free Norse-flavoured travelogue RPG Ironsworn.  

Lancer - A crunchy mecha combat simulator from the creator of Kill Six Billion Demons.  

Mausritter - An old-school D&D retroclone with a novel papercraft inventory system, in which the player characters are all mice.  

Michtim: Fluffy Adventures - An emotionally driven political fantasy game about tiny hamster-like critters.  

One Last Fight - A GMless card-prompt game about a group of heroes on their way to their final battle.  

Stand Up - A lightweight Persona 5-inspired hack of Avery Alder’s Belonging Outside Belonging engine.  

Strike! - A fun little exercise in trying to re-create D&D4E-style tactical depth while keeping the math a little simpler.  

Troika! - Surrealist road trip fantasy with table-based character creation that can easily pull double duty as a prompt generator.  

Visigoths vs Mall Goths - An LGBTQ-friendly tabletop dating sim about time-travelling Germanic warriors hanging out in a mall.

#tabletop roleplaying #system recommendations #I gotta try Visigoths vs Mall goths

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A Nightmare

#Apparatus Aperitif #excellent name excellent design wow I love this disco ball mayor #partizan #Friends at the Table #art

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quarantine vibes 🤘🏼 😔 🤘🏼

#tabletop roleplaying

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#Wizards of the Coast clean up your act

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RPG Sale Fundraising for Black Visions Collective

(5/30/20) A friend has organized a fundraiser for Black Visions Collective, a Minneapolis-based Black queer and trans-led grassroots org working for “a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in right relationship within our ecosystems.”

The Tabletop Treehouse BLM Bundle offers 20 long-form roleplaying games (almost $300 worth) for only $125! [Link leads to where you can buy]

The Tabletop Treehouse BLM Microgames Bundle offers 30 short-form roleplaying games (over $100 worth) for only $50! [Link leads to where you can buy]

The sale will go on through Friday, June 5th 2020.  

Buy some great tabletop RPGs and support a Minneapolis Black grassroots org! And please reblog! 

#tabletop roleplaying #ttrpg sale

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gnoll matriarch mother glory

#YEAH #SOME GOOD GOOD SPOTTED HYENA GNOLL HERE #Friends at the Table #Hieron #art #gnolls

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broun but they r an actual fish person

[image id: what the caption says, broun with a mermaid-style dark red tail that matches their hair. their upper body is covered in scales and freckles, and the tail is translucent and luminescent with frilly fins along the sides. their ribcage and chest have red smooth plating on them, and their fingers are webbed. their braid is long and floating in front of their shoulders. they’re shown floating on top of a black background as in the deep sea. end id]

#HECK YEAH MORE FISH FISH PERSON #I love the red glitter effect? so good #mermaid #mermay #Kal'mera Broun #Friends at the Table #Partizan

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today its jester for mermay!

[image id: picture of jester, who is a blue tiefling, with a mermaid tail and fins. she’s all blue, with the tail being darker than her upper body, and the fins being more aqua-tinted. she’s leaning on a rock with one arm, the other supporting her chin as she grins and stares off into the left of the viewer. her upper body is covered in dark freckles, and her tail is covered in light freckles. end id]

#I don't go here BUT #mermaids #mermay #art #critical role

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20 sided quartz die, Roman 1st-3rd centuries AD [648x633]

#dice #history

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You've heard of "humans being severely injured to reveal mechanical insides" now get ready for a far more horrifying alternative: machines and technology being damaged to reveal meaty, bloody insides

#Big Equiaxed Energies #Partizan #Friends at the Table

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Just played my very first D&D session. It’s a homebrew setting and my character is a short and poofy chiroptaur ranger named Ru-barb. The race template is more of an anthro/furry-ish bat-taur, but unfortunately I am addicted to drawing small animal

#oh hey I can reblog this to my DnD blog #dnd character #art #homebrew

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partizan 17 is sexy it has everything. hubris, sedition, treason, zombie mechs conscripted into a century of service by a god machine, ao rooke, nonstop bickering. what more do you need

#correct #Partizan #friends at the table

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Every DnD game that starts out with a serious “Lord of the Rings” type of tone turns into a Monty Python sketch and every DnD game that starts out like a Monty Python sketch turns into Lord of the Rings

#DnD 5e #tabletop roleplaying

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sometimes ur a vaporwave anime hacker who escapes clone school, becomes a wanted criminal, hangs out with a disgraced scion, & forms a tenuous alliance with robot god; & other times ur a chaotic goth fish pilot who escapes clone school, becomes a wanted criminal, hangs out w

#Counter/weight and partizan are the same.... #Friends at the Table #Partizan #counter/weight

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if the verbal component of find familiar isn’t pspspsps then WHAT is the POINT

#DnD 5e