#one ring rpg

[fiovske]

Do you have any recs for other non-DnD game systems? I've only ever played 5e, and I'm a little intimidated to get into other systems, but I also want to branch out and get away from WOTC's bullshit.

Sure thing! I am also including a link to the itch.io pages since that's where i get most of these games!

Blades In The Dark: i'm mentioning this first bc the rules are very easy to grasp and if you're looking for a setting that has a touch of ghosts and steampunk, this game is the perfect gateway to that! it's the best for a heist i have found and the game mechanics and names are so soo sick here's just a slice from their itch.io page:

personally i find the setting and the stress mechanic very cool, because it takes into account the mental toil that an action can have and i find games with inbuilt consequence mechanics very compelling! it introduced the concept of clocks to me and i am obsessed.

a) adjacent to Blades, are all Forged In The Dark Games which are third-party blades games, and the most notable of them is Scum and Villiany which is space-western setting and also my favorite and if you're looking to play a game in the breadth of star-wars like interplanetary politics and everything, i highly recommend this game! b) if you're looking for a Blades game with mechanics to suit something more royalty-adjacent, with court-politics and agendas and masquerade parties and all, like say d20's court of fey and flowers vibe then i recommend Court Of Blades! I havent gotten around to playing this yet but it looks really promising and i soo badly want to play a game in this setting!

2. The Ground Itself : this is a world-building game. focused on one single place over time and how it changes and how it's people change, the events of this game can be spaced out from a week to several millennia depending on the rolls of ur dice or your choices! i have found that this game serves very well as say, a session zero game also, for setting up a place before you play in it, and not only a very fun session of making a place together for your party to play in, but also not leaving all the work to the gm! so it's a win win situation!

tbh, all games by everest pipkin are very good! i wanna get my hands on world ending game as well bc it is a game about giving your campaign, your world-building and your characters the perfect send-off.

3. Wanderhome : if you're looking for something ghibli-esque (this is the closest i can come to defining this game thru popular media) then i highly recommend wanderhome! it's got a very cozy pastoral vibe to it and the art is really beautiful and you get to pick from a range of animal-folk to play as it's very cool!

also honorable mentions,

a) Sleepaway is a game by the same creator in which ur a camp counsellor to a bunch of misfits and horror stories around campfires ensue! b) Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast which is an upcoming game which you can still back and it looks really interesting so i'd recommend checking it out as well!

4. Lancer: this game has mechs it has space-battles and you get to be a pilot in a future set years in the future and a thousand directions to take ur campaign in! he relationship between pilot and mech is smth that can be so personal.....

i wanna play lancer sometime it has very cool mech designs and it has very much piqued my interest, if i find ppl who wanna play lancer w me im 🏃🏃!

5. Heart The City Beneath : honestly, one of my fave settings of all time, it has strong horror components so mind the cws! but the classes and the game mechanics are very intuitive and overall it helps you not only build a character that feels natural and organic, but since this is a horror setting, things do not have happy endings... however it will ensure that your characters have a well-built journey whose ends will be terrifying and magnificent.

I got introduced to the fallout mechanic through this game and oooo how i love it, it's the perfect blend of your actions have consequences + every consequence is interesting and will affect your character deeply and emotionally, which is <33

this list got too long so i will just mention some more here:

the quiet year (very good map-making game, for before the frost shepherds arrive in winter.)

beam saber (forged in the dark game that deserves its on mention! austin ramsey's games i highly recommend!)

thirsty sword lesbians (ecactly what it says on the tin, i wanna check this game out also)

lotr's one ring rpg (this one is the closest substitute to classic d&d bc lets be real. tolkien is where d&d got it's shit from. and i have heard good things abt this game even tho i've never had the chance to play it)

mothership rpg (space horror whose build mechanics are very easy and user-friendly and i've had a LOT of fun with this!)

orbital (one very beautifully written rpg about life in space and it's only 32 pages but well-worth the time, highly recommend)

that's all i can give off the top of my head, i might've missed a few but these are strong standouts, so i hope u find at least one to your liking!

#ttrpg recomendations #not dnd #blades in the dark #forged in the dark #the ground itself #wanderhome #lancer #heart the city beneath #the quiet year #beam saber #thirsty sword lesbians #one ring rpg #mothership rpg #orbital #ttrpg #long post #genuinely recommending this to everyone. #d&d is a very good jumping off platform and w everything happening right now... #no better time to leave wotc and try indie creators' games.

[henrique-suiteki]

Elkalais

#digital painting #original character #jrr tolkien #tolkien #j.r.r. tolkien #rpg #tor #lotr #rivendel #rivendell #noldor #elf #elvish #onering #oneringrpg #the one ring #theonering #the one ring rpg #one ring #one ring rpg #oc #tolkien fanart #tolkien art #lord of the rings #lordoftherings #eldar #middle-earth

[mana-junkie]

Playing "One Ring" and were up against a huge troll.

#one ring #one ring rpg #middle earth #game night #roll20

[sajanrai]

I did the artwork for this wrestling-themed TTRPG game by Dice Kapital! You can check it out/get it here 

#wrestling #wrestlers #art #illustration #bookcover #drawing #artists on tumblr #dice kapital #ttrpg #rpg #game #one wrestling ring to rule them all #sajan rai

[lattef]

#The One Ring ttrpg #Tabletop RPG #ttrpg #art

[veyther]

This game has me in a chokehold

#off rpg #off (game) #off fanart #off the batter #its not really visible #but batter is wearing rings #and those rings are the ad ons #i just like that idea too much tm

[mildmayfoxe]

who wants to tell me about a good switch game. assume i have never played a game in my life. it has to be easy and fun

#to give you a sense of what i enjoy i have sunk many hours into botw stardew & animal crossing #elden ring was too hard & i regret buying it but i was swayed by everyone else having fun (maybe i will try again one day) #obviously i also really loved disco elysium. i like rpgs & story games. i do NOT like turn-based gameplay where i have to manage party #members in the middle of a fight #are there any good visual novels on switch i do like a good visual novel #maybe i should just open steam for once in my life #chatpost

[dragon-wisteria]

Some goodbye art for my girl Laurelin, who's campaign recently ended. I loved playing my nerdy elvish sniper and her questionable decision making. Her character ended up going in a lot of directions I didn't expect, and honestly it was an incredibly fun first forray into playing as a player and not a GM.

No idea what kind of character I'll play next (or even what kind of campaign I might be in next. I'd quite like to try out dnd) but I'm looking forward to trying out something different and maybe a little more complex.

#my art #my characters #oc: laurelin #the one ring rpg #artists on tumblr

[chronivore]

One Year in Rokugan - Blood and Spectacles Publishing | DriveThruRPG

#One Year in Rokugan #legend of the 5 rings #RPG

[4giorno]

"lets play doctor"

im throwing my character out the window so i can heal him with astarion until i get this line

#specifically throwing him out the window bc aint no way im taking astari0n out of the shadows in the high ground during combat 😭 #i actually gave them the lovers rings i found 1. bc its cute and 2. hes always full health while my character has died 4 times in one fight #despite being in the backline ⚰️ so its a safety precaution should the need for the warding spell ever arise #i dont usually like health sacrifice in rpgs but its an emergency precaution #uhhh are there even healing scrolls? maybe if astari0n was an arcane trickster he would have a healing spell #but mine is a thief so obv he only has fireball #i just came from the gauntlet of shar to the tower so you know what that means. almost at the last act. #😭😭😭😭 im not ready to say goodbye to my character 💔💔💔 #alsoooo i gave him balthazars circlet so now his fit is complete and looks great <3 #omg that fight was too much if you talked to him (even tho it was rlly funny when my party kept getting pushed into the void lmao) #so i just cheesed it by sneak attacking him and using the silence spell my guy thankfully had

[scribblingsorsomething]

Spot illos of some trolls, created for issue #2 of Gygax magazine.

#troll #the one ring rpg #gygax #gygax magazine #my artwork #ttrpg art #illustration #line art #monster

[henrique-suiteki]

Pallando Necromante - Teaser para Campanha de RPG

#animation #original character #rpg #character design #2d art #elf #illustration #cinema #oc #2d animation #pallando #wizard #wizard of the coast #mage #black mage #sauron #silmarillion #the silmarillion #ainur #maiar #theonering #the one ring #the one ring rpg

[probablyfunrpgideas]

I think I want to emulate the tone shift in the Hobbit, after the death of Smaug. A lot of characters are thinking “this is it, a great evil is gone and it’s all gold and cucumber sandwiches from here”. And then all the dominoes that have been set up start tipping, with friends betraying each other and rivals closing in on the Lonely Mountain.

It’s a classic quest narrative that deals with the fallout from the quest. Try something similar with your players! Don’t detract from the achievements they’ve made, but ask them - what do you think is going to happen next? Ask yourself who is going to benefit from this, and who wants revenge, and who didn’t get what they deserved?

What if you flash forward to the little town where the party brings all their treasure, and they’ve raised all the prices tenfold! The streets are buzzing with greed, business booms and suddenly the first person who touched the dragon’s hoard drops dead. Give them the panic, a few days of looking for a cure, and then the King marches an army down to prevent the cursed gold from spreading.

#tabletop rpgs #idea #d&d #d&d 5e #pathfinder #one ring

[insanepixels]

I re-watch this video from time to time to remind myself of how it felt to play Elden Ring for the first time

#the wonder the shock the awe #not just Elden Ring either most every open world/pseudo open world RPG has at least one of these #High Wall of Lothric #coming out of Helgen Cave in Skyrim #Drangleic Castle #love catching my breath at vistas #elden ring #Youtube

[dawns-beauty]

It’s kinda weird seeing multiple videos complaining about open world games how boring they are, how repetitive, and how they need to die when I just… I kinda just love them.

I love just existing in a big beautiful world and being able to walk from place to place, picking flowers and doing random side quests, running from whatever counts as a wolf, y’know?

Just finding little set ups devs left for you to stumble across, exploring every niche, filling out the map.

I don’t mean to dismiss genre fatigue or whatever (not every AAA game NEEDS to be open world!) and I obviously know there are incredible non-open world games with oodles to find (Dishonored, Bioshock, my beloveds), but I feel like it would be sad to see open world games completely go away

#i might be preaching to the choir on this blog #but hell! I just want a game where I can walk across the country and maybe fight some wolves and find someone’s lost ring and a skeleton #before I get to the location and completely unrelated to the main quest im ignoring #not strictly tes #also I finished hfw and every open world rpg needs a paraglider. or pterodactyl. #stuff like Skyrim BotW HZD… man I just love feeling like a little dude in a massive place #(and ones I haven’t played like rdr and the Witcher) #I know a complain is ‘same game different set dressing’ and… I like it.

[oneknightlight]

Kind of annoying that there aren’t more medieval rpg-like games that have a realistic ish style like Skyrim and elden ring, but have upbeat features and scenes like breath of the wild and GoW . Like. Just because it looks real doesn’t mean it has to have an incredibly depressing world full of struggling people

Skyrim has some good vibes here and there, but the entire land is at war and seeing the return of the dragons, and struggling with prejudice and bigotry, so I understand why shit isn’t going to be whimsical most of the time. And I understand that souls games have a very specific and terrifying brand energy.

But like. I wish there was a medieval rpg game that had that realistic style but operated in a more whimsical and like. Lord of the rings sense. Take me on a journey but give me a group of NPCs I fight with, kind of god of war style, dnd campaign headass, but the layout of the world is like you mashed Tolkien movies, your local ren faire, and elden ring’s scenery. The gameplay operates like breath of the wild, and you get an equal amount of whimsical fantasy fun interactions as you do serious fights and plot.

Now don’t get me wrong, god of war gets really close to what I’m describing, but it’s on a much larger cosmic and well. Godlike scale then I’d want

I just want some dudes in a fantasy land who aren’t fighting for their lives 97% of the time

#Walt talks #I’m really surprised no one has done this yet because it feels like a normal fantasy option #but it seems like every fantasy rpg #is leaning horror genre #or is entirely fictional like. down to style like BOTW #don’t get me wrong I love BOTW and elden ring and Skyrim n whatnot but #please #get me some average . evenly good and evil. 70% fiction 30% historical inspiration #Tolkien like #fantasy game