Part is still waiting to happen

Our characters were hired in the past to extract the country-level head of security of one of AAA corps. After they did that, in “wishes and stars”, one of the players expressed that it would be cool if things they get in contact with would come back later

So in close future they will be hired to extract him from a secure train and in doing so they most probably will (unless the decide to fail that mission) antagonize their fixer, which just so happens to be Lofwyr - a great dragon that is the owner of another AAA corp

And the plan is that in beat climax run the samurai will meet a heavy modified clone of the guy, that is bodyguard of continent-level CEO of the first corp

The further plan is, that after that beat, this arch will try to explore the reality when cloning is possible.
I’m sure they’ll be thrilled to meet the first guy again :)

Huh. What are you viewing with?

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EDIT: You’re right. Apparently Lemmy needs 3 spaces before a sub-level, where PieFed is happy with 2

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BTW, I think maybe your lists need 4 spaces before the second level, and maybe no newlines between items?

No, those are second level lists (under the numbering), so that’s why are the empty ones. Deleting the sub-listing __ prefix makes numbering stop, adding additional two doesn’t change anything

* thing 1
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Ordered list because some differences can be understood better in relation to others, but then dropping someone new into the deep waters of crunchy games would probably only confuse them

1. Knave/MorkBorg/Fireball
   Use applicable setting if fantasy is not their thing
   • get them introduced easily
   • show more or less what we are coming from
   • to understand later on, what this branch distills to
2. Something Gumshoe based
   • it needs to be understood that without combat, TTRPGs are not “20 questions” - guess what GM wants you to do
3. Blades in the Dark
   • show that it can also be very gamified, almost approached like a series episode
   • narration doesn’t have to be only in GM’s hands
4. Shadowrun/GURPS/Traveller
   • crunch games can be heavy to play but offer the most character customization possible
   • lore doesn’t have to fit in the rulebook
5. SWADE/D&D
   • see what kind of games have the crown currently

I have always felt like this playing Warhammer. The stats and hp progression rarely led to being OP, and even if the character had some political clout there has always been some cultist agenda that will sooner erode that edge before you get enough proofs to convince anyone to believe you. Every approach you consider, you can’t be sure of the outcome

If you don’t want a generated image, pick a “base” from itch or dtrpg or some patreon creator token pack, make a copy and apply the tentacles in GIMP. It doesn’t need to be photo-realistic, only needs to be recognizable and spark imagination

Animating armor seems very scary and somewhat evil

IMO that fits paladins’ zeal. Those who oppose them should fear the wrath of their righteousness, right? Taking a look at other piece of culture: “Smite Evil” does not leave a lot of gray area on both words.

So the plan is kind of like porting GameBoy Pokemon/Final Fantasy game (you walk on the map, then suddenly the combat begins with different mechanic) to a TTRPG?

I’m not very familiar with commander format, but I don’t think it’s one of the fastest ones. So if I were doing this, I would try to minimize the mechanics between the combat. I would take Blades in the Dark, strip all the setting, playbooks, distill it to a bunch of approaches basically and reskin them as it fits the game.
And then maybe take a look at Traveller quadrant(?) generation tools for coming up with map hexes? That one might be a bad advice, I’m not using hexes in general

I was hoping it would behave like a hashtag when you view it via mastodon instance. AFAIK so far link aggregation fediverse doesn’t really interact with hashtags fluently. Even on *bin it is like a separate thing

You might be interested in #rifts setting

https://therpjournal.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/rifts-an-underrated-gem-in-the-world-of-tabletop-rpgs/

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth where dimensional rifts have torn open, bringing magic, monsters, and alien technology to the planet. This fusion of genres allows players to encounter everything from high-tech cyborgs and vampires to dragons and ancient deities. Rifts offers an unprecedented amount of flexibility for creating characters and stories. You can be anything from a power-armored soldier to a mystic who commands the forces of magic, or even a dimensional traveler with access to alien technologies.

Rules per se, I guess, no. But I feel this is a little bit ill-placed. Look at other posts in this community, it’s rather about open-source news and discussion than specific support for an app

I guess you might have better chances in some Android community, if those operate similarly to the Linux ones

Why are you posting this in here?

Is it me, or this month it got crazy? Not only one big non-DND title in there, a few in a few bundles

each round one second long, so on your turn you only have time to either move or act or do nothing. This does mean each turn feels really fast

I disagree. Apart from choice-paralysis (do I do nothing again or finally go now?), this approach can either be slow or fast.
If you slap into each action a bunch of modifiers, temporary modifiers, dice counting (large pools), reaction roll, detraction, comparison, etc that will in the end make that one game-second take ages in play time.

I expect this is going to be rather a short run instead of some long plotbook. So you probably could just take the story and wing the stats. I also don’t play OG Shadowrun

I’ve been using ZArchiver and Ghost Commander and haven’t noticed a big difference vs Linux. It might depend on device’s hardware too