Parker Fyraga

I have a question for my TTRPG players out there, what battle anime are the kind that really getcha going? I mean like your Dragon Balls or Narutos, your Chainsaw Mans and JJKs. What battle manga / anime are the ones you really adored back in the day?

#ttrpg #anime #dnd #shonenanime #battlemanga

I think a lot of people try to hard making new settings to stand out. Yes, I do enjoy it, but after a while I do wanna see a Tolkienesque fantasy setting with the basics plus some original concepts. The basics aren’t evil, they aren’t here to hurt you

Dice are great, really they are, but I love it when other mediums of deciding shit are introduced. Nyx uses Tarot Cards alongside dice, and so many games use a Deck of Playing Cards or Jenga Block towers to tell their stories.

If I had to come up with a Dream TTRPG for me to play, there would be no DCs, combat would be based on the Attacker Stats and resource management, and magical abilities would be available to all players rather than specific classes.

You may see this soon :)

There are some nights I’ve had more fun with 2d6 being passed around for random shenanigans than I’ve had with entire systems of games. RPG Systems facilitate creativity, they aren’t the start of it. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably a full of themself content creator making a system.

And NPC should never deal the finishing blow on the BBEG. Absolutely never. If you wanna make a point to show a strong NPC, have them save the party from a TPK earlier in the game. But do not deprive your party of ending the bad guy's reign. Players should feel empowered, not sidelined.

Not every game needs to have the same skeleton. Not every game needs DCs and Damage dice, but not every game needs them stripped away. There is no one perfect RPG, there are merely preferences and community judgement.

If you wanna homebrew hack a system, don't just strip it of it's flavor and say "here's DnD for everything". I play different games for different stories and fantasies, the only way I'd possibly play a genre agnostic game is if you had a gun to my head, and I'd still prefer the fucking bullet.

Homebrew isn't this evil thing to me, I actually love when a player brings in Homebrew to try. However, I'm very strict on what I allow... unless it's made by me, lol. I like testing my shit.

But if oO' Johnny Boy brings to me his God Violinist Bard and starts killing gods, I'm an angry GM.

If you think that nerfing the options in a game in order to create a "hard mode" is good game design, you are a GM in dire need of help. If you can't create a difficult threat worthy of your players without nerfing them, you need to just play a new game. Harder games exist, amico mio, go play them.

It is not a crime to re use a character in a different game. Some games fizzle out or sometimes you feel a character didn't get to do what you wanted with them. However, sticking to the same Human Fighter for every campaign is a sin punishable by public execution.

You wanted to be a god, so you are now the God of Stealable Ideas.

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Ok wait that's just how the entire TTRPG community works.

I think less Levels in a TTRPG can sometimes be better for the design of a game. Granted, some games require more levels like my pal Kat's RPG #Arask, but that game does it better than DnD 5E. #Vagabond by Taron Pounds is essentially proof that less is definitely more

People seem to like my opinions, so lets steal ideas from my pals and idols.

1 Like = 1 #ttrpg or #dnd Hot take, though I'll warn you that I sometimes can be a bit lukewarm with my takes.

Thou art the god of thine own opinions

blegh, almost lost my lunch speaking pretentious

Absolutely incredible! You do awesome work!

It’s less “appeal to authority” and more “my favorite content creator said a thing and now it’s gospel”. Like just cause my boy Taron Pounds, creator of Vagabond hates 5e doesn’t mean I automatically dislike 5e. We coexist, I still look up to the guy, and life continues.

I know you’re joking, but to me this is like the Mormonism of the TTRPG space

And this isn’t an expose on your favorite creator, I love most of these people and learned a lot from them. But I disagree with a lot of things I hear, and I can still respect them. Creators aren’t gods, and people are fallible.

And I don’t mean agreeing with someone, I mean treating someone’s word as gospel. No one is a god in this community, no one has the ultimate correct opinion. Seeing this kinda behavior in every YouTube space I go from fans is something I just despise with a burning passion.

I’ve been seeing this a lot on the TTRPG community content creation, and I figured I’d sit out my frustration. Can we like stop all the brown nosing for certain creators? I’ve seen so many intellectual discussions go dumb as brinks because people just refer to so and so’s opinion

#rpg #ttrpg

Nice, were the humans made to listen to classical music as they ate that grass? It shows that the farmers cared.

Made by humans for humans. Everyone involved is locally sourced too, no GMOs either.

Pokémon Lock | A Pokémon TTRPG - YouTube A message from Professor Cyprus greets our party as they fly from their own regions into the Helas region. Helas, known for the weird geographical phenomena ...

Wanting a break from the AI slop of the world? Well we have a 100% human made Pokemon TTRPG just for you! All our humans are kept humanely and are pasture raised to maximize their creative potential!

#ttrpg #noai #pokemonttrpg #pokemonlock #pokemon #fakemon

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A screenshot of an email from an ad agency to Evil Hat Marketing: Hey Evil Hat team, Promised this is the last time you’ll hear from me. We are wrapping up generating content on the house. The AI studio is starting to get fully booked with our paying clients, and I have strict orders to stop promoting this come the weekend. I figured Evil Hat might as well get some work out of us at no cost while you can. Want in before we close it up? Best, [redacted] And then our reply: Hi [redacted], We will never use AI for our games or for our marketing. It's toxic to our customer audience and it's an ethical violation of the hard work put in by the human artists we hire to illustrate our books and the human writers who design our games. In short, it's not "free work" it's theft. Feel free to take me off your mailing list. Hope you turn around your business model because frankly, your current approach sucks shit. -Tom

sometimes you have to be clear about your values

This has been stuck in my head for weeks, send help

Pokémon Lock - Opening | That's What Friends Are For YouTube video by The 'Vardener

Why was the episode of Pokémon Lock delayed for like 3 months?

Because I got a whole song and animated an anime intro for it. Why did I do this for a TTRPG? Because I wanted it to feel like a Saturday morning cartoon.

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Gang, if you wanted a true region based Pokemon TTRPG Actual Play, this is it. Westley worked so hard on this, I promise y'all it's a good time!

Pokémon Lock | Problem at the Pond YouTube video by Sequence Break

Are you excited for Pokémon Day on Friday? So are we! After so long episode 2 of Pokémon Lock is coming this Friday 12pm CST on Pokémon Day!
#ttrpg #actualplay #pokemon #PokémonLock #pokemonttrpg #pokemonday

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Honestly, telling players more is honestly more beneficial than hiding shit. Sometimes the knowledge engages the players even further.