Questing for Tabletop Adventure Games
Spoilers. Read with care. I love the tabletop RPG Electric Bastionland. I've written about it a few times. I love the anime Attack on Titan. I'm watching season 4 right now. Oooooooh it's good. Listen as you read 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBUP8TJqV8&ab_channel=kimmeh And now, here's the pitch for combining the two: You have a colossal debt. To … Continue reading Union: Electric Bastionland + Attack on Titan
Even the minnows have razorteeth... If you go down far enough in the Underground, you'll hit breathable water.Without a dive suit, you just continually float as if detached from gravity.Even if you have a suit, you move slowly through the waters.All sorts of bizarre sea life swim around you, sizing up your place on the … Continue reading The Deep Blue Beneath (Electric Bastionland)
"The judgemental glares of the other party-goers. Clearly you are not as serious about fun as they are." Page 254 Ask what they want to get out of it, give them a choice of how to do this.Make one appealing but expensive.Make one exciting but dangerous. Bullet point #1 is up to you. I've got … Continue reading Go Socialising in Electric Bastionland (d6+d6)
DICE FROM HEAVEN. Shipwright. I’m weird about dice. I made a d366 table of spells JUST so I could have d6s only, no d100. I go the extra mile. Sometimes that extra mile is a circle, no real movement, just motion. This is no sane person problem, I recognize. In my view, there are only … Continue reading Dice Oddities: Generating Stats
Honestly, Shipwright has SOOO many great pieces of art I could've chosen for this. What genre tropes are there to break when your younger players have no sense of genre? None. None tropes. It's like when you were young, playing with a Batman action figure and then some other kid brings a G.I. Joe. Or … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Anachronism Stew
Play with me in this space... Would this be Electric NeverBastionland? Or Electric BastionNeverland? I'm in love with Neverland. I love the Disney cartoon, Hook (the Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Dante Basco one), Peter and the Starcatchers, and the original writings. My English teacher had me read the original in middle-school. Here's a Questing Beast … Continue reading Union: Electric Bastionland + Neverland
many books, one world. shipwright. So RPGs are popular on my campus. In the heart of Wisconsin, near the places where Gygax and Arneson gave birth to the role-playing game, RPGs are well-known. I could name the number of Game Masters at my college, but I’d run out of fingers. For players? I don’t have … Continue reading open OPEN table
Walking through Bastion, come across some Bastiards, none too normal. By Shipwright. d6Inhabitantd6Role1-2Human ("People", p. 280)1-2Career (failed or otherwise, p. 18-235)3Mockery (p. 282)3Patron (p. 253)4Machine (p. 284)4Specialist (p. 253)5Alien (p. 286)5Mercenary (p. 253)6Monstrocity (p. 288)6Shopkeeper (p. 253) While watching Chris McDowall continuing to make awesome content on twitch, I constructed this table for my own … Continue reading Electric Bastionland: NPC Creation Meditation Table
Over a drink, I say. A. Shipwright. Electric Bastionland has a strong luck table format/formula (d6): 1 - Crisis/Rare: Something that needs addressing immediately, usually bad.2-3 - Warning/Uncommon: A threat or situation that has potential to get serious soon.4+ - Normal: The outcome you would expect to be most likely, normally the least threatening. Now … Continue reading Luck Tables for Rumors
If finding treasure is the game, reward that. If brewing potions is the game, reward that. If summoning spooky pillars of purple smoke is the game, be careful. A. Shipwright. On the post about diegetic advancement triggers, I got a comment: Amazing stuff. What do you think would be cool advancement triggers for campaigns inspired … Continue reading Diegetic Advancement Triggers to Emulate a Genre
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