Rob Heinsoo just dropped by La Taberna de Rol’s YouTube channel for an epic 1-hour chat about 13th Age 2E! 🎲🗡️ Dive into the latest insights, behind-the-scenes stories, and what’s new in the upcoming edition. Don’t miss this deep dive into the world of 13th Age! 📺✨ #13thAge#RPG#TabletopGaming#13thAge2E https://youtu.be/2CDHGfB0tPk?si=7VSr8pOAcK2fRDSM
Finding interesting people on Mastodon has been my biggest challenge 😅, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. If you're an author, aspiring writer, book lover, fantasy reader, tech lover, roleplayer, tabletop gamer, or anything in between, feel free to follow me! I'd love to connect and follow you back 😄📚🎲 #Mastodon#fantasy#rpg#ttrpg#gaming#tech
I updated the primary LLM behind The Library of Unwritten Books from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4o, and I have to say, it really upped its game. You should check it out, share your favorite books, and tell all your friends.
What is The Library? From my 10yo, "Wait, is this a story or a game?" To which the correct answer is, "Yes." That's exactly the response I hoped for when creating the library. 😀
The original game Fantasy Wargaming: The Highest Level of All (or just Fantasy Wargaming in some editions) was a 1981 book by Bruce Galloway, a clear variation on Dungeons and Dragons, based on Galloway’s home rules. Unlike it’s competition it was not afraid of using actual historical concepts like astrology and occultism in it’s descriptions, although it also was written so densely it was hard to make sense of it in any shape or form by someone not already familiar with roleplaying games. And, well, it was called Fantasy Wargaming.
Which made this a problem, as the game was published both in the UK and the US by mainstream publishers obviously trying to break into the nascent TTRPG market. The most available version was most likely the one published by the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club, which made the game available to many people who did not have any experience with roleplaying games before.
Unfortunately one has to say, as the game’s size (300pgs) and conceptual denseness made parsing the book quite a feat, meaning if people used this as an introduction to roleplaying, it might not have been very successful.
The Story of Fantasy Wargaming goes into this, and into the development of the game. It could have been a bit more thorough and a bit more critical, but for what it is it’s a nice look into the environment that created it. And well, it’s free.
(I learned about this book from an episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast which had the author on and talked about this project. Well worth a listen)
I think the first experience with #PixelArt was messing with the #RPG Exile 2: Crystal Souls. playable characters, since they're just BMP files.... Maybe I could download it again and try to create some characters there.
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A new version of Open Doom : Hardcore edition is here... Now there is a new feature - PERMADETH! Now you can enable roguelike gameplay with the red switch... When you do your first death ends your playthrough!
Download it here: https://gamejolt.com/games/odoomhc/896165
The Doom of Blackwinter has befallen the town of Ethan's Vale, and now threatens to overwhelm the whole of the mortal realms! Only a few brave souls can stop the awakening of Winter's Heart!
The Doom of Blackwinter is now available for Old School Essentials and Zweihander.
...Mystic Quest in Europe. Sword of Mana was the fifth release in the series. 🏹
The gameplay of Sword of Mana is an expanded and modified version of the original gameplay with elements added from later games in the Mana series. ⚔️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
Möchte was neues starten. Die Frage ist #BeyondTheWall, #Dragonbane oder #DieVerbotenenLande ? Alle drei Systeme sind super (auf dem Papier). Wie ist denn deine Erfahrung mit diesen Systemen, liebe #pnpde Bubble? Muss ich etwas besonderes beachten?
Issue 3 of Wanderer Bill’shttps://lkh.sdf-eu.org/wandererbill/grenzland/ just landed in my mailbox yesterday, with, among other things, an NPC class written by me (“The Anointed of Abyssal Slaughter”). It mostly was me combining the given topic of the issue with an interest in NPC classes a while ago.
The ‘zine also contains a one-page dungeon by Alex Schroeder (“The Crown of Neptune”), a game report (“Schiffbruch”), rules for sailing ships (“Salt’n’Tar”), and another scenario (“Eingekerkert”), the latter three all by Wanderer Bill. The ‘zine is a mix of German and English, and you can get it for the phenomenal price of free at the website.
(he does have a few more physical copies for 7 Euros left over though)