Sam Tillis
@stillisgaming.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood professional Game Master. https://startplaying.games/gm/stillis-gaming
Me: Why is my brain totally fried. Also Me: Oh. Right. Because I ran 10 hours of RPGs yesterday, codeswitching between OSR, high-level 5e, and wistful worldbuilding storygame. That's probably why.
You ever... visit a game store so good you almost start crying, right there in the indie RPG section?
I have just finished reading every Dune novel that Frank Herbert ever wrote. What utterly insane thing should I do next?
A 7 is not an auspicious first roll for a D&D campaign, except that it's an espionage-themed D&D campaign, in which case rolling a 007 is *massively* auspicious.
Well, I'll be damned. After running 7 weeks of D&D summer camps over the past few months, I managed to lose or have stolen *not even a single die*.
Reading poorly written D&D adventure modules from the early 2000s so I can feel something.
I'm um... I'm rebuilding my collection of D&D 3.5 books, if anyone wants to help... 🙃 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
D&D 3.5 books
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The stupidest bit I've ever done in any RPG is in the pirate game I'm running this evening, which features the NPC Captain Brisby Tems (pronounced Thames).
Almost missed the one day in the history of the world when I can post this story. (Arguably tomorrow would have worked too.)
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
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Figure out what your players want, and give it to them. That's it. That's the whole job of the Game Master.
@waverlysm.bsky.social you're British can you explain [checks notes] Count... Binface...? to me?
This is a super cool game, and the GM Sean (like every Sean I know, somehow) is a super cool guy. Check this out!
Nausica-inspired TTRPG
Cloud Empress is an ecological science fantasy game about being one small part of a vast and mysterious ecosystem. Explore, survive, love, protect.
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Whats the best band with the worst name and why is it the Beatles?
Just an absolutely normal D&D game. Doesn't your game have a mandatory hat policy? (Technically not D&D. Bonus points to whoever can figure out what game we're actually playing.)
My toxic trait is that I secretly hate the word "homebrew" as it relates to D&D/roleplaying games.
It's work, of course. Some days it's hard work. But DANG do I love my job.
My local game store just gifted me this stack of books, so I guess it's officially time to start rebuilding my D&D 3.5 collection...
Me: I should really try to finish playing Baldur's Gate so I understand the past 3 years of nerd culture. Also Me: [reinstalls 2000-era PC classic "Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim]
When your D&D players have 3 options for where to go next: -The place that continues the main plot -The place with a character-driven side-plot -The batshit crazy place they have no earthly reason to visit ...you might as well not even prepare for options 1 and 2. 🙃
Op. Always forgetting to self-advertise. "Midnight in the Garden of Chrome and Fog," my character-limit busting cyberpunk RPG actual-play, starts its second season this evening at 7pm! You better believe things are gonna be **weird** for the holiday... www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen
What a horrifying item to find at the bottom of my to-do list, with no memory of how it got there.
The existence of "Rogue State" as a geopolitical category implies Barbarian State, Bard State, Cleric State, etc., and we haven't spent enough time grappling with this as a community.
I don't know if this stands up to scrutiny, but some quick&easy drinking contest rules for D&D: it's just blackjack, but your character's Constitution score is the limiter (instead of 21). You can stop drinking any time, but whoever has the highest number less than or equal to their Con score wins.
My response to that one specific faction of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Starfleet Academy haters.
Not gonna prepare for D&D adventures ever again; just gonna use this:
