Duffo

@duffo.bsky.social

Music festival organiser, Endless 08 podcaster. TTRPGs at https://duffhounds.itch.io. This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! Definitive Edition now available!

Ideas for people looking to join the isekai TTPRG wave: - players can only take terrible gimmick RPG classes and have to figure out what combo of upgrades makes them good actually - you’re all monsters in a dungeon that the overpowered hero has been grinding nonstop - slow life farming sim (horny)

Thanks for your help! Here’s what I’ve found: - Girl Underground - This World Keeps Summoning Heroes - Many classes, few systems And: - DIE is not an Isekai - DCCarl is not an Isekai - Any TTRPG could be an Isekai, why bother - All TTRPGs are obviously Isekai already and I am a stultifying buffoon

Grant Howitt@gshowitt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What Isekai TTRPGs are there? I'm trying to work out why this isn't a more popular genre. So far we've worked out: - DIE: the RPG, I suppose - That one class from BREAK!! - The Dungeoncrawler Carl TTRPG, I think, but it's not out yet

Six sessions into running this Adventure Path and I’m having a great time! We’ve done gladiatoral combat, feasting contests, fought off a sea serpent, and acted out the final moments of a hero’s life with their ghost to send them to the afterlife. Great sword and sandals vibes.

Paizo@paizo.com · last yr.

Can you overcome the failings of the myth-speaking rites and grant magic and guidance to the people of Iblydos? Become a mythic hero and take on legendary beasts in the first installment of the Pathfinder Myth-Speaker Adventure Path, The Acropolis Pyre! buff.ly/1cbJSm7

The Pathfinder Myth-Speaker Adventure Path: The Acropolis Pyre book stands vertically in front of a folder flip-mat. In front of the book is a set of Pathfinder exclusive dice from Botch Dice.

If you're running an RPG campaign, a great thing to do is to maintain some kind of journal of characters the PCs meet but also to give them star rankings like they were gacha game characters

"If you’re amused by the concept of several hapless doofuses from 21st century Earth bumbling around in a medieval fantasy world with cheat powers, this might be the diversion you didn’t know you were looking for." Thanks to Chris Casey for the review! ccxp.info/game-review-...

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This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!: Definitive Edition (TWSTMH from now on, because I value my fingers) is a 2025 Kickstarter-funded compendium of the 2023 second edition of a 2021 RPG by Nick “Duff...

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SomethingAwful’s FATAL & Friends forum thread has a pretty good write-up on This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! right now, including my new favourite summary of the archetypes in the game:

It’s Heroing Time!
And then he heroed all over those guys

To build your very own isekai hero, start by choosing an Archetype.
The Bystander: Whoops! You weren’t even supposed to be here today, but you were standing too close to someone else being summoned or were hit by Truck-Kun and got sucked into another world by accident.
The Demon Lord: Evil cultists summoned you here to rule the world, but you didn’t care for their vibe and you look terrible in black leather, so you dipped.
The Hero: You were brought to Ceria to defeat an ancient evil. You blew through that quest easily, of course, so now you’re just looking for something interesting to occupy your time.
The Myth: You’re never alone; there’s the spirit of a great Cerian hero or magic beast in your body. Once per adventure you can flip them in so they can wipe up the bad guys for you.
The Noble: You occupy the body of a previously existing high mucky-muck, who by all accounts was kind of a snot. Now you have to navigate their life and maybe make things better for the people around you.
The Reader: Ceria was the subject of your favorite book or video game in your past life, and you know more about it than even the people who live here.
The Reincarnated: Only your spirit arrived, without a body. Unfortunately the summoning spell doesn’t do “making a human body” very well, and you now have the form of something completely different.
Tragedeigh The Tragedy: You were summoned by someone very bad, who used you for very bad purposes. You managed to escape but now you have terrible scars and trust issues.
Each Archetype includes a choice between two special background-style benefits. For instance, the Noble can choose either Disowned Heir (get better starting equipment) or Villainess (any attempt to bully people always uses your best Attribute).

Fun fact - these notes from Chiaki pretty much directly led to the Goddesses and Season of the Sage expansions. SotS especially answers these questions about Muto while bringing back that “yearning for home” theme to reflect that he’s an old-gen 00s hero in contrast to the modern player protags

Chiaki Hirai - I feel like the whole “other churches” thing could be a bit more fleshed out, like you did on “where you can find scrolls”? Maybe a few quick examples on former churches that may have fallen out of favor, or even other gods or goddesses that think Launrith sucks.Chiaki Hirai - And this also piques my interest in Muto, is he just really irresponsible? What drove him to think it’s cool to summon a bunch of people from other worlds in like he was done, to sow so many opportunities for chaos?

Older isekai stories used to focus on the fact it kinda sucks you get isekai’d. Part of the journey was about finding a way back. Some modern ones have this emphasis too, even if the stories these days might emphasize more on setting up maid cafes, registering at adventure guilds and saving princesses.
Chiaki Mitama 🐾🌭@terrible.moe · 12mo ago

Look ma, my girlfriend is a play tester in this game! That alone is a great reason to buy a copy and play it. Her taste in gaming is infallible. Ma, look!!!!! MY GIRLFRIEND IS IN THE CREDITS PAG-

Some isekai heroes from today’s PAX TTRPG sessions: - a healer with white girl dreads who realigns chakras so bad it hurts - a snake with rune fangs - a mum who learned karate from VHS tapes - a Sword in the Stone that has not been pulled out and just gets carried around half inside of a boulder

I had the chance to read this a while back and it’s so funny - every hero is the most undercooked character your friends made when you first started D&D, the dungeons are filled with terrible ideas, and poor Zavier is having to try and rewrite it all on the fly. Really great stuff

Ettin@ettin.itch.io · last yr.

My current TTRPG project (Wetrunner) should release next week. I'm pleased to announce that when it does, I'm jumping straight into my next project: CRINGE WIZARD, a TTRPG isekai light novel! I wrote it years ago based on a joke tweet! I'm doing a proper digital release with art now!