General TTRPG-thread

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

...Hey there, hope you're having a great day. *sips sweet & hot Sakura-Tea from a black mug* I'm Phantom or Phantom-san, they/she, hobby-artist and moderator + roleplayer of this semi-silent forum, mod of Uranium's Creator's Collective discord, blabla, you might know me.


I've developed the idea that since there is occassional talking about other campaigns in the Meta Threads of the two ongoing PokeRole-Campaigns (both are on hiatus currently however), a seperate thread would be neat so that these talkings don't get lost in between meta-talking and preserve these. And to share experiences and insights that technically don't belong in the Meta Threads; and to just talk about TTRPGing in general. 

In these trying times with two wars going on in the world and no-doubt even more trying times ahead (looking at you, election in America), it's twice as nice to safely escape from dreadful reality for a bit, yes.

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I'll start!~ So, ever since in summer I've discovered a hidden fantasy-store in the nearby big town I sometimes visit AND got to try out the system at an anime-and-manga-convention, I've gotten into one TTRPG that has has since developed into my favorite system I guess, I got hooked by it lol. That system is...

... 7e. 


I like that edritch horror and mystery about it. I like that ordinary things and actions can take an unexpected creepy turn. I like the system of Mental Stability. I especially like that, contrary to for exmple DnD and Pathfinder, you are not meant to be a hero and save the world in a fantasy setting so to say (don't get me wrong though, I still enjoy that! Just not first and foremostly so), your goal is to survive and come out sane while still trying to win against the edritch gods and monsters (or at least ward them off)

So far I managed to survive the few oneshots I played at the fantasy-store (I'm always so nervous about playing irl, eek, but after thawing up it's sure fun!), lucky, only had one Investigator (an author) go insane and one flapper-girl develop a disorder of pathological kindness, lol. It's just or 'just' that my characters always lost a whooping amount of Stability, but that's to be expected.

Two favorite moment of mine were when, during a train ride, the snowflakes outside turned black and the train started to float in pitchblack and silent nothingness while a famous pianist played some notes in a delusional frenzy (that we discovered were cursed and part of a summoning ritual for huge bat-like monsters). The other was when a different player wanted to clean stuff at the kitchen sink, but at first there came nothing from the water faucet, then black goo, then fresh blood (cue for a Stability Check)

I haven't gotten to dabble into Magic and Spells that Cthulhu brings yet, so that's a goal of mine (even it causes my PC to go insane). My Cthulhu-Gamemaster also recommended me a somewhat legendary setting called 'Der Sänger von Dhol', I aim to look deeper into that too when I've got the time, energy and muse for it.


Unrelated, I also aim to treat myself with getting 'Baldur's Gate 3' on steam during the next sale or at Black Friday, I like what I've seen and heard about this game so far indeed.



Also unrelated, the various Pokerole-Campaigns played here on the forum still lowkey live rentfree in my brain, I think about these often and am looking forward very much to continue these when the time is right. Special thanks to Iron, Dragonstrike and Lord Windos for GMing these.


EDIT: Whoops, I forgor. At the convention early September I got to try out a system based on Avatar, called 'Avatar Legends - The TTRPG'. I was playing as a fire-bender, that was fun! So fun that I treated myself with buying the starter kit of it, hehe.

[Iron]

I like hearing about your Cthulhu adventures on Discord.

I played once in college. I was a firefighter, back in the turn of the century when firefighting gear was not very good. I died pretty quick, unlike you.

I investigated an RPG based on Discworld (where Thunder's name comes from), but I found it too simple for my taste.

My college buddies are starting a new campaign soon, and I'll be playing as a caveman who was frozen in ice as technology advanced to a robotics age and then fell again due to an apocalypse. He throws coconuts and stones and can summon dinosaurs. Meanwhile all our enemies are forgotten androids and sentient AIs. Very Flintstones meets Jetsons.

[Spiritmon]

First of all, forgive me in be late to the party in show TTRPG experiences! I was extremely busy with college a other few things!

I did played Cthulu too! A friend of mine dm me a one shot of Cthulu and had a huge blast of the game! I was a detective and I was on a village with some strange rituals going on there, so I manage to survive in that event pretty nicely. Might want to either play it again or try to dm. 

Discworld looks a interesting system! Might want to test in the future.

Currently, I playing different kinds of systems: Pathfinder 2e (who is currently my favorite system so far), Tormenta 20, Ordem Paranormal and I in the future after the Age of Ashes campaigh my GM is narrating to me and my group, we problably going to play a campaigh on Pathfinder 1e. Which make me really curious to see that game. He also invited me for a table of DND 4e. I know, I know. 4e is the black sheep of the DND family, but that same Pathfinder 2e dm really liked that system, so I pretty curious to see if that system is so bad as everyone say. Oh, I was also playing Vampire the Masquerade Aniversary Edition and also the Dark Age edition. I like to try different kinds of games to keep my mind busy. But Pathfinder 2e still is my favorite system.

I might take a course on english to improve my english language, so I may have better way to communicate and call with english voice. Like I said thousands of time in the past, english is not my native language, so I need to improve it. Since I do have interest in GM via voice channel in Discord maybe in the future. Maybe in some Pathfinder 2e campaigh, or maybe PTU (basically Pokemon using the mechanics of DND 5e, who knows? I could try). Or maybe Tormenta 20. It is a brazilian system, and there is no complete english translation at the moment, but I could try to translate and explain the mechanics, since brazilian portuguese is my native language! I could even try to open a thread later explaining some of its mechanics for the people who might want to learn a bit more of the system.