https://www.anarchyrealms.com/
How much are you willing to invest in your success? Well when you have friends supporting you, you can invest quite a bit!
Anarchy Realms has a logo, that quite frankly, is AMAZING! All thanks to my friend over at: https://lamevision.com/
Brain is burning, but if I play BG3 now, then I'm lazy. .... argh! I just need to relax without feeling guilty about it!
I'm very curious about TTRPGs that run combat with player first, monsters last initiative (Nimble, Daggerheart), because D&D, there is a trend for my players to do that, but its not a guarantee, and we often have one or two players stuck in the dregs of initiative. Between this and order of operations, and we get part of the challenge of the fight.
But I started running combat in my games the way the run it in Baldur's Gate 3. So clusters of player and enemy turns are taken as people please. This has significantly sped up a lot of combat, except when players are trying to see if someone else downs a creature, for focus fire reasons.
This has stunted the artificial difficulty of the fights, and that has been a huge boon to the game sessions.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Anarchy-Realms-Skills-W7W7YPFRO
New supporters only article up! This is discussing the skills available in Anarchy Realms!
This information will be available on the website itself later, but supporters get a sneak peak ahead of schedule!
#anarchyrealms #ttrpg #gamedesign
I have a D&D podcast, its more a podcast than it is a D&D....
https://www.youtube.com/@PangoriaFallstar/podcasts
It is not a let's play.
#dnd5e #ttrpg #dmadvice #gmadvice #podcast
What character skills would you say are missing in TTRPGs?
For example, for me, I don't quite know what skill to call for messing with controlling an unknown device that may use magic, but doesn't use magic for its controls.
Yet, Vampire has Drive as a skill. 5e has Land-Vehicles, but that's like horse and buggy stuff, not ... a car?
#5e #ttrpg #skills #vtm #pathfinder #dnd5e #gamedesign
I've been working on the next part of Chapter 1 of Anarchy Realms. This is the part that explains actions and other attributes you have (such as making attacks, your defenses, your skills etc). This is the general stuff that every character gets or has access to. This will be an overview. The actual details will be fully developed in Chapter 4.
Chapter 1 very much is to act like a full description of the game, with as few details as possible, but enough that someone could read that one chapter and understand the whole rest of the game.
Then Chapter 2 will be specific to how you develop your character, and what those choices mean.
Chapter 2 will be the biggest chapter, what with species, roles, styles, power sources, and classes to choose from!
Chapter 3 will cover how you level up and progress.
Chapter 5 will be the adventure session, and how to handle the different zones of play.
Chapter 6 will be the Action cards, and details on combat (both martial and social).
So my Saturday group had been complaining about NEEDING to be everywhere in the game world to solve all the problems. I explained to them, that every conversation will always have someone saying, "I need this done quickly" but that doesn't mean it has to be done immediately. And so that's why you guys never take down time.
So while they were stuck somewhere, I went ahead and rolled some events so that another ally group of theirs solved a problem they couldn't get to. And the result.... while the problem was solved, it very much made certain things worst.
The problem with White Supremacy is that it believes in individualism. So each white bodied person of European descent must be addressed and worked with individually to get them through and out of the miasma of white supremacy they were born into. It is a deep and cultural instilling of white supremacy that pervades the culture of my fellow European Americans.
Things that we take as being quirks or positive traits are things that white supremacy uses to instill a separation in us from our cousins in the global majority. Examples of this are things like, "Its okay, I hate everyone equally" or even perfectionism.
An example is precise speech when it comes to how someone other than a white person speaks, versus acceptance of changed words and patterns when a white person says it. You may not realize you are doing it, or judging someone for it, because, "haha they said aks instead of ask" but you accept assassination as a word and that is more made up than the metathesis of ask.
One thing with game design that really bothers me... as 2D games are getting all HD and what not, is that they have been adding such busy backgrounds that you can't tell action from background. Especially in 3D made 2D games.
We need to add a bit of a barrier, diffusion, blur or something between background and what the player interacts with. One of the STRENGTHS of older games was the limited background, allowing for easier understanding of what you are looking at. The game shouldn't be hard, just because I can't see.
Ended up liking this trilogy, and the author is super sweet, and has difficulty promoting it because of them being introverted. So I'm supporting them extra by posting it out there!
Had my spawn take photos of my shirt, for sale: https://anarchyrealms.etsy.com , and forgot I was holding my socks! Lol
Buying a shirt helps support https://www.anarchyrealms.com
Anarchy Realms is a free ttrpg being live produced, and made available online! Printouts etc will also be made available as they are produced.
Book will be sold for profit, but that will be used to offset costs.
#anarchyrealms #ttrpg #supportindependentartists
I started posting a hot take, and disagreed with it while typing it. I now have no post other than, hot take was too hot.... even for me.
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Waiting to get my test shirt. The whole system is actually really weird. You need money to run this. Like... starting money. And none of the videos saying make money, open your own store covers this. You are an intermediary between the sales and the manufacturing.
All these online systems talk well enough to each other for transferring sales information, but fail to take what is needed over to the other one.
So, for every order that comes in, I uave to pay out of pocket, then, I get paid out later by the seller site, to cover it. The seller site takes their cut, which wats into the shipping cost, and if I'm not careful, if a printer is unavailable and I uave to order the same shirt at a higher price, I might pay out of pocket for the shirt.
Not one video I have seen has covered this possibility.
Spoilers for xmen 97
Episode 9 of xmen 97 shows magneto having properly responded to Bastion, but then not resetting the world so it doesn't kill everyone. He didn't join the xmen to go stop Bastion and then fix the world after.
It is a literal allegory to what is happening with Israel and Palestine. Magneto is literally Israel. Hated and made to live in fear from the humans/nazis, and then in the process of trying to respond appropriately to the attack on genosha/hamas, he over extended his response by killing the wolrd/committing genocide.
#freepalestine #israel #xmen97
Trauma discussion and reference in connection to autism
Non-verbal children worry me the most. Because when I think of what it takes for me to go non-verbal, and not remembering most of my childhood due to trauma from my father....I can't even cover how much I wish for these children safety.
Growing up, I was taught that if I'm being chased, to kneecap the other people running with me, so that the thing chasing me is busy with them and doesn't get to me.
That is a lesson based on capitalism.
It assumes that thing chasing you will stop and eat the one that is now an easy target. It doesn't assume that it will keep chasing because it needs more than one body to feed the others it is hunting for.
So the capitalist kneecaps their competitor. And they get ahead. And they learn the lesson to keep others down. So they kneecap their workers.
Thing is, the thing chasing Capitalists, are Land Owners. The Land Owners already ate the poor. They are eating everyone.
They are investing in eating you too. Because they are capitalists too. But they were working on a different level than you were.
Capitalism is Cannibalism.
They eat each other.
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I'm trying to pay my rent. So I'm doing t-shirt designs, to give people something for helping me pay my bills. Thanks for any support.
I wrote up some ideas I'm having about using the unique initiative system in Anarchy Realms!
https://ko-fi.com/post/Unique-Conditions-for-a-Unique-System-F1F5XTDKP
#ttrpg #gamedesign #anarchyrealms #initiative
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Here's the problem, the issue, the proverbial gun to the head of narrative games like PbtA, VtM, BitD, Candela, etc: Those who play it online, that I have seen, dress up. The role play it heavy. They stay in character. They do too much.
It feels like if I'm going to play it, I have to be "ON". I don't want to be "ON" on my relaxing time. Show me VtM, but like how I play d&d with my friends on a saturday in a game store.
#ttrpg #bitd #pbta #vtm #candela #dnd5e #pf2e #anarachyrealms
When your players survive 2 Death Tyrants, 2 skeletal cyclops and 8 rime zombies and 16 ghosts in two back to back fights.
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I'm selling "I don't want the LAPD(ance)" shirts on Etsy. Support Anarchy!
What my GMing style is progressing to is this kind of dice explored moments and progress bars.
I'm currently experimenting with the feel, but I'm getting to the point of having more things planned within it.
So for example, everyone is in a room, looking, searching, investigating, aracanaing, religiousitying, etc... and their rolls are against a DC. The amount of successes gives them a certain amount of percent chance to succeed.
Then I roll a d100 under that chance, and if it does, they access the thing. If it fails, I add a complication based on the number of failures.
These details are what I'm working on.
#dnd5e #pf2e #anarchyrealms #ttrpg #SystemAgnostic
5e dice roll: Base (d20) + Attribute (Str, Dex, Spell Casting Attribute) + Skill (Proficiency) + Circumstance (1/2 or 3/4 cover is -2 or -5), bonuses are given as advantage/disadvantage which cancel each other out.
Pathfinder 2e roll: Base (d20) + Attribute (Str, Dex etc) + Skill (Proficiency + level) + Equipment + Circumstance + Untyped bonuses.
Anarchy Realms dice roll: Base (d20) + Attribute + Skill + Circumstance + Flat Bonus
Is it REALLY that much more complicated? Or is it just the same?
#ttrpg #gamedesign #anarchyrealms #dnd5e
Anarchy Realms has a maximum roll of 42. You have to be high level to get there, but it is possible.
d20+d12+10 is the best roll you can get, without counting advantage on the d20 and d12, and that you could technically get three d12 rolls with advantage each taking the highest roll of the 6.
The +10 is a combination of things. Your base level gets a +1 to +5 bonus depending on your level, and then if you are 5 levels over the target's level you can get a +5 to the roll.
So a level 17 vs a level 12 target (trap, enemy, doesn't matter, rolls are the same), and lots of buffs can lead to the above mentioned maximum roll. If you have all those advantages, then you are looking to average 15+10+10 or 35. This of course is everyone pouring everything into helping with this one roll.
Its important to note that this is rare and high level. So the end result is that high end armor and levels lead to Defenses maxing out around 32.
#ttrpg #gamedesign #anarchyrealms
I wonder how much info people like when keeping an eye on the development of a game? Do you want to see the numbers and charts? Do you want to see the failures? Or will having seen it be powerful make you wish it was again and hate the nerfed version, that is better for the game?
#ttrpg #gamedesign #dnd5e #dnd #anarchyrealms