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Webcomic offering you weekly satire to endure this sick, sad world. Not for the easily offended. You have been warned.

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I'd love, sometime, to discuss High-Trust Trad setting design, because it's something I love. But, it's non-essential.

Which is to say, I can easily run a campaign in the Champions universe, and it's hard to imagine a lower-trust setting than the Champions universe. The setting wouldn't even put a drag on the process; it wouldn't slow us down a bit. So, the setting doesn't much matter as long as it's one everyone at the table digs.

But, I still love HTT setting design.

GamesPeoplePlay ,
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@SJohnRoss While Champions is a terribly self-serving and disempowering piece of writing, I'm not sure I'd call any superhero setting "low trust." After all, (real) superhero games are where the GMing wheat is separated from the chaff. Not every writer can be Mark Waid, and not every GM can run a proper game for characters who are, by definition, meant to be immune to low-level plots.

Could you please elaborate on how you see Champions' earth Low-Trust?

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    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @SJohnRoss Please elaborate, how are such scarecrows "low trust"?

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    I will definitely never have the time to do this, but I would absolutely love doing a limited podcast series or blog series where each entry/episode is a reimagining/redesign of a classic Low-Trust Trad adventure to High-Trust Trad standards.

    Pick one from Traveller, one from Twilight 2000, one from RuneQuest, etc. Have a "season" of six, probably.

    Would be fun. Will not do. 😅

    How to Adapt a Trad RPG Adventure for High-Trust « Temporarily remove all presumptive elements. All the “fight scenes” and other loops, all the puzzles and riddles, Videogame Choices, menus, dongle-slots, ex- clusionaries, obey-to-proceed moments, player-facing cruft, and storytelling elements. Rip ‘em out, hard. * Whatever is left is the heart of the adventure. Center it, augment it, flesh it out until it's enough to engage the PCs for at least a full session. Make sure it ticks all the quality boxes you value, make sure the stakes are relevant to the PCs, and examine approaches to eliminate anything optimal that would flatten tactics or diminish characterizing potential. If there aren’t at least three problems that make the grade, you may have to add or expand some. Usually, the seeds are already there; they just need some TLC. © Now, you can stick the presumptive elements back in, as fun bits of fluff. Place them where the PCs can choose to engage if it suits their approach. Since you've already made sure to have a complete adven- ture without these elements, you can be as selective as you like when deciding to re-insert them. Keep the best, ditch the rest.
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    • GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @SJohnRoss Hard Mode: Try it with any of Paizo's multi-book Second Order Idiot Plots that IS NOT RISE OF THE RUNELORDS (since that one is the only one that had the decency of giving you the full adventure summary in book 1, thus allowing you to adapt for changes).

    Jackgiantkiller , (edited ) to random
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    Wanted: 5 more new heroes to save Sunset City from the rise of supervillains in the wake of strange meteor strikes.

    https://startplaying.games/adventure/clwjmgo0g001qw9x0nv63no5t

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @Jackgiantkiller Someone sign up for this game! Don't make baby Jesus cry.

    Jackgiantkiller , to random
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    Starting June 17th, and played every other week. I've got five seats open to be the first superheroes in a new world. Fight villains and keep Sunset City safe! Will you work within the law, or turn your attention to injustices the law won't touch...or even protects?

    https://startplaying.games/adventure/clwjmgo0g001qw9x0nv63no5t

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @Jackgiantkiller PL 8? So you're aiming for street level? The Spoiler? (definitely not Cassandra Cain, let alone Damian) Luke Cage? Punisher? (your pitch is clearly iron age since it declares a corrupt state).

    I need to ask: Which are your three main influences in what you consider the superhero genre?

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    @Jackgiantkiller I wish you all the luck. Every time someone starts a M&M table, an angel gets their wings! (It happens to be my favorite game)

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    New!

    Old Gods and Young Guns is a system-agnostic setting for a space fantasy western setting mashing up Jack Kirby cosmic comics with a space western setting.

    https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Old-Gods-and-Young-Guns-Print-PDF.html

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    @ipr Not only interesting setting.... system agnostic, so even better!

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    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @robindlaws Was it the entrance to the Xandor Tower building by chance?

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    When I look at you, I see the story in your eyes.
    When we're dancing, the night begins to shine!
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=uR131fc2pZY

    P.S. You can talk about much smack as you want about Teen Titans Go! It won't change how fun it is or how much their songs slap.

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @thoughtpunks Ok, it's time we talk about... "the song."

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    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @robindlaws I keep asking this guy about your books, but he insists he isn't related to Pelgrane:

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    @epidiah The world moves too fast today, and memes expire within days. Furthermore, even when videogame publishers can get away with keeping Masterchief around forever, movie studios can't say the same (Hugh Jackman said it: "It's wolvering the one who doesn't grow old, not me"). You'd have to look specifically among decade-long franchises like Fast and the Furious, since being "ever present" is the only way movies have to stick in the minds of a generation with the attention span of a gnat.

    SJohnRoss , (edited ) to random
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    Ugh. Just saw someone blatantly violating my copyright over on Ye Merrye Drive Thru, to the tune of an entire book.

    I strongly suspect it's an innocent mistake, something devoid of malice or sneaky intent ... but ugh. I mostly just hate having to email the DTRPG people; they've never been easy to work with on anything, and previous copyright-violation issues have been minor nightmares.

    #TTRPGPublishing

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @SJohnRoss If you give me all data I'd need to file a report, I'll be glad to help you and report that person.

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    @robindlaws Probably the only reason the police doesn't suspect it's a money laundering scheme is that it would be too obvious.

    LeviKornelsen , to random
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    If Evil Genius games has been revealed to be, let's say, not genius, while Evil Hat games is known to be not evil...

    ...Symmetry demands that the sentient hat be real.

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @LeviKornelsen You clearly don't remember Evil Hat resorting to mafia tactics to blacklist from OBS small-fry publishers Fred Hicks didn't like. I wouldn't blame you, it was about ten years ago (also, history is written by the victors).

    I don't care if it was just some little OSR edgelord, or if this edgelord was friends with "deplorables;" the moment you resort to corpo mafia tactics, you lose any moral high ground and become one with Gygax (either Gygax, neither was a saint).

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @LeviKornelsen By all means, be my guest.

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    Some thoughts about metacurrencies in and how they can interact with social encounters

    https://loottheroom.uk/metacurrencies-agency-in-social-encounters

    I’ve been thinking about “meta-currencies” in roleplaying games – those resources that allow players to interact directly with the mechanisms of a game without really having any reflection in the fictional world. I’ve also been thinking about how often people talk about wanting their games (especially dungeon fantasy games) to have more ways for characters to influence social encounters.
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    @loottheroom Read FATE or Mutants and Masterminds for examples. You use Fate/Hero points and channel one of your relevant Aspects/Skill-related advantages.

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @loottheroom Then you came up with a completely different definition of Metagame Currency as the rest of the hobby.

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    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @robindlaws So the current Musk fans are because of the meteor then?

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    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @epidiah This is probably the best post all day!

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    A friend of mine is seeking some opinions on RPG systems, and has a survey that takes a few minutes. Maybe you can fill it out to provide them some data?

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGxBW1MQKqAr8H6Cp9wV4j_RchR5MhBy1jbA9eMBkMoR7VJA/viewform

    GamesPeoplePlay ,
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    @nickwedig Misery Tourism is not my bag so I'm not the right target demo, but your friend needs to ask themself: "What does my game bring to the table that Dungeon World and Shadow of the Demon Lord don't already?"

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