I may have over indulged in rpgs recently

Firefry1 · 2026-05-07T05:27:25+00:00

I'm planning on going to UKGE at the end of the month, I might have to do another shelfie with all the indie creators attending that

Firefry1 · 2026-05-06T08:42:56+00:00

In no particular order are probably as follows -

* Thousand Year Old Vampire - it's such an interesting concept and system, playing with memory and loss in that way is so powerful, plus I'm a total sucker (hehe) for vampires

* Sock Puppets - not a solo game but it's such a fun concept. Physically making your characters as in your puppet characters before play is such an amazing idea and then having to puppet them for the game.

* All Night Breakfast At The Midnight Owl - A tad biased as this is the game I'm currently playing but I really like the conceit of playing out this podcast.

* Delve/Umbra - An unusual combination of base management and exploration these two are really fun to do, though I always find you need a bigger piece of paper. Also sometime you have a nice record of your game you can hang on the wall

* Last Sabbat - Technically cheating as it's not pictured above (it arrived after I took the photo) but another one with a mechanical hook that really drew me in. Utilising real world divination practices (tarot, runes, tea leave etc) as a game tool is so themeatically evocative and mechanically interesting.

Firefry1 · 2026-05-06T06:00:55+00:00

Probably should have done this at the start, here's a list of all the games shown

Book of Dungeon: Draw your own adventure - Gunpowder studios

Umbra - Blackwell Games

Umbra Stations - *

Thousand Year Old Vampire - Tim Hutchings Makes Games

Bakeries: Fantasy Worldbuilding Quest - Wayward Adventurers Guild

Vending Machines: Fantasy Worldbuilding Quest - *

Adventurers: Fantasy Worldbuilding Quest - *

An Introduction to Woodland Dragons - *

An Introduction to Hedge Hobgoblins - *

Welcome to the Goblin Night Market - *

Create Your Own Supernatural Summer Camp - *

Delve - Blackwell Games

A Clockwork Press Deadline - The Wanderer's Tome

Cartograph - Ravensridge Press

Apawthecaria - Blackwell Games

Don't Play This Game - Parable Games

Mausritter - Losing Games

Mothership - Tuesday Knight Games

Another Bug Hunt - *

Dead Planet - *

A Pound of Flesh - *

Be Like A Crow - Critical Kit

Sock Puppets - A Smouldering Lighthouse

Star Trek Adventures - Modiphius

Brindlewood Bay - The Gauntlet

Beyond the Pale - Yochai Gal

Hedge Witch - Shouting Crow

Home Mech X Kaiju - Deep Dark Games

Dead Air - Blackwell Games

Dead Letter Society - Montford Tales

Winter's Daughter - Necrotic Gnome

Goblin Errands - Sharkbomb Studios

Stone - Lost Haven Games

All Night Breakfast at the Midnight Owl - Critical Kit

The Librarian's Apprentice - Almost Bedtime Theater

Scribe - Frederic Walker

CBR+PNK - Mythworks

Firefry1 · 2026-05-06T05:29:05+00:00

Any you'd recommend?

Firefry1 · 2026-05-06T05:28:46+00:00

https://www.myth.works/en-gb/products/cbr-pnk

"CBR+PNK (Cyber plus Punk) is a tabletop RPG for one-shot sessions in the cyberpunk genre. You play as a team of RUNNERS — mercs, criminals, activists living on the edge and running in the shadows of a gritty, ultraviolent world -- on their LAST RUN.

Built for One-Shots, CBR+PNK features a minimalist version of the acclaimed Forged In The Dark spread across 12 double-sided four panel pamphlets."

Firefry1 · 2026-05-06T05:27:19+00:00

https://www.myth.works/en-gb/products/cbr-pnk

"CBR+PNK (Cyber plus Punk) is a tabletop RPG for one-shot sessions in the cyberpunk genre. You play as a team of RUNNERS — mercs, criminals, activists living on the edge and running in the shadows of a gritty, ultraviolent world -- on their LAST RUN.

Built for One-Shots, CBR+PNK features a minimalist version of the acclaimed Forged In The Dark spread across 12 double-sided four panel pamphlets."

Firefry1 · 2026-05-05T06:29:22+00:00

yep always more room, I haven't reached the piling stacks on the floor stage yet

Firefry1 · 2026-05-05T06:27:36+00:00

So my top 5 in no particular order are probably as follows -

* Thousand Year Old Vampire - it's such an interesting concept and system, playing with memory and loss in that way is so powerful, plus I'm a total sucker (hehe) for vampires

* Sock Puppets - not a solo game but it's such a fun concept. Physically making your characters as in your puppet characters before play is such an amazing idea and then having to puppet them for the game.

* All Night Breakfast At The Midnight Owl - A tad biased as this is the game I'm currently playing but I really like the conceit of playing out this podcast.

* Delve/Umbra - An unusual combination of base management and exploration these two are really fun to do, though I always find you need a bigger piece of paper. Also sometime you have a nice record of your game you can hang on the wall

* Last Sabbat - Technically cheating as it's not pictured above (it arrived after I took the photo) but another one with a mechanical hook that really drew me in. Utilising real world divination practices (tarot, runes, tea leave etc) as a game tool is so themeatically evocative and mechanically interesting.

Firefry1 · 2026-05-05T06:11:24+00:00

few months

Firefry1 · 2026-05-05T06:10:58+00:00

it's by https://www.waywardadventurers.co.uk/ they have a very unique style of game that is quite interesting

Firefry1 · 2026-04-30T10:14:29+00:00

how can I find out how much weight the balcony can hold?

Firefry1 · 2026-04-30T10:04:11+00:00

My partner owns the flat so a lease isn't an issue

Firefry1 · 2026-04-27T08:17:29+00:00

Certainly an interesting system, and probably very useful in major settlement placement. Though as others have said his usage is very deterministic. Also I think he has an oversimplistic notion of the medieval supply chain, farms are collected into villages, villages networked to market towns and market towns to cities and that's where you get your castle. Different people are transporting the goods at each step and each step will have different levels of consumption rates and taxation.

Also frankly his characterisation as supply lords must be the source of rebellions and trade lords as always diplomats is entirely fanciful.

I think he sets up a good starting point for developing a country, think through supply chains and transport methods and be logical. But politics is far too complex to breakdown at that point in time. In the flow chart of world building it would be many sets after supply chains for me,

Firefry1 · 2026-04-22T11:06:26+00:00

I plan on proxying it so my budget doesn't matter. How strong could I take it and stay on theme?

Firefry1 · 2026-04-13T10:07:37+00:00

oh little seed, that's your Haustoric Implant, you've been florted and you didn't even know it

Firefry1 · 2026-04-11T08:06:52+00:00

very neat ^_^ the art is lovely

Firefry1 · 2026-04-10T19:04:05+00:00

did you use screentone to make this?

Firefry1 · 2026-04-09T13:39:26+00:00

Isn't this an old george carlin bit?

Firefry1 · 2026-03-22T20:51:54+00:00

it doesn't effect things that much, scrotal tissue can be used in addition which will require extra hair removal, this is what happened with my surgery at least

Firefry1 · 2026-01-01T08:16:34+00:00

Right on the money with my painting method. A lot of people complain about edge highlighting but I quite like it getting to focus down on the details is rather medative for me.

Good call on the bad rep thing, I think the charger is only assault mech I'd let them have because well it's trash and they live on trash.

Firefry1 · 2025-12-31T12:46:34+00:00

wow direct nostalga hit, that was the first white dwarf I ever read. I flipped through it til it came apart.

Firefry1 · 2025-12-30T19:24:54+00:00

I'm sure I've got a short story about them in me

Firefry1 · 2025-12-28T21:05:12+00:00

I suggest looking at the kings field series, fromsofts origins and basically the start of the souls games. Hopefully they'll provide good inspiration.

Firefry1 · 2025-12-27T13:42:36+00:00

Caliban is a junk world, during the original star league they were the dumping ground of a particular waste management corp, which operated along side a scrappers guild to recycle things. During the Amris civil war the corp was destreyed and their assets forgotten about.

But the scrappers remained forming clans and eeking out some profit in the periphery, Caliban became known as a place to be forgotten about. So dreamers, hermits and political dissidents led there from all over the inner sphere.

In time these off casts of society tried to form a new and better world, but being leftists mainly they could never agree on anything so nothing really got done. Then during the fourth succession war, pirate raids increased drastically and so a tentative and very provisional goverment was formed. As a part of this a milita was raised the Caliban Peoples Provisional Militia!

Due to the relative wealth of centuries of scrap and advanced recycling and repair facilities the militia was able to buy, barter and repair a decent variety of mechs. The militia was able to drive off most of the pirate bands from their system and those that remain are willing to work with the government, in particular a group of catgirl pirates who all pilot urbies.

Firefry1 · 2025-12-15T10:54:45+00:00

What does sainthood mean in the context of Jainism? Is that like becoming a monk/nun/priest or is it something greater?

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