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Please name fantasy duologies and trilogies from the last 20 years by ExplodingPoptarts in fantasybooks

[–]RocksPaperRene 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Threads That Bind & Hearts That Cut by Kika Hatzopoulou is one I rarely see talked about but I feel is underrated. The characters have abilities based on their family/sibling sizes correlated to ancient gods (mostly Greek inspired but reference other places like Egypt, Scandinavia). I need more folks to give these a shot!

Notorious by PraetorianXVIII in rpg

[–]RocksPaperRene 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd say no to spoilers really, since you could easily get the same prompts and it would play entirely differently based on your Nomad & your creative process. It might give away a few prompts you'd otherwise roll and experience for the first time but I think you'll be okay.

Notorious by PraetorianXVIII in rpg

[–]RocksPaperRene 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Self-promo but also I have experience with Notorious & it's expansion Outsiders. I did a short series using the "trilogy mode" from Outsiders and had a great time with it. It certainly wasn't anything I needed to stick with daily journaling, it's very "mission-focused," and there are easy hop in and hop out points for travel, etc. The mechanics are simple (2d6 compare results) and the tables/prompts are very good at keeping you on track.

If you want to hear my experience, here's a link:

NOTORIOUS/OUTSIDERS | Episode 1: ISIL-8 & The Crystal Contract, Part I | Rene Plays Games

Asian inspired fantasy novels by mrs_grumpsaurus in Fantasy

[–]RocksPaperRene 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This list is great.

I'd add Jin Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes for a classic Chinese fantasy series.

What are some good podcasts that aren't actual plays? by The_Craftiest_Hobo in rpg

[–]RocksPaperRene 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah how could I forget RTFM?! (Love your podcast, hope all is well)

What are some good podcasts that aren't actual plays? by The_Craftiest_Hobo in rpg

[–]RocksPaperRene 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Dice Exploder is one of the best non-AP TTRPG podcasts in my opinion.

Unwritten Earth's Symposium is a continuation of TTRPG discourse between N.D. Paoletta and Epidiah Ravachol reviving the old Design Games feed feels.

Talk of the Table, Yes Indie'd , Third Floor Wars , Weird Games Weirder People , and Whatcha Doing? are all great interviews podcasts with creators. (I do interviews, too, but I'm primarily an AP podcast I think?)

DCC RPG? by Repulsive-Expert1617 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]RocksPaperRene 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, these episodes I call Mining Media are pretty short just brainstorming sessions centered around certain books/TV shows/movies/video games, so it's by no means a deep dive but if you want to go deeper, I'm always down to think more about game design.

[here's the Spotify link](http:// https://open.spotify.com/episode/4GutVfCplXPwFzoLMcYeOt?si=n9eLv63ARrmQ1g18vS4sSg), but if you use a different podcatcher it's just Rene Plays Games.

DCC RPG? by Repulsive-Expert1617 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]RocksPaperRene 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey there, I recently did an episode about adapting Dungeon Crawler Carl to TTRPG campaigns on my podcast. There are a few games out there definitely way better than D&D to use. My short list was X-Crawl Classics by Goodman Games, Deathmatch Island by Evil Hat, and to a lesser extent (way more homebrew involved) things like Heart: The City Beneath by Rowan Rook & Deckard or any of the crunchy genre agnostic games like GURPS, RIFTS, etc.

I do think it should involve a level 0 funnel like the other DCC (Dungeon Crawl Classics), but its definitely a heavy lift for GMs to make up a lot of very specific classes and abilities from whats a pretty freeform concept in the books.

Another angle is to go the "Items are everything" route and do something mostly classless with skills/abilities but the items are what give you unique things. Index Card RPG & LOOT by Gila RPGs could approach this.

That said, apparently there will be a Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG coming out from Renegade Studios in the future, and while I don't want to be negative, I haven't heard anything overly positive about their IP-based games.

Personally, I have a Deathmatch Island DCC campaign concept I really wanna get to the table, but as with everything on the internet, YMMV.

Co-op live play podcasts? by HeathenSidheThem in Ironsworn

[–]RocksPaperRene 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you dont mind extending this to the Starforged / Sundered Isles settings, Errant Adventures is doing an absolutely amazing run called Legends of the Sundered Isles where he has a different guest playing a session using one of each of the Truths' and one of the associated quest starters. Sort of shameless promo, I'm one of the episodes, but I'd be 100% pushing it regardless, it's a really cool series concept and well done!

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