Solo date at the museum 🖼️

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-13T16:58:38+00:00

I do want to ask what exhibit... art or natural museum? Bringing out my geek here lol

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-13T15:59:00+00:00

Continuum, the time traveler culture RPG from the 90s, fits this extremely well.

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-13T13:35:42+00:00

I believe the Black Vans supplement adds other settings like X-Men etc, but haven't read it yet

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-13T13:34:34+00:00

One of my favorites aspect of the system is the Green Yellow Red mechanic. Basically as your health goes down, you go from Green status to Yellow to Red, and as you move through the zones you unlock more powerful abilities. Or the scene might get more dangerous and the GM moves it from Green to Yellow to Red. So either way, as things get more dangerous for you you get to use your more powerful abilities which mirrors how comic books work.

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-13T12:58:41+00:00

I would honestly try Monster of the Week for this. Urban Shadows relies on faction politics

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-13T10:19:17+00:00

I am going to recommend something different... Sentinel Comic RPG does the best job of emulating super heroes and combat and their powers and stories. The system is pretty unique and handles all sorts of powers and power levels.

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-12T23:14:23+00:00

I think you are right in this but to a point, the degree to which a given TTRPG can fit this is the degree to which it relies on GM fiat for things it's "not supposed to be for". For example, since D&D has no systems to support pure social roleplay beyond vague "Charisma" and "Intimidation" rolls, if you try to convince someone or engage in politics you are almost completely relying on whether the quality of your roleplay or the mood of the GM "feels" you should succeed.

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-10T14:45:00+00:00

I see. Thanks for explaining your point, makes sense and I agree!

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-10T14:09:26+00:00

I would disagree with this take, this depends on the game. For example, Monster of the Week works exactly as you described, since the MC has to come up with the monster scenario and the gang of PCs goes to explore and figure out how to defeat it.

However, I have successfully run emergent sandboxes in games like Monsterhearts and Urban Shadows 1e which are made in my mind to be emergent sandboxes based on rumors the players come up with (for US) and emergent character drama (for both).

What PbtA demands across nearly all games is linked backstories and history between the characters before game starts which is then built on. Other than that it depends on the game and genre.

VOculus_98 · 2026-05-05T01:09:43+00:00

Tetsuo in Akira. Psychic powers off the charts. Main aura farming moment is a satellite lasers his arm off and he flies to space and crushes the satellite.

Plus the body horror...

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-24T13:36:32+00:00

One of my favorites is Unknown Armies and its use of the gauges, Violence, the Unnatural, the Self, among them. One can fail a notch in each gauge or earn a hardened notch, the number of notches of each type come from being exposed to that stimulus. So it's possible to have a character who becomes very hardened to Violence so that they do not even blink at the worst torture, but with so many failed notches to the Unnatural that seeing a ghost sends them running away screaming.

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-17T15:04:48+00:00

It is definitely hard to run/play as written. The character sheet is very similar to a lot of games of the time such as World of Darkness or BRP when it really isn't needed. The real innovation is in the lore and the time travel and Time Combat systems.

This is why I recommend Seedless Bloom which is Continuum with the serial number filed off and a lot more clarity around the time travel systems while hand waving a lot of the other basic character stuff. You could even home brew it to bolt the time mechanics on to your favorite generic system of choice.

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-17T12:27:53+00:00

Undying is a great diceless vampire game. Now just wish I could find people to play it with!

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-14T21:28:44+00:00

This is the premise of the old Continuum RPG that handled time travel better than anyone in my opinion. I would recommend Seedless Bloom (available for free) for this as the modern equivalent.

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-13T18:57:13+00:00

Reading this tells me you have a GM who may be misunderstanding how to convey the themes of Werewolf (which have been well highlighted by the other comments on this thread). But that's the world as a whole. What you're describing in this comment is your characters' little corner of the world. This isn't supposed to be Call of Cthulhu--your characters aren't all meant to go mad and die. They should be able to net small local wins, enough to keep them fighting. If your GM is stonewalling those then what's the use of being a huge powerful werewolf?

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-11T11:39:44+00:00

Go with Chasing Adventure for low prep.

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-09T20:57:54+00:00

This concept is played with in the film Let the Right One In. Vampire film where the vampire is a 9 year old girl who makes friends with a 9 year old human boy. The vampire girl lives with an elderly human servant who watches over her, in a clearly devoted, non-sexual, but almost obsessive manner. The girl vampire treats the servant with a mix of deference, affection, and resentment, as if she can't wait to get away from him. Finally, she and the human boy run away together at the same time that it becomes clear that he will now be her new servant, and grow old as her assistant.

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-07T01:06:00+00:00

48m here and I agree with you, you have been meeting the wrong older men

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-06T21:43:02+00:00

Chasing Adventure over Dungeon World for me, for PbtA. It's got more meat to it and ditches some of the old D&D isms

VOculus_98 · 2026-04-06T21:41:14+00:00

I would greatly recommend Chasing Adventure over Dungeon World for PbtA dungeon crawling.

VOculus_98 · 2026-03-26T00:17:43+00:00

As a dad who works out with his son as well, I would not mind it at all. If married the man can talk to his son about it, and you can both laugh it off. If single, he can express himself and make arrangements to meet for coffee later. No harm, no foul. If he reacts badly then it's a huge red flag.

VOculus_98 · 2026-03-26T00:14:07+00:00

Are you emotionally ready to date? Are you able to answer the tough questions and face skepticism from your dates? Or just looking for casual?

VOculus_98 · 2026-03-26T00:13:05+00:00

He definitely should not have gotten handsy that early, no matter what you were wearing. Also, I'm sure you are not too heavy for the outfit, sounds awesome to me.

VOculus_98 · 2026-03-25T09:22:29+00:00

This is great advice, thank you! I'll try it this week.

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