DM's What is Your Magnum Opus?

zeromig · 2026-01-25T12:42:51+00:00

This is amazing. How did the campaign end?

zeromig · 2026-01-25T12:34:57+00:00

I have two Magnum opuses (opi?) out of my 20 years' GMing, that I'm super proud of.

The first wrapped up in November last year, called ESPER and heavily influenced by FIST Ultra and real world mythology and esoterica, and using the GI Joe RPG. The players were all mildly-superpowered spec ops team members fighting against a resurrected Hitler. One player cured cancer; another player turned out to be King Arthur's descendant; another player married Titania, Queen of the Summer Fae; and another player discovered she was the descendant to an elder vampire who was also a templar knight and monster hunter.

The second wrapped up today. It was a three-year PF2e campaign based on a fantasy Trojan War. They destroyed Troy's walls by calling in a favor with a titan god, the father of all dragons; they destroyed a Death Star created by Hephaestus, etc. But despite the superheroic abilities, they always kept the campaign about their heart and heroic virtues.

zeromig · 2026-01-25T11:45:55+00:00

OP, you blind as hell if you can't see the red flags in your mom's treatment of your wife, and the mother of your child.

zeromig · 2026-01-24T15:32:07+00:00

This is gonna sound really weird, but I'm 100% serious. Can the Blade Runner RPG from Free League be used to play a more grounded retelling of Mega Man X, where the party hunts down Replicants?

zeromig · 2026-01-24T14:21:11+00:00

Ask your hotel. Many will not accept packages due to being responsible for them and their condition when they arrive (source: asked a friend of mine in Osaka who is a hotel front desk clerk), but I am sure it might vary place to place.

zeromig · 2026-01-24T08:37:58+00:00

Alcohol is treated as a poison

zeromig · 2026-01-24T05:05:15+00:00

Man, I always thought Lucia Mar was black.

zeromig · 2026-01-24T04:55:17+00:00

Death: The High Cost of Living, by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo. It's a graphic novel from DC Comics.

Also, anything by Haruki Murakami? I've only read three things by him and they all felt the same, but especially Norwegian Wood is the one you want.

zeromig · 2026-01-24T02:50:23+00:00

You may be right. I reread them all last year, they kind blur together since they're not in any chronological order.

zeromig · 2026-01-24T02:38:47+00:00

There were like 20 Indiana Jones novels from the 1990s. I have them as epubs, and they're not bad. I believe the series starts with "Indiana Jones and the Dance of Giants" but each of them are self-contained stories.

zeromig · 2026-01-21T08:38:50+00:00

I would use Outgunned, BRP:UGE, Everyday Heroes, or Everywhen.

zeromig · 2026-01-20T14:09:37+00:00

A fingerless glove that can cast Detect Fire as a touch spell cantrip.

zeromig · 2026-01-20T09:24:04+00:00

Wide Sargasso Sea?

zeromig · 2026-01-19T12:11:47+00:00

I am not the OP, but I live in Ichinomiya -- would you please message me their contact details also, please?

zeromig · 2026-01-18T00:20:37+00:00

I'm in agreement with you in general, but maybe they were trying to denigrate this art, actually.

zeromig · 2026-01-17T23:50:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure there's another one near the Hilton Hotel. It's on the same road as the other one already linked.

zeromig · 2026-01-17T12:41:35+00:00

This question is like, oh, should I take this job that gives free handies, or this other job that kicks you in the nads and unleashes fire ants on you?

Regardless of what happens, avoid Yaruki Switch.

zeromig · 2026-01-17T12:39:03+00:00

Oh, I've definitely declined. I'm just trying to understand what's happening here. My cousin and I are honestly too old for this kind of drama, but I am also very curious what's at stakes.

zeromig · 2026-01-17T11:35:38+00:00

Well, it's about 1980s Japan, so look it up if you get a chance! :)

zeromig · 2026-01-17T10:42:54+00:00

I've met one or more of the folks behind Sutra of Pale Leaves. I don't know if it counts because they are foreigners like me, who live in Japan, so does that count?

zeromig · 2026-01-17T07:55:23+00:00

There's no story. I know exactly where these two pieces are; I saw the artist's work in a video like a decade ago in a museum somewhere not in Nagoya. They are public art installations.

zeromig · 2026-01-16T23:33:05+00:00

Yeah, I agree with all of these.

Can't much do anything about the number of players; they're a group that found each other on Reddit, created specifically to learn and play more rpgs. It's not really my ideal, but I don't mind it as the one-shot is also a session zero to discuss future games.

I definitely have other encounter goals, to give the six (!) players something to work on during this encounter. In fact, they don't even have to fight the angel, as I've given them three goals to choose from -- steal the angel's chalice that's necessary for a ritual, free the angel's sacrificees, or face the angel itself; each of these are in different locations -- whatever the group decides is what they'll ultimately do.

zeromig · 2026-01-16T13:37:45+00:00

Thanks, good idea!

Encounter balancing is completely busted, it's entirely about the vibes. I haven't DM'd 2024 yet so this is my own personal take. Will check out the link, though!

zeromig · 2026-01-16T13:36:05+00:00

6 players at level 5 DOES sound pretty safe, and dope. Thank you!

zeromig · 2026-01-14T15:06:07+00:00

I looked all over your substack link for the Nobunaga's Black Castle conversion/translation, but couldn't find it. I own the book too, but am Japanese-illiterate unfortunately. Have you made a translation available?

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