Yeah that is my vague memory of how it went
We were instrumentally trying to keep Fatgris happy because he could lead us to the Vale of Crypts and the Eye of Zalmoxxis and those sounded like things we would probably be interested in dealing with
Okay I’m joining yet another campaign, this time in the Genesys system (which I’m told is derived from an older Star Wars tabletop system). It’ll be in modern-day, and will probably involve us jumping dimensions. We are mercenaries, that’s all we have to design around.
I’m getting pretty decent at an Entrapta voice, so I’m going to make my character a nerdy scientist/programmer/biologist type. Thinking of naming her “Dr. Linda Hyde”.
THE TWIST is that she has a rare degenerative bone disease that will for sure be the end of her, causing her to lose the use of her legs and all that. But, in searching for a cure, she came upon a yeerk-like brain slug that, once bonded with its host, gives a slew of abilities, among them healing enough to keep the disease at bay.
The parasite, which I’ve decided will look like a Skrill from Earth: Final Conflict, sits at the base of the neck, under her long hair. I’m thinking of calling it “Illim”, and having it be a Las Plagas-style ancient being that’s jumped from host to host throughout history, usually dominating them and taking complete control. With Hyde, she is willing sharing a body with it, so it doesn’t need to fight against its host for a body.
DM is letting me detach the brain slug from Hyde and attach to minion-level characters to take them over. I just have to pass a check to dominate the mind.
Two things I’m still trying to figure out:
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What abilities she’ll have. I guess she’ll be primarily there to hack computers, do medical stuff, and use her historical knowledge from the parasite.
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What she’ll look like. Kinda wanted something akin to civilian-clothes Doc Ock from Spiderverse. Also considering Darlene Alderson from Mr. Robot, but, she seems too confident for the shaky, Entrapta-like persona.
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It’s hard to even put myself in the mindset of creating a modern-day character. I’m D&D poisoned
Ever since I was a teenager though I’ve had an enduring desire to make and play a ttrpg character that could justify the use of this art:
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I’m remembering a character we did for a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen game based on 20s-40s American culture. I had FDR who had retreated from public life at the end of WWII to run the coming espionage engines of the cold war
and built himself hydraulic legs
since this was GURPs I just put all my points into a kick ability (and patrician-ness), including an ‘energy’ requirement. So he still rode around in his wheelchair, but once he stood up, you knew a fight was serious
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someone just linked this insane larp proposal in a facebook group for everyone’s amusement, and now i am posting it here
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Branson
isn’t this just richard garriott’s house
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this is just a cult
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Pretty sweet way to get some free servants
i finally got a copy of ryuutama, and it’s one of the nicest-looking books i’ve seen! the game seems really interesting, too. i might even try to play it at some point 
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i keep meaning to properly read mine… what kind of adventure would you run? also curious about where you found a copy, did you have to get it online?
not only did i have to get it online, i had to place a backorder with a site based in london and it took 2 and a half months for them to actually get it! but they were the first uk site i’d seen that had it listed as “backorder” and not just “out of stock”. (and ordering a big hardback book from the us is impractical because the us has the worst shipping prices of any country i’ve ordered anything from)
since its a game all about locations and such, i’d want an adventure based around discovering unusual or surreal locales.
or maybe a more down to earth story about various characters travelling from a small village to the big city, all for their own reasons.
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I’ve played one session of our “one shot to try it out” so far, 50% setup 50% playing which ended up mostly trying desperately not to die from walking across a field
I really liked the collaborative world-building, the way stats compound, and all the flavor stuff I’ve read in the books
It’s quite possible I’ve posted this before, I do not really have a memory anymore
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My pathfinder group meets once a week on Sundays and all I wanna do is play more um yeah supSB D&D thread
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Weekly dnd seems impossible, congratulations you’re living the dream
Seriously, I had a every-other-week meetup for a bit and now we are like once every two months.
i run two tables right now and kts wild how one can meet up almost every week and the other one can gwt together like once a month and always has to wrap up after like two hours
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I really wanna do a oneshot or something, tbh
Got a regular, weekly meetup on Sun morning (5 people), and another one that everyone votes on each week (8+).
I think the key thing for that second weekly one is that you can just not show up to them, and the game will still progress. The DM’s real flexible and just has missing characters go off somewhere for that session. That makes it so if there’s one or two people that can’t do a day, but everyone else can, the game still happens.
The other thing that’s worked is scheduling it two weeks in advance. Plans usually haven’t firmed up by then, so more people can agree to it.
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