Graeme Patrick

#ttrpg Scenario Writer, Artist, Running RPG Nook, &
Writing Gold ENnie Award-winning Podcast @aintslayed

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@ForestedDepth Form follows function, if the text's primary function is to be read, then i'd consider almost anything else. You don't have to do anything normally, look at Mork Borg. But harmonic colours are not something you want to put text in.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@ForestedDepth who hurt you... why is it lemon text on sky blue, can't read that at all.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@Zwitterionstrat @PedroColsones @ForestedDepth It's clearly not, they are calculating the encounter, that isn't a story choice, its a gaming choice. A story choice would be considering if they should kill them, or spare them, talk them down, taking into account repercussions of the death. The wishes of the noble, the law, etc

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@Zwitterionstrat @PedroColsones @ForestedDepth It's a lack of creativity to just give up and allow the PC to just kill the NPC thoughtlessly because mechanics dictate that he can do so without harm. Who does that? Removing the RP element from RPG is insane. Mechanic describe the world, but they aren't the story.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@Zwitterionstrat @PedroColsones @ForestedDepth The Noble could be a pacifist, and killing the thief would have the PC hauled up on charges. The blade could be poisoned, and be far more deadly. The Thief could be a brother of some other noble, playing at bandit. All sorts of consequences can come from attacking this bandit.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@Zwitterionstrat @PedroColsones @ForestedDepth Most systems acknowledge they cannot possibly cover all possibilities, and a ruling should be decided on by the GM. Hell, even wargames do this, breaking the rules is in the rules.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@PedroColsones @ForestedDepth Even in the bloat of Dnd, you can introduce balancing factors such as poisons, etc to make it far more dangerous than see on a surface level. So i still think this is a player/GM issue more than one of HP. And being wounded is also not something to be sniffed at in most systems.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@PedroColsones @ForestedDepth Walking dead reduces HP to 4 conditions. And i've seen a few other methods. But all are HP by any other name. Like walking dead, which is basically everyone has 4 hp. If you have some suggestions that i could look at that offer a better alt, i'll give them a look.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@PedroColsones @ForestedDepth I see what you are going for, but this is still metaing the game, pushing aside the RP for a fairly callous approach. But if everything has the possibility to 1 shot you, then the problem goes away. A knife in CoC, can kill you, outright. The math always = possible death.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@PedroColsones @ForestedDepth This is a problem with the system, not HP. In CoC, a lowly thug with a table leg can kill you. Secondly, the player you are describing is meta gaming. Which is just a bit sad to see. Third, you are restricting yourself to the rules as written. Knife to the neck=lethal.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@ForestedDepth Horror comes in two parts, where most horror fails is at the table as the players or the GM don't set and keep the tone, constantly reverting to humour and in jokes. Secondly most horror in games is hammer horror, all visual trope, with no real stakes or consequences.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@Gothnog @DriveThruRPG I had a feeling that's how it began, i've gotten a lot of use out of those guides! Great Scenario.

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

Call of Cthulhu: Pipeline - Miskatonic Repository Round Table. After a long break we are back with more breakdowns. Listen to post mortem discussion on this excellent 80s survival horror. #ttrpgcommunity, Found only on @DriveThruRPG

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[The Billowing Hilltop @Billowinghillto]

Prepping for @FreeLeaguePub Blade Runner and the @aintslayed Electric Dreams is wonderful.

If a blend of AP and audio drama is your thing, I would highly recommend.

But not to my players because spoilers, obvs.

#bladerunner #ttrpg

[Harmony Ginger @Gingerblast]

This is exactly right. If I found out my DM fudged a roll to keep me alive, I'd bow out of the campaign.

Risk is an important part of the game and failing to enforce the consequences of the risks taken by players is patronizing.

[The Folk Horror Consortium @folkhorrorforum]

OAK APPLES-

OAK APPLE DAY 1975,LITTLE SNEDDING

Put May 29th in your diary as it's the day millions across the British Isles adorn themselves with twigs,leaves and little oak apples and strut around their local village square like it were some kind of Paris catwalk

[Author🦑John A DeLaughter🦑 @HPL_JDeLaughter]

💀The house was never regarded as “haunted”. There were no tales of rattling chains, cold currents of air, extinguished lights, or faces at the window. What was really beyond dispute is that a frightful proportion of persons died there🎨Yogsothery Art💀#HPLovecraft #Lovecraftian

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

5. A futuristic cybernetic german shepherd

[Graeme Patrick @RPGNook]

@kat_clay Ran it twice a few years ago, there isn't too many things like running a 18 month campaign of this calibre.