#RPGaDay2023 Day 31: To choose my favourite #ttrpg, I need to think in terms of the only one I'd keep if I ever had to, and that would be #Hillfolk. Its system, #DramaSystem, allows me to imagine any kind of setting on the fly, and to help generate that side of the #rpg hobby I absolutely love above anything else: emotions, in the characters, in order to be felt by the players afterwards. I love drama & I love #DramaSystem. @robindlaws @pelgranepress #jdr #RPGaDay #FirstEdition #FirstEditionRPG

#RPGaDay2023 Day 31: To choose my favourite #ttrpg, I need to think in terms of the only one I'd keep if I ever had to, and that would be #Hillfolk. Its system, #DramaSystem, allows me to imagine any kind of setting on the fly, and to help generate that side of the #rpg hobby I absolutely love above anything else: emotions, in the characters, in order to be felt by the players afterwards. I love drama & I love #DramaSystem. @robindlaws @pelgranepress #jdr #RPGaDay #FirstEdition #FirstEditionRPG

#RPGaDAY2023 Day 27: I'd love a new edition of #Hillfolk, maybe with a clearer name: #DramaSystem. I'm sure there's been a lot of retex in the last 10 years, plus storygames are more popular now & many drama oriented #ttrpgs could provide some inspiration. Some rules could be improved, other ones heavily revised, I'd love to see plug-in tools to add it to any #ttrpg.
I love how fantastic Hillfolk already is. I'd love it to be even better! @robindlaws @pelgranepress #RPGaDAY #rpg #jdr

#RPGaDAY2023 Day 27: I'd love a new edition of #Hillfolk, maybe with a clearer name: #DramaSystem. I'm sure there's been a lot of retex in the last 10 years, plus storygames are more popular now & many drama oriented #ttrpgs could provide some inspiration. Some rules could be improved, other ones heavily revised, I'd love to see plug-in tools to add it to any #ttrpg.
I love how fantastic Hillfolk already is. I'd love it to be even better! @robindlaws @pelgranepress #RPGaDAY #rpg #jdr

#RPGaDAY2023 Day 22: My best 2nd-hand #ttrpg purchase was #Hillfolk & #BloodontheSnow, a couple of hours before sitting at my very 1st Hillfolk game, run by @RobinDLaws himself. He signed my books, and I absolutely fell in love with his #rpg. So much so that #DramaSystem is now one of the rules set I used the most. Then a few years later I got to purchase the token bag & the card deck, 2nd-hand too. Sweet memories! #jdr @PelgranePress #RPGaDAY

#RPGaDAY2023 Day 22: My best 2nd-hand #ttrpg purchase was #Hillfolk & #BloodontheSnow, a couple of hours before sitting at my very 1st Hillfolk game, run by @robindlaws himself. He signed my books, and I absolutely fell in love with his #rpg. So much so that #DramaSystem is now one of the rules set I used the most. Then a few years later I got to purchase the token bag & the card deck, 2nd-hand too. Sweet memories! #jdr @pelgranepress #RPGaDAY

#RPGaDAY2023 Day 17: I've ran and played many games and many game sessions that were fun, as in smart, thrilling, hilarious, but right off the top of my head, I'd say the funniest game I have in mind is a very recent one I run: #TheGoodPlace with #DramaSystem. The Drama scenes were so witty and clever, wild and crazy, and I had to put my microphone on mute so many times as I was laughing so loudly! What a game! #ttrpg #rpg #jdr #Hillfolk @pelgranepress @robindlaws @foundryvtt #RPGaDAY

#RPGaDAY2023 Day 17: I've ran and played many games and many game sessions that were fun, as in smart, thrilling, hilarious, but right off the top of my head, I'd say the funniest game I have in mind is a very recent one I run: #TheGoodPlace with #DramaSystem. The Drama scenes were so witty and clever, wild and crazy, and I had to put my microphone on mute so many times as I was laughing so loudly! What a game! #ttrpg #rpg #jdr #Hillfolk @pelgranepress @robindlaws @foundryvtt #RPGaDAY

I've just discovered that @pelgranepress, publisher of my two favourite systems, namely #DramaSystem and #Gumshoe, is preparing a new #One-2-One game called #FirstEdition. This new #ttrpg will mix both systems, so try to figure out how excited I am now! Pelgrane Press, you were already the best, and now you've managed to become even bester! @robindlaws #Hillfolk #GumshoeOne2One #rpg #jdr
https://pelgranepress.com/2023/08/05/first-edition/

I've just discovered that @pelgranepress, publisher of my two favourite systems, namely #DramaSystem and #Gumshoe, is preparing a new #One-2-One game called #FirstEdition. This new #ttrpg will mix both systems, so try to figure out how excited I am now! Pelgrane Press, you were already the best, and now you've managed to become even bester! @robindlaws #Hillfolk #GumshoeOne2One #rpg #jdr
https://pelgranepress.com/2023/08/05/first-edition/

I'm reading through #Hillfolk #TTRPG (by @robindlaws) for the first time, and finding it really eye-opening.

I suspect these ideas will significantly change how I run and play games.

Makes me reflect on past changes / insights to how I play games: the Threefold model, Aria worldbuilding, Pendragon heredity, System Matters, Feng Shui's stunts, inviting vs avoiding conflict, Burning Wheel's failing forward, improv's "yes and", etc.

What games or concepts built up your gaming paradigm?

I've finally managed to start GMing a game of #DramaSystem using #TheGoodPlace as a setting. Tonight we created the characters and we've already had such a blast! Besides, it's always a joy and honour to welcome newcomers to the #ttrpg hobby, people who got there with some DnD expectations about #rpg and who end up excited by a completely different approach. @robindlaws @pelgranepress @foundryvtt #Hillfolk

I've finally managed to start GMing a game of #DramaSystem using #TheGoodPlace as a setting. Tonight we created the characters and we've already had such a blast! Besides, it's always a joy and honour to welcome newcomers to the #ttrpg hobby, people who got there with some DnD expectations about #rpg and who end up excited by a completely different approach. @robindlaws @pelgranepress @foundryvtt #Hillfolk

My copy of the #TheFallOfHouseProsh #RPG has arrived. Looks like an intriguing mix of #BelongingOutsideBelonging and #Hillfolk. I need to think about what the right group will be to pitch a game might be...

@PlaneSailingGames @pelgranepress @AllenVarney The way I see things, from a France-based perspective, #Hillfolk was released when story games started to gain traction but were still quite impopular. Nowadays, it's easier to find players with similar tastes and the glut with story games and narration-oriented RPGs make it easier to run #DramaSystem.
So perhaps just give it another go by dropping the procedural scenes altogether and by just sticking to the dramatic ones. That will be easier.

#Hillfolk / #DramaSystem has had a HUGE impact on me as a player, as a GM but also on that tiny "storyteller" side of my job as an English teacher.
One of my favourite roleplaying games ever hands down. #ttrpg #rpg #jdr @pelgranepress @AllenVarney https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023Hillfolk

#Hillfolk / #DramaSystem has had a HUGE impact on me as a player, as a GM but also on that tiny "storyteller" side of my job as an English teacher.
One of my favourite roleplaying games ever hands down. #ttrpg #rpg #jdr @pelgranepress @AllenVarney https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023Hillfolk

#Hillfolk, designed by @robindlaws is on sale at the Bundle of Holding
#ttrpg
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023Hillfolk

I had a lot of fun running a campaign of this for my local group a few years ago.

Just in time to run the fight to control a media empire, crash survivors concealing their dark secret, or a barbarian hill raiders working out their family issues, Hillfolk returns for a limited time to the Bundle of Holding.

#TTRPG #roleplaying #Hillfolk #DramaSystem

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023Hillfolk

Voilà, Gastro Maestro c'est fini. Ce #SeriesPitch maison pour #DramaSystem avait des airs de #Fiasco avec des rebondissements apocalyptiques. Et qu'est-ce que j'ai ri! Mais j'ai ri! Ce fut une excellente partie, j'avoue. #jdr #Hillfolk