So, after todays #SessionZero I have a Grumpy Dryad Mechanic and a Cheerful Clockwork Student, hanging out in a (officially) nonexistant and (actually) somewhat shady department of the gormenghastian University of Dis.

Also mentioned: Longstanding feuds between the Department of Longivity and the Department of Immortality, asassination-to-prove-a-thesis, the one insufferable dude who thinks he knows EVERYTHING because he read the fantasy equivalent of Hegel and flying machines.

#planarchcodex #rpg

Huh, todays "Session None" went well and, if all wrks out, we'll have a #SessionZero next friday!

It's planned to be a #PlanarchCodex game, most likely using #WorldOfDungeons and run on Roll20. :blobaww:

Ok, I think I'm up to, like, 3 half-baked #PlanarchCodex campaigns ideas?

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If this keeps going on I might actually do a zine for them, because, well, publishing something counts as #ghostofdone, right? XD

Or maybe they are one of the Firecats of Kara, but as the dragons talons slash at them, their fire goes out a bit and they grow cold.

So characters would change and be weakened as they get hurt, but still be able to survive lots of stuff. Until they are all out of lives, that is.

What I haven't figured out is how to handle less-than-fatal injury without resorting to hitpoints (Ugh.) and whether that's actually important?

#rpg #idea #PbtA #PlanarchCodex

Players then individually choose 3-4 additional traits that are specific to the kind of cat they are. Maybe they come from a plane where cats can fly or are made of shadows! Maybe they belong to a secretive order of warrior cats.

Either way, these mostly work like Heritage Moves in #PlanarchCodex.

So every cat character has ~9 of these aspects describe both the general as well as the specific way they are Cat.

#rpg #WoDun #PbtA

I mean, I guess it would be kinda funny to play a group of cats who have adopted a group of lowlifes doing the typical D&D/PlanarchCodex life-of-crime-and-adventures thing and try to keep them from being killed?

(The adventurers would obviously not know that. I mean, they are just cats, right?)

Hmmm... dunno.

#rpg #rpgs #PlanarchCodex #WorldOfDungeons #CatTheRPG #cats

What I'm not sure is whether to lean more towards #PlanarchCodex or more towards #CatTheRPG for the core story framework.

Like, the default assumption of PlanarchCodex is that you are a bunch of freebooters doing weird jobs/crimes/whatever for profit. (Kinda #Shadowrun-<, in a way.)

Cat, on the the other hand, kinda assumes that you are a cat who's keeping an eye on an area and/or the humans living in it and making sure that they and their dreams are protected from boggins and other supernat. critters.

Not sure how I'd do it, rule-wise. I mean, your exact flavor of cat-ness is obviosly just #PlanarchCodex' Heritage Moves and that can be pretty much ported over to whatever.

I could just use #CatTheRPG for it, but I'm not actually ... sold on that ruleset. Like, it seems ... fiddly?

For quick playtest I think I'd actually just use #WorldOfDungeons as is, ignoring stuff like equipment (And maybe money?) and just use narrative positioning for stuff like "You are a cat, THAT is a dragon. What do you do?".

The central conceit would be that cats are ... pan-planar? Like, "cat-ness" is somehow a universal concept of the multiverse, so every plane has cats. Cats made out of flame, robot cats, stone cats, aquatic cats, flying cats, giant cats or even just regular earth cats. whatever. They are all cats.

And when Dis starts gnawing on those planes? Those cats come to Dis and join its complex feline metacivilization. And you play some of them.

#rpgs #cat #PlanarchCodex

My recent fixation with #PlanarchCodex's Dis and yesterdays conversation with @maunzikation about "games for slightly inebriated kittens" have fused in my head and gave birth to my newest campaign idea:

"The Cats of Dis"

It's basically "Cat" (You play non-anthro cats, protecting people from Boggins, etc.) but set in Dis. (Hungry city btween the planes, filled complex cultures and peoples from everywhere.)

#rpg #cat

Inspired by #PlanarchCodex and the fact that I still hope to play an rpg with @kex_nom again someday, I might be sketching up a random Freebooter generator in (py)Tracery...

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You are Alz'arah, a genderfluid queer arachnoid.

You are descended from the Silent Ones, a culture of mages, who have lived in Dis as long as anyone can remember.

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You are Bara, a nonbinary queer vampire.

You come from the Alaria, a scary gang, who have built this parish.