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Game 24. Goon City: Troika! (Playtesting) by @RatgrrrlGames

Last couple of weeks I have been playtesting a #TunnelGoons #Troika! hack that brings the Goons & the simplicity of TG to the big City & general vibes & backgrounds of T! & I have been having the best time! Been doing a lot with @BRIARMONEY, @Sapling & Co, including tonight, which saw a Trash Wizard, Keeper of the Burnished Bibelot by GrimblGrombl (2nd player created background during testing!), &

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Game 23. Into the Odd by @bastionland
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/399483
I had a session with a group I've been playing a lot of new games with & we weren't sure who we had or what to play, I wanted to something new, which would be simple & fun with @EvlynMoreau's The Great All Hallows' Eve Procession (https://evlyn.itch.io/the-great-all-hallow-eve-procession), & I'd had Into the Odd on my list for ages & needed to spent more time touching the sexy book (Honestly, @johannohr worked magic on that book)

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Game 22. Being and Time by @huffa (Playtest)

I had the absolute honour of getting to be the first player of Huffa's new game last night, as well as getting my first taste of UVG! Im a bit unsure of what to say beyond it's great, simple (as in elegant), & facilitated a truly wonderful collaborative storytelling experience. I will have more of a mechanical brain another day, but I played an excitable Quarter-Ling called Vasc Keen, a ridiculously excitable Daniel Jackson type

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Game 21. The Eternal Caverns of Urk by @natetreme
https://natetreme.itch.io/urk

I was in two minds about whether to include this after already having #TunnelGoons on this list, but 1. It is it's own thing that came with the OG TG as an addition & 2. it's just so gods damned bloody awesome I wanted to talk about it. Since finally playing it at the beginning of the year, TG has been a great love of mine & my new default game to run for folx new to TTRPGs.

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Game 20. Orbital Megastructure [Playtest] by @EvlynMoreau
For a little taste https://evlyn.itch.io/posthumansorbitalstructures

I had such a wonderful time playing with Ev, @huffa & @killthesun_ & this game is absolutely packed to the gills with flavour & fun. The futuristic bio & other tech are wonderful. There is honey armour you can also eat goodness sake! How awesome is that?! Can't wait to play more & always honoured to get to playtest such wonders with such awesome folx.

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Game 19. Cairn by @yochaigal
https://cairnrpg.com/

I recently reconnected with a friend I used to run pbp games for & suggested running my system neutral setting/ hexcrawl, Palimpsest (https://ratgrrrl-games.itch.io/palimpsest) & Cairn seemed a great fit. We've barely started, but it's been incredibly fun & so bizarre rolling on & with my own tables, but so much fun to have a Hermanubis statue spontaneously sprout from the ground. Syncretisms are my new favourite thing
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Game 18. OId School Essentials @necroticgnome
https://necroticgnome.com/

For all my years of gaming, I never played any ye olde D&D or an explicit retroclone & I had never done a dungeon run (or fought a dragon for that matter), so when @EvlynMoreau offered to run an OSE dungeon she had worked on for @huffa, @killthesun_, & myself, I jumped at the chance, especially as we are generally more of an FKR-y & narrative-driven lot usually.
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Game 17. Troika! by @melsonianarts
https://melsonian-arts-council.itch.io/troika-numinous-edition

I ran Troika! for the first time tonight and had an absolute blast with @BRIARMONEY & @LadySapling!

I used the Blancmange and Thistle from the book. We just had a cracking time getting to the roof in the lift and ended up with a child with a flaming lance and elemental hovering over them harassing the partygoers being distracted by a magical shadow show...

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Game 16. Slayers by @gilarpgs
https://gilarpgs.itch.io/slayers

After so long of loving this game, I finally got to run this game & it's even more fun & easy & awesome than I imagined! Had the absolute best time with @BRIARMONEY, @LadySapling & GrimblGrombl running a hunt from Alex Rinehart (https://alrine.itch.io/harrowing-hunts-vol-1) in a District by J.R. ZAMBRANO in the Slayers Almanac (https://gilarpgs.itch.io/slayers-Almanac).

So very hype to play so much more!

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Game 15: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition

Core: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/248284?affiliate_id=1507682 (Affiliate Link)

I love the Old World & the quality of the Starter set is amazing, but we have struggled with how much there is to do to make characters (set does come with pregens) & just how many how many factors going into every interaction. I need to play more & I'm excited for the adventures, but running & remembering the rules has been tough

Starter Set: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/261941?affiliate_id=1507682 (AL)

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Game 14. Grandmothership PREVIEW by @armandahaller
Cowdfundr: https://crowdfundr.com/GRANDMOTHERSHIP?ref=ab_5C6662

I had so very much fun writing an adventure & running it tonight. I haven't laughed so much in a game in a long time. @EvlynMoreau, @huffa & @ToreNielsen are always a joy to play with & Evlyn's art of her character & backstory dog is phenomenal

Can't wait for next session & to see the finished article!

Congratulations to the team for funding!

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Game 13. D&D

My first game in something like seven months with a long-running group on a long hiatus. The group is amazing & I had a lot of fun playing with them. For me D&D is something that can be fun if played sparingly & not in any way financially supporting WOTC. I still don't see myself running it again at this point

Support 3rd party creators if you're in need of stuff for it & play other games

Simple DeeEnDee by @filthgnome is a great alternative
https://itch.io/c/1590339/simple-dee-en-dee-digital-box-set

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Game no. 11

Playtesting "In Disguise", @EvlynMoreau's "secret transformers game"

Not sure how much I can say, so I will just say that I had an absolutely wonderful time playing with Evlyn, @huffa & @killthesun_, as Tachanka, my subtle as a brick guerilla from the War of the Spark. A matt black, dark Damascus steel, & red trim bot with Solidarity as an ability & all-terrain buggy with mounted heavy machine gun & black bloc holomatter avatar. (last time I was M-spec lesbian train!)

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Game No. 10
Here, There, Be Monsters! by @wendiyu
https://wendiy.itch.io/here-there-be-monsters

After setting up so many games, reading the book to death, making encounters & filling my not app with ideas, I finally got to play HTBM! the other night & had the best time!

The City of literal monsters and actual monsters (authoritarian, fash, colonialist, capitalists, etc.) & the rules light, flavour heavy vibes of this game mean everything to my Queer trans disabled neurodivergent anarchist arse!

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Game no. 9

Gesta Orbital by La esquina del rol
A Nano RPG About Space Survival

https://laesquinadelrol.itch.io/gesta-orbital

A truly phenomenal little game that it was a true joy to discover and agony to play (complimentary).

Everything about it is unreasonably well done and brilliant, from the premise, mechanics, Moreau's art, character sheet, to the playlist. Just, wow!

My write up of my playthrough and full review: https://ko-fi.com/post/BrinaPlaysReviews-Gesta-Orbital-by-La-esquina-de-A0A1I23RA

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Game no. 8

Lichoma: A Meatpunk TTRPG by Strega Wolf van den Berg/ Bogfolk

It was truly an honour to play with members of Bogfolk and @plusoneexp @KeganExe on stream as a fucked up little gal, blow people and carnival rides, and guaranteed a nightmare clown with a balloon string.

Plus One Exp Actual Play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbLAte5PUY0

Lichoma On Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bogfolk/lichoma-a-meatpunk-ttrpg

My coverage of Lichoma: https://ko-fi.com/post/Lichoma-A-Meatpunk-TTRPG-Links-and-Threads-Collec-I2I8HSFMO

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Game no. 7

Brindlewood Bay by @jasoncordova6/ The @gauntletrpg

Mystery-solving old femmes in a quiet, British seaside town with cozy Cthulhu vibes.

A truly glorious game I left the table wanting to play, run and write more!

I had the most wonderful time playing as a maven for the first time with the absolutely fabulous Philippa Mort, playtesting her partner's mystery.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/410316/Brindlewood-Bay-Kickstarter-Edition?affiliate_id=1507682 (affiliate link)

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Game no. 6

Electric Bastionland by Chris McDowall

https://chrismcdee.itch.io/electric-bastionland

"Bastion - The Electric Hub of Mankind
The only city that matters. Too big to fall, too complicated to function. A mess of alleyways, legalese and crowds. Aliens, Mockeries and People always in your way and your business
Everybody’s here
Everything is here"

I had the best time playing this & the truly bizarre, eclectic & fun bit of #OSR with some of the best background flavour I've seen in a #TTRPG

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Game no. 5

Much That is Good and All that is Evil by Jeeyon Shim

I have had truly had a delightful time playing this delightful solo game honouring and condemning the seagull/ gull as a journaling game, and will make a point of playing it quicker and dirtier, as intended. This time as an urban seagull.

This convinced me to back their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jeeyonshim/

Much That is Good and All that is Evil by Jeeyon Shim: https://www.patreon.com/posts/75590441

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Game no. 4

Tunnel Goons by Nate Treme/ Highland Paranormal Society

https://natetreme.itch.io/tunnelgoons

Elegantly simple, fun, & begging to be pulled apart & put together in infinite awesome ways & have fun things made for it

"Tunnel Goons is a simple table-top role-playing game...It's a light weight 2d6 system that can be applied to many different genres and settings."

Thread about the first session: https://dice.camp/@SebrinaCalkins/109651469061689467

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