#dramasystem — Public Fediverse posts

If Game of Thrones ran on DramaSystem, who would owe who a favor? Who would push, concede, or burn a bridge for leverage?

See how shifting emotional stakes and character goals reshape the story at the table.
#DramaSystem #TTRPG #RPGDesign
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Plant relationship bombs in your DramaSystem games! 💥 Hidden secrets between characters create explosive drama when they surface. Tension rises, trust breaks, and the story hits harder when everything is on the line. What secrets will your character hide? #TTRPG #DramaSystem
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Looking for fresh DramaSystem episode themes? Robin D. Laws suggests stealing—nicely. 🎭 Abstract, emotional episode titles from shows like Game of Thrones or Mad Men make great prompts for your sessions. Just avoid the obvious ones! #TTRPG #DramaSystem #Hillfolk
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🎭 In Hillfolk, the concept of "chuffa" comes to life! It's the playful, seemingly unnecessary banter that builds tension before the real drama unfolds. Discover how this quirky element enhances roleplaying and adds depth to your DramaSystem games! #TTRPG #Hillfolk #DramaSystem
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#ttrpg Fantastic birthday ttrpg road trip yesterday from West Michigan to NW Chicago suburbs for a trip to Games Plus in Mt. Prospect and the perfect Guatemalan restaurant and tienda.

Found a hard copy of #Hillfolk for its #dramasystem ruleset.

Caught up with #onering Middle Earth books including the new Moria tome.

Grabbed a basic #mothership scenario in advance of my deluxe kit arrival.

Grabbed Chicagoland's own Amanda Lee Franck's 'You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge' #indiettrpg &

@DNDElise Been reading one that’s been in my library for a while now, but only recently got to reading it. It is #Hillfolk from Pelgrane Press. It introduces and explains Robin D. Laws’s #DramaSystem, and I’m pretty impressed with how it mechanically encourages dramatic #roleplaying.

Drama System Season

St. Cyprian School of Extraordinary Academic Studies Wednesday, 18 September 2024 01:00 UK

Pyrates Wednesday, 18 Sep 19:00 UK

Paged Friday, 20 Sep 18:00 UK

Rome: Senators & Gladiators Sunday, 22 Sep 12:00 UK

Games run on The Raspy Raven Discord, see bio.

#TTRPG #TTRPGs #Dramasystem #PelgranePress #Story

Join The Raspy Raven, link in bio for a short season of @pelgranepress DramaSystem games.

Progress through the ranks of wizarding school, become a beloved character from your favourite novel set up house together and go back to ancient Rome, as gladiators fight it out whilst you take control of the senate.

#TTRPG #DramaSystem

Thanks for the art @grahamroewe

Want to amp up your DramaSystem game like a TV show? Try this: start a group scene, then ask an NPC to leave. This power move boosts emotional stakes, showing the character you’re talking to that they matter. Secrets and one-on-one moments fuel drama! 🎭 #TTRPG #DramaSystem #Hillfolk
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Our #TTRPG group tried #Hillfolk tonight, using the #UnderHollowHills setting.

Not sure we can recommend it to folks. We all really enjoyed the characters we created and were having fun playin them, but the #DramaSystem mechanics left most of us cold. We tried to make it work, but I think it was a failed experiment. Too much focus on pushing story forward and a resolution system that was unnecessarily convoluted.

It needed one person pushing a story forward instead of us taking turns crafting a scene and trying to create drama. It felt artificial and forced.

As a thought exercise it might be interesting, but it wasn't the right system for our group.

#GMLife

@camckinney I pull out a Hexaco pick/randomizer list for generating one to three personality guides. https://hexaco.org. And I'm collating a similar guide for #dramasystem relationship guides. I am especially of character creating mechanics that create relationships and in-game dynamics.

@robindlaws And Ken's prompt during the show about Emily Care Boss is very much in support of my research and pre-design thoughts regarding relationships, personality and psychosocial experiences. Right alongside my wife offering to help take #dramasystem out for a first time spin this holiday break.

All throughout the month of October, #ClubJdR, my main French place of residency on #Discord, is organizing a #ttrpg event for #Halloween. I'll be running #JohnKovalic's #SeriesPitch for #DramaSystem, #TheDagonBarandGrille, @robindlaws's #CthulhuConfidential, a post Black Death adventure using @PaulBaldowski's #TheDeeSanction / #SanctionRPG and a #TheMagicians hack using @ian_h_cooper & @Chaosium's #QuestWorlds.
Wish my players luck! They'll definitely need it! @foundryvtt @pelgranepress #rpg

#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 (one GM, one player) 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/

We kicked off #sessionzero of #dragonbane for a #playtest of #windheim a new setting currently on #kickstarter and our inventive GM introduced us to @pelgranepress #dramasystem

We used this to flesh out PC relationships, desires and dramatic poles.

You can read more about it here https://theraspyraven.substack.com/p/drama-in-rpgs

#ttrpg

I was thinking of doing a one shot #hillfolk/ #dramasystem evening with the NPC crowd the party has encountered (enslaved dwarves primed to revolt. I think it would be awesome if the players developed the community leaders their #DnD characters have just met). I like the more narrative style of role-play, and would like to introduce it to the table, but it doesn’t seem like hillfolk is very conducive to a single evening of #ttrpg. What do you think?

I've finally manage 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 #Hillfolk

#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

An enjoyable session of Human After High, a homebrewed #SeriesPitch for #DramaSystem. I'm looking forward to seeing how all the relationships, desires and expectations created today will play out in the game in two weeks. #ttrpg #rpg #Hillfolk @robindlaws @pelgranepress

Another session of the (homemade) #SeriesPitch Gastro Maestro for #DramaSystem. The cast's ambitions lead to dangerous promises, the crushes are getting more and more one-sided, and cheating confessions are turning this game into a fantastic game of #Fiasco.
Last session in two weeks, and I'm absolutely ready for this kitchen apocalypse!
#ttrpg #rpg #Hillfolk @robindlaws @pelgranepress @foundryvtt

I added more free community copies of Malandros, the #ttrpg of swindlers, street fighters, love, hate and community in the last days of imperial Brazil — https://porcupinepublishing.itch.io/malandros

#malandrosrpg #dramasystem

Welcome to Gastro Maestro a competitive culinary reality show powered by #DramaSystem. And the relationships are already scalding hot between a competitor, a cameraman, a judge, a makeupartist and the show's presenter. Next session in two weeks and I'm so looking forward to it. #ttrpg #rpg #Hillfolk @pelgranepress @robindlaws #MyOwnSeriesPitchoftheMonth

Lots of little ideas for upcoming games of #DramaSystem. #Hillfolk #SeriesPitch #FoundryVTT #ttrpg #rpg @robindlaws @pelgranepress