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Last weekend I got to run #Daggerheart for the first time. This is an in-person game that's meant to be monthly. We had an absolutely stellar Session Zero back in November, then illness and holiday responsibilities delayed our start.

The good news, that left me lots of time to prep.

On the other hand, I had to learn entirely new ways of GM-prepping. All the encounter-building knowhow from previous fantasy #TTRPG lives doesn't apply here.

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable I'm playing in a #Shadowrun 4e game thats back in session after 6 weeks off.

We left on a cliffhanger crossing the desert, accosted by a go-gang 70 people strong, and it was about to get ugly.

I led off by cutting loose with military grade F7 Powerball and dropped a LOT of dice for extra radius. Something you could never get away with on a regular city run. 15 levels of damage in a ball 30m across. Vaporized half the gang in an Akira style blast of light.

#thisWeekAtMyTable the #ttrpg fates giveth and they taketh away.

My "weekly" #dnd5e Ptolus group may be DOA. Between holidays, one of my players been stricken with flareups of an autoimmune disease, and another due for surgery in December... we are done through at least the New Year. I have doubts about whether we'll actually get started again.

Funny story, my last stab at Ptolus, during the 4E years, also ended at 4th level, in the middle of an adventure...

Perhaps the city is cursed.

#ThisWeekAtMyTable it's the Grand Conjunction of #ttrpg joy!

Tonight I ran my #dnd5e Ptolus game, more rampaging through a haunted castle - ended on a cliffhanger, coming face to face with a demon!

Tomorrow I'm a player in a #Shadowrun 4e game, we're trying to extract our technomancer friend (NPC) before Aztechnology captures her.

Sunday I'm running Session Zero of #Daggerheart and it's going to be great!

#ThisWeekAtMyTable my dnd game was cancelled again, so Wife, Kid, and I finished up the #IronswornStarforged adventure we started last week.

We ended up having to rescue our smuggler contacts from the fortified bunker of a gang who had turned on them.

My Weapon Master / Ace got into a firefight with a patrol on speeder bikes, and ended up hanging from his fingertips over a crevasse of boiling acid before managing to turn the tables and rescue the smuggler captain.

#ttrpg #Ironsworn

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The #dnd5e game I usually run on Fridays was cancelled, so I broke out #IronswornStarforged with Wife and Kid.

I had originally planned to play solo - since it's designed for that - but they both got interested when I started fiddling with sector/campaign creation.

We got contacted by rebels fighting against a corrupt Authority to smuggle in medical supplies, so off to space we went, tangling with raiders and discovering a forbidden research complex.

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I was a player in a #Shadowrun 4e game that has been going for almost a year. We had a big story event that ended with 3 of the 4 of us players switching to new characters (1 dead, 1 off to corporate stardom, 1 willingly lost in the metaplanes forever).

So we had a nice RP session and got started on an extraction, trying to get our favorite NPC technomancer out of the city alive.

Anyway, I'm playing a dwarf raven shaman, street name Nevermore of course.

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The DnD group I started to show my teen son how it is done has been a strange animal. I'm doing a lot more work to push the plot as a DM. I am used to more proactive tables.

Anyway we stalled pretty hard between adventures, so I shoved them into kicking off The Night of Dissolution. Now they are delving a haunted castle on a rainy night. Perfect for spooky October.

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

#ThisWeekAtMyTable my Ptolus #5e group cleared out a haunted house in North Market, finding the "ghosts" were cunning goblins instead.

I used the goblins from Flee Mortals by MCDM and it really spiced things up. Minion rules and a few spicy goblins in the backline made for some fun combats.

The group hit 3rd level, too. It's time to run the Halls of Cordaris and start nudging toward the Night of Dissolution adventure. #ttrpg

#ThisWeekAtMyTable it's 20 minutes to showtime for my first in house #ttrpg campaign since before covid.

I've totally got the pregame jitters.

#ThisWeekAtMyTable I'm playing in a #Shadowrun group who has been tasked with getting a corpo feathered serpent to Aztechnology HQ, alive.

He's WAY above our pay grade to kidnap. So instead we're spinning up a full movie production and inviting the dragon to be a producer and attend our kickoff meeting in Tenochtitlan....

Never deal with a dragon, they say

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable I finally got to run the #AlienRpg for a group of friends i hadn't seen in a while.

We played the first part of Destroyer of Worlds, and these Colonial Marines have found out they are in way over their heads!

Already had the first inter party violence, too....

#ThisWeekAtMyTable my brand new Edge of the Empire group decided to attack a group of thugs who were trying to bully a poor mining community into giving up their land.

They ambushed a convoy of construction vehicles and blew them to pieces with improvised mining charges and frag grenades, a complete massacre.

The adventure I'm running (Long Arm of the Hutt) changes gears to a heavy RP fancy dress party next, we will see how my murderhoboes do!

#ttrpg #edgeoftheempire

#ThisWeekAtMyTable I ran the Edge of the Empire starter box for something like the sixth time.

As #ttrpg adventures go, i may have my best hours to dollars ratio! Great introductory scenario.

Even better, the group liked it enough to ask me to run more sessions, so it looks like I have a regular game once more.

#ThisWeekAtMyTable I ran an in-person one-shot of #Wildsea.

This game's system is somewhat similar to Blades in the Dark - but maybe a bit more gentle?

And the group I ran for was mostly made up of my old buddies that I quit running games for five years ago, because they couldn't wrap their brains around narrative, non-crunchy, non-battlefest games.

Surprisingly, we had a really good time and delved into some solid RP in addition to kicking the crap out of pirates. #ttrpg

#ThisWeekAtMyTable my #DnD group ended their campaign in ultimate victory.

They took the Clockwork King's phylactery and the yuan-ti soul dagger bearing a shard of divinity to the Heart of Chaos at the very center of Limbo.

There, they faced down the Guardian at the End of Creation (a beholder) and used their artifacts to invoke a new deity in the name of Creation.

Their efforts birthed Mechanus and Chronos/Primus in my multiverse, and saved the entire Prime Material plane.

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable my #dnd group took one last trip home to celebrate destroying the Leviathan and ending the scourge of the Dark Water.

After the party, they bargained with a Marid for passage to Limbo and nearly died in the firestorm where they arrived.

Moving across the terrain was a huge struggle with mostly low INT characters.

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable my D&D players finally fought their way to a confrontation with their nemesis, Drogath, the Red Thorn of Tiamat.

The villain had used an artifact, the Black Pearl of Sezrekan, to re-embody the Dark Water into the scourge of the ancient world, the Leviathan.

Only the PCs could stop the Red Thorn from conquering the world with the immortal corruption of Leviathan.

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable my D&D group was beleaguered by grownup problems. 3 of my 4 players were dealing with fallout from their day jobs. The session was really slow as a result, getting focus and decisions from anyone was like pulling teeth.

That said, we finished up the party druid's plot, as she fought a duel to the death for leadership of the Circle. She defeated a previous subvillain who wanted to let the Pearl Republics burn.

#ThisWeekAtMyTable as a player, our #CyberpunkRed game got into our first really big combat, and unfortunately confirmed that I really don't like the way the system runs.

The world and lore are so good, but gunfights feel like those dreams where you punch bad guys and can never hurt them.

We are four sessions in. As a Solo (a big time combat class) I haven't had a single round of combat that felt pivotal, effective, or satisfying.

This game makes me miss the mess that is Shadowrun. #ttrpg

#ThisWeekAtMyTable Our #DnD game lurched ever closer to the endgame. The players teleported back to their home city and had to decide between chasing down one of their hated BBEGs who was after a vital magical artifact.... or rescuing the city from a siege.

They chose to face down the Green Thorn of Tiamat, his two dragons, and his infernal assistant, in a brutal three-way battle around an artificer's tower.

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable my #dnd group seemed to be bitten by the Campaign Fatigue bug.

As has been the case for much of the two-year campaign, they have more problems to solve than they have days/transportation to do it, and frustration set in a bit.

This group of players really flounders if I leave them in the open world to make their own decisions; every time I try to take my hand off the wheel, we have a bad session.

We didn't get much done.

#ThisWeekAtMyTable I ran Tachyon Squadron for #FateRPG. It was a one shot for my wife, son, and a couple of friends.

I ran the second scenario out of the back of the book, and it was a LOT more challenging than the first time we played this game.

Our intrepid starfighters managed to stall the Dominion advance long enough for reinforcements to arrive; their resistance punctuated by a crippled PC ramming his fighter into the bridge of the enemy frigate!

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable my #DnD group were sailing on a pirate ship, masquerading as henchmen of the BBEG who had recently taken over the pirate fleet.

Their ship was lured ashore by a balhannoth, and in the horror-movie carnage that followed, the entire landing party was lost, except for the PCs.

They hauled the dead monster to shore in an attempt to explain what had happened to all the pirates...

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#ThisWeekAtMyTable , my #DnD group finally escaped their multi-session planar jaunt by bluffing their way out of the Eternal City of the kuran'zoi (alternate githyanki).

Back in the Pearl Republics, they find out that the Fangs of Tiamat (anti-paladins) are taking advantage of the information they learned from reading the PC paladin's mind, and they are moving in force to gather evil artifacts and conquer the city-states.

#ThisWeekAtMyTable as a player, we kicked off a brand-new #CyberpunkRED campaign.

The game system itself is very basic and raw compared to others in its genre, but we made it work.

We started with a road bandit ambush interrupting our transport of a courier. A triple crit-failure totaled our van, so we ended up having to steal one of the bandits' cars to get out of there.

We had time for a follow-up mission, wiping out a gang leader on behalf of our betrayed fixer.

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