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Tabletop RPGs

I haven't had the chance to buy or look into it yet, but Tom Bloom (of Lancer and Icon and Kill Six Billion Demons) just released a new TTRPG:
tombloom.itch.io

CAIN by Tom Bloom

Psychic death soldiers in a quest to purge humanity's stain
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Humanity is cursed, host to a roiling psychic sea barely understood or controlled, a phenomenon arising purely from the darkest portions of the human soul. While most humans are blissfully unaware of its presence, others are more sensitive. When it grows wild in these hosts, SINS appear, terrifying supernatural monsters that are anathema to reality itself.


CAIN is the solution, the global supranational shadow organization dedicated solely to the hunting and execution of sins. It’s mission is clear, its purpose steadfast. Is there anything better than a good hunt? Just think, you’re all set to slaughter to your heart’s content.


YOU are an exorcist, a powerful psychic soldier and tool of CAIN, honed and wielded for one purpose:


WIPE OUT THE STAIN


From Tom Bloom (Magnagothica Maleghast/Lancer RPG): a new narrative role playing game about playing psychic death soldiers hunting monstrosities made of human trauma. So it goes.


Includes:


  • Rules for making exorcists, powerful psychic soldiers on a campaign of extermination. Nascent monstrosities themselves, they must struggle against the limits of their own expanding powers and bodies.
  • Rules for creating sins, psychic abominations created when their hosts' latent psychic powers burst free of their body, spurred on by trauma and suffering. Unraveling the mysteries behind their birth and the tragic circumstances of their hosts can weaken them and be used as a weapon in the final confrontation, lending equal weight to investigation and combat.
  • Rules for running hunts: tense investigations that culminate in a climactic execution scene inside of the lair of the beast
  • Character sheets and hunt sheets for easy organization
  • Over 150 pages of insanity, art, and stickers with an aesthetic inspired by lo-fi manga, visual collage, and barber beats album covers.
  • There's two versions of the text to download, one with embedded fonts and another without (I recommend embedded)

Slash, and slash, and SLASH AWAY. UNTIL IT IS DONE.
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Becksworth said:
I'm not sure why all these niche JRPGs are suddenly getting TTRPG adaptations, but I'm patiently awaiting the Xenogears one now.
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I feel like it's a combination of "publishing a ttrpg has never been cheaper" and "none of the old IP holders seem to care enough to C&D these."

Of course, I'd be more excited if I hadn't already run campaigns based on most of these games using my own hacks, some of them years ago. Ultramodern worked well for Phantasy Star, D&D 4E made for a very entertaining Breath of Fire, I ran several Ultima games using D&D and World of Darkness (Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade, mostly), and I ran The 7th Saga with D&D 5E. You don't actually need specialty systems for a lot of these games.
 
Was looking at the preview pages and...
A.I. Usage and Content Policy:
Generative AI was employed in the art, post-production and editing stages of this book.
We acknowledge the ethical complexities of this technology,
and remain committed to ethical AI use and championing artists’ rights.
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Ah, is that why Adol looks so weird?
 
I was really hoping they'd come up with a clever TTRPG way to simulate bump combat.
 
You've got me hoping for that Xenogears one still. I guess Lancer can simulate it in the meantime...
 
Cross-posting from the April Fools thread...
Becksworth said:
I did an April Fools

To explain, World of Darkness TTRPGs had a self referential parody of White Wolf Studios called Black Dog Game Factory, so I made a parody book of Mage: the Ascension based on the Black Dog Game Factory version of the game, Warlock: the Pretension.
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Becksworth said:
Cross-posting from the April Fools thread...
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Just got around to reading this, and was very amused. (Though the pretentiousness got a bit overwhelming in the back half.) I particularly loved the H.O.L. references, and the way you crammed an entire multi-year corporate publishing bullshit cycle into a single book.
 
Last week, I participated in my first EVER session 0!
I've played a couple of one shots at festivals, but I've never known any friends who played DnD that I know of. I'm not a big fan of talking to total strangers, though I have really enjoyed some TTRPGs with randos at Magfest and PAX unplugged. I don't know how it happened, but someone at work mentioned liking board games and always wanted to try DnD. So, I created a flier and posted it in the break room to start a tabletop group at work and found 5 other people who wanted to play. Our DM is an experienced player but is fairly new to the DM role. We created characters last Thursday and I'm so pumped. I practiced an accent a bunch this weekend. I am such a nerd!

One of the people in our group was talking about creating her character at a client meeting in the chit chat before the meeting started and found out the CEO and hadn't played for years and they connected over it some.
Anyways, I'm really excited to play and proud of myself for sticking my neck out and making something happen.
 
I heard from our DM that he is going to run Decent to Avernus for us. The brief i read is that its a prologue to BG3, which I really am just super excited about.
 
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