Thursday, October 24, 2013

RPG Person Profiles: Almost As Useful As...

Zak S has good ideas for building RPG communities and helping make sense of them. Like this one

I'm currently running (at home): Before moving across the country, I ran D&D for a regular group. Actually hacked Castles & Crusades with D&D Basic & LotFP. I'm cooking up a D&D/Feng Shui/BRP hack that's like Adventure Time to try and get some non-gamer friends to play here.

Tabletop RPGs I'm currently playing (at home) include: I'd love to play, got to find a local group. Anyone in the SF Bay Area?

I'm currently running (online): Pendragon with mutant animals from After the Bomb. Play-by-post just ended, G+ Hangouts campaign soon to begin. Previously D&D. 

Tabletop RPGs I'm currently playing (online) include: D&D, hacked together from many sources - IE FLAILSNAILS games. A little BRP.

I would especially like to play/run: Night's Black Agents. Call of Cthulhu. BRP. Stormbringer. Rogue Trader 40K. Star Wars d6. Gigacrawler. Pendragon. 

...but would also try:  Horror rpgs. DCCRPG. TMNT. Supers of some kind. I'll try anything.

I live in: San Francisco

2 or 3 well-known RPG products other people made that I like: 
Better Than Any Man (James Raggi)
Stormbringer (Ken St. Andre)
Vornheim (Zak S)

2 or 3 novels I like:
Tales of Sex and Stage Diving (Millar)
The City and The City (Mieville)
The Continental Op (Hammett)

2 or 3 movies I like:
Alien
Blade Runner
Black Christmas (1974)

Best place to find me on-line: Google Plus

I will read almost anything on tabletop RPGs if it's: New/Different/inventive/based on history/based on folklore/thoughtful/badass

I really do not want to hear about: bland fantasy tropes, attempts to be intellectual without rigor, lazy thinking

I think dead orc babies are ( circle one: funny / problematic / ....well, ok, it's complicated because....) Useful. Scholars will argue they are moreso alive, but they are less obedient that way. 

Game I'm in are like:
Appropriate for content as well as NPC to hit rolls: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9t2KSOfK8

Free RPG Content I made for _OSR D&D and other old tabletop RPGs_ is available here:
metalvsskin.blogspot.com

I talk about RPGs on G+ under the name Joey Lindsey. 

Friday, October 4, 2013

Quick Psychics for Insane Mystics d20 Table



None of the Santicore requests so far quite fit this, and I'll probably need it before Christmas, and maybe you need it so...



Quick Psychics for Insane Mystics d20 Table

You have _______________________ but only when __________________________  and ________________________.

Roll d20 1-3 times, so either mix n match or read across.

1
Telepathy
Looking at someone of another race
Still
2
Telekinesis
Standing on one leg
Moving
3
Pyrokinesis
Being burnt
Upset
4
Apportation
Drawing own blood
Calm
5
Aura Reading
Crying
In an altered state
6
Astral Projection
Dehydrated
Frenzied
7
Bilocation
Wet
Fighting
8
Clairaudience
In a trance
Fucking
9
Divination
Looking in a reflective surface
Near death
10
Dowsing
Tasting live plant matter
Surrounded by lit candles
11
Healing
Dancing
Singing in a choir
12
Mediumship
attaching dead person’s face and tongue to tree, wall or otherwise perpendicular to ground
Sewing
13
Precognition
Casting bones
Naked
14
Remote Viewing
Making a sand or stone “painting”
Shorn of all hair
15
Psychometry
Destroying the object in question or if not object-based power then destroying talismanic precious object (doll or other trinket you’ve cultivated emotions about)
In mid-air (jumping, falling, etc)
16
Retrocognition
Allowing ghosts or other spirits into this world
Staring at a specific object
17
Transvection
While asleep
Holding mud
18
Roll twice
Drawing another’s blood
Touching an animal
19
Roll twice
Holding a beating heart
Extremely hot
20
Roll three times
Under water
Extremely cold

 For definitions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychic_abilities

More pictures that are somewhat maybe relevant but possibly not: