Walking into a new 2026 Fantasy Adventure! But...Where am I going? Costume By @Twinsofdestruction :) EXCELSIOR! #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasyart #Book #hopecore #Fantasycore #Pinterest #Adventurecore #escapism #medievalfantasy #medieval #medievalart #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #lotr #narnia #wizard #magic #characterdesign #cosplay #photography #aesthetic #LARP #SCA #HEMA

🎲🎮 Spirited #gamer! I'll be posting more about board games & TTRPGs, but I also play #Faeria & #Stellaris on #Linux. Loving #Numenera. PC in a #DnD 5e campaign, though I prefer #DnD4e. #NSR fan, adoring narrative-driven #adventures.

Nowadays developing #Cosmoboros, an outlandish #RPG of #psychedelia.

With my beloved, we are crafting #OldPeopleAndTheSea, a board game of sea #legends.

Also busy creating #ChildrenOfSuperstition, an online edutainment gamebook.

Expect updates for all projects! ✨

Partying like it's 2006 on Twitter, here's my #introduction post:

Terminally online ex-pat #Tasmanian with a head removal scar to prove it. I've lived and travelled in a bunch of places.

I live with my partner and BIL (a person with disabilities)in the bush in Djiringanj Yuin country and run a B&B in the mountains of the Bega Valley (https://rocklily.com.au/) in a place called Brogo (NSW, Australia).We're 25km from the nearest town (Bega) living on 100 acres of primarily remnant endangered forest (https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10110).

I also work on a large #dairy #farm (1800 acres/728ha) where we run between 800 and 1000 cattle supplying to the Bega Group.

I've spent the past 20 years as a service designer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_design) with expertise in #government and the #publicsector, #userexperience, #servicedesign, #orgdesign, #opengovernment, communications, #innovation, designful #leadership, and organisational #culture. I'm mostly retired (but hire me, I'm good) from client work.

You'll see posts from me about #bushlife, our journey to #offgrid, #conservation, #biodiversity, #homesteading, and ethical feral species #hunting, the #outdoors, #sustainability, #righttorepair,
#diy and #handyperson things.

I'm into #archery, being a husband, dad, and carer, #gaming (console #PS5, #RPG, #ttrpg, #boardgames), and #progressive politics, particularly #auspol. I'm a fan of many sports, with a competitive background in #gymnastics (coaching), traditional #taekwondo (practitioner and instructor), and #powerlifting (elite masters competitor). I support the #Brumbies in Super Rugby, #Vikings in the NFL, and #FCStPauli in football.

Roleplaying games are stories

They’re different from novels, short stories, comics, theater, movies, and most other forms of storytelling. That does not remove the tale being told nor the concept of story.

If anything they are most similar to communal storytelling around a campfire and improv dramas. For the most part roleplaying games are communal events with a group.

How did I bump into this well-worn debate? Via a recent thread on EN World, the rare bright spot in RPG discourse.

Let’s talk about “plot”, “story”, and “play to find out.”

My response there focused mostly on the story and plot aspects, and the power of having more voices (something rare in written fiction, but common in other forms of storytelling).

There are people who are not good authors, nor good directors, nor good actors who are good roleplayers/gamemasters/etc. By leaning into the ways that community, plot and play-to-find-out work the creation displays, maybe even demands, story emerges.

This is the Potential of games like D&D.

Sometimes conventional Western storytelling formats can lean into the things that make the emergent and divergent story that happens in RPGs. This can be magical — because it shows how all story is really a reflection of point of view, or in our hobby — spotlight.

RPGs-as-story feel messy when considered through a lens of a literature class or mainstream television.

But, stories are quite messy

Two people can read the same story, watch the same film, listen to the same podcast and come away with different meanings, see different main plots even.

To me, RPGs are stories in the way that campfire tales are. They involve a lot of wandering, forgotten threads, lack firm outlines and are at their best when the tale is woven through multiple voices providing input.

Can they be a traditional novel after the campaign? Absolutely! But during the telling of the tale they are similar to writers who don’t edit as they go or a director who over films alternative concepts that aren’t on the script.

One of the more thrilling things about RPGs is that it is an ensemble cast of both PCs and recurring NPCs. Together they’re important, but the tale and spotlight as to who is most important can easily shift. Use any of them as the point of view to change the story as you understand it. Each can be vital.

The messiness is the fun part of RPGs as story.

The messiness is what helps me discover tales I cannot tell on my own. That’s part of the power of the table and broad casts in ensemble stories.

You think you’ve seen stories like this before, so you can guess what’s going to happen. Who’s important and who isn’t, but that’s because you’re trapped in your POV.
– later –
When you file people away as sidekicks you don’t realize their importance to the story, and this story belongs to a lot more people than you think. Where to shelve a book, it’s not a little thing. You’re telling the world what to value. Who to value.

From The Magicians, Side Effect (S4, E7).

RPGs are very much like that.

They remove your assumptions. You don’t know what’s going to happen. The POV constantly shifts and the importance of the broader cast shifts constantly.

From RPGs-as-Story we learn what and who to value by including others.

#meta #RolePlaying #RPG #storytelling #TheMagicians

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I would like to invite you all to join me over in Torn, a text based web browser RPG with something like 50,000 daily players. It has a somewhat violent crime theme, but is only as violent as a turn base browser game can be.

I have been playing for almost 10 years, and my favorite weapon is a trout.

It is free to play, but for about $50 a year there are great upgrades if you want to be more serious or give back to the creators.

https://www.torn.com/1916655

#RPG #games

Hi there,

my name is Jens; nice to meet you! (Re-#introduction for the newcomers.)

I run a tiny non-profit ( @interpeer ) with the aim of making the internet work for us people again. That means R&D into new protocols and such for the most part. We do this purely as FOSS.

I'm also into #tabletop and #rpg games, and metal music ( #MetalMittwoch ). I live with my family and tortoise in Bavaria, but I'm from up north in Germany.

Fair warning, I enjoy dad jokes and puns.

Tach,

ich heisse Jens, nett Euch zu sehen die #NeuHier seid!

Ich habe eine kleine gemeinnützige Firma ( @interpeer ) die versucht, das Internet wieder mehr für uns zu machen. Das heißt F&E für neue Protokolle und sowas. Wie machen das rein als FOSS.

Ich mag #Brettspiele und #RPG, und metal ( #MetalMittwoch ). Ich lebe mit meiner Familie und Schildkröte in Bayern, aber ich bin halber Schwabe, und halber Fischkopp, und halber Kölner.

Ich mag schlechte Witze. Ihr seid gewarnt.

OK, so here is my #introduction !

I live in the most isolated capital city in the world, #Perth , and therefore on Whadjuk #noongar boodja. I pay my respects to the traditional custodians of the land, and their Elders - past, present, and emerging.

I am male (he/him), and married to the amazing artist @leece .

I have been a #Linux #Sysadmin for most of my professional life, and use Linux or derivatives exclusively at home.

For fun, I play #rpg games, and #boardgame . I also swim as a #mermaid (well, mer-dude), and ride a three-wheeled human-powered vehicle called a Me-Mover. I have a Hobie Outback pedal-powered kayak, which takes me back to my past as a Sea Scout on the Swan. I enjoy playing with #lego, #cooking, #preserving, and many, many other things.

I am #teetotal (and have been all my life) but love making mixed drinks, and have an extensive #zeroproof bar.

I am an amateur #photographer without any particular speciality, but I do particularly like taking shots of #birds (especially #raptors ), and other mer-folk. I also enjoy shooting #pinhole B&W, and play with in-camera #cyanotype (about which I have written extensively on my blog) . To round things out, I take quite a few #solargraph images.

For the past few years, I have been learning Nyoongar (primarily the Marribank).

Recently I have fallen into writing - you can find my two on-going tales as #CerianandVaranWar and #GwenAndGrey . You can also find links to all my stories here: https://rdmasters.lympago.com/p/microfic-and-tootfic-list.html

All images and fiction are https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

Here is a shot of me taken by the amazing @leece on #Wadjemap .

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Duel Corp is out now in Steam Early Access

A Souls-inspired action RPG set in a sandbox open world with an MMO feel and challenging directional combat. Play solo or with up to 3 friends in co-op. Build friendships, master an unrestricted class system, and uncover the cause that darkened all eyes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1804470/Duel_Corp/

#DuelCorp #steam #pcgames #pcgaming #indiegames #indiegame #gaming #videogames #rpg #soulslike #openworld

Published a WIP demo of Tragrady of the Uncanny as a HTML5 playable game on itch.io. This is a temporary version, since it is being developed with the #gba and #msdos in mind.

#retrodev #emscripten
#screenshotsaturday
#rpg
#dungeoncrawler
#indiegame
#homebrew
#PlayOnBSD
#feedbackquest
#gba

Please provide feedback!

https://montyontherun.itch.io/sub-mare-imperium-equivalence

as part of the https://itch.io/jam/feedback-quest-7-indiegames-x-indie-streamers Jam

#Introduction

👋 Hi! Like many of you, I'm trying new social products, including Mastodon. Say 'hi' and consider following if we share interests:

🔥 #FIRE

👨‍✈️ Aviator / Pilot #Cirrus / #Aviation

🏔 Mountaineer Mt.Whitney, HalfDome (4x) & South Sister

🎮 #RPG, #Roguelike, and #TTRPG Games

👨‍💻 Programming in #Rust

#Introduction​

Hi! I'm a scrum master, developer, dad, geek & gamer.

I work at Gofore.com as a SM.

I love frontend #UI & #UX #JS #Angular #Typescript & related stuff. I have #Scrum #AzureDevOps, #Jira & #Gitlab as my tools to streamline dev processes.

Hobbies include:
#StarWars #Tolkien #LotR
#SciFi hard scifi or no physics at all, I do not care
#boardgame (s) oh boy I got almost 100
Pen & Paper #RPG (s) currently The One Ring RPG & Edge of the Empire
#Gaming, #PC, #PS5, + other consoles..

Brief interests resume:

#art #earth #music
#guitar #synths #modular #analog #progrock #ambient

#photography
#science #history #archeology
#space #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart
#ufos #ovnis #paranormal

#linux #opensource
#MSDOS #DOSGaming #CPM
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers
#BBS #ANSI #ASCII #ansiart #asciiart #retro #vintage

#gaming #videogames #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev
#rpg #dnd #mmorpg #rogue #nethack #roguelike
#tetris

#reader #writer #blogger
etc..

SKARFESTER
👅 en, es, ca
🌐 #smallweb #indieweb
🎲 #boardgames #rpg #jdr
🕹️ #retrogaming
#freesoftware #linux