#RPGaDay2015 5: Most Recent RPG purchase

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 5, What is your most recent RPG purchase?
Aser: The Big Crime: It’s a game that sets out to recreate a story straight out of a film noir movie night, to a fault some will probably say, me among them. The game sounds like a lot of fun though, and I can’t wait until I have more exposure to the genre and can run it for Megan.
Chuck: Worlds Numberless and Strange: Monte Cook Games
John: Prob Onyx Path Dark Eras Kickstarter for the Hunter chapters on pdf.
Jonn: Firefly Roleplaying
Landan: I pre-ordered the Monte Cook Games Cypher System Rulebook and I am going to purchase the Occult Adventures for Pathfinder soon.
Matt: Shadows of Esteren and Feng Shui 2. Looking forward to trying both soon!
Megan: I just participated in DriveThruRPG’s Christmas in July so Stars of Empire, Monsterhearts, Horror Rules: The Simply Horrible Role-Playing Game, It’s Coming…, The Black Spot, Lost Days of Memories and Madness, and Control: The Game of Absolute Corruption.
Patrick: Iron Kingdoms
Rob: Firefly RPG

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#RPGaDay2015 4: Most Surprising Game

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 4, What is the most surprising game?
Aser: Pathfinder: I may or may not have been dragged into playing A Rune Awakening, but I have to say, I’ve come to look forward to our Tuesday night sessions of Pathfinder as much as if not occasionally more than our other recurring games. There’s just something fun about watching those numbers go up: it’s really quite fascinating.
Chuck: Fate Accelerated, so simple and a fun system for supers play.
John: D&D 5th edition! It’s so fresh, streamlined, close to BECMI and fun!
Jonn: D&D 5e. After taking part in the playtest all the way through and seeing the changes that were made towards the end, I was convinced I was going to be very disappointed. A few of my favorite things were missing like were intentionally exclude warlord class and the seemingly unpopular goliath. What was include was great. I was really happy with the result of the fighter; disappointed by how they worded the bard inspiration to prevent it from interacting with combat expertise; and pleasantly surprised by the page 121.
Landan: I think Numenera since it is relatively easy to learn only has a few mechanics I constantly seem fuzzy on.
Matt: Fear Itself, I wasn’t totally sold on the Gumshoe system, but I had a really fun time playing this.
Megan: I think in general the small, indie games have been the most surprising for how much I enjoy them. It seems like everyone should be enjoyng them. This last year we’ve played Final Girl, Lovecraftian Shorts, Protocol, and Mars Colony have all been a great deal of fun to try out.
Patrick: Exalted, didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did.
Rob: Fiasco

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#RPGaDay2015 3: Favorite Game of the last 12 months

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 3, What is your favorite new game of the last 12 months?
Aser: Night’s Black Agents: We’ve tried a lot of games this last year and what a number of great ones had in common was the Gumshoe Engine from Pelgrane Press. I point to Night’s Black Agents in particular because of its unique setting and the fact that I’ve had the opportunity to run it for a number of great players. This blend of modern espionage and vampiric horror takes the investigation-based narrative of its predecessors and gives it a techno-thriller shot in the arm that makes every session an absolute blast.
Chuck: The Cypher System Core.
John: The Strange.
Jonn: Firefly Roleplaying
Landan: My friend’s homebrew Pathfinder campaign. I know Pathfinder itself isn’t new but his world is rather unique that he created so I am sticking to my answer.
Megan: The Strange is the game that came out in the last year that I have played and enjoyed the most. I love the recursions and options that come with it. Plus Worlds Numberless and Strange is a fantastic supplement that just came out with so many more recursions to play with.
Patrick: I’d say Iron Kingdoms, but that’s been a bit longer then 12.
Rob: Firefly

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#RPGaDay2015 2: Kickstarted game that pleased you the most

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 2, What is the kickstarted game that pleased you the most?
Aser: Horrors of War. I’m so very happy that it will be coming in PDF format: so happy in fact that I’m happy to endure the delays.
Chuck: The Strange, a gift that keeps giving.
John: FAITH: The Sci Fi RPG. Love that art!
Landan: I missed the original Kickstarter but I jumped on the Deluxe Boxed Set for Numenera. I haven’t gotten my Reliquary boxed yet so hopefully soon since I have seen some amazing images on twitter of people receiving theirs.
Megan: This is hard because I kickstart so many things, there are literally over 25 things for me to choose from. I think I will go with the Exclusive Numenera Boxed set though. And that’s mostly because it was something that fed into a game I already have a lot of love for. The boxes themselves are gorgeous, and then they’re filled with some many books and goodies that are going to be a pleasure to use. I plan on using my new Numenera dice exclusively for my Numenera games, and I really want to put the cloth map up on my wall

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#RPGaDay2015 1: Forthcoming game you’re most looking forward to

Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay2015!

For August 1, What is the forthcoming game you’re most looking forward to?

Aser: I’m most looking forward to two very collaborative games on the grittier side of their genres. Blades in the Dark is an industrial fantasy game where your party take on the roles of a street gang trying to make a name for itself, while Scavengers is another team-based outing where you head up a crew of scrappers trying to make a living in the cold void. Both games place emphasis on teamwork and speed of play, so I’m anxious to see how much they can deliver on their promise. As a bonus, Blades was built from the ground up to be endlessly hackable, so we’ll have to see what TRF can do when we get our grubby little hands on it.
Chuck: No Thank You Evil. It is odd that I don’t have kids but I am looking forward to this game.
John: Burning Games’ FAITH: The Sci Fi RPG, and my hardcover Call of Cthulhu 7th ed book…
Jonn: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
Landan: I think it would be my friend’s original campaign he is doing using the Pathfinder rules. We are playing Gestalt style characters so it is pretty crazy but his setting is really cool.
Megan: The Horrors of War set of adventures for Call of Cthluhu by Adam Scott Glancy and John H. Crowe that was funded through Kickstarter! This set of adventures is set in WWI and I can’t wait to play/run them.
Patrick: The Witcher RPG. If there is as much story in the fluff for the Table Top version as the PC game, then I’ll be hooked for some time.
Rob: Anything Firefly RPG

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Mysteries of the Ninth World 10: The Impossible Bard

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As they plunge deeper into the tomb, the party finds more traps and even some answers.

Featuring Aser, Ash, Landan, Megan, and Shaunna. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Decisions”

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Mysteries of the Ninth World 9: They Forgot the 10-ft Pole

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As the adventurers head into the Mechanized Tomb, they work hard to set off every trap possible.
Featuring Aser, Ash, Landan, Megan, and Shaunna.
Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Decisions”
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Five Nights in Avalon 1: That Lady’s a Knockout!

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In our first outing in 7th Sea, a group is brought together to deal with some strange disappearances in Avalon. However, they get a bit distracted on their way to the Festival of the Tides.

Featuring Aser, James, Jonn, Landan, Megan, and Patrick.

Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Intended Force”

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Mysteries of the Ninth World 8: That’s Where it’s Better, Down Where it’s Wetter

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The party dives deep to find gharrolan, and are side-tracked by something else brewing on the ocean floor.

Featuring Aser, Ash, Landan, Megan, and Shaunna

Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Decisions”

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A Rune Awakening 4: The Littlest Black Dress

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The party ventures into the caverns under Sandpoint to find the quasit mentioned in Tsuto’s journal.

Featuring Aser, James, Jonn, Landan, Megan, and Patrick.

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