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Ttrpg Recs: my bookshelf!

I don't have that many games in physical form. But inspired by the lovely Dael Kingsmill's recent video, I want to do a little post about the ones I do own.

Animal Adventures by Steamforged Games

Animal Adventures is a third party setting for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons. I picked up Secrets of Gullet Cove on clearance, and it's full of fun adventure hooks for a younger audience than usual for 5E. However, a member of my dnd group wants to run this at some stage, so it has a wider appeal among fans of cute critter rpgs too.

It's fairly easy to incorporate ideas from this book into your home games. A guest in my Strixhaven campaign wanted to play a character who had been transformed into a cat. The cat stats from this book fit right in with the other characters, who were all created using official 5E materials.

Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat

The first rpg I ever purchased! It's simple, streamlined, and flexible enough to run in any setting you can imagine. We'd planned to play 'card games in space' at one stage (after watching too much yu-gi-oh), and the system works as well for that as it does for urban fantasy, pirates, or magic schools. You can access the rules of this game for free at the link in the heading.

The main issue I ran into with Fate is that it uses a specialised set of dice called Fudge dice- but as long as you have a device that can download a dice app, you're good to go!

Girl By Moonlight by Evil Hat

I backed this one on Kickstarter. It's not the easiest book to navigate but, gosh, it's just so beautiful and the game is a great time once you get the hang of it! I ended up ordering five copies, because a bunch of my friends wanted the game too and Expensive International Shipping is more manageable if you split it. Tragic magical girls from the creators of Thirsty Sword Lesbians? It is just as excellent as I'd hoped.

Just the other week we played At the Brink of the Abyss using the core book and relevant one-session playkit. Transcendence is a great mechanic- players get to describe their character's unique transformation and feel powerful with the addition of new abilities! Our Midnight Quill was running around invisible for half the game. Raven's mother was knocked out with a well-flung shoe. It was very fun and very silly.

Girl By Moonlight is a Forged in the Dark game. If you're familiar with Blades in the Dark, Brinkwood, Court of Blades, or my own simplified fitd game Voidwalkers, the system is easily picked up.

Lex Arcana by Quality Games

Lex Arcana is an interesting one. It has a fascinating premise: a Roman empire that never fell, in a low-magic setting. I had a lot of fun running this as a short adventure for my classics-buff brother's birthday last year. However, the group agreed that it would be difficult to play this one long term.

This has nothing to do with the rules system, which has an enjoyable amount of crunch for those who like their games that way, but enough abstraction that running it was not a complete nightmare for a more narratively inclined GM such as myself. Rather, it was difficult for us to get past the fact that so many of its adventure modules involve you preventing indigenous populations from breaking away from the empire, often casting their spiritual views in a negative light.

I had an idea for a campaign called 'Enemies of the Empire', which involves the party having to go up against it, but we'll see if it ever comes to fruition.

Tales of Xadia by Fandom Tabletop

I love the Cortex system. I love systems that use dice pools, and my first experience with that was the Tales of Xadia playtest. I couldn't afford the full version when it released, and so I was very excited when I received it for my birthday last year in glorious hardcover!

Tales of Xadia is set in the world of the Dragon Prince (even if you're not into ttrpgs, the book is excellent for additional lore nuggets. For a year or more it was our best resource for what earthblood elves might look like.) It's a world of high magic, mages and assassins and bold warriors, imperious dragons and reclusive elves. And it's totally classless- score one for the fans of classless systems!

And, when I was noticed by fatheringautism that was amazing for those of you who don't know fathering autism is a family blog started by ASA Moss in order to share what goes on with his family in day-to-day life in caring for his severely autistic( as a person with autism myself I'm using this term because it's the easiest way to describe Abby I'm not trying to be offensive to anyone or go to war and if it does happen to see if I will be more than happy to change the terminology if need be but I doubt ASA is on Tumblr, the same thing goes for Isaiah if you see this and its defensive towards your sister I'll take care of it but I doubt Isaiah is on Tumblr although he really should put his photography up here because damn it's amazing) now, are there are a few other ones as well this one wasn't a live stream but I'm counting it because they are a YouTuber I love, rerez, this one was back when I used to her I no longer use it because it's toxic for me, but the reason that I started this notice because I had to scold him why do you think I scolded him well doing his worst ever Series where he talks about terrible video game consoles, he was playing a game from South America and in South America they love Woody Woodpecker know much about Woody Woodpecker I'm not going to blame him for that, but what I am going to blame him for his continued to scold him for calling Smedley the dog a bed you do not call Smedley the dog of are there are fans of Woody Woodpecker out there myself included and when you pull one of the characters the wrong species we will come after you well let's rephrase that I will I don't know about the others but that just sat with me the wrong way and it pissed me off if you don't do that. Anyhow, there were other YouTubers, I like my favorite Bailey Jay okay, again this was not a livestream its Twitter but I'm counting it she noticed one of my teachers because they thought they were that cool pitch markers and I do need to buy some so pissed at some point but just as a side note do smokers be expensive never buy those markers unless you know you're going to draw everyday or have a valid professional reason to. Anyway, there are other channels as well like for example Rob Paulsen he noticed now against this phone was Twitter but I'm counting it. Allison Court, by the way for those who don't know yes she was in Resident Evil but I'm not counting that I'm talking about the most important one that I actually notice in contact with her in the first place the big come up on that show and that was a piece of my childhood.